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The Best Gadgets of 2022

The gadgets that best represent the turbulent year that saw us going outside again.

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Open Channel: What Surprised You This Year?

Let's look back on what we didn't expect to hit so hard in 2022.

io9 Justin Carter

The Last of Us‘ Showrunner Unsure Whether the Game Is the Greatest Story of Its Medium or Just Silly Pixels

The closer we get to HBO's adaptation of Naughty Dog's apocalyptic video game series, the more Craig Mazin just needs to let the material speak for itself.

Television James Whitbrook

An Asteroid Is Passing Earth Today, so Scientists Are Shooting It With Radio Waves

The experiment will pave the way for probing a larger asteroid that will approach Earth in 2029.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie

IRS Delays Venmo and PayPal Tax Increase by One Year

The agency cited timeline concerns, and announced it would push back implementation of new tax requirements for businesses that rely on digital payments.

Tech Policy Lauren Leffer

The Mimicking of Known Successes Is a Cozy, Holmesian Sci-Fi Mystery

Read the prologue and first chapter of Malka Older's newest work and get a first look at the sapphic romance at the heart of this novella.

Books & Comics Linda Codega

Startup Claims It’s Sending Sulfur Into the Atmosphere to Fight Climate Change

Make Sunsets sells "cooling credits" for $10 and alleges that 1 gram of sulfur particles offsets the impacts of 1 ton of carbon emissions.

Climate Change Lauren Leffer

We’re All Ears for New M3GAN Footage

This "first look" featurette gives us James Wan, Jason Blum, and others explaining why their new killer-doll movie is so freaking creepy .

Movies Cheryl Eddy

A Common Diabetes Drug May Reduce Long Covid Risk, Trial Data Finds

Covid-19 outpatients who took metformin were noticeably less likely to be diagnosed with long covid up to 10 months later, the study showed.

Health Ed Cara

Tesla Will Reportedly Slow Down Production at Shanghai Plant

Other reports have shown the EV maker had planned to pause work at its main production plant, but that will extend further into 2023.

Transportation Kyle Barr

Doctor Who‘s 60th Anniversary Monsters Have a Deep Cut History

Everything you need to know about your new space bestie, Beep the Meep.

Television James Whitbrook

Class Action Suit Claims Apple Watch Is Terrible at Monitoring Blood Oxygen on Dark Skin

The most-commonly used blood sensing pulse oximeters routinely fail at accurately registering blood oxygen levels for people with Black and brown skin.

Tech News Kyle Barr

This Asteroid Impact Simulator Lets You Destroy the World

A web app from Neal.Fun is a choose-your-own-adventure for planetary annihilation

Space & Spaceflight Kevin Hurler

The 14 Best Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy TV Shows of 2022

io9 picks the best of the best, and comes up with robots, dragons, vampires, superheroes, and more.

io9 Cheryl Eddy & James Whitbrook & Linda Codega & Sabina Graves & Germain Lussier & Rob Bricken

Image: Pascal Le Segretain / Image: Terry Wyatt / Image: John Phillips / Image: Fiona Goodall

TikTok Zoomers Are Convincing Boomers That Their Favorite Celebrities Have Died

"Andy Cohen dead at 54 years old," I said over the weekend to my mother, who is Andy Cohen's biggest fan.

Culture Kevin Hurler

Death Toll Rises to 63 in U.S. Winter Storm

Hard-hit Western New York was littered with abandoned cars and piles of snow several feet high after the Christmas blizzard.

Earth Science Angely Mercado

Space Force to Get $26.3 Billion for Communication Satellites and Tracking Missiles in 2023

The government funding bill gave the Space Force nearly $1.7 billion more than what the Pentagon had requested.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie

A Measles Outbreak Has Hospitalized 32 Kids in Ohio

Most cases have occurred in unvaccinated children, many of whom were eligible for the highly effective shots.

Health Ed Cara

Strange World‘s In-Universe Card Game Is Fully Playable

Combining Catan and Magic: The Gathering , the writers created a complete card game for the Disney movie's Clade family.

Movies Linda Codega

Military Device Containing Thousands of Peoples’ Biometric Data Reportedly Sold on eBay

German Researchers bought the SEEK II device as part of a security study, and found an alarming amount of information on the memory card.

Tech News Lauren Leffer

The Best Gadgets of 2022

Open Channel: What Surprised You This Year?

The Last of Us‘ Showrunner Unsure Whether the Game Is the Greatest Story of Its Medium or Just Silly Pixels

An Asteroid Is Passing Earth Today, so Scientists Are Shooting It With Radio Waves

IRS Delays Venmo and PayPal Tax Increase by One Year

The Mimicking of Known Successes Is a Cozy, Holmesian Sci-Fi Mystery

Startup Claims It’s Sending Sulfur Into the Atmosphere to Fight Climate Change

We’re All Ears for New M3GAN Footage

A Common Diabetes Drug May Reduce Long Covid Risk, Trial Data Finds

Tesla Will Reportedly Slow Down Production at Shanghai Plant

Doctor Who‘s 60th Anniversary Monsters Have a Deep Cut History

Class Action Suit Claims Apple Watch Is Terrible at Monitoring Blood Oxygen on Dark Skin

This Asteroid Impact Simulator Lets You Destroy the World

The 14 Best Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy TV Shows of 2022

TikTok Zoomers Are Convincing Boomers That Their Favorite Celebrities Have Died

Death Toll Rises to 63 in U.S. Winter Storm

Space Force to Get $26.3 Billion for Communication Satellites and Tracking Missiles in 2023

A Measles Outbreak Has Hospitalized 32 Kids in Ohio

Strange World‘s In-Universe Card Game Is Fully Playable

Military Device Containing Thousands of Peoples’ Biometric Data Reportedly Sold on eBay

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