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Who Has the World’s Greatest Geek Acting Career?

A lot of actors have taken on multiple roles in genre projects—sci-fi, fantasy, horror—but one stands out as possibly the most prolific in this particular area. Which actor has had the most work in geekdom? io9 is here to offer evidence that it’s one Ralph Ineson. Who Has the World’s Greatest Geek Acting Career? You…

io9 Germain Lussier

Cloudflare Says It Never Meant To Block LGBTQ Sites

Cloudflare’s traffic-filtering Gateway service is meant to protect browsers from accessing malware-ridden sites or obvious scams. Until this week, it also let customers filter out sites hosting queer content—a feature the company blamed on one of its third-party partners. Aside from giving customers the chance to restrict access to particular sites associated with, say, spyware…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Ingenuity’s Next Flight on Mars Could Be Its Most Interesting Yet

The flimsy-looking but impressively tenacious Ingenuity has booked its sixth flight on Mars. Slated for sometime next week, this flight will be the first of the helicopter’s new demonstration phase, following five successful test flights that proved the feasibility of powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. Ingenuity is currently roosting on a new airfield about 400…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Citizen CEO Personally Put Up the Bounty for Man Falsely Accused of Starting a Wildfire

I know we’ve had a lot of dystopian moments recently, but millionaires personally deploying their apps to hunt down houseless people falsely accused of starting wildfires spreading in a drought-stricken landscape is really up there. And that’s exactly what happened this week, according to new reporting from the Verge. Citizen, an app that sends out…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Meet VIPER, NASA’s New Water-Hunting, Crater-Crushing Lunar Rover

Equipped with headlights and a suite of powerful instruments, NASA’s VIPER is poised to revolutionize our understanding of lunar water, and how much of it might be available to future explorers. Here’s what you need to know about the golf cart-sized rover, which is scheduled to reach the Moon in late 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix

Is Henry Cavill the New Highlander?

If there can be only one, you can’t do much better than Henry Cavill. The Man of Steel and Witcher star is in talks to play the lead character in the long-gestating remake of the cult classic Highlander, directed by John Wick’s Chad Stahelski. Deadline broke the news of the potential casting, which is the…

Movies Germain Lussier

If You’ve Got a New Apple TV 4K, the HomePod Just Got More Useful

Just because Apple discontinued the original HomePod and is having a really hard time selling its remaining inventory, doesn’t mean it’s done adding updates. If you buy a new Apple TV 4K, you’ll be able to play audio from other gadgets connected to your TV—including Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, and cable boxes— via the HomePod.…

Tech News Victoria Song

DC’s League of Super-Pets Movie Casts Dwayne Johnson as Krypto, and It Makes Me Uncomfortable

Given that superhero movies are the most reliable blockbusters of the modern age, I shouldn’t ever be surprised when some major star slips into the tights and capes of a long-time comic book character. However, I find myself oddly shaken by the announcement that Dwayne Johnson (who’s already starring in DC’s Black Adam) will be…

Movies Rob Bricken

Man Gets Molten Metal in His Ear in Freak Welding Accident

Doctors in Australia say an unusual welding accident left a 60-year-old man with steel lodged in his right ear. In a new case study, they detail how the metal punctured the man’s eardrum, causing him to lose some hearing and develop tinnitus. Luckily, he avoided more serious injury and his hearing was restored after the…

Health Ed Cara

Netflix’s Animated Adaptation of the Filipino Hit Comic Trese Summons Its First Blood-Soaked Trailer

It’s been quite a while since Netflix first announced it’d be making an anime-inspired adaptation of the action-horror comic Trese at its See What’s Next Asia event in 2018. Honestly, it’s weird that it took the series, created by writer Budjette Tan and artist Kajo Baldisimo, that long to make a development deal given how…

Trailers Rob Bricken

The Vaccine Will Get You Laid: White House

The White House has correctly estimated that if Americans don’t want to perform a selfless act for their fellow citizens, then they might get off their butts for seeeeexxxxx. The Biden administration today announced that it’s teamed up with nine dating apps to add “vaccinated” badges and visibility boosts to user profiles, in its bid…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Jurassic World’s Blue Is Back in an Exclusive Clip From Camp Cretaceous

The third season of the animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is now on Netflix and we’re celebrating with an exclusive clip showing the return of a fan favorite from the franchise. Ian Malcolm? Owen Grady? John Hammond back from the dead? No, none of those. We’re talking about Blue the Raptor. Blue was last seen…

io9 Germain Lussier

Google Pixel 6 Leaks Show Some Surprisingly Impressive Hardware

Now that Google has given everyone a big preview of Android 12, everyone is wondering about the next batch of Google devices slated to run the company’s mobile OS. And based on a number of recent leaks, the Pixel 6 is shaping up to be Google’s most enticing phone in years. Just yesterday, new code…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

How Sand Mining Could Destabilize the World

The world consumes gargantuan quantities of sand for all kinds of things, which along with related materials like gravel and crushed rock, accounts for 85% of all mineral extraction on Earth. A new study details the massive environmental toll it takes—and how we can fix it. The new study, published in One Earth on Friday,…

Conservation Dharna Noor

You’re Supposed to Be Comforted by This Faceless Robotic Vibrating Cat, Not Horrified

If there’s one sure sign a creature isn’t of this world, but some other horrific realm, it’s a lack of a face. For the creators of the MeowEver, a cat-shaped pillow that simulates purring, a lack of a face is instead supposed to be an endearing trait, and encourage users to cuddle up with the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Hurricane Season Is About to Start Early—Again

The Atlantic is acting up out of season. Again. A disturbance near Bermuda is likely to become the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season in the next two days. As of Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center gave the weather system a 90% chance of becoming a named storm. (It would take the…

Earth Science Molly Taft

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

‘Clyde’s Spot’ on Jupiter Is Starting to Look Pretty Weird

Last May, a spot suddenly appeared in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere. But as new images from the Juno spacecraft show, the once circular feature has morphed into an enigmatic splotch. The feature was first detected by Clyde Foster, director of the Shallow Sky section of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, on May 31, 2020. Foster…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

A Mandalorian Star Arrives to Give Star Wars: The Bad Batch a Few Lessons

The first lesson is that you should never trust a stranger. The second is that sometimes, all Star Wars needs to get by is the help of a face you know from somewhere else in the galaxy far, far away. Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s “Cornered,” if not for its special guest star—The Mandalorian’s Ming-Na Wen reprising…

io9 James Whitbrook

You Can Now Play Offline Spotify Playlists on the Apple Watch

Spotify users with Apple Watches can breathe a sigh of relief. You can finally, finally download playlists, albums, and podcasts onto the watch for offline use. In its official blog, Spotify said it’s rolling out offline playlists starting today. All a user has to do is select the music or podcast they want to listen…

Tech News Victoria Song

Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s Plot Revealed in an Unexpected Way

Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves gets some intriguing season two casting. Netflix gives details of three new animated projects. Plus updates from Pixar’s Luca, The Conjuring universe, and more. Spoilers are thrilled it’s Friday… Tremors During a recent interview with Esquire, Kevin Bacon revealed he’s still eager to revisit his character Valentine McKee in a…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Who Has the World’s Greatest Geek Acting Career?

Cloudflare Says It Never Meant To Block LGBTQ Sites

Ingenuity’s Next Flight on Mars Could Be Its Most Interesting Yet

Citizen CEO Personally Put Up the Bounty for Man Falsely Accused of Starting a Wildfire

Meet VIPER, NASA’s New Water-Hunting, Crater-Crushing Lunar Rover

Is Henry Cavill the New Highlander?

If You’ve Got a New Apple TV 4K, the HomePod Just Got More Useful

DC’s League of Super-Pets Movie Casts Dwayne Johnson as Krypto, and It Makes Me Uncomfortable

Man Gets Molten Metal in His Ear in Freak Welding Accident

Netflix’s Animated Adaptation of the Filipino Hit Comic Trese Summons Its First Blood-Soaked Trailer

The Vaccine Will Get You Laid: White House

Jurassic World’s Blue Is Back in an Exclusive Clip From Camp Cretaceous

Google Pixel 6 Leaks Show Some Surprisingly Impressive Hardware

How Sand Mining Could Destabilize the World

You’re Supposed to Be Comforted by This Faceless Robotic Vibrating Cat, Not Horrified

Hurricane Season Is About to Start Early—Again

‘Clyde’s Spot’ on Jupiter Is Starting to Look Pretty Weird

A Mandalorian Star Arrives to Give Star Wars: The Bad Batch a Few Lessons

You Can Now Play Offline Spotify Playlists on the Apple Watch

Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s Plot Revealed in an Unexpected Way

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