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What It Really Means That the U.S. Won’t Reach Herd Immunity

An article in the New York Times today highlights a growing attitude among public health experts about the near future of the covid-19 pandemic: Herd immunity, at least for the time being, is likely out of reach in the U.S. But as upsetting as that sounds, it doesn’t mean the pandemic won’t be substantially contained,…

Health Ed Cara

Invincible‘s Season 1 Finale Was About the Fight Everyone Should Be Ready For

Amazon’s adaptation of Invincible—the Image comic from writer Robert Kirkman and artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley—did a surprisingly solid job of weaving plots from the original series into a new and distinct animated story. The show’s season one finale centered on a pivotal moment from the comic but left it generally untouched in a…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Future of American Democracy Hangs in Balance and/or Doesn’t

Facebook’s Oversight Board, the supposedly independent watchdog tasked with determining whether Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook after he incited a deadly neo-fascist riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 will be as permanent as his Twitter ban, has reached a decision. On Monday, it stated that it will be announcing its findings at Wednesday at…

Social Media Tom McKay

The EPA Takes First Step to Reduce Some of the Most Dangerous Greenhouse Gases on Earth

The Biden administration is clamping down on hydrofluorocarbons, an extremely powerful suite of greenhouse gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners, fire extinguishing systems, and building insulation. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules to ramp down the use of these chemicals by 85% over the next 15 years. It’s the agency’s first rule…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

PlayStation and Discord Are Teaming Up

Discord, the gamer-focused chat app that’s been in the news a bit more than usual recently, has partnered with Sony’s PlayStation. Details are scarce, but the statement put out by Sony promises to bring “the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile” beginning next year. In a blog post, Sony Interactive Entertainment…

Games Florence Ion

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60 Million Stars and Not One Alien Detected

Astrobiologists with the Breakthrough Listen project have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey, in which the team hunted for radio signals along a line of sight that extends toward the galactic center. The search for extraterrestrial radio signals is now in its seventh decade, and we have yet to find any trace of…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Hardware Hacker Breaks the DRM on a Mini Dishwasher

In what amounts to a very clever bit of hardware hacking, developer dekuNukem (the hacker who created a little device that automatically switches your screen to work when a boss walks by) has detailed a methodology for refilling the DRM-protected detergent cassettes for a $486 portable dishwasher called Bob. Trust me, it’s more interesting than…

Tech News John Biggs

Clubhouse Is Losing Steam

Clubhouse—the company that was making headlines just a few months back for drawing major celebrities (and Elon Musk)—seems to have reached a tipping point. In April, the app reached a grand total of 922,000 downloads, new research found, a sharp downturn after bringing in millions of new users just a month earlier. These numbers come…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Alan Moore’s Next Books Sound Alan Moore-y as Hell

Alan Moore, modern-day Saruman and creator of comic masterpieces like Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, has just signed with a new book publisher, and his upcoming fiction series sounds… well, like just the sort of things Alan Moore tends to write. The author has signed with Bloomsbury UK, but the real news is…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Experiment Is About to Get More Interesting

It’s not wrong to want Ingenuity to crash. The Mars helicopter getting into a dramatic accident would mean that the NASA team pushed the craft to its limits—that there’s finally a ceiling on the accomplishments of the astonishingly successful chopper. So far, Ingenuity has completed four of its five scheduled test flights on Mars, and…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

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2021 Summer Movie Preview: Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy You Can (Maybe) Watch in Theaters

This year had a great summer at the movies with titles like Black Widow, Luca, and The Green Knight.

Movies Germain Lussier & James Whitbrook & Charles Pulliam-Moore & Jill Pantozzi & Cheryl Eddy & Rob Bricken

Ethereum Surges to $3,200, Making Its Creator the Youngest Crypto Billionaire

Amidst an ongoing crypto surge, Ether soared to new market heights Monday, becoming one of the priciest cryptocurrencies in circulation. The Ethereum blockchain-based token is now worth around $3,200, making its total market capitalization higher than Bank of America, Paypal, and Nestle. The new valuation has also made Ether’s creator, the 27-year-old Russian-Canadian computer programmer…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Reportedly Rolling Out in 2023

The question was never if, but when, and according to noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the long-rumored foldable iPhone is now expected in 2023. According to note from the analyst seen by MacRumors, Kuo said he predicts Apple’s first foldable iPhone will feature an 8-inch flexible OLED display sourced from Samsung and will go on…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

In a First, People Had Their Brain Activity Tracked Remotely During Everyday Life

In a new study out Monday, scientists say they can now record people’s brain activity wirelessly throughout the day—a feat that could allow for better research into the brain’s inner workings. They then used that data to adjust the treatment of people with Parkinson’s disease through deep brain stimulation. It’s an exciting advancement, but some…

Health Ed Cara

Disney+ Celebrates May the Fourth With The Bad Batch, a Simpsons Spoof, and More

The most important day in the Star Wars franchise—other than Life Day, of course—is May 4, a.k.a. May the Fourth, when Lucasfilm and its various affiliates celebrate a galaxy far, far away (and the billions of dollars it makes them). This year, Disney’s streaming service seems to be where the party’s happening. Besides premiering the…

Movies Rob Bricken

12 Fascinating Falcon and the Winter Soldier Facts Revealed in New Documentary

There might be a Dora Milaje group text. That’s just one of the many interesting tidbits dispersed through a brand new making-of documentary for Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Disney+ has grouped these post-finale specials under the branding of Assembled; there was one for WandaVision, and now with Falcon over, we get to…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Epic vs. Apple Hearing Is Already a Disaster

The Epic v. Apple trial kicked off on Monday morning, and it’s already devolved into a giant, internet-fueled mess. First, the court had issues getting both teleconference lines up and running, and even when they were humming along fine, everyone’s lines seemed to be unmuted. On the main line, one person chanted, “Epic Games! Epic…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Siberia Is on Fire—and It’s Only May

It looks like wildfires in Siberia are starting up again—and some fires that never went out after last summer are starting to poke their heads out of the snow. Very normal and cool! Last week, authorities put Novobirsk’s 1.7 million residents under what’s known as a “black sky” air quality warning as smoke from nearby…

Climate Change Molly Taft

This Is the First Known Pregnant Mummy

A radiological examination of a 2,000-year-old mummy presumed to be a male priest shows it’s actually the preserved remains of a woman—and a pregnant one at that. New research in the Journal of Archaeological Science documents the “first known case of a pregnant embalmed body,” as the archaeologists, led by Wojciech Ejsmond from the Warsaw…

Human History George Dvorsky

Star Wars: The Bad Batch‘s Cast and Crew Talk Putting a New Perspective on the Rise of the Empire

Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch animated series is nearly upon us. It’s time to see a new take on one of the most explored periods of the galaxy far, far away in Disney’s stewardship of the franchise: the downfall of the Republic and the Rise of the Empire. But for the team behind the…

io9 James Whitbrook

What It Really Means That the U.S. Won’t Reach Herd Immunity

Invincible‘s Season 1 Finale Was About the Fight Everyone Should Be Ready For

Future of American Democracy Hangs in Balance and/or Doesn’t

The EPA Takes First Step to Reduce Some of the Most Dangerous Greenhouse Gases on Earth

PlayStation and Discord Are Teaming Up

60 Million Stars and Not One Alien Detected

Hardware Hacker Breaks the DRM on a Mini Dishwasher

Clubhouse Is Losing Steam

Alan Moore’s Next Books Sound Alan Moore-y as Hell

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Experiment Is About to Get More Interesting

2021 Summer Movie Preview: Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy You Can (Maybe) Watch in Theaters

Ethereum Surges to $3,200, Making Its Creator the Youngest Crypto Billionaire

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Reportedly Rolling Out in 2023

In a First, People Had Their Brain Activity Tracked Remotely During Everyday Life

Disney+ Celebrates May the Fourth With The Bad Batch, a Simpsons Spoof, and More

12 Fascinating Falcon and the Winter Soldier Facts Revealed in New Documentary

The Epic vs. Apple Hearing Is Already a Disaster

Siberia Is on Fire—and It’s Only May

This Is the First Known Pregnant Mummy

Star Wars: The Bad Batch‘s Cast and Crew Talk Putting a New Perspective on the Rise of the Empire

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