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Instagram Realizes It Had a Clubhouse In Its Heart All Along

As more and more social media platforms start cooking up their own Clubhouse clones, Instagram is adding new features to its existing livestreaming service to get in on the voice chat craze. On Thursday, Instagram announced it’s rolling out the option to turn off your audio or video while using Instagram Live. Instagram tested these…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Image: Raffaele Ienco, Neeraj Menon, and Joe Caramagna/Marvel Comics

Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine Just Had a Dark Side Squid Fight

That’s not even the most ridiculous thing I can tell you about Marvel’s latest Star Wars comic, Darth Vader #11. Greg Pak, Raffaele Ienco, Neeraj Menon, and Joe Caramanga’s run on the third volume of Darth Vader has, despite being firmly rooted in the original trilogy, explored concepts and themes from across the Skywalker saga.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Yasuke Writer Nick Jones Jr. on Exploring Japan’s Legendary Black Samurai

Netflix’s anime selection is huge and growing by the day. One new original project in particular—Yasuke, created by LeSean Thomas and starring LaKeith Stanfield—tells a true story but uses some truly fantastical elements to do it. io9 recently spoke to head writer Nick Jones Jr. about his journey to becoming a writer, the worldbuilding process,…

io9 Valerie Complex

Scientists Find Billion-Year-Old Fossil Life, ‘Something Which Has Never Been Described Before’

On the shores of a Scottish loch lie geologic deposits dating back a billion years, and within the rocks is evidence of the earliest known non-marine multicellular organism, according to a study published in Current Biology. It’s a fascinating new detail in the story of how animals may have evolved from the soup of early…

Biology Isaac Schultz

Biden’s Labor Secretary Wants to See Gig Workers Reclassified as Employees

Tech stocks tumbled on Thursday following a Reutersinterview in which U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh stated that many of the millions of gig workers across the country should, in fact, be classified as employees, rather than independent contractors. As Reuters noted in their own coverage, shares tanked to varying degrees for four companies in particular:…

Tech Policy Shoshana Wodinsky

Amazon Renews Invincible for 2 More Bloody Seasons

It shouldn’t be a surprise. Robert Kirkman’s animated adaptation of his own 2003 comic has been even more popular and well-reviewed than its source material, thanks to its airing on Amazon Prime. Clearly, Amazon isn’t unaware of this fact, since it’s just renewed Invincible for not one but two more seasons. The news comes just…

io9 Rob Bricken

Why Could Menthols Be Banned, but Not Regular Cigarettes?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it would begin the process of trying to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes and flavored cigars from the market. The decision will likely meet fierce opposition from many corners and may not come into effect for years. But it brings up an interesting question: Why is it that…

Health Ed Cara

60-Member Ransomware Task Force Has a Plan to Crack Down on Ransomware Criminals

A new, Big-Tech-backed coalition is lobbying the Biden administration to more aggressively pursue the threat of ransomware. In a report sent to the White House this week, members of the new group—simply called the Ransomware Task Force—have asked the president and the U.S. intelligence community to prioritize the disruption of cybercriminal networks involved in the…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Borderlands‘ Moxxi Has Been Cast, Completing Eli Roth’s Adaptation

Eli Roth’s Borderlands seems determined to claim the title for most star-studded video game adaptation ever, and today’s announcement that the cast is finally complete—with the addition of Gina Gershon, American Horror Story’s Cheyenne Jackson, and a few others—seems likely to seal the deal. According to Deadline, Gershon (who’ll play Moxxi), Jackson (Jakobs), Charles Babalola…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Show Me a Directed Energy Weapon or Shut Your Anonymous National Security Official Mouth

Another day, another mostly anonymously sourced story about unidentified assailants supposedly assaulting U.S. government employees around the globe. This time, according to CNN, federal agencies are looking into something closer to home: symptoms suffered by a White House employee in Virginia and National Security Council staffer near the south lawn of the White House. To…

Tech News Tom McKay

Castlevania‘s Final Season Trailer Teases an All-Out Supernatural War

Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard’s journey are coming to a final end—and in true Castlevania style, it’s going to be a bloody good time. Netflix has dropped a new trailer for the animated Castlevania’s fourth season, recently announced as the series’ last. It picks up in the wake of season three, which saw Trevor and Sypha…

Trailers James Whitbrook

California’s Carbon Offset Program Is a Complete Disaster

As businesses in California race to tamp down their emissions by buying carbon offsets, some serious math errors in the program may mean more carbon dioxide—not less—is being added to the atmosphere. On Thursday, ProPublica and MIT Technology Review published an investigation into forest offset programs in California, based on an analysis created by CarbonPlan,…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Google Assistant Will Now Finally Be Able to Say Your Name Correctly

It’s always awkward when you ask the robot (i.e. your phone’s digital assistant) to call a friend or family member, and then it responds with a cold and butchered pronunciation of that name. Now you can help stave off those unfortunate uncanny valley moments by teaching the Google Assistant how to pronounce your name and…

Tech News Florence Ion

Luca‘s Mystique-Like Transformations Were Inspired by ‘Squid Chromatophores’

Like many fantasy stories involving sea-dwelling people who work up the courage to explore the land beyond the ocean, the young heroes of Pixar’sLuca have the ability to pass as humans thanks to a magical transformation. It’s easy for Luca and his platonic buddy Alberto to pass once they step out of the water and…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

No, Sickos, You Can’t Buy an NFT to Destroy a Basquiat (Today)

A Jean-Michel Basquiat has possibly averted annihilation by NFT. Earlier this week, a seller who only identified themselves as “DAYstrom” attempted to auction an NFT of Basquiat’s 1986 drawing Free Comb with Pagoda, granting the winner the option to destroy the work so that only the NFT would survive. Whether the whole thing is a…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

David Cronenberg’s New Sci-Fi Film Casts Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, and More

It’s been seven years since iconic director David Cronenberg made a film, and it’s been 22 years since he made a science-fiction with 1999’s eXistenZ. Now Cronenberg is heading back to the genre with Crimes of the Future, and he’s bringing Aragorn, Madeleine Swann, and Bella Swann along with him. Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and…

Movies Rob Bricken

Neil Gaiman, Chuck Wendig, and More Are Uniting to Make Disney Pay Royalties

Late last year, Alan Dean Foster—the novelist who wrote the first Star Wars novels, the ghost-written novelization of A New Hope and its direct sequel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye—went public with his struggles to negotiate a royalty contract for his work since Disney took ownership of Lucasfilm. Although Foster’s fight is nearing an end, more…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Declassified Satellite Images Show Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Ever

The world’s glaciers are melting faster and the climate crisis is to blame, a new study shows. For a comprehensive new study, published in Nature on Wednesday, scientists analyzed half a million recently declassified 3D satellite images. The images span nearly two decades and 217,175 mountain glaciers, or nearly every single one on Earth. The…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Scientists Closer to Creating Psychedelic-Like Drugs That Work Without Hallucinations

In a new study this week, researchers describe their work with experimental compounds that could offer the mental health benefits of a psychedelic drug, without causing people to trip out. Their early research, so far only conducted in mice, might someday provide people with more first-line treatments for illnesses like depression. Psychedelics are currently being…

Health Ed Cara

U.S. Court Says Ghost Gun Blueprints Can Stay Online

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled this week that posting plans for so-called “ghost guns”—homemade firearms and firearm parts designed to route around gun regulations—is technically legal. The ruling, which affirmed the Trump-era removal of these gun and gun parts from the State Department’s Munitions List, means that the blueprints…

Tech News John Biggs

Instagram Realizes It Had a Clubhouse In Its Heart All Along

Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine Just Had a Dark Side Squid Fight

Yasuke Writer Nick Jones Jr. on Exploring Japan’s Legendary Black Samurai

Scientists Find Billion-Year-Old Fossil Life, ‘Something Which Has Never Been Described Before’

Biden’s Labor Secretary Wants to See Gig Workers Reclassified as Employees

Amazon Renews Invincible for 2 More Bloody Seasons

Why Could Menthols Be Banned, but Not Regular Cigarettes?

60-Member Ransomware Task Force Has a Plan to Crack Down on Ransomware Criminals

Borderlands‘ Moxxi Has Been Cast, Completing Eli Roth’s Adaptation

Show Me a Directed Energy Weapon or Shut Your Anonymous National Security Official Mouth

Castlevania‘s Final Season Trailer Teases an All-Out Supernatural War

California’s Carbon Offset Program Is a Complete Disaster

Google Assistant Will Now Finally Be Able to Say Your Name Correctly

Luca‘s Mystique-Like Transformations Were Inspired by ‘Squid Chromatophores’

No, Sickos, You Can’t Buy an NFT to Destroy a Basquiat (Today)

David Cronenberg’s New Sci-Fi Film Casts Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, and More

Neil Gaiman, Chuck Wendig, and More Are Uniting to Make Disney Pay Royalties

Declassified Satellite Images Show Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Ever

Scientists Closer to Creating Psychedelic-Like Drugs That Work Without Hallucinations

U.S. Court Says Ghost Gun Blueprints Can Stay Online

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