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Who You Gonna Call? io9’s Friday Gif Party

Just think, when this week started we all thought Muncher would be the weirdest creature in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Now, we all have visions of gleeful yet outrageously disturbing Mini-Pufts haunting our nightmares! Let’s bring that energy to this week’s GIF party by sharing your favorite Ghostbusters gifs—or just any gif that makes you want to…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

NOAA Updates Its ‘Average’ Hurricane Season to Call for More Storms

On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its new “average” estimate for Atlantic hurricane season. If trends follow the period from 1991 to 2020, the Atlantic region should expect 14 named storms, seven hurricanes, and three major hurricanes. This isn’t the annual outlook; it just slightly moves the bar for what the average…

Earth Science Whitney Kimball

Cybercriminals Bought Facebook Ads for a Fake Clubhouse App That Was Riddled With Malware

Cybercriminals have been pushing Facebook users to download a Clubhouse app “for PC,” something that doesn’t exist. The app is actually a trojan designed to inject malware into your computer. The popular new invite-only chat app is only available on iPhone but worldwide interest in the platform has risen and users are clamoring for Android…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

The Coolest Star Wars, Marvel, and Transformers Reveals From Hasbro’s Fanfest, and More Toy News

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s usual round up of the latest and greatest in plastic collecting. This week: Hasbro’s all but taken over for its Fanfest of Transformers, Star Wars, and Marvel reveals—give or take a bonus Baron Zemo—but there’s also fun Avengers cards and a sneak Star Trek away mission facilitator. Check it…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

Tons of Invisible Asteroid and Comet Dust Falls on Us Every Year

Some 10,000 grand pianos’ worth of space dust lands on Earth each year, according to a new paper published in Earth & Planetary Science Letters. The finding emerged from six French National Scientific Research Center expeditions in Antarctica, which spanned 20 years at the extremely isolated Concordia Research Station. Concordia made a great venue for spotting…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Don’t Blame the ACLU for Facebook’s Ills

Earlier this week, folks in tech-savvy onlookers were utterly scandalized when a tweet thread from former Federal Trade Commission CTO Ashkan Soltani began being passed around. In it, Soltani calls out the American Civil Liberties Union for committing one of the cardinal sins of the tech privacy sphere: sharing data with Facebook. Soltani’s lengthy thread…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

Peter Thiel-Backed Psychedelics Firm Buys Majority of Brain-Control Interface Firm

ATAI Life Sciences, a biosciences company backed by venture capitalist and freedom-loving billionaire Peter Thiel that specializes in experimental treatment of mental disorders with psychedelic drugs, has bought out a majority stake in a company working to meld the mind with machines. Per CNBC, the Berlin-based ATAI has purchased a controlling percentage of Psyber, one…

Tech News Tom McKay

Goonies-Inspired Rocky Road Ice Cream Exists and We’ve Tried It

It’s not every day your childhood arrives at your door in the form of ice cream, but it happened to me recently. It all started when I got an email from a company representing a brand called Serendipity. It had signed a deal to make some ice cream based on classic pop culture properties, among…

Movies Germain Lussier

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The Companies Behind Macross and Robotech Have Finally Put Aside Their Differences

In the ‘80s, turning beloved Japanese series into Westernized juggernauts was nothing new—but Macross’ transformation intoRobotech sparked a legal feud that has, for the best part of two decades, meant getting the source material in the West legally very hard. That might finally be about to change, but not immediately. Last night, Bigwest and Studio…

io9 James Whitbrook

Chronic Stuffy Nose Linked to Changes in Brain Activity, Study Finds

Your always-congested sinuses might be a harbinger of more trouble down the road, new research out Friday suggests. The small study found evidence of a link between chronic sinus inflammation and altered, possibly harmful brain activity. The findings don’t necessarily prove that the two things are directly connected, but they do highlight the need for…

Health Ed Cara

Rogue One‘s Blue Leader Soars Into Hasbro’s Star Wars Figure Line

All wings, report in! Hasbro’s line of Star Wars: The Vintage Collection vehicles has already brought us the X-Wings of Luke Skywalker and Poe Dameron, but now it’s reaching into the era of Rogue One, to bring the Battle of Scarif right to your shelf. Today, io9 can exclusively reveal the first up-close look at…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook

We’re Archiving Yahoo Answers So You’ll Always Know How Babby Is Formed

When the internet was mourning the impending shutdown of Yahoo Answers, announced earlier this week, there was a sentiment that you saw over and over again: that shutting the site down was akin to the library of Alexandria burning down. Honestly, that’s not too much of an exaggeration. When the service rolled out in the…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky & Dhruv Mehrotra

The Next Star Trek Movie Has a Stardate in 2023

Five years have passed since the last Star Trek film—and now it seems we’re two years away from the next one. Paramount did a big release date shuffle today and in the mix was the news that an untitled Star Trek movie is now set for June 9, 2023. In the past five years, there…

Movies Germain Lussier

Discovery of 3,400-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian City Stuns Archaeologists

An expedition working near Luxor has stumbled upon the remains of a lost ancient Egyptian city, in what is being hailed as the most significant archaeological discovery in the region since the 1920s. Archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs in Egypt, made the announcement on Thursday through his Facebook page.…

Human History George Dvorsky

This Week’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Wasn’t Really About Either

Episode four of Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was all about contrasting viewpoints, mainly from two people—neither of which were the Falcon or the Winter Soldier—who represent factions on a collision course for possible war. And it might be up to Sam (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky (Sebastian Stan) to make sure that doesn’t…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

First-Ever Observations From Under Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Are Bad News

Glaciers all over Antarctica are in trouble as ice there rapidly melts. There’s no Antarctic glacier whose fate is more consequential for our future than the Thwaites Glacier, and new research shows that things aren’t looking good for it. Researchers have known that the Thwaites Glacier is in trouble due to encroaching warm waters, but they’d…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Scientists Dive Into Axolotl Genome, Looking for Secrets to Regeneration

Its adorableness aside, the Mexican axolotl is a salamander of particular interest to scientists. On the molecular level, the animal seems to have a cheat code for life: It can regenerate its limbs and vital organs, an ability researchers are desperate to better understand for medical applications. Now, geneticists have gotten a clearer view of…

Biology Isaac Schultz

Google Has Canceled the Pixel 5a, Multiple Reports Claim [Update: The Pixel 5a Is Still Alive]

Update: While rumors originally claimed another gadget had fallen victim to the global chip crunch, Google has now officially debunked previous reports that the Pixel 5a had been cancelled. Google has now refuted previous reports and has provided an official statement to Gizmodo saying the “Pixel 5a 5G is not cancelled. It will be available…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

The New Mortal Kombat Theme Remix Is So Goddamned Good, You Guys

I don’t care how good this new Mortal Kombat movie is going to be, it is extremely unlikely to be better than this glorious—update? remix? cover?—of the classic Mortal Kombat theme. It’s a banger that slaps, and whatever other cool slang kids are calling very good music nowadays. This glorious EDM update of the Mortal…

Movies Rob Bricken

California Could Require Uber and Lyft to Go Electric by 2030

If you live in California, chances are you could be taking many more Uber and Lyft trips in electric vehicles in the coming years. The state’s clean air agency is poised to mandate that nearly all vehicles used by drivers working for ridesharing companies be electric by 2030. The proposal from the California Air Resources…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Who You Gonna Call? io9’s Friday Gif Party

NOAA Updates Its ‘Average’ Hurricane Season to Call for More Storms

Cybercriminals Bought Facebook Ads for a Fake Clubhouse App That Was Riddled With Malware

The Coolest Star Wars, Marvel, and Transformers Reveals From Hasbro’s Fanfest, and More Toy News

Tons of Invisible Asteroid and Comet Dust Falls on Us Every Year

Don’t Blame the ACLU for Facebook’s Ills

Peter Thiel-Backed Psychedelics Firm Buys Majority of Brain-Control Interface Firm

Goonies-Inspired Rocky Road Ice Cream Exists and We’ve Tried It

The Companies Behind Macross and Robotech Have Finally Put Aside Their Differences

Chronic Stuffy Nose Linked to Changes in Brain Activity, Study Finds

Rogue One‘s Blue Leader Soars Into Hasbro’s Star Wars Figure Line

We’re Archiving Yahoo Answers So You’ll Always Know How Babby Is Formed

The Next Star Trek Movie Has a Stardate in 2023

Discovery of 3,400-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian City Stuns Archaeologists

This Week’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Wasn’t Really About Either

First-Ever Observations From Under Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Are Bad News

Scientists Dive Into Axolotl Genome, Looking for Secrets to Regeneration

Google Has Canceled the Pixel 5a, Multiple Reports Claim [Update: The Pixel 5a Is Still Alive]

The New Mortal Kombat Theme Remix Is So Goddamned Good, You Guys

California Could Require Uber and Lyft to Go Electric by 2030

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