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NASA’s Tiny Helicopter Snaps Its First Color Photo on Mars

Well, we’ve seen better photos of Mars, but this one’s special in that it was taken by NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter. Encouragingly, the craft managed to survive its first frigid night on Mars, bringing us one step closer to its inaugural flight. The low-resolution photo was taken on April 3 when Ingenuity was still standing beneath…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Just When You Thought Chucky Couldn’t Get Any Creepier…

…they had to go and rip his skin off. A brief but delightfully demented clip from Don Mancini’s Chucky series, coming soon to Syfy, features behind-the-scenes footage of a practical, animatronic Chucky. Except it’s not quite finished so you just have a bunch of wires and joints and those freaky ass eyes, along with the…

io9 Germain Lussier

TikTok Ups Its Accessibility With Auto-Captions

TikTok’s giving creators a new tool to make their awful, awful memes a bit more accessible. On Tuesday, the company announced that creators could now turn on auto-captions for their clips in a push to help folks with hearing loss enjoy the app more. “Inclusivity is important because when people feel included, they’re more comfortable…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

eBay’s App Can Now Recognize and Automatically Make Listings for Trading Cards You Want to Sell

Who’d have thought that over 150 years after the first baseball cards were printed in the late 1860s that trading cards would still be a hot commodity? Every minute, almost 100 of them are sold on eBay, according to the company. So, to make the process smoother, it’s updating its app with image recognition capabilities…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Proposed Plastics Plant Will Test Joe Biden’s Commitment to Environmental Justice

Myrtle Felton has lived in St. James Parish her whole life, but it looks nothing like it did when she was young. “It looks like a third world,” she said. “Sometimes I just go ride to River Road, and I try to remember what it actually looked like years ago. I try to remember, ‘Whose…

Environmental Justice Dharna Noor

Updates From Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Borderlands, and More

Jason Momoa gets horny for a new Netflix fantasy. The success of Godzilla vs. Kong leaves Dune’s streaming/theatrical dual-release up in the air. James Gunn offers the tiniest update on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Plus, a brief look at the final episode of Wynonna Earp. Spoilers go! Borderlands Lionsgate has confirmed that Edgar…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

This 1.5-Pound Stainless Steel Dock Ensures Apple’s MagSafe Charger Always Stays Put

The iPhone 12’s new MagSafe charging is a marquee feature, but there’s one thing no one ever mentions: Separating the phone from a charger isn’t effortless, which means when you reach for the device and forget it’s being charged, you can yank the cable a little too hard. Nomad’s solution to the problem is a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Sonos Roam Packs a Powerful Punch in a Petite Package

One of the first times I ever came across a Sonos speaker was at a swanky outdoor barbecue on a Brooklyn rooftop. I remember it vividly, because the host stopped grilling to spew expletives at his two Sonos speakers. He’d created a specific playlist for the party but Sonos speakers at the time were wifi…

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Vietnam Lifts Ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft

The government of Vietnam has lifted a ban on Boeing 737 Max aircraft, according to Reuters, citing Vietnamese state media. The ban on the planes was put in place following two crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019. The Civil Aviation Authority Of Vietnam originally grounded all Boeing 737 Max planes along with…

Transportation Matt Novak

Japan’s Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency

Japan’s central bank has started trials of a new digital currency in an effort to experiment with how it might be used, the Bank of Japan announced on Monday. The announcement comes after the Chinese government revealed it was doing something very similar with a digital yuan in early March. “The Bank of Japan has…

Tech News Matt Novak

Space Jam: A New Legacy’s Most WTF Cameos From the New Trailer

Space Jam has always been about bringing worlds together, but we’ve never seen anything like this. The first trailer dropped for Space Jam: A New Legacy, the sequel to the ‘90s film, and while it focuses primarily on the stars (aka LeBron James and the Looney Tunes), the world of the film is also filled…

io9 Germain Lussier

More U.S. Coal Power Retired Under Trump Than in Obama’s Second Term

Remember all of Donald Trump’s promises to put coal miners back to work? Turns out, his repeated attacks on the environment to try and bail out dirty fuels were all for naught. More coal-fired power was taken off the grid under Trump’s presidency than under former President Barack Obama’s second term, a new analysis from…

Energy Molly Taft

Clubhouse Is Partnering With Stripe to Offer Direct Payments, and Creators Will Get 100% of the Profits

The invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse is sweetening the deal for creators by offering a direct payment option that would allow them to reap 100% of the rewards. In a Monday blog post, Clubhouse announced that it would partner with the payment processing startup Stripe to offer direct payments on the app for the first…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Kamen Rider Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary With a New Movie, Anime Series, and More

It’s been 50 long years since Takeshi Hongo put on the grasshopper-themed mask and fought the terrorist organization Shocker. Since there, that have been more than 30 TV Kamen Rider series, over 60 movies, and countless specials, videos, and more. Now, for the Japanese superhero franchise’s 50th anniversary, Kamen Rider is doing something new—or should…

io9 Rob Bricken

Chicago Will Host an Official New Star Trek Convention in 2022

Break out the phasers and Vulcan ears. Star Trek is coming to Chicago and this time, it’s a whole new “Khaaaaaaannnn!” ReedPop, the company behind New York Comic-Con, C2E2, PAX, Emerald City, Star Wars Celebration, and ComplexCon, just announced a new partnership with the franchise which will begin at Star Trek: Mission Chicago, taking place…

io9 Germain Lussier

Is Yahoo Answers Dying? Yes, Son, Yes It Is

Yahoo announced on Monday that it will soon send its Answers service to that great trash bin in the sky, bringing about 15 years’ worth of absurd, typo-ridden questioning and equally irreverent answering to an end. Yahoo Answers will be read-only as of April 20, and fully defunct by May 4, the company said. After…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Amazon Can’t Just Change Its Rules to Squash Activism, NLRB Finding Suggests

The laundry list of fired organizers at Amazon has grown suspiciously lengthy, and the National Labor Relations Board has noticed. A regional director for the NLRB has found merit for two activists’ claims that Amazon unjustly fired them last year. From 2019-2020, user experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa prominently advocated for climate justice…

Earther Whitney Kimball

Star Trek: Prodigy Reveals a First Look at Captain Janeway’s Surprising Return

Grab a pot of coffee and raise a cup in celebration: Kathryn Janeway is back, and she’s here to teach a whole new generation of heroes how to lead. Just revealed by Kate Mulgrew herself as part of CBS and Paramount’s “First Contact Day” Star Trek celebration, we now have our first look as to…

io9 James Whitbrook

This Soap Bottle Is Made of Soap and Also Dispenses Soap

I’m always trying to reduce the amount of plastic I throw away, and this new Kickstarter project’s clever solution, which uses soap to create a multi-purpose, zero-waste container, has me intrigued. Project Soapbottle, which was initially conceived by Jonna Breitenhuber as part of a student design contest, is a new line of packaging that uses solid…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Season 4 Teaser Sees Burnham Take Command

In the season three finale of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) finally received her much-deserved promotion to captain. But now that she’s in charge, she’s the one who’s going to have to keep the Discovery together…and its crew alive. Martin-Green revealed the trailer during today’s First Contact Day virtual panels, which are available…

io9 Rob Bricken

NASA’s Tiny Helicopter Snaps Its First Color Photo on Mars

Just When You Thought Chucky Couldn’t Get Any Creepier…

TikTok Ups Its Accessibility With Auto-Captions

eBay’s App Can Now Recognize and Automatically Make Listings for Trading Cards You Want to Sell

A Proposed Plastics Plant Will Test Joe Biden’s Commitment to Environmental Justice

Updates From Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Borderlands, and More

This 1.5-Pound Stainless Steel Dock Ensures Apple’s MagSafe Charger Always Stays Put

The Sonos Roam Packs a Powerful Punch in a Petite Package

Vietnam Lifts Ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft

Japan’s Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency

Space Jam: A New Legacy’s Most WTF Cameos From the New Trailer

More U.S. Coal Power Retired Under Trump Than in Obama’s Second Term

Clubhouse Is Partnering With Stripe to Offer Direct Payments, and Creators Will Get 100% of the Profits

Kamen Rider Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary With a New Movie, Anime Series, and More

Chicago Will Host an Official New Star Trek Convention in 2022

Is Yahoo Answers Dying? Yes, Son, Yes It Is

Amazon Can’t Just Change Its Rules to Squash Activism, NLRB Finding Suggests

Star Trek: Prodigy Reveals a First Look at Captain Janeway’s Surprising Return

This Soap Bottle Is Made of Soap and Also Dispenses Soap

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Season 4 Teaser Sees Burnham Take Command

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