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Even YouTube Is Chilling Out on Weed

On the same day that Governor Andrew Cuomo fully legalized recreational weed use across New York, YouTube quietly lifted a few of its own restrictions regarding the drug, too. In a Wednesday update posted to the company’s ad-friendly content guidelines, YouTube announced it would be easing up on the monetization restrictions for certain kinds of…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

You Know What? Good for Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson’s Star Warstrilogy seems less likely than ever today, seeing as how the director just closed a $450 million deal to make two Knives Out sequels at Netflix. And you know what? Good for him. In 2017, Johnson took the numerous story possibilites left for him by J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens and turned…

Movies Germain Lussier

Japan Hasn’t Seen Cherry Blossoms This Early in 1,200 Years

So gorgeous! So depressing! The cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan hit their peak bloom last week—the earliest date recorded in official records and, some say, the earliest date of bloom for the trees in more than 1,200 years. And climate change definitely has a hand in the trees’ early beauty show. The Japan Meteorological Agency…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Image: Ario Anindito, Mark Morales, Annalisa Leoni, and Ariana Maher/Marvel Comics

Say Hello to Star Wars‘ Trans Jedi, Terec and Ceret

The Force is with them, and a powerful ally it is. Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility, a global push to advocate for transgender people, their rights, and publicly support the fight to protect trans and non-binary people from increasingly draconian assaults on their humanity by governments andpowerful individuals around the world. To mark…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Soon, Siri Won’t Be a Feminine Voice by Default

The latest update to the iOS 14.5 beta won’t fix all of our gripes with Siri, but it does introduce a few major changes for Apple’s digital assistant. For starters, Siri will no longer be feminine by default for English speakers. Instead, once iOS 14.5 is officially pushed out, iOS users will be prompted to…

Tech News Victoria Song

The ‘Voice of President Trump’ Gets Double-Banned by Facebook

It must be hard, getting 86’ed from a venue, watching as 2.7 billion people stroll past a skinny, pale bouncer. Maybe you mull around the dumpster outside, in a cloud of cigarette smoke with the Nazis and Laura Loomer, talking about how much that party sucks, actually, that this alley area is way better, and…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Why Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Needs to Go Way Bigger

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to make a $2.25 trillion investment in the nation’s infrastructure. By the yardstick of recent history, the long-awaited infrastructure plan is big. His administration said the $2.25 trillion investment is the largest government spending program the U.S. has seen since the expansion of the space program in…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Amazon Intended Its Army of Paid Twitter Sycophants to Be ‘Authentic,’ Have a ‘Great Sense of Humor’

Internal Amazon documents show that the company’s widely-derided Twitter “ambassadors” program was intended to be a different sort of laugh riot, according to the Intercept. Multiple Amazon executives on Twitter, as well as the company’s @AmazonNews, went weirdly aggro on the site last week ahead of a union vote at a company warehouse in Alabama.…

Commerce Tom McKay

The Creepshow Season 2 Premiere Unleashes the Best Kind of Fan Service

Shudder's anthology series kicks off its next installment with an episode targeting the hearts of scary-movie fiends.

io9 Reviews Cheryl Eddy

Your Titanic Godzilla Vs. Kong Spoiler Zone Has Entered the Ring

Two giant monsters enter. Then, presumably, one giant monster leaves. The only way to know who wins and who loses is to watch Godzilla Vs. Kong, out today on HBO Max—and then head right back here to discuss the battle between the King of the Monsters and the Greatest of Apes, and whether it lived…

Movies Rob Bricken

Physicists Laser-Cool Antimatter to Near Absolute Zero

For a little more than a week in July 2018, a team of physicists at CERN tried a new technique to slow down antimatter particles zipping around at breakneck speeds. Those 10 days of observation were the culmination of 10 years of development in an international collaboration called ALPHA, which oversaw the design and construction…

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz

How the New Captain America Prepared for His Superhero Role With the Help of a Surprising Marvel Director

He may be the Internet’s meme du jour, but John Walker is no joke—he’s the new Captain America in Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and he’s fascinating. io9 had a chance to speak with Wyatt Russell, the actor behind the mask, and discuss his great venture into the MCU. Russell is best known…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Banjo-Kazooie and Fable 2 Are Available on Xbox’s Cloud Gaming Service, and I’m Stoked

Xbox announced this morning that 16 original Xbox and Xbox 360 games are now available on its cloud gaming service. Anyone with an active Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription can play well-loved classics like Banjo-Kazooie, Fable 2, and Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as of today. “We’ve listened to the feedback, going all the way back…

Games Joanna Nelius

Antarctica Got Blasted by a Powerful ‘Airburst’ Event 430,000 Years Ago

Asteroids that smash directly into Earth’s surface can cause extensive damage, but, as new evidence uncovered in east Antarctica suggests, asteroids that explode on entry can be equally devastating. Super tiny black balls made from igneous rock are evidence of a calamitous event in the Sør Rondane Mountains of Antarctica some 430,000 years ago, according…

Earth Science

EPA Cleans Out Trump-Era Shills on Its Science Advisory Boards

When he wasn’t busy searching for Ritz Carlton lotion, former Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt also gutted the agency’s science advisory boards. But after forcing out impartial scientists and installing people who literally denied air pollution’s adverse impacts on public health, the agency is reversing course under new Administrator Michael Regan. The agency announced the…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

April Is Full of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Spring Reading List

This month we’ve got teenage telekinetics, magical twins, shapeshifters, supernatural detectives, space adventures, palace intrigue, fantasy epics, monsters, and more—plus the first-ever YA fantasy novel by io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders. Read on! Local Star by Aimee Ogden This “polyamorous space opera” encompasses adventure and romance, as main character Triz fights off an invasion while…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

This Stick-On Gadget Solves Wireless Charging’s Biggest Problem

Wireless chargers have a dark secret that’s never addressed in the brochures and other promotional materials: You still have to deal with wires. But with Humanscale’s new NeatCharge wireless charger, at least those cords are hidden away out of sight underneath a desk or table. Is a wireless charger more convenient than having to plug…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Biden Floats Plan to Bring Broadband to All Americans

President Biden set out to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to roll out a sweeping infrastructure proposal that could completely revamp—among many other things—the way the country gets online. Dubbed the American Jobs Plan, this massive infrastructure overhaul, plans to set aside $2 trillion over the next eight years to be spent on major fixes that both…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

It’s Looking Like Samsung’s Return to Wear OS Is Inevitable

Rumors that Samsung might be ditching its proprietary smartwatch operating system for Google’s neglected Wear OS platform aren’t new. However, it’s looking increasingly likely that Tizen OS is not long for this world. Earlier this week, Android Police found hidden code in the Galaxy Wearable app that referenced a new pair of Samsung earbuds dubbed…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Narwhal Tusks Show How Climate Change and Pollution Are Reshaping the Arctic

There’s no question that we’re messing up the oceans big time. But shocking new research shows the world’s addiction to fossil fuels is changing the bodies of big ocean predators like narwhals. A study published this month in Current Biology uses narwhal tusks to examine how the animals store mercury over time, finding that levels…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Even YouTube Is Chilling Out on Weed

You Know What? Good for Rian Johnson

Japan Hasn’t Seen Cherry Blossoms This Early in 1,200 Years

Say Hello to Star Wars‘ Trans Jedi, Terec and Ceret

Soon, Siri Won’t Be a Feminine Voice by Default

The ‘Voice of President Trump’ Gets Double-Banned by Facebook

Why Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Needs to Go Way Bigger

Amazon Intended Its Army of Paid Twitter Sycophants to Be ‘Authentic,’ Have a ‘Great Sense of Humor’

The Creepshow Season 2 Premiere Unleashes the Best Kind of Fan Service

Your Titanic Godzilla Vs. Kong Spoiler Zone Has Entered the Ring

Physicists Laser-Cool Antimatter to Near Absolute Zero

How the New Captain America Prepared for His Superhero Role With the Help of a Surprising Marvel Director

Banjo-Kazooie and Fable 2 Are Available on Xbox’s Cloud Gaming Service, and I’m Stoked

Antarctica Got Blasted by a Powerful ‘Airburst’ Event 430,000 Years Ago

EPA Cleans Out Trump-Era Shills on Its Science Advisory Boards

April Is Full of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Spring Reading List

This Stick-On Gadget Solves Wireless Charging’s Biggest Problem

Biden Floats Plan to Bring Broadband to All Americans

It’s Looking Like Samsung’s Return to Wear OS Is Inevitable

Narwhal Tusks Show How Climate Change and Pollution Are Reshaping the Arctic

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