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T-Mobile’s Scam Shield Is the Carrier’s Latest Attempt to Shut Down Phone Spam

While no one likes being jerked around on the phone, the amount of spam and robocalls we’re forced to endure is only expected to increase, so today T-Mobile introduced a new collection of tools and apps designed to prevent annoying calls from hitting your phone. In a livestream hosted today, T-Mobile detailed its new Scam Shield…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Jul 16

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The Rock’s Black Adam Will Have Its Atoms Smashed By Noah Centineo

There are times when casting announcements about upcoming cinematic adaptations of comic books are made that, curious as they are, don’t really tell you all that much about what to expect from the movie’s plot. And then there are times, like today, when Warner Bros. announced the newest cast member of its long-gestating Black Adam…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 16

Star Wars: The Clone Wars‘ Final Season Is Getting Some Incredible Action Figures

Take the Siege of Mandalore to your desk, and do so in style: Hasbro’s Star Wars Black Series action figure line is returning to the Clone Wars for a new series of action figures, and yes, they’re pretty much exactly the ones you would want. io9 can exclusively reveal the first look at four brand…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook Jul 16

‘The Most Musical Animals in the World’: This New Electronic Album Features Endangered Birds

Put in some headphones, close your eyes, and let chill jams and tropical endangered birdsongs transport you to the threatened jungles of Latin America. A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean is a new album that features birds and artists from the region all with the purpose of sharing the…

Earther Yessenia Funes Jul 16

Richard Linklater’s Animated/Live-Action Hybrid About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Sounds Amazing

Undoubtedly, Richard Linklater is one of our most underrated filmmakers. For the past 30 years, he’s been quietly making masterpiece after masterpiece, and while only a few of those venture into sci-fi (mainly Waking Life andA Scanner Darkly), his next film sounds like it’s doing that and so much more. Linklater’s next film is called…

io9 Germain Lussier Jul 16

Everyone’s a Smurfhole or a Smurfdamned Idiot on This Smurfed-Up Smurfs Episode

Although they’re usually considered jokes nowadays, the tiny Smurfs are titans of pop culture. I’m not talking about those three live-action/CG movies that came out last decade, although they made a cool billion collectively. I’m talking about the ‘80s cartoon that ran from 1981-89, had 272 episodes, and has been distributed in more than 100…

io9 Rob Bricken Jul 16

The World Will Need More Than Fancy Whoppers to Fix Its Methane Problem

Burger King just launched a low-methane Whopper, made by changing cows’ diets, with a super cringe ad campaign. It’s meant to be a small fix for a serious problem: Methane has a short-term heating effect 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. But it can’t be the only effort to stem methane (it’s also wholly…

Earther Dharna Noor Jul 16

Health Experts Say Alcohol Limit for Men Should Be One Drink a Day

Experts are saying there shouldn’t be a gender gap when it comes to safer drinking. On Thursday, a committee of experts brought together by the U.S. government to work on updating the country’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans released their recommendations. Among them: Both men and women should limit their consumption of alcohol to one drink…

Health Ed Cara Jul 16

Microsoft’s xCloud Will Officially Launch in September as Part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

Microsoft has been testing its Project xCloud game streaming platform throughout the past year, and today Microsoft announced xCloud will leave beta and become available to the public in September as an addition to Xbox’s $15 a month Game Pass Ultimate. Just don’t get too attached to the xCloud name though, because while Microsoft has…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Jul 16

The New Mutants Is Coming to Comic-Con After All

Though Marvel Studios won’t be attending Comic-Con this year, a new member of the family is making a late-breaking appearance. Disney just announced that long-awaited Marvel film The New Mutants will have a virtual panel during the convention on Thursday, July 23. Writer-director Josh Boone will join co-stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga,…

io9 Germain Lussier Jul 16

Universal Decided It Needs a Comics Imprint for Some Reason

“Disney has one. Warner Bros. has one. Why not us?”—some NBC Universal executive immediately speed-dialing Grant Morrison, presumably. Revealed by Variety, Universal Content Production (the TV production arm of NBC Universal that’s behind the production of Umbrella Academy for Netflix and the newly launched Peacock streaming service) is launching its own comics imprint. It’s awfully…

io9 James Whitbrook Jul 16

Scientists Unlock the Secret to Ultra-Black Skin of Deep-Sea Fish

New research shows how some deep-sea fish, with their specialized, ultra-black skin, are able to avoid detection even in the presence of light. Certain black-skinned fish, like dragonfish and fangtooth, are capable of absorbing more than 99.5% of light that reaches them, according to new research published today in Current Biology. So even in the…

Biology George Dvorsky Jul 16

7 Ways to Get Your Computer Screen Up on Your TV

Maybe you’ve got friends coming over to watch a movie, or you need your family to watch this one really great YouTube video. Or maybe you’ve just got a slideshow of photos to show off to no one at all because some of us are still stuck at home in the midst of a pandemic.…

Gadgets David Nield Jul 16

QAnon Is Running for Congress

Even in the best-case scenario for the 2020 election, in which America flushes Donald Trump out of office and we can feel like we’ve showered for the first time since 2015, the toilet plume of this presidency will likely hang over us for years to come. After numerous reports on QAnon adherents currently running for…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Jul 16

Russian River Runs Orange After a Catastrophic Mine Spill

Russian Instagram blogger Sergey Zamkadniy usually posts images of beautiful sunsets or riverine adventures. His latest work, however, shows a disaster unfolding in real-time. An abandoned mine in Russia’s Ural Mountains has tainted streams orange. Zamkadniy captured images of the disaster last week. Now, AFP reports that Russian authorities are launching an investigation into the…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Jul 16

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Could Have Been Way Darker

Though Netflix’sShe-Ra and the Princesses of Power is about a bunch of plucky children teaming up to go on a magical adventure to save their world, the story it told was very much one about the emotional and physical devastation that war can bring to a peaceful society. And it seems if series creator Noelle…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 16

I’m Too Old to Learn a New Career, and Too Young to Retire

Are you a frontline worker dealing with new stresses or irresponsible management? Is working (or not working) from home starting to take a psychological toll? How are you coping with reopening? Submit a story using this Google form or send me an email with the subject line “My Covid Story” and provide as much detail as…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jul 16

Solo Is Proof That We’re Star Wars Spoiled

Looking at the past five years of Star Wars films, one sticks out like a gold droid on a forest moon: Solo: A Star Wars Story. Not only did the film gross the least of the bunch (by over $300 million), it was the only one released over the summer, centered on an original trilogy…

io9 Germain Lussier Jul 16

Time to Build Your Own Jurassic Park Because Someone Is Auctioning 50+ Life-Size Animatronic Dinos

Gather the coins in your couch cushions and whatever’s left of your Trump bucks. On August 6, 2020, you can bid for over 50 life-size animatronic dinosaurs on AbleAuction. This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not a drill. The listing, which was spotted by BoingBoing, says that this treasure hoard of robot…

Tech News Victoria Song Jul 16

Sony’s Long-in-Limbo Uncharted Movie Might Have Actually Started Happening

Elsewhere in the world of video game adaptations, the Just Cause movie has tapped John Wick’s writer for its script. M. Night Shyamalan offers an update on Servant’s future. Plus, the Agents of SHIELD are caught in a time loop, and oh no, the Muppets have discovered video conferencing. To me, my spoilers! Uncharted According…

io9 James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Jul 16

T-Mobile’s Scam Shield Is the Carrier’s Latest Attempt to Shut Down Phone Spam

The Rock’s Black Adam Will Have Its Atoms Smashed By Noah Centineo

Star Wars: The Clone Wars‘ Final Season Is Getting Some Incredible Action Figures

‘The Most Musical Animals in the World’: This New Electronic Album Features Endangered Birds

Richard Linklater’s Animated/Live-Action Hybrid About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Sounds Amazing

Everyone’s a Smurfhole or a Smurfdamned Idiot on This Smurfed-Up Smurfs Episode

The World Will Need More Than Fancy Whoppers to Fix Its Methane Problem

Health Experts Say Alcohol Limit for Men Should Be One Drink a Day

Microsoft’s xCloud Will Officially Launch in September as Part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

The New Mutants Is Coming to Comic-Con After All

Universal Decided It Needs a Comics Imprint for Some Reason

Scientists Unlock the Secret to Ultra-Black Skin of Deep-Sea Fish

7 Ways to Get Your Computer Screen Up on Your TV

QAnon Is Running for Congress

Russian River Runs Orange After a Catastrophic Mine Spill

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Could Have Been Way Darker

I’m Too Old to Learn a New Career, and Too Young to Retire

Solo Is Proof That We’re Star Wars Spoiled

Time to Build Your Own Jurassic Park Because Someone Is Auctioning 50+ Life-Size Animatronic Dinos

Sony’s Long-in-Limbo Uncharted Movie Might Have Actually Started Happening

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