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SpaceX Aborts First Attempted Flight Test of ‘Starhopper’ Prototype After Engines Fire

A week after a fireball erupted from the base of SpaceX’s prototype “StarHopper” rocket during a static-fire test at the company’s Boca Chica, Texas facility, the company’s first “untethered” test launch of the craft was aborted after encountering technical difficulties on Wednesday, CNBC reported. During the test, the rocket was supposed to fire its engines…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Jul 25

Tesla Posts Record Deliveries in Q2 2019, But Still Lost $408 Million

Electric car giant Tesla had its stock plunge over 10 percent in after-hours trading after posting a $408 million loss in Q2 2019—despite shipping record numbers of cars, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The company produced about 87,000 cars in the quarter and shipped some 95,200 of them throughout the quarter, per the Verge, and generated…

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 24

The Galaxy Fold Is Back: Here’s What Samsung Fixed

When the Galaxy Fold’s launch was delayed indefinitely due to durability concerns, many thought Samsung’s $2,000 bendable phone was dead in the water. Some folks like Apple enthusiast John Gruber even proclaimed that the Fold “is never going to ship and everyone knows it.” But now, after some improvements and design changes, the Galaxy Fold…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Jul 24

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There Was More to Marvel’s SDCC Announcements Than the X-Men’s Futures

After spending years being kept out of the spotlight, Marvel’s mutants are finally set to return to center stage this year in writer Jonathan Hickman and artists Pepe Larraz, R.B. Silva, and colorist Marte Garcia’s House of X and Powers of X, the first two pieces of the publisher’s grand plan to revitalize the X-Men…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 24

The Cast and Crew of the CW’s Nancy Drew Talk Mysteries and Showcase Their Eerie Series Premiere

Teen detective Nancy Drew has been around for nearly 90 years, but she’s as popular as ever. Earlier in 2019, the character starred in a feature film—but her Comic-Con presence was all about an unrelated new TV series coming to the CW this fall. And there shouldn’t be any confusing this thoroughly modern Nancy Drew…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jul 24

Steven Universe’s Rebecca Sugar Dropped Some Interesting Details About the Movie at Comic-Con

Steven Universe: The Movie had one of the best panels at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con despite the fact that it was light in the way of details about the film’s plot—“light” being the operative word, here. While Rebecca Sugar didn’t stop to just list spoiler-y details about the movie, she did drop a handful…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 24

A Bipartisan Bill That Could End Our Robocall Hell Just Passed the House 429-3

Two Republicans and one independent were the only holdouts Wednesday as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act by a nearly unanimous vote. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, prescribes strict regulations around the use of automatic telephone dialing systems or…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Jul 24

Amazon: Here’s $5,000 Worth of Crap to Turn Your New Home Into a Hellscape

You know what none of us needs more of in our homes? Amazon products. And yet that’s exactly what’s promised to prospective homebuyers should they decide to purchase through its new TurnKey service. The company will reportedly gift thousands of dollars in products and services to tempt homebuyers to transform their homes into Amazon-surveilled hellscapes.…

Commerce Catie Keck Jul 24

LightSail 2 Opens Its Sails in an Early Test of Tech That May Make Interstellar Travel Possible

A tiny spacecraft in Earth orbit has successfully deployed its solar sails. Called LightSail 2, the craft will now use the power of the Sun to lift its orbital height even further, in what’s considered an important test of this promising means of propulsion. LightSail 2 is a crowdfunded project run by the Planetary Society,…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jul 24

A Breast Implant Linked to Rare Cancer Is Finally Off the Market

The end of a breast implant product linked to a rare type of cancer is seemingly finally here. On Wednesday, the Food and Administration said it had pushed for a recall of Biocell textured breast implants, sold by the pharmaceutical company Allergan. Allergan announced the same day that it would pull all remaining implants from…

Health Ed Cara Jul 24

We Got a First Look at Genndy Tartakovsky’s Beautiful and Brutal Primal

He’s best-known for Samurai Jack and Hotel Transylvania, but Genndy Tartakovsky is about to add a whole new dimension to his animated portfolio with Primal, the prehistoric tale of the friendship between a caveman and a dinosaur. A teaser in May gave us our first peek at the Adult Swim series, and the show’s Comic-Con…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jul 24

Did Steve Jobs Harass Spotify’s CEO With Weird, Breathy Phone Calls?

It’s no secret that Spotify and Apple have beef. But according to a Variety interview with the authors of a new book, Spotify Untold, that beef dates all the way back to 2010 when Steve Jobs would purportedly prank call Spotify CEO Daniel Ek… and just breathe deeply into the phone. What? For context, at…

Tech News Victoria Song Jul 24

Thousands of Reasons That We Shouldn’t Trust a Neural Network to Analyze Images

When it comes to image recognition tech, it’s still remarkably easy to fool the machines. And while it’s some good comedy when a neural network mistakes a butterfly for a washing machine, the consequences of this idiocy are pretty nightmarish when you think about rolling these flawed systems out into the real world. Researchers from…

Artificial Intelligence Melanie Ehrenkranz Jul 24

Breaking Down the Magic, Monsters, and Burly Men of the Witcher Trailer

At Comic-Con last week, Netflix finally, after months of teasing, gave us our first look at The Witcher in action. Not only did it reveal some pretty major, if unsurprising connections to the world of Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels, it also gave us some intriguing hints to what fans familiar to the CD Projekt Red games…

io9 James Whitbrook Jul 24

There’s Zero Chance Facebook’s FTC Fine Stops Future Abuse, Lawmakers and Privacy Experts Say

Sure, $5 billion sounds like a pretty big fine, and for most Americans, the size of it is difficult to fathom. But for a corporation as massive as Facebook, it represents only around three month’s worth of profit, a proverbial drop in the bucket. Evan as CEO Mark Zuckerberg boasted about the “historic fine” imposed…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jul 24

Scientists Have Created a Prosthetic Arm That Lets Patients Feel Touch Again

Perhaps one of the profound yet underappreciated aspects of being alive is the ability to reach out with your hand and feel the world around you—whether it’s fresh-cut grass or the face of a loved one. For people who have lost a hand or arm, prosthetics may restore some functioning, but not the sense of…

Tech News Ed Cara Jul 24

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TV Show Is Heading to Hulu

Hulu’s next big show is coming from the beloved mind of Douglas Adams—as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy returns to TV once more. Deadline reports that Carlton Cuse and Jason Fuchs will both showrun and write the adaptation of Adams’ beloved sci-fi series for the streaming service. The story follows hapless Englishman, and noted towel…

io9 James Whitbrook Jul 24

This Amazing White Dwarf Discovery Could Be a ‘Gold Mine’ for Physicists

Scientists have discovered a pair of white dwarfs that might one day produce a major gravitational wave discovery, according to a new paper. Certain chaotic events, like black holes slamming together, produce waves of warping spacetime that physicists have spotted here on Earth. But other events, like dense objects quickly orbiting each other, can produce…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 24

Enter the Microscopic World of Bugs With These Award-Winning Garden Photos

Who doesn’t love to spend time in garden? Some people love it so much, though, that they stake out for hours, camera in hand, waiting for an insect to land on a flower petal to capture the perfect shot. These are the kind of people who submit their photography to the annual International Garden Photographer…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes Jul 24

Blade Runner Star Rutger Hauer Has Passed Away

Rutger Hauer, a staple in science fiction and fantasy, has died at the age of 75. As reported by Variety, the Dutch actor who starred alongside Harrison Ford in Blade Runner passed away after a short illness. The actor may be best known for playing Roy Batty, the replicant leader from Blade Runner with what might…

Movies Beth Elderkin Jul 24

SpaceX Aborts First Attempted Flight Test of ‘Starhopper’ Prototype After Engines Fire

Tesla Posts Record Deliveries in Q2 2019, But Still Lost $408 Million

The Galaxy Fold Is Back: Here’s What Samsung Fixed

There Was More to Marvel’s SDCC Announcements Than the X-Men’s Futures

The Cast and Crew of the CW’s Nancy Drew Talk Mysteries and Showcase Their Eerie Series Premiere

Steven Universe’s Rebecca Sugar Dropped Some Interesting Details About the Movie at Comic-Con

A Bipartisan Bill That Could End Our Robocall Hell Just Passed the House 429-3

Amazon: Here’s $5,000 Worth of Crap to Turn Your New Home Into a Hellscape

LightSail 2 Opens Its Sails in an Early Test of Tech That May Make Interstellar Travel Possible

A Breast Implant Linked to Rare Cancer Is Finally Off the Market

We Got a First Look at Genndy Tartakovsky’s Beautiful and Brutal Primal

Did Steve Jobs Harass Spotify’s CEO With Weird, Breathy Phone Calls?

Thousands of Reasons That We Shouldn’t Trust a Neural Network to Analyze Images

Breaking Down the Magic, Monsters, and Burly Men of the Witcher Trailer

There’s Zero Chance Facebook’s FTC Fine Stops Future Abuse, Lawmakers and Privacy Experts Say

Scientists Have Created a Prosthetic Arm That Lets Patients Feel Touch Again

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TV Show Is Heading to Hulu

This Amazing White Dwarf Discovery Could Be a ‘Gold Mine’ for Physicists

Enter the Microscopic World of Bugs With These Award-Winning Garden Photos

Blade Runner Star Rutger Hauer Has Passed Away

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