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Boulders rolling down mountains at high speed are a frightening sight--and even more frightening when they're still glowing with volcanic heat.

NASA and the ESA have been operating the Hubble Space Telescope for a long time, and they have a long history of sharing special images to celebrate holidays. With Halloween happening this weekend, the ESA has shared tha...

Over the past five years it feels like I’ve become obsessed about the air we’re breathing. Whether it’s orange skies in smoldering California, high pollen counts in the Midwest, or the COVID-19 pandemic in, well, e...

Game streaming is becoming more or less a staple in the gaming industry, but not everyone is sold on the idea yet. In fact, some might even be apprehensive about trying a 30-day free trial, especially if they’re the ty...

For fans, the news of Dune Part 2 coming in October 2023 is excellent. That means we will, for sure, see what happens next with Paul Atreides. For Dune Part 1 writer-director Denis Villeneuve, it's great news too, but un...

Cryptocurrencies need to be reigned in by proper regulations, or risk fueling widespread criminality and malfeasance, claims the Financial Action Task Force, a global anti-money laundering watchdog, which published a new...

Facebook, which today changed its name to Meta just for fun, is making changes to its virtual reality division to match its rebrand. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced that the company would transition away from the Ocul...

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We don't know how much money Netflix paid to buy the adaptation rights to Liu Cixin's best-selling sci-fi series Remembrance of Earth's Past, but we did hear rumors Amazon tried to snag them for $1 billion. Then Netflix ...

Earlier this year, the company formerly known as Facebook was rumored to be working on a camera smartwatch with a slated release for 2022. Now, a leaked render gives us a first glimpse of what this inevitable nightmare w...

The cast of Day of the Dead returns for more zombie horror in an unofficial Romero follow-up. A new addition to the next Tomb Raider film starring Hayley Atwell. Plus, what's to come on Doom Patrol, and a new look at the...

Imagine that it's Thursday evening, and you're trying to get a big group of friends together to go out to dinner Friday night. These friends are all pretty different. One is vegetarian, while one loves meat; one's on a b...

One of the more interesting features that Tesla cars have is Sentry Mode, which is an integrated surveillance system. Sentry Mode utilizes the Autopilot cameras arrayed around the electric car as a sort of dashcam on ste...

Google recently made a big splash by announcing Android 12L, which finally acknowledges the existence of devices with large screens, including tablets, foldables, and even laptops or PCs. Long before that overdue day, ho...

I regret to inform you all that we have reached peak Polishing Cloth. I take full responsibility for my small part in getting us to this point.

In the not-too-distant future, doctors in the UK may be able to write prescriptions for vaping. This week, the government announced its intention to allow e-cigarette products to be prescribed as a cessation aid for smok...

Only days after its independent panel of advisers made its recommendation, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially authorized the use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11...

Beginning this week, LG's 2020 and 2021 4K and 8K smart TVs will roll out an update that will allow viewers to automatically watch their Amazon Prime Video content in Filmmaker Mode, "the way the content creators intende...

Prepare to toss a coin to your favorite witcher. Netflix has shared the first full trailer for season two of The Witcher ahead of its December 17th debut . Unsurprisingly, the clip sees Geralt fighting plenty of monsters...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all the latest in wallet-crushing merchandise opportunities. This week, Hasbro ramps up another crowdfunder project for a G.I. Joe classic, Hot Toys asks the question o...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now authorized the first covid-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11. The authorization will cover the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, though the Centers for Disease...

iPhone maker cedes top spot to its tech rival after weak earnings.