The prospect of receiving an alien signal is both exhilarating and daunting, and we’ll actually get to experience it on Wednesday—or at least, a simulation of such a thing, as a group of scientists and artists carry out a fascinating SETI experiment.
Source: io9 – Earth Will Receive an ‘Alien’ Transmission From Mars This Week
Before launching girlfriend Lauren Hernandez into space, Jeff Bezos has apparently popped the question: The two are reportedly engaged following five years together.
Source: io9 – Jeff Bezos Reportedly Engaged to Lauren Sanchez—Will Still Launch Her Into Space
When Independence Day was released in 1996, it was a spectacle on a whole new level for the sci-fi genre. A blockbuster to measure other blockbusters against. But despite its huge success, it took 20 years for a sequel to come out. And when it did, it was terrible.
Source: io9 – What Independence Day 2 With Will Smith Was Supposed to Be About
The second season of The Last of Us has delayed auditions and pre-production due to the ongoing writers strike.
Source: io9 – Last of Us Season 2 Ditches Video Game Script Auditions, Goes on Strike Pause
People in Pakistan are facing significant, ongoing restrictions to their internet access following political protests and the arrest of the country’s former prime minister. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) confirmed that it intentionally cut off mobile internet service beginning Tuesday, according to Geo…
Source: io9 – Pakistan Internet Restrictions Could be ‘Indefinite’
The most recent flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy was historic in that it was the rocket’s first fully expendable mission, and it was also the first Falcon Heavy mission to include previously flown fairings. As new footage attests, the fiery return of these fairings was a sight to behold.
Source: io9 – Wild SpaceX Video Shows Hottest Reentry Yet of Reusable Rocket Fairing
Twitter became less useful on Thursday after New York City’s transit operator said it would stop tweeting about service outages because “the reliability of the platform can no longer be guaranteed.” It’s the latest in a growing number of government agencies ditching Elon Musk’s social network.
Source: io9 – The NYC Subway Will Stop Tweeting Because Twitter ‘Isn’t Reliable’
Disney’s live-actionification of its classic animated feature films shows no signs of slowing down with the new The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey as Ariel, and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, arriving in theaters on May 26. Ahead of its release, Lego revealed three new The Little Mermaid sets this past weekend,…
Source: io9 – Lego’s Got Three New The Little Mermaid Sets That Want to Be a Part of Your World
Rule 34 rears its head once again. There are thousands upon thousands of explicit porn being sold for cheap on Amazon’s Kindle. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that both Apple and Google have notified Amazon about its failure to keep porn off of the Kindle store and app. Both companies told Reuters that their app stores…
Source: io9 – Google and Apple Are Reportedly Miffed About All the Porn on Amazon Kindle
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update, released Tuesday, offers a few small bug and compatibility fixes as well as a lighter taskbar. Oh, and there’s one small, tiny extra detail. A “small” number of Windows 11 users will now see “notifications” encouraging them to use other Microsoft products when clicking on the…
Source: io9 – Microsoft is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu
Is April Fools for pranks or not anymore? Yesterday, Asus revealed that the Steam Deck competitor it joked about over the weekend is apparently real, and now Nothing’s following suit by actually producing the craft beer it teased for the internet’s worst holiday.
Source: io9 – Nothing Is Actually Making Its April Fools’ Beer
In February 2021, NASA landed a $2.7 billion rover on Mars that has been roaming the Red Planet ever since. The space agency got what it paid for, as the largely autonomous Perseverance rover has been dutifully collecting rock core samples from Mars and storing them for the first sample return mission from another…
Source: io9 – Is NASA Done Sending Traditional Rovers to Mars?
There’s good news and bad news for Lego fans next month. Unlike March, which brought with it some 45 new building sets, April arrives with just 14 new Lego introductions, and promises to be a little easier on budgets still recovering from last month.
Source: io9 – Budget Accordingly for the Best Lego Sets You Can Finally Buy in April
For years, Paramount has been trying to figure out a show centered around Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy—you know, the place where Starfleet educates its captains, science officers, engineers, etc. before sending them out on five-year missions to explore strange new worlds and whatnot. Well, now they’ve found the…
Source: io9 – Star Trek Is Finally Making That Starfleet Academy TV Series
In a poorly thought out plan to make Twitter as profitable as possible, Twitter has officially unveiled three new tiers of API access: Free, Basic, and Enterprise. Twitter previously backed off from rescinding free access to the platform’s API after public backlash.
Source: io9 – Twitter Details How Much Money API Access Will Cost Now
Clayface leers.Yesterday’s news included speculation that Mike Flanagan—you know, the one who did Midnight Mass? The Haunting of Hill House? Haunting of Bly Manor? Upcoming director of The Fall of the House of Usher? That Mike Flanagan—had pitched a movie about Bat-villain Clayface to James Gunn. The famed horror…
Source: io9 – Mike Flanagan Wants to Direct a Standalone Batman Villain Film
The rats don’t run this city—garbage rules do.
Source: io9 – NYC Mayor’s New Scheme in Ongoing Rat War: A Composting Mandate
The space adventures in Marvels’s Guardians of the Galaxy films are nearing their conclusion—and with that, we’ll finally be learning the mystery behind the creation of Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Source: io9 – The Guardians of the Galaxy Trilogy Ends With Rocket Raccoon at Its Heart
