Drive-Through Car Wash Was Too Much for Tesla Cybertruck

This story originally appeared onJalopnik. If youre out there driving a Tesla Cybertruck, maybe dont wash it for a while. News from the future, delivered to your present. Image: Bradley Brownell

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 31 words · Betty Mack

FalloutHas Been Renewed for Season 2

We cant wait to blow up the world all over again. What are your hopes forFallout season twostarting with dont release all the episodes at once, perhaps? Want more io9 news? Ella Purnell as Fallout’s LucyPhoto: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video News from the future, delivered to your present. You May Also Like Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers. Pacific Rims TV Show Drifts to Prime Video Good news for giant robot fans....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 77 words · Chloe Nelson

Gen Z Propels Chinese Industrial-Grade Glycine to Viral TikTok Fame

If youve never heard ofDonghua Jinlong, well, that makes sense. In October of 2023, the companybegan releasing TikTok videos advertising its products. Truly, thecompanys videosare a study in unintentional hilarity. Graphic: ShannonChocolate (Shutterstock) Naturally, young people were not going to let this shit slide. Indeed, the hashtag #donghuajinlong currently brings up over a thousand posts on the social media platform. #glycine, meanwhile, brings up nearly 3,000 posts. Anyway, thank you, Gen Z, for believing in the star potential of Donghua Jinlong....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 99 words · Eileen Green

Google Fires 28 Workers Who Protested Its Contracts With Israel

Google claims these protests impeded other employees work and prevented them from accessing facilities. Google workers have the right to peacefully protest about terms and conditions of our labor. The memo also claims the protestors defaced Googles property and made coworkers feel threatened. Photo: Maxwell Zeff WE WILL NOT BE LEAVING! However,Timereported last week that Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The report claims the tech giant has recently negotiated a deeper partnership with Israel during the war in Gaza....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 210 words · Desiree Smith

How Early Scientists Envisioned Life Beyond Earth

Speculation about extraterrestrials is not all that new. There was a vibrant debate in 17th-century Europe about the existence of life on other planets. And if other planets were like Earth, then they most likely also had inhabitants. An illustration showing the solar system planets.Illustration: NASA But his speculation on such matters proceeded from the doctrine of the divine plenitude. Others were much less confident in speculating on the nature of alien lives....

April 18, 2024 · 2 min · 407 words · Bryce Rogers

How to Spot Phony Airpods and Never Get Fooled

There are a ton of vendors and online marketplaces selling fakeAirPodsthese days. First, you must remember that Apples AirPods should not be retailing for $19. Even on Cyber Monday. Photo: Andrew Liszewski | Gizmodo And that should be the first thing that tells you theyre fake. The second thing to keep in mind is to only purchase from reliable places such asBest Buyor theApple website. Buying second-hand AirPods on forums such as Facebook Marketplace can also be risky....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 132 words · Preston Clark

Lawmakers Are Kicking Warrantless Wiretapping Into Overdrive

This week, Congress is expected to vote on a bill that would update key federal surveillance powers. The definition is incredibly broad, Kia Hamadanchy, senior federal policy counsel at the ACLU, told Gizmodo. There was a version that came out in December that was hugely problematic. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg (Getty Images) That said, its easy to speculate. If all of this doesnt seem mildly horrifying to you, it probably should....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 127 words · Margaret Peterson

M. Night Shyamalan’s Serial Killer Concert Film Has Its First Trailer

Starring Josh Hartnett, Trap opens August 9. There are a lot of police around. Too many, in fact. Josh Hartnett in M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap.Screenshot: Warner Bros. Soon, he finds out, the whole concert is a trap. From there, well, the trailer can show you. Which is interesting for a whole bunch of reasons. The main one is, does the film want us to see him get caught? Does it paint him as the villain he clearly is?...

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 145 words · Jonathan Charles

Marvel Returns to Spider-Man’s Radioactive Semen This Summer

After quickly clarifying that it was a sequel toSpider-Man: Reign, the world cried out again: Oh. The one withthe radioactive jizz? Now, we know a little more about the hows and whys. Image: Kaare Andrews/Marvel Comics Peter recounts this information to Mary Janes corpse, having just dug it up out of the cemetery. Reign was full of tragic and dark absurdity that only a young creator could come up with....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 145 words · James Molina

Milla Jovovich and Jennifer Hudson Face Off in Exclusive Clip FromBreathe

When you think about end-of-the-world, post-apocalyptic stories, you think abouta lack of food. A lack of water. A lack of sun ora lack of power. Milla Jovovich in Breathe, out April 26.Image: Capstone Global However, all those stories have one thing in common. The characters can breathe. In Breathe, the world has been destroyed and left uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen. The last remaining survivors live underground, only coming to the surface when absolutely necessary....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 119 words · Brandy Campbell

Mutant’s NewDunePoster Will Melt Your Mind

The best art inspires more incredible art andDenis Villeneuves Dune filmshave certainly done that. io9 is honored to exclusively debut your first look at Deb JJ Lees Dune: Part One from Mutant. This is the regular edition, a 24 x 36 inch, nine-color screenprint in an edition of 215. Image: Mutant It costs $70. And below is the variant, a 24 x 36, 10-color inch screenprint in an edition of 115....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 183 words · William Whitehead

Mutated Strains of Unknown Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found Lurking on ISS

Over the past two decades, the ISS has hosted nearly 300 astronauts. Although astronauts tend to travel light, they do unintentionally bring their microbes with them to space. As a result, a unique microbial population has grown on the space station. The ISS is home to a unique population of microbes.Photo: NASA As a result, the microorganisms have to adapt to survive. The study found that under stress, E. bugandensis mutated to become more resistant to antimicrobial treatment....

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 114 words · Keith Lucas

NASA Set to Launch Solar Sail for Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel

In theory, solar sails can operate indefinitely. They are, however, limited by the durability of the solar sail materials and spacecraft electronic systems. For more spaceflight in your life, follow us onXand bookmark Gizmodos dedicatedSpaceflight page. A sped up animation of the solar sail unfurling in space, a process that takes about 25 minutes to complete.Gif: NASA News from the future, delivered to your present. Can Rocket Lab Save NASAs Mission to Bring Pieces of Mars to Earth?...

April 18, 2024 · 1 min · 110 words · Rebecca Cooper