It now seems all those online folk speculating about theNintendo Switch 2JoyCons were absolutely correct. Looks like well be skating our Switch controllers across the tabletop, just as Nintendo teased in itsreveal trailer. According to a machine translation of the patent, Nintendo describes a wireless mouse feature. © Screenshot: Nintendo Thats the red LED light you see when you hold up the mouses underside. The patent does not directly reference an optoelectronic sensor....

So you bought a Samsung Galaxy S25. Im here to validate you! The Now Brief got a lot of stage time at the last Galaxy Unpacked. © Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo Most of the information that the Now Brief presents youishelpful. It offers weather forecasts for now and later, plus links to your calendar and other apps. But when the content pushed through is irrelevant, you cant edit it to make it so....

In May 2024, our planet was hit by the largest solar storm in 20 years. This is really stunning. Solar stormsoccur when the Sun blasts materialincluding particles, energy, and magnetic fieldsinto the solar system. The two new temporary belts (shown in purple) appeared between two permanent ones.© NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Kristen Perrin They can also create temporary belts of energetic particles, which might damage spacecraft that attempt to cross them....

Its a machine thats immediately reminiscent of Pixars mascotLuxo Jr.,and its somehow just as cute. Engineers gestured to get the lamp to move forward or look in a particular direction. Apple calls this framework ELEGNT, a clumsy acronym for expressive and functional movement design for non-anthropomorphic robot. © Screenshot: Apple You know what, Apple may be on the money here. The expressive robot is far more entertaining than one that merely does what you tell it to....

Harem anime is akin to junk food inthe anime world. It follows a boy named Rentaro Aijo, a model student and a genuinely good guy. Like Eddie Brock inSpider-Man 3, Rentaro prays to God to find a soulmate. © Crunchyroll Should Rentaro turn any girls down, theyll die of heartbreak. But the show has garnered a fanbase for deconstructing harem cliches, going beyond meet-cutes. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present....

Slime isnt just for kids TV shows anymoreit could be the next breakthrough straight out of sci-fi. Think elementary school slime project, but on steroids. Their work was detailed in a February 1studypublished in theJournal of Molecular Liquids. The slim produces energy when squeezed.© Canadian Light Source Why is this important? By creating a bandage that increases this electric field, healing could theoretically happen faster. In this case, the bandage would be activated by our natural movements and breathing....

In typicalSeverancefashion,the next episode began in a totally different place. And not just any new place. Is this place real? The cold and the questions intensify on this week’s Severance.Image: Apple TV+ Is it a simulation? How did this TV and DVD player get there? We know Kier Eagan, hes the deity of Lumon, but who is Dieter? The group walking around the park – Apple TV+ First, its Mark, then Helly and eventually Dylan and Irv....

Unfortunately, it wont be able to look to the federal government to help. That is…not ideal. The offer allows federal employees to resign with pay through September. Firefighter pictured in front of forest fire.© Toa55/Shutterstock Abill introduced earlier this weekwould extend 3,000 temporary hires into full-time state employees. But at this stage, the region needs a lot more help than that. It just wont be coming from the Trump administration....

Heart Eyes Josh Ruben talks about finding the tone for his Valentines slasher. Get a gruesome look at the latest horrifying addition to theSteamboat Williepublic domain pantheon. Plus, theSwan SongTV show has found its showrunner. © Universal My gold standard, my north star, was Tommy McLoughlinsJason Lives. Also, movies likeDefending Your LifeandBigand so on and so forth. Naturally, whether this happens in the film remains to seen. © Mattel Oh, My God…Yes!...

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeeds current issue. Its basically a buffet for them. © Lightspeed Magazine Sun tilted her head to the side. The captains reply was concurrent with a pointed look from Dossa Nirav, Suns mentor. She paused and reluctantly added, They retain their eggs until they hatch internally. Then they come planet-side to refill their crops after the birth....

Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily gifted it to Oxford in the early 19th century. When Vesuvius erupted, it buried the coastal towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and volcanic debris. The eruption came as a total surprise to locals, and residents who didntescapemetgrisly ends. A Herculaneum papyrus fragment at the National Library of Naples.Photo: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images The area became an archaeological mecca when towns were rediscovered some 1,700 years later....

The speed of these efforts is core to the project, the lawsuit states. As such, the litigation asks a court to halt DOGEs invasion of the DOL. Problematically, the Treasury recently just brought in two new officials from DOGE. © Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images It was unclear at the time of this reporting whether Kollar-Kotelly had gone through with it. Have they disseminated any of that information to anybody else?...

A search for ICE operations or ICE raids on Google gives back a staggering amount of returns. The results are most striking when you search for a specific state. Click through and the story is from 2019. The New York City Fugitive Operations Team, joined by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, conducted targeted enforcement operations on January 28, 2025, resulting in the arrest of an illegal Dominican national.© ICE photo. Click through andits from 2011....