If youve been on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter today, youve probably seen it. Why are they doing this? Your guess is as good as ours. Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance in an altered photo (left) and the original photo (right)Screenshots: Twitter But Republicans are definitely not beating the weirdo allegations. Gm, Collins wrote along with the yassified Vance photo on Wednesday, an abbreviation for good morning....

Thats changed, thanks to the work of engineers at Northwestern University. But the why of it has remained elusive, the engineers wrote in their study. In real time, they saw tiny water bubbles forming on the palladiums surface. The square is a bubble of water, emerging from a tiny piece of palladium.© Northwestern University We think it might be the smallest bubble ever formed that has been viewed directly, Liu said....

It added two new offerings to its LinkBuds line Wednesday:LinkBuds FitandLinkBuds Open. Both buds retail for $199 and are open to orders now. The Fit model also comes with soft-fitting earbud tips for increased comfort and snugness. Photo: Sony Clearly, the Cupertino company isnt listening, as apparent by the ill-fittedAirPods 4. The Open model features a unique ring design that isnt a common feature on open wireless earbuds. People usually mistake the charging case for myCleer Arc IIopen-ear hook buds for a glasses case....

The teams research was published in two papers inNaturethis morning. One of the papersdescribesthe frequent emission of long-duration gamma-ray glows across sweeping parts of the atmosphere during tropical thunderstorms. FGFs are remarkably different from both TGFs and glows but carry some features of both, Marisaldi said. An artist’s concept of the aircraft campaign above gamma-ray-emitting thunderclouds.Illustration: The ALOFT team / Mount Visual This is why we figure them as the missing link between the two phenomena....

Its spooky season so its time for Shudder to shine. TheresV/H/S Beyond, Daddys Head, Azrael,andour favoritethe unforgettableMads.WhatsMads? Well, io9 is exclusively debuting the trailer to show you. Laurie Pavy as Anaïs in David Moreau’s Mads.Photo: Philip Lozano/Shudder But that changes when he runs into a bloody woman covered in bandages. From there, well, lets just say its not going to be a good night for anyone. Heres your io9 exclusive look at the first trailer forMads....

Those topics apparently include phrases like climate equity, DEI, and merely voting. (The organization has maintained that it was not hacked.) Howell is the executive director of the Oversight Project. © Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Trump created Schedule F throughexecutive orderin 2020, during the last days of his presidency. Its unclear whether this would actually be possible, however. Even conservatives have offered criticism of this idea, claiming itcould lead to political chaos....

According to Gurmans sources, it will also support Apple Intelligence. Apple has all but outright stated that its AI suite requires that much memory plus a quality chip. The current iPhone SE costs $430, while the modern, cheaper Pixels sell for $500. The iPhone SE from 2022 still featured the home button. The next version may finally introduced an edge-to-edge screen.© Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo We may see even more cheap Apple products by the end of this year....

But now, it seems, its finally happening. Amazon/MGM eventually won and casting for the films young leads soon began. He also played Paris in the production. Casting for a live-action Voltron movie has finally begun.Image: Netflix Casting is still going on for the female lead with it reportedly down to three finalists. Filming will begin this fall in Australia. ThoughVoltronoriginally hit popular culture in the 1980s, its a franchise that has seen itselfrevived again and again....

From there, a large language model infers the likely name and other details about that person. For example, Metas smart glasses with camera capabilities that look like regular eyeglasses were only released last year. And the kind of LLM data extraction theyre achieving was only possible in the past two years. Demonstration of experimental glasses used for facial detection and obtaining personal information about strangers on the street.Screenshots: Instagram For reverse facial search engines, theres Pimeyes and Facecheck ID....

TheTerrifierseries adds another bauble to the tree October 11, when the third filmreadio9s reviewherehits theaters. Its arriving timed for Halloween, which we already know is one of Art the Clowns favorite holidays. But itsactually a Christmas-set movie, complete witha blood-spattered Santa suitfor horrors monster du jour. © Creepy Duck io9 is excited to debut this delightfully gross retro alt-poster for Damien LeonesTerrifier 3, created byCreepy Duck Design. Terrifier 3hits theaters October 11....

The galaxy cluster is named PLCK G165.7+67.0, mercifully nicknamed G165. G165 is 3.6 billion light-years from Eartha staggering distance in itselfbut the supernova it highlights is even more ancient. To achieve three images, the light traveled along three different paths. The galaxy cluster PLCK G165 (left) with a triply imaged supernova (right).Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brenda Frye (University of Arizona), Rogier Windhorst (ASU), S. Cohen (ASU), Jordan C. J. D’Silva (UWA), Anton M....

On Tuesday, Pepperdine University livestreamed a conversation between billionaire weapons merchant Palmer Luckey and university president Jim Gash. Between those two moments, Luckey talked about war. If both sides understand who is going to win, its very rare for things to proceed to violence. Palmer Luckey speaking at Pepperdine University on October 1, 2024.© YouTube screengrab There are a lot of problems with Game Theory as a defense strategy. Luckey acknowledged one immediately: ideological actors like Jihadists....

This summer, we partied like it was 1996. That was the yearthe filmTwisterhit theaterson its way to some mega box office. This year, almost 30 years later, we went back to the suck zone forTwisterswhich thankfully didnt suck. Stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones, along with director Lee Isaac Chung, on the set of Twisters.Image: Universal Well get into all the specifics below but here, io9 has something special. But at the same time, that was our first reaction....