Nothing is worse than having your ears drums assaulted by the sound of traffic when youre trying to sleep. Lately, some residents of San Francisco seem to be suffering this fate, thanks to Waymo. Tung has been posting videos (andeven a live stream) of the activities in the lot. © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images According to her, the cars come and go at all hours, arriving as late as 4 a.m....
The viral disease mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has become a worldwide threat once again. Mpoxis due to a virus closely related to the now-extinct smallpox virus. But that changed in early 2022, when the virus began to cause widespread human-to-human outbreaks outside Africa. An illustration of mpox virus particles.© SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty These outbreaks spanned the globe, with more than 90,000 cases in over 100 countries documented....
Cockroaches are becoming even harder to kill than currently assumed. These pest roaches arent just gross food-stealing nuisances, thoughthey can also cause asthma or spread disease. But they are genuinely hardy survivors, and theyve only gotten better at evading our weapons. A can of bug spray© Krit of Studio OMG via Getty But theres been surprisingly little research directly looking at how these products fare against real-world roach populations. The latter two conditions were intended to mimic the sort of residual exposure that sprays leave behind....
I was playing, and realizing how terrifyingAliencould be if you take it back to that tone. As GamesRadar+ notes,Alien: Isolationhas not-so-safe save points in the form of an emergency phone. Its the same thing here. © 20th Century Studios Youll see theyre planted strategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, its like: brace for impact. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. CouldAlien: Romulus Sequel Bring Back Another Familiar Face?...
Now, the man credited with naming the sound has come forward to admit he cringes at the distinction. He would put it in a Quentin Tarantino film and call me up and challenge me to find it. I put it in anIndiana Jonesmovie, Burtt told THR. © Lucasfilm It was a private joke. Nobody said a thing. I just heard it in a commercial on TV yesterday. Its just crazy, Burt said....
I think seven years in a space suit was enough, you know? I remember people saying at the time whenVoyagergot going, How many times can you go to the well? How many times can you revamp this?' © Paramount They successfully did it withStar Trekand theyre still doing it. Do you want to see an elderly Miles OBrien? Its certainly not at the top of my agenda of things Id like to do at the moment....
FromInvasion of the Body SnatchersandIndependence DaytoArrivalandThe Day the Earth Stood Still, alien invasion stories are everywhere. Most of those are told from the perspective of the humans being invaded. The aliens are the other.The trauma is our own. Jock illustrations from the new book Invader.Jock And none of them are fully illustrated by the manic comic legendJock. Invader, a new illustrated novel, flips both of those things. Crystallized aliens crash on Earth and begin to take over anything, or anybody, in their way....
SpaceX justannouncedits upcoming private mission, which will see a crewed Dragon spacecraft launch into a polar orbit. Polar orbits are generally used by Earth-observing satellites and reconnaissance missions. Fram2 could launch as early as this year, according to SpaceX. SpaceX’s Fram2 Crew could launch as early as this year.SpaceX The company is also gearing up tolaunch another private mission in late August. News from the future, delivered to your present.
Its not just you. ET, no one was able to actually listen. And now we know why. Elon Musk attends ‘Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk’ session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024© Photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images Musk tweeted about the outage at 8:18 p.m., blaming a distributed denial-of-service attack. There is acting like a massive DDOS attack on X....
Its not one, two, or even three models of new phones. There are four new Pixel phones, two new Pixel watches, and a pair of Pixel earbuds. Note that all the Pixel 9 hardware has varying on-sale dates. The Pixel 9 hardware family.© Google The end for Android? In truth, it will just be Android with a more prominent AI footprint. The demo showed how much more conversational and organic Gemini Live feels compared to the Google Assistant of yore....
Frozen 3will open November 24, 2027, according toDeadline. (And yes,Frozen 4is also in the works.) What inescapably catchy power ballad will underscore this scene and, a few months later, command Oscar attention? Frozen co-director and chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios Jennifer Lee at D23.© Gizmodo/Disney Well have to wait until 2027 to find out. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. © Gizmodo/Disney
The company is hoping youll be enticed by that size and (inhales) more AI-centric features. Some of them are actually useful on the Google Pixel 9. For comparison, thats slightly bigger thanApples iPhone 15 Pro Maxand thePixel 8 Pro. The Pro and Pro XL phones sport the same color options, including the pleasantly pink hue.Photo: Artem Golub / Gizmodo The regular 9 will get an upgrade to 12 GB. The focus is on Geminis expanding integration with Pixel phones....
Still, Im unsure if it has enough in the software or hardware departments to stand out just yet. At first glance, the $1,800 Pixel 9 Pro Fold is a far slimmer gear than last years. It ditched the rounded corners and boosted the size from a 5.8-inch exterior screen to a 6.3-inch Actua display. The Pixel 9 Pro Fold’s ‘Made You Look’ feature is for getting your kids to look at you when taking a picture....
