If you havent sanitized your microwave in a while, you may want to get on that. A new study has revealed that these kitchen appliances can harbor some of the most resilient microbes yet discovered. Not all microwaves host the same types of microbiomes. Convenient household item or host to a thriving bacteria colony?© Patty Ho via Flickr Rather, they take on some of the microscopic characteristics of the surrounding area....
I was scared to rewatchAlien Resurrection. I first saw it when it hit theaters in 1997 and only remember the disappointment. Then, in the years since, it was perpetually at the bottom of any ranking ofAlienmovies. Let’s look back at Alien Resurrection.Image: Fox Things started with Ridley ScottsAlien, which isobviously a masterpiece, but then I got a little lazy. Plus, my colleague Cheryl Eddyalready did a fantastic look back. Especially with the expectation that it would be bad?...
Almost everyStar Warsthing weve seen in the last five years has been an in-between-quel. I was trying to justify why it looks this way visually, he said. Why is half the cinema so excited about this man and I dont know who he is? Archie Renaux as Tyler and Cailee Spaeny as Rain Carradine in Alien: Romulus.Image: Fox It becomes an excess Im not interested in. Read more from Alvarez at theLA Times....
Lately, the Trump familyTM has beengetting into crypto, and crypto has beengetting into them. This arrangement seems to be mutually beneficial. Meanwhile, the crypto bros need someone who understands them (a grifter). © David Dee Delgado/Getty Images Now it would appear something big is headed down the pike. Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have been teasing some sort of mysterious collaboration with the crypto community. Decentralized finance is the futuredont get left behind....
Baldurs Gate 3asks its players to make a lot of choices. Its been a year since Baldurs Gate 3 was released, and you know what weve realised? No, the fandom is all about who smooched who. © Gizmodo/Larian Studios Theres magical spells and literal gods and giant monsters. ItsDungeons & Dragons, its all about telling the wildest stories of your imagination within the setting! Want more io9 news? © Larian Studios...
Humans are far from the only animals to mourn the dead. Studies in recent years havealso shownthat dogs will exhibit plenty of sadness when humans or other pets pass away. But relatively little scientific attention has been paid to cats and their capacity for mourning. A sad-looking cat.© iStock via Getty Scientists from Oakland University in Michigan sought to remedy that. The owners were asked about short- and long-term behavioral changes in their surviving cat following this loss....
Brat summer is over. Its officially the era of subscription fatigue. Disney israising the priceof its multiple streaming services. © Disney Hulus ad-supported tier will cost the same as Disney+ but shoots up to $19/month without ads. Weirdly, you cant pay for that package as an annual bundle. The bundle offerings that include Disney+ and ESPN+ are the only plans that wont jump in price. This bodes well for those of us who get our other subscriptions paid forby a carrier....
If youve spent any time on Facebook recently youve seen the river ofAI slop. Theres the homeless vet with the badly worded sign, cops carrying massive bibles, andof courseShrimp Jesus. Why is Facebook full of this stuff? Shrimp Jesus, in all his AI-generated glory.© Image via Facebook Because theres money in it, of course. It exists to automate the creation and distribution of AI-generated images on Facebook. They post dozens of images every day, sometimes every hour, and make a living from the engagement....
But a recent archaeological survey was done differently than any other. It was done in space. In a studypublishedtoday in PLOS One, a research team revealed their findings from two of the sampling locations. The third sampling area of the SQuARE project aboard the ISS.Walsh et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 That was an important lesson about the relationship of the historic photos to long-term usage patterns. The project began in 2015 as a retrospective review of the way spaces on the ISS are used....
In the span of your life, youve probably had a dream where youre flying. But have you ever dreamed about swimming underwater? Off the coast of Australia? A still from the back of an Australian sea lion swimming underwater.Image: Angelakis et al. 2024. And youre also a sea lion? Their research (and footage) ispublishedtoday inFrontiers of Marine Science. The models predicted large habitat areas in the regions off the coast....
Whats more, she knows how hes going to die. She has a clear view of this end thats in sight. From a psychoanalytical perspective, maybe its all about him, and maybe its not that literal. Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) tries to convince his sister, Heleana (Phia Saban), to join his fight.© Ollie Upton/HBO Saban also has thoughts on what Heleana tells her brother. I dont think she thinks that it will necessarily change his path, she said....
Somehow, things only got worse for the AI gadget. The Pin has recently been seeing more returns than sales, according toThe Vergeon Wednesday. Ambitiously enough, it used a projection interface which was also kind of a flop. © Humane Apparently, the projection wasnt clear enough outdoors. Humane isnt the only company weve seen this happen with. Guess this is just the consequence of overdoing AI. Like Brownleesaid, its better to keep AI as a feature for now....
When you woke up this morning,Christopher Nolans filmInterstellarwas probably the last thing on your mind. Its coming back to theaters in 70mm IMAX, just a little later than originally expected. The article also cited studio sources who dispute a rumor that 70mm prints ofInterstellarwere destroyed. Interstellar is coming back to theaters in December.Image: Paramount Paramount claims it has archived more copies of the movie than most other pictures. The reason for the delay is not those prints either....
