The Force worksin mysterious waysmanners that we dont always understand, or even have to. How DidThe Acolytes Memory Wipe Work? Clone Wars andThe Acolytes versions are instead both expedited processes and also more blunt. © Lucasfilm Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. ©Bioware/EA ©Bioware/EA ©Lucasfilm ©Lucasfilm
After years ofgestation,anticipation,and speculation,Deadpool & Wolverineis almost here. Heres a selection of reactions, starting with our own! I had some problems with#DeadpoolAndWolverinebut more than anything its just so much fun. Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, and Shawn Levy at a Deadpool & Wolverine event in Seoul.Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, and Shawn Levy at a Deadpool & Wolverine event in Seoul. Photo: Marvel Studios Smiled from beginning to end. Got emotional along the way & openly cheered multiple times....
So, I was shocked to find out that Roombas couldnt clean themselves, particularly the mopping pad. It looks as though robot vacuums have hit a new stage of evolution: true self-cleaning. But back to this self-cleaning business. ©Photo iRobot The secret sauce is in the dock. This is iRobots first robo vacuum with what the company says is the fully multifunction charging dock. Is it worth $1,300? Not sure, but Id love to find out....
Colonel Vadym Sukharevsky, the 39-year-old man leading Ukraines drone division, is a Warhammer guy. Aprofile of Sukharevskyfor The Economist sets the scene. Wires, drone-boxes and computers lie scattered over the floor. Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vadym Sukharevsky at the ‘Ukraine in Kyiv.© Photo by Andriy Zhyhaylo/Obozrevatel/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images Sukharevsky sits in a gaming chair with custom embroidery. A lot of people get their gamer tags sewn into the heads of their chairs, but not Sukharevsky....
Clearly,The Empire Strikes Backis one of the most epic movies of all time. It comes in four different editions and io9 is excited to exclusively reveal them all. First up is the regular edition. A crop of Martin Ansin’s new poster for The Empire Strikes Back.Bottleneck/Acme/Lucasfilm ET on July 28. That means theyll print as many as they sell in that window. It costs $75. Martin Ansin’sEmpire Strikes BackRegular – Bottleneck/Acme...
Thesnowball of foldable iPhone rumorsthat have beenrolling downhill for yearsmay have finally merged into something tangible. The folding iPhones internal code name is dubbed V68. Apple reportedly wants to develop a foldable without a crease. Apple may be working on a clamshell design that apes recent foldables like the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6.Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo That issue has plagued all other foldable makers, from Samsung toGoogle. Based on the latest hints and rumors, both companies are working onsequels to both phones....
The hottest drug on the market might also be an unexpected brain booster. The drug is currently being tested as a treatment for Alzheimers disease. GLP-1 drugs have been used for nearly two decades to treat bang out 2 diabetes. A container of Ozempic being sold at a pharmacy in Berlin, Germany.© Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Retrospective studies such as this one cannot prove a causal link between semaglutide and better brain health....
We just concentrated on being funny. I finished editing three of the episodes and I think its one of our best seasons yet. But who wouldnt say that in aconversationlike this? “Nandermo” in the season five finale. © Russ Martin/FX Meanwhile, the vampires are reevaluating, too. The workforce, you say? Another episode will see Nandor star in what sounds like his own parody of John BoormansDeliverance. And Ill leave it at that....
Have you seen a lot ofreferences online to coconutssince Sunday? Theres a very good reason for that, believe it or not. And it can all be traced back to an old speech that probably wouldve been overlooked under normal circumstances. Kamala Harris on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, July 22, 2024.© Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images She would say to us: I dont know whats wrong with you young people....
This story was originally published byGrist. So the wood may get sent to a pulp mill, if the price is right. Or it may sit in the forest for years. © Carbon Lockdown Project Smaller limbs may be burned in a prescribed fire. He sees another solution: burying the logs, and all the planet-heating gases theyd otherwise release, underground. Thats the idea of a carbon sequestration technique called wood vaulting....
The drug has also infiltrated various forms of aquatic life, including mollusks, crustaceans, and bony fish. But with all that said, no studies had ever looked into whether sharks are affected. They noted that many shark species are facing serious decline due to overfishing. Researchers found traces of cocaine in Brazilian sharpnose sharks, a close relative of the Atlantic sharpnose seen here.© E. Woodward, UNC Institute of Marine Sciences via Flick Creative Commons...
Chimpanzees and humans are even more alike than we knew. Researchers at the University of St Andrews in the UK have been studying gestures in chimps for some time. All in all, the team analyzed more than 8,500 gestures from 252 chimpanzees. Two chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) sitting next to each other.© DeAgostini/Getty Images Gestures between two individual chimpanzees made about 14% of these communications. This also matches slight variation between human societies with some groups being slow or fast talkers....
When will Tesla deliver on thoseOptimus robotswe keep hearing about? Its going to be a little while longer than first anticipated, according to CEO Elon Musk. Thatwas 2021and even Musk defenders had to admit it was bizarre to watch. Tesla’s Optimus robot displayed at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, on July 4, 2024.© Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images But the company has also struggled to show major achievements without some significant sleight of hand....
