It’s Going to Get Way Easier to Recycle Batteries

My college dorms basement had an elaborate recycling area with various trash cans. One was a slim, long, transparent container with a small opening at the top. It was a dedicated trash can for batteries. Image:© Melnikov Dmitriy It specifically points out that EV batteries are not part of the list. This step aims to reuse those minerals, shift towards clean energy manufacturing, and limit imports from China. Emily Mullin atWiredexplains that the battery recycling plan goes beyond reusing its components....

July 15, 2024 · 1 min · 171 words · Holly Sparks

Mysterious Glowing Orbs Spotted from the ISS Look Like Alien Spaceships

A NASA astronaut snapped a photo of glowing features illuminating Earths upper atmosphere. Aside from the spaceship-looking orbs, subtle hints of bright red flashes appear in the photograph as well. NASA describes the colorful streaks as a less understood phenomena associated with powerful lightning events. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick photographed red sprites in Earth’s upper atmosphere from the ISS.©NASA/Matthew Dominick NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick photographed red sprites in Earth’s upper atmosphere from the ISS....

July 15, 2024 · 1 min · 143 words · Sean Barnes

NSA Claims It Can’t Watch an Important Tape It Recorded in the 1980s

Theres a problem, though: TheNSAdoesnt have a unit that can play back the tapes. The tapes are a recording of a lecture from computer science legend Admiral Grace Hopper. She later helped develop COBOL, a business-oriented computer language that still undergirds many computer systems. © Grace Hopper in her office. (Photo by Cynthia Johnson/Getty Images) In 1982, she gave a lecture at the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade. The NSA recorded the lecture and stored it away....

July 15, 2024 · 2 min · 285 words · Richard Schmidt

Radar Images Suggest There’s a Tunnel on the Moon

Where is this tunnel? How big is it? Their research waspublishedtoday in Nature Astronomy. The Mare Tranquillitatis pit crater© NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University Aspreviously reported by Gizmodo, the shadowy overhangs of lunar pits keep parts of them relatively temperate. News from the future, delivered to your present. No One Knows What Lurks at the Bottom of This Freakishly Deep Submerged Cave

July 15, 2024 · 1 min · 60 words · Christopher Brown

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 Has Galaxy AI, but What Exactly Does It Do?

I finally have ourSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 6review unit. It was out of my hands for a day to get the model treatment from our video crew. Hopefully, abilities like the new PDF translator will help with my foreign language research. © Florence Ion / Gizmodo Theres also an improved image generator that will turn your scribbled drawing into a franchisable cartoon. Its interesting to see what Samsung considers a value-add in AI....

July 15, 2024 · 2 min · 303 words · Joy Collins

San Diego Comic-Con 2024: The 15 Panels We’re Most Excited About

For fans lucky enough at attendSan Diego Comic-Con, there are two things you are most looking forward to. The first, of course, isactually attending Comic-Con. Did James Gunn lie aboutnot showing up with the DC Universe? Transformers, Deadpool & Wolverine and Alien: Romulus are a few of the big panels at Comic-Con 2024Paramount, Disney, Fox No, he did not. We mention movies and TV because thats our main area of interest....

July 15, 2024 · 1 min · 133 words · Andrea Sims

T-Shirts With Photo of Fake Trump Shooter Listed for Sale Online

The man even made a video that started by falsely identifying himself as Crooks. Theres a resemblance between the two men, but theyre different people. Etsy already has thousands of products, including coffee mugs, wall art, and all manner of clothes. T-shirts for sale featuring photos of a man who is not the Trump shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks© TeeWorksUSA / ChoiceTees USA I will NEVER SURRENDER! the Facebook ad reads....

July 15, 2024 · 1 min · 180 words · Summer Leonard

Terminator: ZeroDebuts Its First Trailer Just in Time for Armageddon

Since this is aTerminatorstory, Lee finds himself and his three children pursued by an unknown robot assassin. Luckily, a mysterious soldier from the year 2022 has been sent to protect him. However, as the trailer also states, theres no going backnot really. © Netflix So whos to say yet? Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Jojos Adventures Get More Bizarre inSteel Ball RunAnime Yeeeeeeehaw!...

July 15, 2024 · 1 min · 83 words · Bianca Davis

The Acolyte‘s Fascinating Parallels Between Jedi Recruitment and Colonialism

Furthermore,The Acolyteasks a key question before the fall of the Jedi: What went wrong? And if the bad guys are actually the underdog, it just seemed like a cool reversal. Ostensibly, the series is focused on a big mystery. © Lucasfilm In our world, missionaries served as the frontline for colonization. So seeing it explicitly focused on inThe Acolyteset my Native American senses tingling. Who Decides Whats Right? Theyve been given a legal mandate for it as well....

July 15, 2024 · 3 min · 562 words · Christy Miller

This Free App Lets You Emulate Windows on Your iPhone

Talk about crossing the streams. This might be your best bet if youre trying to get an old-school x86-based game running on your iPhone. The app supports emulators for x86, PPC, and RISC-V architecture. The UTM SE app mentions retro gaming quite a bit, but you could do a lot more than boot up old x86-based games Photo © Kyle Barr / Gizmodo The app itself is based on QEMU, an open-source emulation engine....

July 15, 2024 · 1 min · 209 words · Patrick Mejia

Truth Social Stock Jumps Following Assassination Attempt on Trump

TMTG has been a long-embattled stock heavily watched by investors, the media, and the curious. Founded in 2021, TMTG is a media company thats majority-owned by Trump. Its best-known product is Truth Social, which it launched in 2022. © Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Its been mostly downhill since then. On April 15, TMTG attempted to issue21 million more shares of the DJT stock. Thestock price fell 18%. The next day, the company announced it would launch a live TV streaming service for Truth Social....

July 15, 2024 · 2 min · 250 words · Lisa Soto

We Finally Know How General Anesthesia Knocks You Out

If youve ever had a medical procedure that required general anesthesia, you know its a trippy experience. A team of MIT neuroscientists may have unlocked the answer in the case of propofol. Propofol has been commonly used since the 1980s to put and keep patients in a state of unconsciousness. How general anesthetic puts people under has long been a mystery. A new study from MIT sheds light on how propofol affects the brain....

July 15, 2024 · 1 min · 140 words · Robert Bowman

BeholdThe Acolyte’sSick Costumes Ahead of Its Finale

Chainmail isnt commonly seen inStar Wars,but she argued it was historically important as means of protection. Purple serves as her primary color because its a memory color calling back to her family. That also applied to Qimir, whose fabrics and layers had to be agile and very, very athletic. Charlie Barnett as Yord and Lee Jung-jae as Sol in The Acolyte.© Lucasfilm/Disney. The Acolytesseason finale airs this Tuesday, July 16 on Disney+....

July 14, 2024 · 1 min · 166 words · Kelly Thomas