July 1, 2022 A Fleet of Confused Self-Driving Cars Stopped in the Middle a Street for Hours Have autonomous driving cars reached AI sentience? Are the robotaxis planning a robo-takeover? It seemed like they might be when they blocked traffic for…
July 1, 2022 Elon Musk’s Starlink Can Now Beam Wifi to Cars, Boats, and Planes Starlink just got the green light to expand on land, air and sea. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized SpaceX to provide Starlink wifi…
July 1, 2022 The Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Streaming in July 2022 Welcome back to io9’s monthly Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your…
July 1, 2022 Climate Change Is Shifting How Plants Evolve. Seed Banks May Have to Adapt, Too The ancestor of your stir-fry might be growing closer than you think. Wild field mustard, or Brassica rapa, is an unassuming plant that reaches…
July 1, 2022 TikTok CEO Tries to Placate Republicans, Claims App Keeps User Data From Beijing TikTok executives are attempting to assuage Republican officials that U.S. data is safe and sound in company hands, but their best attempts are unlikely…
July 1, 2022 Private Internet Access just threw down a challenge to the VPN industry Private Internet Access (PIA) users based in the US can now safely and locally browse the internet no matter in which state they are….
July 1, 2022 The Way Sigourney Weaver Is Back for Avatar 2 Is Absolutely Unhinged Ever since we first heard, approximately 17 billion years ago, that Sigourney Weaver would return for James Cameron’s Avatar sequels, we were all perplexed…
July 1, 2022 Apple Jacks up iPhone and iPad Prices in Japan Apple products in Japan are becoming more expensive. The iPhone 13, for example, was found to be as much priced 19% higher than it…
July 1, 2022 ***** Awards Steve Jobs With Posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom It’s been a busy week at the White House. Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, a trip overseas, and calls to…
July 1, 2022 FDA says updated COVID-19 Omicron boosters won’t require new clinical trials A Food and Drug Administration official said COVID-19 vaccine makers won’t need to carry out fresh clinical trials to receive approval for booster shots…