November 4, 2021 Google’s New Push for a Pentagon Cloud Contract Catches Workers Off Guard Just three years ago, a historic Google worker protest forced the company to abandon a major AI military contract, the company appears back at…
November 4, 2021 Tim Pool Got Covid-19 After Railing Against Vaccine Mandates Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool, who has been one of the more prominent online voices pushing culture-war tirades about the covid-19 pandemic, recently contracted the…
November 4, 2021 The io9 Guide to The Wheel of Time It’s one of the biggest fantasy series of all time—and not just in popularity. Robert Jordan’s 15 books span more than 11,000 pages of…
November 4, 2021 NYC Taxi Drivers Win Ability to Not Have Lives Ruined by Exploitative Goons A hunger strike that had stretched into its fifteenth day ended in victory for New York City taxi drivers on Wednesday after they received…
November 4, 2021 Finding Habitable Worlds Must Be a Priority This Decade, U.S. Science Advisors Say The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released the results of its latest decadal survey, which outlines science objectives for the astronomical community…
November 4, 2021 Gadgettes: We Have a Problem With Plugging Into The Metaverse (It’s Facebook) Gizmodo’s consumer tech team has a podcast, Gadgettes, and our second episode just dropped on your preferred podcast platform! Each week, your hosts, Gizmodo…
November 4, 2021 Electricity Conducting Glass Tables Are Probably Going to Be the Next Interior Design Fad Glass desks can help make a tiny office feel more spacious (and maybe a little sci-fi) but they also reveal things that most desks…
November 4, 2021 LIGHTSPEED Presents: “I Was a Teenage Space Jockey” by Stephen Graham Jones io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is…
November 4, 2021 Swan Song’s Trailer Wants to Break Your Heart With Cutting Edge Science While most science fiction tales involving cloning almost invariably end up as action-packed spectacles in which people are literally and metaphorically fighting themselves, Apple’s…
November 4, 2021 Exxon Would Like You to Invest in Its $100-Billion Carbon Capture Scheme After spending decades profiting off oil and gas and propagating climate denial, Exxon just needs a little money, man. In an interview with the…