U.S. Military Shot Down Drones With Lasers in Middle East: Report
File photo showing a target drone with damage inflicted by a HEL-MD laser during tests at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico in 2014.Photo: DVIDS The U.S. military has been…
SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Is Working in Places It’s Not Supposed To
Starlink satellite internet terminals are reportedly still operating in unlicensed places, despite the company’s warning last month that the service would be shut down by May 1 in those areas.…
Russia’s UN Veto Fuels More Tension With the US Over Nuclear Weapons in Space
This week, Russia unsurprisingly vetoed a draft resolution to prevent the placement of nuclear weapons in orbit. Russia’s rejection of the United Nations resolution is not a clear indication that…
Rebel Moon – Part Two Couldn’t Quite Eclipse Part One
Rebel Moon: Part Two didn’t quite reach Part One numbers. Image: Netflix After a fourth-month wait, Netflix viewers turned up by the tens of millions to see how Zack Snyder’s…
Google Fires More Workers Behind Israel Sit-Ins as War Protests Spread Across the Nation
Google fired at least 20 more employees on Monday evening related to the April 16 sit-in protests of the company’s cloud computing contracts with Israel, No Tech For Apartheid organizers…
These Are World’s 20 Best Airports
A toy airplanePhoto: Timm Schamberger (Getty Images) These are the best airports in the world according to Skytrax, an “air transport rating organization.” By surveying travelers across more than 570…
Google Fires 28 Workers Who Protested its Contracts With Israel
Google says it terminated 28 employees associated with protests of the company’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contracts with the Israeli government on Wednesday. The firings follow the arrests of nine…
‘Googlers Against Genocide’: Tech Workers Protest AI and Cloud Contracts With Israel
More than 10 workers held a sit-in on the 10th floor of Google’s New York City headquarters on Tuesday to protest Google’s ties to Israel, organizers from “No Tech for…
Zack Snyder Clarifies Those Controversial Rebel Moon and Barbie Comparisons
A month after making a controversial comparison between the biggest movie of last year and his own Netflix hit, director Zack Snyder straightened a few things out. Speaking to io9…
Open Channel: Tell Us Your Thoughts on Fallout and Civil War
Image: Prime Video/A24 We’re halfway through April, and it’s been a busy month, media-wise. After starting with last weekend’s Monkey Man and The First Omen, this week’s graced us with…