Palantir CEO Calls Drugs ‘The One Thing I Don’t Do’ in Wildly Unhinged Interview
Palantir CEO Alex Karp gave an extremely high-energy interview to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday, with his arms flailing as…
The AI Cold War Just Got Chillier
As the newly crowned most valuable startup in the world and the maker of what are widely considered to be…
Oh Great, a Parasite That Causes Explosive Diarrhea Is Spreading Right Now
If there was one word you wouldn’t want to hear in front of the word “diarrhea,” it’d be “explosive.” Unfortunately,…
Rubin Observatory Begins Its 10-Year Survey of the Universe
Over the next ten years, a groundbreaking facility in northern Chile will capture a full view of the southern sky…
ESO Study Finds That No More Than 100,000 Satellites Should Orbit Earth
A first-of-its-kind study measured the extent to which bright constellations affect astronomers’ view of the night sky, setting a proposed…
70 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Releasing in July
Somehow, it’s already July, and if your bookshelf is looking a little lonely—io9’s monthly list of new sci-fi, horror, and…
Grantchester’s Tom Brittney May Be the New Batman
Rapper 50 Cent brings a comic book about snorting cremains to Starz. Both Nicolas Winding Refn’s sci-fi/giallo and Yeon Sang-ho’s…
Seed Takes Root,’ Read by Hugo Weaving
What happens when a filmmaker and a game designer team up to create a speculative universe? Readers will soon find…
Clancy Brown Starring in ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2’ Absolutely Rips
Studio Trigger’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is no stranger to a stacked voice cast; the first season of the Netflix show (which…
NASA Is Making a Fifth State of Matter in Orbit
It’s sometimes easy to overlook the fact that the International Space Station (ISS) is a giant lab where scientists study…
