The world’s largest radio telescope is officially under construction in Australia, where work is underway on one component of what will be an intercontinental instrument. When operational in the late 2020s, the telescope will offer a sharper, wider view of the universe in radio wavelengths.
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Thousands of Dead Seals Mysteriously Wash Ashore in Russia
Around 2,500 of endangered seals in the Caspian Sea have washed ashore along the coast of Dagestan, Russia, CNN reports, citing the state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
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You Won't Need Nippers, Glue, or Paint to Customize These Gundam Wing Keyboards
In August, Higround released a collection of Sonic the Hedgehog-themed compact keyboards, including one design featuring graphics from a classic Sonic level spread across all the keys. The company’s latest keyboard collection takes a similar approach, but trades Sonic for the classic anime, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.

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SpaceX's Starlink Has Competition—and SpaceX Is Launching It on Tuesday
British company OneWeb and its largest internet satellite competitor SpaceX have gone from enemies to friends. Well, sort of. OneWeb, in the wake of a canceled deal with Russia, was forced to source new launch providers—leading them to SpaceX and a rather unlikely agreement.
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ToeJam and Earl, the Cult Classic Video Game, Is Becoming a Movie
Every video game console has its signature games and franchises. For Sega, obviously, Sonic the Hedgehog is the big one. But a few spots down that list is ToeJam and Earl, and the rapping alien duo are now going to join Sonic on the big screen. Or, at least, a streaming service.
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Guns N' Roses Sues Online Gun Shop for Trademark Infringement
Guns N’ Roses filed a lawsuit on Friday against an online artillery shop for infringement of the Guns N’ Roses trademark and claims the shop’s name, Texas Guns and Roses, associates the band with the store.
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A Delivery Drone Survives the End of the World (Sort of) in This Sci-Fi Short
Meet Jeff, an Amazon employee with zero work-life balance. All he does is toil his days away for the mega-corp, making sure customers are united with their mounds of totally necessary impulse buys. He needs a vacation! But since he’s a drone, that sounds impossible... until the world finds a way. By ending.
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China's Hackers Reportedly Stole Over $20 Million in Covid Relief Benefits
Cybercriminals with ties to the Chinese government have stolen tens of millions of dollars in U.S. covid relief benefits, NBC reports.
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Democrats Have a New Plan to Fight Plastic Pollution
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Tennessee Lawmakers Push $300 Fee for Owning an Electric Vehicle
Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee is considering a set of new road-related rules to fund a proposed transportation infrastructure bill. On the docket: raising the fee electric vehicle owners pay to register their cars. Currently, EV drivers pay $100 in the state every year; under newly announced budged scheme,…
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Facebook Will Use Age-Confirming AI to Check if You're Old Enough to Date
Meta may ask you to send the company a video of your face before letting you hit up fellow people looking for love on Facebook Dating, if only to verify you are indeed old enough to date online.
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Blue Beetle's Solo Movie Is Long Overdue
Despite the various fluctuations in management, objectives, and the general passage of time, Warner Bros. did reaffirm over the weekend that its Blue Beetle movie would actually be coming out. With a debut poster focusing on the titular superhero’s alien Scarab, all that’s left now is to wait for the trailer (or two,…
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Epic Fantasy Arca Slithers Onto Bookshelves Next Year
G.R. Macallister’s latest, Arca, returns to the fantasy world of the author’s Five Queendoms. It’s a sequel to Scorpica, which came out earlier this year, and io9 has an exclusive first look today.

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You Can Travel Without a REAL ID for a Little Bit Longer
If you’ve been putting off a dreaded trip to the DMV to get yourself a REAL ID, you’ve got some time. The Department of Homeland Security announced that full enforcement of the initiative, which is meant to standardize forms of identification used to do things like board flights, will not go into effect until the…
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The Pixel 7 Finally Gets Its Free VPN and Clear Calling in Google's Latest Drop
For all the great things the Pixel 7 does, it was still missing out on some of the features it trumpeted most at launch—until today. Google is rolling out the latest Pixel drop, which includes some of the Pixel 7's much-ballyhooed features, like Clear Calling, speaker labels for the Recorder app, and free VPN through…
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A New Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Trailer Swings in Next Week
Next year will bring many highly anticipated films to your eyeballs, but few have us as excited as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The follow-up to maybe the greatest superhero movie of all time arrives with super high expectations, and while we’ve already seen a brief tease from the film, now we know when the…
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The Arduboy Mini Is a Matchbook-Sized Retro Handheld Packed With Over 300 Games
There have been a few handheld gaming machines that really push the limits of how small a console can get, but the creator of the original, credit card-sized Arduboy is back with an even smaller version that still looks very much playable. The device is meant to encourage gamers to dabble in hardware hacking to expand…
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Servant's Fourth Season Teases a Wild Final Reckoning
Servant, the psychological thriller executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan—a guy who knows a thing or two about mindfucks and thrills—returns for its fourth and final season on Apple TV+ in January. And from the looks of this new trailer, there’s a wild ride ahead to the series’ conclusion. Check it out!
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10 Species Driven Toward Extinction by Cats
It has been thousands of years since the first cats were domesticated, but we still don’t seem to have much control over them. Many people let their cats come and go as they please, perhaps forgetting—or not caring—that domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals each year. Over half of pet cats in the U.S. spend…
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Another Country Plans to Make Facebook and Google Pay News Outlets
New Zealand plans to start mandating that Google and Meta pay local media companies for reposting news content on their platforms. The country’s Broadcasting and Media Minister, Hon Willie Jackson, announced the planned legislation in a Sunday press release.

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Rahul Kohli Loves Star Wars & Warhammer
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