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Doom Overtakes 3 Very Different Planets, Earth Included, in This Eerie Sci-Fi Short Story
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue.…
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SpaceX and xAI Are Merging Into a Very Silly-Sounding Conglomerate. Take It Seriously
SpaceX is acquiring xAI. Ever since this merger of two Musk companies became a rumor, crazy numbers like $1.5 trillion…
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The Success of ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is Already Influencing HBO’s Other ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Plans
Ever since Game of Thrones came to its controversial end, HBO has had grandiose plans, in scope and scale, for what…
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NASA Has a New Estimate for Europa’s Ice Shell, and Whoa Is It Ever Thick
Europa, one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, is encased in a shell of water ice, and researchers have just re-estimated its…
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It Turns Out Crypto’s Stablecoin Adoption is Around 1% of Previous Estimates
Stablecoins were all the rage in 2025. The GENIUS Act provided much needed regulatory clarity for the dollar-pegged crypto tokens,…
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TikTok Creates Legal Entity to Eventually Maybe Possibly Sell to U.S. Investors (Don’t Call It a Done Deal)
A new entity has been created that will allow ByteDance to sell a majority stake in the U.S. operations of…
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Cryptocurrencies Are Dying in Record Numbers, Report Says
What happens when you die…and you’re a cryptocurrency? Because deaths of this sort have been happening in record numbers lately.…
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We Finally Know Real Things About the Next J.J. Abrams Movie
Over six years after Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, J.J. Abrams has another movie hitting the big screen, and it’s coming…
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The ‘Solar Opposites’ Team Has a New Sci-Fi Animated Series Coming
While Solar Opposites‘ cancellation was one of the sad pop culture losses of 2025, there’s fresh hope in the hellscape:…
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The 2026 Golden Globes Are Tonight. Here’s Everything You Need To Know
It’s Sunday night and the 83rd edition of the annual Golden Globe Awards will soon crown the best movies and…
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