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Xi Jinping is going completely to the Chairman Mao playbook. However, China is misunderstanding the Hong Kong issues. The police in Hong Kong and soon the Chinese Army are over-reacting. This article will review the over-reaction and how it goes back to crude responses to perceived threats to stability. The developed countries of the world need to provide a better voice to those who are poor and feel like they and their descendants will remain poor. Their needs to be policies that provide some reasonable level of financial support and provide affordable education and means for people to uplift themselves.

Juvenescence, which aims to extend human lifespans to 150, has raised $100 million in its latest funding round.

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has a lot of familiar Star Wars foodstuffs, drinks, and treats. And, of course, there’s blue milk, Luke Skywalker’s favorite (?) drink. Read more...

US All Liquids oil production is at 19.6 million barrels per day. US oil production is forecasted to increase by 1-2 million barrels per day by the end of 2020. US crude oil production is at 12.5 million barrels per day. Saudi Arabia had to cut oil production to support oil prices. Saudi Arabia is producing 10.6 million barrels per day. Russian crude oil production is at 11.7 million barrels per day. The US will be passing the 20 million barrel per day all liquids production level by the end of this year. The US all liquids oil production should

Last week, US crude oil production reached a record 12.5 million barrels per day. Other liquids like natural gas liquids, ethanol and condensate reached 7.1 million barrels per day. The combined numbers are the all liquids production which is now 19.6 million barrels per day. There was a 2012 report from Harvard Professor Maugeri. At the time, peak oil websites freaked out that Maugeri predicted the success of US shale oil production. Maugeri predicted that with 3.5 million barrels per day more from shale oil and an oil price of over US$70 per barrel that the US would produce 11.2

The sound effects from the original Half-Life are burned into my brain after playing the game nearly every year since it came out back in 1998. So hearing these iconic sounds and voices inserted into famous scenes from classic 80s films creates a weird mix of nostalgia and humor. And surprisingly this mash-up actually… Read more...

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Manors are built to be haunted, so far as TV and film is concerned, and The Haunting of Bly Manor , Mike Flanagan’s awaited follow-up to The Haunting of Hill House , now has a cast to do the haunting. Read more...

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If you look at list of motor vehicle makers then Tesla is not in the top 50 makers in the world. The global top makers by vehicle production are Toyota and Volkswagen each with over 10 million vehicles per year. The maker ranking about 20th are making about 1.2 million vehicles. Those would be Mitsubishi and BAIC of China. Tesla made about 250,000 vehicles in 2018 and might make 400,000 in 2019. Optimistically, Tesla could reach 650,000 cars produced in 2020 and 1 million cars in 2021. This would involve maximizing production in Fremont and getting a rapid full ramp-up

If Joker wasn’t called “Joker,” you’d never know it was a DC movie. Though there are characters with the last name “Wayne” and it takes place in a city called “Gotham,” there’s little else that distinguishes Todd Phillips’ latest film as a comic book movie. It’s a solid, well-made film that, ultimately, has a bit of… Read more...

Contractors working at Google’s Pittsburgh office recently announced they’re aiming to unionize, marking the latest contingent of employees to begin pushing back against Silicon Valley for a voice at the bargaining table. Read more...

Elon Musk tweeted that the orbital versions of the Starship (one in Texas and one in Florida) are aiming for 20km flight in Oct and an orbit attempt shortly thereafter. Elon Musk will give the starship update on Sept 28th. This is the anniversary of SpaceX reaching orbit. Starship Mk 1 will be fully assembled by September 28, 2019. Aiming for 20km flight in Oct & orbit attempt shortly thereafter. Starship update will be on Sept 28th, anniversary of SpaceX reaching orbit. Starship Mk 1 will be fully assembled by that time. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 28, 2019 The

Purity culture, with purity rings and abstinence pledges and more patriarchal control than you can imagine, is terrifying enough on its own. Which makes Pure , the newest installment of the Blumhouse-created Into the Dark anthology , just excessively unsettling. Read more...

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You guys really like to talk about your dogs, which is amazing. I do too. The finalists for this week’s Co-Op all came highly recommended. The winner and runner-up were neck and neck, but the OG Kong took the lead and won it all. Read more...

Imagine if The Colonies from The Handmaid’s Tale were in outer space, and June’s idea of revenge involved some kind of magical angler fish. You’d have Colony , an Australian science fiction short film released by Dust about a woman struggling to keep herself and her sister alive—until things go too far. Read more...

In the world of His Dark Materials , there aren’t just humans milling about—there’s the magical world of daemons, spiritual companions just as vital to its story as their human counterparts are. Now, HBO’s lifted the lid on some of the actors lending their voice to the adaptation’s take on these mythical beings. Read more...

Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance may be a fantasy show about a magic crystal that controls the fate of a planet, but it’s also surprisingly pertinent about the threat of climate change . Turns out that’s totally on purpose. Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle , io9's regular round-up of the best toys we’ve seen on the internet this week. Today, we’ve got hot bods, dad bods, metal bods, all sorts of bods! And that’s even before we get to Canada’s finest superheroes (some of whom I’m sure also have lovely bods, I’m certain). Check it out! Read more...

In the wake of Clueless and Scream in the teen-culture explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s lurks sci-fi horror tale Disturbing Behavior , a movie that cherry-picks its influences and has some interesting ideas, but ultimately comes up pretty short. As a time capsule , though, it is undeniably fascinating. Read more...

It was supposed to be the ultimate handheld portable gaming console, but the Nintendo Switch didn’t quite fit the bill. The Switch Lite promises a better design for gaming on the go, but Nintendo has only just revealed what is possibly the best new feature for improved portability: a snap-on case with a flip cover for… Read more...

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io9 was founded as a website dedicated to both science journalism and science-fiction and cultural criticism. And although that mission has evolved over the years, that intersection between science and science fiction is something that still drives co-founders Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz’ work as authors.… Read more...

After years in the making, today we get to return to Thra with the epic, gorgeous fantasy of Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance . But after you’re done binging 10-ish hours of puppet glory, later this year you’ll be able to get a glimpse at the incredible craftsmanship that brought it life in a new book—and… Read more...

Catherine: Full Body is a remix of sorts of Catherine , a 2011 puzzle game by Atlus that had strong visual novel elements. Full Body makes some additions to the original’s narrative and gameplay. We’ll discuss the narrative changes more in-depth next week. For now, Full Body ’s addition of a new character and some… Read more...

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For Terminator: Dark Fate , the return of Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is exciting enough. But it’s the return of franchise creator James Cameron that’s arguably the bigger deal. Cameron is back as a producer and helped craft the story of the film, which only recognizes his first two … Read more...

Say what you want about the Men in Black franchise , or more pointedly its newest installment Men in Black: International , but one thing has always been true: The aliens have always been amazing. Read more...

Special thanks to Darlene Lim of NASA’s Ames Research Center, Mike Malaska of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jill McDermott of Lehigh University, Kevin Raskoff of Monterey Peninsula College, and Sarah Trumbo of Caltech for contributing their expertise to this comic. Read more...

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Todd Philips reveals the battle to make his Joker movie R-rated. J.J. Abrams is full of praise for Adam Driver’s performance in The Rise of Skywalker . Andy Muschietti promises human drama for his metahuman-starring superhero movie, The Flash . Plus, a look at the final return of The Good Place . To me, my spoilers! Read more...

August 29, Judgment Day , has come and gone. So now that the world is still here, a new Terminator: Dark Fate trailer is our reward. Read more...

Some sequels should not exist. All they can do is ruin the legacy of the original. However, every once in awhile, one of those impossible sequels comes along and doesn’t just live up to expectations, it makes the original better. Read more...

Archaeological evidence excavated in western Idaho suggests humans were in the region well over 15,000 years ago—prior to the opening of the massive ice sheets that blocked entrance into North America via the Bering land bridge. It’s further evidence that the continent’s first people arrived by traveling along the… Read more...

In 1999, it took Google one month to crawl and build an index of about 50 million pages. In 2012, the same task was accomplished in less than one minute. The 2012 capability is about 50,000 times faster. This is slightly better than doubling the speed every year for 14 years. In 2016, a new open-source Bubing web crawler was announced that can achieve around 12,000 crawled pages per second on a relatively slow connection. This is could be 1 billion pages per day. The pricing is about $40 per day. There is an arxiv article from 2016. (BUbiNG: Massive

Most of the fires in Brazil were likely set by farmers preparing the land for next year’s planting. This is common farming method said the scientists from the University of Maryland. The fires are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared. Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research calculated that there were 35 percent more fires so far this year than in the average of the last eight years. There were far fewer fires than the average in 2003-2010. Three are satellite grid of maps that show the month-by-month pattern of fires across the Amazon rain forest

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The more we hear about The Mandalorian , the more it feels like executive producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni made it their own personal Star Wars playground. Read more...

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The eSports audience will grow to 453.8 million globally in 2019. There are 201 million Esports Enthusiasts. 201.2 million with per year growth of 15.7% to nearly 300 million in 2022. The global Occasional Viewers will hit 252.6 million in 2019, up from 2018’s 221.6 million. This number will grow with a CAGR of +12.6% to 347.5 million in 2022. The NFL has an audience of about 100 million. This is down from three years ago. The global eSport audience is over four times bigger than the NFL audience. In 2019, 1.8 billion people will be aware of esports worldwide,

One way that scientists can non-invasively study the human brain is by growing “mini-brains,” clusters of brain cells each about the size of a pea, in the lab. In a fascinating progression of this line of research, a team this week reports that they observed human-like brainwaves from these organoids. Read more...

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Readers of io9 are no doubt very aware that since leaving the site, co-founders Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz have gone on to write their own award-winning works of fiction. But how do science fiction and fantasy bloggers move to writing science fiction themselves? At a recent talk in London, England, the duo… Read more...

The actor: Morena Baccarin has a knack—and a look—for playing otherworldly characters, whether she’s leading an invasion on Earth or a regime in some far-flung corner of the Milky Way . She’s also been the voice of The Flash ’s A.I. and one of DC Comics’ most notorious assassins . Baccarin shines just as powerfully in… Read more...

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Two women, an independent game developer and a vocalist, on Monday night accused famed video game composer Jeremy Soule, best known for his musical work on games like Guild Wars and Skyrim , of sexually predatory behavior and, according to the game developer, rape. Soule denied the game developer’s accusations, calling… Read more...

A hero’s secret identity is one of the most enduring tropes of superheroic fiction—but there are perhaps few today for who it matters the most than Peter Parker, a character who’s duality has become one of his defining traits . So for him to reveal that in Civil War was a major deal...but a new book reveals that… Read more...

Today is August 29, a very important day in the lore of Terminator . August 29, 1997 was originally Judgement Day, the day Skynet became self-aware and launched nuclear weapons, basically ending the world. The event marked the beginning of a timeline when machines ruled the world and started sending Terminators back in… Read more...

A beekeeper in Turkey’s Black Sea-adjacent province of Trabzon, frustrated that local bears kept on stealing and consuming his precious honey, apparently set up a nighttime taste test for the purposes of determining which products the bears prefer, per numerous reports in Turkish media over the past week. Read more...

Go take a look at your international travel bucket list, because there’s a pretty good chance one of those destinations is included in Emirates’ big International Sale . Read more...

Vincent D’Onofrio is still trying to fight for Daredevil ’s survival. A new image gives us our first look at the next CG Scooby-Doo movie. Netflix’s  The Haunting of Bly Manor adds another to its cast. Plus, what’s to come on Batwoman , Weird Al joins the Scooby gang, and a look at Killjoy ’s next episode. Spoilers, away! Read more...

Market researcher Newzoo expects more than 2.5 billion people to play games in 2019. This is about one-third of the global population. The global gaming market is a $152 billion business in 2019 and should reach $196 billion in 2022. Mobile gaming (smartphone and tablet combined) will produce revenues of $95.4 billion in 2022, growing with a CAGR of +11.3% to account for almost half (49%) of the entire games market. Revenues and growth will be driven predominantly by smartphones, with revenues of $79.7 billion by 2022. The global movie box office in 2018 was $41.1 billion. Global home entertainment

Juvenescence is creating antiaging therapies using artificial intelligence and biotechnology with a near term goal of extending human lifespan to 150 years. They just raised $100 million in a Series B round, including a total of $10 million from its founders and a further $10 million each from four cornerstone investors, including Grok Ventures, the investment company of Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian cofounder), and Michael Spencer’s private investment company, IPGL. This brings the total to $165 Million that Juvenescence has raised in 18 months and speaks to the extraordinary opportunity as well as interest in developing therapeutics with the capacity to

This is the Carnival of Space 626. Here is an archive of all of the past weekly Carnivals of Space. This where space-related blog joined together for weekly summaries of articles from all of the space blogs. Just email an entry to susie@wshcrew.space, and the next host will link to it. 1. At Universe Today they report on the Exomars failing a second parachute test. Next year, the European Space Agency (ESA) will be sending the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet. This mission consists of an ESA-built rover (Rosalind Franklin) and a Russian-led surface science platform (Kazachok) that

Starting tomorrow you can get Amazing Fantasy #15 , Uncanny X-Men #1 , and The Incredible Hulk #181 for $40 each. Now, they’re limited edition posters instead of the actual comics—but for most of us, that’s probably as close as we’ll ever get to owning those legendary issues. Read more...

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The far future is notoriously unknowable, but one thing we can be reasonably certain of is that we will die. Some very rich and imaginative people like to think that this is not the case —which will honestly make it pretty funny when they eat it like the rest of us proles. Read more...

G. Willow Wilson’s current Wonder Woman run has pitted the Amazons against one another and pushed Diana to her psychological limits in ways that have surfaced complicated, human emotions in her. She’s every bit the badass warrior we’ve always known Wonder Woman to be, but Wilson’s spent time trying to dig into the… Read more...

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If The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance , which hits Netflix on Friday, has you in the mood to watch more 1980s fantasy movies about unlikely heroes— preferably with puppets —we’ve got you covered. And if you finish your Dark Crystal binge and want more in the same vein...well, this same list still applies. Read more...