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Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke with Automotive News Publisher Jason Stein in the first of a three-part interview. Elon said that today car factories have a speed of 0.2 meters per second. Walking is five times faster than the speed of an auto assembly line. Elon wants to be able massively speed up car factories. Elon talked about * Tesla having four profitable quarters. * in the near future, all cars will become autonomous (full self-driving) * Tesla will have a sustainable advantage against autonomous car makers with better manufacturing If you optimized every cubic meter of the factory, then

What can we say? We love starships around these parts . And thankfully, this new Star Wars video is very, very heavy on the starships . Read more...

In 2013, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and a handful of other Doctor Who stars teamed up to produce one of the silliest outings Who has ever seen—“ The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot ,” a half-hour parody short about the classic Doctors trying to get in on all the action of the modern-day juggernaut that the show has become.… Read more...

Tesla Berlin Gigafactory has modular walls and many pillars built. This is three months faster than the first walls being put up at the Shanghai Gigafactory. If Tesla builds Gigafactory Berlin at the same speed as Shanghai then there will be vehicles delivered April-July 2021. If Tesla builds Gigafactory Berlin three months faster than Tesla Shanghai then there will be vehicles delivered Jan 2021. If Tesla builds Gigafactory Berlin six months faster than Tesla Shanghai then there will be vehicles delivered October 2021. To match pace with Tesla Giga Shanghai, the Tesla Berlin Grünheide site would have to see the

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The novel coronavirus pandemic’s effects have already been felt far and wide, in comic book publishing and sales , the gaming industry , Hollywood, and beyond . But it’s also, of course, affecting people on an individual level. To that end, io9 decided to talk to some folks about what the covid-19 pandemic has done to… Read more...

Sandy Munro has done ultra-detailed teardowns and reverse-engineering of Telsa cars. He describes how the thermal management used in the Tesla Model Y is vastly superior to other carmakers. This enables Tesla to have superior range. CEO Rahul Sonnad of Tesloop is using Tesla cars to take passengers to Las Vegas. They have Tesla cars that have been driven over 750,000 miles. Sandy thinks that battery day news will likely reveal new battery technology. This could be the Maxwell drycell technology or something solid-state. Elon said Tesla is open to supply software (autopilot), powertrain and batteries to other automakers. If

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Director Bryan Singer became a name in Hollywood after The Usual Suspects but shot to fame after taking on the X-Men franchise. Years later, and after years of rumors of Singer allegedly sexually abusing a number of young men, a damning Atlantic report was released in which four men detailed their personal experiences… Read more...

Pablo is a chatty cat. When he’s not sleeping, he’s either yowling or meowing in a way that sounds suspiciously like Borat saying “my wife.” He does this regardless of whether it’s 2 p.m. or 4 a.m. He has a lot to say. Read more...

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! News reporter Gale Weathers, played by Courteney Cox, is coming back for Scream 5 . Read more...

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Other solar system could have as many as seven Earth-like planets, when those solar systems do not have a gas giant planet like Jupiter. The team created a model system in which they simulated planets of various sizes orbiting their stars. An algorithm accounted for gravitational forces and helped test how the planets interacted with each other over millions of years. They found it is possible for some stars to support as many as seven, and that a star like our sun could potentially support six planets with liquid water. Jupiter has a mass two-and-a-half times that of all the

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True to this agonizing year that is 2020, yesterday’s launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover was not without problems. Read more...

Apple is trading at a market valuation of $1.78 trillion. Saudi Aramco has been the most valuable public company since their IPO. They are valued at $1.77 trillion. Apple reported its strongest quarter. They had $59.7 billion in quarterly revenue and double-digit (11%) growth in its products and services segments. Apple announced it plans to give investors three additional shares of Apple per share already owned at the end of August as part of a 4-1 stock split. Revenue was up nearly 11% year over year, and every major product line saw year-over-year growth. Services were up 14.85% from the

Crunchyroll’s latest foray into original anime has only just kicked off, but we’ve already seen some wild fight scenes . If this clip from the next episode of The God of High School is anything to go by, Jin is in for even more scraps, and we’re in for more fisticuff treats. Read more...

When Ahsoka Tano faces Darth Vader in Star Wars Rebels , there is a moment when the Dark Lord growls to his former apprentice “Anakin Skywalker was weak, and I destroyed him .” But for all his confidence there, Marvel Comics is telling a much longer, more tragic tale of how Darth Vader pushed aside his former self. Read more...

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It’s almost August ? Time sure passes at a weird rate when you don’t ever leave the house. Fortunately, there’s a tidal wave of new sci-fi and fantasy books on the way, ready to sweep you away into fantastical kingdoms, adventures across the multiverse , space battles, and at least one zombie apocalypse . Read more...

The Federal Communications Commission gave Amazon the go-ahead Thursday for its ambitious Project Kuiper, which would put 3,236 broadband satellites into orbit to beam internet coverage down to Earth. With this regulatory milestone secured, Amazon’s posed to join SpaceX in the race to be the first… Read more...

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Robert Downey Jr’s Sweet Tooth adaptation nabs an X-Men alum. Could there be two Judges Dredd? Plus, updates on The Hunger Games prequel movie , talking dolls have way too much to do these days, and the Doom Patrol gets ready for a big face-off. Read more...

You’ve heard of the wolfman , but what about the dogwoman? No, that’s not catchy enough. How about... Nightbitch ? Read more...

Remember found footage horror ? As 2020 continues to take its toll on traditional filmmaking, movies like Host aren’t wasting any time on sparking a new wave of DIY creation. It’s about a group of friends who meet up over Zoom for a séance—a fun little distraction during quarantine. Right? WRONG! Read more...

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One of the more interesting questions still left about Josh Boone’s The New Mutants is when exactly the movie’s meant to take place within the larger picture of Fox’s X-Men cinematic universe. Unlike the last few films in the franchise that were all clearly set in distinct decades, The New Mutants is difficult to get… Read more...

If you’re having trouble feeling connected to the smart speaker that’s emotionlessly listening in on every word you say, there is, of course, a Star Wars-themed product for that. This time around it’s a stand for your Amazon Echo Dot that makes it look like the adorable Child from The Mandalorian . Read more...

Though Doom Patrol ’s second season has already placed its heroes smack dab in the middle of yet another apocalypse-in-progress , the series has been careful to give each of its characters moments of some much-needed levity. It reminds us all that they’re still a bunch of oddballs with the sort of  perfectly pedestrian,… Read more...

Do you have information about something going on in the genre (sci-fi, horror, fantasy) entertainment industry? We want to know! Email us at tips@io9.com —not just with info, but if you’ve made art or a cool fan film that you’d like us to showcase, or anything else, you can send that too! Don’t forget you can follow… Read more...

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Next week, Star Trek: Lower Decks kicks off , giving us a whole show in the canon dedicated to the most unsung Starfleet officers of all: the Ensigns. The bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young officers just starting off their careers are the stalwarts of any good Trek . So before they get their moment in... some kind of… Read more...

I’ve been thankful in quarantine that you can find Errol Morris’s documentaries on streaming services, not only because I think about Donald Rumsfeld’s bonkers word salad weekly, but also because Stephen Hawking grappling with the concept of origins helped put things into perspective. A few days ago, Morris quietly… Read more...

A new AI algorithm developed by the University of Pittsburgh has achieved the highest accuracy to date in identifying prostate cancer, with 98% sensitivity and 97% specificity.

George Church (biotech genius with over two dozen companies several with multi-billion valuation) says he has not stepped outside of his house in five months. He believes the vaccine designed by Estep, his former graduate student at Harvard and one of his protégés, is extremely safe. “I think we are at much bigger risk from covid considering how many ways you can get it, and how highly variable the consequences are,” he says. The US Centers for Disease Control recently reported that as many as one-third of patients who test positive for covid-19 but are never hospitalized battle symptoms for

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By centering a plot in which its main characters are transported into the past, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy is joining the ranks of other sci-fi series where Black characters are forced to deal with the overt, public examples of anti-Black racism and violence that define both America’s history and its present . Read more...

Are you a frontline worker dealing with new stresses or irresponsible management? Is working (or not working) from home starting to take a psychological toll? How are you coping with reopening? Submit a story using   this Google form or send me an email with the subject line “My Covid Story” and … Read more...

US real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 5.0 percent. The US economy shrank 9.5% in the second quarter. The decrease in real GDP reflected decreases in personal consumption expenditures (PCE), exports, private inventory investment, nonresidential fixed investment, residential fixed investment, and state and local government spending that were partly offset by an increase in federal government spending. Current‑dollar GDP decreased 34.3 percent, or $2.15 trillion, in the second

Ren & Stimpy is one of the most influential animated shows of the past several decades, but the man who created has been accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior toward underage girls. In the first trailer for Happy Happy Joy Joy , we see that the documentary creators aren’t going to gloss over John… Read more...

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It’s almost surreal to go back and remember when Game of Thrones was the best show on television. It was the topic of every water cooler conversation and jumpstarted a new era in fantasy television. Nowadays, its legacy is marred by how the series ended but there are plenty of TV shows to bring that spark back. Read more...

Legend holds that there are seasons and locations where the spiritual veil is thinnest, a passage for restless spirits to cross into the mortal realm. Because we can’t visit Stonehenge on Midsummer’s Eve, the next best thing for homebound seekers is TikTok, where witches rule, and thousands flock in search of an… Read more...

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Though we’re still a ways out from the premiere of Pixar’s next movie Soul , the studio’s already hard at work on its next animated feature Luca , a sun-drenched, summertime adventure inspired by director Enrico Casarosa’s childhood. Read more...

Octavia Spencer and Riz Ahmed team up for a new sci-fi thriller at Amazon. Whenever Black Widow shows up in theaters, it’ll have a good chunk of IMAX footage. HBO teases what’s to come on Lovecraft Country . Plus, Matt Bomer on where Doom Patrol is headed, and what’s next on Agents of SHIELD . To me, my spoilers! Read more...

One of the few bright spots in this god-forsaken year is the new Netflix film, The Old Guard . Director Gina Prince Bythewood’s adaptation of the Image Comic by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández provides the kind of emotional, exciting, superhero escape fans crave during the summer months. Read more...

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Summer, to me, has always been synonymous with the summer movie season. I wasn’t into sports growing up, so baseball and the NBA playoffs weren’t my jam. I also wasn’t the outdoorsiest kid so, you know, it’s not like I was rushing to go on hikes or find stuff to do outside. No, for me, summer movies were always the… Read more...

Google has over 1 billion installed voice assistants while Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana and Baidu DeurOS have about 400-500 million installed assistants. Apple Siri is mainly used with iPhone. This is according to Techcrunch. Google also leads with 500 million monthly active users and is followed by Apple with 375 million active users. Other data sources have global smart speaker sales roughly equal between Amazon, Google and then Alibaba, Baidu and Xiaomi are about two thirds the quarterly sales volume. Voice Search and Voice shopping are becoming major ways to interact with search and commerce. Voice and conversational AI will

With Javicia Leslie set to lead Batwoman following Ruby Rose’s sudden departure , the series’ second season is in a rather interesting position to bring something fresh to the CW’s pantheon of superhero TV shows . Read more...

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British aerospace and space travel company Virgin Galactic today revealed the cabin interior of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle – VSS Unity.

Though the 35th anniversary of Back to the Future was earlier this month, the celebration continues into the fall. That’s when a brand new anniversary Blu-ray set is be released and news of it helped opened a door to a very appropriate alternate timeline. Read more...

The origin of the largest stones used to build Stonehenge has been a matter of considerable debate for centuries, but a new chemical analysis of these boulders may have finally settled the issue once and for all. Read more...

The first trailer for Umbrella Academy ’s second season made it abundantly clear that the Netflix series is pivoting into a markedly different direction than the Dark Horse comics series it’s based on. Where the initial comic arc left Vanya (Ellen Page in the series) quite incapacitated thanks to a gunshot, the TV show… Read more...

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier isn’t coming out next month. The CW’s DC shows won’t be back until next year . As the coronavirus pandemic continues onwards, studios have had to reckon with what shooting a superhero show in the age of social distancing even looks like. But we actually already have an example. Read more...

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The Hollywood reckoning is happening all over town and this time, we’re visiting Riverdale —the series airing on The CW, that is. Read more...

Insecure creator Issa Rae and Us director Jordan Peele are teaming up to head Universal Pictures’ thriller Sinkhole , about a family who discovers the sinkhole in their backyard can repair anything—or, quite possibly, anyone. Read more...

Streaming is more important than ever. As huge numbers of people stay home during the global pandemic, many have turned to the plethora of services for a much-needed escape. At the start of each month , most streaming services do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and  io9 is here to help with… Read more...

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