Future Stories

In 2020, The Walking Dead had two pandemics to deal with. The first, of course, was the zombie virus , which has proven to be such a pesky problem for the survivors—and ex-survivors—of the show over the past decade. Then there was covid-19, which the show’s cast and crew have been trying to navigate since last spring… Read more...

Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters” to modernize optical storage. This will allow more data to be stored and for that data to be read at a quicker rate. Rather than using the traditional dots and dashes as commonly used in these technologies, the Purdue innovators encode information in the angular position of tiny antennas, allowing them to store more data per unit area. This technology can also be used for security tagging and cryptography. Above – The proposed anisotropic metasurface from Purdue University innovators has significant potential for high-density optical The post Tripling Optical Storage With New Encoding Approach first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes in a single optical disk. Researchers at USST, RMIT and NUS have overcome the optical diffraction limit by using earth-rich lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles and graphene oxide flakes. This unique material platform enables low-power optical writing nanoscale information bits. The higher density system will use inexpensive continuous-wave lasers. This will have lower operating costs compared to traditional optical writing techniques using expensive and bulky pulsed lasers. Next generation The post Surpassing Optical Limit for 28000 Times Blu-Ray Storage on a 12 Centimeter Disk first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

If there’s anything Zack Snyder is known for it’s breezy and lighthearted takes on classic tales, and this new original clip from Justice League is no exception. Read more...

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We’ve got our first look at the upcoming horror comedy Werewolves Within and it’s got serious whodunnit energy. Read more...

Hamilton is one of the most popular musicals in the world. Animal Crossing is one of the most popular games around right now. I guess it only makes sense that someone would combine them, but I didn’t expect it to be so damn good. Read more...

Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana , now your watch has ended. The Time Traveler’s Wife has a new time traveler and his titular wife. Read more...

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He’s back and he’s two-dimensional. The Terminator universe is expanding into an anime series for Netflix, the first animated TV adaptation of the franchise. Read more...

Multiple authorities have confirmed that commercial airline pilots recently saw, well, something, hurtling through America’s southwestern skies. Read more...

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Danny Elfman thought he had left rock behind. But in an interview with Inverse , he said he picked it up again as a pandemic hobby. And here we are, with a missed connection with an ogre. Read more...

The Bank of America global analyst predicts that China will sustain an average 4.7% annual GDP growth from now to 2035 which will result in a doubling of China’s GDP. Qiao predicts that China’s GDP will pass the US GDP in 2027-2028. China’s GDP is currently 30% less than the USA. China (including HK and Macua) has an exchange rate GDP of $16 trillion while the US has $21 trillion. 2021 is expected to be an economic recovery year for the US and China. The US could have 4-6% GDP growth and China could have 8-9% GDP growth. The US The post Bank of America Qiao Forecasts China Will Double GDP by 2035 first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

This has been a rough week for anyone trying to play games online. Sony’s PlayStation Network began experiencing issues Friday afternoon, and the outage seems to have persisted into the weekend based on the PSN status page . The outage comes just one day after the equivalent service for Sony’s competitor Microsoft, … Read more...

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Red Sonja has been a long, long time coming, but with a very welcome addition, it’s time to get the show on the road. Read more...

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SPN fam, next season of The Boys is for you. Read more...

Editor’s Note : The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down the past, present and future of Black superheroes across comics, film, and tv. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2 . Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of all things good and plastic. This week: Babies! So many babies! Baby Yoda is here, laser babies are here, and, well, what more could you want? Check it out! Read more...

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As promised, DC Comics revealed today Milestone Returns: Infinite Edition’s writers, artists, and covers of the upcoming Static , Hardware , and Icon and Rocket series, as well as a couple of interior pages for each. To put it bluntly, the Dakotaverse is looking completely awesome. Read more...

The X-Files premiered in 1993, gifting America with our first glimpse of a 25-year-old Gillian Anderson playing Special Agent Dana Scully, who was somehow both a medical doctor and an FBI agent at an age just five years older than the fictional Dr. Dougie Howser, boy genius, would have been when his show was canceled… Read more...

Our readers know what’s up. Whenever we ask a question like “What’s the best projector?”, we know we’ll always get a good mix of thoughtful responses and great product recommendations. As expected, we received both this time around, making for a well-rounded and perfect overview of projector life. The most interesting… Read more...

You’re ready for the weekend. We’re ready for the weekend. We are of like minds that the weekend needs to start ASAP. So let’s do this... with gifs. Read more...

Set in the Sinnoh Region of old, Pokémon Legends Arceus is a new approach to open-world Pokémon games coming to the Nintendo Switch in early 2022. Read more...

The Academy Award-winning movie Spirited Away   is being spirited to the stage. A theatrical production of the film is coming next year, written and directed by John Caird, the Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Read more...

WandaVision ’s first season transformed Marvel’s Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). She’s been a newlywed, a mother, and something far more fascinating and complex than all of her other new identities combined. It’s all been in service of its larger overarching story about the Avengers’ least understood hero who will… Read more...

Not since 1923 have scientists gazed upon the Australian cloaked bee. That is, until recently when scientists located a few populations in the wild. But its rediscovery comes as a mixed blessing owing to its potentially threatened status. Read more...

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Man, the young stars of Netflix’s upcoming Pacific Rim anime spin-off The Black just can’t catch a break. They get abandoned by their parents for years in an extremely post-apocalyptic Australia filled with giant, human-hating monsters , and now they have to deal with this jerk? Read more...

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The Grishaverse is alive and alight in the new trailer for Shadow and Bone . Based on Leigh Bardugo ’s bestselling Grisha trilogy and Six of Crows books, Shadow and Bone follows orphan and mapmaker Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li, who will also appear in Edgar Wright’s upcoming Last Night in Soho ) as she discovers the… Read more...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a full week, and the images are starting to pour in. Here are our favorites so far. Read more...

A new Superman movie is finally in the works from a superhuman team of talents. Read more...

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Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services—Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and HBO Max—can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month , most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away—and io9 is here… Read more...

Twenty-five years ago in Red and Blue , freshly-minted Boulder-Badge owning Pokémon trainers would find themselves heading toward the first steps of the rest of their lives drowning in bird Pokémon. Route 3 was filled with them—Pidgeys and Spearows, as far as the tall grass could see—but every once in a while, when the… Read more...

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The Shazam sequel adds to its cast. One of the Titans ’ new antagonists gets a shiny new costume. Plus updates from Doctor Who , The Falcon and the Winter Soldier , Superman & Lois , and more. Friday spoilers dropping in 3...2...1... Read more...

The Mandalorian season two  may be over , but the desire to take Grogu (aka  darling of the internet Baby Yoda ) and turn him into merchandise will continue for a good while yet. Read more...

In Los Espookys —an HBO comedy from Fred Armisen , Julio Torres, and Ana Fabrega—a group of horror movie-obsessed friends come to the realization that all the time they spend waiting around for life to happen could be better used turning their passion for jump scares into money-making opportunities. Read more...

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Here is a completely normal and totally not-nefarious thing that is happening: Scientists from the Pentagon sent a solar panel about the size of a pizza box up to space to test if it’s possible to send extraterrestrial electricity back to Earth. Read more...

Don’t panic if you haven’t heard of it before. “In the Lost Lands” is only a short story George R.R. Martin published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine back in 1985, but that isn’t stopping Hollywood from turning it into a new fantasy movie, courtesy of Guardians of the Galaxy ’s Dave Bautista and longtime cinema… Read more...

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There are a lot of things to love about Disney+ and Marvel’s WandaVision , but the top of the list has to be Kathryn Hahn as Agnes . The actor/national treasure has been stealing WandaVision ’s shows-within-a-show long before last week’s not-so-secret reveal about who her character has been “all along.” Every time she’s… Read more...

Large meat-eating dinosaurs took on the role of multiple species while growing up, resulting in a shocking lack of ecological diversity during the Mesozoic, according to new research. Read more...

Have you been binging the classic Muppet Show now that it’s available on Disney+ ? Instant mood boost! In celebration of the beloved series’ arrival on Disney’s streaming platform, io9 hopped on a video call to talk to the Great Gonzo himself—in the form of his veteran performer, Dave Goelz. Read more...

Hasbro ’s G.I. Joe realm is quite obviously male-dominated, but there’s one team member who’s equally fierce whether she’s glamorously undercover in an evening gown or in full-on battle mode: Lady Jaye, who’ll soon get the spotlight in her own Amazon series. Read more...

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