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To paraphrase psych-rockers Spacemen 3, 42-year-old rapper Danny Brown loves taking drugs to make music about taking drugs. However, his compulsion collapsed into addiction after lockdown and a painful breakup, and Brown went into rehab to get sober. Quaranta (Italian for 40) was recorded in the maw of his illness yet it’s a hard stare in the mirror, something Brown’s always been brilliant at. “This rap shit done saved my life and fucked it up at the same time” is its opening salvo, with plenty of pithy but bleak shots to…

In 2020, astronomers discovered an intriguing planet. Dubbed LTT9779 b, the planet was found 260 light-years from Earth, orbiting extremely close to its star. However, there was one really striking feature – the planet’s albedo (how much light it reflects) was extremely high, especially given how close the planet was to its host star. So how did this mirror planet come to be? We may finally know. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out…

Early last year, Portsmouth-born, Canada-raised 19-year-old Lauren Spencer Smith scored a TikTok-assisted global hit with Fingers Crossed, a musically delicate, lyrically damning takedown of a useless ex with a serious case of daddy issues. Its success led to comparisons with Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo, specifically the latter’s Driver’s License, both songs favouring precise, diaristic songwriting that feels immediately relatable.Fingers Crossed forms the template for much of Spencer Smith’s debut album. Never Been…

Black Mirror is going to have to stick around for many more decades before it even gets within spitting distance of The Simpsons for eerily predicting future events. But the speed with which Holywood life imitated Black Mirror art was lightning quick this time. Think back to the bygone days of mid-June 2023. Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi satire anthology was back with its sixth season, which opened with an episode titled “Joan Is Awful.” Annie Murphy played the title character, a tech company middle manager dismayed…

The shiniest exoplanet ever found in our galaxy has clouds made of glass and titanium.It's called LTT-9779b, located some 263 light-years away, and it's so shiny that it's almost a mirror, reflecting a jaw-dropping 80 percent of the light from its host star. That's shinier than Venus, known for its high brightness which reflects around three quarters of the light that falls on it.And that's not all. The Neptune-sized world is scorchingly hot, with temperatures that reach 2,100 Kelvin (1,827 degrees Celsius, or 3,320…

ESA’s Cheops mission has discovered an ultra-hot exoplanet, LTT9779 b, with an albedo (reflectivity) of 80%, making it the shiniest exoplanet ever found. These measurements exceeded those of Venus, which has an albedo of 75%, and Earth’s 30% albedo. The heightened reflectivity of LTT9779 b is due to its metallic cloud cover, primarily composed of silicate and metals like titanium.ESA’s Cheops mission has found LTT9779 b, the shiniest known <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt"…

Europe's Cheops Space Telescope has discovered a scorching hot exoplanet where metal clouds and rain drops of titanium are making it the most reflective planet ever seen outside our solar system. The planet is located 260 light years away from Earth which reflects 80 percent of the light from its host star.Astronomers believe that the exoplanet can match Venus' shininess and planet LTT9779 b which was found earlier in 2020 and orbits its star in just 19 hours. About the newly discovered exoplanetAccording to ESA. the…

A scorching hot world where metal clouds rain drops of titanium is the most reflective planet ever observed outside of our Solar System, astronomers said on Monday.This strange world, which is more than 260 light years from Earth, reflects 80 percent of the light from its host star, according to new observations from Europe's exoplanet-probing Cheops space telescope.That makes it the first exoplanet comparably shiny as Venus, which is the brightest object in our night sky other than the Moon.First discovered in 2020, the…

Modern smart TVs have come a long way and have all kinds of built-in abilities to deliver everything from our favorite streaming services and YouTube videos to video games, video conferencing, and even web browsing our big, bright TVs. But with the millions of other things that our phones and tablets can do — photos and videos and apps abound — sometimes you just need to share it all on a big TV screen for everyone to see. How can you mirror from a phone or tablet to a TV, you ask? If you have the right gear, it's…

Nightbreed (1990) Official TrailerLeave it to Clive Barker, whose Pinhead—terrifying, yes, but so wry and witty—almost made this list, to dream up grotesque demons who lurk beneath a graveyard but also happen to be folks you’d want to party with, or at the very least help them protect their particular way of life from the encroaching stain of humanity.Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to…