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Phones Are So Boring, I Want to Believe This Wild Pixel 3 Theory
Yesterday, Google finally sent out invites for its annual fall product event set for October 9, and even with the preponderance of leaks showing the alleged Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, the announcement instantly reinvigorated speculation about what else Google might have planned for the day.Read more...
Meet One of the Familiar Faces Coming Back for Magic: The Gathering's New Expansion
The next chapter in Magic: The Gathering’s swath of game expansions is returning to the steampunk-ian fan-favorite realm of Ravnica, a land of fancy architecture, intrigue, and equally fancy spellweaving. But it also means some familiar characters are making a return—and io9 has an exclusive look at one of them!
Why Every TV Needs a Soundbar
Soundbars are a relatively new invention. The 5.1 surround sound setup—one left speaker, one center, one right, and two rear—used to be the most popular way to improve your home theater’s audio, and it tended to be pretty expensive. Then, in 1998, Altec-Lansing released the world’s first soundbar and changed the way…Read more...
Man Allegedly Used Fake Facebook Surveys to Solicit Password Clues and Extort Nude Photos From Women
A former NASA contractor has been arrested for allegedly hacking into several women’s Facebook and email accounts in order to obtain intimate photos, and using them as blackmail unless they provided him with additional nude photos. The man, 28-year-old Richard Gregory Bauer, was arrested on Thursday.
I Wish Elon Wouldn't
I’m tired.
Iron FistSeason 2 Is Strong and Has a Finale You Absolutely Must See
You can always tell when a show has undergone significant changes in leadership and artistic direction between seasons because it shifts the overall energy—chi, if you will—flowing through the stories being told. Marvel’s Iron Fist has returned for a second season on Netflix and the influences of its new showrunner…Read more...
The Super-Private Tor Browser Gets a Huge Update, But Should You Switch From Chrome?
Chrome wasn’t the only browser to get a visual overhaul this week, because the privacy-focused Tor Browser was also given a new lick of paint, as well as a host of under-the-hood upgrades, and refinements to make it easier to use for newcomers. There are now more reasons than ever to make Tor your daily browser of…Read more...
Top Apple Mac App Secretly Sends Your Browser History to China, Researcher Finds [Updated]
Adware Doctor is one of the most popular paid apps in the App Store for Macs, and it’s on sale! Unfortunately, you probably don’t want to take advantage of the bargain because new research shows it’s essentially spyware and is periodically transmitting user data to a server in China.Read more...
New Super-High-Resolution Map Shows Antarctica In Unprecedented Detail
We’ve seen a lot of good maps of Earth’s polar regions of late. A map that shows the thickness of the entire Antarctic ice sheet. Another that shows Greenland’s hidden bedrock contours in unprecedented detail. But a new terrain map of Antarctica is still special. It’s not just the highest resolution ever produced for…Read more...
Chris Pine Still Has Hopes for His Star TrekFuture
Kevin Feige wants more female-led Marvel movies. Get a few more looks at Halloween, Venom, and The Predator. Plus, behind the scenes on The Nun, more teases for The Walking Dead’s return, and Netflix asks: Whither Daredevil’s Matt Murdock. Engage, Spoilers!
Friday's Best Deals: Thermapen, Blendtec, a $9 Book Safe, Dolby Atmos, Sharpies, and More
Deals on deck today: A rare discount on Thermapen, a Dolby Atmos HT receiver for just $320, a fake book to hide your secret stash, and a blender that can destroy said stash in an instant.Read more...
Add A More Powerful Alexa To Your Smart Home For $88
If your home still isn’t fully Alexa-enabled yet, you can change that with this smart home-friendly Echo Plus. It has the functionality to all the normal Alexa stuff - play music, make calls, set timers and music alarms, ask questions, check traffic and weather, plus this one has a better Dolby speaker (when compared…Read more...
Here's a Rare Opportunity to Save $20 On the Best Kitchen Thermometer
Summer barbecue season might be drawing to a close, but a good meat thermometer can come in handy all year long, and you can score a rare 20% discount on the best one today.
Lawmakers Urge California's Governor to Sign S.B. 822, Enacting the Nation's Strongest Net Neutrality Law
After securing votes in the California legislature last week, coauthors of the state’s comprehensive net neutrality bill gathered on Thursday in downtown Los Angeles to call on Governor Jerry Brown to back the legislation and reenact strong open internet protections for the state’s 40 million residents.
This Alleged Nokia Leak Has Me Eager for Five-Lens Smartphones
Based on all the recent Pixel 3 leaks, we’ve gotten a pretty clear picture of Google’s next phone. And with Apple’s big fall launch event scheduled for next week, we’ll finally have official details about the rumored iPhone Xs family as well. But today a leaked image appearing to show Nokia’s next phone hit the net,…Read more...
Passengers Aboard Two More Planes Quarantined After Falling Ill
Following a quarantine at JFK airport on Wednesday that found around 100 passengers complaining that they felt ill, two flights into Philadelphia International Airport sparked an investigation by the CDC on Thursday afternoon after passengers reported experiencing flu-like symptoms.Read more...
DeadspinFootball Is Fear | The A.V.
Deadspin Football Is Fear | The A.V. Club Eminem’s bad new album has created a vortex of bad rap beefs | The Root Cops Cuff Black Teen Riding With White Grandmother Because Someone Thought He Was Robbing Her | Jezebel Elle Editor-in-Chief Nina Garcia Defends Emma Stone’s Interview With Jennifer Lawrence | Splinter …Read more...
Google Day Finally Gets an Official Date: October 9
With all the Pixel 3 leaks making their way around the net, we’ve been wondering when Google would finally get around to announcing a date for its annual fall launch event. Well, now we know: It’s going to be on October 9 in New York City.Read more...
Quarantined Passengers on Flight From Dubai Were Sick With the Flu and Common Cold: Officials
The initially mysterious illness that prompted Emirates Airlines Flight 203 to be quarantined upon its arrival to JFK International Airport in New York Wednesday is likely just a bad case of the flu and cold, health officials said Thursday.Read more...
Deteriorating Kepler Space Telescope Refuses to Die
Unwilling to go quietly into that good night, the Kepler Space Telescope is once again gathering scientific data—despite a malfunctioning thruster and painfully low levels of fuel.
Alex Jones Permanently Suspended From Twitter
After weeks of deplatforming efforts by social media companies, Infowars founders Alex Jones has lost his last refuge: Twitter.
British Airways Hack Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Customer Payments
British Airways revealed on Thursday that hackers managed to lurk in its systems for two weeks, exposing around 380,000 card payments.Read more...
Whole Foods Takes First Step Toward Unionizing
The workers of Whole Foods, the health-focused grocery chain purchased by Amazon just over one year ago, are beginning to organize.
We Just Sweated Through the Hottest Summer Nights on Record
The three-month span from June to August is always the worst season. It’s a season of armpit sweat; a time of searching for shade or air conditioning. And if it felt like this summer sucked even more than usual, you’re not imagining it. The summer of 2018's hellacious heat set a new record.Read more...
Burt Reynolds, the Man Who Made Trans-Ams Cool,Is Dead at 82
I think our own Patrick George may have put it best when he said, of his cynicism about attempts at a modern take on the Pontiac Trans-Am made famous by Burt Reynolds in the Smokey and the Bandit movies, “And now I can’t hate on them anymore, because to hate on Burt Reynolds is to be a bad American.” Patrick was right…Read more...
Fake Military Recruitment Websites Seized by FTC for Selling Personal Info to For-Profit Schools
Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it seized nine copycat websites set up to look like U.S. military recruitment pages. The websites, including Army.com and Air-Force.com, encouraged potential recruits to hand over their personal contact information. But that data was then sold to for-profit schools…Read more...
For Some People, Taking Probiotics May Actually Harm Normal Gut Bacteria
A pair of new studies published Thursday are the latest to suggest probiotic supplements might not be as universally useful as their proponents believe.
Bizarre Reaction to Antibiotics Gave Woman ‘Black Hairy Tongue’
While recovering in hospital after a serious car accident, a 55-year-old woman from Missouri began to complain of nausea and a bad taste in her mouth. A subsequent oral examination revealed an alarming sight—the patient’s tongue had turned black and was covered in hair-like structures. But while this rare condition…Read more...
Police Raid Home of Couple Who Raised $400,000 on GoFundMe for Homeless Man
On Thursday, authorities executed a search warrant at the home of a New Jersey couple who raised $400,000 to help a homeless man last year.Read more...
The DJI Mavic 2 Is Our New Favorite Drone
The idea behind the DJI Mavic promises that any adventurer can take professional-grade aerial photography with a compact drone. That’s probably why the company called the original model the Mavic Pro, even though the drone had its shortcomings. With the Mavic 2 series, however, that proposition gets more interesting…Read more...
The Washington Post's Analysis of Star Wars' Toxic Fandom Doesn't Go Deep Enough
This morning, the Washington Post published an article titled “Who hates Star Wars for its newfound diversity? Here are the numbers.” It comes to the perhaps unsurprising conclusion that, as ferocious as it has become lately, the toxic subculture that has developed in Star Wars fandom is a vocal minority. But its…Read more...
The Limited Edition Spider-Man PS4 Pro Bundle Is Back In Stock
If you haven’t had any luck preordering the limited edition Spider-Man Edition PS4 Pro Bundle, swing over to Amazon as quick as you can to get your preorder in. The game and console are both out tomorrow.Read more...
Discovery of Thousands of Unsecured 3D Printers Is a Big Problem
Security experts have identified thousands of instances in which owners of 3D printers have made their devices available online and without the need for authentication. That certainly makes remote access to 3D printers convenient, but wow, what an awful idea given the tremendous potential for abuse.
EU Officially OKs Apple's Shazam Acquisition
After Apple announced plans to acquire Shazam at the end of 2017, the deal was put on hold when the EU launched an antitrust investigation to determine if it would decrease competition between streaming music providers.
This Is The Southernmost Junkyard In The World
This past week, I was on a BMW/Mini-sponsored trip to drive some Mini Clubmans (Clubmen?) down the Panamerican Highway all the way to where it ends, at the Southernmost city in the world, Ushuaia, Argentina. While there, I managed to get a little time to myself to do the only truly worthwhile thing you can do in an…Read more...
iRobot Finally Makes a Roomba That Empties Itself
With the new i7+, it looks like iRobot is taking robot vacuums a step closer to truly being a hands-free way to keep your floors clean. Instead of having to constantly empty the robot’s tiny dirt bin, the i7+ has an oversized dock that transfers dust and debris into a larger reservoir with disposable bags that don’t…Read more...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for Discovering Pulsars
Accomplished astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has won a $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize for her discovery of pulsars 50 years ago and continued leadership in science.
Apparent Faster-Than-Light Motion Helps Solve Mystery of Colliding Neutron Stars
Last year brought a monumental observation of the cosmos: the light and simultaneous gravitational waves from a pair of colliding neutron stars over 130 million light-years from Earth. But mysteries about this event remained—like why the radiation it emitted as x-rays and radio waves gradually brightened for half a…Read more...
The NunIs Full of Ambience But Low on Frights
The sinister sister from The Conjuring 2 was so chilling, she’s back with her very own spin-off prequel. But despite a hardworking cast and a forbidding setting, The Nun proves that the character is way more memorable out of her familiar environment than when she’s on her home turf.Read more...
DOJ Expected to Charge North Korean Spy Over Sony Hack and WannaCry Ransomware
Today the U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce charges against Pak Jin Hyok, an alleged North Korean spy, in the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack. Pak is part of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, a military intelligence group.Read more...
Google Finally Added a Dark Mode to YouTube on Android
Android 9 Pie has been out for a month, and while the addition of things like digital wellness controls and handy app actions have made Google’s mobile OS friendlier to use, I can’t help but think one of Android 9's most glaring omissions is the lack of an OS-wide dark mode.Read more...
National Park Service Doctored Trump Inauguration Photos to Make Crowd Look Bigger: Report
President Trump’s former press secretary, Sean Spicer, famously insisted that the 2017 presidential inauguration crowd was the biggest ever. That, of course, was a lie. But Spicer eventually trotted out the photos to “prove” it. The part we didn’t know at the time? The White House had requested photos from the…Read more...
NASA's New Space Laser Will Track Earth's Vanishing Ice
On September 15, NASA will launch a laser 310 miles above the Earth to scan our planet’s ice sheets like never before, recording changes in the elevation of these frozen landscapes down to the width of a pencil.Read more...
Don't Get Excited About That Truly Bizarre Michael Bay/Thundercats Rumor
Even more names are being added to the potential director list for Bond 25. Black Lightning recruits another DC superhero. Brian Henson offers an update on Netflix’s Dark Crystal series. Plus, more sneak peeks from Deadly Class, a new look at the next season of The Walking Dead, and more. Spoilers now!
Fujifilm's X-T3 Chases Even Better Video While Fixing the Two Biggest Issues About the X-T2
Tired of new mirrorless cameras yet? I hope not, because with today’s launch of the new Fujifilm X-T3 and the possible debut of Panasonic’s first full-frame mirrorless camera later this month, there’s going to be a ton of pixel peeping going on between now and the end of the year.Read more...
mSpy, Which Builds Software to Spy on Phones, Allegedly Leaked Millions of Records
mSpy, a company that sells software designed to let users spy on their children, partners, or anyone else they want to keep their eye on, left exposed more than two million records “including software purchases and iCloud usernames and authentication tokens of devices running mSky,” TechCrunch reported.
Japanese Nuclear Plant on Emergency Power After Quake, But Little Risk of Fukushima-Type Event
A Japanese nuclear power station in Hokkaido is operating on emergency power after the region was hit by a 6.7-magnitude quake in the early hours of Thursday morning, Reuters reported. However, though the event carries unsettling overtones of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, authorities say there is…Read more...
Jack Dorsey Woos Irate Republicans by Calmly Explaining Twitter Is Indeed Fucked Up
At hearing before the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addressed politicians’ concerns about harassment and abuse, the impact of propaganda on American elections, and, to a much lesser extent than had been expected, the unfounded allegations that Twitter is silencing conservative voices.
Yes, Vanilla Ice Really Was on That Quarantined Flight From Dubai
Earlier today, a flight that had left Dubai in the United Arab Emirates landed at JFK International Airport in New York with 549 passengers and crew on board—and was promptly quarantined due to a mysterious ailment spreading throughout the cabin. In the neighborhood of 100 people on board showed symptoms including…Read more...
Zombies, Christmas, and Musicals Collide in the New Trailer for Anna and the Apocalypse
Nothing says the holiday spirit like a good musical—and the rotting hordes of the undead!
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