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Ikea and Sonos are back at it with another speaker that doubles as furniture. This time around, the companies are refreshing their Symfonisk table lamp speaker, and thank god it doesn’t look as hideous as the last one. In addition to better aesthetics, the table lamp also has upgraded its hardware for better sound.Read more...

One of the best reasons to choose Apple or Google’s wireless earbuds is that you can use either company’s always-listening voice assistants to control your music playback, without ever having to touch anything. Other wireless earbuds require you to tap a button first to make Siri or Google Assistant pay attention,…Read more...

Alibaba, China’s largest online retailer, will stop selling cryptocurrency mining machines, according to an announcement published online Monday. The ban comes after the Chinese government made its own sweeping announcement on Friday banning all cryptocurrency trading in the country.

An American cryptocurrency researcher has admitted to violating U.S. law by attending a blockchain conference in North Korea in 2019, where he gave advice on how to elude U.S. sanctions.Read more...

Hell, it’s not like the first film kept it subtle anyway, but ever since we’ve had a glimpse into it, Venom: Let There Be Carnage has not stopped leaning into Tom Hardy’s dual role as Eddie Brock and the Venom Symbiote, to the point of the pair being described as a couple, odd or otherwise.

We knew it was in the works, and now it’s confirmed: Amazon Studios’ subversive superhero hit The Boys will be getting its (perhaps inevitable, given the towering popularity of The Boys) first spin-off. It’ll take place in a college setting and star Jaz Sinclair of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, among others.

We’re just a few months away from the arrival of the live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation on Netflix, but while we wait for November 19, the streaming service gave us a glimpse of the show’s faithful take on the anime’s opening title sequence. It also happened to be our first look at a veritable who’s who of characters…Read more...

TikTok is joining the ol’ 1 billion user club, with the ByteDance-owned video platform reporting on Monday that it now officially has as many active monthly users.Read more...

Cryptocurrency mining is a wildly energy-intensive endeavor that doesn’t only pump out more carbon emissions than some small countries, but is quickly racking up a small mountain range’s worth of electronic waste.Read more...

Your regular sessions playing Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition leaving you bored? Get ready to shake things up a little, and a lot. Not only will the game’s rules get expanded next year, but the RPG will have a bigger—and more mysterious—transformation in two years.

Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets—the world’s two largest bodies of ice—are melting at an alarming rate, causing major problems for local ecosystems and coastal communities alike. Now, in yet more evidence that the climate crisis is changing everything in bizarre and profound ways, new research suggests that…Read more...

Meet the social media sensation that is taking the world of crypto trading by storm: his name is “Mr. Goxx” and he is a hamster from Germany. You can stream his trades on Twitch.Read more...

An exhaustive analysis of the controversial Vinland Map has shown it to be a 20th-century forgery.

Just weeks after releasing a 180-gigabyte treasure trove of data from the far-right’s preferred domain registrar and web host, the non-profit journalist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) has uploaded a cache of data that was allegedly pilfered from the far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers group.Read more...

The droids of Star Wars have always been weird. While many are subservient robots that do nothing but perform their programmed functions, some, like R2-D2 and Solo’s L3-37, clearly have free will. They, along with many other droids including C-3PO and BB-8, also have emotions—they feel fear, loss, happiness, and more.…Read more...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope keeps an eye on Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a 10,000-mile-wide storm system that has been swirling for at least 190 years and possibly much longer. Recent data from the telescope indicates that the spot’s outer winds have picked up speed in the past decade.

No one can deny that Google Stadia has had an incredibly rocky start, and Google’s cloud gaming service is still struggling to find its footing. But a new feature will give users more options when it comes to how they can play, which might make casual gamers give Stadia a chance. Maybe.

One of the worst things about modern gadgets is you don’t always get to decide what happens to a device you own when the company discontinues it. But there’s good news for Oculus Go owners, at least—Facebook is unlocking the bootloader for the device and giving users full root access.Read more...

The month before a massive federal civil trial is set to begin over the horrifying “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, one of the deadly rally’s main architects has a different priority: logging off and playing video games.

Everything old is new again—Russell T. Davies is going to be running Doctor Who again for the first time in over a decade. He’ll make his return in 2023, replacing just the second showrunner to replace him since the series returned in 2005.

For much of my smartphone-owning adulthood, I was an iPhone “S” year upgrader, due almost entirely to my relationship with my cell carrier. My first iPhone was a 3GS, which I got for peanuts with my Cingular contract. (Yes, Cingular.) I was eligible to upgrade to a new phone every other year, at which point I would…Read more...

If the first four episodes of Y: The Last Man had you thinking “Wow, this show is a little slow,” you were right. Showrunner Eliza Clark and her team very much took their time setting up this complex world, with its huge roster of characters faced with global stakes. However, with the fifth episode, “Mann Hunt,” those…Read more...

It’s time for one of the most beloved sci-fi classics of the ‘90s to come back—and the man behind it the first time around is back for more.

New research this week puts the enormous loss of life caused by the covid-19 pandemic into greater context. The study of 29 countries across Europe and North and South America found that nearly all experienced a reduction in life expectancy last year, while some countries had the largest drops seen since World War II.Read more...

Instagram is hitting the brakes on its plans to develop a version of its flagship platform for kids under 13, company head Adam Mosseri announced on Monday. The news comes in the wake of a damning report from the Wall Street Journal that detailed how the Facebook-owned company was fully aware of the platform’s…Read more...

The country of Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, will seek a ruling from the International Court of Justice to push forward action on climate change.Read more...

From illustrator and cartoonist Koren Shadmi (The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television) comes graphic biography Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula, an exploration of the screen legend’s life in the same rich, black-and-white tones that shaded his most famous on-screen performance. As the…Read more...

The first all-private mission to space was interrupted by an alarm linked to the Crew Dragon’s waste management system, requiring a composed response from the four space tourists.

Have you been watching Foundation? Apple TV+ dropped the first two episodes of the Isaac Asimov adaptation last week, and so far a lot has happened. For actor Alfred Enoch, who plays Raych Seldon, episode two, “Preparing to Live,” was particularly monumental. io9 got a chance to speak to the Harry Potter and How to…Read more...

The iPad Mini 6 is arguably the most interesting new device Apple released this month, but unfortunately, now it seems some new iPad Minis are suffering from an issue that causes its screen to look wobbly when scrolling.Read more...

A volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma has been erupting for more than a week. Over the weekend, it began spewing out lava and smoke with renewed fervor.Read more...

After a year of waiting, Wear OS 2 users are finally getting the YouTube Music app. The move, while overdue, is part of Google’s continuing efforts to make Wear OS 2 better while we wait for Wear OS 3 to roll out to non-Samsung Galaxy 4 smartwatches.Read more...

A contract dispute between YouTube TV and NBC Universal could result in the Peacock Network dropping 14 of its channels from the streaming TV provider by September 30, both services warned on Sunday, which would leave the platform’s more than 3 million subscribers without access to programming like Sunday Night…Read more...

It’s impressive that in just 15 years modern smartphones have already advanced to the point where they can bend and fold to more easily squeeze into a pocket. But the evolution of flexible displays is far from over, and Samsung has recently demonstrated an OLED that can stretch like it’s made from rubber.Read more...

On the surface, two Star Wars characters that have no reason to be mashed up are Ahsoka Tano and C-3PO. One is a Togruta, the other is a droid. One is from The Clone Wars cartoon, the other is from the live-action movies. One is gold plated, the other is orange. But, since they were both sort of brought to life by…Read more...

The new Salem’s Lot adds a Game of Thrones star. The CW teases what’s next on Supergirl, Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, and more. Plus, a sneaky glimpse at the supporting cast of Cowboy Bebop, and Yorick has danger to face in new Y: The Last Man footage. Spoilers, away!

The Nintendo Switch has never been the most cutting-edge console on the market. But after seeing the impact of what a handful of calculated upgrades has done for the new OLED Switch, it feels like Nintendo has finally created the hybrid console I wanted from the start.Read more...

Apple hasn’t yet released the next-gen Apple Watch Series 7, but the latest annual software upgrade for Apple Watches just landed. The watchOS 8 update, which is available to install right now for Apple Watch Series 3 and later, brings some cool new features that make your old Apple Watch feel instantly upgraded.…Read more...

Ben Garrison, a right-wing cartoonist known for his opposition to vaccines and his extremely flattering drawings of former President Donald Trump, told Gizmodo late Sunday that he contracted covid-19 and has been sick for about two weeks. But allegedly getting covid hasn’t changed Garrison’s mind about modern medical…Read more...

If you’re tired trying to unlock your iPhone 13 with your Apple Watch only to fail miserably, don’t worry: You are not alone.Read more...

AMC’s The Walking Dead, as a rule, isn’t the sort of series that provides a lot of belly laughs. There might be some chuckles during some of its weirdness or the occasional put-down, but mostly it wants to convey the danger and dread that permeates the world of the show. I assume that was also the case with tonight’s…Read more...

The star-studded new film Don’t Look Up has a wild, completely unbelievable premise. Something totally out of the scope of reality. A plot that would never, ever, in a million years happen. It’s about a world where scientists have proof something terrible is happening...and no one believes them. Pfft. Yeah, like that…Read more...

The much-anticipated prequel series to the beyond-popular League of Legends multiplayer battle arena game is nigh! As part of its fun but miserably named Tudum event, Netflix has released an all-new trailer for Arcane, the animated TV series which will chronicle the origins of fan-favorite Champions Jinx and Vi—and…Read more...

How was Netflix going to put an exclamation point on its three-hour barrage of weekend news called Tudum? How about the ultimate news dump for one of its biggest, most popular fantasy adaptations: The Witcher?

We haven’t traveled that monster-strewn valley of plenty with Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) since December 2019—which feels like 10 years ago—but Netflix has been hard at work keeping The Witcher hype going. Finally, today we have a new look thanks to the Tudum event.

We’ve seen what happens when a group of highly trained soldiers try to rob a Las Vegas casino that’s been overrun with zombies. It didn’t go well. Now we’ll see what happens when a group of thieves try to rob banks on the other side of the world from that zombie infestation.Read more...

There are perhaps few anime openings quite so burned into a fandom’s collective psyche as Cowboy Bebop’s “Tank!”. The stylish silhouetted animation has been the subject of homage and parody for decades, but it’s the rhythmic, hypnotic brass and bass of Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts’ banger of a theme that has convinced…Read more...

It’s how The Karate Kid ended. It’s how The Karate Kid Part III ended. It’s even how Cobra Kai season one ended. The All Valley Karate Championship is back in Cobra Kai season four and all the action hits the mat December 31.

Though we’ve seen a few glimpses of Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman and heard all about the show’s interesting casting, the streaming service has been careful not to reveal its takes on the Endless, the family of anthropomorphic beings at the center of the story. That is, until today’s…Read more...