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Elon Musk Returns to Twitter After 46-Hour Hiatus, Causes Dogecoin Price to Soar
Elon Musk made a triumphant return to Twitter overnight, following his announcement early Tuesday that he’d be leaving the social media platform for “a while.”
The SolarWinds Hack Just Keeps Getting More Wild
Now the Chinese are involved. That’s one of the newest allegations to emerge in the SolarWinds scandal, the supply chain “cyber Pearl Harbor” that seems to have enveloped the entire U.S. government, as well as the private sector.Read more...
Amazon Announces Totally Not Alarming Plan to Install Surveillance Cameras in Every Delivery Vehicle
Not content to only wield its creepy surveillance infrastructure against warehouse workers and employees considering unionization, Amazon is reportedly gearing up to install perpetually-on cameras inside its fleet of delivery vehicles as well.Read more...
Wow, Comcast Actually Did Something
Comcast will hold off on charging its customers in the Northeast for going over their data caps until July 2021, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro announced today. This covers customers in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, New York,…Read more...
Parler CEO John Matze Says He's Been Canned by the Company's Board
In an internal memo to staffers on Wednesday, Parler CEO John Matze announced that he has been effectively terminated by the company’s board following public outcry over the platform’s role in inciting a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.Read more...
Some Older Apple TVs Are Losing the YouTube App Next Month
Owners of some older Apple TVs will soon have to rely on AirPlay if they want to watch YouTube content on their devices.
Canada Slaps Proud Boys With Terrorist Designation
Congratulations: If you are a Proud Boy, you’re now persona non grata in Canada.Read more...
Texas Accidentally Posts Amber Alerts for Chucky, the Killer Doll, and His Creepy Eunuch Son
The Texas Department of Public Safety is blaming “a test malfunction” after it sent out an Amber Alert on Jan. 29 urging the public to be on the lookout not for a missing child but Chucky, the killer doll from the Child’s Play series.Read more...
After 69 Years, Chemists Finally Get a Good Look at Einsteinium
First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy element einsteinium is one of the shier members of the Periodic Table; it doesn’t naturally occur and is so unstable that it’s difficult to get enough of the stuff, for long enough, to actually study it.Read more...
Instagram, Honey, Please Stop Copying TikTok
Every day, my best friend DMs me Instagram Reels of a bunch of things: cute puppies, bizarre skincare hacks, and random funny videos. The problem is I’ve seen all of them before. On TikTok.Read more...
Robinhood Made a Super Bowl Ad. It Sucks!
Robinhood–the company that’s currently being grilled by the likes of Elon Musk, Elizabeth Warren and others over its role in the so-called “Gamestonks” controversy–has decided to plow ahead with its first ever Super Bowl ad campaign, CNBC reports.Read more...
What Five Years of #Vanlife Taught Me About Social Media
Once upon a time, back in 2015, I started writing a series for Gizmodo called Connected States. I had effectively just blown up my life and moved into a van for what I thought would be a one-year experiment. The series was ostensibly about documenting the way technology connects us all, and using tech to meet new…Read more...
Remember Steve Bannon? Manhattan’s Attorney General Definitely Does
Blood-filled wineskin and former White House political adviser Steve Bannon narrowly escaped possible federal prison time for his role in a scammy GoFundMe campaign to build a wall on the border with Mexico, courtesy of a last-minute pardon from ex-President Donald Trump. But that won’t help him in New York, where the…Read more...
Waiting to Address Climate Change Will Cost Trillions of Dollars
There’s really no good reason to wait to tackle the climate crisis, but especially when it comes to money. A new report offers yet more proof that the longer we wait, the higher that cost will be.Read more...
Iranian Chat App Gets Its Data Wiped Out in a Cyberattack
A startup in Iran recently suffered a large data breach in which millions of its user records were exposed to the internet and then subsequently destroyed by a cyberattack involving a bot. The disruption appears to be part of an ongoing trend in which bad actors surf the web looking for insecure databases, then pounce…Read more...
The Pink Cloud Is a Beautiful Pandemic Nightmare About What's Lurking Inside
The lengths that Iuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud goes to in order to show you parallels between its fictional story about quarantining and the countless tales of real people living through our ongoing covid-19 pandemic may strike you as excessive. It could also be seen as the movie’s attempt to tap into our reality just…Read more...
I Miss Experimenting With My Grandparents' Old Sony Handycam
It’s hard to miss a gadget the size of a shoebox when the smartphone in my pocket outperforms it in every way possible. But I miss my grandparents’ ‘90s-era Sony Handycam and the fun videography experiments my siblings and I concocted in an effort to avoid being pushed out the door to play outside.Read more...
Android TV Is Getting a Big Update With a New Discovery Page
The Android TV experience is getting an upgrade.
TikTok Is Adding a Potential Misinformation Warning Label to Save Us From Ourselves
Like all social media companies, misinformation has tested TikTok, and sometimes TikTok has failed. Its latest attempt to move the needle is implementing warning labels on potential misinformation that hasn’t been verified by independent fact-checkers.
Plant-Based Ice Cream Taste Test: What Comes Closest to the Real Thing?
The plant-based food revolution is in full swing. There are now plant-based chicken nuggets, plant-based eggs, and countless meat and dairy-free alternatives, and many of them taste really good. And after we tested out Trader Joe’s plant-based burgers, a new vegan ice cream from a company called Eclipse caught our…Read more...
Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Mummy Reveals Unusual Mud Ritual
The discovery of a hardened mud carapace wrapped around a 3,200-year-old mummy has brought a previously unknown ancient Egyptian burial practice to light.
George R.R. Martin Promises He Got a Lot of Winds of Winter Written in Quarantine
Will he let you see it, though? Absolutely not.
Devialet's Got Some New, Expensive Speakers That Promise to Be Way Better Than Its Old, Expensive Speakers
The first time I heard audio through a Devialet Phantom speaker, I thought the sound waves were going to melt my eyeballs out of their sockets. And then I heard the speaker’s $2,000 price tag, and instead they melted out of my ears. Devialet is announcing an updated version of the Phantom—the Phantom I—with some new…Read more...
The Empire State Building Runs on the Wind Now
One of the most iconic buildings in the world is running on clean electricity. On Wednesday, the company that owns the Empire State Building announced it had inked a deal to meet the electricity needs of not just that building but its entire portfolio with wind power.
Apple-Inspired Swiss Watch Now Includes a Mechanical Spinning Loading Wheel
As smartwatches continue to nibble away at the market share of traditional mechanical timepieces, Swiss watchmaker H. Moser & Cie is sticking with the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach with the latest version of its Apple-inspired Swiss Alp Watch that now even includes a mechanical spinning loading icon.Read more...
Get Your Hands on This Lenovo Tablet for $30 off on Newegg
Lenovo Smart Tab M10 | $200 | NeweggRead more...
We'll Finally See Huawei's Next Foldable Phone This Month
Amid a massive sales slump and rumors about selling off its consumer phone business, it seems Huawei has decided to forge ahead with the release of its super premium second-gen foldable phone later this monthRead more...
The Arctic Ocean Was Once Filled With Fresh Water, New Research Suggests
Stunning new evidence suggests the Arctic Ocean was covered by a thick layer of ice and filled with fresh water on at least two occasions during the past 150,000 years. The observation could finally explain strange and dramatic climate anomalies associated with these glacial periods.
Get These Completely Cursed, Buff Pokémon Statues for $30, Coward
Bulbasaur Bodybuilding Statue | $30 | Amazon
Under a White Sky Asks if We Can Fix Nature—or if We Even Should
In her 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert explored how humanity has driven scores of species to extinction. In her new follow-up, Under a White Sky, the journalist seeks solutions to the havoc we’ve wrought.
More Good Vaccine News: Early Data Suggests AstraZeneca Shot Can Lower Transmission Risk
New research suggests that the covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will not only offer protection against the symptoms of the viral illness but also lower a person’s risk of transmitting the virus to others. Though scientists have been optimistic that this and other covid-19 vaccines would…Read more...
The Mandalorian and Lovecraft Country Nominated for Best TV Series at the Golden Globes
The Golden Globe award nominees were announced this morning, and although it’s been a pretty quiet year for entertainment in general, as an io9 reader, there are still a few choices that should pique your interest—especially since Baby Yoda and Cthulhu are finally getting the Hollywood recognition they’ve deserved.
Remi Saved Me From a Bad Toothache and Another Trip to the Dentist, Too
My months-long tooth pain has finally let up, and it was a night guard that saved the day.
Think You Have It Bad? Try Living in Perth, Australia, Right Now
It’s looking apocalyptic Down Under. Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes in the state of Western Australia this week as wildfires tore through an area close to the city of Perth, right as the city began a strict lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.Read more...
I Think We Can All Agree That a Hacked Apple-Themed Game Boy Is the Best Apple TV Remote
There’s no discourse more toxic in the tech community than opinions on Apple’s attempts to redesign the TV remote. There are those that love the latest iteration, and there are those that correctly believe it’s bad. It seemed it would be impossible for everyone to find common ground until this customized Apple-themed…Read more...
Updates From Obi-Wan Kenobi, House of the Dragon, and More
M. Night Shyamalan offers a teeny tease of his next movie. The DCAU heads to World War II for a new Justice Society film. Idris and Sabrina Elba are partnering with Crunchyroll for a new Afrofuturist anime. Plus, what’s to come on Batwoman. Spoilers, away!
Scientists Are Looking Beyond Antibiotics to Stop the Drug-Resistant Bacteria Crisis
As the world continues to work toward defeating a pandemic caused by a virus, another type of pathogen is increasingly becoming a major threat. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been a growing problem for years due to the overuse of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, as well as “poor infection prevention and…Read more...
Days Blurring Together? Add Structure with These Apps
The ongoing pandemic makes days blur into each other—they are no longer differentiated by the events and activities that helped split up our time. If you want to recover some of the structure in your day, then these smartphone apps can help in a variety of different ways.
Why Are People in Myanmar Doing the Hunger Games Three-Finger Salute?
Medical staff at Yangon General Hospital in Myanmar posed for a group photo on Wednesday, raising three fingers in a salute of resistance after Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of the country, was ousted in a military coup on Monday.Read more...
We're Just Out Here 3D-Printing Meat Now, I Guess
If you can 3D-print a gun... if you can 3D-print a home... then brother, you might as well pull up a chair and 3D-print yourself some meat while you’re at it, because these masses aren’t going to feed themselves.
17th-Century England Had Some Seriously Horrible Weather
Recent years have brought record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters supercharged by climate change. But even to our jaded modern eyes, the weather that befell Bristol in Western England at the turn of 17th century is pretty shocking.
2021's First Big Ransomware Gang Launches Sleek and Bigoted 'Leak' Site
Every year sees a number of new ransomware gangs emerge and take a swing at becoming the most prolific operators in the digital underworld. Well, 2021 officially has its first new high-profile ransomware operation and they are definitely assholes.Read more...
If Comcast Can Increase the Speed of Its Internet Plans, It Can Get Rid of Data Caps
Comcast is increasing the speed of its Internet Essentials package from 25/3 Mbps to 50/5 Mbps starting March 1, 2020 at no additional cost. The change is part of what the ISP says is a long-term commitment to digital equity, and that offering low-income households speeds above the FCC-defined minimum will help to…Read more...
Google Fined $3.8 Million in Settlement Over Alleged Hiring and Pay Discrimination
After a drawn-out battle, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has finally settled with Google, which will now pay out or set aside $3.8 million to remedy allegations it discriminated against over 5,000 woman and Asian engineers. Over $2.5 million of that will go directly to…Read more...
Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon's CEO
On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos told employees—and the world—that he’s planning on stepping down from his CEO role at Amazon, 27 years after first founding the company.Read more...
Tesla Recalls 135,000 Model S and Model X Vehicles Over Faulty Flash Memory
Electric car giant Tesla has issued a recall for some 135,000 vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal, due to failing touchscreen panels.
Terry Goodkind's Posthumous Release Features a Most Unusual Demand for Surrender
Fantasy author Terry Goodkind passed away in September, but he left behind a long legacy of books, including the Sword of Truth series. Today io9 is excited to share an excerpt from The Children of D’Hara, a posthumous release collecting five of his serial novels that continue the story of the Sword of Truth.
How Fandom Destroyed and Protected Me
If you love something to the point of unhealthy obsession, it feels like there’s only one place you can really go. The internet.
Disney+ Now Lets You Bundle Ad-Free Hulu
Disney’s streaming service now supports bundling with ESPN+ and the ad-free version of sister service Hulu.
How to Ensure the Federal Government Doesn't Try to Muzzle Science Again
The climate denier is out of the White House, and the scientific community is beginning to take stock of—and clean up—the mess left behind.Read more...
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