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Robert Altman, who co-founded Bethesda parent company Zenimax and was the company’s chairman and CEO, has died, Bethesda announced today.

When the covid-19 pandemic began shutting the world down in late 2019 and early 2020, there was an early run on household supplies, followed by shortages of gadgets like webcams and laptops. Toilet paper is now readily available, but major hardware companies like Qualcomm, AMD, and Sony warn that chip shortages will…Read more...

In the Federalist Papers in 1788, Alexander Hamilton forecast a grim future for former presidents stymied by term limits. Would they, now robbed of their presidential prospects, still be incentivized to “undertake extensive and arduous enterprises for the public benefit, requiring considerable time to mature and…Read more...

I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention — I won’t blame you for being too fatigued to care — but a whole lot of news dropped about the Apple Car over the past few days. And if you’ve already found whatever interest you had waning, buckle up, friend. The rumors are only going to flow faster and faster from here on…Read more...

Ming-Chi Kuo hath spoken again. The Apple prognosticator is now saying it’s increasingly likely that the iPhone 13 will feature an upgraded ultrawide camera with “significantly improved” low-light performance.Read more...

As wearable devices like smartwatches become more sophisticated, with sensors that can do everything from detecting atrial fibrillation to measuring blood oxygen levels, smartphones have been left in the dust. And yet phones are far more ubiquitous, which is why Google has developed two new health-tracking features…Read more...

Prior to last month, the last time Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House was the early Obama years. And one of the signature failures of that period was a 2009 bill that would’ve created a national cap and trade program but ultimately never came to a vote in the Senate (it squeaked by in the…Read more...

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Once a staple of train stations and airports around the world, animated flipboard signs, perpetually updated with arrival and departure times, have slowly been replaced with giant TV screens. Nostalgia’s a powerful marketing tool, however, so there’s now a smart flipboard display designed to fill your home with those …Read more...

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John Carpenter is hyped for Halloween Kills. The CW announces a ton of renewals, including the return of The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Plus, get a look at Riverdale’s flash-forward, and what’s coming on Nancy Drew. Spoilers, away!

We’re all guilty of lusting over top-of-the-line gadgets despite the fact that a cheaper one will usually do. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the Vizio M-Series 5.1 M51a-H6 soundbar. It’s a good, solid option that supports Dolby Atmos and DTS:X for a not-so-ridiculous price. Still, it’s hard to feel hype about…Read more...

Myanmar’s new government has ordered internet providers in the country to block Facebook in an attempt to quell dissent following a successful military coup earlier this week, according to internet-monitoring service NetBlocks and internet company Telenor Myanmar.

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.”

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...

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...

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...

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...

Owners of some older Apple TVs will soon have to rely on AirPlay if they want to watch YouTube content on their devices.

Congratulations: If you are a Proud Boy, you’re now persona non grata in Canada.Read more...

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...

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...

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–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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

The Android TV experience is getting an upgrade.

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.

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...

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.

Will he let you see it, though? Absolutely not.

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...

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.

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...

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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...

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.

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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.

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 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.

My months-long tooth pain has finally let up, and it was a night guard that saved the day.

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...

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...

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!

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...