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Amazon Should Rethink Its Half-Baked Approach to Health-Tracking

Amazon’s Halo band, the company’s first fitness tracker, drew criticism when it launched because of its two marquee features: body fat scanning and tone analysis. Several reviews— including Gizmodo’s—describing the gadget as creepy and invasive. You might think that would lead Amazon to perhaps rethink its approach to health tech. Instead, Amazon’s doubling down with a…

Commerce Victoria Song

Neill Blomkamp’s Demonic Movie Definitely Has Demons in It, I Guess?

It’s been quite a while since District 9‘s Neill Blomkamp has directed a feature-length film—not since 2015’s poorly received Chappie, in fact. That will change when his new movie Demonic arrives later this summer, a science fiction-horror story that is… kind of incomprehensible, at least in its first trailer? That’s not a judgment call—it certainly…

Trailers Rob Bricken

Facebook Wants Your Thoughts and Prayers

Facebook’s found a new way to capitalize on the thoughts, prayers (and data) from the religious side of its user base. On Thursday, the company confirmed that it’s begun expanding a new feature called “prayer posts” that will let members of particular Facebook groups literally ask for (and offer up) prayers for other folks on…

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky

DOJ to Treat Ransomware Hacks Like Terrorism Now: Here’s the Full Memo

The U.S. Department of Justice plans to take a much harsher approach when pursuing cybercriminals involved in ransomware attacks—and will investigate them using strategies similar to those currently employed against foreign and domestic terrorists. The new internal guidelines, previously reported by Reuters, were passed down to U.S. attorney’s offices throughout the country on Thursday, outlining a…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Donald Trump Jr. Is Now on Cameo, Wishing the Dumb Libs Happy Birthday (NOT)

Donald Trump Jr. has pivoted to the personalized celebrity video app Cameo because, as all relevant people do, he understands that nobody’s time on the internet should be free. You get that money, giiiirl. Filed under the “activist” label but searchable under the “reality TV” category, his price point is $500, on par with Dr.…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Covered in Martian Muck, NASA’s InSight Lander Tries to Tidy Itself Up

The dust piled up everywhere. Pushed around by the Martian winds, it stifled the InSight lander, whose solar panels—the source of its power—have been coated in red grime. Now, NASA has announced a step in the right direction for the sedentary probe: By commanding it to drop dirt on top of the dust, they managed…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Apple Says It Will Make AirTags a Little Less Scary

Apple’s AirTags are effective little Bluetooth trackers, but the thing that makes them work so well—leveraging Apple’s extensive Find My network of devices that are constantly pinging each other—also makes them extremely problematic because you can be tracked without your knowledge in what is essentially real-time. Apple made some effort to prevent stalking when AirTags…

Tech News Caitlin McGarry

George A. Romero’s Wife Suzanne on His Horror Legacy and ‘Lost’ Film The Amusement Park

Zombie movie king George A. Romero passed away in 2017, but his legacy will live on forever in his work—including, now, an early 1970s “lost” film that’s soon debuting on Shudder. To learn more about The Amusement Park, io9 hopped on a video call with Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, the late filmmaker’s wife. The Amusement Park was…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Dildo Drone Interrupts ‘Tough on Crime’ New Mexico Sheriff’s Speech, Chaos Ensues

A New Mexico sheriff running as the tough-on-crime candidate for the mayorship of Albuquerque was buzzed at a campaign event on Tuesday by a small drone with a giant dildo attached to it. Per the Albuquerque Journal, Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales III was speaking at Revel Entertainment, a venue with multiple bars and restaurants,…

Tech News Tom McKay

Countries Invested in Drilling for Oil Unsure About This Not Drilling for Oil Thing

Oil-producing heavyweights like Russia and Saudi Arabia will not go quietly into the night. This week, ministers from those and other countries slammed the latest report from the International Energy Agency calling for all new oil and gas development to stop by next year, using some pretty heated (and funny) rhetoric. The “euphoria” around the…

Energy Molly Taft

The Y: The Last Man TV Show Is Really Happening This Time, And It’s Happening Soon

FX and Hulu just announced a swath of launch dates for series coming to the network later this year, and while there are certainly some surprises among them, the biggest surprise of all? The long-awaited, re-tinkered take on Y: The Last Man is really, truly happening at last. Announced by the network on Twitter, FX…

Television James Whitbrook

Now You Can Mine Crypto From Your Norton Antivirus App

Antivirus apps are best known for running in the background and annoying people with all sorts of pop-ups. But with a new update to Norton 360, Norton’s antivirus app will now let you mine Ethereum, too. First spotted by BleepingComputer, the new Norton Crypto feature is being added to the Norton 360 antivirus app this…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

10% of the World’s Sequoias Burned in a Single Wildfire Last Year

The climate crisis has put sequoias on a dangerous path. A draft report from the National Park Service indicates that 10% of the largest trees in the world were wiped out in last year’s Castle Fire. Sequoias can live for thousands of years. Trees alive today are our connections to deep time. As Christianity rose,…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

The Old QAnon Gang Is Back on the Campaign Trail

Media Matters has released the latest edition of its now-regular QAnon candidates series: the checklist of people running for Congress who also adhere to conspiracy theories that helped motivate a violent insurrection. One has even talked about participating in that event. Some already hold office. Fun with friends from the internet. Out of the 19…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Philips Hue Finally Has a Good App

It took four generations, but the Philips Hue app is finally a delight to use. In a significant update to its iOS and Android apps, which control its expansive lineup of smart lights and bulbs, Hue now has an overhauled interface and better automation engine, plus a few other subtle tweaks that make the entire…

Gadgets Florence Ion

Journey Into the Brutal, Magical World of Debut Fantasy The Wolf and the Woodsman

In Ava Reid’s The Wolf and the Woodsman, a young woman named Évike becomes an outcast in her village because she doesn’t have magic powers (at least, none that she knows of). She’s sent away as a sacrifice, but her fate changes dramatically after she survives a monster attack. Today, io9 has more from Reid’s…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Fujifilm Is the Latest Victim of the Global Ransomware Spree

Fujifilm, the Japanese film company that somehow survived (and then thrived) amidst the digital photography revolution, would appear to be the latest victim in a recent blitz of ransomware attacks. The firm has announced that it’s investigating the “possibility of a ransomware attack,” while noting that it was still working to determine “the extent and…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Black Widow Offers One Last Peek Before the Movie Finally Comes Out

It’s been a long, long time since we got our first look at Marvel’s long, long-awaited Black Widow movie. How long? Well, the first teaser trailer came out on December 2, 2019. But now that it’s currently scheduled to premiere next month, we’ve received one final look before we (hopefully) get to see the dang…

Movies Rob Bricken

Something Wiped Out Nearly All Sharks 19 Million Years Ago, New Research Suggests

Scientists have stumbled upon a previously unknown extinction event that decimated ocean shark populations 19 million years ago. The cause of this sudden die-off, in which global shark populations plummeted by 90%, is a complete mystery. The previously unidentified extinction event, as described in a Science paper published today, was discovered by accident. Elizabeth Sibert,…

Biology George Dvorsky

Amazon’s Ring Will Finally Make Police Requests Public

Amazon’s Ring—a company that is famously pretty chummy with law enforcement—will now require law enforcement officials to make their requests for security footage public, the company said in a blog post published Thursday. Starting next week, any time an officer wants to ask Ring’s customers for any recordings that their cams picked up, they’ll need…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

Amazon Should Rethink Its Half-Baked Approach to Health-Tracking

Neill Blomkamp’s Demonic Movie Definitely Has Demons in It, I Guess?

Facebook Wants Your Thoughts and Prayers

DOJ to Treat Ransomware Hacks Like Terrorism Now: Here’s the Full Memo

Donald Trump Jr. Is Now on Cameo, Wishing the Dumb Libs Happy Birthday (NOT)

Covered in Martian Muck, NASA’s InSight Lander Tries to Tidy Itself Up

Apple Says It Will Make AirTags a Little Less Scary

George A. Romero’s Wife Suzanne on His Horror Legacy and ‘Lost’ Film The Amusement Park

Dildo Drone Interrupts ‘Tough on Crime’ New Mexico Sheriff’s Speech, Chaos Ensues

Countries Invested in Drilling for Oil Unsure About This Not Drilling for Oil Thing

The Y: The Last Man TV Show Is Really Happening This Time, And It’s Happening Soon

Now You Can Mine Crypto From Your Norton Antivirus App

10% of the World’s Sequoias Burned in a Single Wildfire Last Year

The Old QAnon Gang Is Back on the Campaign Trail

Philips Hue Finally Has a Good App

Journey Into the Brutal, Magical World of Debut Fantasy The Wolf and the Woodsman

Fujifilm Is the Latest Victim of the Global Ransomware Spree

Black Widow Offers One Last Peek Before the Movie Finally Comes Out

Something Wiped Out Nearly All Sharks 19 Million Years Ago, New Research Suggests

Amazon’s Ring Will Finally Make Police Requests Public

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