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In Love, Death, and Robots Season 2, Poop Droids Are the Future

Netflix’s wild sci-fi animated anthology Love, Death, and Robots returns next month with tales of post-apocalypses, children in haunted houses, and flying techno-whales. But it’s the AI pooper-scooper in this new trailer for the show that has me the most intrigued. Partially that’s because the trailer does highlight a big dog-turd, which is abducted by…

io9 Rob Bricken

Apple Might Also Launch Its Rumored Subscription Podcast Service Tomorrow

Along with iPads, AirTags, and a whole bunch of other gadgets expected to be announced, Apple might also be gearing up to launch a podcast subscription service at tomorrow’s “Spring Loaded” event. Rumor has it that the service will be called—wait for it—Podcast+. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this rumor. Back in January, the…

Tech News Victoria Song

You’ll Want to Avoid Typos at ALL Costs With this Hand Grenade Keyboard

Ergonomic keyboards designed to make typing more comfortable (and reduce long-term injuries) come in many shapes and sizes, but it’s safe to assume that Reddit contributor dapperrogue’s functional Pineapple keyboard, modeled after a hand grenade, is a design you’re not going to see Logitech or Microsoft adopting anytime soon. The Mk 2 grenade used by…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings‘s First Trailer Promises Martial Arts Galore

Marvel has finally, finally released the first look at its upcoming martial arts epic Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings—and if you were hoping for some stellar kicking and punching action, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. But it’s the family drama that really makes the movie look so compelling. We knew that…

Movies Rob Bricken

Updates from Mortal Kombat, Doctor Strange 2, and More

The original Predator screenwriters are trying to get the rights back from Disney. Get a look at Legends of Tomorrow’s return. Plus, what’s to come on Batwoman and Fear the Walking Dead. Spoilers now! Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness A Zoom call from Benedict Cumberbatch states “he cannot show you [his] face because…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Filling Your Entire Backyard With a Giant K’nex Roller Coaster Beats Waiting in Line at an Amusement Park

The original 2,400-piece K’nex roller coaster is one of the holy grails of ‘90s toys. And for some, it inspired a lifetime obsession with building scale model thrill rides. YouTube’s CoasterWriter has taken the hobby to its extreme, building a backyard-sized K’nex coaster featuring a towering 10-foot tall main drop. When it opened to the…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

Union Moves for Results of Amazon Vote in Alabama to Be Invalidated

A litany of allegations about Amazon’s anti-union offensive today comes from the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). After Amazon workers in Bessemer chose not to unionize by a 1,798 to 738 vote, the RWDSU has accused the company of offering workers an impossible choice: reject the union or lose their job. If the…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

These Are the Best AR Apps You Can Use Outside

Warmer weather is coming, the days are getting longer, and we’re all starting to venture outside more—depending on which hemisphere you live in, and what your local coronavirus restrictions look like, of course. If you’re going to be exploring more of the great outdoors in the coming months, these augmented reality apps give you more…

Gadgets David Nield

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Has Flown on Mars

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter just took its first flight on Mars. It’s the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity completed the flight carrying a small piece of one of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s original aircrafts tucked under its blades, in a nod to the legacy that made this morning’s achievement possible. NASA is hosting…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?

In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying restrictions on human flight, teleportation, endless/consequence-free consumption, etc. As it is VR, it is inescapably VR—you can lose yourself, but only to a point. This has to do partly with the technology’s bulkiness, but also its sensory limitations.…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz

Shanghai Auto Show Disrupted by Protester Shouting ‘Tesla Brakes Fail’

The first day of China’s Shanghai Auto Show was disrupted Monday by a protester jumping on top of a Tesla and shouting “Tesla brakes fail” before being dragged out by security, according to photos and video posted to social media sites. The woman can be seen standing on a Tesla Model 3, apparently without her…

Tech News Matt Novak

UK Launches Digital Currency Task Force to Explore the Future of Money

The Bank of England and the UK’s Treasury have launched a task force to explore the use of a national digital currency, the British government announced in several press releases early Monday as part of April 2021 Fintech Week. The task force, formally known as the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Taskforce, will examine the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Domino’s Has a New Pizza Delivery Robot That Lets You Track Your Order While It Drives It Over

Domino’s, the eager company that’s always looking for new ways to get you its pizza, is at it again. To ensure that you are not without its pizza, the company has dispatched a delivery robot at one of its stores that it says will take the pizza right to customers. Announced earlier this week, the…

Gadgets Jody Serrano

Courteney Cox Will Face Suburban Terrors in Starz Horror Comedy Shining Vale

Seems like Friends actress Courteney Cox has taken a liking to the horror genre as she’s set to star in the horror series Shining Vale for Starz. As one of the mains of the Scream franchise as Gail Weathers, Cox is no stranger to the genre. However, this new show is about possession, not a…

io9 Valerie Complex

Crypto Market Plummets Following Week of Coinbase-fueled Hype

After cryptocurrency prices soared this week amid hype leading up to Coinbase’s direct listing, the market took a nosedive over the weekend. Bitcoin prices tanked by roughly 14% in 24 hours, from $61,530 to $52,829, the token’s biggest one-day drop since February, before rebounding slightly, according to the cryptoasset price-tracking site CoinMarketCap. Prices of other…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

2 Dead After a Tesla Believed to be Driverless Crashes Into a Tree

Two men died after the Tesla they were riding in, which local authorities believe had no one in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree and burst into flames in the north of Houston on Saturday. Authorities said that the Tesla, which was only identified as a 2019 model, was traveling at a high speed…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Are You Still Pissed About How Penny Dreadful Ended?

Showtime’s original Penny Dreadful series—not to be confused with the more recent installment with Natalie Dormer—had a three-season run from 2016-2018. It borrowed its premise from the Alan Moore graphic novel League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, wherein characters from famous English literature serve as protagonists and antagonists. Produced and written by John Logan, the Victorian-set gothic horror…

io9 Valerie Complex

The Batman’s Jim Gordon Is Coming to TV With His Own HBO Max Show

HBO Max is bringing the Batman heat with a spinoff series, Gotham PD, which will focus on police commissioner James “Jim” Gordon. Gotham PD is a prequel to Matt Reeves’ 2022 Batman film, which is itself sort of a prequel since it’s set during the first year of the superhero’s career as a crime fighter.…

Books & Comics Valerie Complex

When Scientists Found a Sponge That Looked Like E.T., They Named It ‘Magnificent Alien’

A few years ago, scientists on the Okeanos Explorer came across a peculiar landscape while examining the deep ocean about 850 miles southwest of Hawai’i. There were a wide variety of sea sponges rising up on their stalks, their bodies turned to face the main current, which carried tiny food particles. The scene inspired one…

Earther Jody Serrano

Horror Mangaka Junji Ito Rates the Internet’s Spookiest Monsters

Master horror mangaka Junji Ito’s most popular books and stories, Uzumaki, Tomie, and The Hanging Balloon, contain some of the most disturbing imagery ever to burrow deep into your brain. Recently, he sat down with manga distributor Viz Media to talk about monsters he didn’t create, but probably inspired, that’ve been seen stalking the internet.…

Books & Comics Valerie Complex

In Love, Death, and Robots Season 2, Poop Droids Are the Future

Apple Might Also Launch Its Rumored Subscription Podcast Service Tomorrow

You’ll Want to Avoid Typos at ALL Costs With this Hand Grenade Keyboard

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings‘s First Trailer Promises Martial Arts Galore

Updates from Mortal Kombat, Doctor Strange 2, and More

Filling Your Entire Backyard With a Giant K’nex Roller Coaster Beats Waiting in Line at an Amusement Park

Union Moves for Results of Amazon Vote in Alabama to Be Invalidated

These Are the Best AR Apps You Can Use Outside

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Has Flown on Mars

Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?

Shanghai Auto Show Disrupted by Protester Shouting ‘Tesla Brakes Fail’

UK Launches Digital Currency Task Force to Explore the Future of Money

Domino’s Has a New Pizza Delivery Robot That Lets You Track Your Order While It Drives It Over

Courteney Cox Will Face Suburban Terrors in Starz Horror Comedy Shining Vale

Crypto Market Plummets Following Week of Coinbase-fueled Hype

2 Dead After a Tesla Believed to be Driverless Crashes Into a Tree

Are You Still Pissed About How Penny Dreadful Ended?

The Batman’s Jim Gordon Is Coming to TV With His Own HBO Max Show

When Scientists Found a Sponge That Looked Like E.T., They Named It ‘Magnificent Alien’

Horror Mangaka Junji Ito Rates the Internet’s Spookiest Monsters

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