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WandaVision‘s VFX Team on How Working From Home Brought Unexpected Balance

Like many of WandaVision’s secrets, the true meaning of the show’s era-specific production values, aesthetics, and practical effects only became clear towards the series finale which properly ushered the Scarlet Witch into the MCU. The story behind some of WandaVision’s use of visual effects goes even deeper than that, though. When io9 sat down to…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Sonos Is Doubling Down on HiFi Streaming

After launching a paid high-resolution radio tier late last year, Sonos is bolstering its HiFi streaming capabilities by partnering with Qobuz, making it the first streaming service to deliver 24-bit/48kHz audio on Sonos’ platform. Starting today, Sonos users can stream HiFi audio via Qobuz—provided they have a subscription. If you’ve never heard of Qobuz, that…

Tech News Victoria Song

Sony’s New 360 Reality Audio Speaker Sounds So Damn Good, but It’ll Cost You

Sometimes, a Bluetooth-enabled speaker is really all you need. But the nice part about having a speaker with wifi capabilities, too, is being able to simply tell your smart assistant what to play without having to fiddle too much with the speaker itself. It helps when that speaker also delivers exquisite audio the way it’s…

Catie Keck

Slack Is About to Become a Nightmare [Update: Slack Backtracks]

Back in October, Slack announced it would be intro’ing a product that would allow any paid user—at any organization—to directly message each other across the platform. On Wednesday, the company made good on that promise by opening Slack Connect DMs for anyone currently paying for their Slack subscription. According to Slack’s announcement about the new…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

In Netflix’s Stowaway, Survival Comes at a Steep Price

There are no xenomorphs dripping acid in Netflix’s upcoming movie Stowaway starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, and Toni Collette. There’s no insane computer, no deadly microbes, and no need to use your poop to grow potatoes. All it takes is one unlucky extra person on your shuttle to be faced with a nightmare. Stowaway’s premise…

Trailers Rob Bricken

Stuck Suez Canal Boat Raised Oil Prices, Because That’s Oil Folks

The most relatable meme of 2021 thus far is a stuck boat. On Tuesday, the Ever Given, an enormous shipping container boat, somehow managed to wedge itself horizontally inside the Suez Canal, effectively cutting everyone else off from passing through. As of Wednesday morning, the 1,312-foot-long (400-meter-long) ship was partially freed, but not before it…

Earther Molly Taft

Photo: Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service

Montana’s Governor Killed a Yellowstone Wolf

The governor of Montana killed a gray wolf in violation of state hunting laws, according to documents obtained by the Mountain West News Bureau. Dude just got into office in January, and now he’s got a warning from state wildlife officials. Incredible start to a new term! Here’s what happened: On February 15, Republican Gov.…

Earther Dharna Noor

When Clubhouse Runs Out of Money

Clubhouse is prodigious. At just over a year old, the exclusive, invite-only app still doesn’t have a proper website or even an app on more than a single operating system. What it lacks in usability, though, the app store chart-topper makes up in celebrity cachet, millions of users, and access to a seemingly endless spigot…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

See a Black Hole’s Magnetic Fields in New Image From the Event Horizon Telescope

In April 2019, the world was spellbound, if only for a moment, by an ominous void encircled by a half-halo of light. It was the first direct image of a black hole; more specifically, a supermassive gravitational abyss at the core of Messier 87, a galaxy in the constellation Virgo some 54 million light-years from…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Updates From Godzilla vs. Kong, Superman & Lois, and More

Danny Trejo is heading to Wolf Mountain. The new Chucky show has tapped a familiar Curse of Chucky star. Peacock’s take of Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam has recruited the Battlestar reboot’s producer. Plus, what’s next on The Flash and Riverdale. To me, my spoilers! Wolf Mountain Deadline reports Danny Trejo has just wrapped filming Wolf Mountain,…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The Intense, Lobster-Fueled Fight Over America’s First Floating Wind Farm

There’s a rumble brewing out in the ocean, and it could forecast some troubles ahead for renewable energy. It involves some of Maine’s small fishermen, a high-profile wind project in the state, and an aggressive showdown with a research vessel earlier this week. On Sunday, local Maine outlets reported that a slew of fishing boats…

Earther Molly Taft

Moment’s MagSafe Tripod Mounts Might Single-Handedly Justify Buying an iPhone 12

When Apple revealed the iPhone 12 lineup, the company pitched its new MagSafe feature as a way to fix one of the many flaws of wireless charging. What I instead saw with MagSafe was a solution to another smartphone problem I’ve had for years: attaching the phone to a tripod. Moment is the first to…

Reviews Andrew Liszewski

How to Automate Every Task on Windows or macOS

Time is something that most of us want more of, and one way to reclaim some of the minutes in the day is enlist your computer to automatically take care of repetitive tasks like renaming files, resizing images, and launching apps. With the right software, this is doable, and we’re going to introduce you to…

Gadgets David Nield

Elon Musk Says Tesla Now Accepting Bitcoin in U.S.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, announced in a tweet on Wednesday that the electric car company will now accept payments in the form of the cryptocurrency bitcoin. Bitcoin’s price surged roughly 3% in the hour after the tweet. “You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin,” Musk tweeted early Wednesday morning. Musk explained in…

Tech News Matt Novak

Scientists Cook Hot Dogs in Lava From Iceland’s Erupting Volcano

Scientists on-site at Iceland’s erupting volcano near the capitol city of Reykjavik cooked up some hot dogs on Sunday. What were these scientists studying with such a wacky experiment? The lava dogs weren’t part of their experiments, sadly enough. The scientists were just hungry. Video of the cookout was captured by the scientists and published…

Science Matt Novak

The Dark Crystal Will Return…as a Ballet

If you’re like us, the sting of Netflix not renewingThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance still hurts. For a show to be so magical, so unforgettable, and for it to end so unceremoniously was truly a disappointment. It seems, though, that Thra, Gelflings, and Skeksis will continue on, just in a very unexpected way. For…

Movies Germain Lussier

Rick and Morty‘s Justin Roiland Has Yet Another Animated Series in the Works

With a second season of Solar Opposites arriving on Hulu later this week—and more Rick and Morty eventually!—Justin Roiland, one of animation’s busiest talents, has just announced involvement in another new series: Koala Man, which will join Solar Opposites as part of Hulu’s adult animation slate. Koala Man, a production of Disney Television Studios’ 20th…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Parler’s Ex-CEO Sues, Claims He Was Told His Shares Were Only Worth Three Buckaroos

Parler, the pro-Donald Trump social media site that’s served as a sort of all-you-can-eat buffet for brain worms in the past few years, is being sued by its own co-founder and ex-CEO. Following the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, which was partially organized on Parler’s violent death threat-laden site, Amazon Web Services booted Parler…

Tech News Tom McKay

Robinhood Has Privately Filed to Go Public

Commission-free stock trading app Robinhood said that it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday, apparently ready to capitalize on all of the positive buzz surrounding democratized finance. After Bloomberg first reported the news, Robinhood confirmed in a statement that it had submitted its filing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A person…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

A Cyberattack Allegedly Knocked Insurance Giant CNA Offline

CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance providers in the U.S., is currently experiencing widespread network disruptions. The company’s website isn’t working, nor can its phone lines be reached. Employee services have been down for at least 48 hours, said a source close to the company. Sources suggest that the firm has been hit with…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

WandaVision‘s VFX Team on How Working From Home Brought Unexpected Balance

Sonos Is Doubling Down on HiFi Streaming

Sony’s New 360 Reality Audio Speaker Sounds So Damn Good, but It’ll Cost You

Slack Is About to Become a Nightmare [Update: Slack Backtracks]

In Netflix’s Stowaway, Survival Comes at a Steep Price

Stuck Suez Canal Boat Raised Oil Prices, Because That’s Oil Folks

Montana’s Governor Killed a Yellowstone Wolf

When Clubhouse Runs Out of Money

See a Black Hole’s Magnetic Fields in New Image From the Event Horizon Telescope

Updates From Godzilla vs. Kong, Superman & Lois, and More

The Intense, Lobster-Fueled Fight Over America’s First Floating Wind Farm

Moment’s MagSafe Tripod Mounts Might Single-Handedly Justify Buying an iPhone 12

How to Automate Every Task on Windows or macOS

Elon Musk Says Tesla Now Accepting Bitcoin in U.S.

Scientists Cook Hot Dogs in Lava From Iceland’s Erupting Volcano

The Dark Crystal Will Return…as a Ballet

Rick and Morty‘s Justin Roiland Has Yet Another Animated Series in the Works

Parler’s Ex-CEO Sues, Claims He Was Told His Shares Were Only Worth Three Buckaroos

Robinhood Has Privately Filed to Go Public

A Cyberattack Allegedly Knocked Insurance Giant CNA Offline

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