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Now You Can Filter Your Liked Spotify Jams by Mood

Finally, you can sort the music in your Liked Songs playlist on Spotify. Hitting play on the Liked Songs playlist in Spotify has always been a bit of a crapshoot for me—I never know whether I’ll get Steely Dan or Phoebe Bridgers or Ginuwine’s “Pony.” If this sounds like you (maybe sans “Pony” but that’s…

Internet Catie Keck

Marissa Meyer Reveals Her Next Book Cover, Gilded, and Discusses Her Return to Fairy Tales

Author Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles, Heartless) is soon returning to the realm of fairy-tale retelling—her next book, the Rumpelstiltskin-inspired Gilded, arrives in November. Today, io9 has an exclusive look at the gorgeous cover, as well as some insights from the author about her latest fantasy creation. “I’ve always known that I would eventually come back to…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Human Remains Unearthed Where Colonial Williamsburg’s First Black Church Once Stood

Despite the amount of history that sits atop its soil, plenty of stories remain buried below Colonial Williamsburg. One of those stories is that of the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, an early Black church that stood until the 1950s on the historic site, on which excavations began last fall. Now, archaeologists have found human…

Human History Isaac Schultz

Russian Engineers Supersized a Dragonfly With This Over-the-Top Flapping Wing Plane

If even the tiniest bit of turbulence during a flight has you reaching for the barf bag, then you’ll never want to climb aboard this Russian contraption that uses flapping wings to take flight. But it demonstrates that Mother Nature’s designs can be supersized to one day revolutionize air travel. This isn’t the first time…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Lord of the Rings and Warhammer 40,000 Are Coming to Magic: The Gathering [Updated]

Wizards of the Coast’s venerable card game series has had some peculiar crossovers over the years. But things are only going to get weirder and more wonderful with an expansion of its latest crossover into a true Magic multiverse that would make even the most seasoned planeswalker’s head spin: Lord of the Rings and Warhammer…

Games James Whitbrook

Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Ready to Test Out Their Vaccine Updates Against Covid-19 Variants

The arms race between the coronavirus and humanity continues to pick up steam. This week, Moderna announced that its modified vaccine meant to target a worrying variant first found in South Africa is now ready for testing. Pfizer/BioNTech is also set to test out their own contingency plan for new variants soon. The variant discovered in…

Health Ed Cara

Stopping Carbon Pollution by 2050 Would Add $1 Trillion to the Economy

According to the best available climate science, the U.S. needs to completely zero out its carbon pollution by 2050 to secure a livable future. A new analysis from the nonprofit Energy Innovation lays out a plan to get there, which also would just happen to add a cool $1 trillion dollars to the national economy.…

Earther Dharna Noor

A New Transformers Show About ‘Found Family’ Is Coming to Nickelodeon [Updated]

We love a found family story around these parts—especially if the family also happens to be giant robots that can turn into trucks. Hasbro has announced a new partnership between its Entertainment One studio and Nickelodeon to release a brand new Transformers animated series. Unlike the recent fare like Netflix’s War for Cybertron trilogy—which has…

io9 James Whitbrook

Google’s Live Caption Tool Is Now Available as a Hidden Feature in Chrome

Live Captions is one of the most useful features on Android phones, allowing your mobile device to automatically transcribe any audio it’s currently playing. And now it seems Google is bringing Live Captions to Chrome, with the feature already available as a hidden option in the browser. First noticed by Chrome Story, Live Caption can…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

This Japanese Crowdsourced Map Puts Loud Neighbors on Blast

The hardest part about house hunting in a city is figuring out whether your realtor is telling you the truth about how quiet a prospective neighborhood is. It would be nice if, say, there was a website that could tell you exactly which areas are noisy. Which is exactly what the Japanese website DQN Today…

Tech News Victoria Song

The Problem With Zoom Adding Free Captions After Getting Called Out

As a journalist and content writer, I often have to go on Zoom calls every day with clients and interview sources who request to use this platform. I am also hard-of-hearing, which makes following what people say on calls tiring, due to listening fatigue. Automated captions help me do my job. It is difficult to…

Tech News Julia Métraux

Pixar’s Luca Trailer Gives Us Something Fishy

Pixar dropped the first trailer for its newest film, Luca, which looks sunnier than most of the studio’s fare.

Trailers Rob Bricken

Don’t Count on Star Trek‘s Section 31 Show Happening Any Time Soon

Halle Berry is heading to Netflix for a new sci-fi mystery. Wesley Snipes hopes his next project blows Blade out of the water. The Halo show is jumping ships to Paramount+. Additionally, Kevin Feige offers a vague hope about bringing Marvel-Netflix characters to Disney+, and what’s next on Riverdale. To me, my Spoilers! Mothership Collider…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Nerf Shrunk Its Balls for a New Line of More Powerful Blasters You’ll Rarely Have to Reload

The least enjoyable part of a friendly Nerf battle isn’t getting hit, it’s constantly having to stop to reload your blaster. The inconvenience improved with Nerf’s Rival line, which debuted in 2015, but for 2021 the company is introducing a new Hyper line of blasters that fire smaller foam balls so you’ll be spending even…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead Teaser Invites You to Roll the Dice in the Apocalypse

In the first teaser trailer for Zack Snyder’s upcoming Army of the Dead, little’s explained about how whatever contagion that’s caused a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas first made it out into the public, other than that it isn’t long before most of the city’s population is turned into a legion of the undead. Scott…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Is Fine, but Seriously, Just Splurge on the 3060 Ti

I know, I know, it’s hard to be excited about new graphics cards when there’s a chip shortage and scalpers and crypto miners are snatching up all the stock before regular ol’ consumers can buy ‘em. I know. Waiting sucks, especially when new GPUs keep cropping up. But while that money is burning a hole…

Gaming Joanna Nelius

How Your Phone Works Behind-the-Scenes Magic to Take the Best Possible Photo

Smartphones have come a long way toward becoming the best cameras we carry. A long journey through megapixels, multiple lenses, optical zoom, image stabilization, and various other upgrades has gotten us to today’s handsets, but today, much of the work in capturing a great photo is happening on the software side. Phone cameras can take…

Gadgets David Nield

Facebook Finally Bans Myanmar Military After Feb. 1 Coup

Facebook finally banned the military in Myanmar, known as Tatmadaw, from the social media platform several weeks after the military staged a coup that toppled the democratically elected government. The ban on the country’s military includes Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. “Events since the February 1 coup, including deadly violence, have precipitated a need…

Social Media Matt Novak

Solar Opposites‘ Season 2 Trailer Reminds Us Why We Love Those Raunchy Aliens

Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan's animated comedy returns to Hulu on March 26.

Television Cheryl Eddy

GameStop’s Doing a Thing Again

GameStop, little diva that she is, is in the spotlight once more after shares of the company skyrocketed more than 100% on Wednesday. In the last 30 minutes of the day’s trading, the American video game retailer’s shares were up by a whopping 103.9% — a shocking rally that resulted in trading on the company’s…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Now You Can Filter Your Liked Spotify Jams by Mood

Marissa Meyer Reveals Her Next Book Cover, Gilded, and Discusses Her Return to Fairy Tales

Human Remains Unearthed Where Colonial Williamsburg’s First Black Church Once Stood

Russian Engineers Supersized a Dragonfly With This Over-the-Top Flapping Wing Plane

Lord of the Rings and Warhammer 40,000 Are Coming to Magic: The Gathering [Updated]

Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Ready to Test Out Their Vaccine Updates Against Covid-19 Variants

Stopping Carbon Pollution by 2050 Would Add $1 Trillion to the Economy

A New Transformers Show About ‘Found Family’ Is Coming to Nickelodeon [Updated]

Google’s Live Caption Tool Is Now Available as a Hidden Feature in Chrome

This Japanese Crowdsourced Map Puts Loud Neighbors on Blast

The Problem With Zoom Adding Free Captions After Getting Called Out

Pixar’s Luca Trailer Gives Us Something Fishy

Don’t Count on Star Trek‘s Section 31 Show Happening Any Time Soon

Nerf Shrunk Its Balls for a New Line of More Powerful Blasters You’ll Rarely Have to Reload

Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead Teaser Invites You to Roll the Dice in the Apocalypse

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Is Fine, but Seriously, Just Splurge on the 3060 Ti

How Your Phone Works Behind-the-Scenes Magic to Take the Best Possible Photo

Facebook Finally Bans Myanmar Military After Feb. 1 Coup

Solar Opposites‘ Season 2 Trailer Reminds Us Why We Love Those Raunchy Aliens

GameStop’s Doing a Thing Again

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