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OnePlus Joins Forces with Oppo and Realme for Research and Development

One of the longest-running jokes in the smartphone industry is that anytime Oppo puts out a new phone, OnePlus will release something very similar a few months later. But now, the two companies along with Realme are making that kind of cooperation official by merging parts of their research and development. In a statement given…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

The U.S. Approves Permit for the ‘Proving Ground for the Future of Wave Energy’

The Trump administration ended with a series of last-minuteenvironmental rollbacks. But the day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s Department of the Interior also, bizarrely, snuck in what could be a big win for renewable energy. On Monday, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Management finalized a lease for Oregon State University’s PacWave South center…

Energy Dharna Noor

Otter Will Now Mercifully Transcribe Your Google Meet Calls

Otter’s eliminated one more step for actually remembering who said what during Google Meet calls. The company today announced a new Chrome extension for Google Meet to caption and transcribe meetings in real-time, similarly to how it already does for Zoom. Now, Google Meet users can skip the nuisance of having to feed an audio…

Tech News Catie Keck

The Walking Dead Extended Season 10 Trailer Sets Up a Quest for Revenge

Glenn and Maggie’s child wants to know about the man who killed his father? Oh no. That can’t be good. That revelation is just one moment in the short but jam-packed new trailer for the extended 10th season of The Walking Dead, which debuts on AMC February 28. The season initially ended back in October,…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Intel and Nvidia Are Probably Not Colluding to Keep AMD Out of Gaming Laptops

If you’ve visited the AMD subreddit, the Linus Tech Tips forums, or elsewhere over the last several months, you might have come across a conspiracy theory that Intel and Nvidia struck a secret deal with one another to keep higher-end GPUs out of AMD Ryzen 4000-series laptops. If you looked at the slate of AMD…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished

NASA’s Mobile Launcher Platform-2—a structure involved in the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions—is in the process of being torn down. Incredibly, the space agency is ridding itself of the massive platform to make room for parking spaces, as collectSpace reports. In a matter of weeks, Mobile Launcher-2, or MLP-2, will be no more. Built more…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Next Big Animated Movie Just Jumped Ship to Netflix

The production duo behind Into the Spider-Verse and The Lego Movie’s new animated movie is all about tech gone wild—and in this uncertain world of pandemic movie distribution, it’s now getting a suitably wild release shakeup of its own. This morning Netflix announced that The Mitchells vs. the Machines (previously known as Connected), directed by…

Movies James Whitbrook

Turn Your Apple TV Into a Nintendo-ish Console That Can’t Actually Play Any Nintendo Games

The Apple TV might be shiny, black, and sleek, but it’s also kind of boring. If you’re unimpressed by its design, you can either hide it behind a TV or wrap it in this fun silicone case from Elago that turns the streaming box into a retro console reminiscent of the Super Famicom—minus any fun…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Mystery of the ‘Sean Parker’-Backed Trump Pardon Just Gets Weirder

For his almost-final act in office, President Trump issued pardons to more than a hundred people. bBig names like Steve Bannon and Lil Wayne soaked up a lot of the attention. But one of the strangest cases from the pardon list is only getting stranger. Robert Zangrillo, an investor and developer, was one of the…

Politics Rhett Jones

Personalized Skin Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in New Trial Results

The future of cancer treatment might involve personalized vaccines meant to manage or even prevent relapses—at least if new research published Thursday continues to pan out. In a small clinical trial, high-risk melanoma patients given such a vaccine were able to create a long term, durable immune response to their cancer, scientists said. They also…

Health Ed Cara

Apple Reportedly Making a VR Headset Few Will Actually Buy

It’s an open secret that Apple is working on some kind of augmented reality or virtual reality headset. Some, have been so bold as to predict sleek Steve Jobs-style smart glasses as soon as summer 2021. But now Bloomberg is reporting that before we get smart glasses, Apple is attempting a niche VR headset that…

Tech News Victoria Song

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Your Guide to 2021’s Biggest TV, Part 3

If you made it through our two other big television preview lists, congratulations—there’s one more to go: all the streaming TV you will never possibly be able to ingest in 2021. We’re honestly in awe of how much sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, and horror TV we’ll be getting this year considering so many productions were shut…

io9 io9 Staff

Researchers Say They’ve Found the Ancient Dens of Giant Carnivorous Worms

Twenty million years ago, the shores of northern Taiwan were sandstone sediments at the bottom of the sea, where 6-foot-long worms lurked in their burrows, waiting for unsuspecting prey to pass overhead. Now, a team of geoscientists have chronicled 319 trace fossils of those carnivorous marine worms, whose dens fossilized in the Miocene muck. “In…

Biology Isaac Schultz

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Review: The Most Maxed Out Phone for the Money

Last year, Samsung broke out the “Ultra” adjective for the first time on the Galaxy S20 Ultra. That phone was certainly ambitious, but between its $1,400 price tag and features that didn’t quite live up to expectations, Samsung’s super premium phone felt less like an Ultra and more like a Galaxy S20++. In a move…

Smartphones Sam Rutherford

A 10-Billion-Pixel Scan of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Captures More Detail Than Your Eyes Ever Could

Visit the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, The Netherlands, and you’ll have a chance to see Johannes Vermeer’s painting, ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring,’ from maybe a few feet away—depending on the crowds around the famous piece. Or you can explore this website that provides access to a massive 10-billion-pixel scan of the painting with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

DC’s Future State Turns Aqualad Into a New Kind of Hero in This Exclusive Preview

In addition to jumping into the near future of DC’s comics, the publisher’s Future State line is set to introduce updated versions of classic heroes, some of whom are characters we know from the past who have taken on new mantles, powers, and responsibilities in the years to come. Aqualad Jackson Hyde has been a…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Ted Cruz Suddenly Pretends to Care About Pittsburgh

Human-shaped oil slick Sen. Ted Cruz would like you to know he thinks you are dumb. On Wednesday, just hours after President Joe Biden signed an executive order announcing his intent to rejoin the Paris Agreement, Cruz put out a statement condemning it. His “rationale?” That by signing the agreement, “President Biden indicates that he’s…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Updates From Halloween Kills, Thor: Love and Thunder, and More

Get a new look at Chris Rock’s strange new Saw spinoff. Colin Trevorrow teases Camp Cretaceous’ connections to the wider Jurassic Park story. Superman & Lois is flying in with a bumper premier. Plus, what’s to come on Riverdale and Nancy Drew. Spoilers! Thor: Love and Thunder Chris Hemsworth confirmed Thor: Love and Thunder begins…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

All the Types of TV Tech You Can Choose From in 2021

On the one hand, picking a television set is a simple job: Get the most expensive one you can afford from a brand you like. On the other hand, there are so many types of screen technology and associated labels and acronyms that you’d be forgiven for feeling utterly overwhelmed by it all. Here’s your…

Gadgets David Nield

Biden Pick for Treasury Dept Role Worked as Advisor to Controversial Crypto Company Ripple

President Joe Biden’s pick to be the new comptroller of the currency at the U.S. Treasury Department, Michael S. Barr, used to be an advisor to the controversial cryptocurrency company Ripple, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Ripple in federal court last…

Tech News Matt Novak

OnePlus Joins Forces with Oppo and Realme for Research and Development

The U.S. Approves Permit for the ‘Proving Ground for the Future of Wave Energy’

Otter Will Now Mercifully Transcribe Your Google Meet Calls

The Walking Dead Extended Season 10 Trailer Sets Up a Quest for Revenge

Intel and Nvidia Are Probably Not Colluding to Keep AMD Out of Gaming Laptops

Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished

Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Next Big Animated Movie Just Jumped Ship to Netflix

Turn Your Apple TV Into a Nintendo-ish Console That Can’t Actually Play Any Nintendo Games

The Mystery of the ‘Sean Parker’-Backed Trump Pardon Just Gets Weirder

Personalized Skin Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in New Trial Results

Apple Reportedly Making a VR Headset Few Will Actually Buy

Your Guide to 2021’s Biggest TV, Part 3

Researchers Say They’ve Found the Ancient Dens of Giant Carnivorous Worms

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Review: The Most Maxed Out Phone for the Money

A 10-Billion-Pixel Scan of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Captures More Detail Than Your Eyes Ever Could

DC’s Future State Turns Aqualad Into a New Kind of Hero in This Exclusive Preview

Ted Cruz Suddenly Pretends to Care About Pittsburgh

Updates From Halloween Kills, Thor: Love and Thunder, and More

All the Types of TV Tech You Can Choose From in 2021

Biden Pick for Treasury Dept Role Worked as Advisor to Controversial Crypto Company Ripple

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