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The Expanse Just Pushed Everyone to the Limit and Things Are About to Explode

After last week’s Expanse gave extra space to one of this season’s most devastating farewells, episode eight finds time to see what all the other characters are up to on Earth, Luna, and various points around the Belt. As you might guess, nobody in “Hard Vacuum” is having an easy time of it. As we…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

This Could Be the End for LG Phones

After years of repeated rumors and rumblings, the future of LG’s smartphone division has come under speculation again as LG CEO Kwon Bong-Seok reportedly sent a message to staff on Wednesday suggesting that there could be major changes coming soon. After years of losses, while the possibility of LG exiting the phone business or selling…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Meth-Related Deaths in America Are Skyrocketing

Drug overdose deaths caused by methamphetamine use in the U.S. have increased sharply over the past decade, according to a new government report released Wednesday. Since 2011, the report found, annual rates of methamphetamine overdose deaths have risen across every demographic group in America and are especially high among American Indians and Alaska Natives. The…

Health Ed Cara

Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times

This Is Not Fiction

In different ways, some of Marvel’s superheroes like Captain America and the Punisher, and Lucasfilm’s infamous Galactic Empire, have all been in the news as of late for reasons that have little to do with the stories we’re used to seeing them in. Instead, they’ve become part of the odd and often irresponsible way that…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

I Miss the Game Boy Camera, My First Digital Camera

Unless you grew up in a time after cameraphones arrived, there’s a very good chance your first digital camera was a weird Game Boy accessory. The Game Boy Camera was definitely my first digital snapper, and while its technical capabilities were extremely limited, it still managed to excel at other things, like making photography fun…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Your Guide to 2021’s Biggest TV, Part 2

Early on into our prep for all the television our readers might like to watch in 2021, we realized there was a lot. Like, a lot a lot. That’s not even accounting for the fact that io9 typically only covers sci-fi, fantasy, and horror creations. So we broke up our recommendations into three parts; yesterday…

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Scientists Have Finally Made Quieter Velcro

Velcro is great when you need to open stuff fast or with ease, but Velcro is not so great when you’re trying to discreetly open your shoulder bag to grab your headphones. Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands have come up with a new design for Velcro, inspired by mushrooms, that doesn’t shred fabrics and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Eufy RoboVac G30 Hybrid Vacuums and Mops, But Leaves Little Treats for Your Feet to Find

The Eufy RoboVac G30 Hybrid vacuum/mop is, prima facie, a clear upgrade over the Roomba 650 that raptly held my attention when I bought it five years ago. But while the Eufy might do a lot more for a great price, you don’t really want a vacuum that just does more. You want one that…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Wes Davis

Could a Batman: The Animated Series Continuation Be in the Works at Warner Bros?

Another Guardian of the Galaxy is confirmed for Thor: Love and Thunder. She-Hulk’s cast expands. There’s good news for more Snowpiercer. Plus, what’s to come on The Expanse, and get a new look at Netflix’s Winx Club reboot. Spoilers now! Thor: Love and Thunder Karen Gillen confirmed in a recent Instagram story (captured by Digital…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Trump’s Extremist Fansite ‘The Donald’ Is Going Through Some Shit

Donald Trump’s presidency is taking its last shallow, ragged breaths, with President-elect Joe Biden set to take office today—the best efforts of Trump’s incompetent campaign legal team and the disastrously failed insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6 in vain. What’s a Trump supporter to do? If you’re on The Donald, the toxic Trump-worshiping fan…

Politics Tom McKay

How to Take Your Messages With You When Leaving Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp

The latest WhatsApp privacy kerfuffle once again has us wondering whether it’s a good idea to be giving so much of our data to a company with Facebook’s track record. In this guide we’re going to focus on exporting your conversations into a readable format—we won’t cover actually closing down your account. Note that this…

Gadgets David Nield

Trump Pardons Ex-Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing Trade Secrets

President Donald Trump issued a full pardon for former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski early Wednesday, one of 143 people who received pardons and commutations during Trump’s last 12 hours in office. Levandowski, who helped found Google’s Waymo, was convicted in August of stealing trade secrets from Google and starting his own self-driving car company called…

Tech News Matt Novak

How to Watch Joe Biden’s Inauguration on YouTube, Facebook, and More

Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States at noon on Wednesday, finally bringing the Trump era to a close. And if you’re looking for an easy way to watch the inauguration streaming live on YouTube, Facebook, and more, we’ve got you covered. The inauguration starts at 12:00 p.m. ET, 9:00 a.m.…

Politics Matt Novak

Here’s What Google Didn’t Say in Its Promises About Our Privacy

Roughly a month after being hit with a pretty damning antitrust suit led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Google issued its response on Sunday via a public blog post tackling some of the more “misleading” allegations. This is pretty out of character for Google, which has, until now, been pretty private with its response…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Elon Musk’s “Not A Flamethrower” Was a Indeed Flamethrower, Say Cops

Back in 2018, Elon Musk’s The Boring Company released a bunch of limited edition flame-throwing devices as a bizarre promotional gimmick for the tunnel-digging startup. Officially dubbed “Not A Flamethrower” on the company’s own website, the devices could not, as CNN pointed out at the time, “spew flames long distances by igniting flammable liquids,” but…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Brave Web Browser Will Become the First To Offer Peer-To-Peer Networking Protocol

For anyone hoping a decentralized web is in our immediate future — anyone who has, say, recently observed the measurable ways in which big tech oligarchs play an active role in shaping our democracy, perhaps — there’s good news: On Tuesday, privacy-focused browser Brave released an update that makes it the first to feature peer-to-peer protocol for…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

A Chapter of the Oath Keepers Militia Group Is Raising Money Through Amazon Smile [UPDATE]

Militia members are tapping at least one revenue stream through Amazon’s charity partnership program, Amazon Smile. As of Tuesday evening, Amazon shoppers can choose to donate 0.5% of their purchase costs to the Indiana chapter of the armed anti-government group Oath Keepers, one member of which was just charged with conspiracy related to the Capitol…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

A New SolarWinds Malware Strain Is Discovered

SolarWinds: it’s the hack that keeps on growing. On Monday, researchers announced the discovery of yet another malware strain used by foreign hackers to infiltrate a wide milieu of American government agencies and companies. Cybersecurity firm Symantec has reported its discovery of “Raindrop,” a “loader” (a remote access tool) that was responsible for delivering a Cobalt…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Asus’s Next Gamer Phone May Be Doing Dual Screens in a Delightfully Ridiculous Way

Asus is no stranger when it comes to putting two displays on a single laptop, but for its next gaming phone, Asus is apparently looking to push some boundaries by putting a small secondary display on the back of the upcoming ROG Phone 5. Admittedly, the idea of having a bonus display on the back…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Can You Beat My Donald Trump Goodbye Tweet?

Goodbye to all that, amirite? But how will you say goodbye? Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at 12:00 p.m. EST, Donald John Trump will no longer be the president of the United States. Trump has been a pox on our society, a threat to the long-term livability of the planet, and if there’s any mercy in…

Politics Rhett Jones

The Expanse Just Pushed Everyone to the Limit and Things Are About to Explode

This Could Be the End for LG Phones

Meth-Related Deaths in America Are Skyrocketing

This Is Not Fiction

I Miss the Game Boy Camera, My First Digital Camera

Your Guide to 2021’s Biggest TV, Part 2

Scientists Have Finally Made Quieter Velcro

Eufy RoboVac G30 Hybrid Vacuums and Mops, But Leaves Little Treats for Your Feet to Find

Could a Batman: The Animated Series Continuation Be in the Works at Warner Bros?

Trump’s Extremist Fansite ‘The Donald’ Is Going Through Some Shit

How to Take Your Messages With You When Leaving Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp

Trump Pardons Ex-Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing Trade Secrets

How to Watch Joe Biden’s Inauguration on YouTube, Facebook, and More

Here’s What Google Didn’t Say in Its Promises About Our Privacy

Elon Musk’s “Not A Flamethrower” Was a Indeed Flamethrower, Say Cops

Brave Web Browser Will Become the First To Offer Peer-To-Peer Networking Protocol

A Chapter of the Oath Keepers Militia Group Is Raising Money Through Amazon Smile [UPDATE]

A New SolarWinds Malware Strain Is Discovered

Asus’s Next Gamer Phone May Be Doing Dual Screens in a Delightfully Ridiculous Way

Can You Beat My Donald Trump Goodbye Tweet?

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