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The Capcom Hack Affected Way More People Than Originally Reported

Capcom, the legendary Japanese video game developer and publisher behind such classics as Street Fighter and Resident Evil, has been recovering since a November ransomware hack saw a “customized attack” on the company’s internal networks. At the time, Capcom divided its estimate of the damages from the attack into two categories: the confirmed and the…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Photoshop Contest: What Are WandaVision‘s In-Universe Commercials Selling?

WandaVision’s style and special effects represent a new direction for Marvel in general, but the series takes things a step further in a way that’s unique for Disney+. It’s packed with a variety of little details designed to sell you on the idea that each episode is actually a different take on the same American sitcom…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Saudi Crown Prince Asks, Answers What if a City, But It’s a 105-Mile Line

Vicious Saudi autocrat Mohamed bin Salman has a new vision for Neom, his plan for a massive, $500 billion, AI-powered, nominally legally independent city-state of the future on the border with Egypt and Jordan. When we last left the crown prince, he had reportedly commissioned 2,300-pages’ worth of proposals from Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey &…

Earther Tom McKay

GitHub Fired a Jewish Employee For Warning That ‘Nazis’ Were Among the US Capitol Rioters

Microsoft-owned GitHub is facing employee backlash after it reportedly terminated a Jewish worker for warning in a corporate Slack channel that there were “nazis” present at the U.S. Capitol riot. As armed pro-Trump insurrectionists swarmed the Capitol on January 6 — at least one of whom was literally wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Bliss Looks Like The Matrix on Vacation

From now until eternity, anytime anyone makes a movie about humans potentially living in a simulation, comparisons to The Matrix are inevitable. Such is the case with Bliss, which stars Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek. Its premise is sort of like The Matrix, but if The Matrix were a way more pleasant place to be.…

Trailers Germain Lussier

The Lasso Robot Wants to Make Recycling at Home Easier

Recycling is important but it’s also a pain. Separating glass from plastic from paper isn’t a terrible task but what wouldn’t it be nicer if a robot did it instead? That’s why one inventor built the Lasso, a robot that claims to accept, indentify, and prepare recycling for proper reuse. Creator Aldous Hicks built the…

Gadgets John Biggs

Hades and Persephone Get a Divine Meet-Cute in This Peek at Fantasy Erotica Neon Gods

In Neon Gods, erotica author Katee Robert shifts her focus from Disney villains to Greek mythology, a realm that also happens to be overflowing with steamy romance. Today, io9 is revealing the cover and an excerpt that sees heroine Persephone, on the run from Zeus, meeting a dark stranger at the River Styx. First, here’s…

Books & Comics io9 Staff

The Internet’s Biggest Darknet Just Got Taken Down

One of the internet’s largest forums for criminal activity, has been seized and the man believed to be its operator has been arrested, European authorities announced Tuesday. Until this week, the site DarkMarket boasted nearly half a million users, over 200,000 re-sellers, and was considered to be one of the most popular havens for criminals…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

The Trova Is a Bluetooth-Powered Lockbox That Actually Looks Good

Folks with kids or other snoops in the house will appreciate the Trova Home. This $550 box can be opened with your phone via Bluetooth, wifi, or NFC and is designed to look like an art piece. Which is a nice change of pace from the ones that look like they should be left in…

Gadgets John Biggs

Psychedelic Mushrooms Grew in a Man’s Veins After He Injected Them

The man was hospitalized for 22 days but survived.

Health Ed Cara

Soon, Yelp Users Can Report Covid-19 Safety Measures. What Could Go Wrong?

Yelp has made a highly risky, wildly optimistic gambit: the company announced that it’s rolling out a feature whereby users can report businesses for not following covid-19 safety protocols, which will be reflected in notifications on the business’s page. Will people prove themselves measured arbiters of justice? Yelp puts a troubled populous to the test.…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Report: Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Will Finally Be Charged for Poisoning Flint’s Water

Y’all. Former Michigan governor and certified monster Rick Snyder will catch charges for his role in the Flint water crisis, according to the Associated Press. You absolutely love to see it. Snyder is the former Republican governor of Michigan who had a massive role in the public health disaster, in which Flint’s nearly 100,000 residents…

Environmental Justice Dharna Noor

Illustration: Caltech/R. Hurt (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, or IPAC)

Rare Planet With Three Suns Has a Super Weird Orbit

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a triple-star exoplanet located 1,800 light-years from Earth. Planets parked in multi-star systems are rare, but this object is particularly unusual owing to its inexplicably weird orbital alignment. The first trace of KOI-5Ab was spotted by NASA’s Kepler space telescope in 2009, but that was very early in the…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

So, A Discovery of Witches Is Now a Time-Travel Show

Season two makes good on that season one cliffhanger as the main characters embark on a strange new journey.

Television Cheryl Eddy

Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice

Pebble ice, for you poor bastards who are unfamiliar, is alternatively called Sonic ice.

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows

At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the horde of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restricted to the public, according to GPS metadata linked to videos posted to the platform the day of the insurrection in Washington. The…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron & Dhruv Mehrotra

Razer’s Wild Gaming Chair and Smart Mask Are Concept Gadgets Designed to Battle the Woes of 2021

It just wouldn’t be CES (even a virtual one) without a couple far-out concept gadgets from Razer, and this year the company has dreamed up two devices designed to combat some of 2021’s biggest issues in the most Razer way possible. For people who have been largely stuck at home for the better part of…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Gig Workers in California Petition Supreme Court to Overturn Prop 22

The fight to bring full employment protections to gig workers in California seemed all but doomed by November’s passage of Proposition 22—a historically expensive ballot measure funded by Uber, Lyft, and others, which rolled back hard-won rights for app workers in the state. Today, workers revealed they had one last Hail Mary left. A motley…

Tech News Avery Ellis

AT&T TV Now Is Merging With AT&T TV—Wait, What?

AT&T appears to be killing its AT&T TV Now packages, directing new customers to its similarly titled AT&T TV product. Yes, those are two different things. As reported by Variety, the AT&T TV Now website now—which as recently as earlier this month still promoted live TV streaming packages—now splashes an ad for the company’s AT&T…

Internet Catie Keck

NordicTrack Is Making Its Own Connected Fitness Mirror

At-home fitness is having a moment due to the global pandemic, and connected gym equipment makers are struggling to keep up with demand. While you probably know NordicTrack best for its treadmills, the company is launching one of a smart workout mirrors—sort of like the Lululemon-owned Mirror, but with a slight twist. The NordicTrack Vault…

Gadgets Victoria Song

The Capcom Hack Affected Way More People Than Originally Reported

Photoshop Contest: What Are WandaVision‘s In-Universe Commercials Selling?

Saudi Crown Prince Asks, Answers What if a City, But It’s a 105-Mile Line

GitHub Fired a Jewish Employee For Warning That ‘Nazis’ Were Among the US Capitol Rioters

Bliss Looks Like The Matrix on Vacation

The Lasso Robot Wants to Make Recycling at Home Easier

Hades and Persephone Get a Divine Meet-Cute in This Peek at Fantasy Erotica Neon Gods

The Internet’s Biggest Darknet Just Got Taken Down

The Trova Is a Bluetooth-Powered Lockbox That Actually Looks Good

Psychedelic Mushrooms Grew in a Man’s Veins After He Injected Them

Soon, Yelp Users Can Report Covid-19 Safety Measures. What Could Go Wrong?

Report: Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Will Finally Be Charged for Poisoning Flint’s Water

Rare Planet With Three Suns Has a Super Weird Orbit

So, A Discovery of Witches Is Now a Time-Travel Show

Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice

Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows

Razer’s Wild Gaming Chair and Smart Mask Are Concept Gadgets Designed to Battle the Woes of 2021

Gig Workers in California Petition Supreme Court to Overturn Prop 22

AT&T TV Now Is Merging With AT&T TV—Wait, What?

NordicTrack Is Making Its Own Connected Fitness Mirror

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