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Ticketmaster To Pay $10 million After Illegally Hacking Rival’s Computer System

Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, have agreed to pay out $10 million dollars to a competitor after admitting to hiring a former employee to hack into the rival company’s computer network. According to a statement issued by the Justice Department on Wednesday, the five criminal counts facing Ticketmaster stemmed from a plot to…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

NPR Poll Finds That a Minority of Americans Fully Disbelieve QAnon Conspiracies

This sounds about right: As of Dec. 30, 2020, well over a third of Americans believe wild conspiracy theories designed to sow fear and societal collapse. A poll from NPR and the market research company Ipsos found that a solid 40% of Americans believe that covid-19 was created in a lab in China, 37% are…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Ray Fisher Vows to Never Work On Another Warner Bros. Movie So Long as Walter Hamada Is in Charge

At the same time that Zack Snyder has been finalizing a new cut of hisJustice League film for HBO Max, actor Ray Fisher—who originally portrayed Cyborg in the film—has been using his platform to call out director Joss Whedon for his on-set behavior that took over finishing Justice League ahead of its original cinematic release.…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

New Research Shows How Covid-19 Can Trigger Brain Damage

New research out today looks to bring us closer to understanding how covid-19 can cause brain damage. The study suggests that while the viral infection may not directly reach the brain in most cases, it can spark the sort of destructive inflammation that’s seen with other neurological conditions, like stroke. The research was conducted by…

Health Ed Cara

New Tech Developments We’re Actually Excited About in 2021

2021 will be the year of being thankful that the world hasn’t completely ended. I don’t want to hear any “we were promised flying cars”-style whining. The new year will be all about rethinking how far we’ve come, where we’re already going, and how much we’ve been getting wrong along the way. There will be…

Reviews Rhett Jones

New Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Trailer Teases Fresh Pilots and Their Mechs

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time is finally making its way to the public with a new story.

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

The AirPods Max Are Annoyingly Incredible

Apple’s first pair of over-the-ear Bluetooth headphones

Headphones Caitlin McGarry

The ‘Revolutionary’ Fight Over California’s Hidden Oil and Gas Wells

At the corner of West Pico Blvd. and South Genesee Ave. in west Los Angeles sits a tan, six-story building. It’s nothing much to look at: It’s set back from the street by a manicured lawn, lined by a row of trees on each side. An American flag flies out front. At a quick glance,…

Environmental Justice Audrey Carleton

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All the Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2020

Losing folks you don’t personally know, but who have influenced your life in a major way thanks to their creative contributions, can be pretty upsetting. While 2020 was terrible for a whole host of reasons, io9 wants to take another look back at the losses in our community to pay tribute to all the wonderful…

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Japanese Researchers Are Making Wooden Satellites Because We Have a Space Trash Problem

Floating around the Earth is a bunch of satellites. Cool for GPS, monitoring weather patterns, and the internet—not so cool for space junk. This is why Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University are teaming up to create the world’s first wooden satellites by 2023. You might think metal satellites burn up on re-entry, but as it…

Space & Spaceflight Victoria Song

Doug Jones Looks Back on Saru’s Long, Strange Star Trek Journey

Everyone’s been through a lot on Star Trek: Discovery. Evil Captains. Mirror Universes. Killer A.I.. Time travel to the far future. Spock with facial hair. But one character who’s maybe gone through almost as much as its hero Michael Burnham is her closest confidant: Saru. And for the actor behind our favourite Kelpien, it’s been…

io9 James Whitbrook

Amateur Batman Builds His Own Wrist Mounted Grappling Gun

A childhood spent obsessing over Batman’s wonderful toys eventually transitions to a disappointing adulthood where you realize those gadgets just can’t exist in real life, even with a billion-dollar budget. That hasn’t stopped many from trying, and JT from YouTube’s Built IRL has come closer than most at recreating Batman’s grappling gun. The project actually…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

What’s Truly Terrifying About the Stumbling Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout

A cursory glance at country-by-country covid-19 vaccinations shows the U.S. well ahead of other countries. But dive a little below the surface and the data tell a different story. While more than 2.1 million people have received their first covid-19 vaccine shot, more than 9.3 million doses lay waiting to be shot into American’s arms,…

Earther Brian Kahn

Leaker Claims AirPods Pro 2 Could Come in Multiple Sizes

Apple may have just released the AirPods Max, but it seems Apple is already working on the next addition to its headphone line with a new version of the AirPods Pro that for the first time might come in multiple sizes. The recent info comes from relatively reliable leaker Mr. White who posted some pics…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

The Latest Expanse Offers Yet Another Ticking-Clock Adrenaline Rush

This week’s Expanse episode title is “Down and Out,” so you know everyone’s going to be feeling the hurt of what’s happened so far—and man, it’s been a lot. But just because certain characters are in regroup mode doesn’t mean the action gets any less tense this week. Quite the opposite: season five shows no…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Judge Tosses Apple Lawsuit Against iPhone Emulator in Big Victory for Security Research

Security researchers looking to get under the hood of technology in order to improve it received a pleasant victory on Tuesday when a federal judge in Florida decided to throw out Apple’s copyright violation claims against the maker of virtual iPhone software. Last year, Apple filed a lawsuit against the makers of Corellium claiming the…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones

The New Coronavirus Variant Is in the U.S.—Now What?

Over the past 24 hours, health officials in Colorado have reported finding two suspected cases of covid-19 caused by a worrying new variant of the coronavirus. The variant, first detected in the UK, is strongly believed to be more transmissible than previous strains, though recent data has also suggested that it’s not more likely to…

Health Ed Cara

Apple Pulls Secret Partying App Because Apparently There’s a Pandemic Going On

There are bad ideas, and then there’s building an app to promote secret parties during the worst global pandemic in 100 years. In a move surprising absolutely no one with common sense, Apple has pulled the Vybe Together app from its iOS store, according to the Verge. Vybe Together advertised itself on its now-defunct website…

Tech News Victoria Song

The Big Viral Moments of 2020 That Were Totally Fake

We’re absolutely inundated with fake images these days. But 2020 really seemed to be filled with more fake viral videos and photos than even we could keep up with. Today, we present the fakes that really stood out, with perhaps too much from the fakes machine himself, President Trump—that guy who’s leaving office in weeks,…

Reviews Matt Novak

Spider-Man’s New Costume Is Here, and It Sure Is New, a Costume

Spider-Man’s costume is one of the most recognisable pop culture iconographies of all time. While Peter and his fellow Spiders have worn variants over the years, and got updates to that classic look, that red and blue, that black webbing, those reality-defying eye pieces, they’re burned into our collective consciousness. But even without that lofty…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Ticketmaster To Pay $10 million After Illegally Hacking Rival’s Computer System

NPR Poll Finds That a Minority of Americans Fully Disbelieve QAnon Conspiracies

Ray Fisher Vows to Never Work On Another Warner Bros. Movie So Long as Walter Hamada Is in Charge

New Research Shows How Covid-19 Can Trigger Brain Damage

New Tech Developments We’re Actually Excited About in 2021

New Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Trailer Teases Fresh Pilots and Their Mechs

The AirPods Max Are Annoyingly Incredible

The ‘Revolutionary’ Fight Over California’s Hidden Oil and Gas Wells

All the Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2020

Japanese Researchers Are Making Wooden Satellites Because We Have a Space Trash Problem

Doug Jones Looks Back on Saru’s Long, Strange Star Trek Journey

Amateur Batman Builds His Own Wrist Mounted Grappling Gun

What’s Truly Terrifying About the Stumbling Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout

Leaker Claims AirPods Pro 2 Could Come in Multiple Sizes

The Latest Expanse Offers Yet Another Ticking-Clock Adrenaline Rush

Judge Tosses Apple Lawsuit Against iPhone Emulator in Big Victory for Security Research

The New Coronavirus Variant Is in the U.S.—Now What?

Apple Pulls Secret Partying App Because Apparently There’s a Pandemic Going On

The Big Viral Moments of 2020 That Were Totally Fake

Spider-Man’s New Costume Is Here, and It Sure Is New, a Costume

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