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Apple Patent Suggests It’s Borrowing Some Vantablack Tricks for Black MacBooks

Before it started making all of its laptops out of aluminum, Apple offered MacBooks with a matte black finish that, so far, has been challenging to reproduce on its all metal computers. But a new patent suggests Apple has come up with a way to give its latest MacBooks a matte black finish using a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Net Is Somehow Both Outdated and Prescient

The Net, starring a post-Speed Sandra Bullock, was made in 1995, so it’s a given the technology it depicts will look outdated 25 years later. But some of the broader ideas the film pokes into—amid many, many, many scenes of Bullock’s character being chased around by bad guys—are actually surprisingly insightful. The story is pretty…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

If You Bought a Fitbit Sense Recently, You Should Check Your Email

The Fitbit Sense is the company’s most ambitious smartwatch in a long while—in large part because the device was the first Fitbit with FDA-cleared ECGs. However, it appears the company is now contacting some Fitbit Sense owners for replacements, citing an unspecified “hardware issue” that may impact its ECG feature. The news first surfaced in…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Updates From Spider-Man 3, Hawkeye, and More

Scream 5 promises bucket loadsof blood. Rosewell shores up its cast for the next season. The walking dead will continue to be feared as Fear the Walking Dead picks up a seventh season. Plus, a tiny few new details from Superman & Lois, and a new Star Trek: Discovery clip teases just what’s going wrong…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

How to Get Ready to Switch from Google Hangouts to Google Chat

In 2021, Google Hangouts is fading away and Google Chat is taking its place. So if you’re a seasoned Hangouts user—after all, the service has been around for seven years at this point—what do you need to do to prepare? What’s going to happen to your years of chat logs? And what will replace the…

Gadgets David Nield

Dr. Fauci Warns Americans to Stay Home This Christmas As U.S. Breaks New Covid-19 Records

Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s most prominent expert on infectious diseases, is warning Americans not to travel over the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays. Fauci’s warning comes as new data reveals Americans didn’t heed his pleas to stay home this Thanksgiving, with just a 5% reduction in vehicle traffic on U.S. roads compared to the Thanksgiving holiday…

Tech News Matt Novak

Airbnb Adds Restrictions to New Year’s Eve Bookings to Deter Partying in a Pandemic

I’m sure we’re all itching to welcome in the new year after the ungodly slog of 2020—how is it possible that March feels like just yesterday and 17 lifetimes ago at the same time?—but we still need to celebrate responsibly. The number of daily new covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths just hit an all-time high…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

The Mandalorian Chapter 14 Spoiler Discussion Zone Is Right Here

Begun, the ending has. Or so we think. This week brings chapter 14 of The Mandalorian, meaning only two more episodes remain after this. And following last week’s jam-packed episode, “The Jedi,” we’re thinking this week is going to start a chain of events leading us to whatever the season’s conclusion will be. Why? Well, Moff…

io9 Germain Lussier

Razer’s Latest Wireless Earbuds Add Noise Cancelling and Keep the Incredible Bass

While larger than Apple’s AirPod Pros, the Hammerhead True Wireless Pro earbuds produce much better sound.

Reviews Andrew Liszewski

Twitter Shelves Threaded Replies And Beta App

Twitter is shelving its threaded replies feature for the time being in response to negative user feedback about its design, the company announced on Thursday. “We asked and you let us know this reply layout wasn’t it, as it was harder to read and join conversations,” Twitter said in a thread announcing the change.…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

Monster Hunter’s Director Prefers the Film’s World…Because of Its Giant, Lootable Corpses

Who doesn’t love a good crafting sidequest? Well, apparently one of its biggest fans is Monster Hunter director Paul W. S. Anderson, who thinks it’s one of the reasons why a world filled with giant, killer monsters is better than the one we live in. During a chat on Capcom’s Twitch channel (as reported by…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Disney’s Neo Smartwatch for Kids Has Nothing on My ’90s Yoda Giga Pet

Playing with Baby Yoda on your watch is cool, but the old-school Giga Pet is ice cold.

Corporate Culture Joanna Nelius

Nielsen Report Finds Sci-Fi, Horror, and Streaming Services Leading the Slow Push For Diversity

Despite all of the small steps that institutions within Hollywood have taken to address the industry’s well-documented issues with diversity, representation, and inclusion, it’s no secret that only so much has substantially changed in the grand scheme of things—even if they are technically better than they used to be. Because qualitative systemic change is often…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

AMC Is Pissed

Following an announcement by Warner Bros. that its 2021 slate of movies will all debut on HBO Max at the same time they open theatrically, AMC claims WarnerMedia is attempting to boost the success of its streaming service at the expense of beleaguered theater chains. Today, Warner Bros. Pictures Group made an unexpected announcement about…

Internet Catie Keck

Feds Claim the Patriot Act Allowed Them to Log Visitors to Websites

Letters produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and obtained by the New York Times show that the U.S. government has interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act as giving it the power to monitor who visits certain websites and when, with minimal oversight. Section 215 is currently dead in the water.…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Bigot Livestreamers Tore Down the California Monolith in Christ’s Name

A young racist foursome, apparently threatened by our lord and savior Zotar, tore down the California monolith and replaced it with a wooden cross last night. As Motherboard first reported, CultureWarCriminal broadcast the triumph on the gamer streaming platform DLive. They tore it down just hours after its discovery was first reported, meaning that they…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Doctor Who’s Captain Jack and Yaz Tease Some Interesting Character Connections

One former and one current (and soon to be solo) companion of the Doctor will be teaming up in the next special Doctor Who episode, “Revolution of the Daleks.” But the actors behind them are teasing that there just might be something that the two of them share when it comes to feelings about the…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Horror Movies io9 Rewatched in 2020

Twenty-twenty hasn’t been good for much, but it has been given us bountiful free time— time you hopefully used to finally make good on that statement “Oh, I’d love to watch that but I don’t have time.” Well, in 2020 you did. As a result, many of us revisited and once again fell in love…

io9 io9 Staff

Private Verizon Customer Information Leaks in Chat Transcripts

Verizon customers who normally use the company’s online chat system to sort out issues with their service might want to stop for the time being. A glitch is leaking personal information—addresses, phone numbers, and sometimes accounts numbers—in other customers’ chat windows. Ars Technica discovered the leak on Monday, Nov. 30, and alerted Verizon. As of…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

The SMS Has Been Able to Rent a Car By Itself for Three Years

Happy birthday, SMS! Today marks the 28th birthday of the SMS aka the Short Message Service, the way GSM phones used to send text messages to each other. In other words, texting is now as old as the Big Bopper and Caligula were when they died. Neil Papworth of Sema Group sent the first SMS…

Tech News John Biggs

Apple Patent Suggests It’s Borrowing Some Vantablack Tricks for Black MacBooks

The Net Is Somehow Both Outdated and Prescient

If You Bought a Fitbit Sense Recently, You Should Check Your Email

Updates From Spider-Man 3, Hawkeye, and More

How to Get Ready to Switch from Google Hangouts to Google Chat

Dr. Fauci Warns Americans to Stay Home This Christmas As U.S. Breaks New Covid-19 Records

Airbnb Adds Restrictions to New Year’s Eve Bookings to Deter Partying in a Pandemic

The Mandalorian Chapter 14 Spoiler Discussion Zone Is Right Here

Razer’s Latest Wireless Earbuds Add Noise Cancelling and Keep the Incredible Bass

Twitter Shelves Threaded Replies And Beta App

Monster Hunter’s Director Prefers the Film’s World…Because of Its Giant, Lootable Corpses

Disney’s Neo Smartwatch for Kids Has Nothing on My ’90s Yoda Giga Pet

Nielsen Report Finds Sci-Fi, Horror, and Streaming Services Leading the Slow Push For Diversity

AMC Is Pissed

Feds Claim the Patriot Act Allowed Them to Log Visitors to Websites

Bigot Livestreamers Tore Down the California Monolith in Christ’s Name

Doctor Who’s Captain Jack and Yaz Tease Some Interesting Character Connections

The Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Horror Movies io9 Rewatched in 2020

Private Verizon Customer Information Leaks in Chat Transcripts

The SMS Has Been Able to Rent a Car By Itself for Three Years

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