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In Spiral: From the Book of Saw’s New Trailer, Chris Rock Is Having a Pretty Bad Day

Who’s ready for some frights? Lionsgate’s Spiral: From the Book of Saw has a brand new trailer today, and it reveals a bit more about what we can expect to see from Darren Lynn Bousman’s reboot of the horror franchise. Chris Rock stars as a police officer in this soft-reboot continuation of the series, in…

Trailers Jill Pantozzi Mar 30 '21

io9 Co-Founder Annalee Newitz Has a New Futurist Podcast!

The world’s in a pretty miserable place lately, but looking to the future can help inspire us to build a better tomorrow for us all—and novelist, Hugo-Award winning podcaster, and former editor of io9 and Gizmodo Annalee Newitz is here to help! io9 is extremely excited to announce Deep Futures, a six-episode podcast miniseries from Mailchimp…

io9 James Whitbrook Mar 30 '21

Google’s New Nest Hub Is the Perfect Alarm Clock

Most of us have long since replaced a standalone alarm clock with a phone, but the new Google Nest Hub is the first smart display that justifies its placement on your nightstand. Its new sleep-tracking capabilities are impressive, and it finally offers an easy sleep-tracking solution for those of us who hate wearing a fitness…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Andrew Liszewski Mar 30 '21

Intel Somehow Squeezes More Performance Out of Its 11th-Gen Desktop Processors, but I’m Not Sure It Should Have

Just when you think Intel couldn’t do anything else with its desktop processors on that old, 14nm node, it manages to do something else. I thought the company hit a limit with its previous generation, although the gains it does make gen-over-gen aren’t the most impressive. Between Intel’s long, fraught saga getting its architecture down…

Reviews Joanna Nelius Mar 30 '21

Pax’s New Ultra-Compact Era Life Is Made for On-the-Go Vaping

A smaller, more compact vape is joining Pax’s line of Era devices for cannabis. The new Pax Era Life ($35) is the company’s most compact vape yet and 10mm shorter than existing Era devices. Much like a Juul, the Era Life will not require any connected app or need to be turned on and off.…

Gadgets Catie Keck Mar 30 '21

Watch Live: SpaceX to Attempt Fourth Test of Its Prototype Starship Rocket [Updated]

All eyes will be on the Boca Chica launch facility in Texas today as SpaceX attempts its next high-altitude test of a Starship prototype rocket. You can watch the action live right here. Update: 9:16 a.m. ET: The SN11 test appeared to go well, with launch occurring at 9:00 a.m. ET. All three Raptor engines…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Mar 30 '21

LinkedIn Adds Stories-Like Cover Letter Videos to Profiles to Help You Impress Potential Employers

Many of LinkedIn’s newest features makes it feel less like a job-seeking platform and even more like Instagram. But that seems to be what it’s going for. The company today announced that LinkedIn profiles will now include an optional field at the top next to a user’s name to specify their preferred pronouns. Additionally, the…

Tech News Catie Keck Mar 30 '21

You Can Finally Buy Decent-Sounding True Wireless Earbuds for $25

The Skullcandy Dime True Wireless earbuds sound surprisingly okay for the price.

Reviews Andrew Liszewski Mar 30 '21

PayPal Launches ‘Checkout With Crypto’ to Let Users Pay in Bitcoin and Convert to Fiat for Merchants

PayPal will allow users to pay in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether at millions of merchants in the U.S. starting today, according to an announcement from the company on Tuesday. Called “Checkout With Crypto,” the new service will let anyone holding crypto through PayPal actually pay using crypto and PayPal will convert it to fiat…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 30 '21

Weird Tweet From U.S. Strategic Command Actually Sent by Small Child

U.S. Strategic Command, the people tasked with overseeing the nation’s nuclear weapons, sent out a weird tweet on Monday of complete gibberish, writing “;l;;gmlxzssaw.” What could it mean? Twitter users joked about the possibility of nuclear war, but no one knew for sure. It turns out Stratcom wasn’t hacked and the U.S. wasn’t dangerously close…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 30 '21

Google Maps Is Adding Indoor Live View and 100+ Other Features

It’s hard to imagine a time when people still relied on paper maps and printed directions, but we’ve come a long way. To celebrate, Google today announced that more than 100 AI-powered updates are coming to Google Maps in 2021. Yes, that’s right: 100. The biggest new addition to Google Maps is support for indoor…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Mar 30 '21

Pioneer DJ Announces New Line of Speakers for Bringing the Club to Your Home

Pioneer today announced three new premium near-field monitor speakers as part of its VM series. The new models—the VM-50, VM-70 and VM-80—cater to “artists looking to integrate the club and studio atmosphere into their own spaces,” a frankly tall order considering many of us haven’t seen the inside of even a bar in well over…

Gadgets Catie Keck Mar 30 '21

Thor: Love and Thunder Has Added Another Oscar-winner for a Cameo

Beware the paparazzi around a highly anticipated film set. They’re bound to ruin some fun surprises. Which is exactlywhat’s been happening on the Australian set of Thor: Love and Thunder. Writer-director Taika Waititi has been filming his Phase 4 Thor: Ragnarok follow-up for a while now and, while the cast is already filled with very famous,…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 29 '21

Reputed Mafia Fugitive Busted in Caribbean After Police Find His Italian Cooking Channel on YouTube

Authorities have tracked down and arrested 53-year-old Marc Feren Claude Biart, a former member of the Italian mob, in the Dominican Republic after years on the lam because he showed his unmistakable tattoos in YouTube cooking videos. Biart was a member of the Cacciola clan of the ’Ndrangheta, the Mafia-like organized crime syndicate centered out of…

Crime Tom McKay Mar 29 '21

T-Mobile Will Make Google Messages Its Default Messaging App for Android

T-Mobile customers with Android devices will be using Google’s Messages as their primary messaging app. The companies announced today an expanded partnership that will see Google’s app become the default on all Android devices. T-Mobile said that Messages would allow users to communicate over wifi and data, use reactions, see read receipts, and send higher…

Internet Catie Keck Mar 29 '21

A ThunderCats Movie Is Roaring Forward From the Director of Godzilla vs Kong

“ThunderCats Ho?” More like ThunderCats go! Deadline reports that director Adam Wingard is set to co-write and direct a live-action/animated hybrid based on the classic 1980s cartoon series, ThunderCats. His latest film, Godzilla vs. Kong, will be out later this week. “Nobody on this planet knows or has thought as much about Thundercats as I…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 29 '21

T-Mobile Is Already Pulling the Plug on Its Live TV Services

Just five months after announcing its TVision streaming bundle, T-Mobile confirmed on Monday that the service will go belly up at the end of April in order to make way for live TV solutions from YouTube TV. In a blog post, T-Mobile — which recently announced a partnership with YouTube and Google — was careful to characterize…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano Mar 29 '21

Falcon and the Winter Soldier Takes Marvel’s Inevitable ‘Wait and See’ Approach to Queerbait

For years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s textual approach to LGBTQ+ characters has been heavy on speculation and light on actual representation. Fans have spent years and years shipping Avengers with other Avengers in romantic crossovers to rival Endgame, while the studio has either asked them to wait, or offered them a Russo brother in trying…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Mar 29 '21

Biden Announces Plan to Jumpstart an Honest to God Offshore Wind Industry in the U.S.

The Biden administration today announced a plan to get our flailing offshore wind industry off the ground—namely, increasing the nation’s number of operational offshore wind farms to more than one. As the announcement points out, it’s enough to power 10 million homes. The administration expects that the plan will add about 77,000 jobs between the…

Earther Whitney Kimball Mar 29 '21

The Star Wars Prequels Hid Quite a Few Famous Actors

The Star Wars prequel trilogy itself didn’t launch a lot of its actors into stardom. However, it didn’t manage to hire a great many people who became stars after Darth Vader yelled his famous “Nooooooo!” at the end of Revenge of the Sith. To celebrate the prequel reunion that Disney+’s new Obi-Wan TV series is…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 29 '21

In Spiral: From the Book of Saw’s New Trailer, Chris Rock Is Having a Pretty Bad Day

io9 Co-Founder Annalee Newitz Has a New Futurist Podcast!

Google’s New Nest Hub Is the Perfect Alarm Clock

Intel Somehow Squeezes More Performance Out of Its 11th-Gen Desktop Processors, but I’m Not Sure It Should Have

Pax’s New Ultra-Compact Era Life Is Made for On-the-Go Vaping

Watch Live: SpaceX to Attempt Fourth Test of Its Prototype Starship Rocket [Updated]

LinkedIn Adds Stories-Like Cover Letter Videos to Profiles to Help You Impress Potential Employers

You Can Finally Buy Decent-Sounding True Wireless Earbuds for $25

PayPal Launches ‘Checkout With Crypto’ to Let Users Pay in Bitcoin and Convert to Fiat for Merchants

Weird Tweet From U.S. Strategic Command Actually Sent by Small Child

Google Maps Is Adding Indoor Live View and 100+ Other Features

Pioneer DJ Announces New Line of Speakers for Bringing the Club to Your Home

Thor: Love and Thunder Has Added Another Oscar-winner for a Cameo

Reputed Mafia Fugitive Busted in Caribbean After Police Find His Italian Cooking Channel on YouTube

T-Mobile Will Make Google Messages Its Default Messaging App for Android

A ThunderCats Movie Is Roaring Forward From the Director of Godzilla vs Kong

T-Mobile Is Already Pulling the Plug on Its Live TV Services

Falcon and the Winter Soldier Takes Marvel’s Inevitable ‘Wait and See’ Approach to Queerbait

Biden Announces Plan to Jumpstart an Honest to God Offshore Wind Industry in the U.S.

The Star Wars Prequels Hid Quite a Few Famous Actors

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