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Apple TV App Comes to PS4 and Newly Released PS5—If You Can Get One

The Apple TV app that allows users to access Apple originals through TV+ arrived in the PlayStation Store just ahead of the launch of Sony’s next-generation PS5 console, which hit stores today. Apple TV is now available for both its older PS4 model as well the newest box, as Sony announced back in October. Disney+,…

Internet Catie Keck

This Weekend’s Launch of SpaceX CrewDragon Will Usher in a New Era [Updated]

NASA and SpaceX are targeting this Saturday for the launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station, in what is expected to be the first of many regularly scheduled crew flights to space from U.S. soil. Here’s what you need to know about this historic mission and how you’ll be able to watch. Update…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

This Raspberry Pi-Powered Keyboard Is a Delight

Fans of DIY computing love the Raspberry Pi. This single-board computer has gone through multiple iterations and is now almost as powerful as some cheaper desktop machines. But one thing always stood in the way when it came to getting a RaspPi up and running: you had to bring your own monitor, keyboard, and mouse…

Desktops John Biggs

A Salute to Director Rachel Talalay, a True Genre Pioneer

Rachel Talalay is, to date, the only woman to direct a film in any of the major slasher franchises. She also made a bona fide 1990s cult classic, and has helmed episodes of several TV shows we love (including Doctor Who). Talalay’s latest feature, A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting, hit Netflix last month and…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Alyson Hannigan Thinks Buffy and Willow Should Have Dated

Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s fourth season saw Alyson Hannigan’s Willow Rosenberg tap into new depths of her burgeoning magical abilities and begin to come into her own as a young queer woman. But looking back on the beloved series, Hannigan now thinks that her character should have become romantically involved with someone else. This week,…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Biggest Climate Report in the U.S. Is Reportedly Being Led by a Climate Denier Now

The Trump administration has found yet another way to slow-release malignant stupidity into our future world. A climate-denying National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climatologist known for cheering global warming’s ability to create enormous crabs has reportedly been tapped to lead the creation of the most important climate study the U.S. government produces. According to the…

Climate Change Andrew Couts

Samsung’s First 5nm Chip, the Exynos 1080, Looks to Keep Pace with Apple

This week has been especially busy when it comes to new silicon, because almost immediately after MediaTek announced a number of new chips for phones and Chromebooks, Apple followed up with its big M1 chip. Now Samsung has announce its first chip designed using a 5-nanometer process: the Exynos 1080. Samsung’s new mobile chip is…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

11 Things You Can Do in macOS Big Sur That You Couldn’t Do Before

The next major update for macOS is here, and Big Sur brings with it a bunch of new features as well as a significant revamp on the visual side. These are 11 of the most significant upgrades that enable you to do more with your Mac, once you’ve downloaded and installed the 2020 update. 1.…

Gadgets David Nield

Simple Invention Helps You Sober Up by Exhaling Alcohol

Canadian scientists have found a potential treatment for alcohol intoxication through safe hyperventilation.

Health Ed Cara

These Hideous, Outrageously Expensive High Heels Are a Crime Against Feet

I don’t claim to be the arbiter of fashion. For Pete’s sake, I currently run in smart sneakers that resemble Flaming Hot Cheetos that took a bath in pink highlighter fluid. But friends, I’ve found a shoe crime that is beyond mere phrases like ‘hideous’ and ‘this is why we can’t have nice things.’ Behold,…

Tech News Victoria Song

Sorry, But Marvel’s WandaVision Is Now Debuting in 2021

Marvel Studios’ first Disney+ series, WandaVision is coming. Soon even. Just not as soon as we’d hoped. Though early materials said the show, which stars Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen, would be out by the end of the year, we now know the first episode will debut on January 15, 2021. This is disappointing for…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Ransomware Hackers Helpfully Take Out Facebook Ads to Remind Victims to Pay

The Campari Group recently experienced a ransomware attack that allegedly shut down the company’s servers. The malware, created by the RagnarLocker gang, essentially locked corporate servers and allowed the hackers to exfiltrate “2 terabytes” of data, according to the hackers. On Nov. 6, the company wrote, “at this stage, we cannot completely exclude that some…

Privacy & Security John Biggs

Just Some Pictures, Pictures of Spider-Man (the Cat)

The highly anticipated video game Spider-Man: Miles Morales is here, and, it’s good! It’s got a lot of Spider-Man in it. It’s got a lot of Miles Morales in it. But it also has another Spider-Man: Spider-Man the Cat. We thought you might want to take a look.

io9 James Whitbrook

Doctor Who Season 13 Will Be Just 8 Episodes Long

Good news: in spite of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, production has begun on the next season of Doctor Who, to air sometime in 2021. Bad news: said pandemic means that instead of 11 episodes of Doctor Who, we’ll be getting only eight. Announcing the start of production on the official Doctor Who website yesterday, showrunner…

io9 James Whitbrook

It’s Way Too Hot in the Arctic Right Now

Svalbard, Norway, is home to the world’s doomsday seed vault because it’s so cold. But the climate crisis is changing that calculation. In the latest sign that the transformation of the Arctic continues full speed ahead, Svalbard hit a record high temperature for November on Wednesday. A station set on the mountain pass of Reindalspasset…

Earther Brian Kahn

Instagram’s New Home Page Features More Reels, More Shopping

Instagram’s about to look a little bit different. As of today, the platform’s overhauling its home screen to give Reels and its shopping feature some coveted (and permanent!) space in the app’s navigation bar. When you open the app today, you might notice Reels replacing the shortcut to create a post and the new dedicated…

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky

People Who Work from Home Should Pay a New Tax, Economists Suggest

On Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced increased social distancing for my home state of New York as covid-19 infections explode all over the country. We have a long way to go before this is over. But that’s not stopping the masters of the universe from mapping out the new world to come. A new research…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Updates From American Horror Story, Spawn, and More

Millie Bobby Brown has joined a new fantasy adventure at Netflix. Lionsgate has nabbed a new ‘80s-inspired slasher in Video Nasty. Jason Blum gives us our occasional “yes, Spawn’s still happening” update. Plus, the CW’s run of Swamp Thing continues. Spoilers away! Damsel Millie Bobby Brown will star in and produce Damsel at Netflix, a…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The Best Gaming Router Still Looks Like a Robot

We get it. Picking a router is hard! Do you even need a gaming router? Won’t your ISP-supplied, non-branded modem/router combo obelisk suffice? Probably not! Do you need to blow $700 on one that looks like Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle? I mean, it’s pretty sweet, but no. So, we went ahead and got together 6…

Reviews Wes Davis

Star Trek: Discovery Comes Home, for Better and Worse

So Earth might not have been home home for the tired, buckling crew of the USS Discovery. Trill might not have given all the answers, besides a reckoning of just what a number nearly a millennia of time travel will do on people. But now, our heroes have found the Federation—and Discovery has found that,…

io9 James Whitbrook

Apple TV App Comes to PS4 and Newly Released PS5—If You Can Get One

This Weekend’s Launch of SpaceX CrewDragon Will Usher in a New Era [Updated]

This Raspberry Pi-Powered Keyboard Is a Delight

A Salute to Director Rachel Talalay, a True Genre Pioneer

Alyson Hannigan Thinks Buffy and Willow Should Have Dated

The Biggest Climate Report in the U.S. Is Reportedly Being Led by a Climate Denier Now

Samsung’s First 5nm Chip, the Exynos 1080, Looks to Keep Pace with Apple

11 Things You Can Do in macOS Big Sur That You Couldn’t Do Before

Simple Invention Helps You Sober Up by Exhaling Alcohol

These Hideous, Outrageously Expensive High Heels Are a Crime Against Feet

Sorry, But Marvel’s WandaVision Is Now Debuting in 2021

Ransomware Hackers Helpfully Take Out Facebook Ads to Remind Victims to Pay

Just Some Pictures, Pictures of Spider-Man (the Cat)

Doctor Who Season 13 Will Be Just 8 Episodes Long

It’s Way Too Hot in the Arctic Right Now

Instagram’s New Home Page Features More Reels, More Shopping

People Who Work from Home Should Pay a New Tax, Economists Suggest

Updates From American Horror Story, Spawn, and More

The Best Gaming Router Still Looks Like a Robot

Star Trek: Discovery Comes Home, for Better and Worse

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