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Drugs Won the Election

With ballots for the U.S. 2020 presidential election still being counted in several states, it’s possible that we won’t know that outcome for quite some time. But one clear victor emerged in another fight: the drug legalization movement. In multiple cities and states, in both red and blue areas, people voted to legalize or decriminalize…

Health Ed Cara

Stephen King Thinks CBS’s Under the Dome Inhabitants Had It Too Easy

The Dome Speaks—and Stephen King doesn’t like what it has to say. The horror author has shared some of his thoughts about CBS’s Under the Dome, the series that sometimes seemed to defy logic itself. It turns out that King wasn’t happy with it either. Speaking to the Washington Post, King heaped praised on Amazon…

io9 Beth Elderkin

This Wireless Backup Battery Is Only Worth It If You’re All in on Apple

It’s not a bad idea to keep a tiny backup battery in your bag for dead smartphone emergencies, but Satechi’s new Quatro is a little big for your every day carry. As a travel accessory, however, it could conveniently replace a rat’s nest of charging cables and wall warts if you’re an iPhone user with…

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Election Misinformation Is Only Beginning

All the votes have been cast in the 2020 election, but thanks to the pandemic, unprecedented turnout, and Republicans delaying early counting, the results are still coming in. The misinformation campaign is in full swing, though. Early on Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump falsely declared victory. His lead has shrunk as more ballots get counted…

Politics Brian Kahn & Alex Cranz

Whenever We Actually See No Time to Die, Lashana Lynch Really Is the New 007

Considering the movie was meant to come out approximately 300 years ago in the Astral Era known by historians as “earlier this year,” we’ve known that Lashana Lynch’s No Time to Die character was a 00—and the source of many a rumor about whether or not she’d be the next Bond. We’re still waiting on…

Movies James Whitbrook

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Mysterious Radio Burst in Our Galaxy Came From a Magnetar

For the first time ever, astronomers have linked an actual object to those mysterious radio bursts they’ve been detecting since 2007. The culprit in this case, as suspected, is a super-dense object known as a magnetar, but the finding has prompted an entirely new set of questions. In recent years, scientists have detected hundreds of…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Give Your iPhone and Apple Watch a Classic Nokia Dumbphone Demake

Tired of that beautiful OLED screen on your Apple Watch boring your eyes with over 164,000 colorful pixels? App Craft Studio has created the perfect solution. A widget that will take your smartwatch and smartphone back to the days when screens needed just 7,000 chonky pixels to inform and entertain, and the Nokia 3310 was…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Our 7 Favorite Doug Jones Roles (So Far)

You know him, you love him, but you might not always recognize him, since he’s often hidden under layers of prosthetics. However, no amount of special effects can fully conceal veteran actor Doug Jones’ charisma, helped along by his expressive hands and his graceful body language. He’s truly one of a kind. The 60-year-old actor…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

This iPhone-Powered Stompbox Will Add Up to Five Effects to Your Attempts at Guitar Playing

Digital music pedals are nothing new – there have been a number of attempts at making something as good or better than the analog pedals musicians have been using for most of the last century. The Chaos Audio Stratus is trying to pick up the rock baton, as it were, with its all-digital effects pedal…

Reviews John Biggs

The Walking Dead Has Cast a Major Player in Negan’s Backstory

Kat Dennings doesn’t think she’s back for Thor: Love and Thunder. Ron Howard believes Lucasfilm is still interested in exploring the criminal underworld Solo established. Carey Fukunaga hypes up Rami Malek’s No Time to Die. Plus, Teyonah Parris teases WandaVision’s scale and a look at the final end of Supernatural. Spoilers, away! Demigod Deadline reports…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The New iPad Air Is So Good You Probably Don’t Need the Pro

I really, really liked Apple’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which launched earlier this year, but it felt entirely Too Much for a person like me. I am someone who needs to get some light work done on the go, but who also wants to use a smaller tablet to read books and watch TV in bed.…

Laptops Caitlin McGarry

The U.S. Says Goodbye to the Paris Agreement—for Now, at Least

It’s official: The U.S. is out of the Paris Climate Accord. Though President Trump first announced his plan back in June 2017 and formalized it last year, the process wasn’t complete until midnight last night. The agreement, which countries signed at a United Nations summit five years ago, aims to keep global warming “well below”…

Earther Dharna Noor

You Owe It To Yourself to 3D Print the Tongue Brush

Acid rain. International terrorism. Freeway killers. Now, more than ever, it is important to remember the true impacts of technology. It is important to realize that you, dear reader, have the power to 3D print your own tongue brush. Originally inspired by the work of Simone Giertz, Queen of Shitty Robots, this project uses a…

Gadgets John Biggs

Republican Politician Who Died of Covid-19 Wins Election in North Dakota

David Andahl, a Republican candidate for the North Dakota state legislature, won election on Tuesday, but the 55 year old won’t be taking office. Unfortunately, Andahl died of the coronavirus last month. Andahl, who was known as a “Trump Republican,” died of covid on October 5, according a report last month in the Bismarck Tribune.…

Health Matt Novak

Uber and Lyft’s Dogshit Ballot Measure Passed

Great: pop the champagne for Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who won his exorbitantly expensive battle to avoid paying gig workers fairly at all costs. The New York Times reports that California voters have passed Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart’s ballot measure, Proposition 22, by a healthy margin. Roughly 58.3% of Californians voted yes on Prop…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

QAnon-Believer Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Become a Member of Congress

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Donald Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for Congress in Georgia’s 14th district and noted QAnon conspiracy theorist, has won her race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Although Greene was the favored candidate in the race for Georgia’s 14th Congressional district from the start, the outcome was all but guaranteed…

Politics Brianna Provenzano

Over the Garden Wall Composers Release 6 Tracks Cut From the Show

Over the Garden Wall, the Emmy-winning 2014 miniseries from Cartoon Network, is a testament to the power of imagination and the love of family. It also has some killer songs. Now, the composers behind the show’s signature sound have released six new songs that had been created for the show. As reported by Polygon, Justin…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Christopher Nolan Hopes Tenet‘s Box Office Is Seen From Both Sides

Once a dangerous pandemic swept the globe, no movie was ever going to gross what it was before that. In fact, most movies and studios are so afraid of how little movies will make during covid-19, release dates have been pushed months, even years. The one big blockbuster that opened in spite of all of…

Movies Germain Lussier

Hulu’s Stephen King Anthology Series Castle Rock Will Not Be Getting a Third Season

Castle Rock was a worthy experiment—it delivered an intriguing expansion of Stephen King’s stories set around Maine’s most troubled town, and gave us stellar performances from casts that included King veterans like Sissy Spacek and Tim Robbins. But two seasons was probably plenty, and it seems Hulu agrees. TV Line reports that Castle Rock, which…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

YouTube Removes Fake Election Results Livestreams That Were Profiting Off Of Broadcasts

YouTube removed several livestream channelsset up to capitalize on voter anxiety over our collective national nightmare on Election Night, claiming that the bogus election results they were broadcasting to millions of viewers ran afoul of the platform’s community guidelines. Before any state’s polls had even closed in Tuesday’s general election, YouTube channels boasting fake results…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Drugs Won the Election

Stephen King Thinks CBS’s Under the Dome Inhabitants Had It Too Easy

This Wireless Backup Battery Is Only Worth It If You’re All in on Apple

The Election Misinformation Is Only Beginning

Whenever We Actually See No Time to Die, Lashana Lynch Really Is the New 007

Mysterious Radio Burst in Our Galaxy Came From a Magnetar

Give Your iPhone and Apple Watch a Classic Nokia Dumbphone Demake

Our 7 Favorite Doug Jones Roles (So Far)

This iPhone-Powered Stompbox Will Add Up to Five Effects to Your Attempts at Guitar Playing

The Walking Dead Has Cast a Major Player in Negan’s Backstory

The New iPad Air Is So Good You Probably Don’t Need the Pro

The U.S. Says Goodbye to the Paris Agreement—for Now, at Least

You Owe It To Yourself to 3D Print the Tongue Brush

Republican Politician Who Died of Covid-19 Wins Election in North Dakota

Uber and Lyft’s Dogshit Ballot Measure Passed

QAnon-Believer Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Become a Member of Congress

Over the Garden Wall Composers Release 6 Tracks Cut From the Show

Christopher Nolan Hopes Tenet‘s Box Office Is Seen From Both Sides

Hulu’s Stephen King Anthology Series Castle Rock Will Not Be Getting a Third Season

YouTube Removes Fake Election Results Livestreams That Were Profiting Off Of Broadcasts

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