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Spell Is a Gorgeous B Horror Movie With Messy Ideas About Class and Power

Paramount Pictures’Spell—from director Mark Tonderai—is a film that sets out to exist in a number of emotional spaces while terrifying you with a story about how simultaneously horrific and freeing homecomings can be. While the film doesn’t quite accomplish all of its goals, it does manage—perhaps accidentally—to be a wildly fun horror flick centering one…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

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A Black Biologist Pioneered Animal Intelligence Research, but His Work Was Buried

Black biologist Charles Henry Turner was doing groundbreaking research into animal cognition at the turn of the 20th century, yet his ideas never gained traction on account of racism and his seemingly radical viewpoint. Many concepts proposed by Turner are now accepted science, and a group of researchers to say it’s long past time to…

Biology George Dvorsky

The FCC Is Making a Boneheaded 5G Play to Improve Rural Broadband

On Tuesday, the FCC announced it will set aside up to $9 billion over the next 10 years to fund 5G wireless broadband expansion across rural America. This is in addition to the $20.4 billion already earmarked for wired broadband expansion in rural America over the same time period, but there’s so set date for…

Internet Joanna Nelius

Everything You Need to Know About the New Google TV

There’s a new Chromecast in town, only it’s not so much a Chromecast as a little Android TV dongle with Chromecast built in… but that’s not right either, because it’s running Google TV rather than Android TV… I know, I know. If you’re wondering exactly what this new software platform is, and how it relates…

Gadgets David Nield

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Tilly and Michael Reunite in This Bittersweet Clip

This week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery was a hard one on the crew—the joy of being reunited with Michael Burnham after she crashed into the 32nd century ahead of them, tempered with the stark realization of the future they find themselves in. It’s something that’s starting to hit home for the Disco crew, as…

io9 James Whitbrook

Feds Warn of ‘Imminent’ Cyberattacks on U.S. Hospitals

As if the rampant underfunding and overcrowding weren’t enough for hospitals to deal with during the current pandemic, apparently they need to grapple with ransomware, too. In an advisory memo released last night, federal officials warned of an “increased and imminent cybercrime threat” to hospitals and healthcare providers across the country. The memo, which was…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

The Border Wall Is a ‘Death Blow’ to Wildlife. This Election Will Decide How Much Worse It Gets.

The upcoming presidential election will decide more than just the next American leader; it could also determine the fate of numerous endangered wildlife species that depend on unimpeded access to both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to survive. Democratic nominee Joe Biden has pledged to immediately stop wall construction as well as the seizure of…

Conservation Lucy Sherriff

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Goofy, Ghostly Truth Seekers Is Well Worth a Binge

Truth Seekers, a new series whose co-creators and stars include noted nerds Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), hits Amazon tomorrow. It would be a welcome arrival any time of year, but since it’s all about the paranormal (and the humans who’re obsessed with it), it’s the perfect binge for Halloween. Though…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Onyx Equinox‘s New Trailer Is an Absolute Bloodbath

In Crunchyroll’s upcoming anime-inspired seriesOnyx Equinox, a young boy named Izel sets out with an unexpected group of friends on an adventure to save the world from the gods—who take pleasure in the idea of toying with humanity just for shits and giggles. As the chosen one, Izel has both fate and magic on his…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

This Tactile Pregnancy Test Offers Much-Needed Privacy to People With Visual Impairments

Pregnancy tests these days can get surprisingly high tech—and may even be rigged to play Doom. It’s also an unfortunate reality that these high-tech tests aren’t always accessible for the visually impaired. Because most rely on digital screens, blind or partially sighted people often have to ask someone else to read their results for them—which…

Tech News Victoria Song

Celebrate Grand Admiral Thrawn’s 30th Birthday Next Year With New Books, Fancy Books, and Old Books (on T-Shirts!)

In 1991, the Star Wars universe changed forever. After a few years of quiet, the Expanded Universe exploded in scope and reach, kicking off with a series of novels from Timothy Zahn that brought us the story of what happened after Return of the Jedi. With it came the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn and…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Satellite Internet Will Not Solve the Digital Divide

Internet service providers will be vying for some of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund today, including Elon Musks’s SpaceX. Its Starlink satellite network allegedly has speeds of up to 100 Mbps now, so the company seems to be in a better position to convince the FCC it’s worth a piece of that $16 billion…

Internet Joanna Nelius

Netflix’s Alice in Borderland Trailer Is an Invitation to Play the Deadliest Game

Much like Lewis Carroll’s fantastical heroine, the trio of slackers at the center of Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Alice in Borderland are a group of people whose imaginations are almost too big to fit into their current realities, and so they delight in flights of fancy that pull them out of the humdrum of their…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Researchers Finally Figured Out How Octopuses Taste With Their Arms

Octopuses, with their eight suction-cup-covered arms, can taste objects simply by touching them. A team of researchers has finally figured out how these cephalopods are capable of pulling off this remarkable trick. The octopus is a marvel of the biological world. They’re super smart, excellent problem solvers, and even a bit mischievous. These cephalopods have…

Biology George Dvorsky

Y: The Last Man Is Back With a New Agent 355 and Hero

Y: The Last Man has had a long, long, long journey to a screen near you and now, finally, it’s actually happening. FX announced that the newly reimagined Y: The Last Man TV series has begun production in Toronto, and a few new cast members are along for the ride. Actress Ashley Romans (NOS4A2) replaces…

io9 Germain Lussier

Why Saving Nature Is the Best Way to End the Pandemic Era

When the scientists who warned the world last year that 1 million species face extinction issue a new warning about the “pandemic era,” we should probably listen. On Thursday, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released a new report chronicling how human activities have created unprecedented risks for pandemics and other zoonotic diseases.…

Earther Brian Kahn

New Witcher Season 2 Set Photos Tease an Armor Upgrade for the Villains

Our first look at Adam Mason and Michael Bay’s coronavirus movie Songbird is here. Vivica A. Fox is leading another remake of Night of the Living Dead. Plus, sneak peeks as Spider-Man 3 starts filming and the CW wants to make a Nancy Drew spinoff with a black, queer protagonist. Spoilers get! Night of the…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

On Star Trek: Discovery, You Really Can’t Go Home Again

This week, Star Trek: Discovery reunited the disparate halves of its cast for an emotional chance to take stock of their unprecedented situation. The crew has arrived in the future and is headed to the ancestral home of the Federation—but as we so often learn when we return to our roots, they come to the…

io9 James Whitbrook

The iPhone 12 Pro Is, Dare I Say It, a Near-Perfect Phone

Phones are expensive. Most people upgrade every few generations, and they want a phone that will take great photos, support the latest software, and won’t shit the bed after just a couple years. The iPhone 12 Pro is $1,000. I wish flagship phones were cheaper, but for the price, the 12 Pro is future-proofed for…

Smartphones Caitlin McGarry

AMD Might Benefit From Nvidia’s Mishaps

Nvidia’s RTX 3070 officially hits retail stores tomorrow. After the fiasco that was the RTX 3080 release, actual buyers will hopefully be able to get their hands on these cards rather than see them snatched up by bots to scalp on eBay. After that previous incident, Nvidia said it was not prepared, nor were its…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Spell Is a Gorgeous B Horror Movie With Messy Ideas About Class and Power

A Black Biologist Pioneered Animal Intelligence Research, but His Work Was Buried

The FCC Is Making a Boneheaded 5G Play to Improve Rural Broadband

Everything You Need to Know About the New Google TV

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Tilly and Michael Reunite in This Bittersweet Clip

Feds Warn of ‘Imminent’ Cyberattacks on U.S. Hospitals

The Border Wall Is a ‘Death Blow’ to Wildlife. This Election Will Decide How Much Worse It Gets.

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Goofy, Ghostly Truth Seekers Is Well Worth a Binge

Onyx Equinox‘s New Trailer Is an Absolute Bloodbath

This Tactile Pregnancy Test Offers Much-Needed Privacy to People With Visual Impairments

Celebrate Grand Admiral Thrawn’s 30th Birthday Next Year With New Books, Fancy Books, and Old Books (on T-Shirts!)

Satellite Internet Will Not Solve the Digital Divide

Netflix’s Alice in Borderland Trailer Is an Invitation to Play the Deadliest Game

Researchers Finally Figured Out How Octopuses Taste With Their Arms

Y: The Last Man Is Back With a New Agent 355 and Hero

Why Saving Nature Is the Best Way to End the Pandemic Era

New Witcher Season 2 Set Photos Tease an Armor Upgrade for the Villains

On Star Trek: Discovery, You Really Can’t Go Home Again

The iPhone 12 Pro Is, Dare I Say It, a Near-Perfect Phone

AMD Might Benefit From Nvidia’s Mishaps

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