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Chrome ‘Bug’ Purged Browser Data, Except From Sites That Google Owned

In the latest example of Google’s public-facing privacy push turning out to be little more than a farce, it seems the tech giant was accidentally exempting some of its own sites from a feature meant to clear browser caches and cookies in its Chrome browser. Whoops! This loophole first came to light when iOS dev…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Apple’s Killing a Popular App That Lets You Play Stadia on iOS

Yet another gaming app is being removed from the iOS App Store. This time it’s Stadium, an app that offered a workaround for the fact that you can’t get Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service on iOS. Stadium works by streaming Stadia games via a web browser. This technically isn’t against Apple’s draconian App Store rules;…

Tech News Victoria Song

Democrats Propose ‘Section 230’ Changes, Say Facebook Algorithms Cradle Violent Extremists

A pair of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced the latest bill proposing to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on the grounds that algorithms used by social media platforms—namely, Facebook—have facilitated extremist violence across the country resulting in U.S. citizens being deprived of their constitutional rights. The “Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act,”…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Billie Piper Reflects on Doctor Who, a Reboot She Didn’t Think Would Last 3 Months

Doctor Who has become an international sensation ever since it was rebooted by the BBC in 2005, turning actors like David Tennant and Billie Piper into household names around the world. But Piper, who played the reboot’s first companion, recently shared how she didn’t think it was going to last three months, let alone almost…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Mourners Hold a Funeral for a Dead Oregon Glacier

Twelve years ago, I strode by Clark Glacier on the flanks of South Sister, the tallest of a cluster of three volcanoes in Oregon’s Cascades. The mass of ice clung to the slopes, strewn with red and brown streaks left behind by volcanic cinders that tumbled across its face. The glacier was unremarkable compared to…

Earther Brian Kahn

It Is Very Easy to Keep Windows 10 From Randomly Restarting Whenever It Pleases

I don’t like my OS doing things or adding things without my permission as much as the next person. As a life-long Windows user, that little pop-up telling me to restart my PC has gotten on my nerves more times that I can count—but it’s not like Windows doesn’t give me the option to turn…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Police Violence Sparks a Werewolf Rebellion in This Excerpt from Cadwell Turnbull’s No Gods, No Monsters

After the success of his 2019 debut The Lesson, speculative fiction author Cadwell Turnbull has a timely new fantasy novel on the way. It’s titled No Gods, No Monsters, and though it won’t be out until next fall, io9 has an excerpt to share as well as a first look at the cover. Here’s a…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Impossible Foods Is Now Developing a Plant-Based Alternative to Cow’s Milk

There’s a myriad of reasons to replace cow’s milk with alternatives like nut milks, oat milk, or soy milk, but for those who enjoy the experience of consuming animal-sourced dairy products, the alternatives just aren’t the same. So Impossible Foods, makers of the Impossible Burger and other plant-based meat alternatives, are working on another food…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Anthony Mackie Is Stuck Between an Alligator and an Armored Soldier

Stuck between a gator and a man charging at you in a suit of armor? I mean, really, who can’t relate? Oh right. No one. It’s a situation so absurd it almost makes no sense. That is, unless it’s in the movie Synchronic, which comes to theaters this weekend and VOD in January. In the film…

Movies Germain Lussier

New York’s MTA Map Rides Into the Future With Real-Time-ish Updates

In what is the most significant update to New York City’s subway map since the 1970s, the MTA has launched a new digital diagram for straphangers that’s easier to navigate, provides seamless updates, and even shows you a cool little animation of your train kinda, sorta moving down the tracks. Even if you don’t live…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Bitcoin Mixer Designed to Bypass Money Laundering Laws Fined $60 Million for Bypassing Money Laundering Laws

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has assessed a civil penalty of $60 million from Larry Dean Harmon, the founder of “bitcoin mixers” Helix and Coin Ninja. The penalty is the first of its kind in the United States. FinCEN claimed that Harmon “willfully violated the BSA’s registration, program, and reporting requirements by failing to…

Tech News John Biggs

Oh No, Spider-Man’s New Video Game Face Continues to Not Be It

A few weeks ago, fans of good video games, good video game faces, and Marvel’s Spider-Man were shook by the revelation that for the game’s leap to Playstation 5—and the arrival of Spider-Man: Miles Morales—developers Insomniac Games had completely changed the face of its excellent take on Peter Parker. The more we see of it,…

Games James Whitbrook

DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Aims at the Heart of Google’s $1 Trillion Business

After a 16-month investigation, the Department of Justice and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, arguing that the company’s search app—which is a permanent, preloaded fixture on Android phones—hurts search competition and disproportionately funnels traffic to Google’s ad business. “Two decades ago, Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

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Watch Live: NASA Spacecraft Is Going to Scoop Up Some Asteroid

Update: OSIRIS-REx made contact with the surface on schedule, executed the sample-collection procedure, and fired its back-away thrusters. The “spacecraft did everything it was supposed to do,” declared a NASA team member during the livecast. No live images were received during the broadcast, but NASA said images should be available tomorrow morning. Stay tuned, as…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

A Busted Toilet Kicked Off a Seriously Crappy Night on the ISS

It was another long night aboard the International Space Station, as the crew had to deal with a series of minor problems, in what is starting to sound like a broken record. As always, we have to preface things by saying the crew is safe, and none of the new problems are particularly serious. They’re…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

LG Just Shattered Your Rollable OLED TV Dreams With an $87,000 Price Tag

Earlier this year, at CES 2020, LG announced that it was finally putting its roll-up OLED TV into production, after first debuting the display as a concept two years earlier. It promised the TV would ship sometime in 2020, and true to its word you can now buy the LG Signature OLED R, if you…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

How Over the Moon Changed a Disney Legend’s Perspective on the Future of Animation

Glen Keane is a name you might not know by heart, but his work is certainly in your heart. A veteran of Disney animation for almost 40 years, Keane designed and animated characters like Ariel in The Little Mermaid and Elliot in Pete’s Dragon. He worked on Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and Tangled,…

Movies Germain Lussier

So We’re Finally Muting the Mics

Just days out from the last ordained shouting match of the 2020 election, the Commission on Presidential Debates has declared new guidance for Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s final matchup. That’s right folk, we’re cutting the mics! Trump frequently interrupted his opponent during the first debate—a situation anyone could have foreseen—while moderator Chris Wallace did…

Politics Avery Ellis

The Batman Flies High and Rides Fast in New Set Photos

Bette Midler offers a tiny look at her one-off Hocus Pocus reunion. Get a glimpse at the reboot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Legends of Tomorrow adds a new character. Plus, John Boyega teases his clone action movie, and somehow the cast of the Avatar sequels just keeps growing. Spoilers now! Untitled Rich Lee Movie Deadline…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The DJI Pocket 2 Promises Even Better 4K Video and a Nifty Modular Design

For the last couple of years, if you wanted a super portable camera to help you capture stills and video while traveling, you couldn’t really do better than the DJI Pocket. It was tiny, had a built-in gimbal, and support for 4K. Now, DJI has returned to give its pint-sized camcorder a big revamp with…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Chrome ‘Bug’ Purged Browser Data, Except From Sites That Google Owned

Apple’s Killing a Popular App That Lets You Play Stadia on iOS

Democrats Propose ‘Section 230’ Changes, Say Facebook Algorithms Cradle Violent Extremists

Billie Piper Reflects on Doctor Who, a Reboot She Didn’t Think Would Last 3 Months

Mourners Hold a Funeral for a Dead Oregon Glacier

It Is Very Easy to Keep Windows 10 From Randomly Restarting Whenever It Pleases

Police Violence Sparks a Werewolf Rebellion in This Excerpt from Cadwell Turnbull’s No Gods, No Monsters

Impossible Foods Is Now Developing a Plant-Based Alternative to Cow’s Milk

Anthony Mackie Is Stuck Between an Alligator and an Armored Soldier

New York’s MTA Map Rides Into the Future With Real-Time-ish Updates

Bitcoin Mixer Designed to Bypass Money Laundering Laws Fined $60 Million for Bypassing Money Laundering Laws

Oh No, Spider-Man’s New Video Game Face Continues to Not Be It

DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Aims at the Heart of Google’s $1 Trillion Business

Watch Live: NASA Spacecraft Is Going to Scoop Up Some Asteroid

A Busted Toilet Kicked Off a Seriously Crappy Night on the ISS

LG Just Shattered Your Rollable OLED TV Dreams With an $87,000 Price Tag

How Over the Moon Changed a Disney Legend’s Perspective on the Future of Animation

So We’re Finally Muting the Mics

The Batman Flies High and Rides Fast in New Set Photos

The DJI Pocket 2 Promises Even Better 4K Video and a Nifty Modular Design

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