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Our 10 All-Time Favorite Stephen King Horror Roles

Stephen King needs no introduction. Though he spends most of his time writing books and stories that almost inevitably get made (and remade) into movies and TV series, he also manages to do a little acting on the side, most often popping up in adaptations of his own works. Would you have guessed? We have…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Shipt’s ‘Effort-Based’ Model Is Cutting Pay for 40% of Workers, Study Shows

Stefanie started working for the Target-owned grocery shopping app Shipt two and a half years ago. She’d previously been working for one of the app’s main competitors, Instacart, but friends told her that Shipt paid better. While Instacart and similar apps like DoorDash paid workers based on a black box algorithm, Shipt paid a predictable…

Tech News Dharna Noor

U.S. Lawmaker, Citing Snowden, Seeks Probe of NSA Searches for Congressional, Supreme Court Emails

The acting intelligence community inspector general, Thomas Monheim, has been asked to investigate claims that Edward Snowden, while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency, was able to search a classified database for the private emails of a senior member of Congress. Rep. Anna Eshoo, Democrat of California, requested the investigation based on…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Illustration: Velizar Simeonovski/University of Copenhagen

Scimitar-Toothed Cats Hunted Prey to Exhaustion, DNA Study Suggests

Scientists have mapped the entire nuclear genome of a saber-toothed cat species known as Homotherium latidens, also called the scimitar-toothed cat. The resulting DNA analysis suggests these Pleistocene predators were fearsome pack hunters capable of running for long distances as they chased their prey to exhaustion. Smilodon, with its impossibly long fangs, is probably the…

Biology George Dvorsky

Star Wars‘ Lego Holiday Special Welcomes Back Kelly Marie Tran, Billy Dee Williams, and Anthony Daniels

We already knew that Rose, Threepio, and Lando were all part of Lego’s comedic riff on the Star Wars Holiday Special, but now we know they’ll be voiced by their live-screen counterparts…and, in some cases, have a bigger role in the adventure than they did in the Skywalker Saga’s climax. Disney and Lucasfilm have officially…

io9 James Whitbrook

This In-Browser Game Gives the Chrome Dino a Run for Its Money

A game hidden in Vivaldi version 3.4 is adding “pixel-perfect” 8-bit cyberpunk action to your browsing sessions. The game, which appears when you type “vivaldi://game” in the browser’s URL field, is a side-scrolling shooter that pits a speedy, wheeled hero against flying snail monsters in a dystopian future. It runs on both desktop and mobile…

Games John Biggs

Updates From The Boys, The Mandalorian, and More

Stanley Tucci and John Bradley have boarded Roland Emmerich’s moon disaster movie. Brannon Braga has hopes for more Books of Blood. Stephen King gives a tiny update on HBO’s The Outsider. Plus, The Walking Dead zombie-shambles back into production, and Dexter returns. Spoilers get! Moonfall Stanley Tucci and John Bradley have joined the cast of…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The Fujifilm X-S10 Is a Fun, Beginner-Friendly Take on One of the Best Mirrorless Cameras

Fujifilm’s X-T4 is one of the best APS-C cameras on the market. However, for people just getting into photography, Fujifilm’s old-school dial layout can be a little intimidating, so on the new X-S10, Fujifilm took the X-T4’s guts and crammed them into an even lighter and more compact beginner-friendly body. I know that for a…

Reviews Sam Rutherford

This Touchscreen Digital Board Game Table Is Rage Flip Resistant and Has Tons of Hasbro Games

In just a few years’ time Arcade1Up has managed to make a name for itself with a collection of DIY, Ikea-like arcade cabinets perfect for retro gaming collectors with limited space. The company is now targeting board game fans too with its new Infinity Game Table that lets players crowd around a giant touchscreen to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Star Trek: Discovery Boldly Returns to Remind Us of the Burden of Hope

When the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery chose to sacrifice their livelihoods in the 23rd century by catapulting themselves into the 32nd, they did so on the promise that they would themselves be hope: hope that a future would be there for them to arrive in the first place. But as Discovery returns for season…

io9 James Whitbrook

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and an Earth-Bound Meteor Will Star in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up

“Fake news” is about to get taken to a whole new level in a new movie from the man behind Vice and Anchorman that sounds like Dumb Armageddon. Director Adam McKay is currently putting together a movie called Don’t Look Up, which is about two scientists who discover a meteor is going to hit the…

Movies Germain Lussier

YouTube Now Says It Will Remove Videos Lying About Coronavirus Vaccines

YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will now be extending current rules about lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic to include misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Per Reuters, the video giant now says it will prohibit content about coronavirus vaccines that “[contradicts] expert consensus from local health authorities or the [World Health Organization]”—such…

Tech News Tom McKay

Your Preferred Music App Finally Has an iOS 14 Widget

I’ve tried—I have tried—to make Apple Music my default streaming app, but I always end up deferring to my trusty algorithm-generated Discover playlists on Spotify. When home screen widgets rolled out with iOS 14, Spotify was front of my mind as a great application for this iPhone feature. Today, Spotify officially launched its iOS widget in both…

Tech News Catie Keck

Don’t Let Amazon’s Cheap Fashion Fool You

I have spent an ungodly amount of time the past two days on Amazon, curating this cursed blog of bad Prime Day deals. A lot of these terrible deals are on extremely ugly pieces of clothing that the seller likely just needed to get rid of. I screen-capped and dropped several of these examples into…

Commerce Victoria Song

Legendary Hopes a Buck Rogers Reboot Film Can Lead to…an Anime Series Spinoff

At any given point in time, there are dozens of would-be cinematic adaptations of classic properties that are either caught up in production hell, or trapped in a battle over the rights as to who gets to make money off which specific characters. Take, for example, Buck Rogers. According to the Hollywood Reporter, after years-long negotiations…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

WeWork ReWorked

Like a person cradling an ember in their palms for 14 gusty months, WeWork is clinging to the last hope of reviving WeWork. The We Company (the official name since January 2019) has announced that it’s changing its name back to WeWork, the “latest milestone in the company’s efforts to focus on its core product…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Apple Finally Played Nice

With a cornucopia of services offering competitive pricing and ever more high-caliber originals, accessibility is key. Without support that meets viewers where they’re watching content, wherever or however that may be, a service may as well not exist. This is especially true for a company that wants its services to be the de facto streaming…

Tech News Catie Keck

This Is What Disinformation Looks Like

A front-page story published by the New York Post on Wednesday has supporters of President Donald Trump soiling their trousers with glee. The Post characterizes its story as casting doubt on Joe Biden’s claim that he and his son Hunter never discussed Hunter’s business dealings abroad. It is so riddled with holes that Facebook and…

Politics Andrew Couts

Amazon Knows What You Did Last Summer and Is Making a TV Show About It

Get ready to feel the guilt…and pain. Amazon Studios has signed on for a television adaptation of I Know What You Did Last Summer, about a group of teens who do something really stupid and get murdered for it. As reported by Deadline, Amazon Studios has given the greenlight to YA horror series I Know What…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Google Tries to Buy Journalists Off With Some Honestly Sweet New Tools

This morning Google announced it’s rolled out an entire suite of tools designed to make journalists’ jobs easier. Spotted by TechCrunch, Journalist Studio features 13 new tools that focus on things journalists of all different specialties do on a daily basis, like fact-checking, data-combing, and graph creation. While the tools are part of the company’s…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Our 10 All-Time Favorite Stephen King Horror Roles

Shipt’s ‘Effort-Based’ Model Is Cutting Pay for 40% of Workers, Study Shows

U.S. Lawmaker, Citing Snowden, Seeks Probe of NSA Searches for Congressional, Supreme Court Emails

Scimitar-Toothed Cats Hunted Prey to Exhaustion, DNA Study Suggests

Star Wars‘ Lego Holiday Special Welcomes Back Kelly Marie Tran, Billy Dee Williams, and Anthony Daniels

This In-Browser Game Gives the Chrome Dino a Run for Its Money

Updates From The Boys, The Mandalorian, and More

The Fujifilm X-S10 Is a Fun, Beginner-Friendly Take on One of the Best Mirrorless Cameras

This Touchscreen Digital Board Game Table Is Rage Flip Resistant and Has Tons of Hasbro Games

Star Trek: Discovery Boldly Returns to Remind Us of the Burden of Hope

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and an Earth-Bound Meteor Will Star in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up

YouTube Now Says It Will Remove Videos Lying About Coronavirus Vaccines

Your Preferred Music App Finally Has an iOS 14 Widget

Don’t Let Amazon’s Cheap Fashion Fool You

Legendary Hopes a Buck Rogers Reboot Film Can Lead to…an Anime Series Spinoff

WeWork ReWorked

Apple Finally Played Nice

This Is What Disinformation Looks Like

Amazon Knows What You Did Last Summer and Is Making a TV Show About It

Google Tries to Buy Journalists Off With Some Honestly Sweet New Tools

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