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Facebook Bans the Future of the Republican Party

The future of the Republican Party faces a mild inconvenience as the world’s largest social network said on Tuesday that it plans to take sweeping action against groups and accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy across Facebook and Instagram. The move to ban all QAnon Facebook Groups, Pages, and Instagram accounts regardless of whether they…

Politics Andrew Couts

I’m Already Crying Just Thinking About This New Netflix Show About a Lost Toy

Netflix has announced a new series called Lost Ollie, about a lost toy traveling through the countryside to find the boy who left him behind. Sure. OK. Thanks a lot, Netflix—as if I didn’t already have enough things in my life to make me sad. In a press release, Netflix revealed an upcoming four-part series…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Hero Child Sues Nintendo Over Hellish Joy-Con Drift

If you’re familiar with the dreaded Switch phenomenon known as “Joy-Con drift,” you’re likely privy to the unique feeling of rage you feel when the movements of your controllers aren’t aligning with what’s happening on your screen. One child has evidently had enough, and he and his mother are now suing Nintendo over the ongoing…

Tech News Catie Keck

Life Doesn’t Find a Way as Jurassic World: Dominion Moves Into 2022

Don’t unearth that amber just yet. As movie studios shift their 2020 releases into 2021, the films scheduled for 2021 have been slowly moving into 2022. That happened Monday with films like The Batman and now it’s happened with the new Jurassic Park film. Jurassic World: Dominion, the third film in the new Jurassic trilogy,…

Movies Germain Lussier

Every Top U.S. Military Commander But the Marine Corps, Coast Guard Guys Now in Quarantine

All but one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is in quarantine after the vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Monday, CNN reports. The Joint Chiefs of Staff is composed of the chiefs of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and National Guard Bureau,…

Health Tom McKay

Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure Begins Doesn’t Capture the Magic

Dungeons & Dragons can be a pretty intimidating game—I didn’t get into it until about a year ago, and I still struggle with all its intricacies. So, I was excited that Hasbro was releasing Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure Begins, a board game designed to help bring new players into the fold. While does succeed in…

Games Beth Elderkin

Hundreds of Dead Animals Washing Up on a Beach Is Russia’s Latest ‘Ecological Catastrophe’

Hundreds of sea creatures’ bodies have washed up onto the shore in Russia’s Far East. All signs point to water pollution in what is the latest in a series of environmental catastrophes to befall Russia this year. The contamination, first reported last month, has left a bubbly yellow sludge on the water offshore of the…

Earther Dharna Noor

Image: Rafael Fernández/International Working Group of Atlantic Orcas

Wounded Orcas Off Spanish Coast Could Be Attacking Boats in Retaliation

Scientists are struggling to explain why orcas swimming off the Iberian Peninsula have started to attack sailing vessels. New research suggests these animals were likely wounded during previous encounters with boats and may be acting vengefully. It’s 2020, so of course orcas are attacking boats. Since July, scientists have recorded 33 distinct interactions involving sailing…

Biology George Dvorsky

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7+ Is Simply the Best Android Tablet Around, Warts and All

Compared to the iPad Pro, sometimes trying to pick the best Android tablet feels like a consolation prize. That’s because while Apple has made major strides in turning the iPad into a proper laptop replacement with iPadOS 13 and 14, it feels like Android tablets have been treading water. But that hasn’t stopped Samsung from…

Tablets Sam Rutherford

Save Yourselves Is an Alien Invasion Movie Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Though it starts with a seemingly simple sci-fi premise, Save Yourselves is actually so much more. This is a film that’s funny and surprising but also smart, layered, and subtly thought-provoking. It doesn’t clobber you over the head with any single message; instead, you’re presented with many different viewpoints, any of which can be processed…

Movies Germain Lussier

The X-Men: The Animated Series Art Book Is Here to Give You Mutant Nostalgia

No matter what becomes of Marvel’s mutants in the comic books or any live-action movies Marvel Studios is undoubtedly dreaming up, the ‘90s animated series that dominated the Saturday morning TV bloc will always be one of the most definitive takes on Charles Xavier and his students. Today, io9 has an exclusive look at the…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

DoorDash Wants a Big Wet Kiss on the Lips

It’s become normal, thanks to Silicon Valley, for companies to periodically burst, unannounced, into our feeds to tell us they are ACTUALLY VERY GOOD FOR SOCIETY and then recede into shadows til the next battle with regulators. Why is DoorDash here, now, with a report telling us it saved the restaurant industry during a pandemic,…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Razer’s Dumb Light-Up Visa Card for Gamers Is Proof This Timeline Is Cursed

Tech companies are really loving the idea of making credit cards. Apple did it, Google’s purportedly working on it, Samsung got on that train this summer, and just yesterday, Venmo announced it, too, making a card. But leave it to Razer to create the dumbest of them all: the Razer Card, a prepaid Visa cashback…

Tech News Victoria Song

The Bat-Family’s Vehicles Are Getting Their Own Animated Kids’ Show

“Jingle bells, Batman smells.” But luckily the Batmobile didn’t lose a wheel—instead, it’s patrolling the streets right alongside the Caped Crusader. Warner Bros. Animation has announced Batwheels, a new children’s show about a bunch of talking cars that help Batman fight crime. Warner Bros. Animation revealed in a press release that the studio was starting…

io9 Beth Elderkin

The Resident Evil Cinematic Reboot Has Cast Its Major Heroes and Villains

Beloved as Sony’s original Resident Evil cinematic franchise was, it always made a concerted effort to steer clear of certain narrative elements and character details from Capcom’s video games of the same name. From the sounds of things, that’s all about to change in the studio’s upcoming Resident Evil reboot. According to the Hollywood Reporter,…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Matrix Leaps Forward and The Batman Falls Back in Warner Bros’ Latest Release Shakeup

As this absolute dumpster fire of a year draws to a close, it can safely be said that the current hottest trend in Hollywood is studios stepping up to the microphone to state the blindingly obvious: basically all of their projected movie release dates are changing around because the pandemic’s brought productions to a halt…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Beirut Blast Ranks Among History’s Most Powerful Accidental Explosions

By analyzing videos uploaded to social media, scientists have calculated the strength of the blast that devastated the city of Beirut in August, finding it to be among the biggest non-nuclear explosions in human history. When a warehouse at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon exploded this past summer, it released the equivalent of 500…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Apple’s iPhone Event Is Oct. 13, for Real This Time

Back in September, which seems like years ago but was actually just last month, we thought Apple’s Time Flies event might feature some new iPhones, though rumors had long swirled they would go on sale later in the fall due to coronavirus-related production delays. But the September event came and went without nary an iPhone,…

Tech News Caitlin McGarry

Spotify Adds Ability to Search Songs by Lyrics and Launches New App

This week, Spotify is rolling out the ability to find songs by searching for their lyrics. It’s a feature that’s been a long time coming and it will undoubtedly become second-nature for users in no time at all. Spotify designer Lin Wang first shared the news in a tweet on Monday. The new search function…

Tech News Rhett Jones

This Year’s Hole in the Ozone Is Twice the Size of the U.S.

If you’ve been looking to cast yourself into a deep hole from which you can never return (I have!), the one in the ozone layeris a prime choice right now. The hole in the atmosphere’s ozone layer just reached its maximum annual size, experts at European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (ECMWF) said on Tuesday.…

Earther Dharna Noor

Facebook Bans the Future of the Republican Party

I’m Already Crying Just Thinking About This New Netflix Show About a Lost Toy

Hero Child Sues Nintendo Over Hellish Joy-Con Drift

Life Doesn’t Find a Way as Jurassic World: Dominion Moves Into 2022

Every Top U.S. Military Commander But the Marine Corps, Coast Guard Guys Now in Quarantine

Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure Begins Doesn’t Capture the Magic

Hundreds of Dead Animals Washing Up on a Beach Is Russia’s Latest ‘Ecological Catastrophe’

Wounded Orcas Off Spanish Coast Could Be Attacking Boats in Retaliation

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7+ Is Simply the Best Android Tablet Around, Warts and All

Save Yourselves Is an Alien Invasion Movie Like You’ve Never Seen Before

The X-Men: The Animated Series Art Book Is Here to Give You Mutant Nostalgia

DoorDash Wants a Big Wet Kiss on the Lips

Razer’s Dumb Light-Up Visa Card for Gamers Is Proof This Timeline Is Cursed

The Bat-Family’s Vehicles Are Getting Their Own Animated Kids’ Show

The Resident Evil Cinematic Reboot Has Cast Its Major Heroes and Villains

The Matrix Leaps Forward and The Batman Falls Back in Warner Bros’ Latest Release Shakeup

Beirut Blast Ranks Among History’s Most Powerful Accidental Explosions

Apple’s iPhone Event Is Oct. 13, for Real This Time

Spotify Adds Ability to Search Songs by Lyrics and Launches New App

This Year’s Hole in the Ozone Is Twice the Size of the U.S.

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