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Venmo’s New Credit Card Seems Incredibly Fine

Your de facto app for splitting tabs and paying rent is officially rolling out its very own rewards card. But before you take the leap on this acceptably okay Venmo credit card, let’s take a closer look at the fine print. Today Venmo became the latest fake bank to launch a credit card. Like it’s fake…

Tech News Catie Keck

Trump Returning to White House to Possibly Infect Remaining Allies

Donald Trump, who disclosed last Friday that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus, announced his intent to leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday and return to the White House. Trump checked into Walter Reed on Friday evening, meaning his stay will have totaled just three days. The…

Politics Tom McKay

A Tense Traveler Awaits a Crucial Meeting in This First Look at West Africa-Inspired Fantasy Son of the Storm

A new epic fantasy begins this spring with Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Son of the Storm, the first book in the Nigerian author’s Nameless Republic trilogy, which takes inspiration from pre-colonial West Africa. Today, io9 has a first look at the stunningly beautiful cover, and a first peek inside this exciting new title. Here’s a brief…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Trump’s Flunkies Told CDC to Alter Report on Covid-19 Risk to Children: Report

The novel coronavirus is estimated to have infected at least 7.43 million people in the U.S. and killed nearly 210,000 of them—and the Trump administration has mostly treated it as a political problem rather than one of the most serious health crises to strike the country in decades. The White House in turn has sought…

Health Tom McKay

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Has Been Moved to 2021

The spice isn’t flowing quite yet. Collider is reporting that Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune has been postponed to October 2021, making it the latest film to see a delay because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. First reported by Collider, along with Deadline, Dune has been moved from December 18, 2020 to October 1, 2021,…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The Best Browser for Most People

Reader, I have a confession to make: Despite being a reporter who writes about all the ways our privacy regularly gets exploited by the feds and major tech players alike, I don’t exactly practice what I preach. I’ll download any free app regardless of whether or not it’s sending my data to dubious data brokers…

Reviews Shoshana Wodinsky

Slack Shat the Bed and I Lost My Marbles

It is a universal truth of working remotely that at some point, your internet-based services will eventually fail you. I can survive with Gmail being down. I’ll survive if Google Drive craps the bed because I like to live dangerously and draft in not-at-all-unstable Kinja. Screw Zoom, Lifesize, and all video chats—let me be an…

Tech News Victoria Song

Steven Universe: End of an Era Is Here to Save the Day

Steven Universe: Art & Origins gave us all a greater understanding of the Crewniverse’s creative process and an in-depth look at some of Steven Universe’s inner workings. If you looked closely enough, it provided clues about what to expect from the series’ finale, the movie, and Steven Universe Future. Today, io9 has an exclusive look…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Instagram Is Becoming a Glorified Home Shopping Network

Over the past few years, Instagram users might have noticed that the app morphed from a place where you turn to see your friend’s cute dog photos, into a place where you turn to see those dog photos while also buying a lot of shit you probably don’t need. If you had any doubts about…

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky

Zeiss’ $6,000 Full-Frame ZX1 Is An Intriguing Little Camera with a Ridiculous Price Tag

Putting full-frame sensors into smaller and smaller compact bodies is all the rage nowadays. Nikon did it with the Z5, Panasonic did it with the S5, and just last month Sony joined the crowd with the new A7C. After announcing its compact full-frame camera more than two years ago, Zeiss’ $6,000 ZX1 has finally become…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

The Witcher’s Abs Take Center Stage in Our First Look at Season 2

The Witcher’s Geralt of Rivia is a man of few words and even fewer inclinations to pay any sort of attention to his fashion choices or general appearance. Yet for some reason, Netflix has decided to drop two glamour shots of the magical mutant ahead of his return in the series’ second season. The updated…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

40 Percent of the Amazon Is on the Brink of Transitioning to Savanna

Huge swaths of the Amazon have gotten so dry that they may be on the brink of transitioning into an entirely different kind of ecosystem, new research published in Nature Communications warns. Rainforest ecosystems are very sensitive to changes in precipitation, since their rich, wildlife-sustaining foliage depends on receiving moisture. But thanks to climate change,…

Earther Dharna Noor

Early Humans Were Using Fire 300,000 Years Ago to Forge Superior Stone Tools

The prehistoric practice of using controlled fires to produce customized stone tools dates back 300,000 years, according to new research. The discovery affirms the cognitive and cultural sophistication of human species living at this time. The baked flint tools, found at Qesem Cave in central Israel, are evidence that early hominins were capable of controlling…

Human History George Dvorsky

Scientists Have Created a Laser Scanner That Can See Through Fog

Even with sophisticated cameras and laser scanners that can see all the way around a vehicle, autonomous vehicles have just as much trouble driving in thick fog as humans do. They could soon have an advantage, however, as researchers have created a new imaging system that can see through obstructions like fog, or at least…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Excel Error Believed to Have Caused UK to Lose 15,841 Covid-19 Tests

On Sunday, one of the United Kingdom’s public health agencies announced that 15,841 covid-19 cases had gone unreported due to a “technical issue” that occurred during “the data load process.” As citizens demand answers, it’s looking increasingly likely that a simple error in Microsoft Excel is to blame for the missing data. Public Health England…

Tech News Rhett Jones

The Haunting of Bly Manor Delivers Spooky Horrors With Surprising Heart

It’s been two years since Mike Flanagan and Netflix turned classic horror novel The Haunting of Hill House into a series that earned raves not just for its story, characters, and creativity, but also for scaring the bejesus out of viewers. Can lightning strike twice? The Haunting of Bly Manor is here to find out.…

Television Cheryl Eddy

California Has Its First ‘Gigafire’ in Modern History

In August, researchers warned we would have to add “gigafire” to the lexicon to describe wildfires in California. Now, it’s become a part of the history books. On Monday, the August Complex in Northern California surpassed 1 million acres burned, the threshold for a gigafire. It makes the first gigafire in modern history for California,…

Earther Brian Kahn

Tasmanian Devils Are Back in Australia for the First Time in 3,000 Years

On Monday, wildlife managers announced that they had brought Tasmanian devils back into the (relative) wilds of the Australian mainland, the first time these creatures will be living there in 3,000 years. It’s an attempt at a two-for-one bank shot to save the ferocious marsupials as well as creatures under assault from feral cats. The…

Earther Brian Kahn

Lovecraft Country Went Meta and Got Even More Disturbing

With each episode of Lovecraft Country’s first season, a new family member or friend in Atticus Freeman’s midst has been unceremoniously dragged into a dark convergence of events that might result in a Lovecraftian apocalypse. By shifting its focus onto each member of its supporting cast, Lovecraft Country’s been able to make its fantastical world…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Discoverers of Hepatitis C Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles Rice for their discovery of hepatitis C—a pathogen responsible for chronic liver diseases. “This year’s Nobel Prize is awarded to three scientists who have made a decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem…

Health George Dvorsky

Venmo’s New Credit Card Seems Incredibly Fine

Trump Returning to White House to Possibly Infect Remaining Allies

A Tense Traveler Awaits a Crucial Meeting in This First Look at West Africa-Inspired Fantasy Son of the Storm

Trump’s Flunkies Told CDC to Alter Report on Covid-19 Risk to Children: Report

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Has Been Moved to 2021

The Best Browser for Most People

Slack Shat the Bed and I Lost My Marbles

Steven Universe: End of an Era Is Here to Save the Day

Instagram Is Becoming a Glorified Home Shopping Network

Zeiss’ $6,000 Full-Frame ZX1 Is An Intriguing Little Camera with a Ridiculous Price Tag

The Witcher’s Abs Take Center Stage in Our First Look at Season 2

40 Percent of the Amazon Is on the Brink of Transitioning to Savanna

Early Humans Were Using Fire 300,000 Years Ago to Forge Superior Stone Tools

Scientists Have Created a Laser Scanner That Can See Through Fog

Excel Error Believed to Have Caused UK to Lose 15,841 Covid-19 Tests

The Haunting of Bly Manor Delivers Spooky Horrors With Surprising Heart

California Has Its First ‘Gigafire’ in Modern History

Tasmanian Devils Are Back in Australia for the First Time in 3,000 Years

Lovecraft Country Went Meta and Got Even More Disturbing

Discoverers of Hepatitis C Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine

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