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Fossil’s New Smartwatches Could Leave Wear OS Fans Feeling the Lag

For better or worse, Fossil makes the bulk of Wear OS smartwatches on the market thanks to its huge stable of designer brands. (Seriously, it’s not a trade show without 5,000 Fossil smartwatches that all kind of do the same thing.) But this fall, instead of launching a Gen 6 smartwatch, Fossil announced today it’s…

Gadgets Victoria Song

In the New Trailer for Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds Becomes the Ultimate Romanceable NPC

He would do anything for love, but he won’t do that—by which we mean become corporeal. We’ve got a new trailer and release date for Ryan Reynold’s Free Guy, a film about a video game NPC that gains self-awareness and becomes an international celebrity for being nice. And pissing off Taika Waititi in the process.…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Updates From Marvel’s Loki, Eternals, and More

Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell are getting into action for Mission Impossible 7. Eric Kripke teases the season two finale of The Boys. Things are heating up on Lovecraft Country plus updates from Evil, Pandora, and more. Spoilers hoooo! The Mandalorian According to the Writers Guild of America, Jon Favreau has written six episodes of…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Putting Nasa’s Astronomy Picture of the Day On My Homescreen Finally Convinced Me to Use a Widget

A few weeks in, I’m still not sure why I should embrace iOS 14’s most notable feature: widgets. But developer Mark Hambly has managed to convince me to give up some of my precious home screen real estate with a simple widget that displays Nasa’s Astronomy Picture of the Day every time I unlock my…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Could Someone Hack My Microchip Implant?

These are, absolutely, very bleak times, but in a sense we should cherish them: we’re living through maybe the last stretch of history before employers start mandating microchips en masse. You’re going to miss living in fear of contracting a deadly virus, once HR brings out the scalpel—and then you’re going to miss the day…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz

Google’s Nest Audio Is the Best Sounding Smart Speaker You Can Get for $100

After buying Nest back in 2014, Google has been repositioning all of its smart home products under the brand, and that includes its smart speakers. One of the last holdouts to be upgraded as a Nest was one of the company’s first smart speakers, the 4-year-old Google Home. But the new Google Nest Audio sounds…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Andrew Liszewski

The Walking Dead Semi-Finale Threw Out the Old to Make Way for the New (Craziness)

When we last saw The Walking Dead, our survivors were holed up in an assortment of buildings surrounded by the insane Beta, his remaining Whisperer minions, and approximately four kazillion zombies. How can Daryl, Carol, Judith, and the others survive such an overwhelming onslaught? I’ll give you a two-word hint: Talking Heads. It’s been more…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Apple’s New Emoji Wants You to Know That You Don’t Have to Be Miserable When Wearing a Face Mask

At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, we all know that face masks—which public health officials agree are one of our most powerful weapons against the virus—can unfortunately be controversial. Grown adults in the U.S. have literally thrown childish fits over having to wear them. In recent days, Apple has quietly stepped into the debate…

Tech News Jody Serrano

As If Calling Its Wrestlers ‘Independent Contractors’ Wasn’t Enough, WWE Is Now Going to Hijack Their Twitch Accounts

Encouraging wrestlers to develop their own brand and then coming back to say, “Oh hey, sorry, you need to give us your Twitch account now,” just seems wrong. However, that’s exactly what WWE is doing to its wrestlers, who learned this week that the company would be taking over their Twitch accounts in four weeks,…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Cineworld Is Temporarily Closing Every Regal Theater in the U.S. [Updated]

So the whole going-to-see-movies-during-a-pandemic thing really isn’t working out, huh? Who could have seen that coming. Okay, not to keep beating this extremely deceased horse, but it keeps coming up: Variety reports that, in response to the No Time to Die delay that puts the last possible big theatrical release of 2020 back in 2021,…

Movies Julie Muncy

So, Who Else Thinks the White House Is Totally Pulling a Weekend at Bernie’s?

President Donald Trump is fine. Everything’s fine. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. After disclosing that he and his wife, Melania, tested positive for covid-19 on Friday, Trump was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he’s remained throughout the weekend. And while he and his team…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Netflix’s Next Holiday Movie Is the Sweeping Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey Starring Forest Whittaker

This seems just so wholesome. Taking up a step up a notch from the Lifetime-movie-core holiday fare like A Christmas Prince (which, don’t get me wrong, I love that mess), Netflix’s next holiday release is Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, which looks to be a sweeping Christmas-y journey full of music and sentimental energy. With…

Trailers Julie Muncy

Report: The Witcher Season 3 Might Be Entering Production Sooner Than Expected

The Witcher is currently in limbo between its first and second season, but its third season might already be confirmed and underway in some form or fashion, if a recent report is to be believed. According to the Witcher fan site Redanian Intelligence and confirmed by Games Radar, the Writer’s Guild of America West has…

io9 Julie Muncy

Alicia Vikander Is Hoping to Begin to Think About Making a New Tomb Raider Next Year

In 2018, Alicia Vikander took a turn as Lara Croft, the explorin’, double-gun shootin’ video game protagonist turned movie heroine. After that, a sequel was announced, but with the pandemic messing up plans for everything, it’s not been clear if or when it would proceed. Recently, Vikander appeared on Good Morning America to discuss her…

Movies Julie Muncy

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet Nails the Planetary Problems But Misses the Political Ones

David Attenborough is 93. Over the course of his lifetime, the beloved natural historian and broadcaster has seen the planet go through unimaginable changes. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have soared, as has the human population, while biodiversity has declined precipitously. He details these shifts in a new documentary released on Netflix on Sunday, which…

Earther Dharna Noor

If Your iPhone’s Battery Is Evaporating With iOS 14, You Are Not Alone

Apple’s new iOS 14 has brought iPhone users a trove of wonders. But one cannot have wonders without some bugs. So if you recently noticed that your iPhone seems to suffer massive battery drain after upgrading to iOS 14, we want you to know it’s not just you. And rest assured, there’s a way to…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Oh God, These Things Have a ‘Slaughter Phase’

Washington State officials are frantically searching for a colony of Asian giant hornets—also known as murder hornets—before the invasive species enters its “slaughter phase.” Because of course that’s a thing. Washington State Department of Agriculture personnel kicked off a campaign this week to uncover a murder hornet colony following a string of sightings near Blaine,…

Conservation Alyse Stanley

Get Ready for The Haunting of Bly Manor With Its Ominous Opening Credits

The Haunting of Bly Manor comes to Netflix as a sort of pseudo-sequel to Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House. It’s as good a time as any to whet your appetite just a little bit more. Well, here’s just the thing: the Twitter account for the show, gearing up for the release, has shared…

io9 Julie Muncy

With Trump in Hospital With Covid-19, Twitter Suddenly Decides That Wishing for Someone’s Death Is a No-No

Wishing someone else ill will or death is a disgusting act that makes the world worse. This lesson of common decency seems like it would be obvious to everyone, especially a social media network with hundreds of millions of users. Twitter, for its part, recently responded swiftly to the news of President Donald Trump’s covid-19…

Social Media Jody Serrano

We Have a Date: Google, Facebook, and Twitter CEOs Will Testify Before Congress on Oct. 28

Less than a week before the 2020 presidential election, three of the biggest names in tech—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey—will testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about a longstanding law that protects websites from liability for user-generated content. The committee unanimously voted to…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Fossil’s New Smartwatches Could Leave Wear OS Fans Feeling the Lag

In the New Trailer for Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds Becomes the Ultimate Romanceable NPC

Updates From Marvel’s Loki, Eternals, and More

Putting Nasa’s Astronomy Picture of the Day On My Homescreen Finally Convinced Me to Use a Widget

Could Someone Hack My Microchip Implant?

Google’s Nest Audio Is the Best Sounding Smart Speaker You Can Get for $100

The Walking Dead Semi-Finale Threw Out the Old to Make Way for the New (Craziness)

Apple’s New Emoji Wants You to Know That You Don’t Have to Be Miserable When Wearing a Face Mask

As If Calling Its Wrestlers ‘Independent Contractors’ Wasn’t Enough, WWE Is Now Going to Hijack Their Twitch Accounts

Cineworld Is Temporarily Closing Every Regal Theater in the U.S. [Updated]

So, Who Else Thinks the White House Is Totally Pulling a Weekend at Bernie’s?

Netflix’s Next Holiday Movie Is the Sweeping Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey Starring Forest Whittaker

Report: The Witcher Season 3 Might Be Entering Production Sooner Than Expected

Alicia Vikander Is Hoping to Begin to Think About Making a New Tomb Raider Next Year

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet Nails the Planetary Problems But Misses the Political Ones

If Your iPhone’s Battery Is Evaporating With iOS 14, You Are Not Alone

Oh God, These Things Have a ‘Slaughter Phase’

Get Ready for The Haunting of Bly Manor With Its Ominous Opening Credits

With Trump in Hospital With Covid-19, Twitter Suddenly Decides That Wishing for Someone’s Death Is a No-No

We Have a Date: Google, Facebook, and Twitter CEOs Will Testify Before Congress on Oct. 28

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