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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

The Monster Hunter Movie Has a Brief Teaser and a New Release Date

What happens when you mash up military action Michael Bay-isms with the fantastical world of Monster Hunter? You get this, and it looks, uhhh, wild. Released by IGN, a new trailer for Monster Hunter just dropped. If you can call a sixteen-second clip a trailer, anyway. A micro-trailer? Featuring Milla Jovovich, TI Harris, Meagan Good,…

Trailers Julie Muncy

In This Teaser, The Snoopy Show Looks Like a Delightful Return to TV For Charlie Brown and Crew

The return of Peanuts to television is a welcome reprieve in this wild world. And it’s especially a good one if you like Snoopy.

Trailers Julie Muncy

Billy Crudup Is in Talks to Join the Flash Movie, Again

Billy Crudup, known for playing one of the bluest men in comic books, is in talks to join Ezra Miller’s The Flash. For a second time. Listen, it’s been a rough project. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Crudup is in “early negotiations” to join the project, based on the version of the DC superhero first…

Movies Julie Muncy

This Book About a High School Coven Understands Just How Ridiculous Teens Can Be

The opening chapter of Hannah Abigail Clarke’s The Scapegracers is a little rough. It starts with a group of girls gathering in the middle of a party to do some magic and freak everyone out. Then the narrator breaks off to do more magic with a girl she’s only just met, and the feeling that…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz

Kellyanne Conway Has Covid-19, And Her Daughter’s TikToks Broke the News

Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway confirmed on Friday that she’s contracted covid-19 after her 15-year-old daughter broke the news in a series of TikToks revealing her mother’s positive diagnosis and denouncing President Donald Trump. “Tonight I tested positive for COVID-19,” Conway tweeted Friday evening. “My symptoms are mild (light cough) and I’m feeling fine.…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Serious Grindr Vulnerability Let Hackers Hijack User Accounts With Just an Email Address

The popular LGBT+ hook-up app Grindr has fixed a glaring security flaw that allowed hackers to take over any account if they knew the user’s registered email address, TechCrunch reports. Wassime Bouimadaghene, a French security researcher, originally uncovered the vulnerability in September. But after he shared his discovery with Grindr and was met with radio…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley

The Early Days of Nickelodeon Are on Display in This Excellent Looking New Documentary

Are you ready for a huge dose of childhood nostalgia? Don’t say “I don’t know,” or you’ll get covered in green slime. A new documentary is coming called The Orange Years. It explores the early days of kid-centric TV channel Nickelodeon, which brought us shows like Double Dare, You Can’t Do That on Television, Clarissa Explains…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Google’s Daydream VR Is Officially, Really, Finally Dead

If you happen to be one of the few people who still use Google’s Daydream VR platform, I’m sorry to tell you that it’s officially dead. (If you didn’t know Daydream was a thing, that’s totally OK. I forgot it was, too.) Spotted by Android Authority, Google recently issued a service update for Daydream letting…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Just Buy a Dang Smartwatch

Let’s talk about smartwatches for a minute. I have, for an inordinate amount of time, been extremely averse to donning a smart device on my wrist. My reasons for this weird hangup were twofold, and, in retrospect, pretty dumb: First, I try to the best of my ability to limit the amount of time I…

Gadgets Catie Keck

Old Friends, Old Foes, and Old Ghost Blasters Return as the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the coolest toys we’ve seen on the internet over the past seven days. This week we’re rounding up some of the best stuff from Hasbro’s recent PulseCon virtual event, as well as the return of a classic ‘80s Ghostbusters toy and the re-appearance of a Star…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

Facebook’s Dilemma, Subpoena Time, and Twitter: There Was an Attempt

It’s time for Hellfeed, your biweekly summary of who’s kicking and screaming online, and we really couldn’t have picked a better day: The president tweeted that he is ill with the novel coronavirus this morning and then totally dropped off the goddamn radar. While the nation waits for updates on the president’s condition—the White House…

Internet Tom McKay

Villains Are Taking Control of the Friday Gif Party

This week’s Friday gif party is about to get a little…evil. In celebration of Jamie Foxx possibly joining Tom Holland’s Spider-Man 3 as Electro, as well as finally entering the spookiest month of the year, we’re letting the villains take over. Be sure to leave a gif of your favorite villains doing their thing. Whether…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Here Are a Bunch of Pictures of Donald Trump Taking the Pandemic Seriously

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. I’m sure that’s what a lot of people were thinking when President Donald Trump announced on Friday morning that he and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, had tested positive for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. No matter your politics, you can’t help but…

Tech News Jody Serrano

The New James Bond Film Has Been Moved to October 2021 [Updated]

Update 1/21/2021, 8 p.m. ET: It truly seems like there’s no time for No Time to Die. The 25th James Bond film has been delayed a third time, now scheduled for release on October 8, 2021. We’ve updated the original headline and the previous article is below. Earlier: One of the first films delayed due…

Movies Germain Lussier

Spell‘s First Trailer Is Full of Homesick Misery

Paramount’s Spell—from director Mark Tonderai—comes at a time when people across the world are longing to be able to visit their families, something they can’t do because of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Spell’s first trailer, though, presents the very real idea that sometimes, it’s best to skip the visits home. Spell’s trailer introduces Marq (Omari…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

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

The Monster Hunter Movie Has a Brief Teaser and a New Release Date

In This Teaser, The Snoopy Show Looks Like a Delightful Return to TV For Charlie Brown and Crew

Billy Crudup Is in Talks to Join the Flash Movie, Again

This Book About a High School Coven Understands Just How Ridiculous Teens Can Be

Kellyanne Conway Has Covid-19, And Her Daughter’s TikToks Broke the News

Serious Grindr Vulnerability Let Hackers Hijack User Accounts With Just an Email Address

The Early Days of Nickelodeon Are on Display in This Excellent Looking New Documentary

Google’s Daydream VR Is Officially, Really, Finally Dead

Just Buy a Dang Smartwatch

Old Friends, Old Foes, and Old Ghost Blasters Return as the Best Toys of the Week

Facebook’s Dilemma, Subpoena Time, and Twitter: There Was an Attempt

Villains Are Taking Control of the Friday Gif Party

Here Are a Bunch of Pictures of Donald Trump Taking the Pandemic Seriously

The New James Bond Film Has Been Moved to October 2021 [Updated]

Spell‘s First Trailer Is Full of Homesick Misery

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