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Tenet Is a Frustrating, Convoluted Mess of a Motion Picture

Have you ever had a great idea but not been able to clearly express it? Like, it’s right there on the tip of your tongue, but you just can’t find the words? Well, that’s Tenet in a nutshell. A movie obviously built on interesting, complex ideas, but with no clue how to put them into…

Movies Germain Lussier

Why Unions Are the Key to Passing a Green New Deal

There’s a persistent conservative myth that the clean energy transition must come at the expense of employment. Nothing could be further from the truth, though. The Congressional resolution on a Green New Deal, introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey last February, includes a proposal guarantee employment to all those who want it.…

Earther Dharna Noor

Colin Trevorrow Hints at Jurassic Park‘s Trio Playing a Large Role in Dominion

Giant swordpalooza Monster Hunters gets an official description. The Witcher loses a castmember for season two but Batwoman gains a couple. A Creepshow Halloween special is on the way to scare us, plus updates from Supernatural, The Boys and more. TGI-Spoilers! Blood Deadline reports Michelle Monaghan will star in Session 9 director Brad Anderson’s latest,…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

How Android 11 Beats iOS 14 for Handling Messaging Apps

Android 11 and iOS 14 are both here, and the software upgrades pack in a slew of improvements and new features for Android phones (er…some of them) and iPhones, respectively. Many of the tweaks and enhancements in Android 11 center around one particular area, though, and it’s an area where Google’s smartphone platform is edging ahead…

Gadgets David Nield

Huawei R&D Lab Catches Fire in Dongguan, China

Huawei’s research and development lab in the city of Dongguan, China is on fire, with large clouds of gray smoke billowing from the building, according to multiple videos posted to social media and the state news outlet Global Times. It’s not clear what caused the blaze, but firefighters are on the scene, according to China’s…

Tech News Matt Novak

It’s Not Just You, a Ton of Google Services Just Went Down (Update: Phew, They’re Back Up)

If you’ve been experiencing issues trying to access Google or YouTube, you’re not alone. Around 9 p.m. ET on Thursday evening, tons of users worldwide reported problems with Google and the many services under the tech giant’s umbrella, including Google Drive, Gmail, Stadia, the Play Store, and even Nest. Some, such as Gmail, were taking…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Behold: The Terminator by Poster Artist Tyler Stout

The release of a new Tyler Stout poster is an event. In the pop culture art world, few artists command as much anticipation and excitement as the one behind some of the best posters ever for Akira, Kill Bill, The Thing, and Star Wars. Well, today is just such an event. io9 is beyond excited…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier

Roli’s $300 Light-Up Keyboard Is Like if Rock Band Taught You How to Play Piano

Sometimes when I’m scrolling through my timeline, it feels like I’m the only person who didn’t pick up a new hobby during quarantine. I’m not too proud to admit that, while others were busy learning to paint or knit or rollerskate, I was content scrolling through TikTok and sinking dozens of hours into Stardew Valley…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

Watch Everyone Geek Out About The Mandalorian‘s 15 Miniature Razor Crest Shots

One of the first things fans saw from The Mandalorian was a seemingly simple shot of a ship flying across space. What we soon found out, though, was the shot was not simple. In fact, it was much more detailed and complicated than it even needed to be, just to pay tribute to the way…

io9 Germain Lussier

Amazon’s New Echo Show Will Soon Support Netflix, But What About Other Streaming Services?

Amazon’s annual product event introduced a host of new hardware and service updates, including a markedly different Echo Show design. But for those of us who prefer background noise while we’re whipping something up in the kitchen, the revamped Echo Show also introduces a new streaming option: Netflix. The Echo Show 10, a $250 smart…

Commerce Catie Keck

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The Boys Is Getting an R-Rated College Superhero Spinoff

Three words: Super. Hero. College. That’s the quick pitch for a brand new series being developed for Amazon as a spinoff to The Boys. Deadline reports show executive producer Craig Rosenberg is writing the spinoff, which has been in the works for a while but does not yet have a title. Now, it’s being fast-tracked…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Trump Spox Matt Wolking Shoves Foot in Mouth While Bashing CNN, Gizmodo Reporters [Updated]

The Justice Department released—and later retracted—a statement on Thursday saying it had opened an inquiry into the discarding of nine military ballots cast for President Trump in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The notice vanished from the DOJ’s website hours later only to be replaced by a “revised statement,” clarifying that two of the nine ballots are…

Politics Dell Cameron

Someone Is Anonymously Mailing Creepy QAnon Propaganda to Minneapolis Residents

Someone is mailing QAnon-themed material to residents of Minneapolis suburbs, the Intercept reported on Thursday, and it’s not clear who’s doing it or why. QAnon is a conspiracy theory that mashes various strands of paranoid thinking into a convenient narrative: That a worldwide network of Satanic pedophiles, comprising elites in everything from the Democratic Party…

Tech News Tom McKay

Louisville Police Take Down Inmate Lookup Site Amid Mass Arrest of Protesters

An estimated 127 people have been arrested since protesters took to the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday after a grand jury chose not to charge three officers for Breonna Taylor’s death. With hundreds more expected to be detained in the coming weeks, the Information Systems Team at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections has…

Tech News Dhruv Mehrotra

Netflix’s Three-Body Problem Decried by U.S. Senators Over Liu Cixin’s Muslim Commentary

Earlier this month, Netflix announced that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss would partner with The Terror: Infamy’s Alexander Woo to adapt the beloved, Hugo-winning Chinese sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. But now, the company is facing calls from a cadre of Republicans demanding the show be scrapped. Variety…

io9 James Whitbrook

Atari’s Vaporware Console Is Getting Blockchain-Based Games

In what is certain to be one of the least promising moves in console gaming in 2020, Atari has partnered with a company called Ultra Gaming to offer blockchain-based game streaming to its forthcoming VCS console. The fabled Atari VCS has long been a bit of fun vaporware that is currently suffering from shipping issues…

Tech News John Biggs

The Rallying Cry Against Apple’s App Store Policies is Getting Louder

Several developers and organizations have banded together to lead a campaign against Apple’s App Store policies. Announced today, the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF) is a new nonprofit dedicated to fighting for fair, competitive practices across the app ecosystem. The CAF’s founding members include Epic Games, Basecamp, European Publishers Council, Tile, Spotify, and several others…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Black Hole From Iconic Image Appears to Be Wobbling

Scientists are learning important new things about the first-ever directly imaged black hole, including behaviors consistent with Einsteinian theory, but it’s also showing an unexpected feature in the form of a very wobbly ring. Seems like forever ago, but we finally got to feast our eyes on the apparently unseeable back in April 2019, when…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Attention, People of Illinois: It’s Time to Make Facebook Pay

With every passing day, Facebook gives us more evidence that it’s incapable of running itself responsibly, and every day it faces zero consequences. The profits rise and the what-are-you-gonna-do shrugs get more emphatic. But today is different. Today, some of you out there have a chance to cause the social network a little pain for…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Star Wars: The High Republic‘s Answer to Excalibur Is Exquisite

The books that compose the first phase of Star Wars: The High Republic are set to introduce readers to the deep, rich histories that defined the Jedi Order long before the events of The Phantom Menace. They’ll also provide more information about the interstellar wars that have defined the galaxy for countless generations. Because the…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Tenet Is a Frustrating, Convoluted Mess of a Motion Picture

Why Unions Are the Key to Passing a Green New Deal

Colin Trevorrow Hints at Jurassic Park‘s Trio Playing a Large Role in Dominion

How Android 11 Beats iOS 14 for Handling Messaging Apps

Huawei R&D Lab Catches Fire in Dongguan, China

It’s Not Just You, a Ton of Google Services Just Went Down (Update: Phew, They’re Back Up)

Behold: The Terminator by Poster Artist Tyler Stout

Roli’s $300 Light-Up Keyboard Is Like if Rock Band Taught You How to Play Piano

Watch Everyone Geek Out About The Mandalorian‘s 15 Miniature Razor Crest Shots

Amazon’s New Echo Show Will Soon Support Netflix, But What About Other Streaming Services?

The Boys Is Getting an R-Rated College Superhero Spinoff

Trump Spox Matt Wolking Shoves Foot in Mouth While Bashing CNN, Gizmodo Reporters [Updated]

Someone Is Anonymously Mailing Creepy QAnon Propaganda to Minneapolis Residents

Louisville Police Take Down Inmate Lookup Site Amid Mass Arrest of Protesters

Netflix’s Three-Body Problem Decried by U.S. Senators Over Liu Cixin’s Muslim Commentary

Atari’s Vaporware Console Is Getting Blockchain-Based Games

The Rallying Cry Against Apple’s App Store Policies is Getting Louder

Black Hole From Iconic Image Appears to Be Wobbling

Attention, People of Illinois: It’s Time to Make Facebook Pay

Star Wars: The High Republic‘s Answer to Excalibur Is Exquisite

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