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Tesla Scores a Win In Lawsuit Against Martin Tripp

After two years and a ton of Twitter drama, it looks like Tesla’s suit against ex-technician, Martin Tripp, has hit a major development. Nevada District courts ruled late Thursday that Tripp—who was fired from the automaker in late 2018 on claims that he’d plundered trade secrets—had also fallen afoul of the state’s cybersecurity laws as…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Poop Knives, Gassed-Up Gators, and More Absurd Science From the 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes

The winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced, and the honored experiments include frozen knives made from poop, an alligator forced to inhale helium, and vibrating earthworms. This annual contest highlights achievements that make “people laugh, then think.” The 30th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was held online this year due to covid-19.…

Tech News George Dvorsky

CBP Drones Conducted Flyovers Near Homes of Indigenous Pipeline Activists, Flight Records Show

Tom Goldtooth awoke on Feb. 21 expecting a pretty regular day ahead. And by all accounts, his day was normal. He was on the road by 11 a.m. to catch a flight. But unbeknownst to him, around the same time as he left, U.S. Customs and Border Protection was watching his home in Beltrami County,…

Earther Yessenia Funes & Dhruv Mehrotra

The Excellent DC Universe Is Dead, and a Comics-Only Service Is Taking Its Place

Today DC Entertainment announced that as of January 21, 2021 DC Universe will “evolve” into DC Universe Infinite, a comics only service. It’s a shame, because DC Universe has lowkey been one of the best streaming services you could drop cash on every month—if you’re a giant nerd like myself. The combination of old superhero…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz

Harley Quinn Renewed for Season 3 on HBO Max

At the end of Harley Quinn’s second season, the show gave fans almost everything they’ve always wanted and closed out on a note that truly works as a satisfying end to the foul-mouthed series. But why be contentwith just two seasons of damned-good storytelling when you can have a third? It’s news we expected to…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

New Dune Merch Gives Us Our Best Look Yet at Baron Harkonnen

The Flash might still have room for a Cyborg cameo. Scream 5’scast continues to expand. Fox gets all artificial intelligence in our latest look at neXt. Plus, what’s to come as The 100 nears its end and a new look at Carmen Sandiego’s third season. To me, my spoilers! The Flash According to The Wrap,…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The Downside of Conveniently Signing In With Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Apple

You’re finally ready to pull the trigger on that great cabin you saw on Airbnb, and it’s time to create an account for the service. When you’re signing up for something new, it’s tempting to just sign in using whatever accounts you already have: Sign in with Apple, Google, or Facebook (and in other cases…

Gadgets David Nield

Trump Regime Orders U.S. App Stores to Ban TikTok and WeChat by Sunday

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday that social media platforms TikTok and WeChat will be banned from distribution in the U.S. starting Sunday, Sept. 20. But there’s one important caveat, according to the Commerce Department press release. TikTok has until Nov. 12 for the so-called “national security concerns posed by TikTok to be resolved.”…

Tech News Matt Novak

Some of the Coolest Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Merch Will Soon Be Available to Everyone

Part of the allure of Disney parks’ Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge has been that you could only get Galaxy’s Edge merch at Galaxy’s Edge. Soon, that’ll no longer be the case. io9 and Gizmodo can exclusively reveal that starting September 28, Disney will put select Galaxy’s Edge merchandise, including those amazing Legacy Lightsabers, on their…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier

Australia’s 7-Hour ‘Flight to Nowhere’ Sells Out Instantly As People Lose Their Damn Minds Hoping to Feel Normal Again in the Midst of a Pandemic That’s Infected 30 Million and Killed Almost 1 Million Globally But Will We Ever Feel Normal Again and What Even Qualifies As Normal Anymore

Australia’s Qantas Airlines will fly a seven-hour “flight to nowhere” that takes off and lands in Sydney, a bizarre idea hinging on the belief that people who have been cooped up during the pandemic would want to just experience air travel, even if their destination is the same airport where they departed. And, strangely, Qantas…

Tech News Matt Novak

Federal Judge Blocks USPS Sabotage, Blasts DeJoy’s ‘Politically Motivated Attack’ to Affect the Election

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction regarding controversial changes at the U.S. Postal Service that have been pushed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to President Donald Trump, ahead of the November presidential election. “The states have demonstrated the defendants are involved in a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

iOS 14 Bug Will Bork Your Default Mail and Browser Settings

With iOS 14 now officially here, it was only a matter of time before we started hearing about the bugs. There are always bugs—and some are more inconsequential than others. One such silly, albeit annoying, issue that’s been discovered in the day and a half since iOS 14 rolled out wide to the public has…

Tech News Catie Keck

Ridley Scott’s Raised By Wolves Costume Designer Breaks Down the Show’s Alien Style

Ridley Scott’s sci-fi thriller Raised By Wolves is officially a hit: today, HBO Max announced it’s ordered a second season. The show—about a pair of androids raising human children on an alien planet—distinguishes itself from other sci-fi fare with its striking visuals, and that includes the costumes. Janty Yates, who’s worked with Ridley Scott multiple…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

RIP Nintendo 3DS

One of Nintendo’s most beloved handheld consoles, the 3DS, has been discontinued. Nintendo confirmed in a statement today to Polygon that “manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended.” The announcement comes a little over a year after Nintendo said the Switch Lite wasn’t going to replace the 3DS. “We’ll continue to support…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Tonal, the Latest Company Competing to Upgrade Your Home Gym, Raises Another $110 Million

The virtual home fitness start-up Tonal, which folks have already started calling the Peloton of strength training, announced on Thursday that it raised an additional $110 million in its latest round of funding, making it clear that investors are eager to get in on the increasingly crowded digital fitness market. A market that’s been fueled…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

Lovecraft Country‘s Wunmi Mosaku and Abbey Lee Discuss the Intricacies of Ruby and Christina

Lovecraft Country is an ensemble show about multiple members of the interconnected Freeman, Baptiste, and Braithwaite families, which made it important for certain characters to be expanded upon from their counterparts in the books. In particular, Wunmi Mosaku’s Ruby and Abbey Lee’s Christina have been given more fascinating arcs in the larger story of magic,…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Free Speech Champion Mark Zuckerberg Announces Plan to Censor His Employees

Facebook employees have recently been wondering if perhaps Facebook—which lets politicians lie in ads, festers with extremist movements like QAnon, and by design amplifies authoritarian propaganda, misinformation, and hate speech—is actually the bad guy. Hey, pal, why don’t you shut the fuck up, CEO Mark Zuckerberg responds. According to reports in CNBC and the Wall…

Social Media Tom McKay

WhatsApp’s Encryption Hasn’t Kept It Safe From Stalkerware

Among the sprawl of properties in the Facebook family, WhatsApp’s perhaps the only one that’s preached preserving user privacy and actually followed through. But that hasn’t stopped bad actors from finding new ways to spy and snoop without the platform’s—or any user’s—say-so. As a new investigation from Business Insider details, apps promising to probe the…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

Parents Agree: Don’t Give Your Kids an Apple Watch

The easiest way to sell something is to tell people it will help them not die or get hurt. This is definitely true when it comes to the Apple Watch, a product whose—arguably excellent—marketing message is, “Wear this and you might survive a heart attack.” So when Apple announced Family Setup, a service that lets…

Tech News John Biggs

Why Isn’t Close Encounters Considered Steven Spielberg’s Ultimate Masterpiece? Because It Kind of Is

Many people would agree that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a straight-up masterpiece. That’s not some wild stretch. And yet, ask those same people what the best Steven Spielberg movies are and there’s a very good chance it barely makes the top five. (Seriously. I ran a poll to check this. It’s true.)…

Movies Germain Lussier

Tesla Scores a Win In Lawsuit Against Martin Tripp

Poop Knives, Gassed-Up Gators, and More Absurd Science From the 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes

CBP Drones Conducted Flyovers Near Homes of Indigenous Pipeline Activists, Flight Records Show

The Excellent DC Universe Is Dead, and a Comics-Only Service Is Taking Its Place

Harley Quinn Renewed for Season 3 on HBO Max

New Dune Merch Gives Us Our Best Look Yet at Baron Harkonnen

The Downside of Conveniently Signing In With Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Apple

Trump Regime Orders U.S. App Stores to Ban TikTok and WeChat by Sunday

Some of the Coolest Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Merch Will Soon Be Available to Everyone

Australia’s 7-Hour ‘Flight to Nowhere’ Sells Out Instantly As People Lose Their Damn Minds Hoping to Feel Normal Again in the Midst of a Pandemic That’s Infected 30 Million and Killed Almost 1 Million Globally But Will We Ever Feel Normal Again and What Even Qualifies As Normal Anymore

Federal Judge Blocks USPS Sabotage, Blasts DeJoy’s ‘Politically Motivated Attack’ to Affect the Election

iOS 14 Bug Will Bork Your Default Mail and Browser Settings

Ridley Scott’s Raised By Wolves Costume Designer Breaks Down the Show’s Alien Style

RIP Nintendo 3DS

Tonal, the Latest Company Competing to Upgrade Your Home Gym, Raises Another $110 Million

Lovecraft Country‘s Wunmi Mosaku and Abbey Lee Discuss the Intricacies of Ruby and Christina

Free Speech Champion Mark Zuckerberg Announces Plan to Censor His Employees

WhatsApp’s Encryption Hasn’t Kept It Safe From Stalkerware

Parents Agree: Don’t Give Your Kids an Apple Watch

Why Isn’t Close Encounters Considered Steven Spielberg’s Ultimate Masterpiece? Because It Kind of Is

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