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Google Failed to Remove Misleading Ads About Voting By Mail Because of a Technicality. Blegh.

Google reportedly took five days to review misleading ads from an organization that echoes the president’s crock about voting by mail, and then declined to take them down essentially because of a technicality. According to a Washington Post report this week, the ads aimed to discourage voters from using the U.S. Postal Service, which President…

Politics Alyse Stanley

Let’s Celebrate That Cobra Kai Is Now on Netflix

As great as the Karate Kid sequel show Cobra Kai is—let’s face it, it got buried on YouTube. Sure, everyone watches and uses YouTube, but most of them don’t pay to watch its original content. Now the show has made the move to Netflix and it feels like a coming-out party. Audiences from all over…

io9 Germain Lussier

South Korea Holds Off Imposing Maximum Social Distancing Measures As Cases Surge

South Korea, one of the world’s leading examples for novel coronavirus containment, is struggling with a recent surge of thousands of infections of the virus. Some in the country are calling for a version of a tried-and-true solution practiced all around the world: restrictive social distancing measures.

Health Jody Serrano

Ayo Edebiri Will Replace Jenny Slate as Missy on Big Mouth

Putting its money where its big mouth is, Netflix has followed through on recasting Jenny Slate in Big Mouth. A couple of months ago, as much of the animation industry reckoned with its regular tendency to cast non-Black actors to voice Black characters, Jenny Slate, who previously voiced the Black character Missy on Netflix’s Big…

io9 Julie Muncy

The REFACE App Has Turned Me Into Narcissus

If you’ve ever wanted to know what your face would look like carelessly pasted over Jason Momoa or Cardi B’s bone structure, a new app will let you do that. REFACE maps and plasters your face onto another, an innovation that surely had noble intentions but has instead served to create some truly eldritch horrors.…

Culture Alex Cranz

Nicolas Cage Will Play an Alcoholic Dragon in Hiding in Amazon’s Highfire Adaptation

If there’s anyone who can pull that off, it’s Nicolas Cage. As reported by the Hollywood Reporter, Nicolas Cage will be starring in and executive producing a drama for Amazon based on the book Highfire, by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer. The story, based on the book published this past January, is one of a…

Movies Julie Muncy

Image: Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Frank D’Armata, Richard Starkings, and Tyler Smith/Marvel Comics

Marvel Made Fortnite Canon and I Have Lost My Entire Mind

Trying to make sense of comics continuity at the best of times requires offering up a tiny little part of your brain to be smushed to gooey smithereens in the mortar and pestle of comic book publishing tomfoolery. But friends, I fear trying to make sense of Marvel’s newest tango with the world of Fortnite…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Seeing Hurricane Katrina in 2020 Vision

I thought I understood time until 2020. There are regularly days when I am not sure which day of the week it is until it’s time to go to bed. Then there are weeks where I’m not sure what year it is. This week, as we neared the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, when I saw…

Earther Mary Heglar

Zuckerberg Admits That Facebook Screwed Up by Ignoring Militia Group Complaints Before Kenosha Shooting

Facebook made “an operational mistake” in ignoring reports about a page encouraging an armed militia to “defend” Kenosha, Wisconsin, against Black Lives Matter protesters, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video post Friday. The “Kenosha Guard” page, which clearly violated Facebook’s policies against promoting violence, stayed up a full nine hours after an armed vigilante…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

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Chadwick Boseman, Star of Black Panther, Has Passed Away at 43

The Associated Press has just revealed actor Chadwick Boseman has passed away from cancer at just 43 years old. We’ve very sad to be sharing this news with you tonight. The AP says Boseman has died “after 4-year fight with colon cancer.” He had not spoken publicly about this diagnosis. Boseman is well known in…

Movies Jill Pantozzi

Elon Musk Reveals His Cyborg Pigs

On Friday, Elon Musk demonstrated the tech behind his brain-computer interface startup, Neuralink, in a livestreamed demo that involved significantly more pigs than anyone expected. And they didn’t seem particularly interested in whatever the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had to show. When one piggy—Gertrude—was finally corralled into view after a few minutes hiding behind a…

Health Alyse Stanley

Photo: Chris Moorhouse / Photo: Neilson Barnard

The Case for Giving Kate Bush a Metroid Power Suit

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Games Hudson Hongo

We Absolutely Do Not Need a Comcast OS on Smart TVs

If there’s one thing TVs absolutely do not need, it’s a TV OS from Big Cable. Citing sources familiar with the plans, Protocol reported Friday that Comcast has been exploring using its X1 tech, which currently powers its set-top boxes and the company’s Roku knockoff, Flex, in smart TVs. According to the report, the company…

Tech News Catie Keck

A New Haunted Mansion Movie Is Rising From the Grave at Disney

Since the Eddie Murphy disaster, it feels like there have been about 999 tries to adapt iconic Disney ride The Haunted Mansion into a movie. If so, maybe lucky 1,000 will be the ticket. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney has hired writer Katie Dippold to pen a new script based on the ride about the…

Movies Germain Lussier

They Did It

They said they were going to do it, and they did it. According to Bloomberg, Apple has officially terminated Epic Games’s App Store developer account after promising to do so, which means the Fortnite maker’s games—and more importantly, updates for existing games like Fortnite—are no more, at least on iOS. “We are disappointed that we…

Tech News Caitlin McGarry

Spiky Batmen and Crystal Babies Are the Most Angular Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the best in plastic nonsense you can buy on the internet. Except it’s not all plastic this week: we have a suitably ludicrous crystal baby, a die-cast cyborg, and then…okay, quite a bit of the regular ol’ plastic stuff actually. Check it out! Swarovski Star Wars…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

Sleep Scientists Want to Cancel Daylight Saving Time

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a U.S. organization representing sleep scientists and clinicians, has called for the eradication of the century-long practice of daylight saving time, in which clocks are moved an hour forward in the spring and returned back an hour in the winter. The twice-a-year transition, they argue, not only inconveniences everyone…

Health Ed Cara

More Like Republican Novel Corona-vention, Am I Right Folks? Haha. Oh My God This Is Going to Get Someone Killed

Absolutely no one thought Donald Trump and his re-election campaign would learn their lesson after a plague rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June that local officials later said likely helped fuel an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. So it comes as no surprise that event organizers at the Republican National Convention over the past week…

Health Tom McKay

Have We Reached Peak Smartwatch?

It seems like damn near every tech company is trying to launch a smartwatch, but if you had asked me to predict which would be next, I probably wouldn’t have guessed OnePlus. According to 91Mobiles, the smartphone maker has filed for IMDA certification for a watch with the model number W301GB. This wouldn’t be the first…

Gadgets Victoria Song

The Force Is Strong with the Friday Gif Party

Another weekend, another lost convention. Star Wars Celebration might have been canceled this year, but the Friday gif party is here to, well, celebrate everything Star Wars. Grab your lightsaber and let’s begin! Be sure to leave your greatest “It’s Friday!” party gifs in the comments below. This week’s Bonus Points challenge is everything and…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Google Failed to Remove Misleading Ads About Voting By Mail Because of a Technicality. Blegh.

Let’s Celebrate That Cobra Kai Is Now on Netflix

South Korea Holds Off Imposing Maximum Social Distancing Measures As Cases Surge

Ayo Edebiri Will Replace Jenny Slate as Missy on Big Mouth

The REFACE App Has Turned Me Into Narcissus

Nicolas Cage Will Play an Alcoholic Dragon in Hiding in Amazon’s Highfire Adaptation

Marvel Made Fortnite Canon and I Have Lost My Entire Mind

Seeing Hurricane Katrina in 2020 Vision

Zuckerberg Admits That Facebook Screwed Up by Ignoring Militia Group Complaints Before Kenosha Shooting

Chadwick Boseman, Star of Black Panther, Has Passed Away at 43

Elon Musk Reveals His Cyborg Pigs

The Case for Giving Kate Bush a Metroid Power Suit

We Absolutely Do Not Need a Comcast OS on Smart TVs

A New Haunted Mansion Movie Is Rising From the Grave at Disney

They Did It

Spiky Batmen and Crystal Babies Are the Most Angular Toys of the Week

Sleep Scientists Want to Cancel Daylight Saving Time

More Like Republican Novel Corona-vention, Am I Right Folks? Haha. Oh My God This Is Going to Get Someone Killed

Have We Reached Peak Smartwatch?

The Force Is Strong with the Friday Gif Party

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