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iRobot’s Cheapest Roombas Might Finally Be Worth Buying

Robot vacuums have always been dubiously “smart” for the average person. Sure, high-end models do a pretty good job at automated cleaning, but cheaper models tend to be more hit-or-miss. But today, iRobot has released a new AI platform for its wifi-connected Roombas and Brava jet robomops that might actually make buying a cheaper, more…

Gadgets Victoria Song

The New Mutants Director Josh Boone Is Confident It’s a Comic Book Film Like No Other

Josh Boone’sThe New Mutants is a movie years in the making. It’s also technically the final piece of the puzzle to 20th Century Studios’ massive franchise of X-Men cinematic spectacles that have been steadily drawing people into movie theaters for decades now. Sometimes the stories were great and sometimes they were patently awful. io9 caught up…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Evacuations Underway as Hurricane Laura Beelines for Louisiana and Texas

This week, Louisiana caught a fortunate break from Tropical Storm Marco, which rapidly lost steam before its a projected landfall. But the state’s luck doesn’t look like it will last, because Hurricane Laura is on the way. Laura brought heavy rain and flash floods to Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and parts of Cuba, and then…

Earther Dharna Noor

In the First Enola Holmes Trailer, Millie Bobby Brown Is on the Case

Make way, Henry Cavill’s hair, there’s a new detective in town. Netflix has released the first trailer for Enola Holmes, which sees Millie Bobby Brown donning her own inspector’s cap to search for her missing mother—even as her brothers try (and fail) to keep her from it. Enola Holmes stars Stranger Things’ Brown as the…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

The Rock Explains Why Black Adam Won’t Include Hawkgirl in the JSA

Urban Legend is making a return. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot is already hitting some snags. The DC animated universe is venturing into another Batman classic. Plus, another new poster for The Suicide Squad, a new look at Antebellum, and Swamp Thing heads to the CW. Spoilers get! Urban Legend Collider reports Kyle Chandler’s daughter,…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Fitbit Just Pulled Several Miracles Out of Its Ass With Its New Wearable Lineup

Fitbit really needed to impress this fall. Not only did Samsung just up the ante in the smartwatch realm with its excellent Galaxy Watch 3, but Apple also has some neat features lined up for the Apple Watch with watchOS 7. And when it comes to budget trackers and smartwatches, players like Xiaomi and Amazfit…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Fitbit Just Made a Wildly Advanced Smartwatch That I’m Finally Excited About

Fitbit has been making smartwatches for, oh, about four years now. But despite the fact that those watches were decently affordable with pretty lengthy battery life, none of them really stood out to me as a must-buy. Fitbit’s design team needed some serious help—seriously, do we remember the Blaze?—and the watches’ health-tracking features, while promising,…

Gadgets Caitlin McGarry

Meural’s New Digital Photo Frame Might Resurrect the Comic Strip Calendar

When the smartphone arrived and put easy access to thousands of photos in our pockets, it rendered digital photo frames mostly obsolete. They’ve since become a niche product but Netgear thinks that could change by turning digital photo frames into another product that failed to keep up with changing technologies: the comic strip desk calendar.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Exxon Ends 92-Year Run on Dow Jones

Spending 92 years doing anything is an accomplishment, so let’s cheers to Exxon Mobil Corp., which spent more than nine decades as a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, pillaging the planet, lying about climate change, and making rich people even richer. Now, those days have come to an end. One of the biggest…

Earther Brian Kahn

In Apple and Epic’s First Hearing, Apple Wins the Right to Boot Fortnite, But Not Unreal Engine

Last week, Epic filed for a temporary restraining order to prevent Apple from terminating all of Epic’s developer accounts and cutting the company off from iOS and Mac development tools, which would go into affect on Friday August 28, 2020. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California heard arguments from both sides…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

‘Cocaine’ Trends on Twitter During Republican National Convention

The Republican National Convention kicked off on Monday, with a star-studded line-up including a fossil fuels distributor, the St. Louis couple that pointed their guns at civil rights protesters, and the father of a shooting victim who says the way to stop school shootings is to arm teachers. But if you were on Twitter last…

Politics Matt Novak

Firefox’s New Android Browser Is a Pretty Placebo For Your Privacy Woes

Every browser has a certain something to set it apart from the others. Edge has that logo. Chrome hogs your memory. And Mozilla’s Firefox really, really cares about your privacy. The idea of keeping your web-browsing experience personal is something the company’s been emphasizing in every product update for the past few years, so naturally,…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

Apple Reportedly Swallows Up VR Startup Spaces

Apple has quietly acquired VR startup Spaces, according to a Monday report by Protocol, though it’s not entirely clear role the company has to play in Apple’s AR and VR ambitions. Spaces spun out of Dreamworks Animation in early 2016, quickly earning contracts with companies ranging from Microsoft to NBCUniversal to develop a variety of…

Tech News Tom McKay

U.S. Border Patrol Tried to Get Free Wall From We Build the Wall, Whose Leaders Are Facing Charges

Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Border Patrol considered accepting sections of privately constructed U.S.-Mexico border wall from We Build the Wall, the GoFundMe-launched project whose leadership is now facing federal indictments. We Build the Wall, a campaign for hardcore xenophobes to crowdfund private construction of Donald Trump’s promised border wall, transitioned to nonprofit…

Tech News Tom McKay

These 7 Seconds of Cobra Kai Season 3 Are the Best Around

The wait for season three of Cobra Kai has been killer. Season two debuted in early 2019, one year after the first, but now it seems fans will have to wait until 2021 to see what happens next in the world of The Karate Kid. That long wait is one of many reasons why the…

Trailers Germain Lussier

The CW Wants to Make a Live-Action Powerpuff Girls With…Powerpuff Women?

What happens when The Powerpuff Girls grow up? Apparently, they completely change mediums. Variety reports that the CW is developing a live-action show based on the popular animated Cartoon Network series. The show would follow Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup as twentysomethings who are resentful that they didn’t have proper childhoods because they were always fighting…

io9 Germain Lussier

Internal USPS Documents Show How Much the Postmaster General Is Bombing at His Job

Documents displayed during Monday’s House Oversight Committee hearing with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy show just how far behind the Postal Service has fallen since DeJoy took over in June. DeJoy spent the morning defending his brief, scandal-ridden time as postmaster general before the committee. Citing complaints from constituents and postal workers across the country, Democratic…

Politics Dell Cameron

Breaking Down The Batman‘s First Trailer: Haunting Secrets and Enigmatic Clues

At DC Fandome this past weekend, Matt Reeves stunned us all with a first look at Robert Pattinson in action as the latest Dark Knight in The Batman. It didn’t just give us a good look at RBatz though: it was our first, proper look into the latest cinematic incarnation of Gotham City, and its…

Movies James Whitbrook

Why Scientists Are Wary of the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization of Plasma for Covid-19

On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump announced news that his administration had earlier advertised as a “breakthrough” development in the ongoing pandemic: The Food and Drug Administration would issue an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma donated from covid-19 survivors as a treatment for hospitalized covid-19 patients. But though scientists and doctors are genuinely hopeful…

Health Ed Cara

The Flash Will Recast the Elongated Man, But He Won’t Be Around Long

The future of the Elongated Man has been up in the air ever since actor Hartley Sawyer was fired from CW’s The Flash over past racist and misogynist tweets. Showrunner Eric Wallace revealed that the character will be recast in season seven for a brief but necessary appearance. However, the door is open for some…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

iRobot’s Cheapest Roombas Might Finally Be Worth Buying

The New Mutants Director Josh Boone Is Confident It’s a Comic Book Film Like No Other

Evacuations Underway as Hurricane Laura Beelines for Louisiana and Texas

In the First Enola Holmes Trailer, Millie Bobby Brown Is on the Case

The Rock Explains Why Black Adam Won’t Include Hawkgirl in the JSA

Fitbit Just Pulled Several Miracles Out of Its Ass With Its New Wearable Lineup

Fitbit Just Made a Wildly Advanced Smartwatch That I’m Finally Excited About

Meural’s New Digital Photo Frame Might Resurrect the Comic Strip Calendar

Exxon Ends 92-Year Run on Dow Jones

In Apple and Epic’s First Hearing, Apple Wins the Right to Boot Fortnite, But Not Unreal Engine

‘Cocaine’ Trends on Twitter During Republican National Convention

Firefox’s New Android Browser Is a Pretty Placebo For Your Privacy Woes

Apple Reportedly Swallows Up VR Startup Spaces

U.S. Border Patrol Tried to Get Free Wall From We Build the Wall, Whose Leaders Are Facing Charges

These 7 Seconds of Cobra Kai Season 3 Are the Best Around

The CW Wants to Make a Live-Action Powerpuff Girls With…Powerpuff Women?

Internal USPS Documents Show How Much the Postmaster General Is Bombing at His Job

Breaking Down The Batman‘s First Trailer: Haunting Secrets and Enigmatic Clues

Why Scientists Are Wary of the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization of Plasma for Covid-19

The Flash Will Recast the Elongated Man, But He Won’t Be Around Long

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