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CBP Seizes Batch of ‘Counterfeit AirPods’ That Appear to Just Be Legit OnePlus Buds [Updated]

“THAT’S NOT AN 🍎,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection tweeted on Sunday night. The federal agency was crowing about its latest bust and claiming it had “seized 2,000 counterfeit Apple AirPods from Hong Kong,” estimated to have carried a retail value of $398,000. The only problem is that the CBP shared photos of perfectly normal…

Tech News Rhett Jones Sep 14 '20

This Mandalorian Video Illustrates Just How Wild the Production Was

One of the most impressive things about The Mandalorian is the way that it gives you a rather solid idea of what life is like for people living in the larger Star Wars universe. But as grounded in reality as the show makes things seem, it truly is just a game of smoke and mirrors, as…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 14 '20

Fitbit Sense’s ECG App Is Now FDA-Cleared, Just Like the Apple Watch

Late last month, Fitbit threw a Hail Mary—and pulled it off—when the wearables company unveiled its fall lineup. At the center of was a new Sense smartwatch, which among other snazzy features has the ability to take electrocardiogram readings to monitor for atrial fibrillation—pending clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, of course. Well,…

Gadgets Victoria Song Sep 14 '20

Better Names for Pepsi’s Sleep Beverage, Ranked

PepsiCo will bring into production a drink to help people ease stress and sleep better during These Uncertain Times, the company announced today. They’ve decided to name this “enhanced water beverage” Driftwell. While my colleague Matt Novak described the name as indicative of “the dystopia we were promised,” I find it uninspiring—a sort of over-focus-grouped…

Tech News Avery Ellis Sep 14 '20

Marvel’s Avengers Works Best Putting the Spotlight on Its Unlikeliest Stars

The story of Crystal Dynamics and Square-Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers caught many off-guard heading into the grindy, loot-driven brawler, expecting a perfunctory tutorial to the game’s all-encompassing live-service mechanics. Instead, we got maybe one of the most sincerely intimate Avengers stories in years, and it works because of the game’s true stars. It’s no longer really…

Games James Whitbrook Sep 14 '20

Google Will Announce a New Chromecast, Smart Speaker, and Pixel Phones on Sept. 30

While Apple gears up to announce of bunch of new stuff tomorrow, Google has a launch event of its own scheduled for the end of September. Google’s Launch Nite In event on Sept. 30, which will kick off at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, is expected to show off a new Chromecast, smart speaker, and…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Sep 14 '20

Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech

Scientists Detect Apparent Signature of Life in Venus’s Atmosphere

In a major announcement, a team of scientists is claiming to have detected trace amounts of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. It’s a bizarre and potentially monumental finding, as living organisms are the only known source of this stinky, toxic gas. Venus—one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system—contains a possible signal…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Sep 14 '20

Should a Covid-19 Vaccine Be Mandatory for Kids? Health Experts Are Trying to Decide

As the race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus that causes covid-19 continues, a crucial question is on the horizon: Should a successful vaccine be made mandatory for children entering school? In a new paper out Monday, a group of experts argue that it’s still too early to answer the question definitively, but they…

Health Ed Cara Sep 14 '20

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Might Be the Most Violent Kids Show Out There

Netflix’s Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous opens on a kid running for his life. He watches his guide get eaten by velociraptors before he himself is swallowed by a T-Rex. It turns out it was just a VR video game, but that kind of represents the whole series: Children being “safely” traumatized. It’s hard to figure…

Television Beth Elderkin Sep 14 '20

How to Fireproof California’s Electric Grid

California isn’t equipped to handle the emerging hotter, drier climate. That includes its electric grid. This past week, utility company PG&E shut off power to some 172,000 households, forcing people to bear triple-digit temperatures without air conditioning. It mirrors choices the utility made last year in an attempt to stave off electric infrastructure sparking fires,…

Earther Dharna Noor Sep 14 '20

Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for IFP, Sal Buscema and Sam Grainger/Marvel Comics

Kang on, Marvel’s Ant-Man 3 Might Have Just Nabbed Lovecraft Country‘s Jonathan Majors

Anyone who has watched The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Netflix’s Da 5 Bloods, or HBO’s current hit Lovecraft Country can tell Jonathan Majors is a star. Now, Majors might set off to the stars, as the villain in an upcoming Marvel Studios movie. Deadline reports Majors is joining the upcoming third Ant-Man film,…

Movies Germain Lussier Sep 14 '20

The Apple Watch Series 6 Will Need a Fresh Take on Old Features

There’s a good chance that Apple will drop its next-gen Series 6 smartwatch during the company’s Tuesday event. We already know a lot of what’s coming to the Apple Watch with this fall’s watchOS 7 software upgrade, but a few things are still a mystery. The most whispered about rumor is that while there may…

Tech News Victoria Song Sep 14 '20

Vinyl Sales Beat CDs While Still Managing to Lose

For a lot of folks, records (in the year of our dark lord 2020) are one of those things you either “get” or just don’t. While its resurgence has spawned its fair share of hate-fueled rants asking why we’re falling for the greatest scam ever played on us at the hands of the music industry,…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Sep 14 '20

Lovecraft Country Stepped Up Its Game by Going Full Body Horror

By framing H.P. Lovecraft’s own white supremacist beliefs as the ultimate horror plaguing its heroes, Lovecraft Country’s given itself a way of focusing on scares that are more cerebral and emotional than the vicious, tentacled monsters the author popularized in his stories. But with “Strange Case,” the show spends some much needed time getting into…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 14 '20

The Arctic We Know Is Disappearing

There have been some pretty freaky things happening in the Arctic this year, with historic levels of ice melt, absurdly high temperatures, and wildfires in an area that’s meant to be the definition of cold. New research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that we shouldn’t just treat these occurrences…

Earther Dharna Noor Sep 14 '20

Nvidia Buying Arm Means Nothing for Apple, but Maybe Good Things for Nintendo

After weeks of rumors, Nvidia announced last night that it was ready to plop down $40 billion to acquire Arm Limited, better known as that company that designs Arm architecture behind CPUs in practically every gadget you use on a day-to-day basis. That tracks with reports from the past few months. In late July, Bloomberg…

Tech News Victoria Song Sep 14 '20

Star Wars Squadron‘s New Cinematic Short Celebrates the Pilots of a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Spaceships are, as previously established, extremely cool. But the people in their cockpits are the real heroes of the Star Wars universe, and our latest look at the new video game all about them is a gorgeous new short teaser. Released this morning, the short delves into the world of Squadrons, set in the immediate…

Trailers James Whitbrook Sep 14 '20

Looks Bad

I do not like this map one bit. The Atlantic hurricane season from hell is kicking into overdrive with five tropical cyclones dotting the map, two more that could form in the next week, and one particularly worrisome storm heading for the Gulf Coast. We’re in the heart of hurricane season, but this level of…

Earther Brian Kahn Sep 14 '20

Oracle Is the Likely Winner of the Great TikTok Bake-Off

It’s official: After a monthslong race against time, Oracle, a very American and very Trump-friendly company, has beat out Microsoft and WalMart to as the likely winner of the US portion of TikTok, CNBC reported. “Oracle confirms Secretary Mnuchin’s statement that it is part of the proposal submitted by ByteDance to the Treasury Department over…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Sep 14 '20

The Bonkers LG Wing: Pretty Fly for a Smartphone

Between the Surface Duo, ZTE Axon 20, Galaxy Z Flip, and others, we’ve seen a lot of phones with unusual designs in 2020, but the new LG Wing might be the boldest and wackiest of them all. Sporting a swiveling 6.8-inch primary OLED display, the LG Wing sort of seems like a modern interpretation of…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Sep 14 '20

CBP Seizes Batch of ‘Counterfeit AirPods’ That Appear to Just Be Legit OnePlus Buds [Updated]

This Mandalorian Video Illustrates Just How Wild the Production Was

Fitbit Sense’s ECG App Is Now FDA-Cleared, Just Like the Apple Watch

Better Names for Pepsi’s Sleep Beverage, Ranked

Marvel’s Avengers Works Best Putting the Spotlight on Its Unlikeliest Stars

Google Will Announce a New Chromecast, Smart Speaker, and Pixel Phones on Sept. 30

Scientists Detect Apparent Signature of Life in Venus’s Atmosphere

Should a Covid-19 Vaccine Be Mandatory for Kids? Health Experts Are Trying to Decide

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Might Be the Most Violent Kids Show Out There

How to Fireproof California’s Electric Grid

Kang on, Marvel’s Ant-Man 3 Might Have Just Nabbed Lovecraft Country‘s Jonathan Majors

The Apple Watch Series 6 Will Need a Fresh Take on Old Features

Vinyl Sales Beat CDs While Still Managing to Lose

Lovecraft Country Stepped Up Its Game by Going Full Body Horror

The Arctic We Know Is Disappearing

Nvidia Buying Arm Means Nothing for Apple, but Maybe Good Things for Nintendo

Star Wars Squadron‘s New Cinematic Short Celebrates the Pilots of a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Looks Bad

Oracle Is the Likely Winner of the Great TikTok Bake-Off

The Bonkers LG Wing: Pretty Fly for a Smartphone

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