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Ongoing Coronavirus Outbreak Postpones Reopening of Apple Stores in China

Apple told its Chinese employees that although it would be working on reopening its corporate offices and contact centers in the country next week, retail stores would remain closed until further notice due to the coronavirus outbreak. The announcement, reported by MacGeneration, was made by Deidre O’Brien, Apple’s senior vice president for retail and people.…

Tech News Jody Serrano Feb 8 '20

Hulu’s Utopia Falls Is About the Revolutionary Power of Art in a Dystopia

Art can change your life. Free expression can give you the power to understand yourself, your past, the world around you. It can even set off a revolution. Utopia Falls is hoping that premise makes for good drama when it comes to Hulu. It sounds like a typical performance show, at first blush: a group…

Trailers Julie Muncy Feb 8 '20

Maybe Microsoft’s Xbox Chief Didn’t Say the Stupidest Thing About Cloud Gaming This Week

In a quote in Politico’s new technology-focused publication, Protocol, Xbox Chief Phil Spencer said something seemingly earth-shattering for any gamer: It isn’t Nintendo or Sony that Microsoft views as primary competitors in the gaming space, but Amazon and Google. That sounds deeply stupid. Google’s Stadia has basically been a flop, and Amazon hasn’t even launched…

Games Alex Cranz Feb 8 '20

Leaked Photos Confirm Samsung’s New Foldable Phone is One Big Boy

As we count down the last few days before Samsung’s Unpacked event Tuesday, here’s yet another Galaxy Z Flip leak that hopefully will help hold you over in the meantime. As shared by Engadget on Friday, a tipster revealed photos purportedly showing the company’s newest take on a foldable phone. Now, considering that plenty of…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley Feb 8 '20

FDA Now Lets Lab Animals Go Up For Adoption

Federal animal testing, while still controversial, is now a little less macabre thanks to a recent policy amendment by the Food and Drug Administration. Instead of euthanizing these poor critters after they’ve been involved in experiments, now the FDA’s opened up adoption and transfer practices so that healthy animals can retire after their stint in the…

Biology Alyse Stanley Feb 7 '20

Harley Quinn Gets a Suitably Fantabulous New Figure, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of all things toy on the internet. This week: Harley Quinn skates into Hot Toys, fans can celebrate Alien’s 40th anniversary with some new toys, and Hasbro brings back a classic Kenner toy for The Mandalorian. Check it out! Hot Toys Birds of Prey Harley Quinn…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Feb 7 '20

50 Years Ago, Doctor Who Gave Us One of Its Most Chilling Scenes Ever

Half a century ago today, Doctor Who introduced us to the Silurians, an ancient race of reptilians who had lived on Earth long before the dawn of human civilization awoke them from their underground slumber. An icon of ‘70s Doctor Who, their debut adventure is still one of the Third Doctor’s finest outings—but it’s also…

io9 James Whitbrook Feb 7 '20

Facebook’s Twitter Account Just Got Hijacked (For Like 2 Seconds)

Facebook’s twitter account was temporarily taken over Friday night by a group of hackers that, mostly according to rumor, may be Saudi teens. Hacking crew OurMine, which only last month hijacked the accounts of 15 NFL football teams, and has previously taken over Mark Zuckerberg’s Pinterest and Twitter accounts, appears to have momentarily seized control…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Feb 7 '20

Is Billionaire Okay?

If you read a lot of tech news, the mind wanders every so often to billionaire SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Is he sitting at his desk, the blackened banana peel of a detonated booby cigar still dangling from his lips, since SoftBank’s multi-billion-dollar gamble on WeWork spectacularly blew up in his face? Or is he…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Feb 7 '20

Nearly Half of Older Americans Worry They Can’t Afford Insurance by Retirement Age

New research out Friday is the latest to paint a depressing picture of the U.S. health care system. The study found that nearly half of older Americans are worried about their ability to afford health insurance by the time they retire, while one-fourth aren’t sure they’ll have insurance within a year’s time. Any legal resident…

Health Ed Cara Feb 7 '20

The OA Co-Creator Brit Marling Wants More than ‘Strong Female Leads’

One of the biggest criticisms of Brit Marling’s Netflix series The OA was the way that the story—people hopping across dimensions—placed more emphasis on emotional intelligence and the power of empathy (and, yes, interpretative dance), rather than “traditional” super-science and the kinds of action we’ve been conditioned to expect from sci-fi narratives. Prairie, Marling’s character,…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 7 '20

Facebook’s Anti-Vaxxer Problem Under Fire Following 4-Year-Old’s Death From Flu

Facebook—a company notorious for its bizarre defense of allowing rampant misinformation to spread like wildfire on its platform—has found itself under fire again after a mother whose 4-year-old son reportedly died of the flu this week turned to an anti-vaxxer group on the site for treatment recommendations for her children, a practice that is somehow…

Tech News Catie Keck Feb 7 '20

Yet Another Texas Chainsaw Reboot Is on the Way

Reboots of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are like Leatherface’s masks. They pop on and off over the face of the original film, again and again. After reboots/reimaginings in 2003 and 2013, which spawned several sequels and prequels in between, Variety reports that directors Andy and Ryan Tohill have been hired by Legendary to do yet…

Movies Germain Lussier Feb 7 '20

BoJack Horseman Perfectly Captured the Agony of Writer’s Block

In BoJack Horseman’s final season, Diane undergoes one of the series’ most significant transformations after she decides to leave her life in Los Angeles behind in order to start fresh in Chicago. After spending so much time chasing after happiness in the form of hollow professional success, Diane realizes that she wants her writing to…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 7 '20

Trump: Democrats ‘Fried Their Votes on Computer’

President Trump thinks Democrats fried their votes on computer, he told reporters on Friday. In reference to the Iowa Democratic presidential caucus debacle—in which a buggy app paid for by the state party malfunctioned disastrously, preventing timely reporting of caucus results that themselves were later found to be riddled with errors even when checking via…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Feb 7 '20

House Democrats Have a Plan to Build High-Speed EV Charging Stations Across the U.S.

Cars are bad, especially the ones that run on gas, which are most of them. The average car emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year (that equals roughly one shitload), and the transportation sector is responsible for 29 percent of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions. All those emissions not only contribute…

Environmental Justice Dharna Noor Feb 7 '20

One of the Last Mammoths on Earth Was So Mutated, It Lost the Ability to Smell Flowers

The vast majority of woolly mammoths went extinct at the end of the last ice age, but small, isolated populations managed to hold out for a little while longer. New research uncovers the extent to which at least one of these final mammoths suffered due to its many mutations. Diabetes, developmental disorders, male infertility, and…

Biology George Dvorsky Feb 7 '20

In a First, Government Exempts Safety Rules That ‘No Longer Make Sense’ for 5,000 Driverless Cars

Driverless cars may someday look less like haunted minivans, thanks to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s approval of the zero-occupant food delivery robot R2. It looks like if EVE had a baby with a lunchbox and glides like an electric dream at no more than 25 mph: On Thursday, the NHTS decided to waive…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Feb 7 '20

Terrifying Water Monsters Test a Young Mystic’s Powers in This Exclusive Excerpt From Epic Fantasy Scarlet Odyssey

After his village is attacked by a powerful witch, a young man embarks on a mission to awaken his own magical gifts to help save his people. That’s the set-up for Scarlet Odyssey, the debut novel from Zimbabwe-born, South Africa-based C.T. Rwizi, who draws on African myths and legends to spin his epic fantasy. Here’s…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy Feb 7 '20

Coronavirus Fears May Bring Mobile World Congress to a Halt

The wireless industry’s biggest event of the year, Mobile World Congress, is still on the books for the end of February, but now the trade show’s future is in doubt after one of its largest exhibitors just pulled out due to the spread of Wuhan coronavirus. Swedish telecom infrastructure company Ericsson usually takes up a…

Tech News Caitlin McGarry Feb 7 '20

Ongoing Coronavirus Outbreak Postpones Reopening of Apple Stores in China

Hulu’s Utopia Falls Is About the Revolutionary Power of Art in a Dystopia

Maybe Microsoft’s Xbox Chief Didn’t Say the Stupidest Thing About Cloud Gaming This Week

Leaked Photos Confirm Samsung’s New Foldable Phone is One Big Boy

FDA Now Lets Lab Animals Go Up For Adoption

Harley Quinn Gets a Suitably Fantabulous New Figure, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

50 Years Ago, Doctor Who Gave Us One of Its Most Chilling Scenes Ever

Facebook’s Twitter Account Just Got Hijacked (For Like 2 Seconds)

Is Billionaire Okay?

Nearly Half of Older Americans Worry They Can’t Afford Insurance by Retirement Age

The OA Co-Creator Brit Marling Wants More than ‘Strong Female Leads’

Facebook’s Anti-Vaxxer Problem Under Fire Following 4-Year-Old’s Death From Flu

Yet Another Texas Chainsaw Reboot Is on the Way

BoJack Horseman Perfectly Captured the Agony of Writer’s Block

Trump: Democrats ‘Fried Their Votes on Computer’

House Democrats Have a Plan to Build High-Speed EV Charging Stations Across the U.S.

One of the Last Mammoths on Earth Was So Mutated, It Lost the Ability to Smell Flowers

In a First, Government Exempts Safety Rules That ‘No Longer Make Sense’ for 5,000 Driverless Cars

Terrifying Water Monsters Test a Young Mystic’s Powers in This Exclusive Excerpt From Epic Fantasy Scarlet Odyssey

Coronavirus Fears May Bring Mobile World Congress to a Halt

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