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Hackers Vandalize U.S. Government Website With Pro-Iran Message and Illustration of Bloody Trump

Hackers vandalized a relatively small U.S. government website on Sunday, leaving behind a message for President Donald Trump and implying that the government of Iran was behind the hack. But there’s no evidence yet that Iran was actually behind the intrusion, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a division of the Department…

Tech News Matt Novak

Garmin’s New Dashcam Records Both the Road Ahead and Passengers in the Back

Instead of just recording what’s happening on the road in front of a car, Garmin’s new Dash Cam Tandem has a second rear-facing lens that also records everything happening inside the vehicle at the same time. It won’t make the job of an Uber driver even easier, but it will provide irrefutable proof of unruly…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Sure Looks Like Apple Is Still Selling This iMac from 2006

Apple products are notoriously expensive, but this is just ridiculous. Apparently, Apple’s website is still listing the 2006 iMac 17-inch 1.83-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for around $1,000—depending on where you’re trying to buy from. The product listing was initially spotted by Twitter user @DylanMcD8 in the Canadian version of Apple.com, where it costs a…

Tech News Victoria Song

Bosch’s LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View of the Road Where the Sun Is In Your Eyes

Fully autonomous vehicles are already being tested on roads across the country, but there’s one feature in every car that feels like it hasn’t been upgraded in a century: the sun visor. So a group of engineers from Bosch set out to update this antiquated feature so that it blocks the sun without also blocking…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Withings’s Latest Smartwatch Doubles Down on Medical Wearables

Last year, Withings wowed at CES with a hybrid smartwatch that could also take your ECG. That was no small feat, considering it came just months after Apple made waves with the same feature on the Series 4. This year, it’s doubling down on ‘medical-grade’ hybrid smartwatches with the ScanWatch, which can take ECGs and…

Gadgets Victoria Song

This Smart Faucet Should Pour Exactly the Amount of Water You Need at the Perfect Temperature

Three years at CES 2017 Moen revealed a smart shower system that could be preheated from your smartphone without having to climb out of bed in the morning. This year the company is bringing that technology to the kitchen with a new smart faucet that delivers some surprisingly practical features. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-pre-heat-this-shower-from-your-smartphone-while-1790151005 The U by Moen…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

L’Oreal’s New Doodad Sounds Like the Supersmart Skincare Gadget I Need

Skincare is a $148 billion dollar industry, and you best believe that I stress about moisturizing as I drag my increasingly decrepit ass to the dry Nevada desert for CES every year. Scouting skincare tech at the show every year has become a not-so-secret hobby of mine, and on that front, L’Oreal usually brings the…

Gadgets Victoria Song

The Beefy Suunto 7 Is a Great Reason to Be Excited About Wear OS

Unless you’re hardcore into outdoor fitness, you probably haven’t heard of Suunto. The Finnish company is mostly known for its compasses and GPS sports watches, but at CES 2020, the company is launching its first Wear OS watch, the Suunto 7. At a glance, the Suunto 7 is reminiscent of other beefy fitness watches, like…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Vector, the Little Robot That Could(n’t Do Much) Is Back From the Dead

Vector, a tiny desktop companion robot that was both surprisingly endearing and unsurprisingly useless, met its demise earlier this year when its creator, Anki, ran out of money and shut down. But despite the robot failing to justify its $250 price tag, it apparently has its fans, and Vector is being brought back from the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Sweet Triptych Poster Commemorates the Birth of the Skywalker Saga Just in Time for Its End

Well, there you have it. The story of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, the fall of the Republic and the rise and fall of the Empire, the life and death and life of Emperor Palpatine. It’s over, more or less. The nine films of the Skywalker Saga tell the core Star Wars story George Lucas started…

Movies Julie Muncy

Mike Flanagan Teases the Start of His Next Project, Midnight Mass

Mike Flanagan is a busy man. Lately, he’s been moving from major horror project to major horror project, bouncing from film to television fast enough to make your haunted head spin. And his pace doesn’t look to be slowing down at all, either. Recently, Flanagan offered a quick update via Tweet on his projects, saying…

io9 Julie Muncy

This Avengers: Endgame Star Defies Tony Stark and Goes Sledding With Captain America’s Shield

Which is probably a terrible idea, if we’re being honest. Is there still a moratorium on spoilers for Avengers: Endgame? Just in case, here we go: Okay. So. Remember how Tony Stark gave Captain America his iconic shield back, saying that he had to get it out of the garage before his daughter went sledding…

Movies Julie Muncy

This Timeline Might Make Watching The Witcher a Little Easier

A lot of things could be said about The Witcher. One of the most resounding things I’ve heard about it, however, is that it starts out really confusing, due to the surprising choice to split timelines during the first episodes of the show without really signposting this decision to the audience. The result of this…

io9 Julie Muncy

All the Ways You Can Use Multiple Smart Speakers Together

With another holiday season over, it’s more likely than ever that you’ve got multiple smart speakers in the same house—Alexa or Google Assistant within shouting range in multiple rooms, just in case you want to check the weather forecast or set a timer. If you do have several smart speakers installed, here are the extra…

Gadgets David Nield

Matrix’s Juno Uses Thermoelectrics to Cool Down Even the Hottest Drinks Fast

For the past few years, Matrix has been mostly known for its body heat-powered smartwatches. But at CES 2020, the company is taking a different tack with its thermoelectric tech. Its latest gadget, Juno, is meant to help you cool super hot drinks super fast. I got to see a demo of Juno and true…

Reviews Victoria Song

How Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Is a Quintessential J.J. Abrams Movie

Every director has a style. J.J. Abrams has one of the most distinct in modern Hollywood, full of frantic energy and eager forward momentum. Which can be good things. They can also be bad things, too. In a new video, critic Just Write does a compelling job examining Abrams’s distinct style and how The Rise…

Movies Julie Muncy

This Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Trailer Is Giving Me Toonami Flashbacks

One of the most integral parts of watching anime on television as a kid was anticipation. It’s traditional in anime for episodes to end with a teaser for the next episode, complete with a voiceover/hype man trying to get the audience pumped up for whatever might be happening next. Will Goku be able to conquer…

Games Julie Muncy

Report: We Might Know the Premiere Date for the Seventh Season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars

With The Mandalorian over for the time being, there’s still one exciting thing left on the short-term calendar for big Star Wars fans: The Clone Wars. The fantastic animated series is getting a seventh-season revival on Disney Plus, and it’s planned to be released, we know, sometime in February. Now we might know a bit…

io9 Julie Muncy

Here’s Every Genre Film Netflix Just Announced for 2020

Netflix is firmly in the filmmaking business now, and in 2020 it seems like they’re committing hard to their original slate of films. In a recent tweet thread posted by the Netflix Film Twitter account, the streaming giant just ran down a lengthy list of some of the films we can expect to hit the…

Movies Julie Muncy

A Lot of the Sound Effects in Ad Astra Were Just Tommy Lee Jones’s Voice

Need something to listen to this weekend? I have a suggestion. Ad Astra, James Gray’s striking spacefaring epic about lost fathers and lost hope, was a rich, well-made film. Recently, the Hollywood Reporter sat down with Gary Rydstrom, the Academy-Award-winning supervising sound editor, designer, and rerecording mixer on Ad Astra to talk about the lush…

Movies Julie Muncy

Hackers Vandalize U.S. Government Website With Pro-Iran Message and Illustration of Bloody Trump

Garmin’s New Dashcam Records Both the Road Ahead and Passengers in the Back

Sure Looks Like Apple Is Still Selling This iMac from 2006

Bosch’s LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View of the Road Where the Sun Is In Your Eyes

Withings’s Latest Smartwatch Doubles Down on Medical Wearables

This Smart Faucet Should Pour Exactly the Amount of Water You Need at the Perfect Temperature

L’Oreal’s New Doodad Sounds Like the Supersmart Skincare Gadget I Need

The Beefy Suunto 7 Is a Great Reason to Be Excited About Wear OS

Vector, the Little Robot That Could(n’t Do Much) Is Back From the Dead

This Sweet Triptych Poster Commemorates the Birth of the Skywalker Saga Just in Time for Its End

Mike Flanagan Teases the Start of His Next Project, Midnight Mass

This Avengers: Endgame Star Defies Tony Stark and Goes Sledding With Captain America’s Shield

This Timeline Might Make Watching The Witcher a Little Easier

All the Ways You Can Use Multiple Smart Speakers Together

Matrix’s Juno Uses Thermoelectrics to Cool Down Even the Hottest Drinks Fast

How Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Is a Quintessential J.J. Abrams Movie

This Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Trailer Is Giving Me Toonami Flashbacks

Report: We Might Know the Premiere Date for the Seventh Season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Here’s Every Genre Film Netflix Just Announced for 2020

A Lot of the Sound Effects in Ad Astra Were Just Tommy Lee Jones’s Voice

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