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YouTube Restores Hundreds of Cryptocurrency Videos After Flagging Them as Harmful

YouTube has restored hundreds of videos from dozens of channels that focus on crypotcurrency after they were removed earlier in the week. YouTubers like Chris Dunn report that their videos were flagged by YouTube for “harmful or dangerous content” and “sale of regulated goods.” YouTube now says that the deletions were a mistake. “With the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Garmin Will Charge You an Extra $450 To Buy Its Luxury Smartwatch Collection in a Wooden Box

Garmin’s MARQ line was designed to bridge the gap between highly functional smartwatches and luxury timepieces made with high-end materials. And for those who’ve struggled with choosing which design to splurge $1,500+ on, Garmin has now packaged almost the entire line in a fancy wooden box that will set you back $10,000 for the entire…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Be Soothed by the Peaceful Joshua Trees Covered in Snow

There are few things as soothing as desert snow, the rough and spiky landscape smoothed over by a layer of frozen flakes. That’s exactly what happened this week in Joshua Tree National Park after an extremely powerful storm ripped across the region. To get snow in this corner of the Mojave Desert, you need two…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Wild Rumors About Just Who Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Could Play in The Matrix 4

Stephen Amell shares a befuddling picture from the final two episodes of Crisis on Infinite Earths. You can now watch the first four minutes of Spies in Disguise, should you dare. Plus, new looks at Doctor Who’s new year return, and Kristen Stewart hunts something beneath the waves in new footage from Underwater. Spoilers, away!…

Television James Whitbrook

Apple Pulled a Page From McDonald’s Playbook in 2019

By almost every account, Apple has had an incredibly strong 2019. Thanks to the refreshed AirPods and the new AirPods Pro, Apple earbuds accounted for somewhere between $4 and $6 billion in sales. Meanwhile, the iPhone XR was the best-selling phone every quarter this year. However, despite all this success, none of the gadgets Apple…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

2019 Was a Horror-Show Year for Weather

Violent weather has become one of the hallmarks of modern life as climate change pushes our planet into a new, more volatile state. And unfortunately, 2019 was a painful reminder of that. Severe storms, wildfires, and cyclones have left communities around the world to deal with damage that could, at least in some cases, never…

Earther Brian Kahn

Actually, 2019’s Gadget of the Year Is My Electronic Chicken Door

The best gadget of the year is neither phone nor laptop nor smartwatch nor headphones. It’s not even something most people need. It is, instead, an automatic chicken door, a simple piece of tech that not only changed my family’s life for the better, it may have also saved my marriage. When all’s said and…

Gadgets Andrew Couts

How to Lock Down Your Phone So Only Certain People Can Reach You

We could all use a break from the constant flurry of phone notifications that roll in every day, but there’s always the worry that we’re going to miss something important—an urgent call from a family member, maybe. The answer is Do Not Disturb, which will block incoming alerts from everyone except a select few contacts.…

Gadgets David Nield

The Mandalorian Saved Its Best Episode for Last [Updated]

Tears, cheers, shock, and awe. The season finale of The Mandalorian had all that and more, resulting in almost certainly the show’s best episode. Let’s be honest though. If you’re reading this, hopefully, you’ve already watched the episode. And if you’ve watched the episode you definitely want to talk about the big reveal at the…

io9 Germain Lussier

The 11 Best Gadgets of 2019 to Get You Excited About 2020

We’re in a pretty stable place right now when it comes to gadgets. For the most part, we’re currently stuck in a cycle of continuous, minute iterations to the same ol’ tech and it’s hard to get excited about that. But the gadgets below didn’t just end up being our favorites, they also did a…

Reviews Gizmodo Staff

Fox News Freaks Out After Canadian TV Deletes President Trump From Home Alone 2

According to Fox News, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) deleted Donald Trump’s five-second scene from their recent broadcast of the 1992 movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. It was all anyone could talk about on conservative media yesterday, with one host on the show Fox & Friends calling it “censorship.” President Trump even…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Boxing Day Punch Yourself With the Joker Script, Which Is Now Online

Reading a film’s script is nothing like actually seeing the film in all its cinematic glory. But seeing the dialogue and direction of a movie like Joker all spelled out in black and white on the page does give you a distinct and interesting perspective on what the filmmakers were working with on a fundamental…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Baffling Case of Colorado’s Mystery Drones

Local authorities are dumbfounded by a flock of drones that recently began performing nighttime flights over northeast Colorado with no apparent purpose or operators (at least, none they’ve been able to identify so far). Officials have spotted at least 17 drones flying over Phillips and Yuma counties for the last week, the Denver Post…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

YouTube Offers a Teeny Auto-Trim Feature in Penance for Copyright Sins

YouTube promised to deal with the copyright thugs, and it’s trying, god bless its heart. The company has announced that it will be providing an “Assisted Trim” tool for vloggers to remove the allegedly infringing content in their video with one click and automatically release a content ID claim. YouTube previously offered the option for…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

The FAA Wants to Follow Your Drones Like You Use Them to Follow Me

The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed new rules for unmanned aerial vehicles that would require virtually every drone in the country to broadcast its location when flying, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The proposal would create a de facto nationwide drone tracking network that offers the faint, misleading hope of a future where I can identify…

Tech Policy Tom McKay

The 9 Best (and 7 Worst) Movies of 2019

So many movies are just “fine.” Movies you sit down, watch, enjoy, and subsequently forget about. You don’t hate them, you don’t love them, they’re just OK. That’s the majority of movies. These are not those movies. Below you’ll find our choices for the best genre films of 2019. The precious few films that stood…

Movies io9 Staff

E-Bikes Riskier to Ride Than E-Scooters and Bikes, Study Suggests

People riding electric-powered bikes are more likely to risk serious injury than those on conventional bikes and motorized scooters, according to a recent study. But e-scooters have their own unique health risks, too. The research, published this November in the journal Injury Prevention, looked at data on injuries caused by consumer products collected by the…

Health Ed Cara

Nobody Listened

Despite the privacy concerns, labor strikes, and reports that Amazon is selling literal trash on its platform—in the face of all of the myriad reasons shoppers should have avoided buying through Amazon this year—the company still made a killing this season. The company said this week that the 2019 holiday season was record-shattering. The number…

Commerce Catie Keck

Scientists Link Silicon Qubits Over (Relatively) Huge Distances

Scientists have linked two silicon quantum bits with photons over a relatively large distance. The new advance could end up being a watershed moment for a lesser-known quantum computing processor architecture, bringing silicon quantum computer a step closer to reality. Quantum computers represent a nascent computing technology that could one day perform certain calculations like…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

BoJack Horseman‘s Creator Wants Netflix to Let the Credits Roll

All Netflix subscribers have had the experience of being suddenly accosted by the opening moments of the next episode of a series literally seconds after the final scene of the previous episode has ended, because the streaming service wants nothing more than to keep people watching whatever it is that they’re watching sans interruptions. This…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

YouTube Restores Hundreds of Cryptocurrency Videos After Flagging Them as Harmful

Garmin Will Charge You an Extra $450 To Buy Its Luxury Smartwatch Collection in a Wooden Box

Be Soothed by the Peaceful Joshua Trees Covered in Snow

Wild Rumors About Just Who Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Could Play in The Matrix 4

Apple Pulled a Page From McDonald’s Playbook in 2019

2019 Was a Horror-Show Year for Weather

Actually, 2019’s Gadget of the Year Is My Electronic Chicken Door

How to Lock Down Your Phone So Only Certain People Can Reach You

The Mandalorian Saved Its Best Episode for Last [Updated]

The 11 Best Gadgets of 2019 to Get You Excited About 2020

Fox News Freaks Out After Canadian TV Deletes President Trump From Home Alone 2

This Boxing Day Punch Yourself With the Joker Script, Which Is Now Online

The Baffling Case of Colorado’s Mystery Drones

YouTube Offers a Teeny Auto-Trim Feature in Penance for Copyright Sins

The FAA Wants to Follow Your Drones Like You Use Them to Follow Me

The 9 Best (and 7 Worst) Movies of 2019

E-Bikes Riskier to Ride Than E-Scooters and Bikes, Study Suggests

Nobody Listened

Scientists Link Silicon Qubits Over (Relatively) Huge Distances

BoJack Horseman‘s Creator Wants Netflix to Let the Credits Roll

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