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Motion Sensing Wifi Is a Limited But Fascinating Peek at the Future of the Smart Home

In 2013, researchers at MIT demonstrated how the wifi signals that fill every corner of your home with high-speed internet could also be used to detect the movements of pets and people—even through walls. Six years later, Linksys has introduced similar functionality on its tri-band mesh routers, and while the technology is clearly still in…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Andrew Liszewski

Looks Like a Penis

You know the world is ending when dicks start to take over entire beaches. No, I’m not talking about a penis havers-only nude beach. I’m talking about the fat innkeeper worm, or Urechis caupo if we’re talking sexy. The best version of its name, though, is penis fish because this worm looks like a fucking…

Conservation Yessenia Funes

30 Viral Fakes That Defined the 2010s

The decade of the 2010s saw the rise of social media and the proliferation of digital tools that allow people to alter photos and videos. When you put those two forces together, you get a lot of fake images circulating. And these were the ones that helped define the past 10 years. 1) Shark on…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Spider-Man: Far From Home VFX Reel Cheekily Breaks the 4th Wall

VFX reels are, usually, pretty perfunctory. After all, they’re not just for us fans to admire some of the behind-the-scenes details, they are, well, reels. They’re industry samples of the work a studio did on a film or show, something to use to pitch an FX house’s work on future projects. So they show the…

Movies James Whitbrook

AT&T Closes Out 2019 By Extending Real 5G Coverage to 10 Cities

With T-Mobile having flipped the switch on its nationwide 5G network and Sprint and Verizon’s 5G service available in 10 or more cities, AT&T is now following suit and closing out 2019 by turning on real 5G in 10 cities of its own. It’s somewhat frustrating that it’s even necessary to clarify the difference between…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Great, Now Australia’s Bushfires Are Fueling Climate Change

Australia is in the grips of a climate emergency. Bushfires in New South Wales and Queensland have killed six people and made the air toxic. Climate change helped fuel the fires, and now the fires are fueling climate change. The bushfires have emitted 250 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere, according to NASA data…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Steven Moffat’s Dracula Trailer Teases a ‘Bi-Homicidal’ Villain

The latest trailer has arrived for BBC and Netflix’s Dracula, a three-part miniseries from former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat and his Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss. This new telling of the classic tale doesn’t debut until January 1, but a cloud of bats is already hanging over this adaptation, as Moffat thought it was necessary…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Scientists Urge the World to Plan for Peak Meat

Abandoning meat isn’t easy. Believe me: I ate a beefy-ass bolognese for lunch yesterday and later munched on some chicken wings. Unfortunately, the meat industry is a growing source of carbon pollution, and continuing to let meat consumption grow could eat up a huge chunk of the world’s carbon budget by 2030. So, well, we…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

More Suicide Squad Rumors About the Identity of Idris Elba’s Mystery Character

Sony’s take on Cinderella finds its king. Warner Bros. gives the Shazam sequel a release date. Ubisoft’s Rabbids are making the leap to the big screen. Florence Pugh says Black Widow is not about Natasha handing off her mantle. Plus, what’s to come on Supernatural, and another element from the recent comics comes to WandaVision.…

Television James Whitbrook

U.S. Military Tests New Missile Previously Banned Under Treaty With Russia

The U.S. military launched a new ground-based missile yesterday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California that landed in the Pacific Ocean. The missile had previously been banned under a Reagan-era treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but this wasn’t the first time that once-banned missiles have been tested. Back in August, the…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Mandalorian Gave Us a Few New Stars to Gaze at This Week

If you watched this week’s episode of The Mandalorian and thought, “Wait, is that who I think it is?” Chances are, the answer is “Yes.” Chapter six of The Mandalorian season one is called “The Prisoner,” referring to Mando joining up with a ragtag group of bounty hunters to bust someone out of prison. That…

io9 Germain Lussier

Stranger Breaks Into Ring Camera, Terrorizes 8-Year-Old In Latest Creepy Ring Hack

A hacker broke into one Mississippi family’s Ring security camera and used its speaker function to scare their 8-year-old daughter, local CNN affiliate WMC reported this week. This incident marks the latest in a recent series of reported Ring hacks wherein strangers terrorize users through their devices, and demonstrates reason number 1,467 why you might want…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

We Know the Name of the Next Xbox and It’s Series-ous

Microsoft’s next-generation gaming console is called Xbox Series X, the company announced during an onstage unveiling at this year’s Game Awards Thursday. It’s slated for a holiday 2020 release, unsurprisingly corresponding with competitor Sony’s release date for its Playstation 5. The console—previously known by its codename, Project Scarlett—looks more like a PC tower than something…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Apple Arcade Is Getting a Super Smash Bros.-Like Sports Game

Look, you can’t call yourself a big game system if you don’t have a sports game. Madden, The Show, FIFA, NBA Jam—they’re all games that have been critical to the platforms they appear on. Apple Arcade has been bereft of sports games and particularly bereft of licensed sports games. That means there hasn’t really been…

Reviews Alex Cranz

The Team Behind Dark Alliance‘s Return Tell Us Why Now Is the Time to Bring It Back

Dungeons & Dragons has a long and storied history of video games set in the vast worlds of the Forgotten Realms. But there are few that inspire a longing fervor quite like the fans of Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance and its sequel. Now, after 15 years away, the series is being revived—and io9 spoke to…

Games James Whitbrook

Of Course There’s a 14-Month Waitlist for This $300 Unofficial Baby Yoda Toy

Etsy is currently teeming with unofficial merch for The Mandalorian’s “The Child,” or Baby Yoda, as he’s colloquially come to be known. But if you’re hoping to get your hands on this $300 lifelike replica before Christmas, think again. The handmade toy from Russia-based Etsy shop GakmanCreatures is one of a handful of Baby Yoda…

Toys & Collectibles Catie Keck

WeWork’s Reviewing 100 Leases to See Where It Can Bail

In its latest attempt to bail out its sinking ship of a company, WeWork is examining roughly 100 of its leases worldwide, which could unravel 10-15 percent of its global presence, CNBC reported Thursday. The company confirmed the news after an earlier report by the Information. While WeWork hasn’t announced exactly what it plans to…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Game of Thrones‘ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss May Adapt the Graphic Novel Lovecraft

They’ve gone from the far reaches of Westeros to (almost) a galaxy, far, far, away. For David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the next stop on their journey is 1920s New England with a whole lot of tentacle monsters. Deadline reports that the Game of Thrones co-creators, and almost Star Wars producers, have struck a deal…

Movies Germain Lussier

FCC Wants to Fine a Robocaller $10 Million For Spreading Lies About Politician

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed that a robocall firm pay about $10 million in fines for spamming Californians with lies about a state assembly candidate. An investigation by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau found that Kenneth Moser and a telemarketing operation he runs allegedly made about 47,000 illegal robocalls over the course of two days.…

Tech Policy Jennings Brown

YouTuber Buys a Laser on eBay That’s So Terrifyingly Powerful, It Instantly Fries His Camera

You can now add ‘30 million-watt peak power tattoo removing laser’ to the long list of things you probably shouldn’t be able to buy on eBay. YouTuber Drake Anthony, better known as Styropyro, is an expert on all things lasers, and even he was taken aback by the power of a laser that he, or…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Motion Sensing Wifi Is a Limited But Fascinating Peek at the Future of the Smart Home

Looks Like a Penis

30 Viral Fakes That Defined the 2010s

This Spider-Man: Far From Home VFX Reel Cheekily Breaks the 4th Wall

AT&T Closes Out 2019 By Extending Real 5G Coverage to 10 Cities

Great, Now Australia’s Bushfires Are Fueling Climate Change

Steven Moffat’s Dracula Trailer Teases a ‘Bi-Homicidal’ Villain

Scientists Urge the World to Plan for Peak Meat

More Suicide Squad Rumors About the Identity of Idris Elba’s Mystery Character

U.S. Military Tests New Missile Previously Banned Under Treaty With Russia

The Mandalorian Gave Us a Few New Stars to Gaze at This Week

Stranger Breaks Into Ring Camera, Terrorizes 8-Year-Old In Latest Creepy Ring Hack

We Know the Name of the Next Xbox and It’s Series-ous

Apple Arcade Is Getting a Super Smash Bros.-Like Sports Game

The Team Behind Dark Alliance‘s Return Tell Us Why Now Is the Time to Bring It Back

Of Course There’s a 14-Month Waitlist for This $300 Unofficial Baby Yoda Toy

WeWork’s Reviewing 100 Leases to See Where It Can Bail

Game of Thrones‘ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss May Adapt the Graphic Novel Lovecraft

FCC Wants to Fine a Robocaller $10 Million For Spreading Lies About Politician

YouTuber Buys a Laser on eBay That’s So Terrifyingly Powerful, It Instantly Fries His Camera

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