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Open Channel: Who Is the Best Mass Effect Character, and Why Is It Garrus Vakarian?

I mean, you know what they say about asking stupid questions and getting stupid answers. Today is November 7. Or, if you’re a fan of Bioware’s beloved trilogy of sci-fi action RPGs, Mass Effect (and also Mass Effect: Andromeda, a thing that Exists and is Fine), it’s N7 day: the fandom-driven celebration of the series…

Games James Whitbrook

Why Are People Suddenly Getting Mysterious Text Messages?

Early Thursday morning, people all over the U.S. and Canada began receiving strange text messages that didn’t make a whole lot of sense. The texts were from people they knew but they lacked context and appeared to have been sent months ago. And it really freaked some folks out! Mercifully, there is an explanation for…

Tech News Rhett Jones

The Knight Before Christmas Looks Dumb as Hell and of Course I’m Going to Watch It

Netflix is releasing its own Hallmark Christmas version of Kate and Leopold and I’m thrilled that sentence exists. The first trailer for Vanessa Hudgens’ The Knight Before Christmas, about a time-traveling medieval knight who falls in love with a science teacher, is ridiculous, stupid, and sappy, and I am here for it. The Knight Before…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Goodbye to the Only Good Juul Flavor

Juul is a bad company run by bad people. But, as a former smoker who used one of the company’s addictive mouth robots to get away from Marlboros, I feel compelled to pour one out for the only good thing Juul has ever done: cool mint. For those not in the know, the nicotine-containing pods…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Sheryl Sandberg Thinks You’re an Idiot

An new PR push aims to convince the public that Facebook doesn't care about money.

Social Media Dell Cameron

Star Trek: Discovery’s Tilly Thinks She’s Either Going Insane or Being Flirted With in This Exclusive Deleted Scene

The real question when it comes to fungal parasitic interlopers in your bodily systems, though: Why not both? To celebrate the impending release of Star Trek: Discovery’s sophomore season on Blu-ray and DVD, io9 is excited to share this exclusive look at one of the deleted scenes included on the home release. Especially considering it…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Feds Are Cracking Down on Suspected Chinese Theft of Biomedical Research

Federal authorities, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the FBI, are in the middle of a sweeping crackdown on what they believe is widespread Chinese scientific espionage in the biomedical field, the New York Times reported on Thursday, with nearly 200 such inquiries ongoing. Meanwhile, others have suggested the effort is targeting scientists…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Vulnerability In Ring Doorbells Left the Door Open for Hackers to Open the Door

Bitdefender–the tireless actuary of the Internet of Things–were able to crack into homeowner’s personal WiFi networks via Amazon’s Ring doorbells, the video-enabled auto-locks that allow homeowners to remotely open the door. And as Bitdefender’s Chief Security Researcher Jay Balan told Gizmodo over the phone, once a bad actor has access to a home network “it’s…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

The Team Behind Frozen II Still Marvels at the Success of the Original

Very rarely do filmmakers know they are working on a big hit while they’re working on it. Everyone hopes for that, of course, but unless your movie is called Batman or Star Wars, odds are its financial prospects are a question mark right up until opening night. In 2019, however, you can probably now add…

Movies Germain Lussier

Thanks to Weather, Kansas City Smells Like Ass

Something foul blew into Kansas City, Missouri on Wednesday night. The air smelled dank as hell (and not in a good way), which some residents described as nasty feet or literal shit, according to local KSHB news. Meteorologists in the region are blaming the smell on the agriculture industry in Minnesota. In other words, people…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes

The Reboots Will Continue Until Morale Improves

The past decade has demonstrated that no matter how much the general public gripes about Hollywood being a wasteland for new ideas—an accusation that’s popular despite the fact that it isn’t exactly true—reboots are here to stay whether we like them or not. Studios have little to no reason to ever stop rebooting classic stories…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Adobe’s Experimental New Features Promise a Future Where Nothing’s Real

Adobe Max 2019 wrapped up yesterday, and over the past week the company (and host John Mulaney) revealed a bunch of new automated capabilities, it’s currently developing for its various applications—both on desktop and mobile. These demos are always crowd-pleasers and tantalizing teases of how users might soon be able to further streamline their workflows.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Scientists Find People Who Can Smell Despite Missing Key Part of Their Brain

The human brain is even more incredible than we thought, a new study out of Israel suggests. Doctors there say they’ve found people who can smell just as well as anyone else, despite missing the key area of the brain responsible for olfaction. According to the researchers, who published their work Wednesday in Neuron, the…

Health Ed Cara

Ahead of Merger, T-Mobile Teases Its Cheapest Phone Plan Ever

While the T-Mobile and Sprint merger hasn’t been officially completed just yet, with the FCC having recently given the deal its final approval, T-Mobile is already talking about what it will do with its newfound resources, and the plan includes an announcement of the company’s cheapest phone plan ever. Starting at just $15 a month,…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Boeing Reveals Its Proposed Lander for NASA’s 2024 Moon Mission

Boeing has submitted its proposal to NASA for a lunar lander concept that the company claims will return Americans to the Moon in 2024 with the “fewest steps” possible. Under orders from President Trump, NASA is working to deliver American astronauts to the Moon by 2024. Since late September, the space agency has been soliciting…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

In The Invisible Man Trailer, Elisabeth Moss Is Haunted By an Abusive Gaslighter

We only just learned how all too grimly real Leigh Whannell’s take on The Invisible Man was going to be. Now we’ve seen it in action, and it’s exactly as bleak as we were expecting. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-invisible-mans-updated-premise-is-horrifyingly-1839669894 Universal has dropped the first trailer for the Blumhouse-produced The Invisible Man, which is…well, kinda sorta still part of…

Trailers James Whitbrook

This Body Heat-Powered Smartwatch May Never Die, but It Sure Made Me Want To [Updated]

There are two camps when it comes to smartwatch battery life: Those who don’t care at all (Apple Watch stans) and those who care a whole friggin’ lot. For the latter, Matrix Industries’ PowerWatch Series 2 seems like a dream. Powered by both body heat and solar energy, it’s the fitness smartwatch that never runs…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

Netflix CEO: We’re Not Trying to Do ‘Truth to Power’

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings defended the streamer’s decision earlier this year to censor an episode of “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj,” during an interview at the New York Times DealBook Conference on Wednesday. The episode, which criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi investment in Silicon Valley, was pulled for users in Saudi Arabia…

Tech News Matt Novak

Thanks, Greta: ‘Climate Strike’ Is a Word of the Year

2019 is about to wrap, which means dictionaries are choosing their words of the year. For Collins Dictionary, “climate strike” took the prize. The dictionary, which is based in Scotland, announced its list Thursday, giving credit for the word’s takeoff this year to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Thunberg is a teen who in August 2018…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

Carrie Fisher’s Brother Says Leia Would Have Been the ‘Big Payoff’ in The Rise of Skywalker

With the sacrifice of Luke Skywalker, Rey seemingly stands alone as the last of the Jedi as we enter Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. But, according to Todd Fisher, if not for his sister’s tragic passing, there were plans for there to be another. Speaking to Yahoo recently, Fisher discussed how The Rise of…

Movies James Whitbrook

Open Channel: Who Is the Best Mass Effect Character, and Why Is It Garrus Vakarian?

Why Are People Suddenly Getting Mysterious Text Messages?

The Knight Before Christmas Looks Dumb as Hell and of Course I’m Going to Watch It

Goodbye to the Only Good Juul Flavor

Sheryl Sandberg Thinks You’re an Idiot

Star Trek: Discovery’s Tilly Thinks She’s Either Going Insane or Being Flirted With in This Exclusive Deleted Scene

The Feds Are Cracking Down on Suspected Chinese Theft of Biomedical Research

Vulnerability In Ring Doorbells Left the Door Open for Hackers to Open the Door

The Team Behind Frozen II Still Marvels at the Success of the Original

Thanks to Weather, Kansas City Smells Like Ass

The Reboots Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Adobe’s Experimental New Features Promise a Future Where Nothing’s Real

Scientists Find People Who Can Smell Despite Missing Key Part of Their Brain

Ahead of Merger, T-Mobile Teases Its Cheapest Phone Plan Ever

Boeing Reveals Its Proposed Lander for NASA’s 2024 Moon Mission

In The Invisible Man Trailer, Elisabeth Moss Is Haunted By an Abusive Gaslighter

This Body Heat-Powered Smartwatch May Never Die, but It Sure Made Me Want To [Updated]

Netflix CEO: We’re Not Trying to Do ‘Truth to Power’

Thanks, Greta: ‘Climate Strike’ Is a Word of the Year

Carrie Fisher’s Brother Says Leia Would Have Been the ‘Big Payoff’ in The Rise of Skywalker

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