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Stop Using Hijacked Passwords That Google Already Told You Were Bad

In February, Google did us lazy bums a favor by adding a Password Checkup extension for Chrome. The way it works is the extension will send you a warning to change your password whenever logging-in to a site using a username or password that’s previously been leaked in a third-party data breach. This is all…

Tech News Victoria Song

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus Is More Than Its Nostalgic Sensory Overload

Netflix’s Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus is the sort of long-awaited revival of a cult classic that makes you appreciate the unique space the original series carved out for itself on Nickelodeon. But the special also makes you reflect on what audiences in 2019 ultimately get out of a series like Invader Zim beyond a…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Another Familiar Face Will Return for Agents of SHIELD‘s Last Season

Kevin Hart is joining a superheroic comedy. Neill Blomkamp has departed the new RoboCop movie. Pennywise gets snacking in more new It Chapter Two footage. Plus, what’s to come on Fear the Walking Dead and Pennyworth, and we have a mighty need for today’s return of Invader Zim. Spoilers now! Night Wolf Kevin Hart is…

Television James Whitbrook

Twitter’s Testing Another New Message Filter to Weed Out Abuse in Your DMs

In Twitter’s ongoing crusade against the rampant abuse on its platform that it keeps promising to address (no, legit guys) (this time for realsies), the company recently announced it’s testing a new filter to hopefully help keep trash out of your DMs. “Unwanted messages aren’t fun,” the company tweeted Thursday in what’s perhaps one of…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Moto’s Latest Phone Has a Genius Solution for Preventing Vertical Video Syndrome

Even though vertical videos are supported in platforms like YouTube and Instagram, watching them is still very annoying sometimes, and I’d prefer if these portrait-oriented clips never existed in the first place. It seems someone at Motorola feels the same way because for the new Moto One Action, Motorola made a simple change that will…

Reviews Sam Rutherford

Huawei Plans to Triple R&D Staff in Russia by 2025 According to Russian State Media

Huawei plans to triple its research and development (R&D) staff in Russia within the next six years, according to a new report from Russian state media outlet Sputnik. The Chinese tech giant, which is currently the largest telecom company in the world, will reportedly hire about 500 new staff by the end of the year…

Tech News Matt Novak

Cathay Pacific CEO Resigns, Airline Releases Cryptic Statement About Hong Kong

Rupert Hogg, the CEO of Cathay Pacific Airways, has resigned following conflict between the Hong Kong-based airline and the Chinese government in Beijing. The new CEO will be Augustus Tang Kin-wing, according to the South China Morning Post, and the airline released a bizarre statement about the future. Hogg’s resignation comes as Cathay Pacific found…

Tech News Matt Novak

Microsoft Plans to kill Skype, and gives users 10 weeks to move their data.

Microsoft Confirms Your Cortana and Skype Recordings Aren’t Private Either, Surprising No One

At this point, if you don’t want strangers to listen to recordings from your devices, it’s looking like you may just have to go off the grid. On Thursday, Microsoft became the latest tech giant to admit it uses human contractors to review its users’ audio. So in case you’ve lost track by now, that…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley

Cops Intervene After Amazon’s ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Promotion Is So Good, It Stops Traffic

Amazon’s latest promotion for its Emmy-nominated comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel—dialing back prices around Los Angeles to reflect the show’s 1959 setting—proved so popular that police had to temporarily shut it down Thursday, according to a local ABC affiliate. Turns out, offering gas at 30 cents per gallon in a state where it regularly costs…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Report: Ewan McGregor Will Return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in His Own Disney+ Series

After years of rumors about a potential return—in movie form—it seems like Ewan McGregor will once again don his Jedi robes. But not for the big screen; instead, he’s allegedly coming to Disney’s ever growing streaming service. Earlier today, Cinelinx reported that McGregor had signed a deal with Lucasfilm to reprise his role as Obi-Wan…

io9 James Whitbrook

Open Channel: Would You Bone Your Clone?

It started out innocuous enough. io9 Social Editor Autumn Kelly was thinking about the trailer for the new film Auggie, a Her-like exploration of a man’s relationship with a semi-sentient AI AR personality, and asked the staff if we would bone our clones. Not everyone was around when the topic was broached but most everyone…

io9 Alex Cranz

The Next Generation of Students Star in the New Magicians Comic Series

The world of Lev Grossman’s fantasy series is expanding once more—but instead of an adaptation, this newest entry will introduce the world of The Magicians to a new group of magical heroes. Announced today by Boom Studios, the five-part miniseries—simply titled The Magicians—is set well after the events of either Grossman’s trilogy or its adaptation…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Neil Gaiman’s Take on Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Fantasy Trilogy Finds a Home at Showtime

Game of Thrones is over, and every network and streaming service is currently trying to replicate the success of HBO’s hit by finding their own epic fantasy breakout. Showtime, which already has Kingkiller Chronicle in development, is doubling down with another genre title: Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy. As previously reported, and as Variety reminds us…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

AOL Could’ve Saved the World

Can you imagine a world where AOL owned YouTube and Facebook? It sounds delightfully boring. And it almost came to be, according to the former AOL CEO Jon Miller. In a CNBC interview published on Thursday, Miller revealed that in 2006 the company attempted to buy YouTube and Facebook. Miller told CNBC that he spoke…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown

Google’s New ‘Reminders’ Feature Seems Like a Great Way to Piss Off Everyone You Live With

Google has announced a new feature for Assistant to that enables anyone in a given Google family group—be they family, friends, or god help us, roommates—to receive an “assignable reminder,” which Google says might include anything from completing chores to notes of encouragement. In theory, this sounds great. But reader, I have some concerns. According…

Tech News Catie Keck

The FDA Is Previewing Some Grisly New Cigarette Warnings

The federal government wants to scare the living hell out of you—at least if you’re thinking about smoking. This week, the Food and Drug Administration previewed a series of new warnings that it plans to have plastered on all cigarette products and advertisements. And they’re a doozy. The proposed warnings, 13 in total, feature much…

Health Ed Cara

Invasive Pests Are Devastating American Forests at an Alarming Rate

New findings show that invasive species are wiping out trees across the U.S., devastating forests and their ability to store carbon. That’s particularly bad news in light of the worsening climate crisis. Turning the tide against climate change will need to involve tending to forests and maximizing their ability to suck up and store carbon…

Conservation Brian Kahn

A Gorgeous Gallery of Persona and Catherine Art Has Come to Take Your Heart

Since 2006, Shigenori Soejima has helped shape the aesthetic of the beloved cult JRPG series Persona, giving gamers some of the most stylish and bold worlds of urban fantasy, slick teens, and demon summoning the genre has to offer. In celebration of his work, Gallery Nucleus is running an exhibition this weekend inspired by Soejima’s…

Games James Whitbrook

Illustration: Astrobiology Center, Japan

A Baby Planet Might Have Smashed Right Into Young Jupiter

Jupiter’s core seems off, astronomers think, in a way explainable by an ancient collision with another enormous body, perhaps one 10 times the mass of Earth. A collision early in our solar system’s history shouldn’t be a huge surprise; after all, scientists surmise that Earth’s own Moon resulted from a giant impact. A similar event…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Joss Whedon’s HBO Fantasy The Nevers Somehow Has Room for Even More Quirky Characters

Not even two weeks ago, Joss Whedon’s HBO series about a gaggle of Victorian-era ladies with superpowers announced the addition of a dozen actors, to go along with previously announced series star Laura Donnelly. That’s a rather huge ensemble, but The Nevers wasn’t done yet! Today, the show added six more names that’ll co-star with…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Stop Using Hijacked Passwords That Google Already Told You Were Bad

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus Is More Than Its Nostalgic Sensory Overload

Another Familiar Face Will Return for Agents of SHIELD‘s Last Season

Twitter’s Testing Another New Message Filter to Weed Out Abuse in Your DMs

Moto’s Latest Phone Has a Genius Solution for Preventing Vertical Video Syndrome

Huawei Plans to Triple R&D Staff in Russia by 2025 According to Russian State Media

Cathay Pacific CEO Resigns, Airline Releases Cryptic Statement About Hong Kong

Microsoft Confirms Your Cortana and Skype Recordings Aren’t Private Either, Surprising No One

Cops Intervene After Amazon’s ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Promotion Is So Good, It Stops Traffic

Report: Ewan McGregor Will Return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in His Own Disney+ Series

Open Channel: Would You Bone Your Clone?

The Next Generation of Students Star in the New Magicians Comic Series

Neil Gaiman’s Take on Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Fantasy Trilogy Finds a Home at Showtime

AOL Could’ve Saved the World

Google’s New ‘Reminders’ Feature Seems Like a Great Way to Piss Off Everyone You Live With

The FDA Is Previewing Some Grisly New Cigarette Warnings

Invasive Pests Are Devastating American Forests at an Alarming Rate

A Gorgeous Gallery of Persona and Catherine Art Has Come to Take Your Heart

A Baby Planet Might Have Smashed Right Into Young Jupiter

Joss Whedon’s HBO Fantasy The Nevers Somehow Has Room for Even More Quirky Characters

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