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Green Lantern and Strange Adventures TV Shows Are Coming to HBO Max

HBO Max just put on a fancy ring and created some shows no one was expecting. The company revealed at its HBO Max event on Tuesday it’s moving forward with a Green Lantern show. Yes, the popular DC Comics hero once played by Ryan Reynolds and forever on the “maybe” list of upcoming DC movies.…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Oct 29 '19

Breaking Down the Details and Mysteries of The Mandalorian‘s Final Trailer

Last night we got another look at The Mandalorian, Lucasfilm and Disney’s intriguing entry in the realm of live-action Star Wars TV. While it still left us with plenty of questions about what the titular mercenary will actually get up to in the series, it did give us a few sneaky connections to the wider…

io9 James Whitbrook Oct 29 '19

Terrorists Win

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came out all the way back in 2012—though it still has a large player base and its tie-ins with the Steam Community marketplace have remained active long after developer Valve’s attention mostly went elsewhere. Patch notes from Monday flagged by Vice News indicate that may have become a big problem, with the…

Games Tom McKay Oct 29 '19

Samsung’s Second Foldable Is a Flip Phone with a Next-Gen Design

The Galaxy Fold just went on sale a month ago, but at Samsung’s 2019 developers conference, the smartphone giant just released a teaser for its next foldable phone. While Samsung didn’t reveal anything about its specs, price, or even a possible release date, Samsung’s next bendy gadget features a very different design than the Galaxy…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Oct 29 '19

Juul Gradually Weaning Itself Off Employees

E-cigarette company Juul billed itself as an evolution in smoking cessation and has largely been recast in the court of public opinion as a wildly effective new tool for addicting kids to nicotine. The Wall Street Journal today reported that the company is trying to cut back, though. Not on the bad stuff—just on labor…

Tech News Avery Ellis Oct 29 '19

The Perfect Halloween Costume Is a Projector Mask That Can Turn You Into Anyone

Sean Hodgins has come up with the perfect solution for anyone struggling to choose just one costume for Halloween. He designed and engineered a face-changing projection mask that allows you to disguise yourself as anyone or anything—at least until the battery in your back pocket runs out. https://gizmodo.com/here-are-2019s-most-awful-halloween-costumes-1839230770 As costumes go, this one is relatively…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 29 '19

Samsung Brings Big, Bright QLED Displays to Laptops For the First Time

Samsung knows that its recent laptops haven’t quite made the impact it wanted, so for its next batch of notebooks, Samsung is trying something new: borrowing the QLED display tech used on Samsung’s high-end TVs and putting them on the upcoming Galaxy Book Flex and Galaxy Book Ion. Samsung claims this is the first time…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Oct 29 '19

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Go on a Star Trek, Join the Clone Wars, and Return to the Loop in the Latest Tabletop News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s regular column all about the latest in board games and tabletop roleplaying games. We’re fresh off the weekend’s Essen Spiel, which brought a bunch of new releases and surprises. In addition, we’ve got a new Star Trek Adventures campaign, a shocking story of Kickstarter fraud, and a crowdfunding campaign…

Games Beth Elderkin Oct 29 '19

Nintendo’s Ring Fit Adventure Tricked Me Into Liking Squats but the Calorie-Burn Was Lacking

As long as people want to lose weight, there’s always going to be some sort of fitness grift—be it $4,000 treadmills with on-demand classes, a mirror that guides you through workouts, or the army of Peloton knockoff bikes. It’d be fair if your first impulse would be to group Nintendo’s Ring Fit Adventure for the…

Gaming Victoria Song Oct 29 '19

HBO Just Killed One of Its Game of Thrones Prequel Shows [Updated]

Like the head of Ned Stark, HBO has just chopped off a huge piece of its Game of Thrones future. Deadline reports the network has decided not to proceed with the Game of Thrones prequel series, which was written by Jane Goldman, starred Naomi Watts, and was set thousands of years before the first show…

io9 Germain Lussier Oct 29 '19

Poop for Science

Here’s an opportunity for the charitable scientific enthusiasts among us: please photograph your poop today in order to help train artificial intelligence. Poops of all shapes and sizes are welcome, for the microbial sciences company Seed will use them to create a database of 100,000 prospective images based on shape and consistency. A team of…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Oct 29 '19

Satellites Track the World’s Longest Lightning Bolt

Using satellites and ground stations, scientists have documented an epic lightning flash from 2017 that zipped above three states in the U.S. Southwest. Incredibly, scientists say discoveries of even bigger “megaflashes” are likely. We normally think of lighting as something that moves along the vertical domain, but lightning can also move horizontally, particularly at high…

Earth Science George Dvorsky Oct 29 '19

Untitled Goose Game Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Sow Chaos Only a Goose Could Love

The Untitled Goose Game that became a viral phenomenon right after its launch a month ago has been vulnerable to hacking, according to a report from a security researcher. The wildly popular game allows players to stir shit up in a quaint British town. The whole point is to be an asshole—from snatching up eyeglasses…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Oct 29 '19

The New Pixel 4 Real-Time Transcription App Is Amazing—What to Use If You Can’t Get It

Among the new features onboard the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL phones is a Recorder app that can transcribe spoken audio in real-time—a tool that could prove hugely useful in lectures, interviews, and more besides. It works offline too, but it’s not your only option for converting speech into text. If you have bought…

Gadgets David Nield Oct 29 '19

Apple Pulls iOS 13.2 After Users Complain Update Bricks HomePods [Update: It’s Been Fixed]

While the HomePod delivers the impressive audio quality, it hasn’t quite enjoyed the widespread success of competing smart speakers like the Google Home Mini and Amazon Echo. And now, things have just gotten worse now that Apple’s iOS 13.2 patch has reportedly started bricking HomePods. iOS 13.2 and audioOS (the OS that Apple uses on…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Oct 29 '19

The Inquisition Strikes Back in the New Jedi: Fallen Order Trailer

Everything we’ve seen of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order so far has shone a spotlight on its light side protagonist, Cal Kestis—a Padawan survivor of Order 66 trying to hide who he is in the rise of the Empire. Our latest look at the game gives Cal a very good reason to be doing that.…

Games James Whitbrook Oct 29 '19

Here They Are, the Dumbest Smart Glasses

It’s hard to stay focused on a task when even the watch you’re wearing can distract you with video games and internet access. But a company called Narbis has come up with a smart device that promises to keep you focused by physically preventing you from seeing the distractions all around you. https://gizmodo.com/apple-patent-hints-at-ar-glasses-with-transition-like-l-1839327792 The Narbis…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 29 '19

Here’s the Internet’s ‘Birth Certificate’ From 50 Years Ago Today

Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at UCLA in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the Bay Area. But it was a tiny baby step that would eventually catapult the world into the information age.…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 29 '19

Paul Darrow’s Final Blake’s 7 Work Will Release Next Month

Paul Darrow, best known for playing the unscrupulous anti-hero of the British sci-fi cult classic Blake’s 7, Kerr Avon, passed away earlier this year, leaving behind a legacy as one of the most beloved charismatic assholes of classic sci-fi. Now, his final contribution to that legacy is about to be released. Computer hacker turned unlikely…

io9 James Whitbrook Oct 29 '19

How to Make a Black Hole in a Science Lab

Nearly 50 years ago—before Interstellar, A Brief History of Time, and certainly the Event Horizon Telescope—postdoctoral researcher William Unruh was attempting to explain black holes to a crowd at an Oxford University colloquium. There were no reference points with which to compare an object so dense that light cannot escape its warped gravity. So he…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Oct 29 '19

Green Lantern and Strange Adventures TV Shows Are Coming to HBO Max

Breaking Down the Details and Mysteries of The Mandalorian‘s Final Trailer

Terrorists Win

Samsung’s Second Foldable Is a Flip Phone with a Next-Gen Design

Juul Gradually Weaning Itself Off Employees

The Perfect Halloween Costume Is a Projector Mask That Can Turn You Into Anyone

Samsung Brings Big, Bright QLED Displays to Laptops For the First Time

Go on a Star Trek, Join the Clone Wars, and Return to the Loop in the Latest Tabletop News

Nintendo’s Ring Fit Adventure Tricked Me Into Liking Squats but the Calorie-Burn Was Lacking

HBO Just Killed One of Its Game of Thrones Prequel Shows [Updated]

Poop for Science

Satellites Track the World’s Longest Lightning Bolt

Untitled Goose Game Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Sow Chaos Only a Goose Could Love

The New Pixel 4 Real-Time Transcription App Is Amazing—What to Use If You Can’t Get It

Apple Pulls iOS 13.2 After Users Complain Update Bricks HomePods [Update: It’s Been Fixed]

The Inquisition Strikes Back in the New Jedi: Fallen Order Trailer

Here They Are, the Dumbest Smart Glasses

Here’s the Internet’s ‘Birth Certificate’ From 50 Years Ago Today

Paul Darrow’s Final Blake’s 7 Work Will Release Next Month

How to Make a Black Hole in a Science Lab

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