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The Library’s Door Was Just Blown Wide Open on a Shocking Episode of The Magicians

Look, having someone’s secret plans revealed via slideshow isn’t the most-thrilling villain exposé known to man, god, or librarian. But that’s what we have Matt Frewer (aka Max Headroom, aka Dr. Aldous Leekie) for. He could sell us anything—even a millennia-old conspiracy only suited for something like The Magicians. On a slideshow. The main conflict…

io9 Beth Elderkin

I Was Ready to Dunk on the Bose Frames… But I Actually Like Them?

Smartglasses have a bad rep—you can thank the glassholes for that. To this day, most people still can’t help but think of the first iteration of Google Glass when anyone brings up the topic of smart eyewear. That also means people start thinking about being recorded against their will, dorky design, and absurd prices for…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

Unknown Species of Ancient Four-Legged Whale Uncovered in Peru

The discovery of a fossilized, 42-million-year-old, four-legged whale is shedding new light on the evolution and geographical spread of these aquatic mammals. The ancestors of modern whales and dolphins evolved from a small, four-limbed hoofed animal that lived in south Asia around 50 million years ago, during the Eocene. Fossil evidence suggests these aquatic mammalian…

Biology George Dvorsky

Thousands of Lost MySpace Songs Have Been Recovered—No Thanks to MySpace

Last year, a borked server migration resulted in MySpace losing all of the music uploaded to the website between 2003 and 2015—a loss estimated at more than 50 million tracks from 14 million artists. But now a small fraction has been recovered thanks to an anonymous group of academics and uploaded to the Internet Archive.…

Tech News Victoria Song

Pop-Up Cameras Are Just the Start as Oppo Dreams of Phones with Pop-Up Screens

You’ve heard of handsets with pop-up selfie cameras, but what about phones with full-on pop-up second screens? While the whole concept sounds a bit daft, it seems that’s precisely what Chinese phone maker Oppo may be cooking up based on its latest patents. Really, between the Oppo Find X, the rumored Oppo Reno, and this…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Toy Story 4 Begins by Tying Up Loose Ends and Raising the Emotional Stakes

Toy Story 3 has the perfect ending. Everyone knows this. Even the people at Pixar know it. At CinemaCon 2019, Toy Story 4 producer Jonas Rivera came out and explained that, yes, Toy Story 3 has a great ending, but it’s an ending to Andy’s arc. The Toy Story films have always been about Woody…

Movies Germain Lussier

Disney Has Hopes for More Alien and Planet of the Apes After the Fox Merger

Get a better look at Detective Pikachu’s cast of pocket monsters in some new posters. Expect to see a lot more Jason Todd in Titans’ second season. Clark Gregg teases his mysterious new Agents of SHIELD role. Plus, more images from Game of Thrones’ return, and what to expect from the end of Gotham. To…

Television James Whitbrook

Scientists Talked to Cats to Figure Out If They Know Their Own Names

Plenty of cat owners will happily tell you their felines are capable of responding to their own names, but the scientific jury remains ambivalent on the matter. A fascinating new experiment suggests this might actually be true for some cats, and it’s a capacity very much tied to the social environment in which the cat…

Biology George Dvorsky

SpaceX Successfully Test-Fires Its ‘Starhopper’ Prototype Spacecraft in Texas

Spaceflight company SpaceX test-fired the engines of its prototype Starship vehicle on Wednesday at its Boca Chica, Texas, test facility, the Verge reported, in a “static fire” configuration that saw the spacecraft tethered to the ground. SpaceX calls the prototype vehicle in question a “Starhopper,” and it is meant to test various technologies that the…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay

Ethiopian Air Pilots Followed Proper Procedures Before Boeing 737 Max Crash According to Preliminary Report

The pilots of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 followed proper procedures before the March 10 flight that killed 157 people, according to a preliminary report by the Ethiopian government. “The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer but was not able to control the aircraft,” Dagmawit Moges, Ethiopia’s Transport Minister, said at a…

Tech News Matt Novak

Facebook Is Paying a British Newspaper to Run Facebook-Friendly Sponsored Content

Facebook is paying British newspaper the Daily Telegraph to run a series of sponsored articles called “Being human in the information age” defending it against claims it is encouraging the spread of misinformation, aiding in the spread of hate speech, violating privacy, and generally ruining society in myriad other ways, Business Insider reported on Wednesday.…

Social Media Tom McKay

So Will Smith Doesn’t Exactly Sing in Aladdin, But It Works

When it comes to Aladdin songs, “Friend Like Me” is the showstopper. Sure “A Whole New World” is beautiful and “Prince Ali” is catchy, but it’s that big, intro song sung by the genie that sticks in your head the most. So when the lights went down at CinemaCon 2019 and “Friend Like Me” from…

Movies Germain Lussier

Trump’s Goons Now Forced to Say They Have No Idea Whether Wind Turbines Cause Cancer

Last night at a Republican fundraiser in DC, Donald Trump claimed that wind turbines cause cancer with the citation, “They say the noise causes cancer.” This may be because the president has a grudge against wind power because he thought it would spoil the view from one of his golf courses in Scotland or it…

Energy Tom McKay

New Avengers: Endgame Footage Shows the Team Gearing Up for the Ultimate Fight

With just weeks to go before its release, we’re at peak Avengers: Endgame anticipation these days. CinemaCon 2019 audiences just got a glimpse of the most massive Marvel Cinematic Universe film to date, and io9 is there to report what we saw. The Avengers are standing around quietly and Captain Marvel starts to leave the…

Movies Germain Lussier

Senator Hawley Keeps Attacking a Law Crucial to Internet Speech—That He Can’t Seem to Read

The economic juggernaut we call the internet has thrived principally thanks to a single U.S. law passed more than two decades ago—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It states quite simply that website operators shall not be treated as the publishers of information posted by their users. To wit, Gizmodo cannot be held liable…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron

You’ll Soon Be Able to Actually Visit the World of Game of Thrones

Westeros is open for business. HBO has announced that it is turning its Northern Ireland studio into a giant museum and studio tour for Game of Thrones fans to see the sights and, you know, presumably sit on the Iron Throne. As reported by the NY Times, HBO is currently working on turning one of…

io9 Beth Elderkin

The HPV Vaccine Is Already Dramatically Lowering Rates of Cervical Disease

A new study out Wednesday in the BMJ is the latest to showcase even the short-term benefits of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. It found that the routine vaccination of preteen girls in Scotland, starting in 2008, led to drastically lower rates of cervical disease by the time the girls turned 20. That included conditions…

Health Ed Cara

FDA Warns of Incidents of Seizures Associated With Vaping

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is investigating a potential link between seizures and vaping after receiving dozens of voluntary reports over a nearly 10-year period. The agency said Wednesday that after observing a “slight but noticeable” uptick in voluntary reports related to seizures, it referred to poison control centers and…

Health Catie Keck

The Hobbs & Shaw CinemaCon Footage Referred to Idris Elba’s Character as the Black Superman

When the first trailer for Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw was released, io9 was delighted to see that the franchise had finally gone full sci-fi as Idris Elba’s villain, Brixton, had genetically enhanced himself. In a new trailer shown at CinemaCon 2019, the character took that enhancement one step further. He gave himself…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Cats Movie Will Shrink Actors to Feline Size and Add Performance Capture Fur

Until now, almost everything about Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Cats has been a mystery. We’ve had no idea how the Oscar-winning director was going to take the beloved musical, which is very light on narrative and features stars humans dressed as cats, and turn it into a serious motion picture. What we…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Library’s Door Was Just Blown Wide Open on a Shocking Episode of The Magicians

I Was Ready to Dunk on the Bose Frames… But I Actually Like Them?

Unknown Species of Ancient Four-Legged Whale Uncovered in Peru

Thousands of Lost MySpace Songs Have Been Recovered—No Thanks to MySpace

Pop-Up Cameras Are Just the Start as Oppo Dreams of Phones with Pop-Up Screens

Toy Story 4 Begins by Tying Up Loose Ends and Raising the Emotional Stakes

Disney Has Hopes for More Alien and Planet of the Apes After the Fox Merger

Scientists Talked to Cats to Figure Out If They Know Their Own Names

SpaceX Successfully Test-Fires Its ‘Starhopper’ Prototype Spacecraft in Texas

Ethiopian Air Pilots Followed Proper Procedures Before Boeing 737 Max Crash According to Preliminary Report

Facebook Is Paying a British Newspaper to Run Facebook-Friendly Sponsored Content

So Will Smith Doesn’t Exactly Sing in Aladdin, But It Works

Trump’s Goons Now Forced to Say They Have No Idea Whether Wind Turbines Cause Cancer

New Avengers: Endgame Footage Shows the Team Gearing Up for the Ultimate Fight

Senator Hawley Keeps Attacking a Law Crucial to Internet Speech—That He Can’t Seem to Read

You’ll Soon Be Able to Actually Visit the World of Game of Thrones

The HPV Vaccine Is Already Dramatically Lowering Rates of Cervical Disease

FDA Warns of Incidents of Seizures Associated With Vaping

The Hobbs & Shaw CinemaCon Footage Referred to Idris Elba’s Character as the Black Superman

The Cats Movie Will Shrink Actors to Feline Size and Add Performance Capture Fur

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The Library’s Door Was Just Blown Wide Open on a Shocking Episode of The Magicians

I Was Ready to Dunk on the Bose Frames… But I Actually Like Them?

Unknown Species of Ancient Four-Legged Whale Uncovered in Peru

Thousands of Lost MySpace Songs Have Been Recovered—No Thanks to MySpace

Pop-Up Cameras Are Just the Start as Oppo Dreams of Phones with Pop-Up Screens

Toy Story 4 Begins by Tying Up Loose Ends and Raising the Emotional Stakes

Disney Has Hopes for More Alien and Planet of the Apes After the Fox Merger

Scientists Talked to Cats to Figure Out If They Know Their Own Names

SpaceX Successfully Test-Fires Its ‘Starhopper’ Prototype Spacecraft in Texas

Ethiopian Air Pilots Followed Proper Procedures Before Boeing 737 Max Crash According to Preliminary Report

Facebook Is Paying a British Newspaper to Run Facebook-Friendly Sponsored Content

So Will Smith Doesn’t Exactly *Sing* in Aladdin, But It Works

Trump’s Goons Now Forced to Say They Have No Idea Whether Wind Turbines Cause Cancer

New Avengers: Endgame Footage Shows the Team Gearing Up for the Ultimate Fight

Senator Hawley Keeps Attacking a Law Crucial to Internet Speech—That He Can’t Seem to Read

You’ll Soon Be Able to Actually Visit the World of Game of Thrones

The HPV Vaccine Is Already Dramatically Lowering Rates of Cervical Disease

FDA Warns of Incidents of Seizures Associated With Vaping

The Hobbs & Shaw CinemaCon Footage Referred to Idris Elba’s Character as the Black Superman

The Cats Movie Will Shrink Actors to Feline Size and Add Performance Capture Fur

INIU Portable Power Bank Is Small in Size and Smaller in Price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (45W, 10,000mAh)

Humans Were Already Dog People 16,000 Years Ago, DNA Suggests

California Regulator Says Tesla’s ‘Robotaxis’ Are More Like a Limo in the Eyes of the Law

Dyson Airwrap Falls to an All-Time Low in Amazon’s Spring Sale, Lowering the Barrier for This Premium Multi-Styler

The ‘Tales from ’85’ Trailer Wants You Back in ‘Stranger Things’ Already

Forget Ray-Ban Meta, XREAL 1S AR/XR Virtual Screen Smart Glasses Drop to Record Low on Amazon

Pixel Buds Pro 2 Hit Record Low as Google Continues Its Clearance-Like Price Cuts Following Smartphone Deals

DJI Now Has a Cheaper 360 Drone Than Insta360, but the U.S. Won’t Get It

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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So Will Smith Doesn’t Exactly Sing in Aladdin, But It Works