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The Tick’s Going to Form a Wacky Superteam When His Show Comes Back in February

Arthur! Danger Boat! Tinfoil Hat Kevin! Overkill! Midnight! Dot! Shakira! The Wild Blue Yonder himself! I wonder what kind of name they’ll come up with! Why am I yelling?! After months of dry, dreary spoonlessness, Amazon’s finally unleashing new episodes of The Tick. The new trailer shows the Terror resuming his role as the biggest,…

Television Evan Narcisse

For Some in America, China’s Looming Surveillance Nightmare Is Already Here

A new Washington Post report highlights the role of technology in China’s frightening and fast-developing surveillance state. The “Sharp Eyes” program, dystopian in both name and execution, is a plan to connect the nation’s many surveillance cameras, in both private and public spaces, to a single network. Ultimately, the Chinese government wants to connect this…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

How to Easily Switch Your Two-Factor Security to a New Phone

When you’re switching phones after an upgrade or an accident, the job of checking up on your two-factor verification apps can get lost in the hustle of transferring photos, contacts, messages, and all the other stuff that more quickly comes to mind. Without your security codes, though, you might get locked out of your key…

Gadgets David Nield

Senate Democrats Promise Vote to Restore Net Neutrality, Call FCC’s Order ‘Un-American’

A group of US senators on Tuesday announced that more than 40 lawmakers had joined an effort to overturn the 2017 FCC order killing net neutrality. Democrats are seeking to undo the FCC order using the Congressional Review Act (CRA), passage of which will require a simple majority in the both the House and Senate.…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Dell’s XPS 15 2-in-1 Wants to Be the Anti-MacBook Pro

Dell got CES 2018 started early when it debuted its fully redesigned flagship ultraportable last week. But the XPS 13 isn’t the only new premium system the company is showing off, and in some ways, it might not even be the most exciting, because now for the first time ever, there’s a 2-in-1 version of…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

io9’s Greatest Movies of the Past 10 Years

In 2008, we were basically living in another world. The Marvel Cinematic Universe didn’t exist, we were still recovering from George Lucas’ Star Wars prequilogy, and Fantastic Four was—okay let’s be honest, in about the same place it is now. These years have seen a renaissance in comic book films, along with a surge of…

Movies io9 Staff

This Is What Nuclear War Would Mean for Life on Earth

We haven’t been this close to nuclear war in decades. So while you’re brushing up on how to duck and cover, why not also brush up on how a few nukes could turn the planet into a wasteland of suffering for humans, and the rest of life on Earth? There are roughly 15,000 nuclear bombs…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Facebook Reportedly Plans to Sell Creepy $500 Video Chat Box That Nobody Will Want

Cheddar is reporting that Facebook will soon release a video-chat device that will sit in your home and scan and recognize the face of anyone who passes by. No one wants this. The device, called Portal, according to Cheddar’s Alex Heath, will be similar in design to the Echo Show that Amazon introduced last year,…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Report: Fox Is Developing a Kitty Pryde X-Men Solo Movie Directed by Tim Miller

The ink may still be drying on the massive deal between Disney and Fox that’s bringing mutants back to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, but that doesn’t mean Fox has any plans on slowing down production on one of the last X-Men movies it may make: A spinoff starring Kitty Pryde. According to Collider, Tim Miller is…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Mark Hamill and Ron Perlman Are Headed to Cybertron for Transformers: Power of the Primes

For the past few years, Hasbro’s Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy has been telling an epic tale about how the Autobots and Decepticons finally ended their ages-long war and returned to Cybertron, only to find themselves thrown into yet another even more dangerous conflict. All of the comic books, toys, and animated movies that make up…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Life Could Have Evolved From These Ancient Chemical Reactions

Fundamentally, your body is just a crazy chemistry experiment. You put in food and oxygen, chemical reactions happen, and out comes energy and poop. But how did these reactions first begin? Some scientists think they have an idea. You might remember learning about cellular respiration, the process by which your body turns sugar into energy…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Checking Out LG’s Prototype TVs Was Like Sending My Eyes to Disney World

The CES show floor might be filled with hundreds of TVs that put your local electronics store to shame, but the real treasures of the show, the TVs packed with technology we’ll have to wait for years to buy, are hidden in back rooms away from greasy fingers. Except ours, of course, as we had…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Philips’ New Headband Promises Better Sleep by Whispering in Your Ear All Night Long

You don’t need a scientist to tell you that a good night’s sleep is important to your health. Your body tells you that every time you try to climb out of bed after a late night. So to help maximize what sleep you are able to get, Philips has created a headband that plays special…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This May Explain How Marvel Dodged That Thor: Ragnarok Spoiler in First Infinity War Footage

The first trailer for Avengers: Infinity War, released last month, confirmed Thor’s fate from his latest solo film: He lost his eye and is now wearing a patch. This reveal left a few fans surprised and a bit confused, as early photos and footage from San Diego Comic-Con showed Thor with 20/20 vision. Does this…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Twitter Vows to Politely Ask Trump to Remove Tweets If He Doxes Journalists

Last week, Twitter finally responded to President Trump’s potential violations of the site’s rules, saying blocking a “world leader” from Twitter or removing their tweets “would hide important information people should be able to see and debate.” It was a hands-off response likely prompting many to look up the blast radius of a Taepodong missile.…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Mike Mignola Says the New Hellboy Movie Ramped up Really Quickly

For those of us outside the production loop, it seemed like the announcement of the upcoming Hellboy reboot came from nowhere. But Hellboy creator Mike Mignola says work had been proceeding slowly for years. Then, all of a sudden, things started happening really fast. In a long interview with Multiversity Comics, Mignola details some of…

Movies Evan Narcisse

Speculation Rampant as Secretive Zuma Spy Satellite Declared a ‘Total Loss’

Contradictory accounts are emerging in the wake of the apparent failure of the Zuma mission—a secretive multibillion-dollar spy satellite that was launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral, Florida this past weekend. Everything seemed fine on Sunday as the spy satellite was launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX founder Elon Musk even tweeted about it,…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Mudslides Are California’s Latest Apocalyptic Hazard

When it rains it mudslides. That, at least, is the saying in California this week, as the aftermath of one of the state’s worst fire seasons converges with some of the state’s first big rains in nearly a year. After experiencing a record-low 0.69 inches of rain between March and December 2017, the area between…

Conservation Ari Phillips

Microsoft Pauses Spectre Patches For Some AMD Processors, Blames AMD

Like every major tech company, Microsoft has been pushing out updates to help mitigate the unprecedented vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre. But some Windows users found that the update rendered their PCs unusable, and now Microsoft has paused the update in some cases until it can fix the problem. On Monday, complaints started appearing…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Razer Put a Phone in a Laptop and I Don’t Hate It

I chuckled when I was first briefed about Razer’s latest concept, Project Linda. It’s a phone dock that turns the Razer Phone into a laptop! That concept has been done before, and it has always been deeply and profoundly stupid. But Razer’s take on the dumb idea has just enough polish, even in this concept…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

The Tick’s Going to Form a Wacky Superteam When His Show Comes Back in February

For Some in America, China’s Looming Surveillance Nightmare Is Already Here

How to Easily Switch Your Two-Factor Security to a New Phone

Senate Democrats Promise Vote to Restore Net Neutrality, Call FCC’s Order ‘Un-American’

Dell’s XPS 15 2-in-1 Wants to Be the Anti-MacBook Pro

io9’s Greatest Movies of the Past 10 Years

This Is What Nuclear War Would Mean for Life on Earth

Facebook Reportedly Plans to Sell Creepy $500 Video Chat Box That Nobody Will Want

Report: Fox Is Developing a Kitty Pryde X-Men Solo Movie Directed by Tim Miller

Mark Hamill and Ron Perlman Are Headed to Cybertron for Transformers: Power of the Primes

Life Could Have Evolved From These Ancient Chemical Reactions

Checking Out LG’s Prototype TVs Was Like Sending My Eyes to Disney World

Philips’ New Headband Promises Better Sleep by Whispering in Your Ear All Night Long

This May Explain How Marvel Dodged That Thor: Ragnarok Spoiler in First Infinity War Footage

Twitter Vows to Politely Ask Trump to Remove Tweets If He Doxes Journalists

Mike Mignola Says the New Hellboy Movie Ramped up Really Quickly

Speculation Rampant as Secretive Zuma Spy Satellite Declared a ‘Total Loss’

Mudslides Are California’s Latest Apocalyptic Hazard

Microsoft Pauses Spectre Patches For Some AMD Processors, Blames AMD

Razer Put a Phone in a Laptop and I Don’t Hate It

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