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Donald Trump’s Executive Orders on ‘Great, Great’ Rural Broadband Don’t Really Do Anything

President Donald Trump bragged to the American Farm Bureau Association convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday that two new executive orders he’s signed will help solve the lingering problem of terrible rural broadband speeds. According to the Reuters account, the orders make it “easier for the private sector to locate broadband infrastructure on federal land…

Tech News Tom McKay

An Alternate Reality Is the Best and Worst Thing to Happen to a Lonely Woman in This Bittersweet Short

A frustrated, married mom of two becomes a beta tester for a virtual reality program that facilitates romantic encounters. Before long, though, her flirty, joyous alternate life with an idealized partner becomes the only one she wants to occupy… and the consequences are huge. Director, writer, and actor Grace Rowe’s The Sweetening is like a…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Lenovo Says Its Snapdragon Surface Clone Gets 20 Freaking Hours of Battery Life

There’s a question I get way too often from a coworker. “When are we getting Snapdragon Surface devices?” The answer continues to be “I have no idea.” But today Lenovo’s announced the next best thing—a detachable two-in-one Windows 10 device with Snapdragon inside. Yeah, it’s basically a Snapdragon Surface. HP previously announced the Envy X2,…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Amazon and Google’s Dumb Fight About YouTube Videos Makes More Sense Now

The slap fight between Google and Amazon, in which the two corporations fought over whether the Amazon Show could display YouTube videos, just started to make a whole lot more sense. Google is pushing a whole range of Show-like devices out through Lenovo, Sony, LG, and JBL. They’ll all have YouTube baked right in. I’ve…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

I Think Sony Realized Last Year’s Cool OLED TVs Looked Too Weird

Take a moment and step back to January 2017. That’s when Sony announced the A1E OLED, a cool new TV that used the display itself as part of the speaker. The big problem with the TV was how weird it looked. So Sony fixed that, and the new A8F series is decidedly more traditional. I…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Batman Hanging With Scooby-Doo Is Less Awkward Than You’d Expect

Warner Bros.’ animation divisions are always doing unexpected stuff. From Lego Batman movies on the big screen, to Willy Wonka crossovers with Tom and Jerry on the small screen, you never know what crazy scheme will be next. The studio’s latest project doesn’t disappoint on the absurd scale. It’s Batman meets Scooby-Doo in Scooby-Doo! &…

Movies Germain Lussier

Everyone Forgets the New Guy in the CW’s Adorably Goofy Superhero Show Skit

Instead of showing everyone punching the crap out of stuff, this year’s now-traditional joint advertisement for the return of the CW’s DC shows is a bit more relaxed, with the emphasis on the gang coming together to put on their costumes and kick ass. But they kinda end up ignoring their latest superfriend in the process.…

Television James Whitbrook

Scientists Make Coldest Liquid Water Ever, And It’s Weirder Than They Imagined

You’re definitely familiar with water’s freezing point: 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius). But that’s not the coldest water could be. “Supercooled” water is water that exists below that point. Scientists in a few labs have now made the coldest water yet. One team of researchers got their liquid water as cold as 230 Kelvin,…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Qualcomm Claims Its New Chip Will Triple Battery Life on Wireless Headphones

There are currently two major annoyances with wireless headphones: the Bluetooth can cut out in areas with a lot of signal noise, and battery life is mostly terrible. Qualcomm thinks it’s packed a better solution to both of those issues into a new chip. “It’s a big step forward in the hearable category,” Anthony Murray,…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Environmental Disaster Looms as Oil Tanker Burns Off China’s Coast

This past Saturday, a tanker transporting oil from Iran to South Korea collided with a freighter about 160 miles off the coast of Shanghai. The tanker, filled with 130 tons of highly volatile condensate crude, has been burning for the past three days, raising fears of an environmental catastrophe. As Reuters reports, the tanker, named…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Guillermo del Toro Says His ‘Strange Little Tales’ Saved Him in His Emotional Golden Globe Speech

Oprah Winfrey may be the one getting most of the Golden Globe Awards headlines, but the speech that immediately followed hers was one for the books too. Last night Guillermo del Toro was awarded Best Director for The Shape of Water and, fighting back tears, he talked about how monsters, especially his own creations, saved…

Movies Germain Lussier

It Snowed in the Sahara and the Photos Are Breathtaking

Look, I know we cover a lot of the bad types of weather here. Wildfires, droughts, extreme cold, hurricanes. But allow me to make it up to you with some Good Weather. Snow in Sahara? Yes, please. On Sunday, snow fell in one of the most unlikely places on Earth. Ain Sefra, an Algerian town…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

23andMe Wants to Tell You How to Lose Weight

The quest to figure out the right diet for maintaining an optimal weight is often less a quest and more a life-long battle. We cycle through fad diet after fad diet, hoping to eventually one day strike diet gold. Now, the consumer DNA testing company 23andMe is hoping to cut out some of the mystery…

Biology Kristen V. Brown

Hulu Renews Marvel’s Runaways, But ABC Won’t Commit to Inhumans

Runaways may not be done with its first season yet, but Hulu is already giving the show another go. However, anyone holding their breath for the return of Medusa and Lockjaw on a certain other Marvel show might want to exhale a bit early before they die from asphyxiation. ABC’s president doesn’t sound confident in…

Television Beth Elderkin

LG Unveils Voice Assistant That Ignores Your Questions, Just Like Real People

It would have been fair to call digital voice assistants the hot new game in town a few years ago. Now, that space consists of incremental advances by titanic companies pressing ever harder to make consumers reliant on AIs you already know: Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google’s unnamed, data-mining Assistant. The likeliness that a new…

Tech News Avery Ellis

VR Takes the Next Step Forward with the Vive Pro and Vive Wireless Adaptor [Updated]

Back in the 90s, companies tried making virtual reality a thing, most notably Nintendo, whose Virtual Boy was so distasteful that it caused people to abandon the entire category for the next 20 years. But then in 2016, headsets from Oculus and HTC/Vive showed that the VR experiences people had been writing about in scifi…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Go Install the Apple Updates for the Spectre Vulnerability Right Now

Security professionals had an “oh shit” moment last week when two gaping vulnerabilities were discovered in the bulk of modern microprocessors. The first issue, dubbed Meltdown, was more or less taken care of in a previous Apple update. But now, Apple has released a fix for the second issue, Spectre. According to Google’s Project Zero…

Tech News Rhett Jones

This Roku Sound Bar Is Part Smart Speaker and Part Remote Control

If the term “smart sound bar” seems unusual, that’s because it’s brand new. TCL just announced the first in a new class of gadgets that act a little bit like a smart speaker and a little bit like a remote control that’s powered by your voice. As the name implies, the new TCL Roku Smart…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

LaCie’s New Rugged Drive Can Backup All Your Footage On Location Without a Computer

LaCie’s rugged portable drives, distinguished by their bright orange padding, are popular with photographers and videographers who need to backup footage and photos while away from the safety of their desks. Taking that idea one step further, LaCie’s new DJI Copilot drive can ingest and back up your media all by itself, letting you leave…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

It’s io9’s Tenth Anniversary, and the Celebration Begins Here

io9 has traveled 10 years into the future. That future is now. We didn’t use a TARDIS, a wormhole, or cryogenically freeze ourselves, but io9 has managed to transport itself from 2008 to 2018 in the most arduous way possible—living through it. The site has managed to exist for 10 full years, no small feat…

io9 Rob Bricken

Donald Trump’s Executive Orders on ‘Great, Great’ Rural Broadband Don’t Really Do Anything

An Alternate Reality Is the Best and Worst Thing to Happen to a Lonely Woman in This Bittersweet Short

Lenovo Says Its Snapdragon Surface Clone Gets 20 Freaking Hours of Battery Life

Amazon and Google’s Dumb Fight About YouTube Videos Makes More Sense Now

I Think Sony Realized Last Year’s Cool OLED TVs Looked Too Weird

Batman Hanging With Scooby-Doo Is Less Awkward Than You’d Expect

Everyone Forgets the New Guy in the CW’s Adorably Goofy Superhero Show Skit

Scientists Make Coldest Liquid Water Ever, And It’s Weirder Than They Imagined

Qualcomm Claims Its New Chip Will Triple Battery Life on Wireless Headphones

Environmental Disaster Looms as Oil Tanker Burns Off China’s Coast

Guillermo del Toro Says His ‘Strange Little Tales’ Saved Him in His Emotional Golden Globe Speech

It Snowed in the Sahara and the Photos Are Breathtaking

23andMe Wants to Tell You How to Lose Weight

Hulu Renews Marvel’s Runaways, But ABC Won’t Commit to Inhumans

LG Unveils Voice Assistant That Ignores Your Questions, Just Like Real People

VR Takes the Next Step Forward with the Vive Pro and Vive Wireless Adaptor [Updated]

Go Install the Apple Updates for the Spectre Vulnerability Right Now

This Roku Sound Bar Is Part Smart Speaker and Part Remote Control

LaCie’s New Rugged Drive Can Backup All Your Footage On Location Without a Computer

It’s io9’s Tenth Anniversary, and the Celebration Begins Here

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