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Uber’s Embattled Ex-CEO Finally Passes The Torch

Uber held an all-hands meeting on Wednesday to welcome its new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi. The new hire was joined by board member Arianna Huffington and former CEO Travis Kalanick in what was mostly a drama-free induction of the new leader to the company—a company that Khosrowshahi claims he will take public in as few as…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Aug 30 '17

Samsung’s New Water-Resistant Wearables Will Get You Laughed Out of the Pool

Not content just to let the Galaxy Note 8 make waves, Samsung is pushing out three new fitness minded wearables this holiday season: the Gear Icon X 2018 wireless earbuds, the Gear Sport smartwatch and the Gear Fit 2 Pro fitness band. Now none of these devices are exactly new (or attractive). What we’re really…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Aug 30 '17

At This Moment, I Know the Perfect Amount About The Last Jedi

Recently I was sitting around thinking about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, as I tend to do, and had a profound realization. I realized that even though I think I know a lot about the movie, I really don’t know anything at all. And that realization made me incredibly happy. It’s perfect, really. A feeling…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 30 '17

Biggest X-Ray Laser Gun on Earth Opens in September

Even if you haven’t seen any James Bond films, you’re probably aware that the space laser battle depicted in Moonraker ranks among the stupidest scenes in the franchise’s history. But there’s a new laser gun in town that’s actually good and opening up for business. It is not a weapon. The European X-ray Free Electron…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Aug 30 '17

Why Does Fitbit’s New Watch Skip a Feature Fans Were Clamoring For?

I’m a big Apple Watch user, and every time I strap on a Fitbit, I run into the same problem. Instead of opening the Fitbit app to look at my heart rate and sleep cycle, I open Apple Health and then am immediately disappointed because none of the data from my Fitbit actually syncs with…

Gadgets Alex Cranz Aug 30 '17

Hurricane Harvey Stalls Repair Facilities for Apple, Dell

As Texas recovers from the battering winds and record-setting rainfall of Hurricane Harvey, Apple and Dell customers elsewhere in the US are learning the storm may have some unforeseen consequences. “I got a call from an Apple employee at the Genius Bar saying that all of their laptop repairs go through Houston. I was told…

Gadgets Avery Ellis Aug 30 '17

Trump Administration Hires Former DeVry Dean to Run Unit Inspired by DeVry’s Bad Behavior

Let’s imagine you’re the Trump administration’s secretary of education, Betsy DeVos. Sure, people don’t like you. They really don’t like you. But you’ve got an opportunity to hire an official who will stand up for working class Americans and crack down on for-profit schools that exploit their students. What would you do? Well, to be…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 30 '17

Tiny Pennywise Will Make You Want to Float Too

If you’re scared of clowns, it’s probably thanks to It. The Stephen King book and miniseries made an entire generation terrified of painted faces and oversized red shoes. The fear is so bad that the upcoming reboot is apparently putting real clowns out of work. But none of them have met the scariest Pennywise of…

io9 Beth Elderkin Aug 30 '17

A Fascinating Potential Link Between Gut Bacteria and Health

These days, you can’t throw a rock without hitting some start-up trying to boost our microbiomes. For the health-obsessed, microbiome has become the buzzword of the day. That’s because it’s becoming ever-clearer that all the trillions of microorganisms that inhabit our bodies, and particularly our gut, play an important role in our overall health. But…

Health Kristen V. Brown Aug 30 '17

This Doomsday Clock Cover Is Almost Certainly Alan Moore’s Worst Nightmare

Alan Moore’s distaste for DC’s ownership of his and Dave Gibbons’ work on Watchmen is widely known at this point—and considering the fact that neither Moore or Gibbons were contacted for the characters’ use in Rebirth, that distaste is still very real today. This new comic cover is unlikely to help smooth things over for…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 30 '17

Will Your Next Taco Contain This Secret Ingredient?

There’s some crazy meat industry propaganda video waiting to be made where an All-American jock takes a bite out of a hamburger served by a polite waiter, who then rips off a mask to reveal the demented face of someone from the mushroom industry shouting “that burger is 50 percent mushrooms,” after which the customer…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum Aug 30 '17

The Many, Many, Many New Comic Book Series Coming This Fall

Let’s be real: Comics are kind of a year-round thing. But you know what fall has that the rest of those lousy seasons don’t? Perfect comic book reading weather. So it’s a good thing that there’s tons of new comics on the way! Here’s our picks of the wonderful new books you’ll want to get…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 30 '17

Telecoms Pay for Totally Shocking Analysis of Net Neutrality Comments

Today is the last day to submit comments on the proposal to kill open internet rules to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Good luck with that, though. The public comment period has been complete disaster from the start, and a new study funded by big telecom suggests that the record-setting 21 million comments already submitted…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 30 '17

Adorable Animal Subsisting On Wildflowers And Kindness Is in Serious Danger

The American Pika (Ochonta princeps) is one of the few unproblematic faves we have left. These tiny animals roams the mountainous regions of the western United States, doing absolutely nothing wrong. Seriously, all these little floofs do is munch on wildflowers and grass—the images of which are mind-numbingly cute. But because we cannot have a…

Biology Rae Paoletta Aug 30 '17

US Military Releases Slow Motion Missile Porn in Response to North Korea’s Most Recent Test

Another week, another missile test by North Korea. This time the country shot a missile over northern Japan, leaving the Japanese scrambling to gauge whether it was a legitimate threat. And in response, the US military has done was it always does after a North Korean test: It fired off its own missile test and…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 30 '17

Google-Funded Think Tank Fires Google Critic

Politicians on both sides of the aisle are starting to wake up to the enormous power that tech companies wield, and there’s a growing sentiment that something needs to be done about it. But giants like Google are extending their moneyed tentacles in all the right places to ensure silence in Washington and they’re outpacing…

Tech News Rhett Jones Aug 30 '17

Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Has Been Destroyed, Just Like He Wanted

When an author passes on, sometimes they’re survived by the uncompleted work they left behind, released as a tribute to their memory. That won’t be the case for the dearly missed Sir Terry Pratchett, however, who declared before his death that his final works would never be released—and that wish was granted in style. It’s…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 30 '17

What Was the Point of Marvel’s Secret Empire?

There was something very telling about Marvel’s decision this past Monday to announce to The New York Times how its Secret Empire event would end. It felt like the publisher was trying to get ahead of yet more problems coming from the series’ conclusion. Now that the final issue of its primary series is in…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 30 '17

The FDA Just Approved the First ‘Living’ Therapy to Treat Childhood Leukemia

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a treatment that genetically modifies a patient’s own blood cells in order to attack childhood leukemia, a landmark decision opens the door for an era of FDA-sanctioned human gene modification. The treatment, called CAR-T, is made by the drug company Novartis. Doctors first harvest a patient’s white…

Health Kristen V. Brown Aug 30 '17

Takashi Miike’s New Movie About an Immortal Samurai Looks Bananas

When a director has made 100 films, calling him or her “immortal” isn’t a stretch. That work will live forever. So it’s fitting that, for his 100th film, director Takashi Miike made a film about an immortal samurai warrior seeking revenge against impossible odds. It’s called Blade of the Immortal and a brand new, red-band…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 30 '17

Uber’s Embattled Ex-CEO Finally Passes The Torch

Samsung’s New Water-Resistant Wearables Will Get You Laughed Out of the Pool

At This Moment, I Know the Perfect Amount About The Last Jedi

Biggest X-Ray Laser Gun on Earth Opens in September

Why Does Fitbit’s New Watch Skip a Feature Fans Were Clamoring For?

Hurricane Harvey Stalls Repair Facilities for Apple, Dell

Trump Administration Hires Former DeVry Dean to Run Unit Inspired by DeVry’s Bad Behavior

Tiny Pennywise Will Make You Want to Float Too

A Fascinating Potential Link Between Gut Bacteria and Health

This Doomsday Clock Cover Is Almost Certainly Alan Moore’s Worst Nightmare

Will Your Next Taco Contain This Secret Ingredient?

The Many, Many, Many New Comic Book Series Coming This Fall

Telecoms Pay for Totally Shocking Analysis of Net Neutrality Comments

Adorable Animal Subsisting On Wildflowers And Kindness Is in Serious Danger

US Military Releases Slow Motion Missile Porn in Response to North Korea’s Most Recent Test

Google-Funded Think Tank Fires Google Critic

Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Has Been Destroyed, Just Like He Wanted

What Was the Point of Marvel’s Secret Empire?

The FDA Just Approved the First ‘Living’ Therapy to Treat Childhood Leukemia

Takashi Miike’s New Movie About an Immortal Samurai Looks Bananas

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