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The Watch Begins in a New Trailer for the Discworld-Inspired Show

Wanna watch The Watch? Well the time is almost here. The Watch is a new BBC America show based on characters from Terry Pratchett’s expansive Discworld universe. It follows the Ankh-Morpork’s City Watch (originally from the book Guards! Guards!), who are a diverse, unlikely group of ragtag heroes who must come together to stop an…

Trailers Germain Lussier Dec 10

Tasmanian Devils May Overcome Transmissible Cancer That Nearly Wiped Them Out

A new study out Thursday suggests that Tasmanian devils are starting to adapt to one of the strangest diseases known in nature: a contagious cancer spread by biting. The study has found evidence that the disease is spreading more slowly and becoming endemic in the devil population, rather than the very fatal and rapidly spreading…

Earther Ed Cara Dec 10

We’re Finally Starting to See Some Great MagSafe Accessories, but They’re Not Coming from Apple

One of the more interesting features of the new iPhone 12 lineup is the return of the MagSafe power connector. It doesn’t only make wireless charging easier, as Apple demonstrated with a $60 wallet, it can also expand the usefulness of the device that’s always in your pocket. But MagSafe has even more potential than…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Dec 10

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Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity

Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space—they just need a surprising resource. Spiders are capable of building typical webs in microgravity, so long as they have access to a light source, according to new research published in Science of Nature. In the absence of gravity, and hence a sense…

Biology George Dvorsky Dec 10

The Expanse’s Thomas Jane on Bringing His Acting Experience Behind the Camera

The protomolecule entity formerly known as Joe Miller might have disappeared at the end of The Expanse season four, but actor Thomas Jane didn’t go anywhere. He ventured behind the scenes to direct an episode of season five, one that gives us some of the most emotional moments of the series so far. Luckily for…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 10

I Feel Like $156,000 for a 110-Inch TV Is a Lot

Borrowing its microLED technology from “The Wall,” Samsung’s latest monster display was announced this week in Korea. Samsung announced its MicroLED-powered display system The Wall—yes, it’s really called that—back in 2018, describing it at the time as the “world’s first consumer modular MicroLED television.” Basically, the idea with The Wall is that its modular components…

Gadgets Catie Keck Dec 10

A New Sonic Series Is Apparently Speeding Its Way to Netflix

With the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie being as surprisingly solid as it was, Sega’s latest plans for the supersonic mammal hardly come as a surprise. Today, Netflix announced that it’s greenlit a new 3D animated Sonic the Hedgehog series with a now-deleted tweet featuring some spiffy new vector art depicting the titular hedgehog. The tweet’s sudden deletion…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Dec 10

Honeybees Fend Off Asian Giant Hornets With Poop

Attacks by giant hornets, relatives of murder hornets, on honeybee hives are absolutely horrifying. Worker hornets identify bee hives and then bring in reinforcements of two to dozens of others, slaughtering bees at a rate of up to one per 14 seconds and sawing off their heads to gather protein-rich thoraxes and feast on pupae…

Earther Tom McKay Dec 10

Sentencing Nears for Gamer Who DDoS’d PlayStation Network as a Minor

A person behind a October 2016 cyberattack that temporarily crippled Sony’s Playstation Network and other online services has pleaded guilty to committing the act as a juvenile, Justice Department officials in New Hampshire said Thursday. Because the individual was a minor at the time, details about the incident, including the offender’s identity, remain sealed. For…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Dec 10

A Young Girl Has Her Own Killer Alien in the Trailer for PG: Psycho Goreman

Short of maybe going to space or becoming a professional athlete, having your very own alien has to be up there on any little kid’s list of ultimate wishes. In PG: Psycho Goreman, a young girl gets to live that impossible dream, whether the killer alien likes it or not. io9 is excited to debut…

Trailers Germain Lussier Dec 10

New Research Bolsters Claim That Neanderthals Buried Their Dead

A thorough re-analysis of a skeleton belonging to a 2-year-old Neanderthal and the archaeological site in which it was discovered some 50 years ago is providing some of the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals deliberately buried their dead. I must admit, this new study came as a bit of a surprise to me, in that I…

Human History George Dvorsky Dec 10

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DC Comics Has a New Batman

Meet Tim Fox. He’s your new Dark Knight. After teasing that the upcoming Future State event would bring some bold, sweeping changes to a new generation of its legacy heroes, DC has confirmed the identity of the event’s Batman: Tim Fox, the estranged son of longtime Batman ally Lucius Fox, and brother of Batwing himself,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Dec 10

Bandwidth Limits at National Weather Service Could Hobble Our Weather Apps

The National Weather Service’s data budget is hitting a ceiling, and it apparently doesn’t have the money to fix the situation. Now, the agency is considering throttling users who access its essential forecast data. In a notice dated Nov. 18, 2020, the NWS said that it is seeking public comment on a proposal to impose…

Earther Rhett Jones Dec 10

Everybody Wants a Piece of Facebook

The day after the FTC and dozens of Attorneys General filed two separate suits against Facebook over it anticompetitive track record, the company’s being slammed with yet another antitrust probe—this time, from Germany’s antitrust regulator. Specifically, the country’s Federal Cartel Office (otherwise known as The Bundeskartellamt) announced plans to investigate the tie between Oculus’s virtual…

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky Dec 10

Leaked Samsung Galaxy S21 Teasers Show Off Divisive Design

Rumors have been swirling around claiming the Galaxy S21 could get announced as early as January (possibly a month sooner than S20’s debut last year), and now it appears some official teasers have leaked out giving us a glimpse at the S21’s unique design. First discovered by Android Police, the Galaxy S21’s new signature colors…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Dec 10

Wonder Woman 1984 Will Include a Post-Credits Scene for Its Theatrical and Streaming Debuts

That’s the thing about streaming debuts—you don’t actually have to wait to get to the post-credits stuff! Speaking to Cinemablend recently, Patty Jenkins confirmed that the recent screenings of Wonder Woman 1984 for the press did not include one extra bonus that will be part of the film’s theatrical (and, in the U.S., on-demand) debut…

Movies James Whitbrook Dec 10

The Next Generation of Vaccines Might Be Inhalable

Future vaccines might involve a deep breath rather than an injection, if technology detailed in research published Thursday pans out. The proof-of-concept study in mice and primates suggests that vaccines can be safely absorbed through the lungs into the bloodstream in order to do their job of training the immune system. The authors hope that…

Health Ed Cara Dec 10

Doctor Who Set Pictures Tease the Return of a Major Villain

Somehow, Spider-Man 3 rumors continue to expand its cast. George Miller is contemplating honoring Mad Max legend Hugh Keays-Byrne in the Furiosa prequel. Even more Hawkeye set pictures tease Clint Barton’s old ties. Plus, Riverdale continues to Riverdale. Spoilers, away! Spider-Man 3 According to…Murphy’s Multiverse, Charlie Cox is additionally set to reprise his role as…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Dec 10

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Georgiou Experiment Has Reached a Fascinating Place

Since the final episodes of Star Trek: Discovery’s first season, a ticking time bomb has lurked in the show’s background, a time bomb that began to tick faster when talk of series spinoffs emerged. Whatever can we do about Emperor Georgiou? The show’s decided that it’s time to answer and see if it and Michael’s experiment…

io9 James Whitbrook Dec 10

This Beautiful 360-Degree Camera Needs Its Software to Catch Up

Although they enjoyed a surge in popularity when products like Google Cardboard made VR more accessible, 360-degree cameras have always been a niche product, if only because viewing and sharing 360-degree imagery is a challenge. Vecnos wants to change that with a slick 360-degree camera called the IQUI and a new app that converts the…

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Dec 10

The Watch Begins in a New Trailer for the Discworld-Inspired Show

Tasmanian Devils May Overcome Transmissible Cancer That Nearly Wiped Them Out

We’re Finally Starting to See Some Great MagSafe Accessories, but They’re Not Coming from Apple

Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity

The Expanse’s Thomas Jane on Bringing His Acting Experience Behind the Camera

I Feel Like $156,000 for a 110-Inch TV Is a Lot

A New Sonic Series Is Apparently Speeding Its Way to Netflix

Honeybees Fend Off Asian Giant Hornets With Poop

Sentencing Nears for Gamer Who DDoS’d PlayStation Network as a Minor

A Young Girl Has Her Own Killer Alien in the Trailer for PG: Psycho Goreman

New Research Bolsters Claim That Neanderthals Buried Their Dead

DC Comics Has a New Batman

Bandwidth Limits at National Weather Service Could Hobble Our Weather Apps

Everybody Wants a Piece of Facebook

Leaked Samsung Galaxy S21 Teasers Show Off Divisive Design

Wonder Woman 1984 Will Include a Post-Credits Scene for Its Theatrical and Streaming Debuts

The Next Generation of Vaccines Might Be Inhalable

Doctor Who Set Pictures Tease the Return of a Major Villain

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Georgiou Experiment Has Reached a Fascinating Place

This Beautiful 360-Degree Camera Needs Its Software to Catch Up

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