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Now’s the Perfect Time to Shut Down Most Dirty Power Plants

The transition to 100% clean electricity will take a lot of things—organizing, political will, courage. But fundamentally, if we can get all of that together, it will practically require two components. One is deploying a shitload of renewable energy, and the other is shutting down all of the existing fossil fuel-based power we have. Both…

Earther Dharna Noor

These Scammy 5G Router Cages Have Michael Faraday Rolling in His Grave

While products that promise to protect you from radiation are far from new, now so-called Faraday router cages that claim to block harmful electromagnetic field radiation (and also 5G signal) are proliferating on Amazon. In a tweet yesterday, user @AnsgarTOdinson posted some screenshots from Amazon of a “Faraday Defense Router Shield // Wi-Fi Guard, WiFi…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Every 2021 Warner Bros Film Will Stream on HBO Max for Free

Theongoing novel coronavirus pandemic has radically changed the movie industry as we know it, and its ramifications are going to continue into the foreseeable future. Warner Bros., attempting to deal with that uncertain future, has just announced a shocking, unprecedented step. Today the studio behind some of the biggest blockbusters in the world has announced…

Movies James Whitbrook

Age of Calamity Is a Zelda History Lesson That Echoes Across Time

Each entry in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise has been a discrete story following the Hero of Time and Hyrule’s legendary princess as they fight to keep the ultimate evil at bay. At the same time, all of the different games also fit together as pieces of a larger overarching narrative that spans multiple timelines…

Games Charles Pulliam-Moore

How Biden Can Ensure Every Federal Agency Is Fighting Climate Change

President-elect Joe Biden has an unprecedented opportunity to walk the U.S.—and perhaps the world—back from the brink on climate change. After four years of harmful deregulation, his work is cut out for him. But to truly address climate change will require more than simply repealing President Donald Trump’s rollbacks and maybe strengthening a few rules…

Earther Brian Kahn & Dharna Noor

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Drone Video Shows Dramatic Moment of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

Video of the recent collapse at the Arecibo Observatory, taken from two different perspectives, show the dramatic moment when a main cable failed, causing the 900-ton instrument platform to fall onto the large radio dish below. The first of the two videos was taken from the Arecibo Observatory control room, where radio astronomers normally do…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Steven Universe‘s Latest Anti-Racism PSA Is for All the History Buffs Out There

Keeping in-theme with thefirst PSA’s self-awareness, the newest Steven Universe short features Pearl of the Crystal Gems as she breaks character while recording an educational video about the inventive minds behind the lightbulb. While most everyone knows Thomas Edison to be the inventor of the light bulb, the reality is that the innovation wouldn’t have…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

I Can’t Decide If This Apple Watch Camera Band Is Genius or If My Brain Is Broken

Everything about the $300 Wristcam for Apple Watch sounds ridiculous on its face. There’s the price, which is more than the entry-level Apple Watch SE. There’s the fact that it requires a separate inductive charger, though it can charge at the same time as your Apple Watch. There’s the product itself, which is a water-resistant…

Gadgets Caitlin McGarry

Google Is Supercharging Emoji Remixing with Emoji Kitchen in Gboard

Google is pushing out a handful of last-minute Android updates before the end of the year, including a huge update to its delightful Emoji Kitchen feature in Gboard. Earlier this year, Google released Emoji Kitchen as part of Gboard, allowing people to essentially remix or create new emoji “recipes” by combining a range of existing…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Obama, Bush, and Clinton Say They’ll Get Covid-19 Vaccine—but They Won’t Cut in Line

Three former U.S. presidents will likely be taking a vaccine for covid-19 on camera as soon as it’s available to them. In interviews with media outlets this week, Barack Obama and spokespeople for George W. Bush and Bill Clinton stated that they’ve volunteered to become part of an awareness campaign to encourage others to get…

Health Ed Cara

Lord of the Rings Adds 20 Cast Members, and We Have No Idea What They’re Doing

The secretive streaming series has brought a bunch more cast members to New Zealand.

Television James Whitbrook

Around 1:26 Rudy Giuliani Farts

If it pleases the court, I submit evidence that on December 2nd, while giving testimony at a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing, Rudolph William Louis Giuliani farted multiple times. Representing the president of the United States in an ongoing case to overturn unfavorable election results, Giuliani presented a string of witnesses and unfounded claims at…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Casts a Final Spell in Part 4’s Trailer

It’s time for Sabrina Spellman to close the spellbook, but only after the Eldritch Terrors have been dealt with. In the first trailer for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 4—the final chapter in showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s horror series based on Archie Comics—things get apocalyptic as Lovecraftian myths invade Greendale. Netflix has unveiled the spooky first…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Voyager Probes Spot Previously Unknown Phenomenon in Deep Space

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft may be billions of miles away and over 40 years old, but they’re still making significant discoveries, as new research reveals. A paper published today in the Astronomical Journal describes an entirely new form of electron burst, a discovery made possible by the intrepid Voyager probes. These bursts are happening in the…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Hawkeye Set Footage Teases the Arrival of Marvel’s Next Avenging Archer

Scream producer William Sherak says the fifth movie is going to weird lengths to keep its ending under wraps. After Wonder Woman 1984, Warner Bros. is considering more streaming debuts for its future films. Plus, get a look at Nancy Drew’s second season, and No Time to Die might take even longer to come out…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

A Clean Kitchen Helps

Feeling a little claustrophobic in your own kitchen lately? I certainly was. When the pandemic started, I struggled with figuring out how to juggle a fully at-home food situation. Getting used to making and eating three meals at home rather than the customary one—or even none on some especially commute-heavy days with little time to…

Tech News Catie Keck

Star Trek: Discovery Re-Focuses Itself on the Power of Ties That Bind

It’s been a wild few weeks on Star Trek: Discovery. The Federation has been found, our hero has tried to figure out whether she wants a new life or her old one, and after a few quorum conventions, she’s been allowed to have both. But in examining one side of Michael Burnham’s happy new normal,…

io9 James Whitbrook

You’ll Be Perfectly Happy With the Fitbit Versa 3

Fitbit’s Versa line of smartwatches has always been a winner: They’re less hideous than the Ionic and the Blaze (which we’re still trying to forget), less expensive than most of the competition, and decently full-featured. The Fitbit Versa 3 continues that steady, dependable, and affordable tradition, though the simultaneous launch of the more premium Fitbit…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

Google Hit With Surprise Labor Rights Complaint Over Fired Workers

The National Labor Relations Board filed a surprise complaint on Wednesday accusing Google of illegally surveilling and firing two workers who had tried to form a union at the tech giant. What’s so surprising? The Trump administration isn’t exactly known as a defender of labor rights. Google fired several employees in 2019 over what the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Australia Scraps Plan to Ban Cash For Large Purchases But Idea Isn’t Going Away

Australia’s Senate has scrapped a plan that would have banned cash transactions on all purchases over $10,000. The cash ban proposal was set in motion back in 2017 after a government report suggested the idea as a way to crack down on organized crime and tax cheats. Businesses faced heavy fines and up to two…

Tech News Matt Novak

Now’s the Perfect Time to Shut Down Most Dirty Power Plants

These Scammy 5G Router Cages Have Michael Faraday Rolling in His Grave

Every 2021 Warner Bros Film Will Stream on HBO Max for Free

Age of Calamity Is a Zelda History Lesson That Echoes Across Time

How Biden Can Ensure Every Federal Agency Is Fighting Climate Change

Drone Video Shows Dramatic Moment of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

Steven Universe‘s Latest Anti-Racism PSA Is for All the History Buffs Out There

I Can’t Decide If This Apple Watch Camera Band Is Genius or If My Brain Is Broken

Google Is Supercharging Emoji Remixing with Emoji Kitchen in Gboard

Obama, Bush, and Clinton Say They’ll Get Covid-19 Vaccine—but They Won’t Cut in Line

Lord of the Rings Adds 20 Cast Members, and We Have No Idea What They’re Doing

Around 1:26 Rudy Giuliani Farts

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Casts a Final Spell in Part 4’s Trailer

Voyager Probes Spot Previously Unknown Phenomenon in Deep Space

Hawkeye Set Footage Teases the Arrival of Marvel’s Next Avenging Archer

A Clean Kitchen Helps

Star Trek: Discovery Re-Focuses Itself on the Power of Ties That Bind

You’ll Be Perfectly Happy With the Fitbit Versa 3

Google Hit With Surprise Labor Rights Complaint Over Fired Workers

Australia Scraps Plan to Ban Cash For Large Purchases But Idea Isn’t Going Away

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