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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s Final Season Is Strong, Brave, and Damn Near Perfect

In a post-Game of Thrones world, it’s hard to get your hopes up. Shows can spend years building toward something, only to let you down. It’s taken two years and five seasons to bring us to the end of Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and I cannot imagine a better way for it…

Television Beth Elderkin May 13

Can a Smart Watch Detect Covid-19?

The notification popped up without warning just as I was syncing the Whoop tracker I was testing: The tracker had a new metric, respiratory rate. Truthfully, I almost ignored it. But the notification used the phrase covid-19, and my eyes widened. At 7 a.m., I was bleary-eyed, under-caffeinated, and still adjusting to my new reality…

Gadgets Victoria Song May 13

After a Decade Away the Dell XPS 17 Is Back, and the XPS 15 Has a Major Redesign Too

Earlier this year, Dell refreshed the XPS 13 to great results, and now Dell is coming back to revamp the rest of its best line of laptops with the new XPS 15 and XPS 17. For its new 15-inch thin-and-light, Dell says the XPS 15 has gotten its first full redesign in five years, with…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford May 13

‘A New Pandemic’: Coronavirus Threatens Indigenous People in the Amazon as Fire Season Nears

When the Amazon Rainforest burns, illegal loggers and miners are typically to blame. In the past, indigenous communities would patrol their lands every week or fortnight to find criminals looking to loot the forest. These patrols—usually made up of two to six men—deterred illegal land-grabbers from deforesting indigenous territories, which may cover as much as…

Earther Yessenia Funes May 13

Robert Pattinson Just Blew Up Most of Your Tenet Theories

Matt Ryan really wouldn’t mind playing Constantine again in the new Justice League Dark show. The CW’s Superman and Lois has found its big bad. Neve Campbell’s still not sure if she’d be down for a fifth Scream, in spite of recent reports. Jordan Vogt-Roberts is still teasing his Metal Gear Solid movie. Plus, zombies abound…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson May 13

Report: Apple, Unlike Facebook and Google, Plans to Start Returning More Workers to Offices Soon

Apple is bucking the trend set by rival tech giants Facebook and Google during the coronavirus pandemic and is planning to have staff return to its offices this year, according to a Tuesday report by Bloomberg. Facebook and Google have both informed employees that they will be extending work from home policies until at least…

Tech News Tom McKay May 12

The Kung Fu Reboot Starring Olivia Liang Is a Go on the CW

A new hero is going to walk the earth, meet people, and get into adventures. You know, like Caine from Kung Fu. Except now, she IS Caine from Kung Fu. The CW is rebooting the classic 1970s TV series starring David Carradine with an Asian-American woman as the lead. Legacies star Olivia Liang will star…

io9 Germain Lussier May 12

Hot Toys’ First Clone Wars Figure Is Incredibly Brain-Breaking

It’s good. But my head would not like to accept it, thank you. Hot Toys teased on Star Wars Day that it would begin adding characters from The Clone Wars animated series to its lineup of extensive, incredibly detailed action figures. The company showed us approximately 90 percent of what was very obviously a rad-looking…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook May 12

Guess How Much Uber and Lyft Would Owe California If Drivers Were Employees? Try $413 Million

If Lyft and Uber had classified their drivers as employees rather than independent contractors as the companies currently do (and would very much like to continue doing), what would they have hypothetically owed to California in unemployment insurance tax? According to an estimate from the UC Berkeley Labor Center, the two companies would have had…

Tech News Catie Keck May 12

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Talisman Finds the Force, a D&D Online Summer Camp, and More in Gaming News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. There are a lot of exciting crowdfunding campaigns out right now as developers try to prepare for life after the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, we’ve got the new Arkham Horror: The Card Gamecampaign and a creative way Spin Master is…

Games Beth Elderkin May 12

Tesla Warned Staff to Return to Work in Violation of County Order or Lose Unemployment: Report

Tesla informed workers that if they did not show up for work at a Fremont, California, production facility CEO Elon Musk has reopened in violation of a county health order that they may be ineligible for unemployment, emails obtained by the Guardian show. On Monday, Musk tweeted that Tesla’s car factory in Fremont had reopened…

Transportation Tom McKay May 12

You Can Now Read Every Script From Doctor Who‘s Latest Season Online

You’ve had actual Doctor Who to re-watch. You’ve had new short stories to read. New adventures to listen to. Still need more Doctor Who than you would otherwise know what to do with if not for the Current State of the World? Well, the BBC’s got your back, uh, again. The company’s Writer’s Room script…

io9 James Whitbrook May 12

Facebook Reaches $52 Million Dollar Settlement With Its Hard-Hit Moderators

Finally, some good news for Facebook’s beleaguered moderator community. According to preliminary settlement records first uncovered by The Verge earlier today, the tech giant has agreed to pay a total of $52 million to its current and former content moderators to compensate them for the massive mental strain that comes with reviewing some of the…

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky May 12

You Can Carry This Inflatable Electric Bike in a Backpack

They’re better for the environment than a gas-guzzling car, but the other big advantage of commuting every day on an electric bike is that they’re easier to park. With Poimo, a prototype inflatable e-bike created at the University of Tokyo, you don’t even need to find a bike rack when you get to work, just…

Transportation Andrew Liszewski May 12

Playmobil Made the Best Back to the Future Toys You Can Buy

Despite what Star Wars and George Lucas taught the industry about how to properly market a summer blockbuster, when Back to the Future hit theaters in 1985, there was a dismal amount of movie merchandise in stores. But 35 years later, an avalanche of BttF collectibles is en route, including some new sets from Playmobil…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski May 12

Instagram Testing New Tools That Will Make Comments Less Shitty

As part of its fight against online bullying, Instagram is rolling out new features designed to make it easier for users to control who interacts with them on the platform. A major change to Instagram’s comment controls allows users to delete up to 25 comments at once, as well as block or restrict users in…

Tech News Joanna Nelius May 12

Madonna, Mariah Carey and Other Major Celebs Are Caught up in a Recent Ransomware Attack

A Manhattan law firm frequented by some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry has been hit with a hack compromising over 750 gigabytes of intel on its famous clientele. Now, the hackers are threatening to go public with the resulting database unless the company pays up. As first reported by Variety, the attack…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky May 12

Uber, Fresh From a Massive Round of Layoffs, Is Reportedly Trying to Buy Grubhub

Uber, a furnace people can’t stop shoveling money into, is looking to buy up its main restaurant delivery competitor, Grubhub, in an all-stock deal. I think we’re all wondering the same thing: What the fuck? Yes, this is the same Uber that just laid off 14 percent of its staff on a Zoom call last…

Tech News Avery Ellis May 12

Wait, Now Swamp Thing Is Coming to the CW Too?

As we get ever closer to the launch of HBO Max, the limbo DC Universe finds itself in feels like it’s just getting weirder and weirder. We’ve already learned Doom Patrol will air on both Max and Universe. Harley Quinn is currently broadcasting on Syfy after launching on the streamer. Stargirl is pulling double duty…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook May 12

Fauci and Other Experts Outline Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy

Scientists around the world are scrambling to develop a covid-19 vaccine. A newly proposed strategy could dramatically improve this currently disjointed process, allowing for the accelerated development of multiple vaccines at once. “To return to a semblance of previous normality, the development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is an absolute necessity,” declare the authors of a Science Perspective…

Health George Dvorsky May 12

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s Final Season Is Strong, Brave, and Damn Near Perfect

Can a Smart Watch Detect Covid-19?

After a Decade Away the Dell XPS 17 Is Back, and the XPS 15 Has a Major Redesign Too

‘A New Pandemic’: Coronavirus Threatens Indigenous People in the Amazon as Fire Season Nears

Robert Pattinson Just Blew Up Most of Your Tenet Theories

Report: Apple, Unlike Facebook and Google, Plans to Start Returning More Workers to Offices Soon

The Kung Fu Reboot Starring Olivia Liang Is a Go on the CW

Hot Toys’ First Clone Wars Figure Is Incredibly Brain-Breaking

Guess How Much Uber and Lyft Would Owe California If Drivers Were Employees? Try $413 Million

Talisman Finds the Force, a D&D Online Summer Camp, and More in Gaming News

Tesla Warned Staff to Return to Work in Violation of County Order or Lose Unemployment: Report

You Can Now Read Every Script From Doctor Who‘s Latest Season Online

Facebook Reaches $52 Million Dollar Settlement With Its Hard-Hit Moderators

You Can Carry This Inflatable Electric Bike in a Backpack

Playmobil Made the Best Back to the Future Toys You Can Buy

Instagram Testing New Tools That Will Make Comments Less Shitty

Madonna, Mariah Carey and Other Major Celebs Are Caught up in a Recent Ransomware Attack

Uber, Fresh From a Massive Round of Layoffs, Is Reportedly Trying to Buy Grubhub

Wait, Now Swamp Thing Is Coming to the CW Too?

Fauci and Other Experts Outline Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy

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