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NYC Now Has Four Live 5G Networks Battling for Your Attention

While 5G is still in the early days of its development, now that Verizon has flipped the switch on its 5G network in New York City (alongside activating 5G in Boise, Idaho and Panama City, Florida), there’s another major battleground in the quest for 5G supremacy. Back in April, Verizon was the first carrier to…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Sep 27

In the Middle of the Night You Will Definitely Trip Over This Chair Covered in the Blackest Black Paint

It doesn’t take your eyes long to adjust to the dark of night—or at least adjust enough so you can safely stumble your way to a midnight bathroom break. That is, unless you’ve put Death by Modernism’s Supervoid S-Chair somewhere in your path. It’s painted with some of the blackest paint available so it barely…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 27

The Good Place Returns and Things Are Already Forked Up

The Good Place is back with its fourth and final season, and it doesn’t take long for the Soul Squad to realize that saving the world is going to be one hell of a task—especially with the goobers the Bad Place is sending their way. No one expected an experiment to determine the fate of…

io9 Beth Elderkin Sep 27

The Nintendo Switch Lite Is a Pitch-Perfect Remake

It’s fitting that the Nintendo Switch Lite launched the same day as a re-release of one of the best Zelda games of all time. The Switch line of consoles and the Zelda series of games feel inextricably linked. The original Switch is a remarkable and unusual piece of hardware unlike anything before it, and the…

Gaming Alex Cranz Sep 27

Massive Climate Strikes Erupt Worldwide for the Second Week in a Row

Last Friday, an estimated 4 million people turned out for a global climate strike. This week, millions more are at it again. What began last August with 16-year-old Greta Thunberg striking alone in front of the Swedish parliament has ballooned into a worldwide jolt of unrest. Young adults have mobilized, telling leaders that now is…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Sep 27

We Should Deliberately Contaminate Mars With Our Microbes, Controversial Study Argues

A research team is proposing a major philosophical shift in our thinking about the spread of Earthly microbes in space and on Mars in particular. Believing interplanetary contamination to be “inevitable,” the team argues that future Martian colonists should use microorganisms to reshape the Red Planet—a proposition deemed grossly premature by some experts. In a…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Sep 27

Uber and Lyft Induced Congestion Give a Preview of Driverless Car Hell

We’ve been fantasizing about self-driving cars for decades; the luxury of napping, watching TV, or reading while a robot car takes us to our destination. The first truly autonomous car debuted in the 1980s from Carnegie Mellon University’s Navlab project, and in the last four decades transportation has rapidly evolved into chauffeur-esque services like Uber…

Earther Kelly L. Fleming Sep 27

Did Crisis on Infinite Earths Just Cast a New Legends of Tomorrow Star?

Snake Eyes has found its Baroness. Get a brief glimpse of Harley’s roller derby antics in a tiny glimpse of Birds of Prey. John Malkovich joins Netflix’s Space Force. Plus, new set pictures from No Time to Die, what’s to come on Batwoman, The Flash, and The Walking Dead, and a more behind-the-scenes snippets from…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 27

Samsung Had to Fix One Thing With the Galaxy Watch Active2

When I unboxed the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 last week, I was rooting for it. On paper, the Active2 had a lot going for it. It’s a good looking watch with solid app offerings and multi-day battery life. It’s reasonably priced, and now comes with LTE connectivity. There was just one thing potentially standing in…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song Sep 27

Hand Tracking on the Oculus Quest Feels Pretty Magical

The Oculus Rift, Facebook’s cord-free VR headset that starts at just $400, is getting a couple of new features over the next year. I had the opportunity to check out what might be the coolest one: hand tracking. Mark Zuckerberg surprised the assorted developers and journalists during the Oculus Connect 6 Day One Keynote when…

Reviews Matthew Reyes Sep 27

Van Attacker Who Allegedly Killed 10 in Toronto Says He Was Radicalized on Reddit and 4Chan

Alek Minassian, the 26-year-old man accused of killing 10 people with a rented Ryder van in Toronto on April 23, 2018, told police that he’s an involuntary celibate (incel) and that he was radicalized online through websites like Reddit and 4Chan, according to a police interrogation that took place shortly after the attack. Minassian, charged…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 27

Uber Plans to Launch Even More Safety Features It’s Needed For a While Now

Amid mounting criticism and lawsuits concerning Uber shortcomings when it comes to passenger safety, the company unveiled several new safety features planned to roll out along with an app-wide update it announced Thursday. They’ll be among several added to the ride-sharing app in the last year since Uber announced it was “getting serious about safety,”…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Sep 27

Facebook’s Newest Testing Drops the Like Count, So Now How Will I Quantify My Self-Worth?

After prototyping what Like count-less Facebook would look like earlier this month, Facebook moved forward with official testing Thursday and rolled out this new format to Australian users. “We are running a limited test where like, reaction, and video view counts are made private across Facebook. We will gather feedback to understand whether this change…

Social Media Alyse Stanley Sep 26

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Powers of X Just Galaxy Brained This Shit

Literally. Although they are intended to be a duology, it’d be an arguable claim to make that between Jonathan Hickman’s House and Powers of X, the latter is ancillary to the former. While House has consistently tackled gripping, chilling, and earth-shattering revelations with a direct impact on the world the X-Men currently find themselves in…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Sep 26

You’re in a Horror Movie, Charlie Brown!

It’s oh so Charlie Brown for him to end up in some of the most famous horror movies of all time. And artists Raid 71 are once again the culprits. They’ve taken Charlie and some of his best Peanuts pals and reimagined them in Alien, It, Predator, and the Evil Dead franchise. The pieces are…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 26

Deathstroke Is Out for Blood in This Twisted Titans Teaser

Now that Trigon’s out of the picture, Titans has been slowly setting the stage for Deathstroke, the villain who destroyed the first incarnation of the titular team, to return and do what he does best: murder. While we’ve gotten a few glimpses of Esai Morales’ take on Slade Wilson in some of the first season…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 26

Happy 25th Birthday to Star Trek‘s Defiant, the Lean, Mean Starship of Deep Space Nine

Even at its most subversive, Star Trek still has to have a few certain kernels of established tropes to really feel like Star Trek—one of those being a ship for our captain and crew to boldly go in. Deep Space Nine, of course, naturally subverted both of these things, giving us a space station and…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 26

DoorDash Breach Exposed the Private Data of 4.9 Million People, So Change Your Password

DoorDash has announced that the personal data of 4.9 million people on its platform—including customers, dashers, and its merchants—has been compromised in a security breach. Now is a good time to change your password. DoorDash announced the breach Thursday in a blog post. DoorDash said it initially noticed “unusual activity involving a third-party service provider”…

Tech News Catie Keck Sep 26

Scientists Find Three-Sex, Arsenic-Resistant Nematode in Nearly Uninhabitable Lake

Scientists have discovered an extreme nematode that has three sexes, raises its larvae in a pouch like a kangaroo, and can withstand 500 times the arsenic concentration that humans can, according to a new study. We all know that on Earth, life (uh) finds a way, but some animals have figured out how to survive…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 26

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Hears Concerns of Civil Rights Leaders But Offers No Promises

A diverse group of civil rights leaders sat down in Atlanta on Thursday for a town hall attended by Facebook officials, including Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, to discuss the matter of hateful content, racist threats, and misinformation that continue to plague the platform. Sandberg was invited to the town hall by Color of Change,…

Social Media Dell Cameron Sep 26

NYC Now Has Four Live 5G Networks Battling for Your Attention

In the Middle of the Night You Will Definitely Trip Over This Chair Covered in the Blackest Black Paint

The Good Place Returns and Things Are Already Forked Up

The Nintendo Switch Lite Is a Pitch-Perfect Remake

Massive Climate Strikes Erupt Worldwide for the Second Week in a Row

We Should Deliberately Contaminate Mars With Our Microbes, Controversial Study Argues

Uber and Lyft Induced Congestion Give a Preview of Driverless Car Hell

Did Crisis on Infinite Earths Just Cast a New Legends of Tomorrow Star?

Samsung Had to Fix One Thing With the Galaxy Watch Active2

Hand Tracking on the Oculus Quest Feels Pretty Magical

Van Attacker Who Allegedly Killed 10 in Toronto Says He Was Radicalized on Reddit and 4Chan

Uber Plans to Launch Even More Safety Features It’s Needed For a While Now

Facebook’s Newest Testing Drops the Like Count, So Now How Will I Quantify My Self-Worth?

Powers of X Just Galaxy Brained This Shit

You’re in a Horror Movie, Charlie Brown!

Deathstroke Is Out for Blood in This Twisted Titans Teaser

Happy 25th Birthday to Star Trek‘s Defiant, the Lean, Mean Starship of Deep Space Nine

DoorDash Breach Exposed the Private Data of 4.9 Million People, So Change Your Password

Scientists Find Three-Sex, Arsenic-Resistant Nematode in Nearly Uninhabitable Lake

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Hears Concerns of Civil Rights Leaders But Offers No Promises

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