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Spotify Mashes Music and Short Podcasts Into a New Playlist for Your Miserable Commute

Hot off the heels of releasing its standalone Stations app, Spotify is leaning even harder into that whole ‘reinvent the radio’ vibe. Today, the music streaming company released a new playlist called “Your Daily Drive” that uses an algorithm to mash together short-form podcasts and music. According to Spotify, Americans spend close to 70 billion…

Tech News Victoria Song Jun 12 '19

Rick Santorum Is a Cryptocurrency Guy Now, Apparently

In what is either an incredible blockchain-enabled monetization opportunity or a sign that perhaps the gears are finally starting to fall out of this thing, Republican politician, failed presidential candidate, and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is a cryptocurrency guy now. Yes, per the Financial Times’ Alphaville blog, Santorum—who you may remember for his virulent…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 11 '19

DJI’s Robomaster S1 Is the Closest Thing to RC Mario Kart, and It’s a Blast

DJI is already the worldwide leader for drones, and despite recently taking aim at GoPro with new Osmo Action, it’s venturing into yet another market with the new Robomaster S1. While this might seem like a move out of left field, DJI’s robotics efforts are actually quite well established in Asia thanks to its annual…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Jun 11 '19

Meet the Deepfake Zuck, Same as the Flesh Zuck

Mark Zuckerberg may be famed for looking and acting like a (slightly damp) synthetic being trying to infiltrate human society, but a team of artists working with advertising company Canny appears to built a software version of the Facebook CEO that could one day threaten to make hardware Zuckerberg obsolete. The artists in question, Bill…

Social Media Tom McKay Jun 11 '19

The Ultimate Warhammer 40K Funko Pop Is One You Can Paint Yourself

I mean, if you’re gonna start doing Funko Pops from the grim dark future of Games Workshop’s sci-fi tabletop game…you might as well make it as close to the 40K experience as possible, right? Funko recently released a wave of its collectible Pop Vinyls based on the various Space Marines chapters of Warhammer 40,000, but…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook Jun 11 '19

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Pennywise Floats, UK Games Expo Kicks Out a Bad GM, and More Tabletop News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s regular column all about board games and tabletop RPGs—focusing on all the cool genre stuff that makes you believe you’re Batman…or maybe the Joker. This time around, we’ve got a new game for It, a neat summer camp roleplaying game, and some disturbing news about an RPG gone horribly…

Games Beth Elderkin Jun 11 '19

An Extended Look at Legion Season 3 Allows Us to Dive Into David’s Cult

FX’s Legion looks like it’s going out with a bang in season three. After David’s “turn to the dark side” at the end of season two, he’s started a cult that looks like something out of Alice in Wonderland. And things only get weirder from there. FX has released a juicy little featurette on the…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Jun 11 '19

Big Tech Lawyer Earns His Paycheck Arguing Google Doesn’t Dominate Search

Today is a big day in Silicon Valley because of a hearing happening in Washington, D.C. Congress opened its long-awaited antitrust investigation of American tech giants on Tuesday with the first of several hearings. This one focused on the impact of companies like Google and Facebook on the U.S. press. How did it go? Most…

Tech News Patrick Howell O'Neill Jun 11 '19

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What’s Causing the Huge Mass Anomaly Beneath the Moon?

The far side of the Moon contains an enormous and very weird structure at its South Pole. And scientists think they might know the source of this anomaly. The South Pole-Aitken basin is a huge crater produced by an ancient impact on the Moon, whose longest axis would span from New York City to Omaha,…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jun 11 '19

Why Seemingly Every Company Is Launching a Gaming Subscription Now

Much in the way that streaming has too many damn options now, gaming services are flooding the market as companies increasingly position themselves to compete for attention over singular domination of an entertainment medium. Netflix, for example, disclosed in an earnings report earlier this year that it viewed itself as competing with “Fortnite more than…

Games Catie Keck Jun 11 '19

Mitch McConnell Called Out for Blocking Vote on Net Neutrality Rules Republicans Actually Like

The consumer protections widely known as “net neutrality” are hugely popular among Republicans throughout the U.S., if only because cable and internet providers are American’s choice example of rapacious corporate gluttony. In Washington, however, things are radically different. Insofar as net neutrality is concerned, the relationship between GOP lawmakers and legendarily despised big cable companies—it’s…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Jun 11 '19

Snapchat Gender Swap Used to Catch Cop Who Was Allegedly Looking to Hook Up With Underage Girl

A 20-year-old college student used the Snapchat gender-swap filter to catfish a cop on Tinder, in a creative act of vigilante justice. NBC Bay Area reported on Tuesday that the student told police that he set out to find potential pedophiles after his friend told him she was sexually assaulted during her childhood. Ethan (last…

Crime Jennings Brown Jun 11 '19

False Memories Haunt a Desperate Woman in This Excerpt From Blake Crouch’s Sci-Fi Thriller Recursion

Author Blake Crouch specializes in page-turners. He wrote the Wayward Pines trilogy that spawned the mystery series produced by M. Night Shyamalan, the novellas that inspired Michelle Dockery’s con-artist tale Good Behavior, and recent sci-fi thriller Dark Matter. He’s back with another fast-paced sci-fi novel—near-future drama Recursion—and we’ve got an exciting excerpt to share. Here’s…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy Jun 11 '19

I Played Doom Eternal on a Chromebook

There’s a lot we still don’t know about Google’s forthcoming streaming game service Stadia, and we won’t know some of it until it’s available in the wild. But in a controlled demo of Stadia at E3, I was treated to a solid experience, as well as some fresh information about how the company plans to…

Tech News Alex Cranz Jun 11 '19

Amazingly, This Vile Contraption Would Make Video Game Chats Better

Be forewarned: the civil, polite, and respectful discourse that accompanies many online games could potentially devolve into something childish, even bordering on vulgar, with Nyko’s new Sound Pad. It’s a keyboard-like accessory that attaches to a controller allowing players to trigger sound effects in a game’s voice chat. Sound effects that could even include (brace…

Games Andrew Liszewski Jun 11 '19

Astronomers Think They’ve Finally Found the Lost Lunar Module From Apollo 10

A discarded Apollo 10 lunar module known as “Snoopy” has been drifting in space for the past 50 years, its location a complete mystery. Now, after a meticulous eight-year search, a team of astronomers suspect they’ve finally found it. On May 22, 1969, just two months before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their famous…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jun 11 '19

Jess and Trish Have It Out in This Emotional Jessica Jones Clip

The final season of Jessica Jones arrives at the end of the week, and one of its major arcs—set up in previous seasons—involves the inevitable growing conflict between Jessica (Krysten Ritter) and her newly-superpowered adoptive sister, Trish (Rachael Taylor). The new clip shows the moment Jess confronts Trish about those Hellcat-ish powers, how she got…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy Jun 11 '19

There’s an Entire Nintendo Wii Packed Inside This Custom Jumbo Game Boy Advance

Nintendo didn’t give us any new hardware during its E3 2019 presentation today, so you’ll instead have to lust and drool over Bill Paxton’s latest creation. He reinvented the clamshell Game Boy Advance, but with the guts of a fully-functional Wii packed inside, allowing the portable to run a huge list of games, including those…

Games Andrew Liszewski Jun 11 '19

Dark Phoenix‘s Simon Kinberg Took Inspiration From Nolan’s Batman to Bring the X-Men Down to Earth

There’s an unsteady, chaotic energy coursing through much of Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix. It almost feels like an extension of the existential crisis its titular hero finds herself in as she becomes the most powerful mutant to ever walk the Earth. That feeling, according to Kinberg, was a wholly intentional part of his directorial debut.…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 11 '19

Legal Cannabis May Not Lower Opioid Overdose Deaths After All

A new study seems to deal a serious blow to one of the pro-cannabis movement’s talking points: the idea that the more medical cannabis is legalized, the fewer people will die from opioid overdoses. The findings suggest that there’s no real connection between the rate of opioid overdose deaths and a state’s medical cannabis laws,…

Health Ed Cara Jun 11 '19

Spotify Mashes Music and Short Podcasts Into a New Playlist for Your Miserable Commute

Rick Santorum Is a Cryptocurrency Guy Now, Apparently

DJI’s Robomaster S1 Is the Closest Thing to RC Mario Kart, and It’s a Blast

Meet the Deepfake Zuck, Same as the Flesh Zuck

The Ultimate Warhammer 40K Funko Pop Is One You Can Paint Yourself

Pennywise Floats, UK Games Expo Kicks Out a Bad GM, and More Tabletop News

An Extended Look at Legion Season 3 Allows Us to Dive Into David’s Cult

Big Tech Lawyer Earns His Paycheck Arguing Google Doesn’t Dominate Search

What’s Causing the Huge Mass Anomaly Beneath the Moon?

Why Seemingly Every Company Is Launching a Gaming Subscription Now

Mitch McConnell Called Out for Blocking Vote on Net Neutrality Rules Republicans Actually Like

Snapchat Gender Swap Used to Catch Cop Who Was Allegedly Looking to Hook Up With Underage Girl

False Memories Haunt a Desperate Woman in This Excerpt From Blake Crouch’s Sci-Fi Thriller Recursion

I Played Doom Eternal on a Chromebook

Amazingly, This Vile Contraption Would Make Video Game Chats Better

Astronomers Think They’ve Finally Found the Lost Lunar Module From Apollo 10

Jess and Trish Have It Out in This Emotional Jessica Jones Clip

There’s an Entire Nintendo Wii Packed Inside This Custom Jumbo Game Boy Advance

Dark Phoenix‘s Simon Kinberg Took Inspiration From Nolan’s Batman to Bring the X-Men Down to Earth

Legal Cannabis May Not Lower Opioid Overdose Deaths After All

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