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Trump Campaign Reportedly Adds Former Cambridge Analytica Employees to 2020 Efforts

Cambridge Analytica, the shady political consulting firm best known for obtaining a whole heap of personal information from Facebook users without their consent, might be dead and gone. But some of its former employees are reportedly hard at work on the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump. According to the Associated Press, Data Propria—a voter…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 16

Apple Manages to Snag Oprah Winfrey to Make Shows, Possibly for Subscription Video Service

Tech giant Apple has scored a huge victory in its $1 billion original programming push, signing a multiyear deal with host and media magnate Oprah Winfrey to produce as-of-yet unspecified streaming content. According to the Wall Street Journal, the signing of Winfrey is expected to play into its long-rumored launch of a “direct-to-consumer video service”…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 16

Here’s Your First Look at Wonder Woman in Her 1984 Outfit

Principle shooting has recently begun on Wonder Woman 1984, which means visuals are starting to trickle out. Here’s an exciting one for us, courtesy of Gal Gadot herself: Diana in her full costume, in all the glory and glitz of the 1980s. Okay, so maybe the 1980s weren’t all that glorious and glitzy, but this…

io9 Julie Muncy Jun 16

What’s the Worst Thing You’ve Done Online?

Twitter recently “accidentally” banned a whole lot of users for joining the service before they were thirteen years old. The users, now “old enough” to use Twitter “responsibly,” have been upset, and Twitter has a whole thread on steps its taking to bring these “not children” back online. But here is something that is important…

Tech News Alex Cranz Jun 16

Judge Rules White Supremacist Can Sue Twitter for Banning Him

A California judge decided Thursday not to throw out a lawsuit filed against Twitter that accused the company of violating the free speech rights of white supremacist Jared Taylor when Twitter banned him from the platform late last year. The Associated Press reported San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn narrowed the scope of the…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 16

Europe’s GDPR Is Killing Email Marketing, to the Disappointment of No One

For the past month or so, inboxes the world over have been awash with emails about updated privacy policies and new permissions required by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You probably haven’t been reading those emails, and that’s bad news for email marketers. According to a CNBC report, people—Americans, especially—aren’t opening GDPR…

Privacy & Security AJ Dellinger Jun 15

All of Your Favorite ’80s Movies Are Here in One Poster

“Hey, remember the ’80s?” It was a great time for geek fandom, especially at the movies. Considering all of the incredible films that were made in that decade, it would be hard to name them all—so Scott Park drew them all instead. Park is an artist we’ve featured on io9 many, many, times, and with…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 15

FBI Recovered 731 Pages of Messages and Calls From Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry

The FBI just got its hands on a whole lot of Michael Cohen’s encrypted communications. In a letter submitted Friday, the United States Attorney’s Office revealed that it obtained a treasure trove of messages and call logs from a BlackBerry that belonged to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. According to the letter, the FBI was…

Privacy & Security AJ Dellinger Jun 15

The Power Rangers Comic is Getting a New Creative Team—and a Wild New Team of Rangers

Since it first began, Boom Studios’ excellent Power Rangers series has been masterminded by writer Kyle Higgins—but that’s about to change. A new creative team is on the way, and the currently-ongoing Ranger mashup event that is Shattered Grid means that some unfamiliar faces are going to be the new Power Rangers for a while.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Jun 15

The PS4 Spider-Man Heads to Your Toy Shelf, and More of the Most Spectacular Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round-up of all the shiny things we’ve wanted to spend our savings on recently. This week, we’ve got some very cool Voltron, Star Wars, and Batman Beyond toys heading to San Diego Comic-Con, a lovely little Pokémon pal, and a most impressive Sith Lord. Check it out! Hasbro Marvel…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Jun 15

The Most Wanted People in This Week’s Best New Comics Are a Weather Guy and a Douchebag Billionaire

One of the most annoying things in the world is when people mistakenly assume that all local television weather people are also trained meteorologists. That is not the case. Only one of this week’s best new comics is actually about a weatherman (who is also a meteorologist) specifically, but the heroes in each series are…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 15

Netflix’s Kiss Me First Is a YA Thriller Set In a Virtual Reality

Movies like Ready Player One and The Matrix have done it, but what about TV? Well, Netflix is about to launch a new series called Kiss Me First, and it’s also partially set in a fully functional virtual world. Created by Skins co-creator Bryan Elsey, Kiss Me First is based on the YA novel of…

Trailers Germain Lussier Jun 15

Fortnite Is Bad But Sony’s Refusal to Play Nice Is Worse

Earlier this week, Nintendo delighted Fortnite fans by announcing that the game, which might just be the most popular game being played right now, was coming to the Switch immediately. Even better, Switch players would be able to compete with PC and Xbox players, too—instant digital distribution and multiplayer open to all! Nintendo’s announcement felt…

Games Alex Cranz Jun 15

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Reportedly Indicted on Wire Fraud

Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former key executives of blood-testing startup Theranos, have been indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, The Washington Post reports. The news comes three months after news that both were charged with “massive” fraud by…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jun 15

Chinese Satellite Captures a Cool View of Earth from Lunar Orbit

After a 20-day journey, China’s Queqiao lunar communications relay satellite has made it to lunar orbit. Its companion, the Longjiang-2 microsatellite, wasted no time, taking some neat pics of Earth and the lunar surface. Queqiao, meaning Magpie Bridge, is a key component of the upcoming Chang’e 4 lander and rover mission, at which time it…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jun 15

NIH Pulls the Plug on Controversial Drinking Study Funded by Big Alcohol

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has abruptly halted its $100 million study meant to examine whether moderate drinking can be good for your heart. The decision, announced Friday, comes in the wake of a report commissioned by the federal agency that reaffirmed allegations first reported by the New York Times this March. It found…

Health Ed Cara Jun 15

Most Deepfake Videos Have One Glaring Flaw

The rate at which deepfake videos are advancing is both impressive and deeply unsettling. But researchers have described a new method for detecting a “telltale sign” of these manipulated videos, which map one person’s face onto the body of another. It’s a flaw even the average person would notice: a lack of blinking. Researchers from…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jun 15

Senators Ask Jeff Bezos Just How Many Complaints Amazon’s Received About Eavesdropping Echoes

Lawmakers in the U.S. have taken a greater interest in the failures of tech companies lately but most of the focus has been on Facebook and Google while Jeff Bezos has been busy making a reported $230,000 a minute. Now it’s Amazon’s turn in the barrel. On Thursday, Senators sent a list of questions regarding…

Commerce Rhett Jones Jun 15

Lucifer Has Been Saved From Cancellation Hell By Netflix

Remember how we were going to lose a bunch of genre shows at the end of this TV season, Lucifer included? Well, now we’re not, because they’re being saved by other places plucking them out of cancellation… Lucifer included. The Hollywood Reporter is writing that Netflix has just announced it has reached a deal to…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 15

The New Video Game Spider-Man Is Heading to Marvel Comics’ Spidergeddon Event

A few years ago, Marvel launched Spider-Verse, an epic Spider-Man event that brought together the many weird and wonderful versions of Spider-heroes the comics (and beyond) had to offer, for a spider-fanservice quest. Now, Marvel’s bringing them back together again for a far more-ominously titled event: Spidergeddon. Marvel has now started promoting the event with…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 15

Trump Campaign Reportedly Adds Former Cambridge Analytica Employees to 2020 Efforts

Apple Manages to Snag Oprah Winfrey to Make Shows, Possibly for Subscription Video Service

Here’s Your First Look at Wonder Woman in Her 1984 Outfit

What’s the Worst Thing You’ve Done Online?

Judge Rules White Supremacist Can Sue Twitter for Banning Him

Europe’s GDPR Is Killing Email Marketing, to the Disappointment of No One

All of Your Favorite ’80s Movies Are Here in One Poster

FBI Recovered 731 Pages of Messages and Calls From Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry

The Power Rangers Comic is Getting a New Creative Team—and a Wild New Team of Rangers

The PS4 Spider-Man Heads to Your Toy Shelf, and More of the Most Spectacular Toys of the Week

The Most Wanted People in This Week’s Best New Comics Are a Weather Guy and a Douchebag Billionaire

Netflix’s Kiss Me First Is a YA Thriller Set In a Virtual Reality

Fortnite Is Bad But Sony’s Refusal to Play Nice Is Worse

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Reportedly Indicted on Wire Fraud

Chinese Satellite Captures a Cool View of Earth from Lunar Orbit

NIH Pulls the Plug on Controversial Drinking Study Funded by Big Alcohol

Most Deepfake Videos Have One Glaring Flaw

Senators Ask Jeff Bezos Just How Many Complaints Amazon’s Received About Eavesdropping Echoes

Lucifer Has Been Saved From Cancellation Hell By Netflix

The New Video Game Spider-Man Is Heading to Marvel Comics’ Spidergeddon Event

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