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Purdue Pharmaceuticals Says It Will Stop the Aggressive Opioid Marketing That Made It Billions

Purdue Pharmaceuticals, one of the companies which has made billions of dollars selling massive amounts of opioids across the country even as addiction rates and overdose deaths skyrocketed, has announced it will no longer be directly marketing the painkillers to U.S. doctors. Purdue, which the New Yorker dubbed an “Empire of Pain” in a 2017…

Health Tom McKay Feb 10

Need a Primer On All Things Wakanda? Try This New Black Panther Trailer

Call it Panther 101. With just a week to go, Marvel has released another trailer/featurette for the film, this one focusing on the world of Black Panther—the major players, the conflicts at play, and the comics history that informs it. Featuring commentary from the film’s crew and staff, this trailer walks you through everything you…

Movies Julie Muncy Feb 10

A Jailbreaker Was Allegedly Behind Apple’s iBoot Source Code Leak

The code to the iOS 9 version of the iPhone’s iBoot software—the proprietary system that ensures trusted launches of iOS, and one of Apple’s closely held secrets—leaked this week on Github, the open-source code repository. According to Motherboard, sources now say a low-level employee who stole the code at work was responsible. Motherboard’s sources say…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 10

Ryan Coogler Wanted To Put Kraven The Hunter in Black Panther

For a Marvel fan, the opportunity to play in the MCU sandbox must be a thrill. Think of all the characters yet to be introduced! Director Ryan Coogler recently revealed the one character he wished he could have included in Black Panther, and it’s a good one. “Being a Marvel fan, you want to grab…

Movies Julie Muncy Feb 10

Report: Equifax Lost Even More Information on Consumers Than It Told the Public

Confidential documents filed with the Senate Banking Committee suggest that Equifax could have lost considerably more personal information about over 145 million Americans to hackers than it’s publicly let on, CNN Money reported. While Equifax had disclosed that names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers might have been compromised, as well as some drivers’…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Feb 10

Jóhann Jóhannsson, Composer For Arrival and mother!, Dies At 48

Jóhann Jóhannsson, the Academy Award-nominated Icelander composer responsible for scoring Arrival, mother!, and Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything, has passed away. The report was confirmed by his manager, Tim Huson. Jóhannsson, whose stunning score for Arrival eerily ushered what felt like a new generation of scifi film storytelling, was in Berlin when he died.…

Movies Julie Muncy Feb 10

Danish Man Convicted of Telling Web Users Where to Download Popcorn Time

A Danish man has been handed down a six-month conditional sentence for merely sharing information about Popcorn Time, the once-popular torrent-based streaming client that was targeted for extermination by copyright lawsuits . According to the Copenhagen Post, a court in Odense found the man guilty of “promoting the illegal online film streaming service Popcorn Time…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Feb 10

Animation Legend Butch Hartman Reflects On His Departure From Nickelodeon

Yesterday, Butch Hartman, the creator of Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom, two of the most beloved animated shows of the past two decades, announced that he was leaving Nickelodeon, his creative home since he sold the first Fairly Odd Parents short to the network in 1997. That announcement came in the form of a…

Television Julie Muncy Feb 10

James Mangold Would Prefer You Not Call Logan ‘High-Octane’

James Mangold, director of Logan, is an individual of strong opinions. And he has very specific ideas about the ways he does and doesn’t want his latest film to be received. Last week, Mangold participated in a panel at the 2018 Writers Guild Association, and during that panel Mangold had to hear his beloved film…

io9 Julie Muncy Feb 10

Why Comparing Smartphone Specs is a Waste of Time

If you’re in the market for a new smartphone then you’re naturally going to want to look up key details such as processor speed, RAM, storage space, battery size, and the camera’s megapixel rating, but weighing up these raw specifications is increasingly becoming a waste of time. Here’s why. The short answer is that phones…

Gadgets David Nield Feb 10

NSA Sent Coded Messages From Its Official Twitter Account to Communicate With Foreign Spies [Updated]

During the first Cold War, American and British spies would sometimes place coded messages in newspaper classified ads to communicate with each other. And according to new reports in the New York Times and The Intercept, the National Security Agency (NSA) has updated the tactic, using its public Twitter account to send secret messages to…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 10

A Frozen-Faced Man Finds Unexpected Hope in Sweet Fantasy Short Cautionary Tales

Parental scare tactics come true in Luke Taylor and Chris Barrett’s fable Cautionary Tales, about a lonely young man who made a stupendously goofy face as a kid… and then, just as his mother warned him, was forced to live with that expression forever when it froze into place. But all is not lost. Turns…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Feb 9

In the First Trailer for Hard Sun, Law and Order Crumbles in the Face of the Apocalypse

It feels like we’ve been hearing about Neil Cross’ (Luther) apocalyptic cop show Hard Sun for ages, and now we finally have a brutal, bloody first look. If you thought the world coming to an end sucked, just imagine having to live through it as one of the few people who knew it was going…

Trailers James Whitbrook Feb 9

Curl Up With This Chill-Ass Version of Twitter That a Swiss Designer Made

Zurich-based designer Florian Schulz has reimagined Twitter not as a mind-numbing torrent of breaking news, gifs, and nazis, but as something else he calls a “social network.” We’re not too sure about this “social network” idea, but the results are pretty intriguing, at least in an experimental way. Services like Facebook and Twitter show you…

Tech News Harri Weber Feb 9

An Incredible Black Panther Steps Into the Spotlight, and More of the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of the most amazing toys we’ve seen all week. Usually, this is where we’d tell you what sort of wonderful toys we’ve got in store for you, but seriously: Look at that Black Panther figure. Look at it. Hot Toys Black Panther T’Challa gets a new suit…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Feb 9

Man Who Traveled to Watch SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Found Dead In His Hotel Room

Terry Hilliard traveled to from his home in Ocala, Florida, to Cocoa to watch in person the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch that took place on Tuesday. The next morning, Hillard was found dead in his hotel room. Cocoa police found Hilliard, 65, at the Dixie Motel, where he was staying, at around 11am Wednesday,…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Feb 9

Praying Mantises Have a Completely Different Way of Seeing in 3D

Praying mantises see the world in three dimensions in a way that’s completely different from how vertebrates (including birds, humans, and other mammals) do, according to a new paper in Current Biology. Also, studying this required putting tiny glasses on mantises. Birds and mammals can see in 3D using the differences between the images observed…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 9

Hail Salem, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Has a New Familiar

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series may have already cast its titular witch, but what is a witch without her black cat familiar? Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Chief Creative Officer at Archie Comics and executive producer for Riverdale and Sabrina, has tweeted the first look at Salem, the American Shorthair (and darn proud of it!) who will serve…

Television Beth Elderkin Feb 9

Trump’s EPA Is Taking Credit for Obama’s Environmental Enforcement

The Environmental Protection Agency was eager to announce Thursday it racked up more than $5 billion in enforcement dollars in the fiscal year 2017. This money includes private parties that have agreed to clean up contaminated sites, fines criminals need to pay, and legal penalties. Here’s the catch: The agency under Administrator Scott Pruitt had…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Feb 9

This Week’s Best Comics Are as Sexy as They Are Mysterious

A potent blend of love, lust, deception, and betrayal can turn almost any story into a sublime reading experience. This week’s best comics have them all in spades. The ability to navigate the treacherous waters of human desire is perhaps the one realizable superpower that would most likely change people’s lives, were they to suddenly…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 9

Purdue Pharmaceuticals Says It Will Stop the Aggressive Opioid Marketing That Made It Billions

Need a Primer On All Things Wakanda? Try This New Black Panther Trailer

A Jailbreaker Was Allegedly Behind Apple’s iBoot Source Code Leak

Ryan Coogler Wanted To Put Kraven The Hunter in Black Panther

Report: Equifax Lost Even More Information on Consumers Than It Told the Public

Jóhann Jóhannsson, Composer For Arrival and mother!, Dies At 48

Danish Man Convicted of Telling Web Users Where to Download Popcorn Time

Animation Legend Butch Hartman Reflects On His Departure From Nickelodeon

James Mangold Would Prefer You Not Call Logan ‘High-Octane’

Why Comparing Smartphone Specs is a Waste of Time

NSA Sent Coded Messages From Its Official Twitter Account to Communicate With Foreign Spies [Updated]

A Frozen-Faced Man Finds Unexpected Hope in Sweet Fantasy Short Cautionary Tales

In the First Trailer for Hard Sun, Law and Order Crumbles in the Face of the Apocalypse

Curl Up With This Chill-Ass Version of Twitter That a Swiss Designer Made

An Incredible Black Panther Steps Into the Spotlight, and More of the Best Toys of the Week

Man Who Traveled to Watch SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Found Dead In His Hotel Room

Praying Mantises Have a Completely Different Way of Seeing in 3D

Hail Salem, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Has a New Familiar

Trump’s EPA Is Taking Credit for Obama’s Environmental Enforcement

This Week’s Best Comics Are as Sexy as They Are Mysterious

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