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- New Biden Executive Order Bans U.S. Investment in Huawei and 58 Other Chinese Tech Companies
- Archaeologists Open Frozen Wooden Box Found on Viking Mountain Pass
- Sadistic One-Handed Keypad Lets You Type on a Computer Using T9 Predictive Text Like It's 1999
- TikTok Quietly Tweaks Privacy Policy to Collect Your Biometric Data
- Michael Keaton’s Batman Returns in a Bloody Tease From Flash Director Andy Muschietti
- United’s Supersonic Jet Sustainability Claims Sure Sound Suspect
- Apple Is Reportedly Experimenting With Wireless Charging for Next Year's iPad Pro
- Why Scientists Are Worried About a New Alzheimer's Drug Up for FDA Approval
- Ikea's Cheap $12 Sensor Warns You When Air Quality Gets Bad, But Does Nothing About it
- Updates From Shazam Fury of the Gods, Star Wars' Andor Series, and More
- 10 Tips to Get the Most Out of Android Auto
- Which Countries Will Receive America's Donated Covid-19 Vaccine Doses?
- Traffic Deaths Soared in 2020 and Experts Blame Risky Road Behavior During Pandemic
- Google Will Let You Opt Out of Being Tracked by Apps in Android 12
- Why Is George R.R. Martin Going to the Hellfire Gala and Not Writing Winds of Winter?
- Amazon Should Rethink Its Half-Baked Approach to Health-Tracking
- Neill Blomkamp's Demonic Movie Definitely Has Demons in It, I Guess?
- Facebook Wants Your Thoughts and Prayers
- DOJ to Treat Ransomware Hacks Like Terrorism Now: Here's the Full Memo
- Donald Trump Jr. Is Now on Cameo, Wishing the Dumb Libs Happy Birthday (NOT)
- Disney's 'First Openly Gay' Characters, Ranked (by How Embarrassed Disney Should Feel)
- Covered in Martian Muck, NASA's InSight Lander Tries to Tidy Itself Up
- Apple Says It Will Make AirTags a Little Less Scary
- George A. Romero's Wife Suzanne on His Horror Legacy and 'Lost' Film The Amusement Park
- Dildo Drone Interrupts ‘Tough on Crime’ New Mexico Sheriff’s Speech, Chaos Ensues
| New Biden Executive Order Bans U.S. Investment in Huawei and 58 Other Chinese Tech Companies Posted: 04 Jun 2021 08:20 AM PDT  Following a previous Trump executive order that banned some Chinese companies from buying U.S.-made tech, this week President Biden issued a new executive order banning U.S. entities from investing in 59 different Chinese tech and defense companies. |
| Archaeologists Open Frozen Wooden Box Found on Viking Mountain Pass Posted: 04 Jun 2021 08:10 AM PDT  Melting glacial ice along a mountain passageway in Norway has resulted in the discovery of hundreds of ancient artifacts, including items dating back to the Viking Age. One of these items, a wooden box with the lid still firmly in place, has finally been opened, revealing its precious contents. |
| Sadistic One-Handed Keypad Lets You Type on a Computer Using T9 Predictive Text Like It's 1999 Posted: 04 Jun 2021 07:58 AM PDT The arrival of the smartphone made mobile messaging infinitely easier, but for those who some reason still miss typing out long messages on a tiny nine-button keypad, Guy Dupont has created a compact computer keyboard alternative called the T9 Macropad that brings predictive text to the desktop. |
| TikTok Quietly Tweaks Privacy Policy to Collect Your Biometric Data Posted: 04 Jun 2021 07:45 AM PDT  TikTok quietly updated its privacy policy earlier this week in a way that allows the company to automatically collect extensive data on users in the United States—including data about their faces and their voice. |
| Michael Keaton’s Batman Returns in a Bloody Tease From Flash Director Andy Muschietti Posted: 04 Jun 2021 07:32 AM PDT  From the looks of things, director Andy Muschietti's upcoming The Flash is set to expand the DCEU in a significant way by using the titular speedster's penchant for mucking up timelines in order to broach the larger DC multiverse, and bring another, familiar Batman back to the big screen. |
| United’s Supersonic Jet Sustainability Claims Sure Sound Suspect Posted: 04 Jun 2021 07:32 AM PDT  United Airlines has agreed to purchase 15 jets that fly faster than the speed of sound from Boom Supersonic, with options to purchase 35 more. The purchase means United is on track to reintroduce the first commercial supersonic flights since the retirement of the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde in 2003. |
| Apple Is Reportedly Experimenting With Wireless Charging for Next Year's iPad Pro Posted: 04 Jun 2021 07:15 AM PDT  After a year of gangbuster iPad sales, Apple is reportedly working on a new design for the iPad mini and revamping its iPad Pro to support wireless charging. |
| Why Scientists Are Worried About a New Alzheimer's Drug Up for FDA Approval Posted: 04 Jun 2021 06:50 AM PDT  The fate of an experimental dementia drug will be decided within days. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration is set to announce whether it will approve Biogen's antibody-based therapy aducanumab as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease—the first intended to slow down the progression of the incurable ailment. But… |
| Ikea's Cheap $12 Sensor Warns You When Air Quality Gets Bad, But Does Nothing About it Posted: 04 Jun 2021 06:37 AM PDT  If you live in a crowded urban center, all you really have to do is peek outside in the morning to confirm how polluted the air you're breathing is. But even if you don't live in a perpetual cloud of smog, that doesn't necessarily mean the air you're breathing is clean, which is why this $12 air quality sensor from… |
| Updates From Shazam Fury of the Gods, Star Wars' Andor Series, and More Posted: 04 Jun 2021 06:33 AM PDT  Get another shadowy look at the stars of Borderlands. An action legend joins John Wick 4. The latest Mission Impossible suffers another setback. Plus, teases from the set of She-Hulk, and what's coming on Disney's The Owl House. Spoilers away! |
| 10 Tips to Get the Most Out of Android Auto Posted: 04 Jun 2021 05:00 AM PDT  Google's Android Auto is more than six years old now, and it's changed a fair bit in that time. The latest version is baked into Android, if you're running Android 10 or later, but you can download the stand-alone app if you don't already have it. More and more automobiles and car stereos now support Android Auto (as… |
| Which Countries Will Receive America's Donated Covid-19 Vaccine Doses? Posted: 04 Jun 2021 04:00 AM PDT  The White House announced on Thursday that the U.S. will donate at least 80 million covid-19 doses to countries around the world by the end of June, with the first 25 million doses going out to nations in the very near future. But where exactly are the doses heading? |
| Traffic Deaths Soared in 2020 and Experts Blame Risky Road Behavior During Pandemic Posted: 04 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT  Traffic deaths in the U.S. surged in 2020 to the highest level since 2007 and experts in the U.S. government believe they know why. Despite driving fewer miles during the covid-19 pandemic, Americans involved in car crashes were taking more risks, including everything from not wearing their seatbelts to driving drunk. |
| Google Will Let You Opt Out of Being Tracked by Apps in Android 12 Posted: 03 Jun 2021 05:20 PM PDT  With Apple's developer conference just around the corner, Google is reportedly planning to follow in its rivals footsteps by letting Android users opt out of being tracked by the apps they download from the Google Play store. |
| Why Is George R.R. Martin Going to the Hellfire Gala and Not Writing Winds of Winter? Posted: 03 Jun 2021 05:00 PM PDT  George R.R. Martin is a man known for one thing at this point: trying to finish The Winds of Winter, the latest, long-awaited novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire saga that gave us Game of Thrones. He's had years and years, he's had a global pandemic locking him down from appearing at conventions and whatnot. But now,… |
| Amazon Should Rethink Its Half-Baked Approach to Health-Tracking Posted: 03 Jun 2021 04:30 PM PDT  Amazon's Halo band, the company's first fitness tracker, drew criticism when it launched because of its two marquee features: body fat scanning and tone analysis. Several reviews— including Gizmodo's—describing the gadget as creepy and invasive. You might think that would lead Amazon to perhaps rethink its approach to… |
| Neill Blomkamp's Demonic Movie Definitely Has Demons in It, I Guess? Posted: 03 Jun 2021 04:00 PM PDT  It's been quite a while since District 9's Neill Blomkamp has directed a feature-length film—not since 2015's poorly received Chappie, in fact. That will change when his new movie Demonic arrives later this summer, a science fiction-horror story that is... kind of incomprehensible, at least in its first trailer? |
| Facebook Wants Your Thoughts and Prayers Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:30 PM PDT  Facebook's found a new way to capitalize on the thoughts, prayers (and data) from the religious side of its user base. On Thursday, the company confirmed that it's begun expanding a new feature called "prayer posts" that will let members of particular Facebook groups literally ask for (and offer up) prayers for other… |
| DOJ to Treat Ransomware Hacks Like Terrorism Now: Here's the Full Memo Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:20 PM PDT  The U.S. Department of Justice plans to take a much harsher tack when pursuing cybercriminals involved in ransomware attacks—and will investigate them using strategies similar to those currently employed against foreign and domestic terrorists. |
| Donald Trump Jr. Is Now on Cameo, Wishing the Dumb Libs Happy Birthday (NOT) Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:10 PM PDT  Donald Trump Jr. has pivoted to the personalized celebrity video app Cameo because, as all relevant people do, he understands that nobody's time on the internet should be free. You get that money, giiiirl. |
| Disney's 'First Openly Gay' Characters, Ranked (by How Embarrassed Disney Should Feel) Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:00 PM PDT  Disney's history with queer representation on-screen is, diplomatically, dicey at best. The company's slow arc toward introducing LGBTQIA+ characters in major roles and tentpole films has laid the groundwork for eventual substance, but here and now, they're mostly half steps—half steps that, more often than not, are … |
| Covered in Martian Muck, NASA's InSight Lander Tries to Tidy Itself Up Posted: 03 Jun 2021 02:53 PM PDT  The dust piled up everywhere. Pushed around by the Martian winds, it stifled the InSight lander, whose solar panels—the source of its power—have been coated in red grime. Now, NASA has announced a step in the right direction for the sedentary probe: By commanding it to drop dirt on top of the dust, they managed to… |
| Apple Says It Will Make AirTags a Little Less Scary Posted: 03 Jun 2021 02:30 PM PDT  Apple's AirTags are effective little Bluetooth trackers, but the thing that makes them work so well—leveraging Apple's extensive Find My network of devices that are constantly pinging each other—also makes them extremely problematic because you can be tracked without your knowledge in what is essentially real-time.… |
| George A. Romero's Wife Suzanne on His Horror Legacy and 'Lost' Film The Amusement Park Posted: 03 Jun 2021 02:00 PM PDT  Zombie movie king George A. Romero passed away in 2017, but his legacy will live on forever in his work—including, now, an early 1970s "lost" film that's soon debuting on Shudder. To learn more about The Amusement Park, io9 hopped on a video call with Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, the late filmmaker's wife. |
| Dildo Drone Interrupts ‘Tough on Crime’ New Mexico Sheriff’s Speech, Chaos Ensues Posted: 03 Jun 2021 01:40 PM PDT  A New Mexico sheriff running as the tough-on-crime candidate for the mayorship of Albuquerque was buzzed at a campaign event on Tuesday by a small drone with a giant dildo attached to it. |
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