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- I Miss Apple's Best iPod
- Animals Emerged 350 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossil Discovery Suggests
- Arthur Is Coming to an End After an Astounding 25 Seasons
- Almost Anyone Could Outrun This Bipedal Robot in a 5K—For Now
- Google Will Require All Apps on the Play Store to Have a Privacy Policy Starting in April 2022
- VFX Icon Phil Tippet's Long-Awaited Movie Looks Absolutely Incredible
- James Gunn Wants You to Watch the Guardians' Holiday Special Before Volume 3
- Parable of the Sower Is Finally Becoming a Feature Film
- The World Isn't Ready for Health-Tracking Earbuds
- Arkansas Reports 33 New Covid-19 Patients Placed on Ventilators in Single Day
- UK to Drop Covid-19 Quarantine Rules for Vaccinated Tourists From U.S. and EU
- Ex-Airman Who Leaked Secrets of America's Drone War Gets 45 Months in Prison
- American Horror Story Teases Its Return With Maybe Its Most Nightmarish Promo Ever
- How to Look Better On Video Calls Using Your iPad Pro
- Kevin Smith Just Wants Angry He-Man Nerds to Grow Up
- Instagram's New Settings Take Aim at Creepy Adults
- Arizona Republicans Subpoena Routers Amid Cyber Ninja's Shambling Election Audit
- The U.S. Government Has Sold Martin Shkreli's One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album
- It's About to Get Harder to Buy a Gaming PC
- Snowden: People Who Bankroll the Spyware Industry Should Be in Prison
- A Stifling New Heat Wave Is Baking the U.S.
- A Girl Prepares Her Brows for Battle in This Excerpt From Iron Widow
- Newly Launched ‘Galileo Project’ Will Hunt for Alien Technologies in Our Midst
- Lucasfilm Hires YouTuber After His Deepfake of Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian Goes Viral
- Utah's Great Salt Lake Is Officially at Its Lowest Point in Recorded History
| Posted: 28 Jul 2021 08:40 AM PDT  Of all the portable music players Apple has released over the past 20 years, the original iPod shuffle remains my favorite. It wasn't my first iPod, and 16 years after its debut I've owned countless iterations of the iPhone, but I loved the shuffle for its basic design and functionality, not in spite of them. |
| Animals Emerged 350 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossil Discovery Suggests Posted: 28 Jul 2021 08:31 AM PDT  Ancient rocks from northwestern Canada have been found to contain structures consistent with sea sponges. At 890 million years old, they could be the oldest known animal fossils on Earth. |
| Arthur Is Coming to an End After an Astounding 25 Seasons Posted: 28 Jul 2021 08:30 AM PDT  For almost three decades, animated Arthur Read and his fellow anthropomorphic animals have been encouraging young viewers to cultivate a deep love of reading books—not to mention inspiring memes that resonate with multiple generations of people who grew up watching PBS's Arthur series. Though the show will always be a… |
| Almost Anyone Could Outrun This Bipedal Robot in a 5K—For Now Posted: 28 Jul 2021 08:10 AM PDT  In a first, Oregon State University says its bipedal robot Cassie managed to go from the couch to a 5K in 53 minutes. It's an impressive feat of machine learning and robotics engineering, but as far as 5Ks go, I wouldn't worry about having to outrun killer humanoid robots just yet. |
| Google Will Require All Apps on the Play Store to Have a Privacy Policy Starting in April 2022 Posted: 28 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT  Earlier this spring, Google announced the development of a new safety section coming to the Play Store next year, and today Google is now following up with more details on the kind of information apps will be required to provide including new mandatory privacy policies. |
| VFX Icon Phil Tippet's Long-Awaited Movie Looks Absolutely Incredible Posted: 28 Jul 2021 07:00 AM PDT  Star Wars. Indiana Jones. RoboCop. Jurassic Park. These films and franchises will live forever, and they attained those heights with a little help from Phil Tippett—one of the most legendary visual effects artists in Hollywood history. He's especially known for his work with stop-motion animation and now, he's… |
| James Gunn Wants You to Watch the Guardians' Holiday Special Before Volume 3 Posted: 28 Jul 2021 06:20 AM PDT  Linda Blair says she's not been asked to return yet for the new Exorcist trilogy. Hear a snippet from The Green Knight's soundtrack. Plus, what's to come when Supergirl and Stargirl return. Spoilers, away! |
| Parable of the Sower Is Finally Becoming a Feature Film Posted: 28 Jul 2021 05:42 AM PDT  As a climate reporter, I live and breathe bad news. I frequently wake up and immediately Google things like "flood deaths" or "wildfire damage." But this week, something good happened. A24, the company behind films like Uncut Gems and Moonlight, won the rights to adapt Octavia Butler's science fiction novel Parable of… |
| The World Isn't Ready for Health-Tracking Earbuds Posted: 28 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT  Fitness-focused earbuds are nothing now, but they're usually just sweat-resistant and bass-forward for powering through workouts. Amazfit's new Powerbuds Pro take that to the next level. Design-wise, they're more like Apple's AirPods Pro, but with the added ability to track workouts, monitor your posture, warn you… |
| Arkansas Reports 33 New Covid-19 Patients Placed on Ventilators in Single Day Posted: 28 Jul 2021 04:30 AM PDT  Arkansas hospitals placed 33 new covid-19 patients on ventilators Tuesday, according to the state's department of health, bringing the total to 205 patients struggling for life on the machines. Sadly, that's the highest number of patients on ventilators since January, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, and… |
| UK to Drop Covid-19 Quarantine Rules for Vaccinated Tourists From U.S. and EU Posted: 28 Jul 2021 03:30 AM PDT  The United Kingdom is preparing to drop covid-19 restrictions that require visitors from the U.S. and European Union to quarantine for 10 days on arrival, according to several newspapers in England. |
| Ex-Airman Who Leaked Secrets of America's Drone War Gets 45 Months in Prison Posted: 27 Jul 2021 05:30 PM PDT  A whistleblower who leaked top secret information about America's drone warfare program has been sentenced to 45 months in federal prison. |
| American Horror Story Teases Its Return With Maybe Its Most Nightmarish Promo Ever Posted: 27 Jul 2021 04:10 PM PDT  That's obviously a bold claim to make about American Horror Story, a series known for marketing each new season as creepily and, often, cryptically as possible. (That campaign for AHS: Cult involving holes—so many holes—must've awakened countless latent cases of trypophobia.) But with this new teaser for Double Feature |
| How to Look Better On Video Calls Using Your iPad Pro Posted: 27 Jul 2021 04:00 PM PDT  This year's refreshed iPad Pros have powerful new processors that separate them from the predecessors, but they also have an underrated new video-calling feature that frees you from your desk. |
| Kevin Smith Just Wants Angry He-Man Nerds to Grow Up Posted: 27 Jul 2021 02:40 PM PDT  Masters of the Universe: Revelation received critical acclaim ahead of its launch on Netflix late last week, but the animated continuation of Eternia's finest has been faced with review-bombing and anger on social media thanks to a bad-faith interpretation of what the show's doing that showrunner Kevin Smith has… |
| Instagram's New Settings Take Aim at Creepy Adults Posted: 27 Jul 2021 02:30 PM PDT  As part of a slew of ongoing efforts to make Instagram less of a cesspool of awful content for awful people, the company announced a slew of new changes for accounts belonging to the teen and tweenage set meant to keep them safer on the platform. |
| Arizona Republicans Subpoena Routers Amid Cyber Ninja's Shambling Election Audit Posted: 27 Jul 2021 02:20 PM PDT  The Republican goons in the Arizona Senate backing the farce of a "recount" of the 2020 election results is pressing local election officials for access to even more data, the Associated Press reports. Yet they might not be able to back up their threats, and some key figures behind the audit appear to be getting cold… |
| The U.S. Government Has Sold Martin Shkreli's One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album Posted: 27 Jul 2021 02:10 PM PDT  The sole copy of the Wu-Tang album previously owned by convicted edgelord Martin Shkreli has moved on to a better place, hopefully. The Department of Justice announced today that the federal government has sold the album to an unknown buyer for an unknown price. In 2018, RZA said that he wanted to be that buyer. |
| It's About to Get Harder to Buy a Gaming PC Posted: 27 Jul 2021 02:00 PM PDT  Buying a new graphics card is already hard enough, but for folks living in a handful of states, ordering pre-built systems from some PC makers just got a lot more difficult due to newly implemented energy regulations. |
| Snowden: People Who Bankroll the Spyware Industry Should Be in Prison Posted: 27 Jul 2021 01:37 PM PDT  Famed whistleblower Edward Snowden has a new blog on Substack and, naturally, he has some opinions about the recent NSO Group controversy: namely, that people who bankroll companies like it should do time. |
| A Stifling New Heat Wave Is Baking the U.S. Posted: 27 Jul 2021 12:54 PM PDT |
| A Girl Prepares Her Brows for Battle in This Excerpt From Iron Widow Posted: 27 Jul 2021 12:30 PM PDT  Author Xiran Jay Zhao makes their debut with Iron Widow, the tale of a teenage girl who overcomes a patriarchal society—one that also involves giant robots fighting mecha aliens—to avenge her sister's death and eventually become China's first female emperor. io9 has an exclusive look at the first chapter, which also… |
| Newly Launched ‘Galileo Project’ Will Hunt for Alien Technologies in Our Midst Posted: 27 Jul 2021 12:10 PM PDT  A new project seeks to uncover evidence of aliens, not by gazing upon distant star systems but by finding traces of their technologies inside our solar system—and even on Earth. |
| Lucasfilm Hires YouTuber After His Deepfake of Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian Goes Viral Posted: 27 Jul 2021 12:00 PM PDT  Finally, a story about deepfakes that's free from the moral squishiness and consent issues that plague the people creating them. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Lucasfilm confirmed that the company had hired a popular deepfake creator as a "senior facial capture artist" under the company's computer graphics subsidiary,… |
| Utah's Great Salt Lake Is Officially at Its Lowest Point in Recorded History Posted: 27 Jul 2021 11:40 AM PDT  Water levels in Utah's Great Salt Lake have officially dwindled to their lowest ever recorded. It's an effect of the megadrought that has impacted water supplies across the West. |
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