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- Better.com CEO Who Fired 900 Employees on Zoom and Behaved Like Trash Is ‘Taking Time Off’
- Forget About Gold: Study Says Investing in Lego Sets Will Earn You More Money
- James Cameron Explains Why the Original Aliens Poster Is So Basic
- The Chumboxes That Helped Alex Jones Stay in Business
- Mercedes Beats Tesla to Hands-Free Driving
- New Spider-Man: No Way Home Clip Spotlights Doc Ock Aiming to Kill
- Minecraft Players Need to Update Immediately as Nasty Zero-Day Threatens Apps Across the Web
- Far-Right Leaders Are Raking In Millions From Bitcoin, New Study Shows
- Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution
- Microsoft Was Willing to Play Ball With Apple to Bring Xbox Games to iPhones
- The Week's Best Toys Have Bazookas, Boba, and Brothers Warner
- Nebraska Becomes the First Red State to Set a Decarbonization Target
- The Expanse's Shohreh Aghdashloo on What's Different About Avasarala in Season 6
- Ransomware Jerks Helped Cause the Cream Cheese Shortage
- Most of Amazon’s Pollution-Spewing Warehouses Are Built In Communities of Color
- Nail Lodged in Skeleton’s Foot Is First Evidence of Crucifixion in England
- People Are Spamming Kellogg’s Job Site in Support of Striking Workers
- Game Awards 2021: All the Coolest Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Announcements
- 120-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Scary-Fast Dinosaur
- Android Games Are Coming to Windows PCs in 2022
- How to Take Screenshots on a Mac
- Analogue Pocket Preorders Are Reopening, but the Price Is Going Up
- The Best Sci-fi, Horror, and Fantasy Trailers of 2021
- The Expanse Begins Its Final Chapter With Thrills and Ultimatums
- The Witcher Season 2 Is a Bigger, Better, and Witchier Witcher
| Better.com CEO Who Fired 900 Employees on Zoom and Behaved Like Trash Is ‘Taking Time Off’ Posted: 10 Dec 2021 09:52 PM PST  If you were looking for nominees for "Worst Boss of the Year," look no further than Better.com CEO Vishal Garg, who is apparently "taking time off" in response to the backlash he's received for behaving like trash. |
| Forget About Gold: Study Says Investing in Lego Sets Will Earn You More Money Posted: 10 Dec 2021 07:56 PM PST  While some people may consider gold, jewelry, art, wine, or antiques good investments in the long-term, a new study challenges that notion and presents a unique and more lucrative alternative: Lego sets. |
| James Cameron Explains Why the Original Aliens Poster Is So Basic Posted: 10 Dec 2021 04:00 PM PST  Did you know James Cameron used to make movie posters? It's true. In his new book, Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron, the director of Terminator, Avatar, and Aliens talks about his time creating posters for an old movie company called Saturn, not even watching the movies because they were so bad, and just sending in… |
| The Chumboxes That Helped Alex Jones Stay in Business Posted: 10 Dec 2021 03:00 PM PST  For years, Alex Jones, the proprietor of far-right internet hellhole InfoWars, was able to monetize disgusting lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, where a gunman shot and killed 26 people including 20 children before dying by suicide. Jones was particularly obsessed with selling the idea that… |
| Mercedes Beats Tesla to Hands-Free Driving Posted: 10 Dec 2021 02:45 PM PST  One of the world's leading luxury car brands just won regulatory approval from the German government to operate a hands-free, autonomous driving system on public roads, a feat that marks a significant stepping stone along the long, and so far winding road toward self-driving cars. That car company was not Tesla.… |
| New Spider-Man: No Way Home Clip Spotlights Doc Ock Aiming to Kill Posted: 10 Dec 2021 02:00 PM PST One of the sillier things about Marvel and Sony's upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home is Peter Parker's apparent reluctance to take out the dimension-hopping foes he's about to face. In Marvel's latest trailers for the movie, Peter's been dismayed at the idea of Electro, the Green Goblin, and Doctor Octopus all being… |
| Minecraft Players Need to Update Immediately as Nasty Zero-Day Threatens Apps Across the Web Posted: 10 Dec 2021 01:50 PM PST  Everybody get ready to patch up. What started off as a security issue for fans of the immensely popular video game Minecraft has quickly transformed into a full-blown, internet-wide crisis. |
| Far-Right Leaders Are Raking In Millions From Bitcoin, New Study Shows Posted: 10 Dec 2021 01:45 PM PST  Even hardcore investors will likely admit that the crypto community tends to attract some pretty scummy personalities; cyber-criminals, con-artists, and Elon Musk, for starters. Now, it looks like we can add white supremacists to that list as well; a new study from the Southern Poverty Law Center probed into the… |
| Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution Posted: 10 Dec 2021 01:35 PM PST  Social media erupted this week when a single passage from this year's World Inequality Report went viral comparing the carbon footprint of a short space joyride to a lifetime's worth of emissions for the world's poorest. The statistic perfectly encapsulates the unequal distribution of between those who cause climate… |
| Microsoft Was Willing to Play Ball With Apple to Bring Xbox Games to iPhones Posted: 10 Dec 2021 01:20 PM PST  We're now learning the great lengths Microsoft was willing to take to bring Xbox games to iPhones. The company reluctantly planned to bring exclusive triple-A Xbox titles to the App Store in the form of individual apps due to Apple's requirements for games, but the deal fell through. |
| The Week's Best Toys Have Bazookas, Boba, and Brothers Warner Posted: 10 Dec 2021 01:00 PM PST  Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round-up of the latest and greatest in nerdy merchandise. This week: Lego's latest modular building brings some class to your display, The Book of Boba Fett opens up to a page of action figures, and Destiny's most iconic rocket launcher is getting the Nerf treatment. Check it… |
| Nebraska Becomes the First Red State to Set a Decarbonization Target Posted: 10 Dec 2021 12:45 PM PST  The clean energy revolution has come to the heartland. Nebraska became the first red state in the U.S. with a goal of completely cleaning up its electric grid on Thursday. The plan has a few areas where it needs to be shored up and is by no means a slam dunk—but it's certainly a life raft amid the conservative… |
| The Expanse's Shohreh Aghdashloo on What's Different About Avasarala in Season 6 Posted: 10 Dec 2021 12:00 PM PST  Chrisjen Avasarala is a fan-favorite Expanse character for several reasons, but two big ones are that she's an absolute master of diplomatic strategy, and she cuts a glamorously elegant figure while also swearing like a sailor. But after the near-destruction of Earth last season, the UN Secretary-General finds herself… |
| Ransomware Jerks Helped Cause the Cream Cheese Shortage Posted: 10 Dec 2021 11:40 AM PST  Following attacks on our hospitals, municipal governments, and fuel supplies, hackers have finally gone too far: They fucked with America's cream cheese. |
| Most of Amazon’s Pollution-Spewing Warehouses Are Built In Communities of Color Posted: 10 Dec 2021 11:30 AM PST  The toll Amazon's ruthless efficiency has taken on its workers has been well-documented at this point. But a new investigation by Consumer Reports reveals the degree to which Amazon's warehouses disproportionately affect entire communities of color as well, and how all company's excess pollutants could be worsening… |
| Nail Lodged in Skeleton’s Foot Is First Evidence of Crucifixion in England Posted: 10 Dec 2021 11:20 AM PST  Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have unearthed a skeleton with a nail protruding from its right heel bone. The remains likely belonged to a man who was crucified by the Romans, in what is an exceptionally rare discovery. |
| People Are Spamming Kellogg’s Job Site in Support of Striking Workers Posted: 10 Dec 2021 11:10 AM PST  Kellogg is officially replacing striking workers with permanent scabs, which means that union workers will remain on strike after two months while Kellogg goes about its business. It also means that its job application portal is wide open for thousands upon thousands of resumes from Lorem Ipsum. Reddit and TikTok have… |
| Game Awards 2021: All the Coolest Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Announcements Posted: 10 Dec 2021 11:00 AM PST  Comics have the Eisners, movies have the Oscars, TV has the Emmys, and video games have the Game Awards. This year's edition of the latter happened last night, and it was really half awards, half an excuse for big companies to tease all their big, upcoming projects. So, for example, you probably saw trailers for the… |
| 120-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Scary-Fast Dinosaur Posted: 10 Dec 2021 10:40 AM PST  Paleontologists in Spain have analyzed two sets of fossilized dinosaur footprints and calculated the animals' speeds at the times the prints were made. The team found the dinosaurs that made the prints could move at nearly 28 miles per hour, a speed that equals that of the world's fastest humans. |
| Android Games Are Coming to Windows PCs in 2022 Posted: 10 Dec 2021 10:20 AM PST  Mobile gamers who hate being tied to their smartphones just got an early holiday present. Google is bringing Android games from Google Play to Windows laptops, PCs, and tablets. |
| How to Take Screenshots on a Mac Posted: 10 Dec 2021 10:15 AM PST  Taking a screenshot on your Mac might seem like basic computer knowledge, but there might be an even easier shortcut than what you're used to. Watch our video for instructions, or keep reading for descriptions of the commands you might use. |
| Analogue Pocket Preorders Are Reopening, but the Price Is Going Up Posted: 10 Dec 2021 10:10 AM PST  After revealing a couple of weeks ago that its Pocket handheld gaming system would officially start shipping on Dec. 13, today Analogue followed up with good news for those who missed preorders the first time around. Starting Dec. 14, preorders for the Pocket will be open again, with the first units shipping out in… |
| The Best Sci-fi, Horror, and Fantasy Trailers of 2021 Posted: 10 Dec 2021 10:00 AM PST  The continuing global pandemic still had a toll to take on the 2021 movie landscape, meaning that not as many big movie hits as we might have expected—or rather, hoped—actually made it to the big screen. But that doesn't mean we didn't get lots of trailers for films that either did eventually make it out in some form… |
| The Expanse Begins Its Final Chapter With Thrills and Ultimatums Posted: 10 Dec 2021 09:00 AM PST  It's finally returned—for just six episodes, but at this point any Expanse is better than no Expanse, and we are more than ready to see the Rocinante back in action. Season six kicks off with "Strange Dogs," and we meet the title creatures even before the opening credits roll. Strange? Yes. Dogs? Well... |
| The Witcher Season 2 Is a Bigger, Better, and Witchier Witcher Posted: 10 Dec 2021 08:00 AM PST  When Netflix's adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's Polish fantasy novels—spurred to global renown by the beloved video game adaptations by CD Projekt Red—landed this time two years ago, it catapulted itself to acclaim sometimes in spite of itself. Its second season shows signs of a show that saw that acclaim as a… |
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