domingo, 6 de fevereiro de 2022


Joe Rogan Is Sorry for Using the N-Word and Comparing a Black Neighborhood to Planet of the Apes

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 07:18 PM PST

In recent weeks, the spotlight on Joe Rogan, host of the popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Spotify, has only grown brighter and hotter. After receiving a storm of criticism for promoting covid-19 vaccine misinformation on his podcast, all eyes are now on Rogan again after videos of him repeatedly using the…

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Spoilers of the Week: January 31-February 4

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 03:45 PM PST

It ended up being something of a busy week, which means you may have missed some of our Morning Spoilers. Have no fear, because we've got this video for some of the biggest stories this week that closed out January and began February. And as always, you can read new Morning Spoilers every weekday on io9!

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Amazon, Nike, and Other Bidders Are Reportedly Circling Peloton

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 02:35 PM PST

After enjoying a lockdown-fueled peak during the pandemic, Peloton is now spinning out of control. Product recalls, plummeting stock prices, a major decline in demand and its bike's dangerous cameos in not one, but two primetime TV shows have wiped roughly $40 billion from its market value in the last year.

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Meta Brings 'Personal Boundary' to Horizon Worlds and Venues to Keep Creeps at Arm's Length

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 12:10 PM PST

Because there's no escaping creeps on the Internet, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has launched a new "Personal Boundary" feature for its virtual reality platforms to combat harassment.

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Tom Holland on Going from Hero to Treasure Hunter and Almost Burning Out

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 12:00 PM PST

Since he first swung into the Marvel movies in 2016 with Captain America: Civil War, Tom Holland's had a fairly busy life. Not only has he been caught up in various Marvel movies and animated flicks, but he's also about to don the half-tucked shirt of Naughty Dog's Nathan Drake for Uncharted. That's a lot of work for…

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The Boondocks' HBO Max Revival is No More

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 10:30 AM PST

Longtime fans of adult swim and specifically The Boondocks were dealt a hard blow earlier in the week. The much publicized revival for the beloved animated series, announced for HBO Max , has been canned.

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Critical Role's Cast Talk Episode 4 and All That Bloody Violence

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 09:00 AM PST

When the creators of Critical Role set out to make an animated adaptation in Legend of Vox Machina, they wanted to keep the show true to its source material. The challenge wasn't just to keep the characters the same (they mostly are) but also to keep true to their combat: to put it another way, Critical Role can get…

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Spider-Verse Director Peter Ramsey's Next Film is All About Vampires and Noir

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 07:30 AM PST

The critical and commercial success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse isn't just leading to another follow up, it's helping one of its directors get their next big project off the ground. While co-director Peter Ramsey is still on hand for both Across the Spider-Verse and its 2023 sequel as an executive producer,…

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Utah Officials Drove Over Important Fossil Site With a Backhoe, Paleontologists Say

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 07:10 AM PST

Paleontologists and locals familiar with a fossil site in Moab, Utah claim that a backhoe drove over dinosaur footprints and other animal trackways, damaging or destroying them. The Utah Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for protecting Mill Canyon Track Site, has said that its recent dismantling of a…

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Apple's First Event of the Year Reportedly Set for March 8

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 05:15 PM PST

Every year, Apple hosts a handful of product launch events to announce new devices, and 2022 is shaping up to be no different. According to Bloomberg, the company's first such event will be "on or near" March 8, which tracks—Apple usually announces new devices in the spring, and its events tend to be on Tuesdays.…

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U.S. Lawmakers Question Amazon Over Sale of Chemical Compound Used in Suicide

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 04:42 PM PST

Editor's note: This article contains discussions of suicide. If you or someone you know is having a crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741.

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Google Stadia May Not Be Long for This World

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 04:40 PM PST

Stadia may not have blossomed into the cloud gaming service that Google had hoped, but the technology behind it may live on by powering other services.

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How to Stream the 2022 Winter Olympics

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 04:00 PM PST

You'd be forgiven if you thought that the Olympics had just happened—the delayed summer Olympics, postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic, were on a mere six months ago!

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Spotify Just Removed 70 Episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience—but Not That One

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 03:49 PM PST

Spotify pulled down at least 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience from its archives on Friday. However, the disappeared episodes don't have much to do with the platform's ongoing controversy over covid-19 misinformation.

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The Week's Best Toys Are a Lego Star Wars-Palooza

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 03:30 PM PST

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest in all things merch. This week, Lego dusts off its spring line up with Star Wars, Marvel, cool cars, and... Elvis Presley? Meanwhile, Hasbro gets retro with the Ghostbusters, and The Boys heads to the Figma lineup. Check it out!

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The New Goosebumps TV Series Squirms Its Way to Disney+

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 02:30 PM PST

We first heard an ethereal, sinister whisper that a live-action Goosebumps TV series might be coming to haunt us back in 2020. But now that whisper has become a piercing scream of utter terror, such as one might make when menaced by a sentient ventriloquist's dummy, which shrieks, "That live-action Goosebumps TV…

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Here's What Henry Kissinger Thinks About the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 02:20 PM PST

For some, artificial intelligence represents nothing more than one tool among many aimed at increasing productivity and maximizing economic output. For others though, AI looks like more of a destination, a couple of words pointing to a tectonic shift in global society capable of ripping the ground out from under…

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Trump Thinks Facebook’s Wipeout Might Have Something to Do With a Little Thing Called TRUTH

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 02:10 PM PST

Why is Facebook struggling? Clearly, it's not that the site itself is garbage, or that its parent company Meta's pivot to the "metaverse" positions its future on a buzzword, or even that it's racked up enough scandals that it spends more money on lobbyists than Exxon or Phillip Morris.

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New Antarctic Expedition Aims to Locate Endurance—Ernest Shackleton’s Lost Ship

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 02:00 PM PST

An expedition departing for Antarctica this coming weekend is seeking to uncover the lost ship of famed British explorer Ernest Shackleton. The crew will attempt to succeed where so many others have failed.

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Gettr Fired Its Entire Cybersecurity Team and Never Replaced Them, Former Employees Say

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:55 PM PST

Gettr, the MAGA-minded social media platform that recently saw a big spike in membership, seems to be on a mission to get hacked. Or at least, that's what you'd be led to believe by the company's reported decision to fire pretty much everybody in charge of making sure the company doesn't get hacked.

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Fast and Furious’ Space Journey Is Now an Adorable Art Piece

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:45 PM PST

It's almost surreal that after years and years of joking about it, the most recent Fast and Furious movie, F9, actually sent characters to space. Seriously, io9 and the rest of the internet has been joking about the conceit forever. Then it happened. And it was hilarious, wonderful, and perfect. Now, the moment has…

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Pennsylvania May Have a Big Tick Problem on Its Hands

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:10 PM PST

Pennsylvania is dealing with a potentially serious tick problem. Environmental officials have recently warned the public that a population of ticks in the state appear to be carrying incredibly high levels of a rare but potentially deadly tickborne virus. They're now preparing to contain and further study these ticks,…

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What Did He Know?

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:00 PM PST

Star Wars is perpetually a mystery in search of answers. We all have questions about it, from what its biggest reveals mean, to narrative thoughts, to questions of character. The Book of Boba Fett is, of course, no exception... and while we've already had several questions about its latest chapter, one massive query…

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The Hidden Failure of the World's Biggest Privacy Law

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 12:43 PM PST

This week, European authorities struck a massive blow to the digital data-mining industrial complex with a new ruling stating that, quite simply, most of those annoying cookie alert banners that sites were forced to onboard en masse after GDPR was passed haven't... actually been compliant with GDPR. Sorry.

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The Last Winter's Dire Eco-Horror Warning Is More Terrifying Than Ever

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 12:15 PM PST

Thanks to the growing abundance of weird and dangerous weather, it's getting harder to ignore the bleak reality of climate change—though that doesn't stop many people, especially people in power, from blithely denying its existence. Released in 2006, Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter asked a question that's even more…

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