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- Athlete Beds at the Beijing Olympics Have Remote Controls, a Zero Gravity Mode, and No Cardboard
- Ads Will Soon Target You Based on Your Music and Podcast Taste
- WoW's Cross-Faction Evolution Is Finally a Chance to Make Love, Not Warcraft
- A Dungeons & Dragons TV Show Is Coming From Red Notice Director
- Harvard Study Finds Link Between Fracking and Premature Deaths
- Disenchantment's Part 4 Trailer Reveals It's Bad to Be the Queen
- NYPD Officer Reportedly Being Investigated Over Fake Vaccine Card Scam That Raked in $1.5 Million
- Wordle Sells Out
- Everything You Need to Know About Halo Before the Halo Show
- Your Graphics Card Can Be Used to Track Your Movements on the Web, Researchers Find
- Android Auto Might Be Getting a Much-Needed Makeover
- The Best Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in February 2022
- Astrophysicists Found 1,000 Magnetic Milky Way ‘Strands’
- A Reminder Why George Lucas Loved the Star Wars Special Editions
- A Huge Winter Storm Is About to Make Life Messy for Half the U.S.
- Joe Rogan Is Sorry, Not Sorry About His Podcast's Misinformation Problem
- MacBooks Are Experiencing Battery Drain in Sleep Mode
- Fall in Love With Reading Thanks to These 42 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
- Robert Pattinson's Batman Love Was the Reason He Wanted to Play the 'Freak'
- Sony Is Buying Bungie for $3.6 Billion in Latest Blockbuster Gaming Deal
- Here's How to Stream the Super Bowl
- Scientists Figured Out How All-Female Termite Colonies Came to Exist
- A Deadly Cyclone Just Devastated Southeastern Africa—and Another May Be on the Way
- This Working Quadcopter Drone Was Built Using Leonardo da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Sketches
- 7-Eleven Stores in Japan Are Getting Touch-Free Floating Holographic Self-Checkouts
| Athlete Beds at the Beijing Olympics Have Remote Controls, a Zero Gravity Mode, and No Cardboard Posted: 31 Jan 2022 05:23 PM PST  As athletes arrive in China for the Winter Olympics, one burning question has crossed more than a few minds: What will the beds be like this time? Short answer: no cardboard in sight. |
| Ads Will Soon Target You Based on Your Music and Podcast Taste Posted: 31 Jan 2022 04:40 PM PST  Thanks to Google's ongoing quest to kill off browser cookies and Apple's ongoing quest to vanquish its mobile identifiers, folks in the multibillion dollar business of tracking a user's every move online have been doing their best to well, keep tracking a user's every move online. While most smaller places in the… |
| WoW's Cross-Faction Evolution Is Finally a Chance to Make Love, Not Warcraft Posted: 31 Jan 2022 04:30 PM PST  The story of Warcraft is a story of, well, war. Orcs against humans, Horde against Alliance, time and time again the story of Blizzard's fantasy saga—told across the classic strategy games and, for the past 18 years, groundbreaking MMORPG World of Warcraft—has turned back to stoking conflict between its two biggest… |
| A Dungeons & Dragons TV Show Is Coming From Red Notice Director Posted: 31 Jan 2022 03:40 PM PST  Just when you thought having TV shows based on Star Wars, Marvel, DC, The Lord of the Rings, Halo, and about 50 other major franchises wasn't enough, one of the biggest and baddest is finally rolling its way into the mix. eOne just announced that Rawson Marshall Thurber, the writer and director behind Netflix's smash… |
| Harvard Study Finds Link Between Fracking and Premature Deaths Posted: 31 Jan 2022 03:10 PM PST  We know for a fact that fracking sucks for people and literally poisons the area where it occurs. So many of us have seen terrifying videos of rivers and other bodies of water on fire, and reports of seemingly healthy people suddenly plagued with headaches, random nosebleeds, and rashes. Now, a new study has linked… |
| Disenchantment's Part 4 Trailer Reveals It's Bad to Be the Queen Posted: 31 Jan 2022 03:00 PM PST  It's been over a year since we last saw Luci the demon, Elfo the elf, and Bean the newly crowned Queen of Dreamland on Netflix, and things weren't looking good. Luci had died and gone to heaven. Elfo had been carried away by angry ogres for blinding their prince. And poor Bean had been dragged off to hell by her evil… |
| NYPD Officer Reportedly Being Investigated Over Fake Vaccine Card Scam That Raked in $1.5 Million Posted: 31 Jan 2022 02:45 PM PST  A New York Police Department officer is reportedly being investigated after Suffolk County prosecutors charged his spouse with allegedly carrying out a $1.5 million scheme to sell fake coronavirus vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers and others looking to dodge work or government mandates. |
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| Everything You Need to Know About Halo Before the Halo Show Posted: 31 Jan 2022 02:11 PM PST  Last night we got our first proper extended look at Paramount+'s long-awaited Halo: The Series, the latest in a long line of attempts to bring the Master Chief out of video games and into live-action. But not only is the new show about to be the biggest attempt to do just that, it's also going to be diving into Halo… |
| Your Graphics Card Can Be Used to Track Your Movements on the Web, Researchers Find Posted: 31 Jan 2022 02:00 PM PST  Computer researchers have discovered a new, experimental way to track you across the internet using information culled from your computer or phone's graphics processing unit. |
| Android Auto Might Be Getting a Much-Needed Makeover Posted: 31 Jan 2022 02:00 PM PST  Android Auto has been rumored to be getting a huge overhaul for months, but now we know what Google's in-car navigation system will look like. |
| The Best Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in February 2022 Posted: 31 Jan 2022 01:00 PM PST  Welcome back to io9's Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. |
| Astrophysicists Found 1,000 Magnetic Milky Way ‘Strands’ Posted: 31 Jan 2022 12:45 PM PST  A new mosaic image taken by the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa has revealed nearly 1,000 multi-light-year-long electron strands at the center of the Milky Way. The strands are huge streaks of cosmic ray particles; though they were discovered nearly 40 years ago, researchers never knew there were so many. |
| A Reminder Why George Lucas Loved the Star Wars Special Editions Posted: 31 Jan 2022 12:10 PM PST  Even after it became the highest-grossing film of all time, George Lucas still wasn't completely satisfied with Star Wars. Sure, the filmmaker obviously was happy with much of what's on screen, but the visuals and scope he had in his mind in when he made the movie in the 1970s didn't line up with the final product. He… |
| A Huge Winter Storm Is About to Make Life Messy for Half the U.S. Posted: 31 Jan 2022 12:00 PM PST The Northeast U.S. is still digging out from the monster snowstorm that hit over the weekend, but the rest of the country better buckle up—there's some serious weather coming this week. A storm could hit states from Colorado, to parts of Texas, to Ohio by Groundhog Day, dumping freezing rain and snow and snarling… |
| Joe Rogan Is Sorry, Not Sorry About His Podcast's Misinformation Problem Posted: 31 Jan 2022 11:40 AM PST  Joe Rogan has an important message for Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and any other major artist that's removed their music from Spotify's platform in response to his podcast's habit of hosting well-known antivaxxers: he's sorry, but not sorry enough to stop doing it. |
| MacBooks Are Experiencing Battery Drain in Sleep Mode Posted: 31 Jan 2022 11:30 AM PST  If you just downloaded the latest version of macOS, 12.2, keep an eye on your MacBook's battery life. Furious Apple laptop owners are reporting across various forums and social media platforms (Reddit, Twitter) that their MacBooks are experiencing excessive battery drain while in sleep mode (via MacRumors). |
| Fall in Love With Reading Thanks to These 42 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Posted: 31 Jan 2022 11:20 AM PST  Snowed in? A loather of Valentine's Day? Feeling sluggish on the doom-laden treadmill of life? Perk up with this robust list of brand-new sci-fi and fantasy books coming out in February. We got Jedi! We got space nuns! We got monsters, slippery royals, thieves, and even a taser-wielding librarian! Read on! |
| Robert Pattinson's Batman Love Was the Reason He Wanted to Play the 'Freak' Posted: 31 Jan 2022 10:40 AM PST  Being cast as Batman isn't the same as being cast as most other characters. There's a never-ending legacy to it. A long and storied tradition. And that's something the new Batman, Robert Pattinson, not only is aware of, but relishes. Speaking to Total Film Magazine about the March 4 release of The Batman, Pattinson… |
| Sony Is Buying Bungie for $3.6 Billion in Latest Blockbuster Gaming Deal Posted: 31 Jan 2022 10:21 AM PST  Sony is acquiring Bungie for a reported $3.6 billion in the latest move of what has been a string of blockbuster purchases within the gaming industry. |
| Here's How to Stream the Super Bowl Posted: 31 Jan 2022 10:20 AM PST  The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event of the year in the United States, beloved both by football fans and folks who just enjoy the commercials or the half-time show. In 2021, the big game attracted 96.4 million viewers on broadcast TV, and an average of 5.7 million viewers per minute on streaming networks. |
| Scientists Figured Out How All-Female Termite Colonies Came to Exist Posted: 31 Jan 2022 10:06 AM PST  An international team of scientists says all-female termite colonies from Japan are the result of accidental hybridization, and that their highly robust nature makes them an ecological threat. |
| A Deadly Cyclone Just Devastated Southeastern Africa—and Another May Be on the Way Posted: 31 Jan 2022 09:50 AM PST  Fallout from a devastating tropical storm that hit several countries in southern Africa is building as the death count continues to rise and communities struggle to recover. The death toll from Tropical Storm Ana, which blew through Madagascar, Mozambique, and Malawi last week, stood at nearly 80 on Monday, while… |
| This Working Quadcopter Drone Was Built Using Leonardo da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Sketches Posted: 31 Jan 2022 08:50 AM PST  Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s—hundreds of years before the first flight—the polymath sketched a design for an aircraft. Lacking the right materials, da Vinci never built or tested the helicopter-like device, leaving us… |
| 7-Eleven Stores in Japan Are Getting Touch-Free Floating Holographic Self-Checkouts Posted: 31 Jan 2022 08:40 AM PST As convenient as self-checkout machines can be for quickly getting out of a store, they're also a convenient way to expose yourself to a touchscreen that thousands of others have used. To make the machines more sanitary, some 7-Eleven stores in Japan will be installing floating holographic displays that work without… |
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