AirPods, MacBooks, and iPads (Oh My!): Today’s Best Apple Deals
AirPods, MacBooks, and iPads (Oh My!): Today’s Best Apple Deals
Featured Deal: Apple AirPods Pro | $199 | AmazonRead more...
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Science, Tech and Gadgets
Lab-Made Antibodies Show Early Promise for Treating Covid-19
Lab-Made Antibodies Show Early Promise for Treating Covid-19
A lab-made antibody treatment has shown encouraging results in preventing hospitalizations from covid-19, at least in some preliminary data. On Tuesday, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced that its experimental antibody treatment was found to reduce the rate of hospitalizations among people with covid-19…Read more...
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The Violent Fantasy of Kyle Rittenhouse
The Violent Fantasy of Kyle Rittenhouse
Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen charged with shooting three protestors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, gets the fanmail congratulating him on his heroic exploits in juvenile detention, because he is 17 years old. Most stories coming from the Right, which render the kid as a righteous arbiter of justice, bury this fact.…Read more...
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Uber Safety Driver in Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Charged With Negligent Homicide
Uber Safety Driver in Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Charged With Negligent Homicide
The human driver meant to act as a fail-safe for an autonomous Uber car that struck and killed a Tempe, Arizona woman has been charged with neglicgent homicide by local authorities, the Associated Press reports. The 2018 crash was the first recorded case of a pedestrian being killed by a self-driving car. Read more...
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Garmin’s New Smartwatch Is Made for Triathletes, Because We Should All Dream Big Right Now
Garmin's New Smartwatch Is Made for Triathletes, Because We Should All Dream Big Right Now
Garmin is the MVP when it comes to GPS-tracking watches made for athletes. Every serious runner in my life swears by their Garmin, despite the fact that you can easily find a cheaper, a more stylish, lifestyle-focused smartwatch with GPS built right in (which was not the case when Garmin first hit the scene). Nope.…Read more...
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Epson Debuts New Ultra Short-Throw, Android-Powered 4K Projector
Epson Debuts New Ultra Short-Throw, Android-Powered 4K Projector
For film enthusiasts, the pandemic has presented an ongoing question: Should we invest in better at-home entertainment, or does it make sense to hold out for the (presumed) reopening of cinemas? Gadget makers would very much prefer the former, with companies like Samsung and Epson framing the pandemic as good a time…Read more...
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Data Leak Shows Chinese Firm Compiled Data, Social Media Posts of Millions
Data Leak Shows Chinese Firm Compiled Data, Social Media Posts of Millions
A Chinese intelligence firm’s database on 2.4 million people—including some 50,000 Americans—was recently leaked, exposing it to researchers.Read more...
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Moonbase 8 Sees Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, and John C. Reilly Hilariously Try to Get to the Moon
Moonbase 8 Sees Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, and John C. Reilly Hilariously Try to Get to the Moon
Getting to the moon is no joke. That is, unless you’re a trio of washed-up has-beens living in the desert trying to prove to NASA that you’re worthy of making the trip.Read more...
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Disney Enters a Silent Shadowed Kingdom and Fallout Adds the Enclave in Gaming News
Disney Enters a Silent Shadowed Kingdom and Fallout Adds the Enclave in Gaming News
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This week, we’ve got a creepy Disney game where players can’t talk to each other, a Mariposas promo pack to honor a young girl, and the arrival of the Enclave to Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. Check it out!Read more...
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Steve Jobs’ Signature Dad Shoe Isn’t Just for Dads Anymore
Steve Jobs' Signature Dad Shoe Isn't Just for Dads Anymore
New Balance 990 V5 (Men’s, Women’s) | $175 | AmazonRead more...
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Hey, Apple, Wrong Clasp
Hey, Apple, Wrong Clasp
I’ve been ridiculed. I’ve been ignored. I’ve been hassled for my love of watches. But today is a reckoning. All of my education, my effort, my endless fascination with horology is paying off. Why? Read more...
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Apple’s Subscription Services Bundle Is Already in Hot Water
Apple's Subscription Services Bundle Is Already in Hot Water
Just hours after the reveal of Apple’s new services bundles, the tech giant has already taken criticism for evidently favoring its own apps over those with which it directly competes in its App Store. Read more...
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Smoke from Western Wildfires Is Clouding Skies on the East Coast
Smoke from Western Wildfires Is Clouding Skies on the East Coast
The smoke from the fires out West, which has choked residents of California, Washington, and Oregon and painted the skies a haunting orange color, is absolutely everywhere. It’s blown thousands of miles east, and is now clouding up skies as far away as parts of New England, parts of Canada, and even Europe. Yes, you…Read more...
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Amazon’s Kicking Retailers While They’re Down (Again)
Amazon's Kicking Retailers While They're Down (Again)
In case you haven’t heard, retail is in trouble. Aside from the hundreds of clothing stores that have permanently shuttered after the coronavirus brought shopping to a screeching halt, we’ve also spent the past year watching the slower (though no less tragic) decline of mall staples like Macy’s and JC Penny, not to…Read more...
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Apple Unveils Apple One and New Subscription Bundle Tiers
Apple Unveils Apple One and New Subscription Bundle Tiers
For months leading up to today’s annual Apple event, rumors swirled that the Cupertino tech giant was gearing up to bundle its growing roster of services. Today, Apple confirmed it’s introducing a multi-tiered bundle called Apple One, which will group together some of its most popular services with additional cloud…Read more...
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Apple Takes Aim At Peloton with Fitness+ Subscription Service
Apple Takes Aim At Peloton with Fitness+ Subscription Service
Now that we’ve all suspended our gym memberships and have spent all pandemic working out at home (right?), Apple has decided to use its Apple Watch as a platform for a new streaming fitness subscription service, called Fitness+.Read more...
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Upgrade to an iPhone XR for the Price of an SE When You Sign up for Cricket Wireless
Upgrade to an iPhone XR for the Price of an SE When You Sign up for Cricket Wireless
iPhone XR | $399 | Amazon Gold BoxRead more...
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This Is the Apple Watch Series 6 and This Is Its New Friend, the Apple Watch SE
This Is the Apple Watch Series 6 and This Is Its New Friend, the Apple Watch SE
We knew it was coming, but the Apple Watch Series 6 is finally here. It has a little friend, too: the Apple Watch SE, a more affordable mid-tier option that’s slightly more advanced than the Series 3.Read more...
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How to Watch Apple’s Event Today
How to Watch Apple's Event Today
Apple’s WWDC 2020 event seems like it happened only yesterday, but that was just the beginning of Apple’s usual slew of announcements leading into fall. Today the Cupertino company is holding the first of what could be a handful of fall events to reveal its latest lineup of devices.Read more...
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U.S. Concentration Camp Sent Undocumented Women to Be Sterilized According to Whistleblower
U.S. Concentration Camp Sent Undocumented Women to Be Sterilized According to Whistleblower
Why are the terms “Nazi Germany” and “Mengele” become trending topics on Twitter? The words dominated the social media platform on Monday after it was revealed that a whistleblower has alleged “high numbers” of immigrant women at a U.S. concentration camp in Georgia were sent to be given unnecessary hysterectomies.…Read more...
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Dune Not Miss These Awesome New Fall Funko Pops
Dune Not Miss These Awesome New Fall Funko Pops
Only in a Funko Pop article can you write about Dune, Up, Star Wars, and Pizza Rat and it all makes perfect sense.Read more...
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Netflix’s La Révolution Imagines Something Sinister in 18th Century France
Netflix's La Révolution Imagines Something Sinister in 18th Century France
Well, beyond, like, y’know. The Reign of Terror. But it seems like Netflix’s new French-language alt-history series has something supernatural going on in the heart of France’s most tumultuous period.Read more...
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Microsoft’s Underwater Data Center Rises From the Seafloor a Grimy Success
Microsoft's Underwater Data Center Rises From the Seafloor a Grimy Success
Microsoft’s underwater Northern Isles data center has risen again from the ocean depth, the company announced on Monday, and it is remarkably intact other than being covered in sea scum.Read more...
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Werner Herzog Will Produce and Lend His Trademark Narration to a New Doc on Space Colonization
Werner Herzog Will Produce and Lend His Trademark Narration to a New Doc on Space Colonization
We already know that Werner Herzog enjoys documentaries on adventurous and unusual topics—he’s directed several of them, including Grizzly Man and Into the Inferno. His newest project in that realm is a family affair (his son, Rudolph, will direct) that thematically ties into his other recent works focused on outer…Read more...
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The New A7C Is Sony’s Smallest and Lightest Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera Yet
The New A7C Is Sony's Smallest and Lightest Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera Yet
Sony launched the A7SIII earlier this summer, but the company’s camera division has more in store this year. Today Sony announced its smallest and most compact full-frame mirrorless camera yet: the Alpha 7C.Read more...
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Facebook Routinely ‘Ignored’ Efforts to Manipulate Elections Across the Globe: Whistleblower
Facebook Routinely 'Ignored' Efforts to Manipulate Elections Across the Globe: Whistleblower
Facebook has royally screwed up its response to political misinformation, conspiracy theories, and organized manipulation campaigns in the U.S.—where it’s based. Outside the West, the company has long been a sort of absentee landlord that ignores the spread of propaganda, state-backed armies of trolls, and incitement…Read more...
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What’s the Best Ergonomic Mouse?
What's the Best Ergonomic Mouse?
Between a dwindling list of distractions to keep me busy in the outside world and my work days ending hours before anyone else I know, I spend roughly two-thirds of most days with a mouse in my hand. Whether I’m toiling away here on The Inventory or putting Superman to shame in Spellbreak, it’s by far my most used…Read more...
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Your Weather App Is Selling You Out
Your Weather App Is Selling You Out
While I think we can all agree that every app on our phone is probably an invasive little shit, I’d argue that weather apps deserve their own little corner in hell. We’ve seen weather apps sign folks up for services without their say-so, sneakily get location data from users who deliberately turned that function off,…Read more...
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Get Huge Employee Savings on Dell and Alienware Laptops and Desktops Right Now
Get Huge Employee Savings on Dell and Alienware Laptops and Desktops Right Now
Featured Deal: Dell Inspiron 15 5000 | $539 (use code SAVE17)Read more...
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Marvel’s Avengers Works Best Putting the Spotlight on Its Unlikeliest Stars
Marvel's Avengers Works Best Putting the Spotlight on Its Unlikeliest Stars
The story of Crystal Dynamics and Square-Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers caught many off-guard heading into the grindy, loot-driven brawler, expecting a perfunctory tutorial to the game’s all-encompassing live-service mechanics. Instead, we got maybe one of the most sincerely intimate Avengers stories in years, and it works…Read more...
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