July 2, 2021 Nothing Might Be Poised to Revive the Best Tech Trend of the ’90s: Translucent Gadgets Ever since Carl Pei left OnePlus to form Nothing, his new company has been promising a radical new approach to modern tech design and…
July 2, 2021 Loki’s Multiverse Gets a (Non-Canonical) Tease in an Incomplete Marvel Villainous Expansion Loki is just like Zoolander’s Hansel: “So hot right now.” (Fitting, since Owen Wilson is in both of them.) It feels like a perfect…
July 2, 2021 Netflix Has a Funny Idea of How Digital Assistants Should Work In the first episode of season two of Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle, ten horny singles are partying on a beach until, up from…
July 2, 2021 Resetting Your IoT Device Before Reselling It Isn’t Enough, Researchers Find As IoT devices like Amazon Echo become more and more popular, it isn’t unusual for users to re-sell them. Indeed, it’s increasingly common to…
July 2, 2021 This Filter Is Really Good at Turning Seawater Into Freshwater A team of Korean researchers have made a membrane that can turn saltwater into freshwater in minutes. The membrane rejected 99.99% of salt over…
July 2, 2021 io9 Wants Cosplayers for Our San Diego Comic-Con at Home 2021 Video Last year, we invited cosplayers to show off their best social distancing cosplay for Comic-Con@Home—and they delivered. The cosplay we saw and shared was…
July 2, 2021 People Who Hate Walled Gardens Aren’t Going to Like Where Google’s Taking the Play Store Google will start imposing a change that would clamp down on the Android apps distributed through the Play Store. This week, the company announced…
July 2, 2021 How to Lock Images in Google Photos Google just rolled out a new feature in Google Photos that will help you hide your sensitive images from prying eyes. Read more… via…
July 2, 2021 New Qualcomm CEO sees former Apple execs as key to beating M1 Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm’s new CEO, Cristiano Amon, has big plans for competing with Apple when it comes to laptop performance, thanks to the ex-Apple…
July 2, 2021 Star Wars: The Bad Batch Put Politics Back on the Menu… Barely Omega is safe, but the galaxy is still in turmoil. What’s a group of enhanced clones to do? The latest episode of Star Wars:…