January 28, 2022 The Week’s Best Toys Are Animated, Stuffed, and Ready to Terminate Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the latest and coolest toy news on the internet. This week, Hasbro goes ‘90s…
January 28, 2022 The FBI Reportedly Considered Buying Spyware That Could Hack Any Phone in the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Investigation spent two years considering whether it should procure a clandestine commercial spyware tool that could reportedly hack any phone…
January 28, 2022 Researchers Develop COVID Test That Uses a Smartphone to Gets Results on the Cheap If you’re also someone who’s waited in line for hours to get a COVID test—or faced similar frustrations trying to buy them at your…
January 28, 2022 Neil Young was fed up with Spotify’s ‘shitty’ sound quality anyway Neil Young’s frustrations with Spotify go far beyond COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. A day after his music was removed from the platform, he said he…
January 28, 2022 FAA gives green light to more 5G towers around airports The Federal Aviation Administration’s ongoing battle with Verizon and AT&T over ultra-fast 5G C-band deployment around airports is finally ending: On Friday, the FAA…
January 28, 2022 Big Tech Will Soon Have to Disclose Salaries for Jobs in NYC and It’s Freaking Out the Money Men Big businesses are throwing a tantrum in New York over a new pay transparency law requiring all employers with more than four employees to…
January 28, 2022 US lawmakers want to make sure pandemic telehealth coverage doesn’t lapse The pandemic pushed US lawmakers to provide provisions to expand medical coverage for telehealth in 2020, speeding up a process that would otherwise have…
January 28, 2022 Waymo sues to keep autonomous vehicle emergency protocols secret Waymo has sued the California Department of Motor Vehicles. In a case first reported by The Los Angeles Times, the Alphabet subsidiary filed a…
January 28, 2022 Horrific Observations Confirm That Orcas Feed on Blue Whales As apex predators, orcas can basically feed on whichever marine animal they want, but biologists weren’t entirely sure if these aquatic killers feast on…
January 28, 2022 Jedi Padawans Explore Corellia in an Exclusive Star Wars: The High Republic Excerpt When Star Wars fans think of Corellia, they think of Han Solo. They think of Qi’ra. Maybe they think of piloting the Millennium Falcon…