The week is off to a bearish start for cryptocurrency as the price of Bitcoin fell nearly $10,000 from its Friday high of nearly $42,000, temporarily ending an unprecedented rally.On Monday morning, Bitcoin was trading under $33,000—a more than 20% drop from its recent high—while some...
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While live-action productions were dealt a significant blow this year by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the animation industry was in a prime position to step up to the plate and tell some of 2020's most riveting stories. Here are the ones that transported the io9 staff to far-off worlds and...
Elizabeth Martin is betting on engineers to automate trading but not necessarily to make things faster.Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s global co-head of futures and equities electronic trading says that the ‘Flash Boys’ era of the past decade has ceded some ground to customizing trading for...
It’s been a busy year, so we’ll forgive you if you’ve forgotten about this one.On July 15th, 2020, Twitter was the target of a widespread, disruptive hacking campaign. More than 100 high-profile accounts — including those of Jeff Bezos, Uber,...
Dump the dollar, stick with stocks and corporate bonds, Morgan Stanley advises heading into 2021
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Morgan Stanley strategists said an expected “V-shaped” economic recovery, greater clarity on COVID-19 vaccines and continued policy support offer a favorable environment for stocks and credit next year.In an outlook for 2021, a team including Andrew Sheets recommended investors overweight...
You know him, you love him, but you might not always recognize him, since he’s often hidden under layers of prosthetics. However, no amount of special effects can fully conceal veteran actor Doug Jones’ charisma, helped along by his expressive hands and his graceful body language. He’s truly...
We’d watch the cast of our beloved What We Do in the Shadows read the dictionary, but fortunately the FX show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel was more lively than that—and brisk, clocking in at just over 30 minutes. One moment worth highlighting was when co-producers Stefani Robinson and Paul...
Nikon has revealed a new member of its full-frame Z mount family, the entry-level Z5. Unlike the Z6 and Z7, video is a weak point with this camera as Nikon appears to be focusing mostly on photographers. At the same time, the Z5 isn’t as stripped...
Who knew vampires could be so hilarious?Read...
Norma McCorvey, the previously unidentified woman known as ‘Jane Roe’ in the milestone Roe v. Wade case, makes a stunning confession in a new FX documentary about her life: She was paid by the evangelical Christian right to disingenuously further their anti-abortion agenda.Read...
While FX’s vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows is across-the-board delightful, we have a special affection for the show’s “energy vampire,” a character who’s both totally original and instantly recognizable. He’s also pretty terrifying—especially when he gets a sudden power...
Devs, the eight-part sci-fi miniseries from visionary director Alex Garland, has aired its final, head-spinning episode. With it, the mysterious final event surrounding a powerful prediction machine is finally revealed. But don’t expect Devs to serve up a tidy resolution to its spectacular...
What We Do in the Shadows Starts Season 2 Off With a Zombie and Some Major Blasts From the Past
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We’d be excited for the return of What We Do in the Shadows no matter what. But given the bleak state of the world, getting reacquainted with the show’s awkwardly hilarious vampire roommates felt like an especially welcome distraction. Last night’s two-episode season two premiere reminded us...
Every movie you’ve been looking forward to has been postponed; (nearly) every convention you wanted to attend has been canceled. Even some of the TV shows you’ve already been watching have gotten the bump. But a blessed few series are still on their way! Here are 10 genre shows you can still...
Depicting the blue state–red state divide about half a century early, FX on Hulu drama Mrs. America, which premieres Wednesday, shows how a conservative Illinois housewife named Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett) fought ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment championed by New York feminists...
Alex Garland's Devs is unlike anything currently on television. The Hulu/FX show starts out as an exploration of a powerful tech company that has cracked the secrets of quantum computing, but it evolves into an exploration of free will, determinism...
Iconic vampire cameos, a ruined orgy, Staten Island city council politics, and one very unlucky witch skin hat made the debut season of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows a cult hit. This past winter, io9 took a look behind the scenes of season two and talked to the...
Alex Garland’s Devs is focused around a very powerful technology company and its secretive development division. While the work being done there might be sci-fi in nature, the overarching lesson to be learned is one that is very much relevant in our world.Read...