Even the best home printer might not be the most glamorous piece of hardware you’re ever going to invest in, but there’s no doubt that these units are useful, letting you get hard copies of tickets, essays, agendas and many other kinds of documents without having to venture to a print shop.

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Jack Dorsey's Block Rebuffs Cash App Fraud Allegations With Data Disclosure
Block, the Jack Dorsey-owned parent company of Cash App, is contesting accusations of fraud and rampant fake accounts with a new data disclosure. In a Thursday memo to investors, the company claimed that 44 million of Cash App’s total 52 million active monthly accounts have been authenticated via its “Identity…
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Watch Live as NASA Reveals the Artemis Astronauts Who Will Fly to the Moon
NASA’s Moon plans officially kicked off in November 2022, and the party is just getting started. The Orion capsule flew to the Moon and back as part of the Artemis 1 mission, but now the spacecraft is gearing up for its second lunar trip with a crew of astronauts on board.
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The Hoverboards Are Still Exploding
The infamous two-wheeled motorized scooters colloquially known as “hoverboards” are still proving dangerous almost a decade after their peak. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of a hoverboard from Jetson Electric Bikes after two deaths were reported.
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Amazon Studios Beefs Up Its Comic Book Bona Fides With Former Marvel Editor-in-Chief
Amazon Studios has signaled its intention to be an even bigger player in the world of comic book series and films by signing Joe Quesada, former Marvel editor-in-chief, to an exclusive first-look deal.

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Apple Patents Using Its Watch, Earbuds, and Eventual Headset For Full Body Tracking
Apple’s latest patents all center around tracking your whole body. Two patents from Apple first filed in 2021 and 2022 and revealed Thursday describe various concepts for detecting a body’s every position and movement, all through existing Apple products. One of the patents mentions users wearing a “headset” along…
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Amazon Seller Consultant Pleads Guilty to Bribery Scheme to Help Merchants
An unaffiliated Amazon consultant pleaded guilty to handing out more than $100,000 in commercial bribes since 2017. Ephraim “Ed” Rosenberg was charged alongside five others for paying bribes to Amazon employees in India who in return, would provide some Amazon merchants with a heightened advantage for selling goods…
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How Did a Human End Up Infected by This Rose-Killing Fungus?
A man in India recently had the misfortune of becoming the world’s first recorded person to get sick from a fungi that normally attacks rose plants. The case seems to be a rare example of a plant pathogen crossing over into humans. Thankfully, the infection was treatable, but the incident could illustrate the growing…
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China Takes a Small Step Towards Improving Its Falling Rockets Problem
China is developing a parachute system to help control where its rocket boosters land instead of free-falling onto the ground near populated areas.

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Midjourney Shuts Down Free Trial Access Amid Deepfake Bonanza, but Says It's Unrelated
Where does the fun stop and the societal harm begin? Artificial intelligence companies behind image and text generators seem to be grappling with that question in real-time, as their products gain traction across the internet. Simultaneously, the same companies are also running up against some very standard internet…
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Star Trek: Picard Piles Chaos Upon Chaos Upon Chaos
Tensions are high this week aboard the Titan, which is to be expected as Star Trek: Picard begins hurtling toward its series finale. But there’s a lot that has to happen before we get there, including finding and hopefully rescuing Riker—and figuring out what the changelings intend to do with Picard’s original body.
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Google Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AI
Google is saying goodbye to a longtime Assistant veteran and putting its Assistant engineering vice president on Bard AI chatbot duties in a move that seems to indicate that priorities at the company are now shuffling to AI. The news comes via a leaked internal memo obtained by CNBC. The company hasn’t released a…
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Funko CEO Explains Future Mondo Strategy, and It’s Pretty Bad
Days after several core members behind the success of Mondo were fired by Funko, Funko’s CEO released a statement explaining what comes next. And it’s not great.
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Another Major DC Cameo in The Flash Has Been Revealed
When The Flash finally hits theaters in June, it’s bringing a whole lot of the DC universe with it. In the first trailer alone, it was confirmed that both Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck’s Batmen would be in it, as well as Sasha Calle’s Supergirl ands the return of Michael Shannon’s Zod. But do the cameos end there?…
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The best phone of 2023 might look very different to different people. Some of us are power users, and look for huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there’s the folks who want something simple and cheap that will…
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Last Night, the Spotify App Talked to Me for Two Hours
It was around 10 PM on a weeknight, and as usual, I was on the couch staring at my phone. I tapped open Spotify to pick a little background music for my bedtime death scroll, but this time the app had something new for me. It was a popup with a green circle on a blue background, asking if I wanted to try the new AI DJ…
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Plants Yell When They’re Stressed Out
Researchers in Israel have found that tomato and tobacco plants that are dealing with stress factors make a popping sound that can be detected over 3 feet away, a reaction that seems tantamount to a human moaning in anguish or yelling in pain.
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Facebook Users in the EU Will No Longer Have to Suffer From Targeted In-App Ads
Meta Platform Inc’s European users will no longer have to suffer from certain targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram, a change that’s expected to take effect on Wednesday. The company’s user base currently encounters advertisements based on their online behavior, things like the types of videos they watch and…
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Tron Stars Celebrate Movie at Disney World's New Lightcycle Ride
Users and programs meet on Walt Disney World’s newest coaster Tron Lightcycle Run at Magic Kingdom. To kick off the attraction’s official opening on April 4 (heh, 404), Disney Parks invited io9 to attend their All the Disney Thrills media days to get a sneak peek at the highly anticipated ride inspired by the ‘80s…
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Star Trek Release Dates: When to Expect All the New and Returning Shows
Trying to keep track of what’s coming in the realm of Star Trekfeels like trying to stop a tribble from procreating. Before even more new series are announced, here’s our guide of when to expect all the new Star Trek shows, as well as returning familiar favorites, and what else is in the works right now. Engage!

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Sorry, Jurassic Park: T. Rex Had Lips
Theropods like T. rex and Velociraptor had sheaths of scaly skin covering their long, pointy teeth, according to a team of paleontologists who recently studied the ancient predators.

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