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Hopefully your week has been better than leading New York politicians, like NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo—both of whom are still dealing with the disastrous fallout from the failed deal to subsidize a new Amazon facility in Queens’s Long Island City neighborhood. (Adding insult to injury: de Blasio, who has been widely reported to be eyeing a presidential bid, allegedly spent part of the weekend snowed in at an Iowa motel.) Meanwhile, the deal’s proponents have spent much of the last week launching heated attacks on the politicians who brought it down.
Sounds messy! But plenty else has happened on the tech front, including Gizmodo’s blockbuster report on fraudulent comments filed to the Federal Communications Commission’s electronic system amid the agency’s successful effort to repeal Barack Obama-era net neutrality rules. We’ve also written on how studies of ancient lava are complicating the science behind the extinction of the dinosaurs, how the great white shark’s DNA explains its daunting resilience, why the next president could declare a national emergency over climate change, one of the early internet’s biggest conspiracy theories, and what exactly lies at the end of the universe.
(A giant chain-link fence? The eye of God? The least accessible McDonald’s in existence? Or just more dang universe? You’ll have to read to find out.)
Beyond that, you can rifle through our Mobile World Congress 2019 coverage. Get started here:
How an Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Snared a Prominent D.C. Media Firm
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New Studies of Ancient Lava Add Mystery to the Dinosaur Extinction Story
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World's Biggest Bee, Once Thought Extinct, Has Been Found Alive
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Newly Decoded Great White Shark Genome Hints at Why They're So Indestructible
The great white shark is impressively terrifying (though not actually much of a threat to humans).…
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How the Next President Could Declare a National Emergency Over Climate Change
On Friday, President Trump tossed precedent out the window and declared a national emergency to pay …
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Why So Many People Choose to Live Near Active Volcanoes
If you’re watching newsreel footage of an eruption, and don’t live near a volcano yourself, you may …
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6 Sci-Fi Movie Remakes That Actually Don't Suck
Sci-fi movie remakes are a genre constant. Good sci-fi remakes, however, are surprisingly difficult …
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Is More Rewarding as a Third Chapter Than a Standalone…
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World doesn’t quite fit with the previous two movies. Oh sure, …
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Tokusatsu GaGaGa Is a Heartwarming Meditation on Trying Not to Hide Your Geeky Self
If you’re reading io9, I’m going to make a bit of an assumption: You’re probably a big fan of some…
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One of Anime’s Biggest Voices Accused of Sexual Harassment
Last summer, voice actor Vic Mignogna went into a booth with a few others to record audio for a…
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Ong's Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
On a sunny morning in early 2000, Joseph Matheny woke up to find conspiracy theorists camped out on …
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What's at the Edge of the Universe?
It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not…
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How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure…
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The Galaxy S10 Is the Aggressively Tech-Loaded Phone Samsung Needs
The Samsung Galaxy S9 was undoubtedly a great phone, but thanks to its iterative design and…
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This Apple Rumor That Refuses to Die Is a Very Good Idea
This morning Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported that sources tell him Apple is planning to create a…
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