Sunday's Best Deals: Party Games, Projectors, Red Dead Redemption, and More
Portable projectors, party games, and a unique monitor arm lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.
Coal Ash Could Be Spilling Into North Carolina's Drinking Water
Fears about toxic pollution in the wake of Florence’s floodwaters are already being realized. On Friday, Duke Energy confirmed a possible coal ash spill next door to the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. That river serves as a source of drinking water for residents living downstream in Wilmington.
Take Your Pick of Discounted Anker Projectors, Starting at $110
Anker’s entered the projector space in a big way this year, and today’s Amazon Gold Box has two of the best deals we’ve ever seen on its entry level products.
Apple's Upcoming Streaming Service Is Reportedly So Bland Staff Are Calling It 'Expensive NBC'
Apple’s new streaming service reportedly has a $1 billion budget, but apparently it can’t buy some nerve. The company has long censored its walled-garden offerings on platforms like the App Store, and per a report in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, Apple is still aiming to keep its content offerings squeaky…
Freddy Krueger's Visiting for Halloween, But Not The Way You Might Expect
And it’s all thanks to the classic tradition of the sitcom Halloween episode.
These Steven Universe/A Softer World Mashups Are Perfect
Just the right mixture of sentiment and melancholy.
World Health Organization Study Finds Alcohol Responsible for Five Percent of Deaths Worldwide
Alcohol is responsible for over one in 20 of all deaths worldwide, according to the most recent edition of a World Health Organization (WHO) report that comes out every four years.
Christine Blasey Ford Says Kavanaugh Ally Viewed Her LinkedIn Page Before Her Name Was Public
Ed Whelan, an ally of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who floated, then retracted, a conspiracy theory on Twitter accusing another man of sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford, allegedly viewed Ford’s LinkedIn profile before her name was made public, Ford says.
You Might Be the Killer Turns a Twitter Conversation Into a Meta Horror Film
When authors Sam Sykes (The Mortal Tally, An Affinity for Steel) and Chuck Wendig (Star Wars: Aftermath, Blackbirds) had a detailed Twitter conversation deconstructing the horror genre last year, who could’ve guessed we’d see that conversation brought to the big screen?
Report: Trump May Order Antitrust Probe of Tech Companies Over BS Claims of Bias
For months, our Twitter-addicted and conspiracy-addled president has become increasingly convinced that just like the media, Silicon Valley tech companies he barely understands are out to get him. Claims that the largely West Coast-based tech world is secretly undermining the conservative movement have long been a…
The Unthinkable Is a Weird Movie Whose Ambition Wildly Outweighs Its Quality
“Unthinkable” is, conveniently, the perfect way to describe The Unthinkable, a brash, bold, film directed by a five-man Swedish film collective called Crazy Pictures. It’s a movie that’s wildly, comically unpredictable in ways that are both very good and very bad.
Do 'Stoned' Lobsters Really Feel Less Pain When Cooked Alive?
A seafood restaurant in Maine claims to have a more compassionate method when serving up its lobsters: get them stoned first. Charlotte’s Legendary Lobsters Pound now offers patrons the option of having their tasty crustaceans “sedated” with weed before being steamed to death. According to owner Charlotte Gill, Roscoe…
Do You Answer the Phone?
I’m not talking about when your mom calls. If your mom calls, you should answer the phone, and actually, you should just probably call your mom more often so she doesn’t have to call you. (HI MOM!) What I want to know is what you do when a number you don’t know calls. Do you answer the phone?
Star Wars: A New Hope, But as a Classic '80s Anime
A Hanime, if you will.
Sign Up For Butcher Box, and Get Two Pounds of Ground Beef In Every Box, Forever [Exclusive]
Free ground beef. Forever. Do I have your attention?
These Are the Five Best No-Annual-Fee Credit Cards, According to You
Everyone made their points clear in this week’s Co-Op, but once everything settled, these were our readers’ favorite no-annual fee cards. Check out what everyone had to say, then don’t forget to vote at the end of the post.
Dirty Contacts and Bad Hygiene Are Helping Spread an Amoeba That Can Blind You
People who wear contact lenses are often warned to properly clean their reusable contacts. A new study published Friday provides a sober reminder of why those warnings exist. Since 2011, it found, an outbreak of a rare infection that can cause blindness has been spreading among contact lens wearers in England, often…
Twitter Bug That 'May Have' Exposed Direct Messages Probably Didn't Expose Anything
Some Twitter users received an alert on Friday warning that a bug “may have” allowed their direct messages and protected tweets to be viewed by developers who weren’t authorized to see them. But the conditions needed for that to happen seem so far-fetched, it’s unlikely any users at all were actually affected.Â
ACLU, NAACP, and Dozens of Other Groups Call Out Tech Giants Over Forced Arbitration
Dozens of groups, including the ACLU, NAACP, and the Economic Policy Institute, wrote letters to some of America’s largest tech companies on Friday, demanding that they free their employees from forced arbitration. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Uber were among the companies whose CEOs received the…
