Here's Only the Third Discount We've Ever Seen On Anker's Popular Smart Scale
Update 9/24 - It’s your last day to take advantage of this deal. The black model’s code is expired, but the white scale is still marked down.
Junk Head Is a Stop-Motion Animated SciFi Action Film You Have to See
The world is ending. Humans no longer have the capacity to reproduce. For the answers, they’ll send people below the surface of the Earth, where the clones humans used and discarded thousands of years ago have taken up residence.
Mattress Startup Casper Sued a Mattress Review Site, Then Paid for Its Acquisition
Think about competition in the economy and big names come to mind, like Apple vs. Microsoft, Uber vs. Lyft, Walmart vs. Target. But in pretty much every industry, a secret war is raging, and not even your humble mattress is free of the grit and machinations of the capitalist struggle.
Flash's World Might Be a Little Smaller Than Expected in Justice League
Based on what we know so far, it sounds like the Flash, played by Ezra Miller, will be an essential component of the upcoming Justice League movie. But if recent news is any indication, the world around the Flash won’t be getting nearly as fleshed out as we thought it would.
Sunday's Best Deals: Tailgating Gear, Standing Desk, Smart Scale, and More
Tailgating essentials, TP-Link smart plugs, and Anker’s Bluetooth-connected bathroom scale lead off Sunday’s best deals.
Bill Nye Is Totally Chill About What's Happening in This Elevator
There’s making an entrance and then there’s making an entrance. Beloved science educator Bill Nye made one of the latter recently while he was just trying to get beween floors.
Adobe's Product Security Team Accidentally Posted Its Private PGP Encryption Key to Its Blog
The past few weeks have been a nightmare for data breaches, so good news: Here’s another easily preventable security problem. Adobe’s Product Security Incident Response Team accidentally posted the private PGP encryption key—necessary to decrypt encoded messages transmitted to them using their public PGP…
Rick And Morty’s worst fans don’t deserve Rick And Morty
Rick And Morty may just be the perfect sci-fi show. It is certainly, with apologies to Westworld, currently TV’s most ambitious, taking a handful of long-running conceits (the infinite-universe theory) and extrapolating a set of narrative forces from them (the Citadel Of Ricks, the Galactic Federation). It…
Reports: Latest North Korean Earthquake Was Likely Not Nuclear Test
A 3.4-magnitude earthquake rattled the area of Kilju in northeastern North Korea on Saturday morning, CBC reported, just short of four miles (six kilometers) from the Punggye-ri facility where the country has tested nuclear weapons.
Trump's Mexican Border Wall Is Now 'See-Through,' Because Sure, Whatever
President Donald Trump’s increasingly fantastical wall on the border with Mexico—which will be up to 65 feet tall, impossible to cut through, covered in solar panels and aesthetically pleasing from the US side—will now also be a “see-through wall.”
This Horror Short Shows Why You Should Never Pick Up a Call on a Disconnected Phone
Horror short Rotary, from filmmakers Patrick Young and Powell Robinson, offers a couple of jumps—and one very important reminder. Woe unto the vintage-store employee who just can’t stop herself from answering a phone that should not be ringing. Girl, no! You know that old thing is just for show!
For the Love of All That Is Holy, Stop Using Pattern Unlock
A while back, I woke up to find my Android phone lingering at a pattern unlock; not just to unlock my screen, but to decrypt all of my phone’s data. I was puzzled. Every other morning, I decrypted my device using a 10-digit, alphanumeric passphrase—something I perceived, accurately, as being infinitely more secure…
Verizon Backs Off Dickish Plan to Boot Rural Customers (Sort Of)
Last week, it came to light that Verizon was notifying around 8,500 customers in rural areas—many of them on unlimited plans—that their service would be canceled because the telecom giant wasn’t making enough money from them. Today, Verizon backed off that plan... sort of.
A Brief History of Hiding Dicks in Cartoons
Earlier this week, an episode of Netflix’s children cartoon Maya the Bee was pulled after a hidden phallus was discovered by an angry parent. Now, the studio behind the cartoon looks to be pursuing charges against the penis-drawing artist. But in truth, sneaking dicks and other sex jokes into cartoons is weirdly…
A Mutated Strain of ‘Super Malaria’ Is Spreading at an Alarming Rate
In a disturbing development, a newly-mutated strain of drug-resistant malaria has spread into Vietnam, complicating efforts to contain the the mosquito-borne virus in Southeast Asia, and potentially posing a global threat.
A Battle Over the Safety of Iowa's Corn Is Unfolding on Facebook
If you’re in Iowa, it may be time to arm up. It’s beginning to look like an all-out war is brewing online over the security of your corn.
You Can Really Screw Up Your Eyes With a Nerf Gun, Doctors Warn
Nerf wars are all in good fun...until all of the sudden they aren’t. In a new study out in the journal BMJ Case Reports, a pair of doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London are raising the alert about the danger of Nerf guns, which can seriously screw up your eyes if your friends are being stupid.
Aaron Hernandez Found To Have Had CTE
An attorney for Aaron Hernandez and his estate announced today that researchers at Boston University found signs of CTE in the brain of the deceased former NFL player.
11 Superhero Costumes That Deserve to Be Seen in Live-Action
We’re inundated with comic book movies and TV shows these days. But for a decade now, we’ve been in the age of the “practical” hero look. And that was fine in the beginning, when everyone was worried about getting regular people to take this genre seriously. But we are far past that point now, and there are some…
