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The 10 Best Deals of June 18, 2018
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Was Born Out of Several Moral and Ethical Dilemmas
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom centers on questions of animal rights, genetic power, war mongering, responsibility, and more. So, if you’re in the universe of Jurassic Park and want to talk about things like that, really there’s only one person you call: Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum. And that’s exactly…
Scientists Propose a New Kind of Matter Inside the Densest Stars
You might have a pretty rigid understanding of the way stuff should look, at the most basic level. It should have a nucleus that is orbited by electrons. The nucleus should have protons and neutrons, inside each of which reside three quarks.
Trump Promises to Create Military Space Force
Earlier today, President Donald Trump said he’ll be directing the Pentagon to create the US Space Force, which would become the sixth independent branch of the US military. The move is meant to help the US keep pace with its rivals, but experts question the need for an entirely new military wing.
The Supreme Court Case That Could Tear Down Apple's Walled Garden
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider an appeal in a long-delayed case that revolves around whether Apple’s App Store policies constitute a monopolistic practice that violates antitrust laws.
Android Messages Is Getting Some of the Best Features From Google’s Abandoned Chat App
A couple months ago, Google announced that it would be suspending development of yet another messaging app to focus on Android Messages and to help carriers adopt Chat, a new messaging protocol based on RCS that should make texting a whole lot better.
The World's Greatest Board Game Is Available For Way Less Than Its Reseller Going Rate, With Prime Shipping
Try not to freak out, but this post is about a $133 board game. That sounds like a lot of money. It is a lot of money. But Gloomhaven is Board Game Geek’s #1 board game ever, and is “astoundingly good” according to Ars Technica. The problem is that it’s hardly ever in stock at major retailers, and eBay resellers…
Warner Bros. Is Starting to Crack Down on Harry Potter Fan Events
Without much in the way of officially-sanctioned Harry Potter conventions, fans of the wizarding world have spent years running their own cons celebrating J.K. Rowling’s beloved book and film series—but that’s starting to change, thanks to a new crackdown being enforced by Warner Bros.
An Amazon Shipping Box Turned Into a Knife Will Give You the Worst Paper Cut Imaginable
How many times have you accidentally given yourself a papercut after excitedly tearing open a delivery from Amazon? As Japan’s most resourceful knife maker demonstrates, those papercuts could be a lot worse if you spend hours painstakingly turning those cardboard boxes into a razor-sharp chef’s knife.
The World's Largest Sand Desert Is Covered in Lakes After Tropical Cyclone Mekunu
When Tropical Cyclone Mekunu rumbled over Oman in May, it dumped torrential rainfall on the city of Salalah. Now, a new satellite image reveals the extent of unloaded rainfall in the nearby desert of Rub’ al-Khali, the world’s largest sand desert and (normally) one of the driest places on Earth.
Smartphones and Tablets Might Be Hurting Kids' Hearing, but No One Knows for Sure
Most of us know that spending too much time at loud rock concerts can be bad for our hearing later on. But a new study published Thursday in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery suggests that kids as young as nine can be at risk of hearing loss from an unexpected source: their smartphones and tablets.
Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract With ICE
Tensions are high within Microsoft, as new scrutiny is given to a partnership between the company’s Azure Government cloud computing arm and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to several Microsoft employees who spoke to Gizmodo on the condition of anonymity. Two were considering leaving the…
Researchers Develop Tech That Lets Surveillance Cameras Text to Say Hello
Researchers at Purdue University have found a new way to get surveillance cameras to “talk” to the people they see. The system is called PHADE, which stands for “private human addressing,” and it enables cameras to send messages to people’s devices when they’ve entered a specific area without collecting their personal…
Amazon's Trimming the Price Of Our Readers' Favorite Paring Knife
Everyone should own a paring knife, and Wüsthof makes our readers’ favorite (in addition to an amazing chef’s knife). It rarely deviates from its typical $40 price, but Amazon has it for $35 today, the best price since January. Just mind your fingers as you go through the checkout process.
How to Create Your Own Custom Alexa Skills
Your Amazon Echo device is already pretty customizable in terms of what skills you add to it. What you may not realize is if you don’t find a skill out there that’s quite what you’re looking for, you can actually make your own using Alexa’s Skill Blueprints.
Nvidia Is Using AI to Perfectly Fake Slo-Mo Videos
One of the hardest video effects to fake is slow motion. It requires software to stretch out a clip by creating hundreds of non-existent in-between frames, and the results are often stuttered and unconvincing. But taking advantage of the incredible image-processing potential of deep learning, Nvidia has come up with a…
This Video Made From Real Mars Data Will Make You Feel Like You're Flying Over the Red Planet
There are lots of incredible things you can do with data. Like make this incredible animation of the Martian surface, for example.
Amazon Shareholders Call for Jeff Bezos to Stop Selling Facial Recognition to Police
On Friday, 20 groups of Amazon shareholders sent CEO Jeff Bezos a letter pressuring him to stop selling the company’s face recognition software to law enforcement, CNN reports. Called Rekognition, the software came under greater scrutiny last month when the ACLU published revealing internal documents related to its…
One of macOS’ Most Useful Features May Be Making Your Files Less Secure
A bug in macOS’ Quick Look feature has seemingly been known to forensic experts for the better part of a decade, but security researcher Wojciech Regula shed new light on how the vulnerability actually works in a report published earlier this month.
