Who doesn’t love a good Google blob? From 2013-2017, these doughy emoji served a special role in the digital…

As far as we can tell, the 2010s were nothing close to what most of us expected. Instead of flying cars, we got half-…

Scientific warnings about the risks of unchecked global warming have reached a crescendo in the past couple of…

The 2010s will be remembered as the decade when we could no longer deny climate change.

Over the past ten years, smartwatches have gone from futuristic tech relegated to sci-fi flicks to something so…

Dangerous, toxic chemicals are everywhere: in your furniture, on your walls, and even on your dinner plate. These…

In the grand scheme of things, ten years is nothing; an insignificant slice of our planet’s long timeline. But when…

In the last twenty years, fandom and mass culture have basically merged. Fans and fandom spent the 2000s fighting…

The brain-splitting moment happened about a week ago. A video (watermarked with the logo of a camera from Ring, an…

For every major leap in technology, there have been plenty of face plants, ill-advised cash grabs, and just plan bad…

Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island tortoises, died in 2012. George’s story is the perfect extinction…

The decade of the 2010s saw the rise of social media and the proliferation of digital tools that allow people to…

The control Disney has on pop culture right now is so enormous it’s kind of terrifying. Marvel’s superhero movies…

For better or worse, no gadget exemplifies the 2010s more than the smartphone. Smartphones helped propel the…

This decade we saw the smartphone move from overpriced gadget to something more necessary than a laptop or desktop.…

Spoiler alert: We all love spoilers. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we all want them, of course—there are as…

It was nearly a decade ago, when a pretty blue gadget arrived in my mailbox and fundamentally changed my…

Horror movies have long mined their frights from real-life fears, tucking social commentary into fantastical tales…

At the start of this decade, the federal government called out consumer DNA testing as a burgeoning scam industry.…

Over the past decade, one genre of popular film has risen to prominence like a bird, plane, and Superman all rolled…