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Netflix’s Sandman Has Cast Death and a Whole Lot More of the Dreaming

The Good Place 's Kirby Howell-Baptiste enters the Dreaming as the iconic series' take on Death.

Shell Just Got Wrecked in Dutch Court

A court in the Netherlands just handed down a landmark ruling, ordering Shell to slash its carbon pollution 45% by 2030. It’s hard to overstate how radical the ruling is and the far-ranging impacts it could have not just for the Dutch oil giant but oil companies around the world. Milieudefensie, the Dutch chapter of…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Recent Patent Filings Hint That Dyson Is Working on a Toothbrush With a Built-in Water Flosser

Dyson’s already made a name for itself with gadgets designed to clean a home, but the company has been slowly expanding into personal care devices too, and according to recent patent filings, a Dyson toothbrush might be in the works, with a design that both brushes and flosses. The Dyson brand is synonymous with vacuum…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Cruella Is Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss in Movie Form

In Cruella, you can plainly see that while some fans might not be too keen on the idea, Disney’s confident that new films meant to drastically reframe the origins of classic villains who stalk princesses and kill dogs are a key part of the future. Much like its central character, Cruella knows exactly what it…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity

I’m confident that machine intelligence will be our final undoing. Its potential to wipe out humanity is something I’ve been thinking and writing about for the better part of 20 years. I take a lot of flak for this, but the prospect of human civilization getting extinguished by its own tools is not to be…

Artificial Intelligence George Dvorsky

Hot Tub Twitch Is Popping Off Right Now

Last week, Twitch addressed a minor community revolt with an urgent memo. It is titled: “Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams.” And the streams were unleashed. The controversy began when streamers found their channels banned or demonetized after streaming “hot tub meta.” Streamers complained that Twitch was unclear about the reasons; the same territorial band…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Pour One Out for These Weird Wearables That Totally Failed

While the history of wearables is littered with countless failures, here are some that are worth remembering.

Gadgets Victoria Song

Amazon Buying MGM Studios for $9 Billion

It’s official folks—Jeff Bezos will now own James Bond (pending regulatory approval lol). After murmurs earlier this week, Amazon announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire MGM in an $8.45 billion deal that will bolster the e-commerce giant’s Hollywood ambitions. To be clear, this deal isn’t so much about Amazon competing with…

Internet Victoria Song

Illustration: Klug et al. / Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (2021)

A Shark, Eating a Squid, Eating a Lobster, in One Fossil

Over 174 million years ago, a squid-like creature was chowing down on an ancient crustacean, only to find itself scooped up as a meal by a prehistoric shark. Three creatures left their mark in time in an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil in Germany. This particular food chain required a bit of detective work. Immediately recognizable in…

Biology Jeanne Timmons

The CW Explains Why It Turned Down the Live-Action Powerpuff Girls… for Now

Blumhouse has begun production on its Firestarter remake. Get a look at the stars of The Tomorrow War. The CW is still considering a 100 prequel. Plus, get ready to say goodbye to Cisco on The Flash, and what’s coming on The Handmaid’s Tale and Superman & Lois. Spoilers, away! M3GAN Bloody-Disgusting reports Ronny Chieng…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

I Miss My Soviet Diafilm Projector

By the time I was born in 1987, the filmstrip projector was already vintage: a musty, overheating box with a brittle lightbulb glowing yellow out of the vent. For the Soviet Union public, the once widely popular tech could not compete with VHS, but I was not interested in VHS. I preferred to hole up…

Gadgets Marina Galperina

This Solid E Ink Tablet Just Can’t Beat the reMarkable’s Pen-on-Paper Experience

Kobo’s first e-note device designed to replace a pen and paper with a stylus and an electronic ink screen

Tablets Andrew Liszewski

Tesla Opens Data Center in China to Obey Cybersecurity Law for Foreign Companies

Electric car company Tesla will open a data center in Shanghai, China in order to store data collected from its customers’ cars in the country and stay on the right side of Beijing’s cybersecurity laws, according to a new report from the South China Morning Post. All data that foreign companies collect in China about…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Little Mermaid‘s Voice of Sebastian, Samuel E. Wright, Has Died

Disney animated films are known for their recognizable, unmistakable voices, but few fit that bill quite as much as Samuel E. Wright. Wright voiced Sebastian, the lovable crab in the 1989 smash The Little Mermaid, unforgettably singing the Oscar-winning song, “Under the Sea.” And while Wright’s voice will live in our hearts forever, he died…

Movies Germain Lussier

Amazon Workers Are Petitioning the Company to Bring Its Pollution to Zero By 2030

Ahead of Amazon’s planned shareholder meeting on May 26, more than 600 employees have signed a petition pressuring the company to bring its pollution levels down to zero by 2030 — particularly in the communities of color that predominantly border Amazon’s warehouses. The petition, which had garnered 640 signatures as of this writing, calls upon…

Environmental Justice Brianna Provenzano

D.C. Police Surveilled Clowns on Social Media, Leaked Docs Show

A few years ago, intelligence personnel with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. spent some unknown amount of time and money monitoring the online accounts of people dressed like clowns. A recent data breach involving the MPD has revealed a 14-page internal report titled “SOCIAL MEDIA CLOWN THREATS.” Dated October 2016, the doc shows…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Roku Is Plotting to Take Over Your Smart Home

Roku isn’t exactly a little-known brand, but when it comes to market share and platform dominance, it’s still a David amongst Goliaths like Amazon and Google. However, the streaming company has made some strategic moves lately that indicate it’s attempting a more significant play for space in your home—outside of the living room, where it’s…

Internet Florence Ion

Hoo Boy, the Feds Sure Have a Lot of Dirt on Big Rudy

Rudy Giuliani, gin-pickled simulacrum of a lawyer and former personal attorney to Donald Trump, is in even deeper shit than was previously known. And the shit he was in was already known to be very deep. Last month, federal agents raided Giuliani’s New York home and offices. For prosecutors to execute a search warrant on…

Politics Tom McKay

One Game of Thrones Spinoff May Have Just Pulled Ahead of the Others

A project that’s being called “10,000 Ships” tells the tale of “the proud princes of the river and the dragonlords of old Valyria,”

Television Germain Lussier

Black Lightning‘s Series Finale Had Absolutely Zero Chill and No Heat

Despite the fact that Black Lightning never really got a chance to fully benefit from the kind of interconnected, multiversal-hopping madcaps that the CW’s other comic book shows enjoy, it spent four seasons carving out a distinct space on the network where Black superheroes could stand front and center as the focus of their own…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Netflix’s Sandman Has Cast Death and a Whole Lot More of the Dreaming

Shell Just Got Wrecked in Dutch Court

Recent Patent Filings Hint That Dyson Is Working on a Toothbrush With a Built-in Water Flosser

Cruella Is Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss in Movie Form

How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity

Hot Tub Twitch Is Popping Off Right Now

Pour One Out for These Weird Wearables That Totally Failed

Amazon Buying MGM Studios for $9 Billion

A Shark, Eating a Squid, Eating a Lobster, in One Fossil

The CW Explains Why It Turned Down the Live-Action Powerpuff Girls… for Now

I Miss My Soviet Diafilm Projector

This Solid E Ink Tablet Just Can’t Beat the reMarkable’s Pen-on-Paper Experience

Tesla Opens Data Center in China to Obey Cybersecurity Law for Foreign Companies

The Little Mermaid‘s Voice of Sebastian, Samuel E. Wright, Has Died

Amazon Workers Are Petitioning the Company to Bring Its Pollution to Zero By 2030

D.C. Police Surveilled Clowns on Social Media, Leaked Docs Show

Roku Is Plotting to Take Over Your Smart Home

Hoo Boy, the Feds Sure Have a Lot of Dirt on Big Rudy

One Game of Thrones Spinoff May Have Just Pulled Ahead of the Others

Black Lightning‘s Series Finale Had Absolutely Zero Chill and No Heat

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