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How This Ancient, Defleshed Human Skull Ended Up in Such a Strange Spot

Archaeologists may have finally figured out how a 5,300-year-old skull ended up on the ledge of a deep vertical cave shaft in northern Italy. The skull, with no jaw, was discovered in 2015 during exploratory work at a natural gypsum cave in northern Italy. It was found near the top of a vertical shaft, approximately…

Human History George Dvorsky

Your WandaVision Finale Theories May Disappoint You, Says Director

After a brief moment of hype-driven confusion as to how many episodes WandaVision’s debut season would ultimately clock in at, the series is coming to a close this week with a ninth chapter that’s likely to answer just as many questions as it leaves standing about the life of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). While WandaVision’s…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Pirate Captain Faces the Gallows in This Thrilling Excerpt From Crossbones

If you’re a sucker for pirate stories—which we are—you’re going to want to check out Crossbones, an upcoming fantasy from Kimberly Vale that follows an array of seafaring characters as they battle for the island throne. Today, io9 has a peek at the cover, as well as a nail-biter of a first chapter. Yo ho…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

A Chinese Province Could Ban Bitcoin Mining to Cut Down Energy Use

Over the past decade, bitcoin has put increasing stress on the largely coal-powered grid of China’s Inner Mongolia. Now, the province is clamping down. Late last week, province officials announced plans to ban all new bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining ventures and quickly phase out existing activity in order to reduce electricity consumption. Cryptocurrency is…

Earther Dharna Noor

Big Oil’s New Slate of Desperate Buzzwords Are Greenwashing at Its Worst

The past year has been not great for oil companies. Between financial losses from the pandemic and increasing pressure from investors and the public at large to do something about how their product is messing up the planet, fossil fuel producers are feeling the heat. Big Oil’s new act appears to be convincing the public…

Earther Molly Taft

Chaos Walking Has Too Much Walking, Too Little Chaos

Actually, let me take that back slightly—there is quite a lot of chaos in Chaos Walking, but only in the sense that attempting to navigate a coherent arc through its jumbled, disjointed scenes is a frustratingly messy ask of its audience. Despite its big names, Chaos Walking’s languid energy is certainly not worth navigating. In…

Movies James Whitbrook

Parler Drops One Lawsuit Against Amazon, and Files Another

Alleged domestic terrorist haven/free speech network Parler has bowed out of its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. For a blessed moment it seemed we might get a break from conservative bitching and moaning about unfairness. No such luck. In January, following the storming of the capitol, major tech companies rushed to cut ties with the short-lived…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

AMD’s RX 6700 XT Is Here, and There’s Even More Good News for Radeon Owners

Today, AMD officially revealed the newest member of its Radeon 6000-series family: the RX 6700 XT. Situated just below the RX 6800, AMD said this is an ideal graphics card for anyone with a high refresh rate, 1440p monitor who wants to play games on max settings. And yes, Smart Access Memory is enabled, too,…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

It Looks Like Apple’s Find My App Will Soon Let You Track More Than Just Apple Devices

Apple’s Find My app has long been a handy way of keeping track of your iPhone, MacBook, and other Apple devices, but in the most recent iOS 1.5 beta, Apple looks to be expanding item-tracking to a wider range of non-Apple products. First spotted by MacRumors, in the third beta for iOS 14.5, Apple has…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Apple TV+’s Calls Sounds Like Twilight Zone on the Phone

Calls is an upcoming Apple TV+ series that is almost exclusively audio recordings of people making phone calls, and when you first watch—listen, really—this trailer is going to seem like the dumbest idea possible. Then, as you keep going, the hook becomes very clear—it’s what you can’t see that’s most frightening, and in Calls, you…

Trailers Rob Bricken

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X-Rays Help Scientists Read ‘Letterlocked’ Renaissance Mail

In July 1697, Jacques Sennacques of Lille, France, scribbled off a missive to his merchant cousin, Pierre le Pers, in The Hague. The subject of discussion was a death certificate for their relative, a topic which the cousins had discussed previously but le Pers had neglected to follow up on. The letter was the Renaissance…

Culture Isaac Schultz

Humans Have Completely Transformed How Water Is Stored on Earth

Human fingerprints are all over the world’s freshwater. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature shows that while human-controlled freshwater sources make up a minimal portion of the world’s ponds, lakes, and rivers, they are responsible more than half of all changes to the Earth’s water system. The study used new satellite laser…

Earther Molly Taft

On Superman & Lois, No One’s as Special as They Thought They Were

Superman & Lois’ debut last week was all about bringing the CW’s own Man of Steel back down to earth a little bit, with familial struggles that he couldn’t solve with a punch or an eye beam blast. But when certain revelations about his family life brought the Kent-Lane team back to Smallville, the show…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Polaroid Made a Pen That Lets You Draw Pieces of Candy

There are 3D-printing pens that let prolific doodlers turn their drawings into three-dimensional sculptures, but all users are really left with is a piece of art. Polaroid’s taking 3D-printing pens one step further by replacing extruded plastic with melted candy so that when your masterpiece is complete, you can eat it. The Polaroid CandyPlay 3D…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

We’ve Been Promised These Futuristic Space Hotels for 60 Years

Will people actually be staying in space hotels by 2027? That’s the promise of Orbital Assembly and Voyager Station, space startups that got a lot of headlines this week. But there are plenty of skeptics that space hotels could become a reality for Americans who are still waiting on universal healthcare. The people behind Orbital…

Culture Matt Novak

New Thor: Love and Thunder Set Pictures Reveal Some Big Cameos

The Little Mermaid remake continues to grow its cast. Hugh Grant will menace the Dungeons & Dragons movie. Sanrio’s Hello Kitty movie finds a director. Plus, what’s to come on Superman & Lois and The Flash, and new Godzilla vs. Kong pictures. Spoilers get! Dungeons & Dragons Hugh Grant has been cast as the currently…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Brave Is Launching a Privacy-First Search Engine to Take On Google

Just a few months after rolling out what can probably be called the first privacy-preserving news reader, the folks at Brave are taking a stab at creating their own search engine to complement their namesake browser. Brave Search, which the company announced on Wednesday, is poised to become the “privacy-preserving alternative” to, say, Google search,…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

There’s Finally a Good Color E Ink Tablet for Comic Books

The second generation color e-reader from PocketBook featuring an improved and larger color E Ink screen.

Tablets Andrew Liszewski

12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in Google Chrome

Even if you’ve been using Google Chrome since it first rolled out back in 2008, the browser is capable of some tricks you may have not discovered yet. Google adds new features on a regular basis, while older features get lost and forgotten about if you’re not using them every day. Here are 12 things…

Gadgets David Nield

Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting Our Email Product to Steal Data

In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange, in order to target American companies for data theft. In several recently published blog posts, the company listed four newly…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

How This Ancient, Defleshed Human Skull Ended Up in Such a Strange Spot

Your WandaVision Finale Theories May Disappoint You, Says Director

A Pirate Captain Faces the Gallows in This Thrilling Excerpt From Crossbones

A Chinese Province Could Ban Bitcoin Mining to Cut Down Energy Use

Big Oil’s New Slate of Desperate Buzzwords Are Greenwashing at Its Worst

Chaos Walking Has Too Much Walking, Too Little Chaos

Parler Drops One Lawsuit Against Amazon, and Files Another

AMD’s RX 6700 XT Is Here, and There’s Even More Good News for Radeon Owners

It Looks Like Apple’s Find My App Will Soon Let You Track More Than Just Apple Devices

Apple TV+’s Calls Sounds Like Twilight Zone on the Phone

X-Rays Help Scientists Read ‘Letterlocked’ Renaissance Mail

Humans Have Completely Transformed How Water Is Stored on Earth

On Superman & Lois, No One’s as Special as They Thought They Were

Polaroid Made a Pen That Lets You Draw Pieces of Candy

We’ve Been Promised These Futuristic Space Hotels for 60 Years

New Thor: Love and Thunder Set Pictures Reveal Some Big Cameos

Brave Is Launching a Privacy-First Search Engine to Take On Google

There’s Finally a Good Color E Ink Tablet for Comic Books

12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in Google Chrome

Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting Our Email Product to Steal Data

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