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America’s First Composting Funeral Home Is Finally Open

Death is inevitable. But Seattle-based company Recompose is giving people a new way to exit this mortal coil: Having their remains laid in a tube of mulch and soil and letting bacteria turn them into compost in a month’s time. After having opened their doors earlier this winter, Recompose is now fully getting to work…

Earther Ed Cara

Signal Blocked by Iran as Encrypted Messaging App’s Popularity Explodes

With great popularity comes great scrutiny. Following WhatsApp’s controversial announcement of changes to its privacy policy, users have flocked to the encrypted messaging app Signal. The app has maintained a relatively small userbase for years, but in the last month, it has reportedly doubled in size. And now it’s attracted the attention of government regulators…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones

Garmin’s Tiny Lily Smartwatch Doesn’t Need All This Pandering Women-Centric Branding to Be Good

Often, when I show off a new smartwatch I’m testing to my gal pals, they inevitably crinkle their noses. “It’s…so big. And ugly,” they say. “I’d never wear something like that.” It’s something I’ve harped about in many a smartwatch review, a plea from the small-wristed among us for a wearable that doesn’t leave us…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Enjoy These Tiny Peeks at The Suicide Squad, Space Jam 2, and Actual Mortal Kombat Footage

HBO Max has just served up a tasty video assortment platter of new looks at the Warner Bros. movies that will be debuting this year on the streaming service, and you’ll want to have a taste. Besides amuse-bouches from The Suicide Squad and Space Jam sequels, it contains some rather succulent footage from the Mortal…

Movies Rob Bricken

The World Has Lost 70% of Its Sharks in 50 Years

Sharks are doing really badly, according to a new report. The study, put together by the Global Shark Trends Project and published in Nature on Wednesday, found that the number of sharks and rays in the world’s oceans has fallen by more than 70% since 1970. The main reason for this rapid decline, the authors…

Conservation Dharna Noor

Genre Movies to Chase Those Cobra Kai Highs

Science fiction is about the unbelievable. The impossible. Things most people wouldn’t equate with a show about aging karate champions and their students. And yet, that Cobra Kai not only exists, but is so freaking good, is unbelievable. It is impossible. And that, along with the mountains of nostalgia the show provides, have made us…

Movies Germain Lussier

Celebrate Valentine’s Day With Dried Meat Hearts and Neon Pink Cheese Slime

The first capitalism-boosting holiday of the year is almost upon us but due to the ongoing pandemic, an intimate meal in a quiet bistro isn’t an option for Valentine’s Day 2021. There are alternatives, thankfully, but why waste your money on roses when beef jerky conversation hearts and neon pink mac and cheese do much…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

I Love The New Bose Frames Even If I Look Like an Absolute Jabroni

I liked the original Bose Frames. They were stylish sunglasses that featured audio-based augmented reality, which actually seemed like a clever workaround for the technological challenges of smart glasses. But alas, Bose AR wasn’t meant to be. Last summer, the company shuttered that division and as a result, Bose Frames went from being audio AR…

Headphones Victoria Song

Godzilla vs. Kong Merchandise Reveals Kong’s Big New Weapon

Luke Evans has boarded another live-action Disney remake. Tika Sumpter has an update on the Sonic the Hedgehog sequel. Robert Rodriguez is rebooting Spy Kids. Plus, the new Willow adds a familiar Spider-Man face, and filming begins on Thor: Love & Thunder. Spoilers, away! Pinocchio Deadline reports Luke Evans has joined the cast of Disney’s…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The Fujifilm GFX 100S Is the Company’s Most Compact Large Format Camera Yet

Today at Fujifilm’s global X Summit, the company announced two new cameras including the new GFX 100S, which is the company’s most compact large format camera yet. Weighing in at 1.9 pounds, the GFX 100S is closer in size to a traditional DSLR than its bigger sibling, the standard GFX 100. However, despite having a…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

TiVo Finds People Don’t Mind Ads

If the folks who are responsible for beaming content to your eyeballs are to be believed, streamers are thirsty for more ads of all things. A survey of 4,526 adults in the U.S. and Canada published by TiVo today claims that a whopping 79% of the survey’s respondents reported wanting to use a free and…

Internet Catie Keck

Newark Residents Win Drinking Water Protections in New Settlement

Newark, New Jersey has reached a settlement with environmental justice advocates who sued the city over its pipes leaching lead into residents’ water supply. On Tuesday morning, the city of Newark signed off on the proposed agreement, as did the two advocacy groups—Newark Education Workers Caucus and the Natural Resources Defense Council—who brought the citizen…

Earther Dharna Noor

I Miss My Walkman and My Secret Cassette Collection

In the summer of 1997, the only reason I survived a family road trip through western Canada was my trusty Walkman. It wasn’t my dad’s Walkman, which was adult, boring, and gray. While I can’t quite find it on Google, mine was teal with hot pink accents—sort of like this Sanyo MGR78 though not quite.…

Gadgets Victoria Song

China Deploys Anal Swabs for Covid-19 Testing, Says It’s More Accurate

Health authorities in China have deployed anal swab tests to detect covid-19 in the lead up to the Lunar New Year celebrations, according to the Chinese state media outlet the Global Times, a technique that some claim might be more accurate than traditional nasal swabs, throat swabs, and antibody tests. But not everyone is convinced…

Tech News Matt Novak

Update Your iPhone and iPad Right Now

Do you have an iPhone or iPad? You should update your device right now to iOS 14.4. No, not later today or after lunch or whatever. Update now. Why is it so crucial to update your iOS software as soon as possible? As TechCrunch first reported, Apple is reporting three security vulnerabilities that “may have…

Tech News Matt Novak

It Is a Good Day to Be a Babylon 5-Loving HBO Max Subscriber

Hey, you know that sweet remastered edition of the beloved ’90s sci-fi series Babylon 5 that came to Amazon and iTunes a few months ago? Well, the spruced-up titular space station has now docked over at HBO Max, too, meaning all 110 episodes of J. Michael Straczynski’s space opera-cum-political drama are finally available to stream without…

io9 Rob Bricken

Firefox 85 Ditches Flash and Boosts Privacy Protections

Do you hear that? It’s the last dying breaths of Adobe Flash, which might finally be rendered obsolete by Mozilla’s release of Firefox 85 on Tuesday. Up until now, Firefox had been the last of the old guard to support Flash. Apple first dissed the software in 2010 by banning it from iPhones and then…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Giant City Briefly Escapes Destruction as Godzilla Vs. Kong Gets Delayed a Week

Good news, residents of the giant unnamed neon metropolis seen in the Godzilla Vs. Kong trailer. You have one extra week to evacuate your citizens, make sure all your insurance is up to date, and get your affairs in order, because the titanic tussle is now taking place on March 31. Why would Warner Bros., after…

Movies Rob Bricken

NYC Garbage Canal Reclaims Its Essence

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that one of the garbage barges helping clear the federal Superfund site in Brooklyn’s infamous Gowanus Canal of toxic waste has itself sunk. The first stage of the dredging effort—which began late last year at an expected cost of $125 million to dozens of polluters and will take…

Earther Tom McKay

The Queen of Black Magic Pays Gruesomely Loving Homage to Its Namesake Classic

It’d be hard to top any movie in which a freshly decapitated head flies through the air hellbent on biting its nearest enemy, but the right filmmaking energy can certainly do something like that justice. Indonesian horror The Queen of Black Magic, a homage to the 1981 cult classic of the same name, does its…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

America’s First Composting Funeral Home Is Finally Open

Signal Blocked by Iran as Encrypted Messaging App’s Popularity Explodes

Garmin’s Tiny Lily Smartwatch Doesn’t Need All This Pandering Women-Centric Branding to Be Good

Enjoy These Tiny Peeks at The Suicide Squad, Space Jam 2, and Actual Mortal Kombat Footage

The World Has Lost 70% of Its Sharks in 50 Years

Genre Movies to Chase Those Cobra Kai Highs

Celebrate Valentine’s Day With Dried Meat Hearts and Neon Pink Cheese Slime

I Love The New Bose Frames Even If I Look Like an Absolute Jabroni

Godzilla vs. Kong Merchandise Reveals Kong’s Big New Weapon

The Fujifilm GFX 100S Is the Company’s Most Compact Large Format Camera Yet

TiVo Finds People Don’t Mind Ads

Newark Residents Win Drinking Water Protections in New Settlement

I Miss My Walkman and My Secret Cassette Collection

China Deploys Anal Swabs for Covid-19 Testing, Says It’s More Accurate

Update Your iPhone and iPad Right Now

It Is a Good Day to Be a Babylon 5-Loving HBO Max Subscriber

Firefox 85 Ditches Flash and Boosts Privacy Protections

Giant City Briefly Escapes Destruction as Godzilla Vs. Kong Gets Delayed a Week

NYC Garbage Canal Reclaims Its Essence

The Queen of Black Magic Pays Gruesomely Loving Homage to Its Namesake Classic

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