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Trump Presidential Library Launches Online But Won’t Take FOIA Requests Until 2026

The U.S. National Archives officially launched the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library’s website on Wednesday, the new digital home of the worst presidency in modern U.S. history. But if you’re excited to finally file a bunch of Freedom of Information Act requests about Trump’s criminal undertakings, we have bad news. The vast majority of Trump’s…

Politics Matt Novak

Mysterious ‘Jetpack Guy’ Could Actually Be This Weird Mannequin Drone

Bizarre, ongoing sightings of what appears to be a man flying a jetpack at high altitudes have understandably baffled the public. The sightings, which started last August, have involved multiple commercial airline pilots and have all taken place at incredibly high elevations—up to 6,000 feet in the air. People naturally want to know: is it…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Jack Ma Re-Emerges From Wherever He Was for the Last Few Months

Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder and former chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has re-emerged from wherever he’s been since late October 2020, when he ceased public appearances amid a government crackdown on tech firms. Per CNN, Ma was present in a video released by Tianmu News, a subsidiary of the official state media apparatus…

Tech News Tom McKay

Screw It, Trump Is Banned From Twitch Too

Former President Donald Trump’s part in egging on the riotous mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6 has now earned him permanent bans from Twitter, Snapchat, Shopify and, most recently, Twitch. On Wednesday, the live streaming platform for gamers announced that after disabling Trump’s account for two weeks following the violent uprising, it had…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Common Back Pain Treatment Doesn’t Actually Work, Study Finds

A common treatment for chronic back pain may not provide much soothing after all. A new review released Wednesday suggests that antidepressants on average provide little to no back pain relief, though they could have a modest benefit for osteoarthritis and sciatica. Chronic pain can be an emotionally draining experience, so antidepressants are sometimes prescribed…

Health Ed Cara

An Astronaut Has an Unwelcome and Possibly Undead Visitor in the Eerie Sci-Fi Short Decommissioned

A piece of NASA’s past makes a surprising return in Decommissioned, which packs genuine sci-fi horror suspense into just six minutes. From the windows of the ISS, an astronaut notices a strange—and horrifyingly familiar—bit of space debris floating in his direction. It can’t be what he thinks it is…can it? We’ve featured Australian filmmaker Josh…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Joe Biden Is Putting the U.S. Back in the Paris Agreement. Here’s What Comes Next.

On his first day in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed an array of executive orders to overturn several of the Trump administration’s most egregious environmental rollbacks. The third one he signed set the U.S. on course to rejoin the Paris Agreement. To rejoin the agreement, Biden’s administration will send a letter to the…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Open Channel: Celebrate David Lynch’s Birthday With Some of His Best Works

Today is a very important day in this history of our world: David Lynch, surrealist icon, turns 75. There are few filmmakers with a career as deep and varied as Lynch’s body of work, from Eraserhead to Twin Peaks, all the way up to the return of his incredibly chill weather reports last year. But…

io9 James Whitbrook

Here’s How QAnon Reacted as They Realized ‘The Storm’ Isn’t Happening

QAnon is not going away. But it’s reeling in abject confusion and despair after Joe Biden took office on Wednesday without Donald Trump leading an army of federal agents and National Guardsmen to storm the inauguration and arrest the entire leadership of the Democratic Party. QAnon managed to successfully unite large swathes of the conspiracy…

Politics Tom McKay

White House Website Finally Supports Dark Mode

Like many Americans, I’m processing some unfamiliar emotions today, but I believe that I’m genuinely thrilled about the new White House website. The site allows visitors to toggle font sizes. It includes an Easter Egg in the HTML with a job posting for coders. And, perhaps most thrillingly, it supports dark mode. A few reasons…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

NASA Considers Second ‘Hotfire’ Test of Megarocket After Unexpected Shutdown

The recent hotfire test of NASA’s next-gen megarocket was supposed to go for eight minutes, but it lasted just 67 seconds. The space agency has an explanation for the premature shutdown, saying everything’s swell, but a second test remains a distinct possibility. The first hotfire test of the Space Launch System (SLS), performed on Saturday,…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

The Mandalorian (and Baby Yoda) Spotted Ripping in Los Angeles

We’re actually in a good mood today for reasons, but to say it’s been generally bleak during the pandemic would be an understatement. With no outlet for his comedy stylings during covid-19, a Los Angeles man grabbed his board and a Mandalorian costume, and set about lifting moods in an entirely different way. NBC Los…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Building a Working Full-Size Pinball Machine Out of K’Nex Might Be the Best Pandemic Project Yet

K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate creations that are impossible to build with Lego. Tyler Bower just demonstrated the potential with a 7.5-foot-tall functional pinball machine that even keeps score. The paddles that send balls careening across the table appear to be manually…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

What Does Mars Sound Like? The Perseverance Rover Is Going to Find Out

Nothing on the hills seems to be alive, so the rocky terrain of Mars will be filled with the sounds of solitude when the NASA’s Perseverance rover lands in Jezero Crater next month. One of the rover’s many tasks will be listening to the Martian environment with microphones—the first effort at acoustic data collection made…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Stopping Keystone XL Has to Be Just the Start

President Joe Biden took office on Wednesday, saying he would get right to work on “tackling the crises we face,” including the climate crisis. Among his first official acts, Biden is expected to issue executive orders rescinding the Keystone XL pipeline permits and putting a moratorium on drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

Shadow in the Cloud Is…Something

For a movie about a woman fighting a giant creature on an airplane during World War II, Shadow in the Cloud is surprisingly complex. It’s basically two movies; one is a claustrophobic, paranoid thriller with a character in a single location under intense distress, the second a swashbuckling adventure film that gives Indiana Jones and…

Movies Germain Lussier

DHS Sued Over Its Social Media Surveillance Tactics

The Department of Homeland Security is being slammed with a new lawsuit after spending just over a year failing to respond to repeated attempts at investigating its long-term data hoovering practices. The suit was filed last week by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)—a tech policy-centric nonprofit based out of Washington DC—over allegations that…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

Charter Waves the White Flag on Data Caps as Trump Leaves the Building

Mere days before Donald Trump’s helicopter shrank into the skies, we got a promising early indication that telecom companies’ hog-wild joyride under Trump’s FCC is coming to an end. Last week, Charter Communications, the company behind Spectrum, withdrew its petition to impose data caps: basically its attempt to restrict customers’ internet usage in order to…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Cats Love Catnip Because It Protects Them From Mosquitoes, New Research Suggests

When exposed to catnip or silver vine, cats engage in some fairly predictable behaviors, such as licking and chewing the leaves, rubbing their heads and faces against the plants, and rolling on the ground. Cats get a real kick out of these plants, but surprising new research points to a more practical purpose than just…

Biology George Dvorsky

Nvidia Shield Update Brings Support for PS5 and New Xbox Controllers

Put those next-generation controllers to good use on your streaming device. Nvidia’s 8.2.2 update rolled out Tuesday, bringing with it welcome support for PS5 and Xbox controllers that the premium streaming device previously lacked despite the consoles having launched months ago. Now, Shield users will be able to use their DualSense or Xbox Series X/S…

Gadgets Catie Keck

Trump Presidential Library Launches Online But Won’t Take FOIA Requests Until 2026

Mysterious ‘Jetpack Guy’ Could Actually Be This Weird Mannequin Drone

Jack Ma Re-Emerges From Wherever He Was for the Last Few Months

Screw It, Trump Is Banned From Twitch Too

Common Back Pain Treatment Doesn’t Actually Work, Study Finds

An Astronaut Has an Unwelcome and Possibly Undead Visitor in the Eerie Sci-Fi Short Decommissioned

Joe Biden Is Putting the U.S. Back in the Paris Agreement. Here’s What Comes Next.

Open Channel: Celebrate David Lynch’s Birthday With Some of His Best Works

Here’s How QAnon Reacted as They Realized ‘The Storm’ Isn’t Happening

White House Website Finally Supports Dark Mode

NASA Considers Second ‘Hotfire’ Test of Megarocket After Unexpected Shutdown

The Mandalorian (and Baby Yoda) Spotted Ripping in Los Angeles

Building a Working Full-Size Pinball Machine Out of K’Nex Might Be the Best Pandemic Project Yet

What Does Mars Sound Like? The Perseverance Rover Is Going to Find Out

Stopping Keystone XL Has to Be Just the Start

Shadow in the Cloud Is…Something

DHS Sued Over Its Social Media Surveillance Tactics

Charter Waves the White Flag on Data Caps as Trump Leaves the Building

Cats Love Catnip Because It Protects Them From Mosquitoes, New Research Suggests

Nvidia Shield Update Brings Support for PS5 and New Xbox Controllers

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