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Interactive Timeline of Parler Videos Takes You Through the Capitol Riot

Two weeks ago, Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building and uploaded an enormous archive documenting their crimes onto the embattled social media platform Parler. The consequences of that day will likely have ripple effects in the U.S. for years to come. But the digital trail left behind by rioters is providing an immediate demonstration…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Illustration: Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations.com 2020

At Long Last, Paleontologists Scrutinize a Dinosaur Cloaca

Despite the huge number of dinosaur fossils found, from bones to feathers, precious little exists in the fossil record to explain dinosaur defecation, urination, or copulation. Thankfully, all three occasions happened in one place, and researchers have now achieved the first comprehensive look at the preserved exterior of a dinosaur cloaca. This particular cloaca was…

Biology Isaac Schultz

The Internet’s Carbon Footprint Issue Isn’t Tied to Individuals

Video conferencing is putting a lot of stress on us, forcing us to show our colleagues the insides of our apartments, learn new social norms (is “mute yourself” a rude thing to say?), and remember that there is still a deadly global pandemic ravaging the world. It may be putting stress on the planet, too.…

Earther Dharna Noor

Paramount+ Will Officially Launch March 4

Paramount+ is set to replace CBS All Access in less than two months. ViacomCBS announced today that it’ll debut its new streaming product on March 4, though it will continue to be expanded on into the rest of 2021. Announced in September of last year, Paramount+ will be the hub for all the assets scooped…

Internet Catie Keck

Netflix’s Korean Sci-Fi Film Space Sweepers Amps Up the Stakes and the Action in a New Trailer

Batman was right: some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb, especially if said bomb also happens to be an extremely lifelike android built with the body of a child. Hot on the heels of announcing its impending arrival on the service next month, Netflix has dropped another new look at Jo Sung-Hee’s…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Apple Quietly Extends Repair Program for 2016 13-inch MacBook Pros With Faulty Screens

After a number of 13-inch MacBook Pros were found to suffer from screens with wonky backlights, Apple instituted a free repair program that this week has just been extended from four to five years after the laptop’s original date of sale. 13-inch MacBook Pro laptops affected by the issue were originally sold between October 2016…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

The Original Muppet Show Is Coming to Disney+ in All Its Glory

The Muppets are one of those tricksy chunks of IP that fans almost categorically love the more the creations skew towards the original series’ comedic stylings and sensibilities. After a pair of so-so modern Muppet features, a sendup of The Office, and the short-lived Muppets Now, Disney’s finally come to its senses and just given…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Radical Possibility of Deb Haaland at the Department of Interior

“The only reparation for land is land.” These words come from Lakota elder Madonna Thunder Hawk, a prominent figure in the American Indian Movement who has advocated for Indigenous rights for close to 50 years. Thunder Hawk’s statement encapsulates everything you need to know about the growing #LandBack movement. The demand is simple: Give the…

Earther Melanie K. Yazzie

Samsung Wins the Wireless Earbuds War with Retro Clamshell Cellphone Charging Cases

It turns out the big news from last week wasn’t that Samsung finally ditched the bizarre bean design for its wireless earbuds, it’s that the company plans to dominate the ‘kids of the late ‘90s’ demographic with a charging case cover that camouflages the Galaxy Buds Pro as a retro clamshell cellphone. Days after a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Updates From Marvel’s Eternals, DC’s Peacemaker, and More

Lloyd Kaufman is full of praise for the upcoming remake of The Toxic Avenger. The new Batwoman faces a familiar foe in new footage from season two. Ian McShane hopes to get started on John Wick 4 this year. Plus, new looks at Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Luca, and what’s to come on Nancy Drew. Spoilers…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

All the Ways You Can Make Use of Your Old PS4 or Xbox One

If you’ve just upgraded to a Sony PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, or Xbox Series S, you might be wondering whether your existing console is just going to sit in a corner gathering dust. Are you really going to go back to it all that much? If the answer is probably no, then you’ve got a…

Gadgets David Nield

Steve Jobs Statue Proposed For Trump’s ‘Garden of American Heroes’

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been selected for inclusion in something the Trump regime is calling the “Garden of American Heroes,” according to an announcement from the White House. The garden will feature statues of Americans who have contributed to history in some significant way. And while Jobs seems like an appropriate choice, it’s not…

Tech News Matt Novak

Photo: Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner via AP

L.A. Suspends Air Quality Rules to Cremate Backlog of Covid-19 Victims

Los Angeles County has temporarily suspended air quality rules in order to allow covid-19 victims to be cremated, according to an executive order passed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District over the weekend. The rules will be suspended for 10 days as the region works through a “backlog” of people who have died…

Earther Matt Novak

Virgin’s LauncherOne Rocket Reaches Orbit for the First Time and Drops Off NASA Satellites

The commercial race to space just got a little more crowded. Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic’s sister company, has successfully launched a rocket into orbit for the first time. It also managed to successfully deliver payloads for a customer, NASA, dropping off a number of nanosatellites sponsored by the agency. On Sunday, Virgin Orbit…

Space & Spaceflight Jody Serrano

Telegram Says It Shut Down “Hundreds Of Public Calls To Violence” From US Channels Last Week

In the weeks since Trump-sympathizing rioters laid siege to the U.S. Capitol, platforms have scrambled to account for the ways right-wing zealots used their communication networks to strategize, coordinate or otherwise inflame tensions related to the deadly insurrection. Apparently, Telegram has been no exception: On Monday, the app’s CEO and founder, Pavel Durov, said that the…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Creatures of the Night Fight to Survive in John Carpenter Homage Goodnight, Halloween

The year is 1986, the tech is appropriately old-school, and alt-history America empowers a gang of powerful, right-wing zealots to hunt down every creature of the night who dares to challenge the country’s homogeneous ideal. That’s the set-up for Luther Bhogal-Jones’ retro horror short Goodnight, Halloween. The fun here is seeing that very specific, dystopian John…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Did One of Those Capitol Idiots Really Just Try to Sell Pelosi’s Laptop to Russian Spies?

The pro-Trump insurgents who descended on the Capitol building earlier this month got up to a lot of dumb, violent, and almost certainly illegal antics. But this one takes the cake: A capitol rioter allegedly stole a laptop from House Speaker Nancy’s Pelosi’s office to try to pawn it off to the Russian government, according…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley

Elizabeth Olsen’s Love of Star Wars Inspired Her Shift From Indies to Blockbusters

Though she hails from a famous show biz family, and she’s now starring in her own Marvel TV series after appearing in multipleAvengers blockbusters, Elizabeth Olsen started out making indie films, like 2011 cult tale Martha Marcy May Marlene. So what inspired her shift from art-house to multiplex? Though the, uh, obvious reasons any actor…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

This Genius Bot Turns Reddit Drama Into Face-Offs From Ace Attorney

Drama is no stranger to Reddit, as many of you all might know. And while more than a few have snickered or giggled at Reddit arguments that have exploded or taken strange twists and turns, there’s now a new way to check out what’s happening in the comments. Micah Price, a software engineer from Cape…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Godzilla vs. Kong Gives Us a First-Look Tease of the Brawl We’ve Been Waiting For

Hot off the news that Godzilla vs. Kong would be arriving two months earlier than expected, we now have a first look at the monsters going mano-a-mano. “Change is nature,” the teaser informs us, but we’re certain to never change our stance on the fact that Godzilla and King Kong fighting each other is cool…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Interactive Timeline of Parler Videos Takes You Through the Capitol Riot

At Long Last, Paleontologists Scrutinize a Dinosaur Cloaca

The Internet’s Carbon Footprint Issue Isn’t Tied to Individuals

Paramount+ Will Officially Launch March 4

Netflix’s Korean Sci-Fi Film Space Sweepers Amps Up the Stakes and the Action in a New Trailer

Apple Quietly Extends Repair Program for 2016 13-inch MacBook Pros With Faulty Screens

The Original Muppet Show Is Coming to Disney+ in All Its Glory

The Radical Possibility of Deb Haaland at the Department of Interior

Samsung Wins the Wireless Earbuds War with Retro Clamshell Cellphone Charging Cases

Updates From Marvel’s Eternals, DC’s Peacemaker, and More

All the Ways You Can Make Use of Your Old PS4 or Xbox One

Steve Jobs Statue Proposed For Trump’s ‘Garden of American Heroes’

L.A. Suspends Air Quality Rules to Cremate Backlog of Covid-19 Victims

Virgin’s LauncherOne Rocket Reaches Orbit for the First Time and Drops Off NASA Satellites

Telegram Says It Shut Down “Hundreds Of Public Calls To Violence” From US Channels Last Week

Creatures of the Night Fight to Survive in John Carpenter Homage Goodnight, Halloween

Did One of Those Capitol Idiots Really Just Try to Sell Pelosi’s Laptop to Russian Spies?

Elizabeth Olsen’s Love of Star Wars Inspired Her Shift From Indies to Blockbusters

This Genius Bot Turns Reddit Drama Into Face-Offs From Ace Attorney

Godzilla vs. Kong Gives Us a First-Look Tease of the Brawl We’ve Been Waiting For

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