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PayPal Dumps GiveSendGo, the ‘Christian’ Crowdfunding Site Used By Proud Boys

This morning PayPal confirmed to Gizmodo that it has cut ties with GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding platform which hosts fundraisers for, among other causes, Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. Since a Trumpist mob descended on D.C. last week with pipe bombs, zip ties, and feces, ultimately storming the Capitol Building…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

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Heck Yes, NASA’s Juno and InSight Missions Are Getting Bonus Time

A pair of ongoing NASA missions—the Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and the InSight lander on Mars—have been extended following an external review. An independent review panel said both Juno and InSight have “produced exceptional science,” and that both missions should be allowed to continue, according to a NASA statement. “The Senior Review has…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Trump Has Left Office, State Department Page Claims, Erroneously

The State Department published a bizarre notice on its website Monday saying President Trump’s term was expiring a full nine days ahead of schedule. The notice gave rise to speculation that… something was going on at the agency. What, no one could be sure. For at least an hour, the State Department’s biography page for…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Snowpiercer‘s Season 2 Trailer Is Full of Flamboyantly Evil Sean Bean

All aboard for season two of TNT’s Snowpiercer! The series is, of course, based on the graphic novel Le Transperceneige and the 2013 Bong Joon-ho film. If this new season two trailer is any indication, the show’s frozen world is about to expand immensely and get way, way more unstable. Snowpiercer’s first season ended…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Federal Authorities Are Looking for the Ghoul Who Carved ‘TRUMP’ Into a Manatee

Over the weekend, Florida officials received reports of a manatee that had President Donald Trump’s name carved in it. They’re now looking for information on who committed this wildlife crime that has left permanent scars on on this gentle sea cow. The manatee was reported to authorities over the weekend after being found at the…

Earther Brian Kahn

Lora DiCarlo Brings Hot Vibes to CES—As In They Are Warm to the Touch

A lot has changed for Lora DiCarlo since CES 2019, when the Consumer Technology Association stripped its innovative Osé sex toy of a well-deserved CES Innovation Award. Not only does CES fuck now, Lora DiCarlo is also announcing a new product line for the all-virtual CES 2021. This year, Lora DiCarlo is releasing three new…

Gadgets Victoria Song

12 New Studies Show How Close Insects Are to Extinction

I do not like bugs. Creepy, many-legged things make my skin crawl. But as unpleasant as they are, insects are absolutely crucial for our world’s ecosystems to function, and sadly, new research shows that the creatures populations are on the verge of collapse. That’s the theme of the latest issue of the Proceedings of the…

Earther Dharna Noor

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Marvel Updates on Deadpool 3, Black Panther 2, X-Men, and More

It’s been 18 months since fans got a new story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That changes this week with the release of Disney+’s WandaVision, and with it comes the second best part of a new Marvel release: new quotes from Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. Feige and his team at Marvel Studios have been…

Movies Germain Lussier

Parler Sues Amazon Over Supposed Antitrust Violation

Parler is now suing Amazon after the company—along with fellow tech giants Apple and Google—refused to continue hosting the “free speech” platform in the wake of last week’s violent rush on the U.S. Capitol. This news comes after Amazon gave Parler about a day’s notice that it would be booted from its web hosting service—Amazon…

Commerce Shoshana Wodinsky

Hulu’s New $2 Plan for College Students Includes Its Watch Party Feature

If you happen to be in college at the moment, now’s the time to get yourself some Hulu. The streaming service on Monday announced a new subscription tier for college students that gives them the ad-supported version of Hulu for just $2—basically less than a cup of coffee these days! The steeply discounted college plan…

Internet Catie Keck

Scientists Find Link Between Cat Parasite and Brain Cancer in People

A common parasite spread through undercooked pork and occasionally our cats might have more insidious health effects than previously suspected. New research suggests a link between infection with Toxoplasma gondii and an increased risk of brain cancer. At this point, however, scientists aren’t sure yet if there’s a direct cause-and-effect relationship, and the overall risk of…

Health Ed Cara

Netflix Grabs Cube for Pivotal Cube-Based Umbrella Academy Season 3 Role

The casting of the alt-reality Sparrow Academy members has been revealed, but we're mostly jazzed about the telekinetic cube.

Television Cheryl Eddy

NYC’s Covid-19 Vaccine Website Is a Mess as Eligibility Opens to Seniors

As New York City expands the pool of citizens who are eligible to receive the covid-19 vaccine to seniors and frontline workers, Comptroller Scott Stringer is warning that the online signup system for appointments is unnecessarily complicated and could lead to delays in the vaccination process. People laughed when the CIA launched a hip new…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Obviously, Those Radiation ‘Protection’ Stickers Don’t Work, Researchers Find

Of all the grifts we came across in 2020, one of the most bizarre was SmartDOTS, a so-called “anti-radiation” device that promised to neutralize the electric and magnetic fields transmitted by devices like phones and laptops. Popping one of these round stickers onto these devices, the company promised, would leave you with a better night’s…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Peter Pan Is Real (and Wendy Is Terrified) in This Excerpt From Aiden Thomas’ Lost in the Never Woods

Last year, author Aiden Thomas made history with Cemetery Boys, the first fiction book by a trans author and with a trans main character to make the New York Times bestseller list. Their next book, Lost in the Never Woods, puts a dark spin on the classic tale of Peter Pan, and io9 has an…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Linksys’ Motion-Sensing Wifi Now Uses All Your Wireless Devices For More Accurate Alerts

Over the next decade the smarthome as we know it is going to change dramatically thanks to technologies like Linksys Aware that turns a wifi network into a motion detector that watches every corner of your home. The tech is still in its infancy, but Linksys has announced a major update that leverages IoT devices…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Linksys’ First Wi-Fi 6E Mesh Router Will Be an Expensive Way to Future Proof Your Wifi

Every year at CES there’s a new buzzword generously thrown around: last year it was 5G, and for 2021 it’s going to be Wi-Fi 6E. If you’ve recently upgraded to a Wi-Fi 6 router that’s really unfortunate because 6E promises to genuinely fix a lot of the bottlenecks caused by overcrowded wifi networks. Netgear has…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Huge Sinkhole Opens Up in Italian Hospital Parking Lot After Heavy Rains

In case you need more proof that we live in hell, a massive sinkhole opened in an Italian hospital’s parking lot on Friday. The gaping hole, which was 66 feet (20 meters) deep and 21,527 square feet (2,000 square meters) wide, swallowed at least three cars in the Naples car park. It also disrupted the…

Earth Science Dharna Noor

The First Wi-Fi 6E Routers Are Going to Make You Feel Really Mad About Already Buying a Wi-Fi 6 Router

For a couple of years, Wi-Fi 6 was hyped as the solution to wireless networks that had become over-crowded with smartphones, computers, and countless smart home devices all demanding their slice of bandwidth. In 2020 we finally saw a big influx of Wi-Fi 6 devices, just in time for the arrival of a new protocol,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Only Standing Desk I’ll Ever Consider Using Lets Four People Play Pong at Once

As uncomfortable as it may seem to some, working at a standing desk is better for your health than sprawling out on a couch all day long. But how do you convince millions of people responsibly working from home to stand all day? You build a standing desk with a built-in retro arcade that even…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

PayPal Dumps GiveSendGo, the ‘Christian’ Crowdfunding Site Used By Proud Boys

Heck Yes, NASA’s Juno and InSight Missions Are Getting Bonus Time

Trump Has Left Office, State Department Page Claims, Erroneously

Snowpiercer‘s Season 2 Trailer Is Full of Flamboyantly Evil Sean Bean

Federal Authorities Are Looking for the Ghoul Who Carved ‘TRUMP’ Into a Manatee

Lora DiCarlo Brings Hot Vibes to CES—As In They Are Warm to the Touch

12 New Studies Show How Close Insects Are to Extinction

Marvel Updates on Deadpool 3, Black Panther 2, X-Men, and More

Parler Sues Amazon Over Supposed Antitrust Violation

Hulu’s New $2 Plan for College Students Includes Its Watch Party Feature

Scientists Find Link Between Cat Parasite and Brain Cancer in People

Netflix Grabs Cube for Pivotal Cube-Based Umbrella Academy Season 3 Role

NYC’s Covid-19 Vaccine Website Is a Mess as Eligibility Opens to Seniors

Obviously, Those Radiation ‘Protection’ Stickers Don’t Work, Researchers Find

Peter Pan Is Real (and Wendy Is Terrified) in This Excerpt From Aiden Thomas’ Lost in the Never Woods

Linksys’ Motion-Sensing Wifi Now Uses All Your Wireless Devices For More Accurate Alerts

Linksys’ First Wi-Fi 6E Mesh Router Will Be an Expensive Way to Future Proof Your Wifi

Huge Sinkhole Opens Up in Italian Hospital Parking Lot After Heavy Rains

The First Wi-Fi 6E Routers Are Going to Make You Feel Really Mad About Already Buying a Wi-Fi 6 Router

The Only Standing Desk I’ll Ever Consider Using Lets Four People Play Pong at Once

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