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Open Channel: What’s the Trump Tweet Gonna Be?

Early Friday morning, the president—or some anonymous White House goon, it’s not always clear which—tweeted that he and the First Lady have tested positive for the novel coronavirus estimated to have infected at least 2.2 percent of the population and killed at least 208,000 Americans on his watch. This is more or less like if…

Tech News Tom McKay

Here’s What Will Happen Next

The president of the United States has a deadly, airborne disease that has already killed more than 207,000 Americans and more than 1 million people worldwide. The U.S. now faces a national security crisis, the economy is in ruins, and we’re a month away from a contentious presidential election on which the very future of…

Tech News Andrew Couts

Harley Quinn Season 3 Might Dig Into the Realities of Gotham Being a Failed Police State

With its upcoming move to HBO Max, the R-rated Harley Quinn series’ third season has a chance to both continue telling one of the most heartfelt (though gory) stories about its titular antiheroine and her gang of villain goons and potentially hit even harder than DC Universe might have allowed. Though it’s not clear just…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Biden Should Probably Still Quarantine

Joe Biden announced that he has, blessedly, tested negative for the coronavirus, three days after standing in the same airspace as a fuming, spitting, bellowing, now-coronavirus-positive Donald Trump. Though they stood on opposite ends of the stage, and did not shake hands, Trump and his family broke debate terms by going maskless in the audience,…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Here Are the 18 Congressional Representatives Who Refused to Condemn QAnon

House Resolution 1154 is a simple bill that barely fills five pages in Congressional formatting, and which passed the House of Representatives easily this afternoon with 370 votes in favor. Why this even remotely matters is that the bill—the entire purpose of which was to call for the condemnation of the QAnon conspiracy strictly within…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Preserved Brain Tissue Found in Victim of Ancient Vesuvius Eruption, Scientists Report

The catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is famous for preserving its many victims in volcanic ash. New research suggests this preservation extends to the cellular level, owing to the apparent discovery of neurons in a victim whose brain was turned to glass during the eruption. New research published today in PLOS…

Human History George Dvorsky

The Boys‘ Depiction of American Domestic Terrorism Is Devastatingly Honest

The Boys’ second season further explores the reality that a world inhabited by super-people who publicly claim to be committed to maintaining peace and upholding justice would still never truly be safe or fair. Powers or not, caped vigilantes are just people with their own personal agendas and deeply held prejudices. Hyper-violent as The Boys…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Cobra Kai Season 3 Is Coming in January, and Season 4 Is a Go

Since making its Netflix debut in August, Cobra Kai has consistently been near the top of the streamer’s daily top 10 lists. And as the show has continued to gain legions of new fans, the question has quickly become: when will we see new episodes? Today Netflix answered. Season three of Cobra Kai will debut…

Television Germain Lussier

Ignoring Freshwater Ecosystems Could Doom the Amazon Rainforest

In, um, other news: By taking a different approach to conservation, the world could make biodiversity-renewing projects far more effective at protecting freshwater species, according to a new study in Science focused on areas of the Amazon rainforest. Bear with me. I know this isn’t nearly as attention-grabbing as the revelation that the president has…

Earther Dharna Noor

This Is What Happens When Science and Compassion Become Disposable

These days, the world is full of teachable moments. The latest is President Donald Trump announcing he tested positive for covid-19 in a late night tweet. There will be breathless coverage in the coming days about Trump’s health and which officials and oligarchs he may have passed the virus to, but we shouldn’t lose sight…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Twitter Wants to Replace Its Seemingly Racist Cropping Tool With Users Like You

Last month, Twitter apologized after users noticed that its automated tool for cropping photos appeared to favor subjects with light skin. The social network said that it was investigating bias in its existing machine learning algorithm, and on Thursday it announced that it has seen enough to know it’s time for a change. The issue…

Tech News Rhett Jones

The Complete Guide to Chromecasting

Google’s history with hardware has been somewhat hit-or-miss, but there’s no doubt that its Chromecast streaming stick has been a huge success, helping to change the way we watch movies and shows and listen to music since 2013. When the Chromecast debuted in July 2013, the launch had the same sort of feel to it…

Gadgets David Nield

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Get in the Spirit of the Season With This Fun Peek at Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!

Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang chase spooks all year long—but you gotta assume October is still their busiest month. io9 has a fun clip today from Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! showcasing the new animated film’s seasonally appropriate guest star: horror icon Elvira. Dammit Fred, now we’re craving banh mi. In addition…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Nvidia Pushes Back the Launch of the RTX 3070 to Avoid Furious Customers

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for anyone trying to order a shiny new graphics card or game console, and in order to prevent its next launch from going awry Nvidia is delaying the release of its RTX 3070 GPU. In a post on its website, Nvidia says that by pushing the launch date…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Many Big-Brained Birds Have Human-Like Lifespans—but Why?

Some birds are gifted with shockingly long lives. In captivity, crows can live into their 50s. Certain parrot species can live nearly a century. Curiously, these birds also have proportionately massive brains, which power considerable (and sometimes unnerving) intelligence. According to new research, it turns out that this longevity and brain size are closely linked:…

Biology Jake Buehler

Please Don’t Put Your Babies in These Halloween Costumes

Babies are always adorable. Blame their parents for these toddler tragedies.

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Tongue Brush

Inspired by the work of Simone Giertz who was once known across the internet as the Queen of Shitty Robots (her words, not ours) an Austrian-based design studio created what is easily the most unsettling tool that modern man has ever forged from the earth. Is it a paint brush? Is it a basting brush?…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Trailer for The Witches Remake Will Terrify a Whole New Generation

It looks like Halloween 2020 plans are covered. HBO Max has unveiled the first trailer for Warner Bros.’ adaptation of The Witches, starring Anne Hathaway, which will be heading to HBO Max just in time for the spookiest of holidays. HBO Max revealed on Twitter this morning that The Witches, based on the terrifying children’s…

Movies Beth Elderkin

A Brief History of the 72 Hours Before President Trump Was Diagnosed With Covid-19

President Donald Trump tweeted on October 2, 2020 at 12:54 a.m. ET that both he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for covid-19, the disease that has sickened over 7.2 million Americans and killed over 207,000. Trump has infamously downplayed the severity of the pandemic, causing tens of thousands of deaths. But will…

Tech News Matt Novak

Updates From Stranger Things, Doctor Strange 2, and More

Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead Netflix anime adds an impressive list of voice actors. James Bond gets a new theme song and The Mandalorian is on the move. Plus updates from the plethora of Walking Dead TV shows, Supernatural, and more. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness In a recent interview with Watch…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Open Channel: What’s the Trump Tweet Gonna Be?

Here’s What Will Happen Next

Harley Quinn Season 3 Might Dig Into the Realities of Gotham Being a Failed Police State

Biden Should Probably Still Quarantine

Here Are the 18 Congressional Representatives Who Refused to Condemn QAnon

Preserved Brain Tissue Found in Victim of Ancient Vesuvius Eruption, Scientists Report

The Boys‘ Depiction of American Domestic Terrorism Is Devastatingly Honest

Cobra Kai Season 3 Is Coming in January, and Season 4 Is a Go

Ignoring Freshwater Ecosystems Could Doom the Amazon Rainforest

This Is What Happens When Science and Compassion Become Disposable

Twitter Wants to Replace Its Seemingly Racist Cropping Tool With Users Like You

The Complete Guide to Chromecasting

Get in the Spirit of the Season With This Fun Peek at Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!

Nvidia Pushes Back the Launch of the RTX 3070 to Avoid Furious Customers

Many Big-Brained Birds Have Human-Like Lifespans—but Why?

Please Don’t Put Your Babies in These Halloween Costumes

Tongue Brush

The Trailer for The Witches Remake Will Terrify a Whole New Generation

A Brief History of the 72 Hours Before President Trump Was Diagnosed With Covid-19

Updates From Stranger Things, Doctor Strange 2, and More

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