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Jensen Ackles Trades Supernatural for Superheroics in The Boys‘ Third Season

Joke’s on you for waiting for season two. The Boys is already racing on to new ways for Eric Kripke to keep a Winchester brother gainfully employed. Yes, Supernatural’s final end may have been delayed thanks to the novel coronavirus—it’s set to return with its final episodes later this year—but one half of its brotherly…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Train to Busan Sequel Peninsula Is a Rip-Roaring, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombie-Infested Good Time

Even the most bloodthirsty horror fan could be forgiven for wondering if there’s really room in the world for yet another zombie movie. Then something like the new Train to Busan sequel, Peninsula, comes along and offers a reminder that in the right hands, the genre still has plenty of chomp left. Peninsula is written…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The First Phone With an Invisible Selfie Cam Could Be Announced September 1

Smartphone makers have been trying to kill the notch and figure out a way to put selfie cameras underneath phones screen for years, and now it seems that an unlikely candidate is finally ready to reveal the world’s first phone featuring this tech on September 1. However, the first company to make this tech a…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Sputnik‘s Space Invader Strikes in This Gruesome Clip From the Russian Sci-Fi Horror Film

Russian import Sputnik hit theaters, digital platforms, and VOD on Friday, and if you haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, here’s a tip for fans of tense, gruesome, creature-tastic sci-fi horror: it’s excellent. Need more convincing? We’ve got an exclusive clip from one of Sputnik’s, ah, juicier scenes below. First, a little context.…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

U.S. Air Conditioning Use Could Surge Nearly 60 Percent by 2050

It’s no secret that it’s getting hotter and hotter outside. On Sunday, Death Valley hit 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius), which is an extreme example of a notable trend. The rising heat is also driving up the demand for air conditioning, and the surge will only become more dramatic as the climate crisis persists.…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Lovecraft Country‘s Misha Green Explains How the Horrors to Come Are Bigger Than Magic and Monsters

Like all horror that wants to leave you feeling unsettled and disturbed long after you’ve finished watching it, Lovecraft Country’s first episode is careful to take its time and make you wait almost until the very end for the series’ supernatural monstrosities to make themselves known. If anything, the demons hunting Atticus, Leti, and George…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

How These Top Sad 1980s Toys Defined Your Personality

Jam shorts! Arcades! The fall of the Berlin Wall! The Challenger explosion! Famine! Disease! Chernobyl! Only 1980s kids will recognize these amazing toys that defined a generation and laid the groundwork for GenX’s eventual decline into a powerless, overwhelmed, and angry demographic.

Tech News John Biggs

Google’s Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming

Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, doesn’t get as much love—or regular updates—as its rivals, but today we got a nice surprise: Google detailed some new updates coming to the platform this fall. That said, don’t crack open the champagne just yet. Most of these updates are of the small, maintenance-focused variety. In the Android Developers…

Tech News Victoria Song

Somehow, a Tiny Black Hole Is Causing a ‘Heartbeat’ 100 Light-Years Away

There’s a cloudy patch of space inside our galaxy that unexpectedly produces gamma radiation at clockwork-like intervals. Scientists have now linked these periodic pulses to a “microquasar”—most likely a black hole—located a whopping 100 light-years away, in what is an extraordinary observation. New research published today in Nature Astronomy describes an unusual long-distance relationship involving…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Use This Online Tool to Find Out If You Can Vote by Mail Right Now

This was always going to be a tough presidential election. In 2016, Donald Trump spent a lot of time laying the groundwork to call the election illegitimate in the event that he lost. That year, the U.S. counted gerrymandering, Super PAC spending, and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act as hurdles to having a…

Politics Rhett Jones

Jiro Kuwata’s Batman Is an Incredible Thing

Earlier this month, news broke that manga artist Jiro Kuwata passed away. While the artist and writer was known in Japan for series like Maboroshi Tantei and 8 Man, in the west we know him for one particular curiosity: the Batman manga. Its take on Batman 55 years on still feels unlike anything we’ve seen with…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Jurnee Smollett Really Wants a Black Canary Show, and Yes Please, Absolutely

Given how it was one of the last artifacts of the Before Times earlier this year, it’s hard to say what Birds of Prey’s future as a cinematic franchise is just yet, beyond hoping for more. But hey, at least one of the titular birds has an excellent idea to while away our time waiting…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The Best Ways to Back Up Your Smartphone

These are some of the precautions you should to take in case of the worst situation happening.

Gadgets David Nield

Death Valley Just Saw the Hottest Temperature Ever Reliably Recorded on Earth

California had itself a weekend of rolling blackouts, freak thunderstorms, and a fire-induced tornado. But the state had to go and do one more wild thing: set the record for hottest temperature recorded anywhere on Earth. Death Valley hit 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) on Sunday. The data still has to be confirmed, but…

Earther Brian Kahn

The Hero We Need Built a Gun That Shoots Masks Onto People’s Faces

Unless your brain is performing Olympic-caliber mental gymnastics, wearing a mask during the pandemic is obviously a good thing and the easiest way to help minimize the spread of the coronavirus. Some have resisted, however, which inspired Allen Pan to invent a gun that quickly shoots a mask on to the face of those not…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Alex Kurtzman Hopes Strange New Worlds Is Star Trek‘s Return to Episodic Storytelling

Stakeland’s Jim Mickle will bring From a Buick 8 to the big screen. Annabelle Wallis is full of praise for James Wan’s giallo homage Malignant. Lucifer teases what’s to come in its new season. Plus, behind the scenes on Jurassic World: Dominion, and what’s to come on Lovecraft Country. Spoilers, engage! From a Buick 8…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Here’s What the Inside of an Exploding Tire Looks Like During a Burnout

Your Netflix queue may have run dry a month ago, but thankfully there are still hundreds of YouTubers with access to high-speed cameras, tiny action cameras, and endless ideas for where to stick them. Have you ever wondered what it looks like inside a tire when it explodes after a burnout? You probably have now. Most…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Humans Have Changed North America More Than an Ice Age

It’s clear that human activities such as land use and fossil fuel extraction have caused ecological changes like the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. New research shows just how massive the scale of those changes are. The Pleistocene epoch, which began 2.5 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, saw Earth’s most recent Ice…

Earther Dharna Noor

What Would Happen if We Burned All the Fossil Fuels?

Picture bogs swarming with plant-life, oceans teeming with life, dinosaurs roaming the Earth. Picture those plants and animals dying, and over the course of 300 million years, becoming coal, oil, and gas through a complex series of processes beneath the soil. Fast forward to the present and now see the vast, Earth-wrecking machinery extracting those…

Earther Daniel Kolitz & Brian Kahn

Donald Trump, the ‘Professional at Technology,’ Is Now on TikTok Rival Triller

In case we needed further proof that President Donald Trump really does not like TikTok, here’s the latest: Trump and his team have created a verified account on TikTok rival Triller, and are apparently trying to figure out how video-sharing apps work. It appears that Trump’s account was created on Saturday, one day after Trump…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Jensen Ackles Trades Supernatural for Superheroics in The Boys‘ Third Season

Train to Busan Sequel Peninsula Is a Rip-Roaring, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombie-Infested Good Time

The First Phone With an Invisible Selfie Cam Could Be Announced September 1

Sputnik‘s Space Invader Strikes in This Gruesome Clip From the Russian Sci-Fi Horror Film

U.S. Air Conditioning Use Could Surge Nearly 60 Percent by 2050

Lovecraft Country‘s Misha Green Explains How the Horrors to Come Are Bigger Than Magic and Monsters

How These Top Sad 1980s Toys Defined Your Personality

Google’s Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming

Somehow, a Tiny Black Hole Is Causing a ‘Heartbeat’ 100 Light-Years Away

Use This Online Tool to Find Out If You Can Vote by Mail Right Now

Jiro Kuwata’s Batman Is an Incredible Thing

Jurnee Smollett Really Wants a Black Canary Show, and Yes Please, Absolutely

The Best Ways to Back Up Your Smartphone

Death Valley Just Saw the Hottest Temperature Ever Reliably Recorded on Earth

The Hero We Need Built a Gun That Shoots Masks Onto People’s Faces

Alex Kurtzman Hopes Strange New Worlds Is Star Trek‘s Return to Episodic Storytelling

Here’s What the Inside of an Exploding Tire Looks Like During a Burnout

Humans Have Changed North America More Than an Ice Age

What Would Happen if We Burned All the Fossil Fuels?

Donald Trump, the ‘Professional at Technology,’ Is Now on TikTok Rival Triller

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