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Sen. Richard Burr Sold Up to $1.56 Million in Stock While Publicly Saying U.S. Is Ready for Coronavirus

Just a few weeks before telling wealthy constituents in private that the global spread of the coronavirus would be “akin to the 1918 pandemic” and while he was in a position to receive briefings from intelligence agencies on the matter, Senate Intelligence Committee chair and Republican Senator Richard Burr sold off between $582,029 and $1.56…

Politics Tom McKay

What We Do in the Shadows‘ New Season 2 Trailer Is ‘Horny For Love’

In its season one finale, each of What We Do in the Shadows’ vintage Draculas (and Guillermo, their human pet) made important realizations about themselves that are going to play important roles in their futures as they continue to try and figure out a way to function in the modern world like relatively normal people.…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Free Comic Book Day Has, Unsurprisingly, Been Postponed

Usually, on the first Saturday in May, comic book stores across the world open their doors to fans excited to celebrate Free Comic Book Day. But with the day quickly approaching, that glorious occasion is being pushed back due to fears over covid-19. The company behind the promotion, Diamond Comic Distributors, announced today that it’s postponing…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Student Scientists Worry About Their Futures as Universities Shut Down Over Covid-19

Research institutions around the United States and abroad are reacting to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic by moving classes online, sending students and researchers home, and in some cases, closing labs. Among these various responses, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are cutting off experiments midway, awaiting to hear whether their summer projects will be canceled, and,…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Open Channel: Show Us Your Work-From-Home Stations

Workstations, battlestations, command centers, whatever you want to call them, with so many people stuck indoors while trying to avoid covid-19, home computer setups have recently become an incredibly hot topic. If you’re like me, you can’t live without a dual monitor setup, while others are fine with just a laptop, content to work in…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Study: Soot From Massive Wildfires Led to Dino-Killing Mass Extinction

When a gigantic asteroid struck the Earth some 66 million years ago, it triggered an “impact winter” that extinguished over 75 percent of all species on Earth. New research suggests it was the resulting low light, and not frigid temperatures, that drove this horrific mass extinction. The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event was so bad…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

20 Sci-Fi Directorial Debuts That Became Genre Classics

Years before he visited a galaxy far, far away, scruffy University of Southern California grad George Lucas made his directorial debut with 1971 dystopian tale THX 1138. In honor of that movie’s release 49 years ago this month, we’ve gathered up a list of 20 other first-time director efforts that have since become sci-fi classics.…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

N95 Mask Listings on Amazon Are Flooded With Fake Reviews

While Amazon has banned more than a million fraudulent products claiming to cure or protect customers from the coronavirus, Gizmodo found that third-party vendors continue to use fake reviews, bot farms, and other deceptive methods to sell suspicious N95 masks to a panicked public. A scrape of 75 products returned from a search for “N95…

Commerce Dhruv Mehrotra

Hong Kong Introduces Invasive Location-Tracking Bracelets, Promises They’re Not That Invasive

While we all have tech-based privacy intrusions to deal with on a daily basis, Hong Kong residents are seeing that taken up to a new levelthanks to the coronavirus’s spread—and it’s only getting worse. Case in point: Earlier today, Hong Kong’s Chief Information Officer, Victor Lam, announced earlier today that the city-state will be cracking…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

China Hopes Harry Potter Will Coax People Back to Theaters…Once They Reopen

In the United States, we’ve only recently started seeing movie theaters closing their doors because of the covid-19 pandemic, but in China, things have been shut down for weeks. Now that the country seems to finally be turning the corner, Chinese studios and regulators are coming together to try and bring their box office back…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Microsoft Wants You to Snack Freely Without Irritating Your Video Conferencing Colleagues

While this covid-19 pandemic has more of us working from home, some of us might still be getting used to video conferencing, or at least talking into a headset or our laptop with a built-in microphone. The sound of our teeth grinding down pretzels, chips, or anything else that goes ‘crunch,’ when made directly into…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Amazon Has Already Reopened Its Queens Facility After a Worker Tested Positive for Covid-19

An Amazon worker in one of its facilities in New York City has tested positive for covid-19, the company said, and is in quarantine and receiving medical care. A spokesperson confirmed to Gizmodo that the individual worked at its DBK1 facility in Queens, adding that it “temporarily closed the Queens delivery station for additional sanitation…

Commerce Catie Keck

Spring Is Here, and It’s Set to Bring a Whole Lot of Flooding

It’s the first day of spring, but that’s nothing to celebrate, unfortunately, as this season is forecast to come with dangerous flooding. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual spring forecast on Thursday. On the bright side, the federal government does not expect flooding this year to be as bad as it was…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes

Cats Is a ‘Medieval Morality Play’: 20 Highlights From Tom Hooper’s Strange Director Commentary

Cats has finally come home, and we’ve combed through the director commentary to uncover the film’s greatest secrets. It may be one of those movies that’s impossible to explain, but director Tom Hooper was determined to try. The Razzie award winner and modern cinematic classic is now out for digital home release, which means an…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The Future May Bring Even More Extreme Storms and Heat Than We Thought

Turns out that global warming may worsen future extreme weather a lot more than researchers previously thought. A study published in Science Advances on Wednesday found that current attribution methods predicting the influence climate change will have on hurricanes, storms, heatwaves, and other weather events are likely underestimating what’s to come. In fact, the warming…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

Mayor Bill de Blasio: Musk Offered to Make Ventilators, So Let’s See ‘Em

Late last night, Elon Musk promised a fan that Tesla “will make ventilators if there is a shortage.” Several hours later, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed that there is a national shortage, took him up on his offer, and now it’s time for Musk to pay up. “@elonmusk New York City is buying!” he tweeted,…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Sick Days: Stories From People Keeping the World Running

This is the first edition of Sick Days, a new series documenting how jobs are changing during the coronavirus pandemic, as told by workers themselves. This week, we hear from a healthcare worker, a small-business owner, an airline worker, and more. If you’d like to submit a story, use this Google form, and read this post…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Shaun of the Dead Gets a Coronavirus Update Thanks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

…Right. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the latest celebrities to take to social media with a clever coronavirus-themed video, but theirs has way more going on than most of the others. If you remember, back in the pair’s 2004 film Shaun of the Dead, directed by Edgar Wright, Shaun (Pegg) and Ed (Frost) discuss…

Movies Germain Lussier

Trump’s Trade Adviser Pushing ‘Buy American’ Order on Drugs, Medical Supplies During Pandemic

White House trade adviser and arch-protectionist ideologue Peter Navarro is trying to include buy-American provisions in the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief package that could disrupt the medical supply chain while the U.S. is already ill-prepared for a projected surge in cases, the Daily Beast reported on Thursday. The Beast reviewed a draft order of Navarro’s…

Health Tom McKay

Civil Rights Groups Cancel Twitter’s ‘Birthday,’ Say CEO Is Giving Nazis a ‘Megaphone’

In case you forgot somehow, Twitter’s “birthday” is once again upon us. As of Saturday, 14 years will have passed since its founder, Jack Dorsey—who hilariously thought people might actually pay to use Twitter at the time—tweeted the very first tweet ever. Not everyone’s coming to the party. Dozens of civil rights organizations are instead…

Tech News Tom McKay & Dell Cameron

Sen. Richard Burr Sold Up to $1.56 Million in Stock While Publicly Saying U.S. Is Ready for Coronavirus

What We Do in the Shadows‘ New Season 2 Trailer Is ‘Horny For Love’

Free Comic Book Day Has, Unsurprisingly, Been Postponed

Student Scientists Worry About Their Futures as Universities Shut Down Over Covid-19

Open Channel: Show Us Your Work-From-Home Stations

Study: Soot From Massive Wildfires Led to Dino-Killing Mass Extinction

20 Sci-Fi Directorial Debuts That Became Genre Classics

N95 Mask Listings on Amazon Are Flooded With Fake Reviews

Hong Kong Introduces Invasive Location-Tracking Bracelets, Promises They’re Not That Invasive

China Hopes Harry Potter Will Coax People Back to Theaters…Once They Reopen

Microsoft Wants You to Snack Freely Without Irritating Your Video Conferencing Colleagues

Amazon Has Already Reopened Its Queens Facility After a Worker Tested Positive for Covid-19

Spring Is Here, and It’s Set to Bring a Whole Lot of Flooding

Cats Is a ‘Medieval Morality Play’: 20 Highlights From Tom Hooper’s Strange Director Commentary

The Future May Bring Even More Extreme Storms and Heat Than We Thought

Mayor Bill de Blasio: Musk Offered to Make Ventilators, So Let’s See ‘Em

Sick Days: Stories From People Keeping the World Running

Shaun of the Dead Gets a Coronavirus Update Thanks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

Trump’s Trade Adviser Pushing ‘Buy American’ Order on Drugs, Medical Supplies During Pandemic

Civil Rights Groups Cancel Twitter’s ‘Birthday,’ Say CEO Is Giving Nazis a ‘Megaphone’

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