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A Shocking Truth Has Brought Doctor Who Back to Life

Last week’s Doctor Who season premiere was heaving with promise—in bringing back an iconic foe, and retweaking a balance between moralistic sci-fi social commentary and monster-laden adventure this latest iteration of the series has been struggling to find, it set the groundwork for some compelling threads. Last night’s follow-up delivered, if only because it had…

io9 James Whitbrook

The First Folding PC Is Remarkably Smart

When Lenovo first teased its foldable PC back in May it clearly needed a bit more work—even if it showed a lot of promise. Six months later at CES 2020, Lenovo is ready to debut the world’s first foldable PC and it’s slick as hell. Now I know what you’re saying, aren’t all laptops foldable?…

Reviews Sam Rutherford

A Bed That Cools and Heats Each Sleeper Separately Will Save Countless Relationships

Forcing couples to share a single sleeping space every night might be humanity’s most divisive practice. Sleep Number seems like the only company trying to actively maintain peace in the bedroom, and its latest efforts for maintaining nighttime civility is a new climate-controlled mattress that allows each sleeper to dial in their own preferred temperature.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Rick’s Walking Dead Movie Will Greatly Expand the World of the Zombie Series

With the release of each new Walking Dead show, the series’ shared zombie universe has expanded. Fear the Walking Dead showed its origins; World Beyond will explore its aftermath. And, when the first Walking Dead movie is released sometime in the future, it sounds like it’ll reveal more about the world than ever before. “We…

Movies Germain Lussier

Satellite Images Show the Shocking Extent of Australia Bushfire Smoke

The bushfire crisis isn’t limited to Australia—it’s coming for the entire Southern Hemisphere atmosphere, too. Australia has been ablaze for months with wildlife-killing, town-destroying, unstoppable fires burning throughout the states of Queenslands, New South Wales, and Victoria. Every day seems to bring a new horror story, and the latest is the smoke that has now…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Weed Edibles Aren’t as Safe as We Think, Doctors Argue

Doctors in Canada are hoping to harsh your buzz a little when it comes to cannabis edibles. In a new paper out Monday, they argue that people have plenty of misconceptions about how safe edibles really are and warn that first-time users are especially likely to take too much for their own good. The paper,…

Health Ed Cara

Venus Could Have Active Volcanoes

Laboratory experiments have uncovered evidence that Venus might still be volcanically active. Earth is the only planet with known active volcanoes (though Jupiter’s moon Io is quite volcanically active). As for Venus, a spacecraft called the Venus Express orbited the planet from 2006 to 2014 and took data, but directly observing volcanic activity on the…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

A Smart Wooden Stick Is Now a Thing That Exists

Just because you can make something smart—be it microwaves, showerheads, and even mattresses—doesn’t necessarily mean you should. A Japanese company named Mui Lab teamed up with Wacom to create what it’s calling the ‘Pillar Memory’ which appears to be the world’s first smart wooden stick. The product is the next iteration of Mui Lab’s smart…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Trini Is Joining Hasbro’s Morphinominal Range of Power Rangers Figures

The Lightning Collection—Hasbro’s mighty morphin’ take on its six-inch Star Wars Black Series or Marvel Legends lines, but for people in brightly colored Spandex—has so far given us Rangers from across decades of Power Rangers action, from original favorites, to comic book callouts, to latest members of the morphin’ grid on Beast Morphers. But now another…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook

Samsung Might Have Just Made the Nicest Chromebook Ever

Chromebooks tend to be pretty straightforward machines. But for Samsung’s first ever Galaxy-branded Chromebook, it crammed super premium components into every corner of the machine, and the result might just be the nicest Chromebook ever made. Seriously. Looking back, if you wanted to choose the best Chromebook ever regardless of price, the winner would probably…

Reviews Sam Rutherford

Why Did the Pentagon Push the FDA to Approve a Powerful New Opioid?

In November 2018, the Food and Drug Administration approved America’s newest opioid, a formulation of sufentanil called Dsuvia. Sufentanil is the strongest prescription painkiller available—five to 10 times more potent than its parent drug fentanyl, which is in turn 30-50 times more potent than heroin. The outcry over Dsuvia—its potency, its potential for abuse—was immediate.…

Tech News Kastalia Medrano

Disney+ Edits Out Goofy’s Smoking Scene in Supposedly Uncut Version of Classic Movie

Disney is streaming on Disney+ an edited version of the 1942 movie Saludos Amigos that lacks a scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette despite the film being labeled as uncut. It’s not the first time that Disney has altered its old catalog, but it does raise questions about transparency on the relatively new streaming platform.…

Tech News Matt Novak

During Brain Surgery, This AI Can Diagnose a Tumor in 2 Minutes

Expert human pathologists typically require around 30 minutes to diagnose brain tumors from tissue samples extracted during surgery. A new artificially intelligent system can do it in less than 150 seconds—and it does so more accurately than its human counterparts. New research published today in Nature Medicine describes a novel diagnostic technique that leverages the…

Artificial Intelligence George Dvorsky

This Company Just Gave Dudes a Good Reason to Shave Their Taints

In case you hadn’t heard, CES fucks now. That much was evident at this year’s CES Unveiled, where more than one sexual health and wellness company was allowed to show off their wares—a change from last year’s fumbling prudishness. This year includes Morari Medical, the maker of a wearable meant to help solve premature ejaculation…

Gadgets Victoria Song

What Was the Most Fun Thing Humans Could Do 5,000 Years Ago?

The next time you’re dissociating on designer Dark Web drugs, porn in one tab and Succession in the other, group chat going strong on the phone with which, at any time of day, you might meet a cute stranger online, or read two or even three moderately funny tweets, take a moment to feel for…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz

There’s Already Wild Star Wars Rumors About the Settings of the New Movies

Margot Robbie says not to expect the Joker in Birds of Prey. Filming on The Batman has begun. Michelle Monaghan discusses the relevance of The Craft remake. Plus, new footage from Doctor Who, and what’s to come when Supergirl, Black Lightning, and Batwoman return. To me, my spoilers! Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation…

Television James Whitbrook

The New Mutants Trailer Reintroduces Us to X-Gene Horrors

The New Mutants is the last vestige of Fox’s take on the property that arguably paved the way for modern superhero movies, and even though the film’s been delayed and sidelined to hell as a result of Disney’s acquisition of the studio, a new trailer’s just dropped to remind us all that kids with x-genes…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Joaquin Phoenix Nabs a Win for Joker in a Quiet Night for Genre at the Golden Globes

Although there wasn’t much in the way of genre fiction in this year’s nominees in the first place—especially after Game of Thrones, a typical stalwart of the last decade or so of Globes nominations, was left almost entirely absent for its final season. But even then, the night was incredibly quiet, save for a little…

Movies James Whitbrook

The Super Retro Champ Plays SNES and Sega Genesis Cartridges, Bringing Peace to Retro Gaming

Following up on its Retro Champ: a portable 8-bit console that plays both NES and Famicom cartridge, My Arcade is introducing a new 16-bit version called the Super Retro Champ that plays both Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis cartridges. If you’ve held a longtime loyalty to either retro console, now’s the perfect time to open…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Facial Recognition For Stars Lets This Telescope Automatically Find Objects in the Night Sky

Spotting constellations like Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) or Orion in the night sky is easy, but finding harder-to-spot celestial objects can be challenging and frustrating for amateur astronomers who shelled out a few hundred bucks for a fancy telescope. Celestron’s new StarSense Explorer promises to make star spotting impossibly easy using your smartphone’s camera…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Shocking Truth Has Brought Doctor Who Back to Life

The First Folding PC Is Remarkably Smart

A Bed That Cools and Heats Each Sleeper Separately Will Save Countless Relationships

Rick’s Walking Dead Movie Will Greatly Expand the World of the Zombie Series

Satellite Images Show the Shocking Extent of Australia Bushfire Smoke

Weed Edibles Aren’t as Safe as We Think, Doctors Argue

Venus Could Have Active Volcanoes

A Smart Wooden Stick Is Now a Thing That Exists

Trini Is Joining Hasbro’s Morphinominal Range of Power Rangers Figures

Samsung Might Have Just Made the Nicest Chromebook Ever

Why Did the Pentagon Push the FDA to Approve a Powerful New Opioid?

Disney+ Edits Out Goofy’s Smoking Scene in Supposedly Uncut Version of Classic Movie

During Brain Surgery, This AI Can Diagnose a Tumor in 2 Minutes

This Company Just Gave Dudes a Good Reason to Shave Their Taints

What Was the Most Fun Thing Humans Could Do 5,000 Years Ago?

There’s Already Wild Star Wars Rumors About the Settings of the New Movies

The New Mutants Trailer Reintroduces Us to X-Gene Horrors

Joaquin Phoenix Nabs a Win for Joker in a Quiet Night for Genre at the Golden Globes

The Super Retro Champ Plays SNES and Sega Genesis Cartridges, Bringing Peace to Retro Gaming

Facial Recognition For Stars Lets This Telescope Automatically Find Objects in the Night Sky

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