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Native Hawaiians Scored a Major Victory in the Fight Over the Thirty Meter Telescope

Many Native Hawaiians have been protesting the construction of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope atop sacred Mauna Kea for months. They scored a victory on Thursday when Hawaii Governor David Ige announced that construction efforts were hitting pause. The governor also announced the state will be pulling state troopers from the site until further notice,…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

MIT Engineers Create Laser Ultrasounds That Can Look Inside Your Body Without You Even Feeling It

Engineers at MIT have come up with a new approach to medical imaging that is both non-invasive and hands-off the patient. Using lasers, they can peer beneath the surface of the skin without any physical contact required, improving upon the limitations of equipment like ultrasound machines. There’s a myriad of techniques and machines that physicians…

Health Andrew Liszewski

A 3-Hour Cut of Doctor Sleep Is on the Way

Films fans slept on Doctor Sleep. Even with relatively positive reviews and DNA from both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick, the film has grossed barely over $70 million worldwide. Ouch. And yet, writer and director Mike Flanagan believes in it—to the point that the film’s getting an extra-long cut when it comes home. As he…

Movies Germain Lussier

Apple’s Secret Satellites Could Mean Trouble for ISPs

It’s no surprise that Apple has secret teams working on secret projects. Over the years, we’ve heard of Apple Cars, Apple AR Headsets—you name it. Now, a Bloomberg report says the latest “secret” team is working on satellites that could potentially beam data to devices sometime in the next five years. According to Bloomberg, Apple…

Tech News Victoria Song

Could We Have a Global Green New Deal?

The U.S. is screwing up its climate targets, but it’s far from the only country doing so. This year’s international climate talks, which included 200 nations, failed to deliver more ambitious goals to cut emissions and most countries are set to miss targets to meet the Paris Agreement goals to limit global heating. But a…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Courts Grant a Landmark Climate Victory That Could Reshape the World

We have a late entry for climate win of the year, and frankly, it just might be the biggest. On Friday, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled the Netherlands is obligated to reduce carbon pollution because it’s violating its citizens’ human rights. The precedent-setting case provides a huge bump to other court battles happening around the…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

In a New Look at Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc’s a Man on a Mission

We might be just over a month away from Star Trek: Picard, but now we can while away the wait with a short, but oh so sweet new look at the series—one that gives us tiny new hits at the familiar threats Jean-Luc Picard faces in his latest mission, as well as a reminder of…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Most Improved Tech of the Past Ten Years

In the grand scheme of things, ten years is nothing; an insignificant slice of our planet’s long timeline. But when it comes to technological innovation, a lot can change in a decade, and some of the gadgets, software, and silicon you relied on back in 2010 now seems almost ancient and ready for the antique…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Boeing’s Starliner Won’t Meet Up With Space Station After Failure to Reach Proper Orbit

Update 11:15 a.m. ET: NASA and Boeing officials shared more details about the anomaly at a press conference this morning, which opened with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine saying, “This is in fact why we test.” As he and his colleagues explained, it’s still too early to be sure, but the problem appears to be related…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Elizabeth Warren’s $10 Trillion Green New Deal Could Change America Forever

Barely two weeks after she announced a Green New Deal for the oceans, Elizabeth Warren has released the specifics for her vision of a Green New Deal for those of us who live on land. She’s the queen of plans, and I gotta say: This one is pretty damn awesome. It includes the necessary features…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

Marvel Set Pictures Tease a Major WandaVision Character and Winter Soldier’s New Look

The future of Lego movies may lie at Universal. Hulu’s plans to adapt Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles are no more. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina adds a few new faces for its next season. Plus, what’s to come in Outlander’s return, and a look at the New-Years-themed episode of Into the Dark. Spoilers, away! LEGO…

Television James Whitbrook

There’s ‘Several Orders of Magnitude’ More Plastic in Rivers Than Oceans, Study Finds

Humans have produced an estimated 10 billion metric tons of plastic since the industrial era, most which has ended up as permanent waste in the environment that will define Homo sapiens’ legacy in the fossil record. While the gigantic mass of plastic choking the Pacific is the most visible representation of the problem, ocean plastic…

Conservation Peter Deneen

Water Thieves Steal 80,000 Gallons in Australia as Our Mad Max-Style Future Becomes Reality

Thieves stole roughly 80,000 gallons of water in a region of Australia that’s suffering from one of the worst droughts in the history of the country. And with record-breaking heat and bushfires getting even larger, it feels like Australia is living in the future. That future, unfortunately, looks a lot like Mad Max. Police in…

Climate Change Matt Novak

The Witcher Takes Way Too Damn Long to Get Interesting, But It Gets There

The Witcher knows when to not quite take itself seriously. For every bloody battle, gruesome monster, or dire portent, there’s a gag, a cheesy bard song, or, indeed, Henry Cavill in a bathtub. At its best, it balances these elements to create a story that, if not quite the most dramatic fantasy saga, is fun…

Television James Whitbrook

Netflix Autoplays the Murder of Kittens to Angry Subscribers

At a time when its seat as top U.S. streaming service has never been more precarious, the fact that Netflix would decide now to push out a docuseries about a creep who tortures and murders kittens among other horrifying acts is . . . a choice. But one I can at least wrap my head…

Internet Alyse Stanley

Need a Lyft? Too bad, Dick Assman

And before you ask: Yes, that’s a real name. It seems Lyft took its content moderation duties a little too seriously Thursday when its algorithm began flagging certain users’ names—you know, the kind that might earn a giggle on the school playground like “Cummings” or “Dick”—as inappropriate. These users received alerts from the ridesharing company…

Transportation Alyse Stanley

This Doctor Who Preview Hints at How Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Will Be ‘Tested’

Jodie Whittaker is back in her sophomore season as the Doctor, but what is waiting for her outside the TARDIS? In this latest preview for season 12 of Doctor Who, the cast and crew share how the latest threat to the Doctor will test her like never before…and could even isolate her from her friends.…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Ransomware Goons Had a Great 2019, With At Least 948 Reported Attacks

Ransomware operators are closing out a year of extorting local governments, hospitals, and schools across the country with a bang, with at least four more U.S. cities falling victim to sophisticated scams this month alone and a recent report tallying the total number of incidents at nearly a thousand. In Pensacola, Florida, a cyberattack using…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Stephen King’s Jerusalem’s Lot Is Set to Become a Gothic Horror Series Starring Adrien Brody

It’s been about five minutes since the last Stephen King adaptation was announced, so as the law of the land dictates, here’s another one for the files: Jerusalem’s Lot. The supernaturally troubled town, which just got quite the spotlight on Hulu’s Castle Rock, is getting its own series with an Oscar-winning star attached. Deadline reports…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Ring Sure Does Have a Lot of Password Leaks That Are Entirely Your Fault

One of Ring’s stated goals is to “reduce crime in neighborhoods by connecting people.” What customers didn’t expect is that those people would be criminals who’d be spying on them in their homes, occasionally yelling racist or threatening things at their children. On Thursday, BuzzFeed News reported that at least 3,672 Ring camera owners had…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Native Hawaiians Scored a Major Victory in the Fight Over the Thirty Meter Telescope

MIT Engineers Create Laser Ultrasounds That Can Look Inside Your Body Without You Even Feeling It

A 3-Hour Cut of Doctor Sleep Is on the Way

Apple’s Secret Satellites Could Mean Trouble for ISPs

Could We Have a Global Green New Deal?

Courts Grant a Landmark Climate Victory That Could Reshape the World

In a New Look at Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc’s a Man on a Mission

The Most Improved Tech of the Past Ten Years

Boeing’s Starliner Won’t Meet Up With Space Station After Failure to Reach Proper Orbit

Elizabeth Warren’s $10 Trillion Green New Deal Could Change America Forever

Marvel Set Pictures Tease a Major WandaVision Character and Winter Soldier’s New Look

There’s ‘Several Orders of Magnitude’ More Plastic in Rivers Than Oceans, Study Finds

Water Thieves Steal 80,000 Gallons in Australia as Our Mad Max-Style Future Becomes Reality

The Witcher Takes Way Too Damn Long to Get Interesting, But It Gets There

Netflix Autoplays the Murder of Kittens to Angry Subscribers

Need a Lyft? Too bad, Dick Assman

This Doctor Who Preview Hints at How Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Will Be ‘Tested’

Ransomware Goons Had a Great 2019, With At Least 948 Reported Attacks

Stephen King’s Jerusalem’s Lot Is Set to Become a Gothic Horror Series Starring Adrien Brody

Ring Sure Does Have a Lot of Password Leaks That Are Entirely Your Fault

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