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A New Clip From Tonight’s Crisis Episode Features a Very Different Superman

The crisis is growing, and the heroes of the Arrowverse are going to need an even bigger team to take on the Anti-Monitor. In a clip from tonight’s Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two (technically Batwoman), the team welcomes the latest Clark Kent, played by Legends of Tomorrow’s Brandon Routh. It’s the first time Routh’s…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Finally! You’ll Be Able to Move Events Between Google Calendars on Your Phone

If you’ve ever tried editing your Google Calendar from your phone, then you know it can be a total drag. But now it appears Google is rolling out an update that will let you move your events from one calendar to another. It’s not an update that everyone might break out the champagne for, but…

Tech News Victoria Song

Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon’s Sprawling Home Surveillance Network

Gizmodo examined more than 20,000 Ring cameras to find a sprawling surveillance net covering the nation.

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Kathleen Kennedy on Why The Rise of Skywalker Revealed Two of Its Villainous Secrets in the Trailers

Interviewing someone like Kathleen Kennedy isn’t like interviewing an actor or director. As the president of Lucasfilm, she isn’t just involved in what we see on screen, she’s involved in everything happening in Star Wars—from the marketing and publicity to the merchandising, theme parks, and more. And while io9’s interview with Kennedy and fellow Rise…

Movies Germain Lussier

Google Packs a Bunch of Software Upgrades Into Its First Pixel Feature Drop

It’s the season of giving, and it seems that in spirit of the holidays, Google is rewarding Pixel phones owners with a slate of software upgrades as part of its first Pixel feature drop. The three headline improvements include enhanced editing for pictures stored in Google Photos, tweaks to Google’s Call Screener, and better quality…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Climate Change Threatens Water Resources for Nearly 2 Billion People

Around the world, billions of people rely on water from snow and glaciers. However, rising temperatures and political turmoil could mean rapidly diminishing water resources for these vulnerable regions—most notably being high mountain Asia according to new findings released at the American Geophysical Union. The study, also published in Nature on Monday, refers to these valuable…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

Newly Discovered Widow Spider Lays Bright Purple Eggs

Scientists have discovered a spider living in South Africa that’s truly a sight to behold. The arachnids feature a scarlet, exclamation mark-shaped blotch on their backs, along with a white squiggle pattern that creates the vague shape of a human face, mouth agape in horror. Oh, and they lay bright purple eggs. The South African…

Biology Jake Buehler

U.S. Army Worries Humanity is Biased Against Deadly Cyborg Soldiers Because of Movies Like Terminator

The U.S. Army is hard at work imagining what the human-machine hybrids of the future will be able to accomplish on the battlefields of 2050. But the folks in charge of keeping America safe also have their concerns. Specifically, the U.S. Army is worried that humans are biased against deadly cyborg soldiers, just because we’ve…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Gorgeous Garmin Hybrid Smartwatch Is Too Damn Complicated to Beat Fitbit

When it comes to Garmin, most people I know tend to think of GPS navigation for their cars. When I ask them about smartwatches or fitness trackers, the first company that comes to their mind is Fitbit or Apple. If they’re not a runner, they generally haven’t heard of Garmin watches. As a wearables reviewer,…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song

European Space Agency Approves Mission to Yoink a Piece of Trash Out of Orbit

The European Space Agency has commissioned the first-ever mission to remove a single piece of space debris from orbit. Humans put so many satellites into low Earth orbit that the space around us is now littered with junk. Much of this debris breaks up in collisions with other pieces of debris, resulting in over 120…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

RIP Everyone: A Whole Lot of People Died in the First Episode of CW’s Crisis

I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that “a lot of people died” in the first episode of Crisis on Infinite Earths, a five-episode miniseries of nearly a dozen DC universes where the plot is “everyone is gonna die.” We all knew going into the huge CW Arrowverse crossover that heroes and cameos would…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz

T-Mobile and Sprint Head to Court to Defend Their Very Bad Megamerger

More than a dozen states are suing to stop a deal that would see two of the top U.S. telecoms companies merge into one, a move that state attorneys general argue would harm consumers and raise prices. That trial was scheduled to begin early Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New…

Tech News Catie Keck

A Fight Over a ‘False Solution’ Is at the Center of Madrid Climate Talks

Civic leaders are gathered in Madrid for the international climate talks known as COP25. And they’re entering the crucial final five days of negotiations. The stakes couldn’t be higher for COP25. The United Nation’s (UN) own recent reports show that the only way we can avert climate disaster will be rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions…

Environmental Justice Dharna Noor

Remembering René Auberjonois, Star Trek‘s Compelling, Curmudgeonly, and Lovingly Comic Odo

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s moral murkiness meant that a lot of its heroes, unlike many of the noble Trek stars that came before them, started out as kind-of jerks who softened and grew with the time we spent with them across seven seasons. But it wasn’t really a Starfleet officer on the show that…

io9 James Whitbrook

Antarctic Explorers’ Brains Shrunk During a 14-Month Polar Expedition

Spending over a year in the bleak desolation that is Antarctica might change your brain for the worse, according to new research out this month. It seems to show that polar explorers who lived for 14 months at an Antarctica research station experienced brain shrinkage, likely as a result of their isolation and boredom. But…

Health Ed Cara

Jeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could Love

Renowned Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church has focused his work on reversing the effects of aging, helping humans become immune to viruses, and eradicating genetic diseases. He’s hoping to come closer to accomplishing at least one of those goals with a disturbing dating app that swipes right on eugenics. On Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes…

Health Jennings Brown

Witness Spooky Evidence of Snapchat’s New Face-Swapping Feature

Sometimes social media dipsomania comes into harsh relief, as it did today when the technology wars manifested themselves as the ability to superimpose your face on a cat: aka, Snapchat’s new social drug “Cameos.” It’s terrifying. As TechCrunch first reported, Snapchat has selectively released a beta version of a feature which allows users to scan…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Birds of Prey Is Bringing Together More Than the Iconic Girl Gang From the Comics

Harley Quinn just wants some fucking coleslaw. It’s March 12, 2019, and on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, one of the key scenes in Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is being shot. This is day 41 of 64 on the production and the scene features Renee Montoya…

Movies Germain Lussier

AMD and Intel Could Be Screwed By New Chinese Mandate Forbidding Foreign Technology

Following the U.S. ban that prohibited domestic companies from supplying equipment to Huawei back in May, the technological Cold War between the U.S. and China just got a bit more intense now that Beijing has ordered all Chinese government and public-facing offices to replace any equipment featuring foreign components. According to The Financial Times, China’s…

Politics Sam Rutherford

Watchmen’s Post Credits Scene Answered One Important Question While Raising Another

It took Watchmen eight episodes to do it, but the series finally managed to make Ozymandias’ side story interesting. But the new revelations about what the world’s smartest man is up to continue long after this week’s credits have finished rolling. One of the only things Adrian Veidt ever really wanted out of life was…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

A New Clip From Tonight’s Crisis Episode Features a Very Different Superman

Finally! You’ll Be Able to Move Events Between Google Calendars on Your Phone

Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon’s Sprawling Home Surveillance Network

Kathleen Kennedy on Why The Rise of Skywalker Revealed Two of Its Villainous Secrets in the Trailers

Google Packs a Bunch of Software Upgrades Into Its First Pixel Feature Drop

Climate Change Threatens Water Resources for Nearly 2 Billion People

Newly Discovered Widow Spider Lays Bright Purple Eggs

U.S. Army Worries Humanity is Biased Against Deadly Cyborg Soldiers Because of Movies Like Terminator

This Gorgeous Garmin Hybrid Smartwatch Is Too Damn Complicated to Beat Fitbit

European Space Agency Approves Mission to Yoink a Piece of Trash Out of Orbit

RIP Everyone: A Whole Lot of People Died in the First Episode of CW’s Crisis

T-Mobile and Sprint Head to Court to Defend Their Very Bad Megamerger

A Fight Over a ‘False Solution’ Is at the Center of Madrid Climate Talks

Remembering René Auberjonois, Star Trek‘s Compelling, Curmudgeonly, and Lovingly Comic Odo

Antarctic Explorers’ Brains Shrunk During a 14-Month Polar Expedition

Jeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could Love

Witness Spooky Evidence of Snapchat’s New Face-Swapping Feature

Birds of Prey Is Bringing Together More Than the Iconic Girl Gang From the Comics

AMD and Intel Could Be Screwed By New Chinese Mandate Forbidding Foreign Technology

Watchmen’s Post Credits Scene Answered One Important Question While Raising Another

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