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Uber Hub Shows Drivers It Truly Cares by Making Them Use Separate Bathrooms

Uber doesn’t have the greatest history when it comes to how it treats its drivers. Its latest gaffe? In at least one office, Uber has separated bathrooms for “partners” aka drivers, and employees. The discovery came via Erika Betts, an Uber driver who visited a Greenlight Hub office in Providence, Rhode Island. Greenlight Hubs are offices where…

Tech News Victoria Song

A Medievalist’s Guide to Decoding The Witcher’s Monsters

Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher is getting a lot of attention these days and come December 20, you can expect even more. Let’s explore the medieval folklore that inspired The Witcher saga—the monsters, the heroics, and the trouble with being a freelance monster hunter. Netflix’s upcoming series The Witcher, based on Polish author Sapkowski’s bestselling series…

io9 Sarah Durn

What’s Worse: These Gucci Snapchat Spectacles or the Video Promoting Them?

Despite multiple generations plagued by lackluster sales, Snap continues to pump out more versions of its try-hard Spectacles. But now, thanks to the release of some limited edition Gucci-themed Spectacles 3, we’re faced with an interesting question. What’s worse, the new Spectacles themselves, or the short film Snap made to promote them? At first glance,…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Coca-Cola’s Glowing Lightsaber Bottles Are the First Flexible OLED Tech I’m Willing to Pay For

I’m one hundred percent in support of a future where screens are flexible and foldable instead of fragile and easily shatterable. I’m just not willing to spend $2,000 on a folding phone or $10,000+ on a rollable TV. I will, however, happily drop $2 or $3 on a plastic bottle with a glowing lightsaber on…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Weirdly Perfect Cloud Curve Appeared Over the US

A spectacular cirrus arc, which stretched from Nebraska to northern Minnesota and Canada, foreshadowed the recent winter storms in the Midwest and New England. This cirrus arc was imaged on November 28 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. A meteorological phenomenon known as jet…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

BP Just Got Its Ass Sued For False Advertising

Lawyers with the environmental legal nonprofit ClientEarth filed a groundbreaking complaint against BP for greenwashing in their ads. They’re also calling for a ban on all fossil fuel ads, unless they come with “a tobacco-style health warning” about the dangers the industry poses to the planet. And they’re not asking for vague warnings about how…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Daisy Ridley Had a Joyous Time Filming The Rise of Skywalker, Despite It Being the End

If The Last Jedi was a dark middle chapter for Star Wars’ new trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker will likely be a brighter culmination of the struggle between the Resistance and the First Order. After all, the good guys have to win and save the day, right? But it’s not just on screen that Rise…

Movies Germain Lussier

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Major Quantum Achievement Lets Physicists ‘See’ Gravitational Waves From Deeper in the Universe

Physicists are reporting the results of a test to squeeze the vacuum of spacetime itself in order to better detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Extreme extraterrestrial events, like two black holes colliding or supernovae, may produce ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves. Here on Earth, a suite of observatories attempts to measure these…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Air Pollution May Affect Crime, But the Problem Goes Deeper Than That

Back in September, as youth around the world took to the streets for the Global Climate Strike, high schoolers in Richmond, California, were dealing with the trauma of a shooting outside De Anza High School on the same day 17-year-old Petelavanh Owen Syharath was buried after dying from cancer. The city’s residents—especially the youth—care about the environment…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Lost in Space‘s New Trailer Has Robot Feels and Spaceship Ships

And yes, there’s still danger—although it’s not just Will Robinson that needs warning about it. Netflix just dropped the full trailer for Lost in Space’s sophomore season, and while the Robinsons are just about still standing after the wild events of season one, it seems like they’re in for a bunch of new problems. Mainly…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Mulan Is No Man in Her Movie’s New Powerful Trailer

Despite the fact that Disney’s classic animated movies all expertly tugged on our heartstrings with their moving stories about love and family, the studio’s live-action remakes—while visually impressive—have largely been somewhat lacking in that emotional X factor, but the latest Mulan trailer suggests that might be about to change. Mulan’s new trailer touches on a…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Could Another of Hulu’s Marvel TV Shows Be in Trouble?

Jordan Vogt-Roberts has a tiny update on his long-in-gestation Metal Gear Solid movie. The Wheel of Time continues to flesh out its cast. Thomas Jane could be heading to the world of Stephen King. Plus, new footage from The Witcher, Kevin Conroy on bringing back his Batman Beyond voice for Crisis on Infinite Earths, and…

Television James Whitbrook

These Are the Free Windows and macOS Apps You Should Be Using

When you buy yourself a Windows or macOS machine, you’re not just buying the operating system on top of your hardware, you’re buying a suite of free apps as well. These pre-installed, built-in tools can often get overlooked or forgotten about, so we’re here to remind you how useful some of them really are. Windows…

Gadgets David Nield

39 Tattoos of Baby Yoda That Prove We’re All Obsessed With The Mandalorian

People are absolutely obsessed with Baby Yoda, a breakout character from the new Disney+ show, The Mandalorian. And it’s easy to see why. Baby Yoda is so adorable we just want to squeeze his little face and protect him forever. Fans are so obsessed that they’re already getting Baby Yoda tattoos, even before the first…

Movies Matt Novak

Pokémon Sword and Shield‘s Opal Is the Gym Leader This Generation Deserves

Each generation of Pokémon games has introduced a variety of interesting Gym Leaders who all speak to the ideals of their home cities and try their hardest to make you a better trainer as you work toward becoming the latest regional Pokémon Champion. For the most part, gym leaders have led relatively static lives that…

Games Charles Pulliam-Moore

Henry Cavill Doesn’t Care About the Snyder Cut, He Just Wants Another Superman Movie (and His Mustache Back)

At the approximate half-way point between harassment campaign and esoterically bonkers conspiracy theory, we have “the Snyder cut”—the alleged complete version of Justice League fans believe Zack Snyder finished before tragic personal circumstances lead to his departure from its production. Somehow, we’re still talking about it, but Henry Cavill wishes we weren’t. Recently the cast…

Movies James Whitbrook

Stop Using Avast and AVG Plugins Right Now

Two browsers have yanked Avast and AVG online security extensions from their web stores after a report revealed that they were unnecessarily sucking up a ton of data about users’ browsing history. Wladimir Palant, the creator behind Adblock Plus, initially surfaced the issue—which extends to Avast Online Security and Avast SafePrice as well as Avast-owned…

Tech News Catie Keck

Hair Dyes and Straighteners Might Be a Breast Cancer Risk, Especially for Black Women, Study Finds

If you’re a woman, regularly coloring or straightening your hair might come with a hidden risk, according to new government-led research. The study found a link between using permanent hair dye and straightening products and an increased risk of breast cancer in women, especially for black women. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health looked…

Health Ed Cara

You Could Buy Yourself a Mustang, Or These $30,000 Frozen Dolls

No one does movie merchandising like Disney, but if all the Frozen II figures, playsets, and plush toys feel too pedestrian for your discerning collecting tastes, Saks Fifth Avenue will sell you a set of Anna, Elsa, and Olaf dolls bejewelled with a staggering amount of precious gems—to the tune of $30,000. https://gizmodo.com/there-s-so-much-more-to-love-in-frozen-ii-1839780988 Designed in…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

Should You Be Allowed to Copyright a Law? We’re Going to Find Out

Copyright law, boring on its face, has posed various unprecedented threats to intellectual freedoms in recent internet history. It threatens to kill our links, kill our news, kill our memes, kill our precious videos of babies dancing to Prince. And yesterday, the Supreme Court considered the momentously stupid question: should you be able to paywall…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Uber Hub Shows Drivers It Truly Cares by Making Them Use Separate Bathrooms

A Medievalist’s Guide to Decoding The Witcher’s Monsters

What’s Worse: These Gucci Snapchat Spectacles or the Video Promoting Them?

Coca-Cola’s Glowing Lightsaber Bottles Are the First Flexible OLED Tech I’m Willing to Pay For

A Weirdly Perfect Cloud Curve Appeared Over the US

BP Just Got Its Ass Sued For False Advertising

Daisy Ridley Had a Joyous Time Filming The Rise of Skywalker, Despite It Being the End

Major Quantum Achievement Lets Physicists ‘See’ Gravitational Waves From Deeper in the Universe

Air Pollution May Affect Crime, But the Problem Goes Deeper Than That

Lost in Space‘s New Trailer Has Robot Feels and Spaceship Ships

Mulan Is No Man in Her Movie’s New Powerful Trailer

Could Another of Hulu’s Marvel TV Shows Be in Trouble?

These Are the Free Windows and macOS Apps You Should Be Using

39 Tattoos of Baby Yoda That Prove We’re All Obsessed With The Mandalorian

Pokémon Sword and Shield‘s Opal Is the Gym Leader This Generation Deserves

Henry Cavill Doesn’t Care About the Snyder Cut, He Just Wants Another Superman Movie (and His Mustache Back)

Stop Using Avast and AVG Plugins Right Now

Hair Dyes and Straighteners Might Be a Breast Cancer Risk, Especially for Black Women, Study Finds

You Could Buy Yourself a Mustang, Or These $30,000 Frozen Dolls

Should You Be Allowed to Copyright a Law? We’re Going to Find Out

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