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Twitter Borked Its Own Platform Trying to Fix Its Nazi Ad-Targeting Problem

Like most companies in the tech realm, Twitter is no stranger to weirdly hollow apologies. Some of the company’s greatest hits happened when it was grilled on offensive trending topics (whoops!), leaking account info to hackers (oopsie!), and failing to deal with the harassment-filled cesspool a lot of us know the platform to be (lol,…

Tech Policy Shoshana Wodinsky Jan 22 '20

Star Trek: Picard Welcomes Back Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan for Season 2

Sir Patrick Stewart asked, and Whoopi Goldberg said yes! Earlier today, Jean-Luc Picard himself dropped by ABC’s The View to promote his highly anticipated CBS All Access show Star Trek: Picard, and—in a slightly unusual twist on the casting process—asked his former Next Generation co-star to come aboard for season two. Of course, on Star…

io9 Germain Lussier Jan 22 '20

Deadly Wuhan Virus in China May Have Come from Snakes, Scientists Say

As an outbreak of a newly discovered SARS-like virus threatens to spiral out of control in China, some scientists think they’ve uncovered its animal origins. Their new research suggests the virus is native to snakes. The germ in question, dubbed 2019-nCoV for now, is a type of coronavirus. While most coronaviruses that sicken people cause…

Health Ed Cara Jan 22 '20

The Most Important Thing The Rise of Skywalker Reinforces From The Last Jedi

On the surface, it’s easy to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as a rejection of the more subversive elements of The Last Jedi—it re-litigates the origins of our heroes, dredging up a past its predecessor was more than happy to move on from. It could, if you wanted to get a little bit…

Movies James Whitbrook Jan 22 '20

The Pentagon’s Plan to Pepper Space With Surveillance Satellites Is Taking Shape

New details have emerged about the Pentagon’s ambitious plan to build seven different defense constellations, the first of which will include hundreds of surveillance satellites that are expected to attain full global coverage in just six years. Known as the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA), it’s the first major initiative from the newly hatched Space…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jan 22 '20

Personally, I Would NOT Compare Journalists to Sexual Predators as the Quibi CEO Reportedly Did

Just a couple of months ahead of Quibi’s official launch, it appears the company’s leadership has already developed a, shall we say, fraught relationship with the press and its reporting on the company’s inner-workings. Quibi, the short-form video streaming service that’s set to launch in April, is headed by Dreamworks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and former…

Internet Catie Keck Jan 22 '20

Surprise, a Witcher Anime Film Is on the Way at Netflix

Netflix has been singing the praises of Henry Cavill’s The Witcher, including claiming (based on some questionable data) that it’s the most successful series in the history of the streaming platform. Season two is on track for a 2021 release but fans may not have to wait that long to toss a coin to their…

Anime Beth Elderkin Jan 22 '20

Amazon Engineer Leaked Private Encryption Keys. Outside Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer last week inadvertently made public almost a gigabyte’s worth of sensitive data, including their own personal documents as well as passwords and cryptographic keys to various AWS environments. While these kinds of leaks are not unusual or special, what is noteworthy here is how quickly the employee’s credentials were…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jan 22 '20

Open Channel: What Would Be Your Ultimate Star Trek Crew?

Tomorrow, Star Trek: Picard finally begins, as we see a returned Jean-Luc go on a brand new mission…one that requires him to scrounge up a new crew to command. But if instead of having to operate outside of Starfleet rules, and with some Trek-patented temporal anomaly goodness, if you could pick any heroes of the…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 22 '20

A Spanish Beach Town Is Filling Up With Sea Foam

Tossa de Mar is an absurdly beautiful vacation town in Catalonia, Spain. It’s got clear blue water views, a variety of European cuisines, and for a limited time only, massive amounts of weird ass sea foam. A powerful storm blasted the region on Tuesday, turning the ocean into a tempest. That whipped up a thick…

Earth Science Dharna Noor Jan 22 '20

You Soon Won’t Be Able to Play EA’s Official Tetris Game On Your iPhone

In a stark reminder that you rarely actually own anything you buy digitally, Electronic Arts’ iOS Tetris games will not only be disappearing from the App Store on April 21, but the games themselves will no longer be playable on iPhones and iPads—even if you paid for them. Players opening either game on their iOS…

Games Andrew Liszewski Jan 22 '20

Legends of Tomorrow Returns With Fame, Glory, and Heartbreaking Earnestness

Crisis on Infinite Earths changed the status quo for the entire Arrowverse. This includes Legends of Tomorrow, as one of its Legends became a Paragon and witnessed the death of a dear friend. The season five premiere tackles the complexity of that situation and other major character shifts in a way only Legends can: as…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin Jan 22 '20

Sure Looks Like Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox Leaked on Twitter

Microsoft caught people with a small surprise when it announced its next big game console—the Xbox Series X—late last year at the 2019 Game Awards. And now, someone may have just dropped the first real-world photos of the Series X months before its official release. On Twitter, @Doug-DragoX uploaded two pics of what appears to…

Games Sam Rutherford Jan 22 '20

It’s So Cold in Florida, Iguanas Are Falling From the Sky

It’s cold in Florida, so you know what that means: falling iguanas. No, seriously. The National Weather Service Miami office issued a warning Tuesday that temperatures could dip into the 30s and 40s on Wednesday, leading to iguanas plummeting out of trees. And Twitter users confirmed Wednesday morning that many iguanas did, in fact, do…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes Jan 22 '20

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Set Pictures Give Us Our First Look at U.S. Agent

J.J. Abrams’ production company could have big plans for the Justice League Dark. No, Hugo Weaving will not be back for Matrix 4. The Expanse is beefing up its main cast for the next season. Plus, what’s to come on Legends of Tomorrow, Altered Carbon returns for round two, and get a glimpse of the…

Television James Whitbrook Jan 22 '20

DOJ Says FBI Cracked Lev Parnas’s iPhone 11 in Two Months Even as It Demands Apple Backdoor

The U.S. Department of Justice claimed in a letter to a federal judge this week that it took almost two months for the FBI to break into an iPhone 11 owned by Lev Parnas, a former associate of Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who has been sucked into the sprawling impeachment mess facing the White…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jan 22 '20

How to Build Alternative, Better, Social Media Feeds

If you can scroll through your social media feeds without coming across at least a handful of posts you’d rather not have seen, consider yourself in the minority. Most of us deal with this on a near-daily basis. But mass unfollowing people—friends, colleagues, family members—isn’t always an option. We’re here to tell you that there…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 22 '20

A Stunning New Star Wars Trailer Heralds the Final End of Clone Wars

After waiting years to wonder if it would ever get the conclusion it truly deserved, we finally have a look at the beginning of the Clone Wars’ end—and no one is prepared. Well, except Palpatine, probably. Lucasfilm has just released our first look at the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, set to…

Trailers James Whitbrook Jan 22 '20

Red Cross Has Given Out Just 25 Percent of Money Raised For Australian Bushfire Victims

The Red Cross in Australia is coming under fire from at least one local politician for disbursed just a quarter of the money collected for bushfire victims who have lost their homes. About $20.5 million of the $78.7 million ($30 million of $115 million in Australian currency) recently donated by the public to Red Cross…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 22 '20

Report: Saudi Crown Prince Personally Sent Malware to Jeff Bezos, Possibly to Steal Those Dick Pics

Here’s another twist in the mystery of just how pictures of Amazon CEO and billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezo’s dick, along with sexts to his then-mistress Lauren Sanchez, ended up in the hands of the National Enquirer last year: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have personally infected his phone with malware in…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jan 21 '20

Twitter Borked Its Own Platform Trying to Fix Its Nazi Ad-Targeting Problem

Star Trek: Picard Welcomes Back Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan for Season 2

Deadly Wuhan Virus in China May Have Come from Snakes, Scientists Say

The Most Important Thing The Rise of Skywalker Reinforces From The Last Jedi

The Pentagon’s Plan to Pepper Space With Surveillance Satellites Is Taking Shape

Personally, I Would NOT Compare Journalists to Sexual Predators as the Quibi CEO Reportedly Did

Surprise, a Witcher Anime Film Is on the Way at Netflix

Amazon Engineer Leaked Private Encryption Keys. Outside Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes

Open Channel: What Would Be Your Ultimate Star Trek Crew?

A Spanish Beach Town Is Filling Up With Sea Foam

You Soon Won’t Be Able to Play EA’s Official Tetris Game On Your iPhone

Legends of Tomorrow Returns With Fame, Glory, and Heartbreaking Earnestness

Sure Looks Like Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox Leaked on Twitter

It’s So Cold in Florida, Iguanas Are Falling From the Sky

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Set Pictures Give Us Our First Look at U.S. Agent

DOJ Says FBI Cracked Lev Parnas’s iPhone 11 in Two Months Even as It Demands Apple Backdoor

How to Build Alternative, Better, Social Media Feeds

A Stunning New Star Wars Trailer Heralds the Final End of Clone Wars

Red Cross Has Given Out Just 25 Percent of Money Raised For Australian Bushfire Victims

Report: Saudi Crown Prince Personally Sent Malware to Jeff Bezos, Possibly to Steal Those Dick Pics

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