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Facebook Employee Fell to His Death at Menlo Park Headquarters

A Facebook employee died on Thursday at the company’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters around 11:30am local time. The incident occurred outside a four-story office on 162 Jefferson Drive. The City of Melo Park confirmed the man’s death, saying in a statement that “there is no foul play involved in this apparent suicide.” Facebook confirmed the…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Airline Carbon Emissions Are Soaring Up, Up, and Away

All our family vacations, frequent flier miles, and time in the sky come at a cost to the planet. A report out Thursday shows that carbon dioxide emissions from commercial flights increased by more than 30 percent in 2018 compared to 2013. That’s bad news for the climate. The working paper, published by the International…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

Alphabet’s Drone Unit Partners with FedEx and Walgreens for Drone Deliveries

After being the first drone operator to be granted its Air Carrier Certification earlier this year in April, Wing (a subsidiary of Alphabet) has partnered with FedEx, Walgreens, and local craft goods retailer Sugar Magnolia to conduct a “first-of-its-kind” drone delivery trial later this fall. The trial will take place in Christiansburg, Virginia, and will…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

It’s Time to Listen to the Teens

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg landed in the U.S. earlier this month and has since injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the climate conversation. Her climate strike movement is gearing up for a huge global climate strike on Friday. Thunberg will be in New York, but she’s taken to Washington, D.C. this week, including…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

This Is Who the X-Men Really Are

We see them. But do we know them? As the House and Powers of X duology has raced toward its conclusion, we’ve seen parallel tales that place mutantkind at its most esoteric and conceptual. In Powers’ far flung future timelines, we’ve seen mutantkind diminished, but yet also distilled to its purest concept: a literal living…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Submerged for Decades, Spanish ‘Stonehenge’ Reemerges After Drought

Receding water levels in Spain’s Valdecañas Reservoir has exposed a stone monument dating back to between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Unusually warm weather produced drought conditions across much of Europe this past summer, including Spain. The lack of rain, while a headache for farmers and gardeners, has resulted in the complete re-emergence of an…

Human History George Dvorsky

Shudder’s Creepshow Horror Anthology Series Is Off to a Delightfully Unsettling Start

With Halloween closing in fast, Shudder’s new take on Creepshow is almost here and the first episode delivers a pair of promising tales—one from Stephen King and one from Bird Box author Josh Malerman—wrapped in a package that evokes the comic-book vibe of the King-penned, George A. Romero-directed 1982 film. Fear not, we won’t be…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Let Whoopi Goldberg Explain the Importance of Her New Look for The Stand

When noted EGOT Whoopi Goldberg stepped onto The View’s set recently sporting a new headful of snow white locs, her co-hosts commented on the style change. The look, Goldberg explained, is part of her costume for her upcoming role in CBS All Access’ The Stand, where she’s set to play Mother Abigail. In Stephen King’s…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Christopher Eccleston Opens Up About the Mental Health Struggles He Faced While Filming Doctor Who

It’s long been known that Christopher Eccleston’s brief tenure as the Ninth Doctor was set amid a backdrop of behind-the-scenes problems, ones that eventually led to the actor’s early exit from the show. But in his new autobiography, Eccleston dives deeper than he ever publicly has before to reveal the stresses that plagued his time…

io9 James Whitbrook

North America Has Lost Almost 30 Percent of Its Birds Since 1970, Upsetting New Study Finds

There are almost 3 billion fewer North American birds in 2019 than there were in 1970, accounting for a 29 percent decline, according to a new study. It’s clear that humans have done a number on the environment, since the climate is warming and species are going extinct at an alarming rate. But birds in…

Conservation Ryan F. Mandelbaum

WeWork Is Exposing an ‘Astronomical Amount’ of Data on Poorly Protected Wifi Network

It turns out WeWork’s dicey wifi problem is exactly as bad as suspected. Just a month after a report surfaced alarming security risks associated with the wifi offered at WeWork locations, an investigation from CNET has illustrated just how serious those security holes can be. The outlet reported it was able to review wifi scans…

Tech News Catie Keck

‘There Is Always Hope:’ Why Young Adults Are Coming to the UN Youth Climate Summit

Hundreds of young people from around the world have congregated in New York. It’s nearly Climate Week, a huge strike is happening on Friday, and the United Nations has awarded some 100 young climate activists from different corners of the globe “Green Tickets” to the first-ever UN Youth Climate Summit this weekend. There, youth will…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Tom Welling Will Play Superman Once More in Crisis on Infinite Earths

It’s finally happening. After spending the entirety of Smallville teasing it, Tom Welling’s Superman is becoming the Man of Tomorrow, thanks to a trip to the Arrow universe. Deadline reports that Welling will reprise his role as Clark Kent for the upcoming CW/DC crossover extravaganza Crisis on Infinite Earths, which already has two Supermen in…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Non-Drinkers Can Still Get Liver Disease, Thanks to Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria

Researchers say they’ve stumbled upon a peculiar cause of liver disease: a kind of bacteria that produces alcohol inside our gut. According to lead author Jing Yuan, a doctor at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in China, their discovery was completely accidental. He and his colleagues had been treating a patient with severe fatty liver…

Health Ed Cara

Ad Astra Is One of the Best Space Movies in Years

Gorgeous spaceships flying deep into space to save planet Earth. Peril in an infinite abyss. Beautifully composed reflections off a helmet. We’ve seen it all before. Even the most futuristic space movies usually feel somewhat familiar and yet Ad Astra, the latest film from director James Gray, does not. It tells a seemingly simple story…

Movies Germain Lussier

Tropical Depression Imelda Has Dumped More Than 40 Inches of Rain on the Texas Gulf Coast

Tropical Depression Imelda might not have the same ring as Hurricane Imelda, but the impacts of the storm are for real. The National Weather Service has issued a civil emergency warning as a flooding crisis unfolds in the region rocked by Harvey’s historic floods just two years ago. Upwards of 40 inches of rain have…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Huawei’s 2010 Concept Video About the Year 2020 Is Super Awkward

When I was a kid, the year 2020 seemed so far away. But now that “the future” is almost here, it’s fun to look back at what we thought 2020 might look like. Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications company and a lightning rod for controversy in the U.S., had its own idea about what the…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Video Explores How the Muppets and The Dark Crystal Changed the Way We Think About Puppetry

One of the magical things about puppetry are the multitude of ways in which the art form lends itself to drastically different kinds of storytelling. We all grow up being exposed to puppets in one form or another as children through things like Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, but for many, there comes that…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Apple Card Won’t Change Your Life—But It Will Hook You on Apple Pay

, When you plunk down the Apple Card to split a bill, it makes a satisfying clank. The snow-white card with its silver trimmings is impossible to ignore—partly because few cards are white, and partly because of that clanking noise. One of your friends will probably pick it up, turn it in their hands and…

Other Gadgets Victoria Song

Researchers Think It’s a Good Idea to Secure Your Phone Using the One Thing You Perpetually Lose

Apple’s FaceID authentication system started moving smartphone users away from relying on fingerprints to secure their mobile devices, which are arguably less secure. But researchers think they’ve come up with an even better biometric tool for protecting a device that uses a part of the body that’s nearly impossible to spoof: a user’s ear canals.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facebook Employee Fell to His Death at Menlo Park Headquarters

Airline Carbon Emissions Are Soaring Up, Up, and Away

Alphabet’s Drone Unit Partners with FedEx and Walgreens for Drone Deliveries

It’s Time to Listen to the Teens

This Is Who the X-Men Really Are

Submerged for Decades, Spanish ‘Stonehenge’ Reemerges After Drought

Shudder’s Creepshow Horror Anthology Series Is Off to a Delightfully Unsettling Start

Let Whoopi Goldberg Explain the Importance of Her New Look for The Stand

Christopher Eccleston Opens Up About the Mental Health Struggles He Faced While Filming Doctor Who

North America Has Lost Almost 30 Percent of Its Birds Since 1970, Upsetting New Study Finds

WeWork Is Exposing an ‘Astronomical Amount’ of Data on Poorly Protected Wifi Network

‘There Is Always Hope:’ Why Young Adults Are Coming to the UN Youth Climate Summit

Tom Welling Will Play Superman Once More in Crisis on Infinite Earths

Non-Drinkers Can Still Get Liver Disease, Thanks to Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria

Ad Astra Is One of the Best Space Movies in Years

Tropical Depression Imelda Has Dumped More Than 40 Inches of Rain on the Texas Gulf Coast

Huawei’s 2010 Concept Video About the Year 2020 Is Super Awkward

This Video Explores How the Muppets and The Dark Crystal Changed the Way We Think About Puppetry

The Apple Card Won’t Change Your Life—But It Will Hook You on Apple Pay

Researchers Think It’s a Good Idea to Secure Your Phone Using the One Thing You Perpetually Lose

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