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Report: Apple Won’t Let Siri Say Feminism

The Guardian is reporting that internal documentation governing Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, was rewritten to specifically avoid the word feminism. The company told the Guardian “[o]ur approach is to be factual with inclusive responses rather than offer opinions.” The opinion here being… feminism is okay. https://gizmodo.com/apple-contractors-reportedly-overhear-sensitive-informa-1836760314 Presumably, the employees of Apple have no beef with…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Elliot Finally Faces His True Enemy in the New Teaser for Mr. Robot‘s Last Season

As Mr. Robot draws to its final end, it’s time for Elliot to have a real showdown with the leader of the Dark Army. USA has dropped a new teaser for Mr. Robot’s fourth and final season, which sees Elliot and fsociety take the fight to the Chinese hacker group that was once a potential…

io9 James Whitbrook

Facebook’s Antitrust Problems Just Got Worse

New York Attorney General Letitia James launched a multi-state antitrust investigation into Facebook on Friday, applying a new layer of pesky regulatory scrutiny to the scandal-ridden social network. The launch of the investigation comes amid greater federal and state oversight of major technology companies, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple. The state-level probe will examine…

Social Media Andrew Couts

Peter Capaldi Teases More Mysteries About His Role in The Suicide Squad

Richard Madden says there are more intriguing additions to come to the cast of The Eternals. Ghost Draft continues to cast more mysterious roles. A script might finally be done for the new Batman movie. Jon Favreau discusses how the rise of the First Order could play into The Mandalorian. Plus, meet Legacies’ newest bloodsucker.…

Television James Whitbrook

Absolute Legend Catches iPhone in Midair While Riding Roller Coaster

Samuel Kempf was riding a roller coaster in Spain when he saw an iPhone hurtling through the air. Lesser men may have simply watched helplessly as the phone plummeted to Earth, no doubt getting destroyed in the process, but Kempf is not lesser men. He jumped into action, and like a figure from a Renaissance…

Tech News Matt Novak

Sony Cashes In On Nostalgia With 40th-Anniversary Walkman (Now Cassette-Free!)

In honor of the original Walkman’s 40th birthday, Sony is releasing an anniversary edition of the iconic cassette player that first made music portable, the company revealed at IFA on Thursday. Only, it doesn’t actually play cassettes, so don’t go breaking your collection out of storage. And it’ll set you back about three times as…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

Ring’s Partnerships with Police Has Senator Demanding Answers

Ring’s controversial relationship with police departments nationwide has landed the Amazon-owned home security company in the crosshairs of congressional concern. Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday outlining concerns about how footage from the company’s doorbell cameras is accessed by authorities. The document also includes a list of 10…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley

Sophia Takal’s Black Christmas Horror Remake Looks Like a Cut Above

I hear you, horror fans: Bob Clark’s much-loved proto-slasher film Black Christmas—the original “he’s calling from inside the house!” flick—already got a forgettable remake back in 2006. But this first trailer for a brand-new take on the story looks very promising. Notably, it’s directed and co-written (with April Wolfe) by Sophia Takal, who made one…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

How Doctor Sleep Stays True to Both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick’s Versions of The Shining

The problem with making a sequel to The Shining is, which version of The Shining are you talking about? The upcoming movie Doctor Sleep is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. And, of course, King’s novel continues the story of his original version of The Shining, a version that burns…

Movies Germain Lussier

After Its Split With Marvel, Sony Still Seems Confident in Spider-Man and Its Yet-to-Launch Shared Universe

All remains quiet on the Spider-Man front. At a Variety sponsored event on Thursday, the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, Tony Vinciquerra, talked at length about the franchise, focusing mostly on his confidence in Sony’s plan moving forward. “Spider-Man was fine before the event movies, did better with the event movies, and now that…

Movies Germain Lussier

No, NASA Did Not Say It’s Developing Its Own Cryptocurrency

Let’s get one thing straight right now: “crypto” means “cryptography.” It does not mean “cryptocurrency.” Unless you’re a person who thinks the blockchain is the future, that is, which is how we ended up with the dumbest news cycle this side of a measles outbreak. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reporter and tall lost son of Gizmodo…

Tech News Andrew Couts

Facebook Throttles Satirical Women’s Site Reductress for Sharing ‘Clickbait’

A satirical women’s site that lambasts clickbait content is being suppressed on Facebook because the social media platform determined Reductress was sharing clickbait. Upon first glance, Reductress stories look like the kind of, well, reductive posts that content mills churn out with the aim of infesting Facebook. Classic Reductress examples include “What Surprised Me Most…

Social Media Jennings Brown

Influential Coalition With 15 Million Members Calls for Outright Ban on Facial Recognition

More than thirty organizations on Thursday called for a nationwide ban against government use of face recognition calling the technology “unreliable, biased, and a threat to basic rights and safety.” Led by Fight for the Future, a U.S. digital rights organization, the coalition intends to muster its 15 million combined members to flood the inboxes…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

United and Southwest Will Allow Passengers to Opt-Out of 737 Max Flights

Even after Boeing’s beleaguered Boeing 737 Max jets return to the skies, some Stephen Brashearwary passengers won’t be expected to board them—at least if they’re flying United Airlines. The policy is not new but reiterated this week by a United Airlines executive during an investor conference. CNN on Wednesday cited Boeing’s chief commercial officer Andrew…

Tech News Catie Keck

LG’s New Dual-Screen Phone Is Like Two Phones in One!

The name says it all: LG G8X ThinkQ Dual Screen. It’s an updated LG G8 phone with an additional screen that effectively operates as a second device tethered to the main one. In a briefing at IFA in Berlin, the company framed the dual-screen phone as the inevitable solution to our multitasking inclinations. After spending…

Reviews Adam Clark Estes

Apple Music Is In Your Browser Now Because Services Are King

Ahead of Apple’s big event next week a new beta has popped up at the URL https://beta.music.apple.com. The beta gives you access to Apple Music, the rebranded, music-focused element of the entity formally known as iTunes. iTunes is expected to be removed from macOS with the upcoming update to 10.15 Catalina, and already replaced iTunes…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Oh God, People Really Are Anti-Vaxxing Their Pets

A new report from the UK seems to confirm vets’ worst fears, suggesting that pet vaccination rates in the country have dropped off substantially in recent years. Veterinarians have been desperately reminding everyone that vaccines are safe and won’t give pets autism (seriously). But it wasn’t entirely clear if pet owners really were shying away…

Health Ed Cara

The EPA Is Pausing Operations at Toxic Sites as Hurricane Dorian Lashes the Southeast

In response to Hurricane Dorian arriving in the South, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun to temporarily shutdown operations at some of the region’s most toxic facilities. Hurricane-force winds from the Category 2 storm are whipping across parts of coastal Carolinas and Georgia. Storm surge could be as high as 7 feet in parts…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Titans‘ Showrunner Knows the Superhero Series Is Getting Ridiculously Big and He Likes It

We recently had the chance to speak with Titans showrunner Greg Walker ahead of the premiere of the second season of the DC Universe series. He explained that more than simply seeing the heroes become better allies with one another, the show is also going to dig into the things about them as a collective…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

Newly Discovered Japanese Duck-Billed Dinosaur Was a Cretaceous Beach Bum

Introducing Kamuysaurus japonicus—an entirely new genus and species of hadrosaur from Japan. The location of its fossilized remains suggests these majestic herbivores browsed ancient shorelines, expanding our knowledge of this wildly successful group of dinosaurs. New research published today in Scientific Reports describes Kamuysaurus japonicus, a species of hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, pulled from Japan’s…

Biology George Dvorsky

Report: Apple Won’t Let Siri Say Feminism

Elliot Finally Faces His True Enemy in the New Teaser for Mr. Robot‘s Last Season

Facebook’s Antitrust Problems Just Got Worse

Peter Capaldi Teases More Mysteries About His Role in The Suicide Squad

Absolute Legend Catches iPhone in Midair While Riding Roller Coaster

Sony Cashes In On Nostalgia With 40th-Anniversary Walkman (Now Cassette-Free!)

Ring’s Partnerships with Police Has Senator Demanding Answers

Sophia Takal’s Black Christmas Horror Remake Looks Like a Cut Above

How Doctor Sleep Stays True to Both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick’s Versions of The Shining

After Its Split With Marvel, Sony Still Seems Confident in Spider-Man and Its Yet-to-Launch Shared Universe

No, NASA Did Not Say It’s Developing Its Own Cryptocurrency

Facebook Throttles Satirical Women’s Site Reductress for Sharing ‘Clickbait’

Influential Coalition With 15 Million Members Calls for Outright Ban on Facial Recognition

United and Southwest Will Allow Passengers to Opt-Out of 737 Max Flights

LG’s New Dual-Screen Phone Is Like Two Phones in One!

Apple Music Is In Your Browser Now Because Services Are King

Oh God, People Really Are Anti-Vaxxing Their Pets

The EPA Is Pausing Operations at Toxic Sites as Hurricane Dorian Lashes the Southeast

Titans‘ Showrunner Knows the Superhero Series Is Getting Ridiculously Big and He Likes It

Newly Discovered Japanese Duck-Billed Dinosaur Was a Cretaceous Beach Bum

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