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Amazon Rekognition Can Now Identify the Emotion It Provokes in Rational People

Most people familiar with face-scanning software suite Amazon Rekognition, its place in the surveillance state, and its questionable efficacy are apt to fear what the consequences of such a technology might be when deployed against civilians. As the company was delighted to point out, fear is also also the most recent emotion Rekognition is now…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Facebook Did the Sneaky Listening Thing, Too

Facebook has paid hundreds of contractors around the world to transcribe some of its users Messenger messages, according to a new Bloomberg report. The social network stopped doing the transcriptions a week ago, following public outrage after journalists revealed that Amazon, Google, and Apple employed similar teams to review voice commands for Alexa, Assistant, and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Human Trial

A vaccine for the most commonly reported sexually transmitted infection in the U.S.—the bacterial disease chlamydia—is now a substantial step closer to reality. On Monday, researchers reported that two of their vaccine candidates were found to be safe in a phase 1 clinical trial of 35 women. Though the trial wasn’t meant to prove their…

Health Ed Cara

Legion‘s Heady Series Finale Brought Its Time Traveling Story Full Circle

Despite Legion’s visual flair and the quartet of powerful telepathic mutants the show began focusing on as it entered its endgame territory, its season finale was a relatively quiet, contemplative reflection on the emotional experiences that define people. “Chapter 27” features moments of stylish action and revelations about characters that make Legion’s larger world feel…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Coalition of 22 States Are Suing the Trump Administration Over Its Weak Coal Rule

New York attorney general Letitia James has had a busy start to the week. On Monday, she announced plans to sue the Trump administration over its gutting of the Endangered Species Act. And on Tuesday, she along with 21 other state attorneys general and seven cities announced they were suing the administration over its weak-ass…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Websites Can Discriminate Against You Even If You Don’t Use Them, California Supreme Court Rules

Nearly four years ago, a lone bankruptcy lawyer sued Square, the payment processor run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, challenging the app’s terms of use—despite never signing up. As of yesterday, the case will proceed, thanks to an opinion issued by the California Supreme Court that could have wide-reaching implications for online businesses. The first…

Tech Policy Avery Ellis

The Star Trek Movies You Mostly Don’t Like Are Now Owned by the Same Company That Owns the Trek TV Shows You Do Like [Corrected]

Allow us to introduce you to the latest inconsequential benefit of our megacorp dystopia. I have to admit it, as far as incredibly minor bright sides to the horrifying rise of media studio megamergers go, “At least CBS owns the Kelvin Timeline Star Trek movies” is not as immediately exciting as “At least the X-Men…

Movies James Whitbrook

Sixteen States Now Suing to Stop the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger

Oregon has joined several other states in a lawsuit to stop the planned T-Mobile merger with Sprint, adding strength to a movement to stop the shrinking telecom market from becoming even less competitive. In late July the Department of Justice approved T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint, a $26 billion deal that would allow U.S.’s third-largest wireless…

Tech News Jennings Brown

Someone Posted Details About Jeffrey Epstein’s Death on 4Chan Before It Became Public

Over half an hour before ABC News first reported that sex offender and accused human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had been found unresponsive in his Manhattan prison cell, alleged details of his death appeared on anonymous message board 4Chan, Buzzfeed reported. “dont ask me how I know, but Epstein died an hour ago from hanging, cardiac…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Everything You Need to Know About Eisenhorn, the Peculiar Star of the Live-Action Warhammer 40K TV Series

The fact that it’s somehow taken until 2019 for Games Workshop to attempt to bring the rich, ridiculous fiction of its grimdark Warhammer 40,000 universe to live-action is peculiar enough. That Gregor Eisenhorn is the face of that long-awaited push, even more so. Need a quick trip to the Black Library to brush up on…

io9 James Whitbrook

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Astrophotographer Discovers a Tiny ‘Churymoon’ Around Famous Comet

An astrophotographer has spotted what looks to be a moon orbiting the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission. The Rosetta mission launched in 2004, and arrived at 67P in 2014. Aside from producing lots of interesting data as well as thrills, it also sent many images of the comet back…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Nintendo’s Latest FCC Filing Hints at SNES Games Finally Coming to the Switch

To coincide with the launch of the Nintendo Switch Online service which included a bunch of classic 8-bit games as part of the subscription, Nintendo also released a pair of NES gamepad shaped Joy-Cons to round out the retro experience. So putting two and two together, a recent Nintendo FCC filing for a wireless Super…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Security Researcher’s ‘NULL’ Vanity Plates Cause Glitch That Lands Him $12,000 in Parking Tickets

You can’t put a price tag on the value of sticking it to the man—specifically, trying to own an official surveillance system. Except maybe when you are owned right back. A security researcher going by the name of Droogie attempted to fuck with Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) systems by customizing a vanity California license…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz

Loot Crate Files for Bankruptcy and Lays Off Workers But Promises to Ship Remaining Boxes

Loot Crate was once the go-to company for monthly shipments of geek and gamer gear, but now its stock has run dry. The company is filing for bankruptcy and has laid off dozens of employees, on top of the 150 warehouse workers who were let go last month. Loot Crate plans to ship all remaining…

Toys & Collectibles Beth Elderkin

Massachusetts Man Reportedly in a Coma After Contracting Brain Infection From a Mosquito

A rare, sometimes fatal viral infection spread by mosquitoes has resurfaced in Massachusetts—and has likely sent at least one man into a coma. Over the weekend, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported that a local resident contracted the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. Dozens of communities remain at critical or high risk for the…

Health Ed Cara

MasterClass Founder Launching Online College Credit Courses, Failures Get a Refund

Raise your hand if Calculus 101 made you want to tear your hair out in college. If so, then you might be one of the people MasterClass Cofounder Aaron Rasmussen had in mind when creating his new startup Outlier.org. Starting this fall semester, the new venture will offer two classes—Calculus I and Introduction to Psychology—online…

Tech News Victoria Song

‘I Am Afraid’: A First-Ever Poll Shows How Worried Greenlanders Are About Climate Change

Greenland is on the front lines of climate change. This summer of fire and ice loss is indicative of the much larger shifts afoot. Yet while much has been made about the science of rising temperature, precious little research has been done on the impacts on the people who call the island home. A new…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

The Very Hollywood Reason You Might Not Know Neil Gaiman Wrote Princess Mononoke‘s English Dub

Princess Mononoke is one of Hayao Miyazaki’s finest, but its epic tale of gods can only be matched in fantasy for the weird story behind its arrival on Western shores in 2000. One notable part of that often forgotten history? Neil Gaiman wrote the English script…although it was pretty hard to find his credit. There…

Movies James Whitbrook

Snapchat Glasses, Except Now Way More Expensive

It seems Snap just can’t give up its obsession with techy camera glasses. That’s because after losing a buttload of money trying (and failing) to sell its first Spectacles, and later following up with a second model to little fanfare, today, Snap announced the Spectacles 3, which are somehow uglier than ever and come with…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Donald Trump Saves Christmas

President Donald Trump has saved Christmas. For now, anyway. The Trump regime announced it’s postponing the implementation of a 10-percent tariff on roughly $300 billion of imports from China, including smartphones, laptops, computer monitors, video game consoles, and a host of other products. “Certain products are being removed from the tariff list based on health,…

Tech News Matt Novak

Amazon Rekognition Can Now Identify the Emotion It Provokes in Rational People

Facebook Did the Sneaky Listening Thing, Too

A Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Human Trial

Legion‘s Heady Series Finale Brought Its Time Traveling Story Full Circle

A Coalition of 22 States Are Suing the Trump Administration Over Its Weak Coal Rule

Websites Can Discriminate Against You Even If You Don’t Use Them, California Supreme Court Rules

The Star Trek Movies You Mostly Don’t Like Are Now Owned by the Same Company That Owns the Trek TV Shows You Do Like [Corrected]

Sixteen States Now Suing to Stop the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger

Someone Posted Details About Jeffrey Epstein’s Death on 4Chan Before It Became Public

Everything You Need to Know About Eisenhorn, the Peculiar Star of the Live-Action Warhammer 40K TV Series

Astrophotographer Discovers a Tiny ‘Churymoon’ Around Famous Comet

Nintendo’s Latest FCC Filing Hints at SNES Games Finally Coming to the Switch

Security Researcher’s ‘NULL’ Vanity Plates Cause Glitch That Lands Him $12,000 in Parking Tickets

Loot Crate Files for Bankruptcy and Lays Off Workers But Promises to Ship Remaining Boxes

Massachusetts Man Reportedly in a Coma After Contracting Brain Infection From a Mosquito

MasterClass Founder Launching Online College Credit Courses, Failures Get a Refund

‘I Am Afraid’: A First-Ever Poll Shows How Worried Greenlanders Are About Climate Change

The Very Hollywood Reason You Might Not Know Neil Gaiman Wrote Princess Mononoke‘s English Dub

Snapchat Glasses, Except Now Way More Expensive

Donald Trump Saves Christmas

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