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I Hope PayPal’s Dick Falls Off

PayPal wages its years-long war on sex work, announcing yesterday that it has officially refused to process payments made through Pornhub to over 100,000 models. The reason, as per usual, is violation of its “sexually-oriented goods” clause in the terms of service agreement. The cumulative effect of financial discrimination, by banks and payment processors, is…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Nov 14 '19

Over Half of Anti-Vaxxer Ads on Facebook Were Funded by Just Two Entities, Study Finds

Facebook finally bent earlier this year to public pressure to do something about the trash heap of anti-vaccine-related misinformation that’s managed to fester on its site, but not before anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists were able to exploit its tools to spread harmful and factually inaccurate information on the platform. New research recently published in the peer-reviewed…

Social Media Catie Keck Nov 14 '19

Rev CEO: ‘We Got a Few Things Wrong’

Transcription platform Rev quietly slashed the minimum pay for its contractors on Friday, and its workforce has been vocally pushing back against what it sees as unlivable wages since then. Today, on the same forum where the pay changes were first announced, CEO Jason Chicola attempted to quell concerns of Revvers, Gizmodo has learned. And…

Tech News Avery Ellis Nov 14 '19

So, Is Battery Life Gonna Be a Problem for the Foldable Razr?

Motorola’s new foldable Razr phone is pretty neat. Not only is it a pretty impressive feat of engineering, it packs a nice dose of nostalgia for those of us old enough to remember the days when the original Razr flip phone reigned supreme. There’s just one thing that, at least on paper, raises a red…

Gadgets Victoria Song Nov 14 '19

The Co-Writer of Black Christmas Sets the Record Straight Over the Horror Movie’s PG-13 Rating

Does a PG-13 rating—which presumably means cleaner language and toned-down violence—automatically lessen a horror movie’s impact? A new remake is stoking the flames of that age-old debate. Black Christmas co-screenwriter April Wolfe took to Twitter after Bloody Disgusting reported that the Blumhouse film—which is directed and co-written by Sophia Takal, and is out next month—had…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Nov 14 '19

Scientists Need 10,000 Dog Volunteers for Very Important Research

Calling all good boys and girls: This week, researchers debuted a citizen science project that’s hoping to enlist 10,000 furry friends to better study aging in both dogs and people. And they’re asking pet owners across the U.S. to volunteer their pups to participate. The Dog Aging Project, or DAP, is a collaboration between researchers…

Biology Ed Cara Nov 14 '19

Researchers Created Holograms You Can Feel and Hear

Holograms are no longer just a vaguely futuristic term that helps startups secure seed money, or a way to bring deceased performers back to sell more concert tickets. Researchers at the University of Sussex have created animated 3D holograms that can not only be seen from any angle, they can also be touched, bringing us…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 14 '19

Hell Yes, Weird Ice Disk Season Is Upon Us

With winter comes changes, many of which are bad. The days get darker sooner. Christmas carols play everywhere. Sure, there are good things about winter, but at least for me, it’s particularly hard to find joy in the early days of the season, when the memory of summer and fall is still fresh. If you’re…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Nov 14 '19

FCC Plans to Scrap Defective System Used to Post Fake Net Neutrality Comments

After years of so-called “upgrades” that have failed to allay oversight lawmakers’ concerns about the integrity of its public comment system, the Federal Communications Commission has apparently decided to scrap and replace its comment system entirely, multiple sources told Gizmodo. The Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), launched in 1998, allows Americans and virtually anyone else to…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Nov 14 '19

Get Up to Speed on Castle Rock‘s Excellently Creepy Second Season

The second season of Castle Rock is past its halfway point and things are starting to get awfully tense in Stephen King’s fabled Maine town, with a big assist from nearby Jerusalem’s Lot. Things are only going to get weirder and wilder from here—so it’s time to make sure you’re all caught up on the…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Nov 14 '19

Congress Is Increasingly Wary About NASA’s 2024 Moon Landing Deadline

At a House hearing held yesterday in Washington D.C., members of Congress and space experts voiced serious concerns about NASA’s current plan to send American men and women to the Moon in just five years. On March 26, 2019, Vice President Mike Pence told NASA it has five years to put Americans back on the…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Nov 14 '19

AOC and Bernie’s Green New Deal Aims to Change Our Relationship With Public Housing

Public housing is home to 2 million people in the U.S. and a $70 billion backlog in repairs. It’s also largely an afterthought in American society, a place where people with seemingly nowhere else to go end up tucked away and out of sight. Now, however, it’s the focus of the first piece of Green…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Nov 14 '19

Thieves Post Photos of Stolen Cars to Instagram, Go to Prison

The number one rule of doing crime successfully is to not tell everyone you did a crime. For example, if one were to, say, be the sole survivor of a 2011 bank robbery gone wrong and subsequent shootout with heavily armed police tactical terms, they might choose a career above suspicion as a humble tech…

Crime Tom McKay Nov 14 '19

AHS: 1984‘s Finale Gave Everyone What They Deserved, Including the Audience

American Horror Story: 1984 wrapped up its nine-episode season last night with “Final Girl,” which—despite some spectacular moments of bloodshed—pulled the ultimate AHS bait-and-switch and gave its delightfully entertaining slasher story a most unexpected ending. A happy ending! A tear-jerking, totally sincere, unapologetically happy ending, set to 1988 cheeseball classic “The Living Years” by Mike…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Nov 14 '19

Anson Mount and Ethan Peck Look Back on Their Star Trek Tour of Duty

Star Trek: Discovery had a lot to prove going into its second season—especially in its bold move to cast new faces as two very familiar heroes from Trek’s past and bring them into Discovery’s morally murky take on a pre-original series Federation. But Discovery’s second season not only took on those high expectations, in many…

io9 James Whitbrook Nov 14 '19

Private Equity Ghouls Buy Non-Profit That Handles .Org Domains

Private equity firm Ethos Capital has acquired the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the agency that operates the .org domain. The Internet Society acquired the .org registry and created PIR in 2002. In announcements about the acquisition, Internet Society CEO Andrew Sullivan said that since the creation of PIR, the company has grown .org into the…

Tech News Jennings Brown Nov 14 '19

New CDC Report on Superbugs Is Full of Bad News

The U.S. and the world continue to lose ground against antibiotic resistance, according to a new report out this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And among other things, the number of superbugs that pose a dire threat to the health of Americans has only gotten larger in the past half decade.…

Health Ed Cara Nov 14 '19

Have Some Porn for Your Ears

Horny audiophiles lusty for more sundry alternatives to raw-dog banging, here ya go: today Caroline Spiegel, the 22-year-old sister of Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel, serves you an audio and text-only platform for erotic storytelling. In Bloomberg and Wired profiles, Spiegel–who launched “Quinn” as a website while a student at Stanford–announces that she’s taking the site…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Nov 14 '19

Venice Regional Council Floods After It Kills Measures to Combat Climate Change

Venice is reeling from some of the worst flooding in 50 years, driven in part by sea level rise. The high water has put the city under a state of emergency and, in theory, should be a huge wakeup call that it’s all hands on deck to combat climate change. But the regional council, controlled…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Nov 14 '19

Servant‘s Latest Teaser Is Unsettling as Hell

Apple’s upcoming thriller series Servant is still mostly shrouded in mystery and really only leading with the fact that whatever the hell is going on in its story revolves around a creepy-ass baby. The latest teaser doesn’t provide much in the way of more details but, well, it’s got plenty more baby weirdness to freak…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 14 '19

I Hope PayPal’s Dick Falls Off

Over Half of Anti-Vaxxer Ads on Facebook Were Funded by Just Two Entities, Study Finds

Rev CEO: ‘We Got a Few Things Wrong’

So, Is Battery Life Gonna Be a Problem for the Foldable Razr?

The Co-Writer of Black Christmas Sets the Record Straight Over the Horror Movie’s PG-13 Rating

Scientists Need 10,000 Dog Volunteers for Very Important Research

Researchers Created Holograms You Can Feel and Hear

Hell Yes, Weird Ice Disk Season Is Upon Us

FCC Plans to Scrap Defective System Used to Post Fake Net Neutrality Comments

Get Up to Speed on Castle Rock‘s Excellently Creepy Second Season

Congress Is Increasingly Wary About NASA’s 2024 Moon Landing Deadline

AOC and Bernie’s Green New Deal Aims to Change Our Relationship With Public Housing

Thieves Post Photos of Stolen Cars to Instagram, Go to Prison

AHS: 1984‘s Finale Gave Everyone What They Deserved, Including the Audience

Anson Mount and Ethan Peck Look Back on Their Star Trek Tour of Duty

Private Equity Ghouls Buy Non-Profit That Handles .Org Domains

New CDC Report on Superbugs Is Full of Bad News

Have Some Porn for Your Ears

Venice Regional Council Floods After It Kills Measures to Combat Climate Change

Servant‘s Latest Teaser Is Unsettling as Hell

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