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A Woman May Have Gotten ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ After Eating Too Much Wasabi at a Wedding

One woman’s wedding wasabi—apparently mistaken for avocado—ended up sending her to the emergency room with a strange medical condition called broken heart syndrome, according to a new case study. In a paper published this month in the journal BMJ Reports, doctors detailed the unusual incident, which took place in Israel. According to her doctors, the…

Health Ed Cara Sep 25 '19

Calling Sea Fever ‘Alien on the Ocean’ Is Partially Accurate, but Slightly Unfair

While the simplest way to describe the new film Sea Fever is “Alien on the ocean,” let’s get something out of the way. It is not Alien on the ocean. Okay, yes, Sea Fever is about a group of people on a ship who begin to be picked off by a mysterious creature. Also, like…

Movies Germain Lussier Sep 25 '19

Babies in Prehistoric Europe Drank Animal Milk From Ceramic ‘Sippy Cups’

A chemical analysis of pottery feeding vessels from the Bronze and Iron Ages suggests prehistoric European babies and toddlers had diets supplemented with, and possibly replaced by, animal milk, in what’s potentially the earliest archaeological evidence of infant weaning. New research published today in Nature is offering unprecedented insights into European Bronze Age and Iron…

Human History George Dvorsky Sep 25 '19

The New Apple Watch Is the Best One Yet—Thanks to a Major OS Upgrade

The Apple Watch is hands-down the best smartwatch out there. There, I said it. It’s a boring conclusion that is nevertheless the cold, hard truth. You can prefer a round face, or a different operating system. You can scream about better battery life and third-party watch faces until you die, purple-faced from asphyxiation. The Series…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song Sep 25 '19

‘There Is Not a Climate Crisis’: Trump Administration Spouts Brazen Bullshit to Justify Arctic Drilling

It’s no secret that the Trump administration is full of climate deniers. The Bureau of Land Management, however, has taken this denial to a new level by including language that both dismisses the climate crisis and even tries to paint it as positive in the final environmental impact statement to open the Arctic National Wildlife…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Sep 25 '19

Megabots Throws in the Towel and Puts Battle Robots on Ebay

Megabots, a startup that was dedicated to bringing behemoth battle-robot entertainment to the masses, is selling off its assets before filing for bankruptcy. On Monday, Megabots released a YouTube video advertising the sale of one of its most visible assets—the 15-ton Eagle Prime battle mech–and explaining why the company had to call it quits. When…

Tech News Jennings Brown Sep 25 '19

A Birdwatcher’s Review of Untitled Goose Game

Untitled Goose Game effectively ended for me when I found the boy who would run away if you honked at him. I didn’t need to achieve any more goals. I had reached peak goose. The game was released last Friday on PC and Switch. I rarely play games and I was not good at this…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 25 '19

NASA Is Moving Forward With Space-Based Mission to Hunt for Hazardous Asteroids

NASA will begin developing a space-based telescope to track the asteroids near Earth, according to a statement by NASA’s associate administrator for science, Thomas Zurbuchen. Space News reports that the mission will be based on a previous concept mission called NEOCam. The Near-Earth Object Surveillance Mission will be led by NASA, unlike NEOCam, which would…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 25 '19

Here’s Your Crash Course in The Good Place Before the Fourth and Final Season Begins

Listen up, ya dinks! The Good Place is about to begin its final season. It’s a bittersweet situation: The best comedy on TV will be no more, but it also means the show will be ending exactly as its creators intended. Ahead of this week’s season four premiere, here’s your catch-up crash course in all…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Sep 25 '19

Well, Uh, There It Is: The Heroes of Jurassic Park are Back for Jurassic World 3

From the way things are going in the universe of Collin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World, the humans are all but done for now that the dinosaurs have made it off Isla Nubar and are running around in densely-populated areas. But the latest casting news about the next Jurassic World film suggests that maybe, just maybe, there…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 25 '19

Apple Reportedly Looking to Reboot the iPhone 4’s Boxy Design for 2020

With the iPhone 11 likely marking the end of Apple’s current three-year design cycle, we’re due for new-look-iPhones in 2020. And if well-respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is correct, the next iPhone could feature a boxier design with flat stainless steel sides reminiscent of the iPhone 4. While it might seem somewhat silly for Apple…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Sep 25 '19

Disney Could Be Close to Finding The Little Mermaid‘s New Prince Eric (Again)

More details from James Wan’s return to horror emerge. Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline board Amblin’s Good House adaptation. Freeform’s Cloak & Dagger are getting animated for a crossover with the Spider-Man cartoon. Plus, what’s to come on American Horror Story, and Arrow dwells on familiar faces in new footage. To me, my spoilers! Malignant…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 25 '19

Whoops! Google Says Mysterious Wave of Unbootable Macs Is Their Bad

A serious flaw in Google Keystone, which controls Chrome updates, is capable of doing major damage to macOS file systems on some computers and has been linked to data corruption that struck Hollywood video editors and others on Monday evening, Variety reported. Initially, blame for the corrupted file systems was largely directed at Avid and…

Tech News Tom McKay Sep 25 '19

Juul CEO Resigns, Company Announces It Will Stop All Advertising

Juul Labs CEO and cofounder Kevin Burns is stepping down from the San Francisco-based e-cigarette giant, according to a press release published on the company’s website. Juul also announced that it will stop all print, digital, and broadcast advertising in the U.S., effective immediately. The CEO’s resignation comes in the wake of at least nine…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 25 '19

Boris Johnson Warns of ‘Pink-Eyed Terminators’ and ‘Limbless Chickens’ in Absolutely Bonkers UN Speech

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered a bizarre late night speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, warning that technology could make our world a dystopian hellscape if it’s not properly constrained—a place where mattresses monitor our nightmares, heartless algorithms deny us medical care, and… robots travel from the future…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 25 '19

‘Unprecedented Conditions’ Will Rule the Oceans This Century, Striking New Report Finds

Humans live on land, but it’s the watery parts of the planet that dictate our fate. The frozen ice at the poles and in high mountains and the vast swath of ocean that covers nearly three-quarters of the planet mean this place is primarily earth in name only. The ice—dubbed the cryosphere by scientists—and the…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Sep 25 '19

Data Analytics Giant Comscore, Former CEO Settle With SEC for Cooking the Books

Data analytics firm Comscore and its former CEO, Serge Matta, was charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations of widespread fraud at the company and have settled for over $5 million, the agency announced on Tuesday. According to the SEC, Comscore and Matta stuffed its public revenue filings to overstate revenue by…

Tech News Tom McKay Sep 25 '19

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Orders 4-Month Ban on Sale of All (Yes, All) Vaping Products

After the Centers for Disease Control warned of hundreds of cases of potentially lethal vaping-associated pulmonary illness (VAPI) across the country and growing backlash over skyrocketing teen use, Massachusetts has gone much farther than other states and totally banned the sale of all vaping products for four months. That’s not a typo. Republican Governor Charlie…

Health Tom McKay Sep 24 '19

Hulu’s Wounds Pits Armie Hammer Against a Cell Phone That Opens a Gateway of Terror

All Hulu reveals about Wounds is that it stars Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz, and follows “disturbing and mysterious things [that] begin happening to a New Orleans bartender after he picks up a phone left behind in his bar.” The trailer sheds a little more light, or should we say darkness? Written and…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Sep 24 '19

Sprint Took Millions in Federal Subsidies for Service It Didn’t Provide, FCC Says

In news that seems to have soured Sprint’s bid for a mega-merger with T-Mobile, the Federal Communications Commission announced this week that it’s investigating the company over millions in misappropriated subsidies. Sprint, meanwhile, says it improperly collected funds because it was confused about a rule change. The agency said Tuesday it found that Sprint collected…

Tech News Catie Keck Sep 24 '19

A Woman May Have Gotten ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ After Eating Too Much Wasabi at a Wedding

Calling Sea Fever ‘Alien on the Ocean’ Is Partially Accurate, but Slightly Unfair

Babies in Prehistoric Europe Drank Animal Milk From Ceramic ‘Sippy Cups’

The New Apple Watch Is the Best One Yet—Thanks to a Major OS Upgrade

‘There Is Not a Climate Crisis’: Trump Administration Spouts Brazen Bullshit to Justify Arctic Drilling

Megabots Throws in the Towel and Puts Battle Robots on Ebay

A Birdwatcher’s Review of Untitled Goose Game

NASA Is Moving Forward With Space-Based Mission to Hunt for Hazardous Asteroids

Here’s Your Crash Course in The Good Place Before the Fourth and Final Season Begins

Well, Uh, There It Is: The Heroes of Jurassic Park are Back for Jurassic World 3

Apple Reportedly Looking to Reboot the iPhone 4’s Boxy Design for 2020

Disney Could Be Close to Finding The Little Mermaid‘s New Prince Eric (Again)

Whoops! Google Says Mysterious Wave of Unbootable Macs Is Their Bad

Juul CEO Resigns, Company Announces It Will Stop All Advertising

Boris Johnson Warns of ‘Pink-Eyed Terminators’ and ‘Limbless Chickens’ in Absolutely Bonkers UN Speech

‘Unprecedented Conditions’ Will Rule the Oceans This Century, Striking New Report Finds

Data Analytics Giant Comscore, Former CEO Settle With SEC for Cooking the Books

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Orders 4-Month Ban on Sale of All (Yes, All) Vaping Products

Hulu’s Wounds Pits Armie Hammer Against a Cell Phone That Opens a Gateway of Terror

Sprint Took Millions in Federal Subsidies for Service It Didn’t Provide, FCC Says

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