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Cops Are Trying to Stop San Francisco From Banning Face Recognition Surveillance

San Francisco is inching closer to becoming the first American city to ban facial recognition surveillance, a booming technology that’s a fast-growing business in the United States and extends to the core of China’s high-tech authoritarianism. A proposal to ban facial recognition from the city as well as provide significant transparency and oversight requirements to…

Tech News Patrick Howell O'Neill

FX’s Long-Awaited Y: The Last Man TV Show Is No More [Updated]

A year after FX ordered a pilot for a TV series based on Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s beloved comic Y: The Last Man, and just two months after it was ordered to series, it appears the project is no more. Read it and weep, in this message that comes directly from would-be showrunners…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

American Gods Borrowed Some Magic From the Marvel Cinematic Universe This Week

Picture it: A group of ancient gods walk into a bar to put on a variety show, and two of the deities—the oldest and the youngest—have a falling out of epic proportions. A question similar to “what were you the god of, again?” is posed in an alley, and all hell breaks loose. This sort…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Weight Loss Aid That Makes Your Stomach Full With Less Food Just Cleared the FDA

Overweight and obese people will soon have a new medical option to help them manage their weight. On Monday, the Boston biotech company Gelesis announced they had received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market their novel weight loss aid to the public, a pill-based medical device called Plenity that makes people feel…

Health Ed Cara

I Have, Honest to God, Lost Track of Who Is Launching What Service

Have you heard the news? Someone is launching another goddamn service. This time, if I recall correctly, it’s Amazon. According to a report from Billboard last week, Amazon is planning to launch a new music service—its third music service, in fact, after its paid services Amazon Music Unlimited and Prime Music. Citing sources familiar with the…

Tech News Catie Keck

AT&T Uses Supercomputer to Map Out How Climate Change Will Destroy Its Networks

Rising sea levels can submerge the backbone of the internet, increasingly powerful storms can destroy the cell networks phones need to work, and high-intensity winds can tear down the critical infrastructure that makes 21st century America go. Anticipating accelerating climate change-fueled disasters in the coming decades, telecommunications giant AT&T recently partnered with Argonne National Labs…

Tech News Patrick Howell O'Neill

The Mandalorian‘s Robot Bounty Hunter Is Not the Droid You’re Looking For

Late last year, Jon Favreau set about breaking the minds of Star Wars fans by Instagramming a simple photo from the set of The Mandalorian that seemingly hinted at the return of a minor, but beloved Empire Strikes Back villain. But alas, it turns out that isn’t actually going to be the case. Many (including…

io9 James Whitbrook

Pepsi Mercifully Spares Humanity From Its Space Billboards—for Now

If there is one thing no one needs, it’s additional spaces for brands to overwhelm humanity with even more advertising. But thanks to capitalism, the sky is evidently the limit. One startup claims it will offer brands the chance to pollute our night skies with a system of teeny, reflective satellites used to replicate the…

Tech News Catie Keck

There’s Microplastic Blowing in the Wind, Study Suggests

Some peaks throughout the Pyrénées Mountains of France stand more than 10,000 feet tall. Across the mountains’ ridges and valleys, adventurous visitors may spot a brown bear or a yellow lily, one of the wildflowers of the Pyrénées. But this mountain range is home to something else too, something not always visible to the human eye.…

Conservation Yessenia Funes

Damn, Could the Samsung Galaxy Fold Be Worth It?

The Galaxy Fold represents more than eight years of design, engineering, and brand new tech, just to realize a phone with a flexible screen that works. We’re talking new malleable adhesives and complicated composite polymers made specifically to support the bendy display. And now after months of teasing, I’ve finally gotten a chance to check…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Utility Workers in England Stumble Upon Grisly Graves of 26 Iron Age Skeletons

Construction work in Oxfordshire, England has resulted in the discovery of 26 skeletons dating back to the Iron Age. Archaeologists suspect some of the 3,000-year-old remains may have been victims of human sacrifice. The Thames Water company was in the midst of a major pipe-laying project in Oxfordshire when its workers stumbled upon an ancient…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The First Look at Archer: 1999 Promises Cheeky Action in Outer Space

The Archer gang started off as international secret agents, but they’ve also spent time as drug kingpins (in Archer: Vice), Hollywood PIs circa now and the 1930s (the latter in Archer: Dreamland), and as tropical treasure-hunters (in Archer: Danger Island). Now the trailer for the 10th (and final) season is here, giving us our first…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Microsoft Claimed a Security Breach Didn’t Compromise Email Messages—It Did

A series of security reports published over the weekend have raised serious concerns about Microsoft’s transparency in the wake of a recent data breach. On Saturday, TechCrunch reported that hackers had gained access to the company’s email service after compromising a customer support account. Microsoft has confirmed that a people using MSN.com, Hotmail.com, and Outlook.com…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

What Palpatine Left Behind

A cackle in the dark. That was all it took for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to deliver its biggest shock—a shock that not even a title, a Death Star, or a host of other reveals in its first trailer could compare to. Sheev Palpatine, Darth Sidious, Emperor Palpatine, call him what you want:…

Movies James Whitbrook

The Latest Facebook News Feed Rumor Is So Dumb I Pray It’s True

Compared to other apps, Facebook can seem downright antiquated. One blogger described it recently as “a dopey website that sucks to use and look at.” Facebook seems to be aware of this problem, and is now reportedly testing an interface tweak that’s so aggressively dumb I sincerely hope they go for it. Don’t like looking…

Social Media Hudson Hongo

YouTube on Notre Dame Fire: Did You Know 9/11 Was Real?

As a fire raged inside the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday, people across the world turned to livestreams to watch flames destroy the 850-year-old structure. But as some YouTube viewers watched live footage of the tragedy, they were also served information about an entirely different tragedy—the September 11 attacks. In May 2018,…

Tech News Jennings Brown

‘Automated Racism’: Chinese Police Are Reportedly Using AI to Identify Minority Faces

Facial recognition technology can target entire populations of a specific demographic, and in the wrong hands, can be used as a powerful tool for discrimination. In China, this isn’t a cautionary tale, it’s already happening. According to a report from the New York Times published on Sunday, the Chinese government is using a facial recognition…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz

In the Unsettling First Trailer for The Perfection, a Musical Rivalry Turns Into Something Surreal and Horrifying

After an animated audience response at the 2018 Fantastic Fest, Netflix snapped up the rights to The Perfection, and now there’s a trailer for rest of us to see what all the fuss was about. You might hear “cellist feud” and think, “how could a story like that give me nightmares?” Fair enough—but while we’re…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Star Trek’s Michelle Yeoh Picks Up a Role in James Cameron’s Avatar Sequels

These are the voyages of the Starship Na’vi. Star Trek: Discovery star Michelle Yeoh is trading in her Section 31 black badge (at least for the time being) for a lab coat, as the latest actor to climb aboard James Cameron’s Avatar sequels. The news was announced on Avatar’s official Twitter account today, which specified…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The World’s First Sport Invented By an AI Still Looks Less Absurd Than Synchronized Swimming

It’s not uncommon for new technology to spawn a new sport: Drone racing has become hugely popular around the world, and Segway Polo is apparently still a thing. It’s now artificial intelligence’s turn to give us a new pastime, but will the sport it invented, Speedgate, take the world by storm, or will it be…

Artificial Intelligence Andrew Liszewski

Cops Are Trying to Stop San Francisco From Banning Face Recognition Surveillance

FX’s Long-Awaited Y: The Last Man TV Show Is No More [Updated]

American Gods Borrowed Some Magic From the Marvel Cinematic Universe This Week

A Weight Loss Aid That Makes Your Stomach Full With Less Food Just Cleared the FDA

I Have, Honest to God, Lost Track of Who Is Launching What Service

AT&T Uses Supercomputer to Map Out How Climate Change Will Destroy Its Networks

The Mandalorian‘s Robot Bounty Hunter Is Not the Droid You’re Looking For

Pepsi Mercifully Spares Humanity From Its Space Billboards—for Now

There’s Microplastic Blowing in the Wind, Study Suggests

Damn, Could the Samsung Galaxy Fold Be Worth It?

Utility Workers in England Stumble Upon Grisly Graves of 26 Iron Age Skeletons

The First Look at Archer: 1999 Promises Cheeky Action in Outer Space

Microsoft Claimed a Security Breach Didn’t Compromise Email Messages—It Did

What Palpatine Left Behind

The Latest Facebook News Feed Rumor Is So Dumb I Pray It’s True

YouTube on Notre Dame Fire: Did You Know 9/11 Was Real?

‘Automated Racism’: Chinese Police Are Reportedly Using AI to Identify Minority Faces

In the Unsettling First Trailer for The Perfection, a Musical Rivalry Turns Into Something Surreal and Horrifying

Star Trek’s Michelle Yeoh Picks Up a Role in James Cameron’s Avatar Sequels

The World’s First Sport Invented By an AI Still Looks Less Absurd Than Synchronized Swimming

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