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The Nintendo Switch’s Labo VR Kit Is Cheap VR That Doesn’t Suck

Considered Nintendo’s biggest failure and the butt of endless jokes, the $180 Virtual Boy delivered an embarrassingly limited virtual reality experience when it debuted in 1995. But the console’s quick death didn’t discourage Nintendo from taking risks, and 24 years later its second attempt at virtual reality leverages the Switch hardware to deliver a series…

Accessories & Wearables Andrew Liszewski

The Internet Is Fascinated by the Black Hole News, so Naturally, YouTube Is Recommending Space Conspiracy Theory Videos

The most popular thing on the internet on Wednesday was the first-ever image of a black hole. It was everywhere and for good reason: This is a historical moment, it reinforces Einstein’s theories, and it’s something that’s difficult to wrap your head around. Millions of people read articles and watched videos explaining the black hole…

Tech News Patrick Howell O'Neill

Julian Assange Dragged Out of Ecuadorian Embassy and Arrested by British Police

Julian Assange has been arrested by police in London after almost seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy. The WikiLeaks founder was dragged out of the embassy at approximately 10:35 am local time, 5:35 am ET. Assange was formally charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this morning with, “conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for…

Tech News Matt Novak

The AT&T building in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, seen as fireworks go off at nearby Jacobs Field, in 2007.

AT&T’s Fastest Wireless Network Claim Is Not Entirely What It’s Cracked Up to Be [Updated]

AT&T’s claim that its “5G E” network—which is a regular 4G network boosted with some technical tricks, misleadingly rebranded as next-generation 5G—has helped make it the fastest carrier in the country doesn’t tell the whole story, the Verge reported on Wednesday. Last week, AT&T issued a press release bragging that 5G E had helped it…

Tech News Tom McKay

Amazon’s Human Helpers Are Quietly Listening in on Some Alexa Recordings

There’s been a number of incidents where Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant has done things like misinterpret something it overheard and started sending random people recordings of private conversations, or audio files kept by the company wound up in the wrong hands. But a real-life stranger could potentially be listening to anything you tell Alexa by…

Commerce Tom McKay

Democrats Introduce Bill Requiring Tech Companies To Check Algorithms For Bias

Inside Silicon Valley, the consensus is that artificial intelligence will be the most important technology for the next decade. Okay, but what the hell does that mean for the rest of us? In an attempt to to build in transparency and accountability into the next generation of world-changing technology, American lawmakers introduced a bill on…

Artificial Intelligence Patrick Howell O'Neill

April Showers Bring Magic in the First Teaser for Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name Follow-Up Weathering With You

Director Makoto Shinkai captured our imaginations with his existential fairytale Your Name, and the director’s planing on doing it once again with his follow-up feature, Weathering With You. When small town high schooler Hodaka Morishima (Kotaro Daigo) makes a go at living on his own in Tokyo for the first time, it isn’t long before…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Heart Transplant Comes With a Supernatural Cost in the Disconcerting First Trailer for Chambers

The concept of an organ transplant bringing spooky shenanigans with it is not entirely a new one, but still—this trailer for Chambers might have you putting a hand on your chest, just to be sure. Netflix released the first look at Chambers’ first season, set to launch on the service later this month. Showrun by…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Black Widow, a Movie We’re Supposed to Pretend Isn’t Official, Adds Another Familiar Face

Until the release of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel’s going to stay tight-lipped on its future movies to avoid spoiling that much-anticipated mega-event. But we’ve still been getting a pretty regular stream of updates on those films, like today’s news that The Handmaid’s Tale star O-T Fagbenle has signed on for Black Widow. Deadline was the first…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Trump Signs More Executive Orders to Push Pipeline Projects Through at All Costs

President Donald Trump further solidified his love for oil, gas, and the pipelines that transport these dirty fuels with the signing of two executive orders Wednesday. The two orders are meant to limit state powers to ensure that energy infrastructure projects—pipelines, in particular—aren’t held up over state-level approval. He’s giving states 60 days to approve…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

Notorious ‘Trisis’ Hackers Caught Targeting Another Critical Infrastructure Facility

The hackers behind the notorious malware known as Trisis, code that targets crucial safety systems at dangerous industrial facilities, are back. Researchers from the cybersecurity firm FireEye tracking the hackers behind Trisis (also known as Triton), which targeted a Saudi petrochemical plant in 2017, found the same group has infected a second unspecified “critical infrastructure”…

Privacy & Security Patrick Howell O'Neill

Hellboy‘s Blood-Soaked Horns Are Too Dull to Leave Much of an Impression

In the months leading up to Hellboy’s release, much noise was made about how much comic creator Mike Mignola (who co-wrote the film with Andrew Cosby) didn’t want the movie to be an origin story that retread ground Guillermo del Toro staked out in his Hellboy movies. But that seems to have been almost all…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Facebook’s Latest Changes Will Only Promote Well-Established Fake News

Facebook, in an attempt to clean up the mess it’s created, has announced yet another set of changes meant to help it be less awful. Facebook is constantly updating or expanding on its procedures for mitigating the spread of misinformation, fake news, and hate speech on its platform. In a lengthy blog post, Facebook VP…

Social Media Catie Keck

Watch SpaceX Try to Stick the Landing of Three Booster Rockets During Today’s Falcon Heavy Launch

Update on Thursday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m.: A little more than a year after its test flight and one day after a scrubbed launch, SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket. The company also saw the successful triple landing of all three of its three boosters. Both CEO Elon Musk and NASA…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Shazam’s Greatest Message Is About Growing From Forgiveness

Billy Batson being an orphan is a central part of his heroic origin story, which factors into the inherent goodness that makes him worthy of becoming Shazam. Golden Age Captain Marvel comics established that even without a traditional nuclear family or the influence of adult role models in his life, Billy was ready to be,…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

‘We’re in Constant Crisis’: Tribal Nation Still Reeling From Last Month’s Bomb Cyclone Faces More Extreme Weather

On Wednesday, a giant winter storm began to pummel the Midwest with what could be up to 2 feet of snow, and the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is in its path. The Oglala Sioux people make up the reservation’s nearly 40,000 residents—and they’re nowhere near ready for another disaster. Last month’s bomb cyclone…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Google Will Now Let You Use Your Android Phone as a Physical Security Key

By now you should know that two-factor authentication is a vital and necessary component of good security hygiene. That said, the most common ways of getting 2FA codes usually involve text messages or authenticator apps, which aren’t always hacker-proof. But today, Google announced at its Cloud Next conference that you can now use any Android…

Tech News Victoria Song

Why Doesn’t the Black Hole Image Look Like the One From Interstellar?

No one knew what a black hole looked like before today. Sure, we thought we knew, thanks to simulations and the now-famous black hole featured in the movie Interstellar. But today, scientists behind the Event Horizon Telescope unveiled an image of the 6.5-billion-solar-mass black hole at the center of the (relatively) nearby galaxy M87. And…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Team Behind Sandman: House of Whispers on Entering Ananse’s Web

When you think of Ananse the trickster and Neil Gaiman, you might—right now at least—be drawn to Orlando Jones’s stellar portrayal on American Gods. But a god has many faces, in the real world and in fiction, and Gaiman’s got whole other worlds of mythological interpretations out there—and one of them is about to cross…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Little Has a Great Message But Fails to Entertain

Tina Gordon’s Little plays with a fantasy most adults have had at one point or another: What would it be like to go back and breeze through our childhoods equipped with all of our adult knowledge? It would be so easy, we all imagine, if the only things we had to worry about in life…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Nintendo Switch’s Labo VR Kit Is Cheap VR That Doesn’t Suck

The Internet Is Fascinated by the Black Hole News, so Naturally, YouTube Is Recommending Space Conspiracy Theory Videos

Julian Assange Dragged Out of Ecuadorian Embassy and Arrested by British Police

AT&T’s Fastest Wireless Network Claim Is Not Entirely What It’s Cracked Up to Be [Updated]

Amazon’s Human Helpers Are Quietly Listening in on Some Alexa Recordings

Democrats Introduce Bill Requiring Tech Companies To Check Algorithms For Bias

April Showers Bring Magic in the First Teaser for Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name Follow-Up Weathering With You

A Heart Transplant Comes With a Supernatural Cost in the Disconcerting First Trailer for Chambers

Black Widow, a Movie We’re Supposed to Pretend Isn’t Official, Adds Another Familiar Face

Trump Signs More Executive Orders to Push Pipeline Projects Through at All Costs

Notorious ‘Trisis’ Hackers Caught Targeting Another Critical Infrastructure Facility

Hellboy‘s Blood-Soaked Horns Are Too Dull to Leave Much of an Impression

Facebook’s Latest Changes Will Only Promote Well-Established Fake News

Watch SpaceX Try to Stick the Landing of Three Booster Rockets During Today’s Falcon Heavy Launch

Shazam’s Greatest Message Is About Growing From Forgiveness

‘We’re in Constant Crisis’: Tribal Nation Still Reeling From Last Month’s Bomb Cyclone Faces More Extreme Weather

Google Will Now Let You Use Your Android Phone as a Physical Security Key

Why Doesn’t the Black Hole Image Look Like the One From Interstellar?

The Team Behind Sandman: House of Whispers on Entering Ananse’s Web

Little Has a Great Message But Fails to Entertain

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