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Senator Hawley Keeps Attacking a Law Crucial to Internet Speech—That He Can’t Seem to Read

The economic juggernaut we call the internet has thrived principally thanks to a single U.S. law passed more than two decades ago—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It states quite simply that website operators shall not be treated as the publishers of information posted by their users. To wit, Gizmodo cannot be held liable…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron

You’ll Soon Be Able to Actually Visit the World of Game of Thrones

Westeros is open for business. HBO has announced that it is turning its Northern Ireland studio into a giant museum and studio tour for Game of Thrones fans to see the sights and, you know, presumably sit on the Iron Throne. As reported by the NY Times, HBO is currently working on turning one of…

io9 Beth Elderkin

The HPV Vaccine Is Already Dramatically Lowering Rates of Cervical Disease

A new study out Wednesday in the BMJ is the latest to showcase even the short-term benefits of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. It found that the routine vaccination of preteen girls in Scotland, starting in 2008, led to drastically lower rates of cervical disease by the time the girls turned 20. That included conditions…

Health Ed Cara

FDA Warns of Incidents of Seizures Associated With Vaping

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is investigating a potential link between seizures and vaping after receiving dozens of voluntary reports over a nearly 10-year period. The agency said Wednesday that after observing a “slight but noticeable” uptick in voluntary reports related to seizures, it referred to poison control centers and…

Health Catie Keck

The Hobbs & Shaw CinemaCon Footage Referred to Idris Elba’s Character as the Black Superman

When the first trailer for Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw was released, io9 was delighted to see that the franchise had finally gone full sci-fi as Idris Elba’s villain, Brixton, had genetically enhanced himself. In a new trailer shown at CinemaCon 2019, the character took that enhancement one step further. He gave himself…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Cats Movie Will Shrink Actors to Feline Size and Add Performance Capture Fur

Until now, almost everything about Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Cats has been a mystery. We’ve had no idea how the Oscar-winning director was going to take the beloved musical, which is very light on narrative and features stars humans dressed as cats, and turn it into a serious motion picture. What we…

Movies Germain Lussier

Researchers Demonstrate Malware That Can Trick Doctors Into Misdiagnosing Cancer

Hospitals, like the rest of us, are extremely online. The equipment we use, the data it discovers and the critical medical information it deciphers can all be connected to the internet — and if it’s connected, it needs to be carefully secured. A new report from Kim Zetter outlines the research done by Israeli academics…

Tech News Patrick Howell O'Neill

Photo: All Images: Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making Solo, by Rob Bredow © Abrams Books, 2019

A Look Inside the New Book Exploring the Making of Solo: A Star Wars Story

The story behind how Solo came to life is…well, a lot more intriguing than Lucasfilm would want it to be. And while Abrams Books’ latest Star Wars “making of” release may not have the full story you’d perhaps want to hear about Solo specifically, its plethora of behind-the-scenes images paint an intimate picture nonetheless. Written…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Twitter Uses France’s Own Fake News Law to Block French Voter Registration Campaign

France’s attempt to curb fake news backfired on Tuesday when Twitter rejected the French government’s attempt to run its own social media advertising campaign. Oops. The government’s #OuiJeVote, or ‘Yes, I Vote’ campaign was meant to urge voters to register for the upcoming European Parliament elections in a timely manner. To help with that, France’s…

Tech News Victoria Song

Watch Five Cheetahs Take Down a Wildebeest in a Heart-Pounding Exclusive Clip From Our Planet

The premise of Our Planet, Netflix’s new nature documentary, is to include humans in the story of Earth. It’s a radically simple concept, and one that makes sense given our increasingly major role in shaping the natural world. But at the end of the day, any David Attenborough-voiced documentary worth its salt better deliver the…

Conservation Brian Kahn

Captain Marvel Is a Billionaire

As of Tuesday, the combined domestic and international box office grosses for Captain Marvel—which has been in theaters since March 8—have topped a billion dollars. Deadline reports it is the seventh Marvel film to achieve that milestone and is now the number 10 superhero movie of all time. According to Box Office Mojo, there are…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

540 Million Facebook User Records Exposed Online, Plus Passwords, Comments, and More

Researchers at the cybersecurity firm UpGuard on Wednesday said they had discovered the existence of two datasets together containing the personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users. Both were left publicly accessible. In a blog post, UpGuard connected one of the leaky databases to a Mexico-based media company called Cultura Colectiva. The data…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Marvel’s Mysterious Black Widow Film Will Co-Star David Harbour and, Fingers Crossed, Rachel Weisz

Is it hot in here, or is that just the suddenly very intriguing cast of Black Widow on our minds? The standalone Marvel movie starring Scarlett Johansson is on the verge of adding David Harbour (Hellboy, Stranger Things) and the Oscar-winning Rachel Weisz to its cast. The Hollywood Reporter got the scoop on Harbour, while…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Teacher Says She Was Fired for Not Being a ‘Role Model’ After Topless Selfie Leaks

A 25-year-old middle school teacher in Long Island was fired after a topless selfie she took was nonconsensually obtained by a student at her school. The teacher, Lauren Miranda, is now in the process of suing the school district for gender discrimination. Miranda took the photo herself and says that she only shared it with…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz

Shazam‘s Director and Star on Why It’s a Kids’ Movie with an Important Message About Adults

Shazam is a ridiculously fun and at-times silly film that’ll undeniably appeal to younger moviegoers, while at the same time feeling like a breath of fresh air to adults who’ve grown weary of Warner Bros. and DC’s fondness for grimdark cape stories. But when io9 spoke to director David F. Sandberg and actor Asher Angel…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Microsoft Nukes Its Ebooks Store, and That’s Probably for the Best

Big companies like to get bigger, and for many big tech companies these days, the clearest path to growth is increasing how much money generates with content services. That’s why Apple launched a whole slew of them last week, and why Google announced a video game platform the week before. Microsoft too has envisioned itself…

Tech News Alex Cranz

The New Truly Wireless Powerbeats Pro Seem Like the Better AirPods We Wanted All Long

If the second generation of AirPods seemed underwhelming, the new Powerbeats Pro by Beats might just get your blood moving. They’re truly wireless earbuds designed for sports and equipped with the new Apple-made H1 chip, superior sound quality, as well as an eye-popping nine hours of battery life. In other words, the Powerbeats Pro earbuds…

Reviews Adam Clark Estes

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MDMA Made Older Mice Start Socializing Like Teenagers

You might think of young brains as soft clay that can take on new shapes in response to various inputs. But as time passes, the clay hardens and is less workable—and like clay, older brains can be less likely to change in response to new situations. Scientists doing research in mice have realized this analogy…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum

There Aren’t Enough Baby Corals Repopulating the Great Barrier Reef

The plight of the Great Barrier Reef is becoming more and more like a plot-line from a science fiction dystopia. Following the heat exposure-induced death of half of the reef’s corals in 2016 and 2017, the survivors aren’t having enough babies to repopulate the ecosystem. In fact, rates of “larval recruitment”—the number of new baby…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

USDA Says It Will Stop Killing Cats

Following the outcry over a disturbing government research practice that resulted in what critics have described as kitten slaughter, a research agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it will no longer conduct the deadly testing as part of its research. The practice in question was part of testing that’s related to toxoplasmosis…

Biology Catie Keck

Senator Hawley Keeps Attacking a Law Crucial to Internet Speech—That He Can’t Seem to Read

You’ll Soon Be Able to Actually Visit the World of Game of Thrones

The HPV Vaccine Is Already Dramatically Lowering Rates of Cervical Disease

FDA Warns of Incidents of Seizures Associated With Vaping

The Hobbs & Shaw CinemaCon Footage Referred to Idris Elba’s Character as the Black Superman

The Cats Movie Will Shrink Actors to Feline Size and Add Performance Capture Fur

Researchers Demonstrate Malware That Can Trick Doctors Into Misdiagnosing Cancer

A Look Inside the New Book Exploring the Making of Solo: A Star Wars Story

Twitter Uses France’s Own Fake News Law to Block French Voter Registration Campaign

Watch Five Cheetahs Take Down a Wildebeest in a Heart-Pounding Exclusive Clip From Our Planet

Captain Marvel Is a Billionaire

540 Million Facebook User Records Exposed Online, Plus Passwords, Comments, and More

Marvel’s Mysterious Black Widow Film Will Co-Star David Harbour and, Fingers Crossed, Rachel Weisz

Teacher Says She Was Fired for Not Being a ‘Role Model’ After Topless Selfie Leaks

Shazam‘s Director and Star on Why It’s a Kids’ Movie with an Important Message About Adults

Microsoft Nukes Its Ebooks Store, and That’s Probably for the Best

The New Truly Wireless Powerbeats Pro Seem Like the Better AirPods We Wanted All Long

MDMA Made Older Mice Start Socializing Like Teenagers

There Aren’t Enough Baby Corals Repopulating the Great Barrier Reef

USDA Says It Will Stop Killing Cats

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