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YouTube Concedes Robot Fight Videos Are Not Actually Animal Cruelty After Removing Them by Mistake

Google subsidiary YouTube has admitted that it made a mistake when, citing its policies against “deliberate infliction of animal suffering” such as “dog fighting and cock fighting,” it removed several videos of robots fighting, per reports in Motherboard and the Verge. The videos are again available. According to Motherboard, the takedowns were first noted by…

Tech News Tom McKay Aug 21 '19

Damn, No Greenland

President Deals is up to it again! Over the past week, word got out that the White House has been exploring some kind of arrangement to buy the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland—which in addition to giving the U.S. more military access to a strategic point of the globe, would enable American exploitation of its…

Earther Tom McKay Aug 20 '19

MoviePass Apparently Left 58,000 Customer Records Exposed on a Public Server

Ticketing app and ongoing shitshow MoviePass has been burning through whatever could possibly remain of its finances at an incredible rate—when last the imploding startup was in the news, it was because it reportedly tried to prevent users from actually using it by changing their passwords and barring them from certain screenings. Leaked internal data…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Aug 20 '19

Cannon Busters Is a Completely Fine Anime With a Theme That Absolutely Slaps

There’s one big problem with Netflix’s push to secure itself as a home for anime, be it exclusive shows like Ultraman or big-name acquisitions like Neon Genesis Evangelion: Netflix pioneered the ability to skip intro sequences as you binge-watch a series. It’s an idea almost antithetical to the soul of anime itself, a medium known…

Anime James Whitbrook Aug 20 '19

HBO’s Room 104 Is Back and It Looks Genre as Hell

The beauty of HBO’s show Room 104 is that it can be anything. Every episode tells the story of what happens over time in a single hotel room as all kinds of people walk through it. Any genre is possible. Now, season three of the show is coming and, in the new trailer, you can…

Trailers Germain Lussier Aug 20 '19

Netflix’s The I-Land Trailer Conjures Up the Scariest Thing of All…the Fyre Festival?

Netflix has released the first glimpse at The I-Land with a teaser clearly designed to rip on the announcement trailer for the failed Fyre Festival—even though the limited series doesn’t look to be about that at all. Either way, something tells me this island getaway has bigger problems than disaster relief tents and bologna sandwiches.…

Trailers Beth Elderkin Aug 20 '19

Air Pollution From Cars Linked to Degenerative Eye Disease

The effects of pollution on human health are often subtle yet wide-reaching. Case in point, a new study out Tuesday seems to show that heavy exposure to certain automobile fumes can raise the risk of developing a degenerative disease that steadily erodes eyesight. The disease is known as age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. AMD is…

Health Ed Cara Aug 20 '19

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Marvel Miniatures, a New Dungeons & Dragons Class, and More Tabletop Gaming News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s regular column all about the latest in tabletop games and roleplaying news. Gen Con may have come and gone, but we’re still getting some great announcements and cool campaign expansions. This includes a brand-new class for Dungeons & Dragons, an arena board game where you play as the audience…

Games Beth Elderkin Aug 20 '19

Walmart Sues Tesla, Alleging Faulty Solar Panels Started Multiple Fires on Store Rooftops

In a new blow to floundering Tesla subsidiary SolarCity, Walmart is taking the renewable energy company to court, alleging hardware it installed on the roofs of some stores led to fires at least seven of the retail giant’s locations. According to the lawsuit, filed today in the Supreme Court of the State of New York,…

Tech News Avery Ellis Aug 20 '19

Facebook Begins Rolling Out New Tool to See Which of Its Data Pals Are Monitoring You

As Facebook works to undo the damage of years of user data scandals—ostensibly with an overhauled focus on “privacy,” or something—part of that effort has involved rolling out features geared at greater transparency that, quite frankly, should have been introduced years ago. But here we are. Facebook announced in a blog post on Tuesday that…

Social Media Catie Keck Aug 20 '19

Typing on the iPhone Sounds Amazing With the Original Mac Keyboard Attached

One of the new features that will arrive with iOS 13 next month is support for a mouse. It should help push the iPad closer to being a true laptop replacement for many users, but YouTuber Napabar found an even better use for the feature: upgrading his iPhone X with both an original Macintosh computer…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 20 '19

Despite Child Flu Deaths, U.S. Government Refuses to Vaccinate Children Detained in Border Camps

Families detained along the U.S.-Mexico border in cramped holding centers are being left completely vulnerable to the flu, CNBC reported Thursday. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is currently not vaccinating detainees against the viral disease, nor do they plan to before the upcoming flu season this fall. The stated policy comes despite an earlier plea…

Tech News Ed Cara Aug 20 '19

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A New Experiment Narrows Potential Properties of Dark Energy Particle

An experiment in the United Kingdom has failed to find evidence of a particle meant to explain most of the universe’s mass. But the search isn’t over. When cosmologists observe the way the universe expands, they find that present-day theories of matter can’t explain most of the universe’s energy. They call the unknown energy “dark…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Aug 20 '19

Smoke Has Blotted Out the Sun in São Paulo as the Amazon Burns

What began as a “day of fire” a week and a half ago has now turned daytime skies in São Paulo an inky black. The Amazon has been in deep, deep trouble ever since far-right president Jair Bolsnaro took over running Brazil. Advocates feared his regime would commit ecological “genocide” in the Amazon and with…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Aug 20 '19

Being a Latchkey Kid Is Horrifying in the First Antlers Teaser

Never let it be said that Guillermo del Toro doesn’t know how to keep himself almost inhumanly busy dreaming up nightmarish works of art people will gladly flock to theaters and pay hand over fist to see. One of the latest projects he has a hand in, supernatural horror film Antlers, has a new trailer…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 20 '19

Shit Show at the Fuck Factory

Security breaches on widely used anonymous communities online threaten to out some of our most personal past-times, especially when those data leaks occur on platforms dedicated to user-created porn. Researchers revealed this month that a user-generated porn site leaked a damning amount of personal data of its more than one million registered users. The site,…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz Aug 20 '19

Woman Finds 3.72-Carat Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds

A Texas woman on a first-time visit to Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park says she discovered a nearly 4-carat yellow diamond—while watching a YouTube video about how to find the precious gemstones. According to a report on the discovery from the state parks website, Miranda Hollingshead, 27, decided to visit the park with family…

Tech News Catie Keck Aug 20 '19

Lana Wachowski Is Helming The Matrix 4, With Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss Returning

Time to grab your pleather pants and hack into some robots, because The Matrix is back, baby. Variety has revealed that The Matrix co-creator Lana Wachowski will write and direct a fourth film in the series, with original series stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to return as Neo and Trinity. Warner Bros. Picture…

Movies Beth Elderkin Aug 20 '19

Report: Spider-Man Will No Longer Be Shared by Marvel and Sony [Updated]

Huge news in the world of superheroes. Deadline reports that Disney and Sony have come to a stalemate in regards to Spider-Man and that Marvel Studios, along with its president Kevin Feige, will no longer be producing Spider-Man films. This comes after Spider-Man: Far From Home, which is being re-released in a few weeks, became…

Movies Germain Lussier Aug 20 '19

Facebook Privately Admitted Failure in Vetting the Author of Its ‘Anti-Conservative’ Audit

Facebook on Tuesday released the initial report prepared by its external auditor concerning the rampant speculation about anti-conservative bias at the company. More than a year ago, however, company officials privately copped to the fact that they’d failed to properly vet the man chosen to spearhead the effort, according to sources involved in the exchange.…

Social Media Dell Cameron Aug 20 '19

YouTube Concedes Robot Fight Videos Are Not Actually Animal Cruelty After Removing Them by Mistake

Damn, No Greenland

MoviePass Apparently Left 58,000 Customer Records Exposed on a Public Server

Cannon Busters Is a Completely Fine Anime With a Theme That Absolutely Slaps

HBO’s Room 104 Is Back and It Looks Genre as Hell

Netflix’s The I-Land Trailer Conjures Up the Scariest Thing of All…the Fyre Festival?

Air Pollution From Cars Linked to Degenerative Eye Disease

Marvel Miniatures, a New Dungeons & Dragons Class, and More Tabletop Gaming News

Walmart Sues Tesla, Alleging Faulty Solar Panels Started Multiple Fires on Store Rooftops

Facebook Begins Rolling Out New Tool to See Which of Its Data Pals Are Monitoring You

Typing on the iPhone Sounds Amazing With the Original Mac Keyboard Attached

Despite Child Flu Deaths, U.S. Government Refuses to Vaccinate Children Detained in Border Camps

A New Experiment Narrows Potential Properties of Dark Energy Particle

Smoke Has Blotted Out the Sun in São Paulo as the Amazon Burns

Being a Latchkey Kid Is Horrifying in the First Antlers Teaser

Shit Show at the Fuck Factory

Woman Finds 3.72-Carat Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds

Lana Wachowski Is Helming The Matrix 4, With Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss Returning

Report: Spider-Man Will No Longer Be Shared by Marvel and Sony [Updated]

Facebook Privately Admitted Failure in Vetting the Author of Its ‘Anti-Conservative’ Audit

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