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Twitter Mulls Redesign That Looks a Heck of a Lot Like Facebook, Just With More Neo-Nazis

Twitter will be rolling out beta updates including “conversational”-style speech bubbles and indented/color-coded replies based on whether you follow another user in the coming weeks, the Verge reported on Wednesday. Other features under consideration, but which will not be available in the forthcoming beta, include green-colored status availability icons that might indicate whether a user…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 9 '19

Netflix Gets Its Own Killer Time Loop Show in the First Russian Doll Trailer

Normal time loop stories are out. Time loop stories based around someone dying over and over? In. Netflix has just dropped the first trailer for Russian Doll, a new show from Amy Poehler, Natasha Lyonne, and Leslye Headland about a woman named Nadia (played by Lyonne), who finds herself sent back to a set point…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 9 '19

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Second Season Is Being Helped by a New Captain Who’s Not a Massive Asshole

Turns out when you a) kill your good figure of authority two episodes in and b) replace them with a morally grey scapegoat you eventually reveal is an alt-universe, MAGA-quoting, colossal space-tool, you don’t really have the time to get into the heady moral questions of the day. So it’s a good job Star Trek:…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 9 '19

ACLU Warns: Trump’s Attorney General Pick Is the ‘Godfather’ of America’s Surveillance Hell

The corporate lawyer and former chief U.S. law enforcement officer nominated to replace Jeff Sessions at the Justice Department has a controversial past involving the warrantless surveillance of Americans and once fought to make it easier for phone companies to secretly hand over customer records to the government, legal experts at the American Civil Liberties…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jan 9 '19

Some More Extremely Minor Things From CES 2019 That You Just Might Like

As the dust settles on CES and all of the big gadgets have astounded or disappointed, it’s time for another round up of the little devices that weren’t notable enough to warrant their own coverage but still deserve plenty of love. ZenPod It’s been about a year since the fidget spinner fad died off and…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jan 9 '19

New Steven Universe Trailer Teases an All-Out Diamond War

Though Steven him recently got a chance to escape all the action on Homeworld, the latest trailer for Cartoon Network’s next big Steven Universe event, “Battle of Heart and Mind,” is a promise that when the show returns in a few weeks, the battle’s back on and the stakes are raised. With the other Crystal…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 9 '19

There’s a Cleaning Kit Hidden Inside This Portable NES so You’ll Never Have to Blow on a Cartridge Again

Do I need another portable gaming device weighing down my backpack every time I leave the house? My spine says no, but the retro gamer in me loves the idea of taking an NES with me wherever I roam. As handheld consoles go, My Arcade’s RetroChamp, announced at CES this year, pushes the boundaries of…

Reviews Andrew Liszewski Jan 9 '19

Report: Coca-Cola Is Quietly Influencing China’s Obesity Policy—and Shifting Blame From Itself

Soft drink companies have fought tooth and nail to hold onto their customers, even as public health experts and governments have tried to get people to cut down on the sugary products they make. But a new investigative report in the BMJ highlights just how far Coca-Cola in particular has gone to protect its profits…

Health Ed Cara Jan 9 '19

CES Will Honor Your Innovation so Long as It Doesn’t Fuck

At this year’s CES Innovation Awards—the consumer electronic show’s “annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products”—a sex toy company was selected as an honoree in the Robotics and Drone category, only to have their award swiftly rescinded by the organization’s administrators after they deemed it “immoral” and ineligible. The sex toy,…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jan 9 '19

Marvel’s Vision and Scarlet Witch Series Picked Its Showrunner From the MCU

We may not know what the future of Marvel Studios will bring on the big screen, but on the small screen, we’ve got a pretty good idea. Three shows are in development for the upcoming streaming service Disney+, one of which just got itself a brand new showrunner. The Hollywood Reporter says that Jac Schaeffer,…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Jan 9 '19

You’ll Never Guess What Group of People Shared the Most Fake News Around the 2016 Election

Old people may have the worst internet journalism literacy, according to common sense, and partially backed up by new research on the spread of so-called “fake news” immediately before and after 2016 presidential election. A study published today in the Science Advances journal suggests that elderly Facebook users in the U.S. were far more likely…

Social Media Jennings Brown Jan 9 '19

Skydance Hires Alleged Sexual Harasser John Lasseter, Apparently Doesn’t Care About the Women Who Work There

Little over one year after former Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animations Studios chief creative officer John Lasseter was ousted over alleged multiple instances of sexual harassment, Skydance has decided it’s fine to put its own female employees at risk by hiring him. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Skydance Media CEO David Ellison has…

Movies Beth Elderkin Jan 9 '19

Read the First Chapter of Katharine Duckett’s Shakespeare-Inspired Fantasy Miranda in Milan

Ever wonder what happened to Miranda after the events of Shakespeare’s The Tempest? As author Katharine Duckett imagines in Miranda in Milan, it’s hardly the standard “happily ever after”—but her further adventures do include royal intrigue, magic, and a chance to find out who she really is. Get an exclusive peek at chapter one below!…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy Jan 9 '19

Glass Is a Frustrating, Unsatisfying Conclusion to the Unbreakable Saga

Nineteen years ago, I saw M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable and fell in love. To this day, it’s one of my favorite movies of all time. So, when I saw Split four months before release, the shocking revelation that it took place in the same universe was one of my most memorable theatrical experiences. I say…

Movies Germain Lussier Jan 9 '19

Olay Convinced Me to Moisturize By Showing Me What I’ll Look Like in 20 Years

Las Vegas is a very bad place for skin. The casinos are full of smoke, the air is dry, and there are damaging UV rays everywhere because well, it’s the desert. And while I packed some drug store moisturizer and sunscreen for my trip to CES 2019, I have admittedly been very remiss about maintaining…

Reviews Victoria Song Jan 9 '19

Can You Guess What’s Wrong With This Phone?

While working on a property in Sydney, Australia, a man says he found a wall-mounted phone that “looked dirty and was not working.” Luckily for us, he filmed his subsequent investigation. Can you guess what was wrong with the phone? Well, can you? It was bugs. Lots and lots of bugs.

Tech News Hudson Hongo Jan 9 '19

Why Experts Are Skeptical of IBM’s New Commercial Quantum Computer

IBM has announced the release of Q System One, or as the IBM team described it, “the world’s first fully integrated universal quantum computing system designed for scientific and commercial use.” The IBM announcement comes with a lot of pictures of a very beautiful-looking case for its quantum processor, just in time for the Consumer…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 9 '19

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Has Found Its Baron Harkonnen

We might have just had a tidbit of casting news that pointed to this news coming soon, but now it’s official: Legendary’s take on Dune has found a very important Baron, in the form of Stellan Skarsgård. The Hollywood Reporter has word that Skarsgård has joined the ambitious adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction series…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 9 '19

Food-Safety Inspections Halted Due to Shutdown: Report

With hundreds of food-safety inspectors furloughed due to the ongoing government shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended all “routine” inspections of U.S.-based food-processing facilities, according to a Washington Post report citing excerpts from an interview with the FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb. The Post reports that Gottlieb has a plan underway that could…

Tech News Dell Cameron Jan 9 '19

A Lifelong Biodome Experiment Could Reveal How the Immune System Shapes Personality

It’s the sort of realization that ought to make you existentially terrified: All of your thoughts and actions are influenced by countless interconnected factors, most of which you are never conscious of. Geneticist and immunologist Joshua Milner, a senior researcher at the National Institutes of Health, and other scientists have their own radical theory about…

Science Ed Cara Jan 9 '19

Twitter Mulls Redesign That Looks a Heck of a Lot Like Facebook, Just With More Neo-Nazis

Netflix Gets Its Own Killer Time Loop Show in the First Russian Doll Trailer

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Second Season Is Being Helped by a New Captain Who’s Not a Massive Asshole

ACLU Warns: Trump’s Attorney General Pick Is the ‘Godfather’ of America’s Surveillance Hell

Some More Extremely Minor Things From CES 2019 That You Just Might Like

New Steven Universe Trailer Teases an All-Out Diamond War

There’s a Cleaning Kit Hidden Inside This Portable NES so You’ll Never Have to Blow on a Cartridge Again

Report: Coca-Cola Is Quietly Influencing China’s Obesity Policy—and Shifting Blame From Itself

CES Will Honor Your Innovation so Long as It Doesn’t Fuck

Marvel’s Vision and Scarlet Witch Series Picked Its Showrunner From the MCU

You’ll Never Guess What Group of People Shared the Most Fake News Around the 2016 Election

Skydance Hires Alleged Sexual Harasser John Lasseter, Apparently Doesn’t Care About the Women Who Work There

Read the First Chapter of Katharine Duckett’s Shakespeare-Inspired Fantasy Miranda in Milan

Glass Is a Frustrating, Unsatisfying Conclusion to the Unbreakable Saga

Olay Convinced Me to Moisturize By Showing Me What I’ll Look Like in 20 Years

Can You Guess What’s Wrong With This Phone?

Why Experts Are Skeptical of IBM’s New Commercial Quantum Computer

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Has Found Its Baron Harkonnen

Food-Safety Inspections Halted Due to Shutdown: Report

A Lifelong Biodome Experiment Could Reveal How the Immune System Shapes Personality

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