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Microsoft Wins $479 Million Army Contract for Augmented Reality Systems

Microsoft has secured a $479 million-plus contract with the U.S. Army for Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) prototypes, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, expanding its relationship with the military and beating out a slew of other companies competing for the contract. According to the government proposal, the program is intended to “accelerate lethal defensive and offensive capabilities…

Tech News Catie Keck

RIP Independent Space Force, 2018-2018

Ground Control to Mr. Trump Ground Control to Mr. Trump Take your Diet Coke and put your helmet on Ground Control to Mr. Trump (ten, nine, eight, seven, six) Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three) Check ignition and may God’s love be with you (two, one, liftoff) Per a Wednesday report by Defense One:…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay

How The Walking Dead Blew Up a Bridge Full of Zombies Without Actually Blowing Up a Real Bridge

Just a few weeks after it originally aired, Goodbye Kansas Studios has shared a behind-the-scenes video of its work on The Walking Dead episode “What Comes After,” where Rick, with some help from a pile of dynamite, blows up a bridge full of approaching zombies. Creating one of the series’ most complicated shots required extensive…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

A Brief Guide to Artemis Fowl, an Adaptation We Never Thought We’d See

One could be forgiven for having forgotten about the long-rumored plans for a live-action, cinematic adaptation of Eion Colfer’s 2001 novel Artemis Fowl, considering that studios have been debating whether to move forward with it for almost 20 years at this point. But Artemis is finally making his way to the big screen, which means that…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Miles Learns Web-Swinging on the Job in a Glorious Clip From Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Look, when a decidedly Dad-ish Peter Parker becomes your Spider-Mentor, there are going to be certain things that you learn as you go along. Like, say, how to avoid death from calamitous falls/angry scientists with laser guns through the power of webs. In the wake of today’s review embargo on Into the Spider-Verse (which is, apparently,…

io9 James Whitbrook

A New Bumblebee Featurette Gives Us Our Best Look Yet at Optimus Prime’s Slick, Old School Redesign

It’s not quite true Gen 1. It’s definitely not Bayhem-induced visual noise. But it’s an interesting marriage that really, really works. A new featurette for Bumblebee—focusing on the films’ nostalgic nods to the classic Transformers designs, as well as its ‘80s setting—just dropped, with plenty of little snippets of new footage. But it gives us…

Movies James Whitbrook

Instagram Adds New Features for Users With Visual Impairment

For people with visual impairment, Instagram just got a bit easier to use. The photo-heavy social media app announced two new features today that will let screen readers read photo descriptions generated through artificial intelligence as well as custom text written by users. The automatic alternative text relies on object recognition to generate a description.…

Tech News Victoria Song

Dude, You’re Getting a Dell Dot Com Password Reset Notification Following a Cyber Attack

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Dell has announced its online marketplace experienced a “cybersecurity incident” and the company has reset all Dell.com customers’ passwords. On Wednesday, Dell released a statement informing customers of the situation. It begins, “You may have read about a cybersecurity incident involving Dell.com.” In fact, we had not…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Things You Can Do While Waiting for the Avengers 4 Trailer to Drop

Yesterday, Disney released a trailer for Artemis Fowl, a movie coming out in August. Last week, the studio released a trailer for The Lion King, a movie coming out in July. But there’s a movie coming out in May that does not yet have a trailer: the untitled Avengers 4. There’s a reason for this,…

Movies Germain Lussier

Infected ‘Zombie Spiders’ Forced to Build Incubation Chambers for Their Parasitic Overlords

Parasites that control the behavior of their hosts for their own benefit are a well-documented natural phenomenon, but the discovery of a previously unknown relationship between a parasitic wasp and a social spider is particularly upsetting. Hijacking the brains of unsuspecting hosts is a thing that some organisms do, typically for reproductive purposes. Famous examples…

Biology George Dvorsky

Great Scotch!

Oh, come on. Like you wouldn’t make that joke, if given the opportunity. The frankly bizarre trend of Star Trek tie-in liquor—which already gave us Guinan-inspired vodka—continues with the most logical continuation a line of Trek booze could have, perhaps outside of some sort of Klingon blood wine stand-in. The official Star Trek website has…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook

Climate Change Threatens Priceless Knowledge Held by Indigenous Communities, Federal Report Warns

The National Climate Assessment is big, bad, and scary. It always is. However, tucked between the warnings of death and doom, there is hope. A lot of this hope relates to indigenous communities in the U.S. In fact, as one of the demographics set to be hardest hit by climate change and rising sea levels,…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says

Hundreds of military service members reportedly got caught up in a sextortion scam run by prison inmates using cellphones, according to a release issued on Wednesday by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Military agents from multiple criminal investigation groups have served summons and issued warrants for arrests related to the scheme. According to the…

Crime Jennings Brown

Scientists Build Atomic Clocks Accurate Enough to Measure Changes in Spacetime Itself

Physicists have created atomic clocks so precise that they can measure deformations in spacetime itself, according to new research. We don’t all experience time passing equally—time passes more slowly closer to something massive’s gravitational pull, as famously theorized by Albert Einstein. And since gravity is typically interpreted as the way mass warps space itself, that…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Popular Massage App Left Sensitive User Data Exposed, Including Complaints About ‘Dangerous’ Customers: Report

Urban Massage, a wellness app that connects users with professional massage therapists, reportedly left a database open to public access, potentially exposing sensitive user and employee data—including complaints alleging sexual misconduct by “dangerous” users alongside their names and other personal information. The ElasticSearch database, which was hosted by Google and has since been taken offline,…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz

Google Fi Now Works With iPhones—But Its Coolest Feature Is Missing

After three years, Google’s finally decided to expand Project Fi to more handsets beyond the few phones that have supported it, such as Google’s Pixel and Nexus series, as well as a handful of LG and Moto phones. Crucially, the service is now (mostly) compatible with iPhones, and to celebrate the change, Google is rebranding…

Tech News Victoria Song

We Asked a Researcher to Judge the Historically Inaccurate Junk in Robin Hood

I don’t care that Otto Bathurst’s Robin Hood played so fast and loose with history it basically exists in an alternate universe. On the contrary, it was one of the things I enjoyed the most about it. The movie was great when it was just having a good time, instead of trying too hard to…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The Creators of The Wicked + The Divine Talk About Making Beautiful Magic Together

The comics that Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie have done as a tandem have featured characters channeling a love for creativity, blasting away orthodoxies, and evolving into frighteningly powerful personas. When they talk about their working relationship, it sounds—no surprise—just like being in a band. The most fascinating thing about comics creation happens when different…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse

DJI’s Osmo Pocket Is a Very Tiny, Super Steady 4K Camera

Budding cinematographers and Instagram influencers alike will probably love the Osmo Pocket. This new DJI camera system shoots 4K video and features a three-axis gimbal attached to a handle the size of a small cigar. It’s adorable. The Osmo Pocket also seems like a bit of a weirdo. According to DJI, it’s not an action…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Wildlife Haven Just Outside Los Angeles Is Reeling From Unprecedented Fire Damage

Just outside the borders of one of America’s largest metropolises lies an ecological wonder: the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, located in northwest Los Angeles and Ventura counties, includes 154,000 acres of rugged chaparral and delicate coastal sage scrub communities. It’s home to rare plants found nowhere else on Earth, a federally-protected frog, bobcats,…

Earther Maddie Stone

Microsoft Wins $479 Million Army Contract for Augmented Reality Systems

RIP Independent Space Force, 2018-2018

How The Walking Dead Blew Up a Bridge Full of Zombies Without Actually Blowing Up a Real Bridge

A Brief Guide to Artemis Fowl, an Adaptation We Never Thought We’d See

Miles Learns Web-Swinging on the Job in a Glorious Clip From Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

A New Bumblebee Featurette Gives Us Our Best Look Yet at Optimus Prime’s Slick, Old School Redesign

Instagram Adds New Features for Users With Visual Impairment

Dude, You’re Getting a Dell Dot Com Password Reset Notification Following a Cyber Attack

Things You Can Do While Waiting for the Avengers 4 Trailer to Drop

Infected ‘Zombie Spiders’ Forced to Build Incubation Chambers for Their Parasitic Overlords

Great Scotch!

Climate Change Threatens Priceless Knowledge Held by Indigenous Communities, Federal Report Warns

Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says

Scientists Build Atomic Clocks Accurate Enough to Measure Changes in Spacetime Itself

Popular Massage App Left Sensitive User Data Exposed, Including Complaints About ‘Dangerous’ Customers: Report

Google Fi Now Works With iPhones—But Its Coolest Feature Is Missing

We Asked a Researcher to Judge the Historically Inaccurate Junk in Robin Hood

The Creators of The Wicked + The Divine Talk About Making Beautiful Magic Together

DJI’s Osmo Pocket Is a Very Tiny, Super Steady 4K Camera

A Wildlife Haven Just Outside Los Angeles Is Reeling From Unprecedented Fire Damage

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