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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Is Criminally Underbaked

There’s a moment near the end of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald when I realized the scene I was watching could have been the second one in the movie. Instead, it was near the end, climactic and important. Yet it took so long to get here and everything that happened prior was so superfluous…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 8 '18

Explosive Northern California Wildfire Is Consuming 80 Acres of Land a Minute

An incredibly dangerous wildfire has exploded to life in Northern California. The Camp Fire has spurred numerous evacuations in Butte County as it races across the landscape. The fire was first reported at 6:30 a.m. PT, and grew to at least 5,000 acres in three hours. California’s state fire agency reported the fire is “very…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Nov 8 '18

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Made a Mass Shooting Part of Its Story at an Impossible Time

Last night around 11:20 p.m. PST, 28-year-old former Marine David Long walked into the the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California an opened fire with a handgun, killing 12 people and injuring 25 more before taking his own life. Just hours before the murders, this week’s penultimate episode of American Horror Story featured…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 8 '18

YouTube Finally Lands on Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch is getting an official YouTube app starting today. By adding support for YouTube, the number of streaming video services on the Switch now stands at three, following the Japan-only NicoNico app, which arrived shortly after the Switch’s release, and the Hulu app that launched on the Switch almost exactly a year ago…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Nov 8 '18

Joe Russo Provides Some Micro Avengers 4 Updates, But Still No Title

Earlier today, hundreds of Marvel fans tuned into an Instagram Live streaming from a bar in Los Angeles, hoping for information about Avengers 4. And, surprise surprise, they actually got some, just not what they wanted. Joe Russo, one of the film’s co-directors, did the stream from the cocktail bar Duello inside his restaurant Simone…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 8 '18

Report: Jeremy Irons to Play Ozymandias in HBO’s Watchmen Series

We’ve known for some time now that Jeremy Irons had joined the cast of HBO’s upcoming, live-action Watchmen series from Damon Lindelof, but it remained a mystery who the actor was set to play…until now. SlashFilm is reporting that Irons will portray an older, though nonetheless still nefarious version of Adrian Veidt, the brilliant megalomanic…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 8 '18

The Amazon Rainforest Is Adapting to Climate Change, But Not Fast Enough

A 30-year analysis of Amazonian trees finds the world’s largest rainforest is already adapting to climate change, but probably not fast enough. The study, published this week in Global Change Biology, paints what is perhaps our most comprehensive picture of how the Amazon rainforest’s trees are responding to climate change. While the authors found signs…

Earther Maddie Stone Nov 8 '18

Three New DNA Studies Are Shaking Up the History of Humans in the Americas

It’s a huge day for archaeologists and anyone interested in the history of America’s first settlers. Findings from three new genetics studies—all released today—are presenting a fascinating, yet complex, picture of the first people in North and South America, and how they spread and diversified across two continents. Our understanding of how the Americas were…

Human History George Dvorsky Nov 8 '18

You Know About Flu Season, but Did You Know About Gonorrhea Season?

Like clockwork, the influenza virus rears its ugly head every winter and makes our lives miserable. But the flu isn’t the only germ that likes a particular time of year, according to a new paper published this week in PLOS Pathogens. Seemingly every infectious disease, including polio, gonorrhea, and even HIV, is seasonal, though not…

Health Ed Cara Nov 8 '18

A Fascinating New Book Explores the Eerie Connection Between Tech and the Supernatural

These days, the idea of trying to contact spirits using technology calls to mind those reality shows that send obnoxious “ghost hunters” into abandoned hospitals. But as a new book investigates, the practice has a whole lot more history and nuance behind it than that. That book is Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy Nov 8 '18

Extremely Relatable Salmon Get Stuck in Traffic Migrating Through Washington

Salmon will do whatever it takes to make some babies. They’ll even dart across oncoming traffic, apparently. Amazing footage captured earlier this week shows some chum salmon near the Skokomish River in Washington state literally crossing the road. Chum salmon usually start spawning in November, using the river to reach streams where eggs can be…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Nov 8 '18

Google Vows to Overhaul Its Handling of Sexual Harassment Claims After Thousands Protest

On Thursday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to all employees promising a number of changes to the company’s policies following last week’s massive walkout. Many of these changes addressed the demands made by the walkout organizers, including optional arbitration for sexual harassment and assault claims and an improved reporting process for sexual misconduct.…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Nov 8 '18

Report: NASA and Yuri Milner Working Together on Life-Hunting Mission to Enceladus

It looks like NASA will offer billionaire entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner help on the first private deep-space mission: a journey designed to detect life, if it exists, on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, according to documents acquired by New Scientist. New Scientist’s Mark Harris reports: Agreements signed by NASA and Milner’s non-profit Breakthrough Starshot Foundation in…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 8 '18

The First Trailer For Netflix’s Korean Zombie Epic Kingdom Teases Ancient Horrors

We’ve known for a while that Netflix has been working with Korean studio Astory to help bring a fantastical zombie series to life—and now we’ve got our first look at its creepy, gorgeous take on zombie horror. Set at an unspecified point in the five centuries that make up Korea’s Joseon Dynasty—one of the most…

io9 James Whitbrook Nov 8 '18

Rejoice! The New MacBook Air Is Repair-Friendly… Kinda

If you’ve ever listened to an Apple hater rant about why Macs suck, chances are you’ve heard those “You can’t repair or upgrade it yourself!” arguments. But with the new MacBook Air and Mac mini, Apple seems like it’s ready to toss Mac diehards a small, but welcome bone. iFixit’s teardown of the 2018 Air…

Tech News Victoria Song Nov 8 '18

69-Year-Old Sues to Legally Change His Age to 49, Citing Tinder Benefits

A motivational guru from the Netherlands, who voiced a villainous Zaporozhets supermini in the Dutch-language version of Pixar’s Cars 2, is trying to legally change his birthday so he will face less discrimination, including from potential online romantic prospects. “When I’m on Tinder and it says I’m 69, I don’t get an answer. When I’m…

Tech Policy Jennings Brown Nov 8 '18

White House Spreads Doctored Video to Justify Temper Tantrum Against CNN Reporter

The White House doesn’t want us to believe what we’re seeing, so they’re showing us things that are unbelievable. On Wednesday, President Trump was in a foul mood and decided to hold an impromptu news conference that lasted nearly 90 minutes. A lot of weird things happened, and Trump was clearly feeling defensive about losing…

Politics Rhett Jones Nov 8 '18

These Men Ate Poison So You Could Have the FDA

If you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the U.S. in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what it seemed. The level of vile, often toxic contamination in basic consumer products was almost unimaginable to modern folk raised under the auspices of the FDA. Your morning coffee?…

Health Kim Kelly Nov 8 '18

The Latest Trailer for Andy Serkis’ Mowgli Proves It’s Time to Start Taking Mo-Cap Acting Seriously

Were it not for the fact that audiences still had the gamey aftertaste of Disney’s most recent adaptation of The Jungle Book in their mouths, chances are likely that there’d be much more buzz about Andy Serkis’ upcoming adaptation of the Ruyard Kipling book soon to hit Netflix. While the basic plot elements of the…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 8 '18

All the Useful Stuff Your iPad and Other Gadgets Can Do With USB-C

Surprise! Apple decided to go with USB-C charging for its latest batch of iPad Pros, which means… well, what exactly does it mean? Whether you’re putting down some cash for one of the new Apple slates or you’ve already got a USB-C device in your life, here’s how the emerging technology works and exactly what…

Gadgets David Nield Nov 8 '18

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Is Criminally Underbaked

Explosive Northern California Wildfire Is Consuming 80 Acres of Land a Minute

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Made a Mass Shooting Part of Its Story at an Impossible Time

YouTube Finally Lands on Nintendo Switch

Joe Russo Provides Some Micro Avengers 4 Updates, But Still No Title

Report: Jeremy Irons to Play Ozymandias in HBO’s Watchmen Series

The Amazon Rainforest Is Adapting to Climate Change, But Not Fast Enough

Three New DNA Studies Are Shaking Up the History of Humans in the Americas

You Know About Flu Season, but Did You Know About Gonorrhea Season?

A Fascinating New Book Explores the Eerie Connection Between Tech and the Supernatural

Extremely Relatable Salmon Get Stuck in Traffic Migrating Through Washington

Google Vows to Overhaul Its Handling of Sexual Harassment Claims After Thousands Protest

Report: NASA and Yuri Milner Working Together on Life-Hunting Mission to Enceladus

The First Trailer For Netflix’s Korean Zombie Epic Kingdom Teases Ancient Horrors

Rejoice! The New MacBook Air Is Repair-Friendly… Kinda

69-Year-Old Sues to Legally Change His Age to 49, Citing Tinder Benefits

White House Spreads Doctored Video to Justify Temper Tantrum Against CNN Reporter

These Men Ate Poison So You Could Have the FDA

The Latest Trailer for Andy Serkis’ Mowgli Proves It’s Time to Start Taking Mo-Cap Acting Seriously

All the Useful Stuff Your iPad and Other Gadgets Can Do With USB-C

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