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From Sea Horses to Sand Worms: Jason Momoa Is in Talks for Dune

In Jason Momoa’s last movie, he jumped out of a plane over Africa, while a Pitbull cover of Toto’s “Africa” played on the soundtrack, landing in the vast dunes of a sprawling desert. For his next film, he’s once again landed in Dune. Deadline reports that Aquaman himself is in negotiations to join Thanos, Drax,…

Movies Germain Lussier Feb 14 '19

The EU Just Finalized Copyright Legislation That Rewrites the Rules of the Web

For two years, the European Union has been mulling over a serious overhaul of its copyright laws. But last year, it became increasingly clear that key provisions in the looming copyright directive pose a serious threat to the free exchange of information online, the culture of fair use, and the ability of startups to compete.…

Tech News Rhett Jones Feb 14 '19

Facebook Is Negotiating a Record Multi-Billion Dollar Fine for Its Privacy Problems: Report

Facebook is in active negotiations to resolve the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into the company’s privacy failures, according to a new Washington Post report, talks that could result in a multi-billion dollar fine or a heavyweight court battle. The report didn’t include an exact figure and said that landing on an amount is the focus…

Social Media Patrick Howell O'Neill Feb 14 '19

Time Travel Gets Abused and Overused in a Clip From the Sci-Fi Comedy Mega Time Squad

We love a good time travel movie, especially when it does something different and cool with the idea. And that’s exactly what happens in this exclusive clip from the upcoming sci-fi comedy Mega Time Squad. It shows time travel used and abused in ways that would be highly, highly problematic…if it was actually real. Written…

Movies Germain Lussier Feb 14 '19

New NASA Mission Will Look Back at Billions of Years of Cosmic History

A newly approved NASA mission, called SPHEREx, will use a space-based observatory to study the early conditions of the Universe and hunt for the celestial ingredients required for life. Proposed in 2016, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission, or SPHEREx for short, was chosen by NASA…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Feb 14 '19

To Stop the Wall, Democrats Agree to Fund Mass Surveillance Near U.S. Border

A spending bill expected to pass the House and Senate on Thursday, and then be signed by President Trump before this weekend to avert another disastrous government shutdown, contains at least $100 million earmarked for the development of surveillance technologies such as unmanned aerial drones and facial recognition systems, according to a summary of the…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Feb 14 '19

Ryan Coogler Thought Marvel Would Cut Black Panther‘s Most Powerful Line

Black Panther’s Erik Killmonger is one of the MCU’s most complex villains. His heartbreaking dialogue toward the end of the film is one of his most powerful moments and perhaps something you wouldn’t normally expect to hear in a superhero film. Black Panther co-writers Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole put it in there assuming…

Movies Germain Lussier Feb 14 '19

Ben Whishaw’s Paddington Is Coming to Television, Break Out the Marmalade

Still sporting a 100 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes 13 months and 222 reviews later, Paddington 2 was one of the best films of 2018. Paddington 3 is currently in development and now everyone’s favorite bear is moving into yet another medium, television. Nickelodeon just announced it’s making a Paddington animated series aimed at…

io9 Germain Lussier Feb 14 '19

New Research Could Help Keep Stink Bugs Out of Your House

You don’t just see one stink bug. You see seemingly infinite stink bugs: in the couch, among the dishes, somehow under your pillow. Sure, try to kill them—they’ll just come right back. New research from scientists in Virginia measures just how small the smallest gaps must be in order to keep stink bugs out of…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 14 '19

California Governor Wants You to Get a Cut of the Cash Tech Companies Makes From Your Data

California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked his aides to create a “digital dividends” proposal for a plan that would allow consumers in the state to get a portion of the money that tech companies make from using their personal data. The new governor announced his intentions in his State of the State delivered on Tuesday:…

Tech News Jennings Brown Feb 14 '19

Apple Prime Would Be a Gigantic Hit, Huh?

It’s imminent. Multiple outlets now report that Apple will announce new video streaming and news subscription services at a celebrity-studded event in Cupertino on March 25. BuzzFeed News cited anonymous sources who said the event would take place at Steve Jobs Theater and focus on the news service. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman corroborated that report and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 14 '19

Agents of SHIELD‘s Next Season Might Take Place a Year Into the Future

The specific timeline of events in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe was always been murky at best even before Infinity War made it so that the studio had to begin at least trying to obfuscate specific details about future films that would “spoil” whether certain major characters would return from the dead. Well, the latest report about…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 14 '19

Activists Have a Plan to Keep the Senate From Nuking the Green New Deal

The Senate will be taking up a vote for the Green New Deal in what’s widely seen as a cynical ploy by Mitch McConnell to divide Democrats at the expense of millennials and future generations. The thing is, millennials are pretty pissed and they’re not going to let the vote happen without making some serious…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Feb 14 '19

The Coolest Images in the Beautiful New Han Solo Book

If you’re looking for 241-page, beautifully illustrated, expertly researched book chronicling the history of Han Solo, Star Wars Icons: Han Solo by Gina McIntyre is it. But that’s not all that makes the book so great. The book follows the character of Han Solo from beginning to end, from every angle imaginable, with insight from…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Feb 14 '19

EPA Wants to Remove Cancer-Linked Chemicals From Drinking Water, One Day, Maybe

A number of common items—from certain pots and pans to your fast food wrapper—get their non-stick properties from synthetics substances that may increase a person’s risk of cancer. This group of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, collectively called PFAS, lack stringent federal regulation, but in 2016, the EPA made it a priority to change that. On…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Feb 14 '19

Actually, Secretly Filming Students’ Cleavage Is Illegal, Canada’s Supreme Court Rules

In 2015, Ontario high school teacher Ryan Jarvis was caught secretly recording the chests of female students with a spy pen. But Jarvis was acquitted after the Ontario Court of Appeal reasoned that the students didn’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy at the public school. Today, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against this…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz Feb 14 '19

Remote-Controlled Probe Picks up Radioactive Debris at Fukushima for the First Time

Tepco, the state-owned operator of the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, has conducted an important test in which a remote-controlled probe managed to grasp several small grains of radioactive debris, AFP reports. The successful operation marked an important achievement for the company as it prepares for a cleanup operation that could take decades. In March…

Tech News George Dvorsky Feb 14 '19

No, Kit Harington Didn’t Spoil the End of Game of Thrones for Rose Leslie

Looks like Ygritte is the one who knows nothing this time. Earlier this month, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington shared how last year, he had angered his former co-star and current spouse Rose Leslie by spoiling the ending, adding that she wouldn’t talk to her personal Jon Snow “for three days” afterward. But there’s…

io9 Beth Elderkin Feb 14 '19

Dating App’s Reputation Schmeared by Data Breach

Coffee Meets Bagel—the worst-named dating app in an extremely competitive field—spent Valentine’s Day performing one of the more intimate acts a company can engage in: informing its users of a data breach. “We recently discovered that some data from your Coffee Meets Bagel account may have been acquired by an unauthorized party,” the email, which…

Tech News Avery Ellis Feb 14 '19

Women Will Literally Shock the World in a New Series From Amazon

Amazon audiences will soon see a world controlled by women who can shock the shit of of you. That’s because the company just ordered Naomi Alderman’s book The Power to become a 10-episode series directed by Reed Morano of The Handmaid’s Tale. First published in 2016, The Power was named one of the ten best…

io9 Germain Lussier Feb 14 '19

From Sea Horses to Sand Worms: Jason Momoa Is in Talks for Dune

The EU Just Finalized Copyright Legislation That Rewrites the Rules of the Web

Facebook Is Negotiating a Record Multi-Billion Dollar Fine for Its Privacy Problems: Report

Time Travel Gets Abused and Overused in a Clip From the Sci-Fi Comedy Mega Time Squad

New NASA Mission Will Look Back at Billions of Years of Cosmic History

To Stop the Wall, Democrats Agree to Fund Mass Surveillance Near U.S. Border

Ryan Coogler Thought Marvel Would Cut Black Panther‘s Most Powerful Line

Ben Whishaw’s Paddington Is Coming to Television, Break Out the Marmalade

New Research Could Help Keep Stink Bugs Out of Your House

California Governor Wants You to Get a Cut of the Cash Tech Companies Makes From Your Data

Apple Prime Would Be a Gigantic Hit, Huh?

Agents of SHIELD‘s Next Season Might Take Place a Year Into the Future

Activists Have a Plan to Keep the Senate From Nuking the Green New Deal

The Coolest Images in the Beautiful New Han Solo Book

EPA Wants to Remove Cancer-Linked Chemicals From Drinking Water, One Day, Maybe

Actually, Secretly Filming Students’ Cleavage Is Illegal, Canada’s Supreme Court Rules

Remote-Controlled Probe Picks up Radioactive Debris at Fukushima for the First Time

No, Kit Harington Didn’t Spoil the End of Game of Thrones for Rose Leslie

Dating App’s Reputation Schmeared by Data Breach

Women Will Literally Shock the World in a New Series From Amazon

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