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Incredibles 2 Is a Super Sequel That Was Absolutely Worth the Wait

Incredibles 2 takes everything you love about the Oscar-winning original and flips it on its head. The result is a highly-entertaining, slightly familiar tale with bigger action, interesting subtext, and all the smarts, heart, and laughs you could ask for. It’s Pixar doing what Pixar does best. Much like the first film, Incredibles 2 is…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 11 '18

Spain’s Biggest Football App Reportedly Turned Fans Into Unwitting Narcs

With the World Cup just a few days away, everyone is trying to figure out the best ways to watch and keep track of their favorite teams. But before you download any apps, here’s something to think about: The La Liga app, which is the official streaming app for Spain’s most popular football league, has…

Privacy & Security Sam Rutherford Jun 11 '18

Martian Dust Storm Sends NASA’s Opportunity Rover into Hibernation Mode

A massive dust storm on Mars has forced NASA to temporarily suspend operations of its Opportunity rover. NASA first caught wind of the dust storm when its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected traces of the emerging weather system on June 1. Within a few days, the storm exploded in size, and it now covers an area…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jun 11 '18

Hey! We Need Your Help Finding Shady Political Ads on Facebook

Throughout the 2016 election cycle, American voters were inundated with political ads on Facebook like they had never been before. Among those most inflammatory were those purchased by foreign actors with an eye on sowing discord and infusing bad blood into what was, admittedly, already a soured electoral season. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has (belatedly)…

Social Media Dell Cameron Jun 11 '18

Did Charlie Chaplin Invent the Distracted Boyfriend Meme?

If you spend too much online, you’re probably familiar with the “distracted boyfriend” meme. It shows a man checking out a woman on the street while his partner looks on in disgust. Meme makers typically put text on each of the three characters to highlight attention being given to something unimportant at the expense of…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 11 '18

The Sense8 Finale Was Just as Moving and Messy as the Series Deserved

Netflix’s Sense8 finale doesn’t quite hang together. But “Amor Vincit Omnia” is bursting at its broken seams with warmth, hope, and a desire for connection. So, in short: It’s Sense8, same as it’s always been. I wouldn’t have it any other way. “I’m afraid of things pretending to be permanent because nothing is permanent,” says…

io9 Julie Muncy Jun 11 '18

Lenovo’s Line of Cheap Gaming PCs Just Got Real Classy

E3 is like a holiday for gamers, but sometimes it seems like PC fans get a little shortchanged, because aside from a handful of ports, much of the show is devoted to consoles. So to help balance things out, Lenovo is showing off its line of revamped Legion gaming PCs, both laptops and desktops, featuring…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Jun 11 '18

Net Neutrality Is Dead Again, But It’s Not Buried

Ever since the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality last December, we’ve seen the protections for a free and open internet declared dead more than once. On Monday, the rules “officially” come off the books. The reality is net neutrality is on life support and there’s still reason to believe it will return. The process…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jun 11 '18

Weight Watchers Swears No Customer Data Exposed After Dozens of Servers Found Publicly Accessible

Dozens of servers containing Weight Watcher’s data were left exposed after the company failed to password protect software used for managing application containers, according to German cybersecurity firm Kromtech. An Amazon cloud infrastructure used by Weight Watchers was left vulnerable—46 Amazon S3 buckets in total—including logs, passwords, and private encryption keys, Kromtech found. Weight Watchers…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jun 11 '18

Can You Get a Disease From a Toilet Seat?

The world is filled with disgusting toilets. You might personally prefer toilets that smell okay and aren’t covered in filth, but try telling that to whichever organs are involved in making you really need to use the bathroom. It has happened before, and it will happen again: you’ll be at a public bus station, or…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz Jun 11 '18

Turns Out Westworld Has a Heart After All

This week’s Westworld, “Kiksuya,” brought an oft-seen but mostly-silent supporting character into the spotlight, and used his incredible story to give us new perspective on the Hosts’ awareness. It was a poetic, and frankly rather refreshing, detour from the show’s main narrative. We have to begin with the “previously on Westworld” montage, because (thanks to…

Television Cheryl Eddy Jun 11 '18

The Eastern Pacific Just Saw Its Second Major Hurricane in Less Than a Week

After a sluggish start to eastern Pacific hurricane season, the basin is making up for lost time. Hurricane Bud is the second of back-to-back major hurricanes to form in less than a week. The Category 3 storm is currently churning toward Baja California, though it’s thankfully forecast to weaken before likely landfall this weekend. As…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Jun 11 '18

Updates on Wonder Woman 2, Star Trek: Discovery, and More

It: Chapter 2 casts another adult incarnation of the original cast. Kevin Feige is just waiting to hear when Marvel can finally use the X-Men and Fantastic Four again. Ram Bergman says it’s going to be a while before we hear about Rian Johnson’s Star Wars trilogy. Plus, what’s to come on Westworld and Wynonna…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 11 '18

Let’s Call Gang Violence What It Is: Pollution

Growing up in my predominantly black and Latino town of Uniondale on Long Island, “the outdoors” was never about being healthy. One of my clearest childhood memories involves a group of girls beating me up at a park because they confused me for someone else. As a teenager, parks were where kids went to shoot…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jun 11 '18

Bitcoin Price Plunges After Hack of South Korean Exchange, Down 53 Percent Since December

It’s hard out there for people who play with imaginary money. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies plunged over the weekend after it was revealed that a South Korean exchange, Coinrail, was hacked. Roughly $42 billion of market value was destroyed in the sell-off, and Bitcoin has lost over 50 percent of its worth since December. Bitcoin,…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 11 '18

The FCC Lied to You, Facebook Nudes, and WWDC 2018: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Congratulations! If you believed Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai’s evidence-free assertion that someone launched a cyber attack on the agency’s website in 2017, rather than crashed after comedian John Oliver directed the audience of his insanely popular show to weigh in on Pai’s crusade to kill net neutrality rules, oh boy do we have…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 10 '18

Swiss Voters Overwhelmingly Choose to Legalize Online Gambling, But Block All Foreign Sites

Switzerland has elected to allow online casinos, though a newly approved law intends to keep foreign operations from sharing in the take. Per the BBC, Swiss voters have overwhelmingly voted—well above rates suggested by early polling—a measure already approved in Parliament to legalize certified Swiss online casinos, but require internet access providers to block all…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 10 '18

Oopsie! A Democrat Accidentally Voted to Give Trump More Nuclear Weapons

Joe Kennedy, the Democratic congressmen representing Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district, is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a pretty reliable vote against just about anything President Trump wants. So it was more than a little weird to see him cast his lot Republicans and vote against an amendment that would cut spending on…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 10 '18

Joe Manganiello Got the Deathstroke Job Due to Some Good Fan Art

Next time you make some fan art of your favorite actor playing an adaptation of a beloved character, just remember: there’s a possibility you could be helping that person land a job. That, at least, seems to be the moral of recent reports that Joe Manganiello got his role in Justice League (and the DCEU…

io9 Julie Muncy Jun 10 '18

Get Ready for More Mergers if the AT&T-Time Warner Deal Goes Through on Tuesday

Telecom giant AT&T has been fighting like hell in court to pull off its $85 billion acquisition of content company Time Warner, which owns everything from HBO and Warner Bros to DC Comics. It’s been opposed by the Department of Justice, which has formally argued that it’s against the deal on antitrust grounds but many…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 10 '18

Incredibles 2 Is a Super Sequel That Was Absolutely Worth the Wait

Spain’s Biggest Football App Reportedly Turned Fans Into Unwitting Narcs

Martian Dust Storm Sends NASA’s Opportunity Rover into Hibernation Mode

Hey! We Need Your Help Finding Shady Political Ads on Facebook

Did Charlie Chaplin Invent the Distracted Boyfriend Meme?

The Sense8 Finale Was Just as Moving and Messy as the Series Deserved

Lenovo’s Line of Cheap Gaming PCs Just Got Real Classy

Net Neutrality Is Dead Again, But It’s Not Buried

Weight Watchers Swears No Customer Data Exposed After Dozens of Servers Found Publicly Accessible

Can You Get a Disease From a Toilet Seat?

Turns Out Westworld Has a Heart After All

The Eastern Pacific Just Saw Its Second Major Hurricane in Less Than a Week

Updates on Wonder Woman 2, Star Trek: Discovery, and More

Let’s Call Gang Violence What It Is: Pollution

Bitcoin Price Plunges After Hack of South Korean Exchange, Down 53 Percent Since December

The FCC Lied to You, Facebook Nudes, and WWDC 2018: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Swiss Voters Overwhelmingly Choose to Legalize Online Gambling, But Block All Foreign Sites

Oopsie! A Democrat Accidentally Voted to Give Trump More Nuclear Weapons

Joe Manganiello Got the Deathstroke Job Due to Some Good Fan Art

Get Ready for More Mergers if the AT&T-Time Warner Deal Goes Through on Tuesday

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