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Fourth Man Confirmed to Have Died in Hunt For the Rocky Mountains’ Possibly Fictional Fenn Treasure

The myth of a treasure hoard hidden somewhere in the Rocky Mountains has lured a fourth person to their death, the BBC reported. 53-year-old Illinois resident Jeff Murphy died in Yellowstone National Park on June 9th, 2017 while seeking a $2 million treasure chest supposedly buried by New Mexico art dealer and aged millionaire Forrest…

Tech News Tom McKay

Uh Oh, Snap

Social-media monarch Kylie Jenner—a longtime Snapchat power user and arguably one of the most important trendsetters on there—suggested on Wednesday she may be done with the app, which is bad news for a company that has already seen numerous users get mad online (but more importantly maybe reduce their engagement) over a recent redesign. “sooo…

Tech News Tom McKay

This Star Wars Documentary on Sound in The Last Jedi Is Delightful

Sounds are the unheralded heroes of movies. They flutter into your eardrums without you even realizing it, and become as crucial a part of the experience as anything else. And nowhere is that truer than in Star Wars, where the sound department has to create sounds for things we’ve never seen before. Throughout the years,…

Movies Germain Lussier

Coming Soon: The World’s First Walking Dead Roller Coaster

Fans who want to do more than just watch walkers on TV will soon be able to do just that. Thorpe Park, an amusement park in the UK, just announced it’ll soon open the world’s first Walking Dead roller coaster. The Walking Dead: The Ride is a refurbishment of the park’s current coaster, X: No…

Television Germain Lussier

Photographer Catches Trump’s Notes on How to Appear Sympathetic to Mass Shooting Survivors

As President Donald Trump met with survivors and others impacted by the spate of mass school shootings across the US at the White House on Wednesday, he held a cue card with notes on how to appear empathetic while proposing solutions like tightening the federal background check system, raising the age of firearms purchases, having…

Tech News Tom McKay

Comparing Evgenia Medvedeva’s Sailor Moon Ice Skating Routine to the Anime Proves She’s a Magical Girl

Evgenia Medvedeva is known for two things: 1) being an incredible figure skater—she competed in the Olympics earlier today—and 2) loving Sailor Moon. This resulted in a fantastic Sailor Moon-inspired routine she performed at the 2017 ISU World Team Trophy. And that’s resulted in someone making a video that matches her routine with the original…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

All 11 Versions of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Ranked

The Enterprise isn’t just quintessential to the long history of Star Trek, it’s also one of the most iconic starships of all time. It was the star of the classic series, but later and earlier versions of it also sat at the heart of The Next Generation and Enterprise, and beyond that in film. Now…

io9 James Whitbrook

Google Fired and Disciplined Employees for Speaking Out About Diversity [Updated]

Last August, James Damore circulated a memo internally at Google in which he argued women were biologically less inclined to succeed in engineering roles at the company and that Google’s diversity efforts were misguided. In doing so, he set off heated debate among his co-workers—debate that, according to current and former employees who spoke to…

Tech News Kate Conger

I Don’t Want to Hear About Your Iceland Trip Unless You Come Back With Footage Like This

How many arduous slideshows of your friends’ trips to Iceland have you had to sit through? Too many, right? After watching this stunning collection of timelapses that Martin Heck captured while briefly touring the country, I’m officially drawing the line and raising the bar when it comes to Icelandic vacation videos I’m willing to endure.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Amazon Is Turning Iain M. Banks’ Iconic Culture Books Into a TV Series

Amazon’s been making some major genre plays in its original programming recently, but its latest grab is one of its grandest plans yet: An adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ iconic scifi saga, the Culture Series, starting off with Consider Phlebas. Announced today by Amazon, the adaptation of Phlebas—the novel that introduced readers to the ginormous…

Television James Whitbrook

Social Media Is Corrupting the Youth Slightly Less Than We Feared

Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram might not be destroying the minds of The Youth™ as much as we thought, according to a recent review published in Educational Psychology. In some cases, social media could even be helping them do better at school. German researchers analyzed 59 published and unpublished studies that examined the relationship between academic…

Tech News Ed Cara

Snapchat’s Redesign Isn’t Going Anywhere

This month, more than a million keyboard-wielding, moderately frustrated change.org users petitioned Snapchat to roll back its big redesign—the one Snap delicately introduced over the course of a few months and said would be “disruptive.” Miraculously, this petition has achieved something, albeit on the smallest of scales. Petitioners were rewarded with a response from Snap…

Tech News Harri Weber

The Internet’s Favorite Black Panther Fans Talk About Finally Going to Wakanda

If you’ve been following all the buzz leading up to Black Panther’s release, then you’ve probably seen the viral video of a group of friends hugging and enthusing over the movie’s poster. Their energy served as a stand-in for the excitement of folks all over the world; now’s your chance to find out who they…

Movies Evan Narcisse

WhatsApp Co-Founder Injects Signal With $50 Million to Make Encrypted Messaging ‘Ubiquitous’

The creators of Signal, the encrypted messaging app widely used throughout security community—as well as by journalists, activists, and others seeking to stymie government surveillance—announced on Wednesday a major change to the organization’s makeup. With the aid of WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, Signal has launched The Signal Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at creating the next…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Are Ikea’s $7 Rechargeable Batteries Actually Pricey Eneloop Pro AAs in Disguise?

If you cheap out on alkaline batteries, there’s a noticeable difference in performance. But that might not be the case with rechargeable nickel-metal hydride batteries made in Japan. As Matthew Eargle discovered, the cheap LADDA rechargeables that Ikea sells might actually be rolling off the same production line as Panasonic’s pricier Eneloop Pro batteries. To…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

New Maps Show Us Where Antarctica Is Shrinking Fastest

If even a fraction of Antarctica’s ice melts, the resultant sea level rise will reshape coastlines around the world. A new study gets us one step closer to predicting if and when that will happen, by mapping the motion of ice across the entire continent. The study, published this month in the journal The Cryosphere,…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Alcohol Plays a Much Bigger Role in Causing Dementia Than We Thought

It’s hardly a surprise that too much alcohol is bad for the body, including the brain. But a new study published Tuesday in The Lancet suggests that even doctors are underestimating its impact on our risk of developing dementia. The researchers looked at a nationwide, anonymous database of more than 30 million adult French hospital…

Health Ed Cara

There’s a Solid Chance the Autonomous Cars of the Future Will Force Ads on You

Spend enough time googling “tacos” or “pasta” and eventually you’ll be served ads for Latin or Italian restaurants. Spend enough time driving to Latin or Italian restaurants and eventually, your car might soon serve ads and offer recommendations. This week, Bloomberg spoke with Telenav Inc., a California company working to serve smart cars with pop-up…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Joss Whedon Is Coming Back to Write the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic

Though Buffy the Vampire Slayer hasn’t been on television for almost 15 years, the Scooby Gang’s still been fighting the good fight in the comic book world. It’s been a hot second since Buffy creator Joss Whedon penned a vamp-centric comic himself, but he’s coming back for the upcoming Season 12: The Reckoning from Dark…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Mark Zuckerberg Will Fund Scientists With ‘New Ideas’ to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease

In 2016, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, launched the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with the modest goal of curing all diseases before the end of the century. Now, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is setting its sights on neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Over the next five years, it plans to hand out $2.5 million…

Social Media Kristen V. Brown

Fourth Man Confirmed to Have Died in Hunt For the Rocky Mountains’ Possibly Fictional Fenn Treasure

Uh Oh, Snap

This Star Wars Documentary on Sound in The Last Jedi Is Delightful

Coming Soon: The World’s First Walking Dead Roller Coaster

Photographer Catches Trump’s Notes on How to Appear Sympathetic to Mass Shooting Survivors

Comparing Evgenia Medvedeva’s Sailor Moon Ice Skating Routine to the Anime Proves She’s a Magical Girl

All 11 Versions of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Ranked

Google Fired and Disciplined Employees for Speaking Out About Diversity [Updated]

I Don’t Want to Hear About Your Iceland Trip Unless You Come Back With Footage Like This

Amazon Is Turning Iain M. Banks’ Iconic Culture Books Into a TV Series

Social Media Is Corrupting the Youth Slightly Less Than We Feared

Snapchat’s Redesign Isn’t Going Anywhere

The Internet’s Favorite Black Panther Fans Talk About Finally Going to Wakanda

WhatsApp Co-Founder Injects Signal With $50 Million to Make Encrypted Messaging ‘Ubiquitous’

Are Ikea’s $7 Rechargeable Batteries Actually Pricey Eneloop Pro AAs in Disguise?

New Maps Show Us Where Antarctica Is Shrinking Fastest

Alcohol Plays a Much Bigger Role in Causing Dementia Than We Thought

There’s a Solid Chance the Autonomous Cars of the Future Will Force Ads on You

Joss Whedon Is Coming Back to Write the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic

Mark Zuckerberg Will Fund Scientists With ‘New Ideas’ to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease

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