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California Is Considering Permanent Water Restrictions

California officials are considering whether the time has come for permanent water restrictions. Folks in the Golden State remember all too well when their four-year-long drought forced them to watch their daily water use. The drought emergency officially ended in April 2017, but it’s returned to parts of the state, and the snowpack is crazy…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Net Neutrality Gets Its Official Execution Date—But the Fights to Keep It Alive Are Going Strong

If all goes as the FCC’s Republican commissioners planned, December 14th will be known as the day that net neutrality died. But thanks to the mercifully slow gears of the federal bureaucracy, big changes don’t happen immediately. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality protections is scheduled to hit the federal register.…

Tech News Rhett Jones

The Third Jurassic World Will Be Released in 2021

The Jurassic World trilogy will end three years from now. With the second film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, still four months away, Universal just set a June 11, 2021 release date for the third film in the franchise. Emily Carmichael, writer of the upcoming Pacific Rim: Uprising, will pen the screenplay along with Colin Trevorrow,…

Movies Germain Lussier

YouTube Promoted a Conspiracy Theory Following a Mass Shooting, Again

Earlier today, a video appearing in YouTube’s trending videos feed, meant to surface the most popular content to the platform’s estimated 1 billion users, featured content suggested a survivor of the Parkland shooting was a “crisis actor.” The term is used in conspiracy circles to describe someone paid to pretend they’d been involved in a…

Tech News Avery Ellis

It’s Summer in February

I live in Washington, D.C., where it’s currently summer in February. All three regional airports have broken temperature records today, with DCA’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit being the earliest 80-degree day for the calendar year in recorded history. You can’t beat the heat by heading north, either. Record highs occurred across the New York City area…

Earth Science Ari Phillips

Annihilation Will Mess With Your Mind and Have You Begging For More

Alex Garland’s Annihilation has just about everything a moviegoer could want. It has an incredibly compelling mystery at its heart, it’s filled with nuanced performances by amazing actors, and it looks unbelievably fantastic. Most importantly, like the best science fiction, it challenges you and makes you think. Annihilation has all this—and yet it comes just…

Movies Germain Lussier

How Does a Euthanasia Drug Keep Ending Up in Dog Food?

Owners of very good boys and girls might be perturbed by the latest recall to make the news: 27 brands of dog food pulled from warehouses for possibly containing pentobarbital, a sedative used to euthanize both pets and people alike. As Gizmodo has already reported, the recall concerns wet and canned dog foods manufactured by…

Biology Ed Cara

Surprise! Yet Another Baby Monitor Can Be Hacked by a Child

You probably think your baby is special. Every hacker in the world is just itching to catch a glimpse of that tubby little poop monster. But let’s be real—probably nobody is spying on your baby. Nevertheless, on the off chance you are one of the 50,000 parents who bought a Mi-Cam device (presumably to keep…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

The Solo: A Star Wars Story Trailer Re-Cut to the Beastie Boys Has No Right to Be This Great

Earlier this month, we got our long-awaited first trailer for the Han Solo Star Wars spinoff film, and it was actually pretty fine. Not the disaster some fans might have expected given the movie’s tumultuous production, just not the greatest trailer in the world. But it turns out there’s one way to make it pretty…

Movies James Whitbrook

New Report on Emerging AI Risks Paints a Grim Future

A new report authored by over two-dozen experts on the implications of emerging technologies is sounding the alarm bells on the ways artificial intelligence could enable new forms of cybercrime, physical attacks, and political disruption over the next five to ten years. The 100-page report, titled “The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and…

Privacy & Security George Dvorsky

Climate Change Is Making Beluga Whales Work for Their Meals

When sea ice melts in the summer, beluga whales that hang out in the Bering Sea during winter traverse up north. This is typically when they eat really good, but climate change may be messing with their summertime fish buffets. With the increased loss of sea ice and the shift in prey habits, beluga whales…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

To Keep Making Phones, Apple and Samsung Must Grapple With the World’s Dirtiest Industry

Apple may finally be fed up with some of the unethical supply chains that leave the company open to possible shortages. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple “is in talks to buy long-term supplies of cobalt directly from miners for the first time.” If this report is true, Apple would begin working directly…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Amateur Astronomer Spots Supernova Right as It Begins

Amateur astronomer Victor Buso was testing his camera-telescope setup in Argentina back in September 2016, pointing his Newtonian telescope at a spiral galaxy called NGC613. He collected light from the galaxy for the next hour and a half, taking short exposures to keep out the Santa Fe city lights. When he looked at his images,…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Bering Sea Ice Is Disappearing When it Should Still Be Growing

An epic heat wave has created a stunning reverse in the frozen fortunes of the Bering Sea. The sea ice ringing the Arctic normally expands until at least late February and often through mid-March. But sea ice there has plummeted to a record low for this time of year, creating an unheard of ice-free pathway…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Black Panther‘s Killmonger Is Everyone Who Loves Wakanda Even Though It Didn’t Love Us

Black Panther’s Erik Killmonger is not a charismatic show stealer like Thor’s Loki, or a profoundly deranged monster like Jessica Jones’ Kilgrave, but he is easily one of Marvel’s most compelling, heartbreaking, and relatable villains to date. Killmonger definitely isn’t “good,” but he isn’t entirely “bad,” either. He’s human, and he’s got a motivation and…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Search for the Olympian Gene

In 2014, the former Soviet nation of Uzbekistan announced a plan that it hoped would give it a leg up in future Olympic games: It would DNA test Uzbek children to determine their athletic potential. Rustam Mukhamedov, a scientist at Uzbekistan’s Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, had been studying the genes of champion Uzbek athletes for…

Biology Kristen V. Brown

Our First Look at Krypton‘s Creepy Take on Brainiac

We’ve known for a while that one of Superman’s most infamous villains would be making his way to Syfy’s prequel series Krypton—but now we’ve got our first look at the sinister cyborg Brainiac in action, as well as the show’s haunting version of his spaceship. USA Today has officially revealed the first image of Blake…

Television James Whitbrook

I Tried Uber’s New ‘Pool Express’ Service And Honestly, Just Take a Bus

Uber announced Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new product: Uber Pool Express, a carpooling service targeted at commuters. Uber won’t like this comparison, but honestly, just think of it as a bus stop. When a rider selects Pool Express, the app groups them with nearby riders who are all going to destinations that are…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Did a Fan Just Find Proof of Quantum Leap‘s Secret Lost Ending?

The series finale of Quantum Leap was bleak (to put it mildly), with the final title card confirming that Scott Bakula’s character, Sam Beckett, remained lost in time. However, one video claims a long-rumored alternate ending was actually real, one which would’ve made it possible for Sam to make that final leap home. YouTuber Allison…

Television Beth Elderkin

Hackers Steal Millions by Ditching Malware to Sidestep Security

Employing sophisticated scams involving social engineering, email phishing, and the harvesting of employee passwords, attackers have pilfered millions of dollars from some of the world largest corporations—all while bypassing traditional hacking safeguards by simply avoiding the use malware. A new report from IBM Security sheds light on ongoing campaigns being waged by “cyber con artists”…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

California Is Considering Permanent Water Restrictions

Net Neutrality Gets Its Official Execution Date—But the Fights to Keep It Alive Are Going Strong

The Third Jurassic World Will Be Released in 2021

YouTube Promoted a Conspiracy Theory Following a Mass Shooting, Again

It’s Summer in February

Annihilation Will Mess With Your Mind and Have You Begging For More

How Does a Euthanasia Drug Keep Ending Up in Dog Food?

Surprise! Yet Another Baby Monitor Can Be Hacked by a Child

The Solo: A Star Wars Story Trailer Re-Cut to the Beastie Boys Has No Right to Be This Great

New Report on Emerging AI Risks Paints a Grim Future

Climate Change Is Making Beluga Whales Work for Their Meals

To Keep Making Phones, Apple and Samsung Must Grapple With the World’s Dirtiest Industry

Amateur Astronomer Spots Supernova Right as It Begins

Bering Sea Ice Is Disappearing When it Should Still Be Growing

Black Panther‘s Killmonger Is Everyone Who Loves Wakanda Even Though It Didn’t Love Us

The Search for the Olympian Gene

Our First Look at Krypton‘s Creepy Take on Brainiac

I Tried Uber’s New ‘Pool Express’ Service And Honestly, Just Take a Bus

Did a Fan Just Find Proof of Quantum Leap‘s Secret Lost Ending?

Hackers Steal Millions by Ditching Malware to Sidestep Security

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