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Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace Apparently Still Haunts Mark Zuckerberg

On Monday, Wired published an inside look at Facebook’s struggles with fake news over the last two years. It should come as no surprise that Mark Zuckerberg still doesn’t think of Facebook as a media company, but an eye-opening story from 2007 reveals that in MySpace’s heyday, Rupert Murdoch managed to intimidate the CEO in…

Social Media Rhett Jones

No, Earth Is Not About to Plunge Into a ‘Mini Ice Age’

Science journalism is hard. The job entails reading complex papers on unfamiliar, often arcane topics, and quickly becoming expert enough to succinctly explain those topics to your fellow laypeople. But on another level, the job is very straightforward: Find facts, and report them. Unfortunately, a number of takes and headlines regarding a new study on…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

How Google Maps Leads Women Seeking Abortions Astray

If you’re searching for abortion care, be careful using Google Maps—you might end up at a crisis pregnancy center instead of a legit clinic. These facilities, where staff pressures clients to “choose life,” have been gaming results at the local level using keywords and the maps function. Gizmodo and Damn Joan have partnered to investigate;…

Tech News Robin Marty

HomePod Is the Ultimate Apple Product—in a Bad Way

Sometimes, years pass before Apple creates a completely new product like the HomePod. During that parade of iPhone redesigns and MacBook upgrades, it can be easy to forget that when Apple enters a new space, the company does it with swagger. The products are beautiful. They work well. But they are also usually exclusively designed…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Adam Clark Estes

Everyone’s Favorite Dungeons & Dragons Dark Elf Returns in New Drizzt Do’Urden Trilogy

Drizzt Do’Urden, the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms hero who’s become one of the most beloved characters in the franchise, is back in a brand-new book trilogy. According to Nerdist, author R.A. Salvatore is continuing the story of Drizzt Do’Urden with Timeless, focusing on the drow who defies stereotypes of his race with a focus…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Ryan Zinke Is Actually Trying to Improve Public Lands For a Change

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has spent much of 2018 so far courting controversy with his plan to open up coastal waters to offshore drilling. On Friday, he took a moment to focus on the actual interior of the country with a new secretarial order on big game migration corridors. The announcement, which aims…

Conservation Ari Phillips

The New Series of Unfortunate Events Trailer Promises That Everything Can Get Much, Much Worse

Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events has a fantastic tradition of going meta on us—and a new trailer for season two reminds us that Count Olaf’s really intent on making life for the Baudelaire family pretty miserable. This one’s just as meta as the first teaser for season two, but we also get a lot…

Trailers James Whitbrook

For Better or Worse, Google Is Apparently Getting Down With the Notch

Android Oreo hasn’t even landed on one percent of Android Phones yet, but Google is already looking ahead to the next big update for the world’s most popular mobile OS. And if a report from Bloomberg is true, Android P could make it easier for phone makers to design devices with unusual displays. Bloomberg says…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Scientists Set to Explore Mysterious Seafloor Exposed by Antarctica’s Giant Iceberg

Remember the massive iceberg that split away from Antarctica last year? An international team of scientists is about to embark on a mission to explore the newly exposed marine ecosystem underneath—one that’s been hidden for over 100,000 years. Iceberg A-68, as it’s called, calved from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf on July 12, 2017. Weighing…

Tech News George Dvorsky

This Iron Man Mask Could Be the Future of Toys

It makes absolutely perfect sense that augmented reality would find its way into an Iron Man toy. Tony Stark and AR go together like peanut butter and jelly. The Iron Man films, borrowing inspiration heavily from Minority Report, show an alternate universe where a man can slap on a tiny headset and get a cool…

Toys & Collectibles Alex Cranz

Why Purebred Dogs Are Sick, Miserable, and Ugly

This week, the Westminster Kennel Club is hosting its popular annual dog show, where canines of all shapes and sizes get to strut their stuff in front of discerning judges. Seems like harmless fun, but many purebred dogs are, or soon will be, in poor physical health—the result of an emphasis on cosmetic, and not…

Biology George Dvorsky

Seafloor Exposed by Massive Antarctic Iceberg Is About to Get First Visitors

The iceberg that broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf last summer opened up access to an ecosystem that hadn’t seen the light of day in up to 120,000 years. There’s a small window of time for scientists to examine that ecosystem before sunlight and new water change it. That’s why British Antarctic Survey…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Portable Atomic Clock Makes First Measurement

With a new, “portable” atomic clock, scientists are measuring not what time it is but changes to time itself. What do I mean? Researchers from a group of European labs have tested a next-generation atomic clock that’s not bound to a laboratory. It’s not something you’ll ever wear on your wrist, but it could one…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Man Redefines Horror By Building a Singing Furby Organ

As if the fear of a looming nuclear war wasn’t enough, Sam Battle, the hacker-musician behind the YouTube channel Look Mum No Computer, hacked together 44 Furby toys to build the world’s first (and hopefully last) singing Furby organ, introducing a whole new element to your nightmares. On a technical level, Battle’s Furby Organ is certainly…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Star Trek: Discovery Wraps Up a Wildly Uneven First Season With a Wildly Uneven Finale

Discovery really wanted to end this season on a bunch of big emotional notes, reaffirming the ideals of the Federation as something to strive for, and end with a shot for fans to cheer for. It did not succeed. “Will You Take My Hand” isn’t bad. It’s just not good either. And in some places,…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Creeping on Instagram May Get a Lot Harder

A feature that identifies who screenshots your public posts is not a bad feature, unless you learn about it the hard way—trying to creep surreptitiously. And it appears that Instagram is now quietly testing such a feature within Instagram Stories, the Snapchat-like service that lets users create a sequence of photos and videos that disappear…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Wakanda’s Indomitable Culture Is Why the Women of Black Panther Are so Dynamic

Though Marvel’s Black Panther is about the ascension of a new Wakandan king, the film is also largely about the powerful women around T’Challa who are running the show. According to a number of the film’s female stars, their characters’ strength is a direct reflection of Wakanda’s cultural history. Because of the fictional country’s historical…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Study Backs Up Creeping Feeling That Facebook Is Just for Old People Now

Is Facebook losing itself to the olds? A new study released from research firm eMarketer predicts Facebook lost 2.8 million users under the age of 25 last year as many of them move to the aggressively youthful Snapchat. eMarketer is an outside research firm without privileged access to Facebook’s numbers, so take these numbers more…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

I Would Switch to This ’80s Parody of Siri for the Hilariously Awful Synthesized Voice

Siri continues to trail behind assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, but I would switch back to Apple’s AI in a heartbeat if it had the same terribly synthesized voice as it does in this parody revealing what Siri would have been like on ‘80s desktop PCs. https://gizmodo.com/a-90s-version-of-snapchat-would-have-been-a-whole-lot-l-1793772453 Having previously explored how unusable modern…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

DC’s New Teen Titans Show Is Bringing In Another Comic Book Superteam

Kathleen Kennedy talks about George Lucas’ brief involvement with Solo: A Star Wars Story. There are more rumors about Venom and the character’s most famous comic book foe. Alex Garland teases a new scifi TV show in the works. Plus, new looks at Annihilation and the return of Legends of Tomorrow. Spoilers now! Shazam! Director…

Television James Whitbrook

Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace Apparently Still Haunts Mark Zuckerberg

No, Earth Is Not About to Plunge Into a ‘Mini Ice Age’

How Google Maps Leads Women Seeking Abortions Astray

HomePod Is the Ultimate Apple Product—in a Bad Way

Everyone’s Favorite Dungeons & Dragons Dark Elf Returns in New Drizzt Do’Urden Trilogy

Ryan Zinke Is Actually Trying to Improve Public Lands For a Change

The New Series of Unfortunate Events Trailer Promises That Everything Can Get Much, Much Worse

For Better or Worse, Google Is Apparently Getting Down With the Notch

Scientists Set to Explore Mysterious Seafloor Exposed by Antarctica’s Giant Iceberg

This Iron Man Mask Could Be the Future of Toys

Why Purebred Dogs Are Sick, Miserable, and Ugly

Seafloor Exposed by Massive Antarctic Iceberg Is About to Get First Visitors

Portable Atomic Clock Makes First Measurement

Man Redefines Horror By Building a Singing Furby Organ

Star Trek: Discovery Wraps Up a Wildly Uneven First Season With a Wildly Uneven Finale

Creeping on Instagram May Get a Lot Harder

Wakanda’s Indomitable Culture Is Why the Women of Black Panther Are so Dynamic

Study Backs Up Creeping Feeling That Facebook Is Just for Old People Now

I Would Switch to This ’80s Parody of Siri for the Hilariously Awful Synthesized Voice

DC’s New Teen Titans Show Is Bringing In Another Comic Book Superteam

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