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Instagram Now Lets You Export Your Photos, Videos, and Embarrassing DMs

Instagram is finally giving users the ability to download some of their data. After teasing the tool a few weeks ago, the Facebook-owned service released a data export feature today, and it does more than just let you retrieve a copy of your filtered photos. All users can now access the data export tool from…

Social Media Patrick Lucas Austin Apr 24 '18

Black Panther Would Like to Remind You That Storm Is a Literal Goddess

Ominous, metaphorical storm clouds have been gathering over Black Panther’s Wakanda for some time now as the ancient Orisha have seemingly abandoned T’Challa and his people. But just as the old deities have disappeared, a new(ish) goddess is coming into her powers in Marvel’s comics, and it’s long overdue. As is typically the case, Wakanda…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 24 '18

A Key Player Just Joined the Lawsuit Against the FCC to Save Net Neutrality

Over the past 24 hours, headlines from USA Today to the National Review have declared net neutrality officially dead. Fortunately, those stories are dead wrong—not that it truly matters, since the big day is at most a few weeks away. Notwithstanding, as long as the media is going to fixate on all the tedious officialities…

Tech News Dell Cameron Apr 24 '18

Tomorrow’s Star Map Release Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of Astronomy

Astronomers from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission will release the biggest map of our galaxy ever tomorrow, using data collected by the Gaia space telescope. That includes 1.7 billion stars, as well as new information that could potentially solve some cosmic mysteries. The ESA’s Gaia telescope launched in 2013 and soon after began its galaxy-mapping mission.…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 24 '18

A Scifi Version of Heart of Darkness Is Happening for Some Reason

Heart of Darkness is widely considered a classic of English-language literature, one that’s influenced and been adapted in a variety of ways, including the movie Apocalypse Now. One more adaptation is on the way, and it’s going to send the Joseph Conrad novel to space. Variety reports that Sony’s streaming service Crackle—which, man, how is…

Television Evan Narcisse Apr 24 '18

It Takes Five Obscenely Complicated Minutes for This Machine to Dispense a Single Piece of Tape

When it comes to Rube Goldberg machines, if you have to ask why, you’ll probably never understand the joy of building impossibly complex machines to accomplish the simplest of tasks. Need a piece of tape? This machine takes almost five minutes to do nothing but dispense a sticky strip. And that’s assuming all the mechanisms—made…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Apr 24 '18

The Best Superhero Combos in Infinity War, According to the People Who Made It

If the trailers for Avengers: Infinity War have made anything clear, it’s that this film is all about match-ups—putting characters together that have never met before and watching the sparks fly. The weirder or more combustible the combination, the better. We’ll have to wait until this weekend to figure out which of these combinations are…

io9 Germain Lussier Apr 24 '18

The FDA Is Cracking Down on JUUL Sales Because Teen Vaping Is Out of Control

JUUL e-cigarettes have become incredibly popular with teens for their high levels of nicotine and sleek design. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the product in its sights, and today announced an aggressive new push to keep the faddish nicotine product away from kids. Last month, the FDA began age-compliance checks with retailers…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 24 '18

SEC Fines Yahoo $35 Million for Failing to Disclose Hacks

Altaba, the holding company formed to carry the remains of Yahoo after it sold its core business to Verizon, has agreed to pay a $35 million fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission for Yahoo’s failure to quickly inform users about several massive breaches. Hackers stole credentials for all 3 billion Yahoo accounts as well…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Apr 24 '18

Somehow, Jaxxon the Ridiculous Green Space Rabbit Has Made It to the New Star Wars Canon

Jaxxon the Lepi smuggler is one of the most infamous excesses of the old Star Wars expanded universe—the rabbit in Flash Gordon cosplay that was bound to come up whenever you mentioned the weirdness of the EU. For decades, he’s been the butt of fan jokes… but now he’s officially back in the canon. He’s…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 24 '18

Facebook Post by Suspected Toronto Attacker Praises Elliot Rodger, Announces ‘Incel Rebellion’ Has Begun

Yesterday evening in Toronto, 10 people were killed and another 15 injured by a van driving erratically in the Canadian city. The driver, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, is being held on 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder. Other than one former classmate’s descriptions of him as socially awkward and introverted, little…

Tech News Avery Ellis Apr 24 '18

Microsoft Warns That Tech Support Scams Are Still on the Rise

People using social engineering to runs scams posing as tech support isn’t exactly new, but that doesn’t mean you can let your guard down. In fact, it seems this is a problem that’s only getting worse after multiple organizations revealed that last year the number of tech support victims had risen between 24 and 86…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Apr 24 '18

One Reason Alcohol May Give You Bad Breath

The perils of drinking too much alcohol run deep—even if there’s still an ongoing debate as to how much is too much. A new study published Monday in Microbiome suggests one of those perils is a mouth filled with potentially harmful bacteria. Researchers at New York University and elsewhere studied spit samples from over 1,000…

Health Ed Cara Apr 24 '18

Cobra Kai Is the Awesome Karate Kid Sequel You May or May Not Have Known You Wanted

Imagine if one of your favorite childhood movies got a five-hour sequel that was everything you could’ve ever wanted and more. Well, if you love The Karate Kid, now you don’t have to imagine it. It’s here and it’s called Cobra Kai. Coming exclusively to YouTube Red on May 2, the 10-episode series tells a…

Television Germain Lussier Apr 24 '18

Everyone Thought This Coin From the California Gold Rush Was Fake, But It’s Actually Worth Millions

In 1854, at the height of the California Gold Rush, the San Francisco Mint produced less than 300 special $5 coins. Only three were known to survive into modern times. Until today, that is. Now there are four. The owner of the fourth coin, who wishes to remain anonymous, really was convinced that the coin…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 24 '18

AI Could Dramatically Increase Risk of Nuclear War by 2040, Says New Report

The common conception of a technologically enabled apocalypse foresees a powerful artificial intelligence that, either deliberately or by accident, destroys human civilization. But as a new report from the RAND Corporation points out, the reality may be far subtler: As AI slowly erodes the foundations that made the Cold War possible, we may find ourselves…

Artificial Intelligence George Dvorsky Apr 24 '18

‘Unpatchable Exploit’ on Nintendo Switch Opens the Door to Jailbreaks

On Monday, anyone looking to hack their Switch or run their own software on it got some good news and more good news. An exploit has been released that opens the homebrew floodgates—and because it’s hardware-based, Nintendo can’t just patch it. The news of the unpatchable exploit first broke when Katherine Temkin and her colleagues…

Games Rhett Jones Apr 24 '18

Here’s Everything That’s Banned on Facebook, All on One Page

Facebook has publicly released its most complete community guidelines to date after many years keeping the specific rules its moderators used to govern the platform secret. The update tacked over 5,000 more words onto the already unwieldy document, which now includes highly specific examples of banned or heavily regulated content. Is any of it at…

Tech News Avery Ellis Apr 24 '18

What You Need to Know to Get Ready for The Handmaid’s Tale Season Two Premiere

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale was published back in 1985, but the Hulu adaptation of its grim, deeply emotional story of female oppression was one of 2017’s best, most gripping (and unfortunately most timely) TV shows, and that’s sure to be the case again this year with season two. Here’s how to catch…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Apr 24 '18

Microplastics Have Invaded the Arctic—and Climate Change Could Make It Worse

Climate change and a never ending stream of plastics are two of humanity’s worst legacies that will reshape the planet for eons. Now, they’re getting to work in tandem in the remote stretches of the Arctic. New findings published in Nature Communications shed light on how ocean currents are steering more and more plastic into…

Conservation Brian Kahn Apr 24 '18

Instagram Now Lets You Export Your Photos, Videos, and Embarrassing DMs

Black Panther Would Like to Remind You That Storm Is a Literal Goddess

A Key Player Just Joined the Lawsuit Against the FCC to Save Net Neutrality

Tomorrow’s Star Map Release Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of Astronomy

A Scifi Version of Heart of Darkness Is Happening for Some Reason

It Takes Five Obscenely Complicated Minutes for This Machine to Dispense a Single Piece of Tape

The Best Superhero Combos in Infinity War, According to the People Who Made It

The FDA Is Cracking Down on JUUL Sales Because Teen Vaping Is Out of Control

SEC Fines Yahoo $35 Million for Failing to Disclose Hacks

Somehow, Jaxxon the Ridiculous Green Space Rabbit Has Made It to the New Star Wars Canon

Facebook Post by Suspected Toronto Attacker Praises Elliot Rodger, Announces ‘Incel Rebellion’ Has Begun

Microsoft Warns That Tech Support Scams Are Still on the Rise

One Reason Alcohol May Give You Bad Breath

Cobra Kai Is the Awesome Karate Kid Sequel You May or May Not Have Known You Wanted

Everyone Thought This Coin From the California Gold Rush Was Fake, But It’s Actually Worth Millions

AI Could Dramatically Increase Risk of Nuclear War by 2040, Says New Report

‘Unpatchable Exploit’ on Nintendo Switch Opens the Door to Jailbreaks

Here’s Everything That’s Banned on Facebook, All on One Page

What You Need to Know to Get Ready for The Handmaid’s Tale Season Two Premiere

Microplastics Have Invaded the Arctic—and Climate Change Could Make It Worse

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