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River Flooding Will Surge Globally Over Next 25 Years, Study Finds

A study out Wednesday from Science Advances highlights the growing flood risk regions around the world will see in the next 25 years, primarily driven by greenhouse gases already emitted into the atmosphere. Significant numbers of people on every continent are threatened by river flooding, with the need for adaptation greatest in the U.S., parts…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

This Beautifully-Detailed Replica Is the Best Way to Learn About the Moon Without Actually Visiting It

To date, the best use of augmented reality has been running around parks trying to capture virtual Pokémon. But as that fad has (mercifully) faded away, a company called AstroReality has come up with a more compelling use of AR technology that works with an astonishingly detailed replica of the moon that’s as much a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

New Trailer for Netflix’s Altered Carbon Is All About a Stranger in a Strange Time

The first full trailer is out for Netflix’s cyberpunk series Altered Carbon, and it dives into the story of our protagonist, who’s awoken hundreds of years into the future to solve the murder of a wealthy god. Altered Carbon centers around Takeshi Kovacs (Will Yun Lee), a Japanese-American man whose consciousness is put into the…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Good Luck Trying to Pronounce the Names of the American Kennel Club’s Newest Dog Breeds

The adorable and challengingly named Nederlandse Kooikerhondje and the Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen are the first breeds to be added to the American Kennel Club roster since 2016. The American Kennel Club made the announcement yesterday, saying both breeds became eligible to compete in their respective groups on January 1, 2018. In 2016, the AKC…

Biology George Dvorsky

Switzerland Outlaws Boiling Lobsters Alive

Every nonfiction fan should read Consider the Lobster, the late David Foster Wallace’s incredible essay on the morality of boiling the crustacean alive simply because it tastes nice. It appears that officials in Switzerland have at least skimmed the essay: New regulations will require food preparers to stun or mechanically destroy a lobster’s brain before…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Bryan Fuller Lestat-us Update: He’s Working on Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles Show

Notable blood-thirster Bryan Fuller is working on the pilot for Paramount’s new series based on Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles books, and there are hopes he’ll stay on the show for good. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount TV president Amy Powell was asked about the network’s much-anticipated Vampire Chronicles series, which she is…

Television Beth Elderkin

This AA Battery Sucks Power Right Out of the Air

After covering CES for 10 years, nothing I’ve seen at the show has me as excited about the future as Ossia’s wireless charging technology. The company’s developed a way to deliver power to your gadgets the same way internet is delivered by wi-fi, and one of the first real-world applications of the tech is a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

5 Design Trends We’d Like to See More of This Year

Looking ahead to 2018, there’s plenty to be excited about when it comes to design. From technology companies who are finally starting to own their responsibility, to the rest of us saying goodbye to boring hardware—here are five design trends we’d like to see more of this year. Explained algorithms If 2016 was the year…

Tech News Liz Stinson

Michigan’s Most Polluted Neighborhood Demands Justice From Big Oil

Fed-up residents in Michigan’s most polluted zip code say the tar sands refinery next door is causing toxic emissions to waft over their neighborhood—and they want out. Marathon Oil Corporation, which operates the 250-acre Detroit oil refinery, bought the homes of residents in the nearby, mostly white neighborhood of Oakwood Heights in 2012 so that…

Environmental Justice Renee Lewis

Dipshit President Attacks Surveillance Bill His Own White House Says Must Pass [Updated]

A day after the White House urged Congress to pass a bill extending a warrantless surveillance program, President Trump took to Twitter to attack it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ On Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on whether to extend the Section 702 program of the FISA Amendments Act, which permits American spies to collect and store,…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

The X-Files Course Corrects by Reminding Us Why We Love Mulder and Scully

We were concerned about The X-Files’ 11th season after last week—that scene where Scully gripped her throbbing noggin and shrieked “What is going on?” was, shall we say, extremely relatable. This week, there was still plenty of mystery, but with less angst—and thank goodness, way more warmth, and humor. Episode two, titled “This,” isn’t one…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Eighteen Species of Tweezer-Faced, Spider-Slaying Pelican Spiders Discovered in Madagascar

Quick: what has eight legs and a face like a pair of hairy salad tongs? If you’re a spider, you know exactly what I’m describing—a beast, which, at least to smaller spiders, is an otherworldly, eldritch terror: the pelican spider. Now, new research published today in the journal ZooKeys details the discovery of a whopping…

Biology Jake Buehler

I Spoke to the Future and the Future Stared Back at Me, Blankly

The first thing you notice about Sophia, a robot, is the sound she makes. Like a late-90s Pentium processor struggling to load a video, she makes a whirring squeal that fills the room. Sophia talks, too. But what I’ll always remember about my recent conversation with a robot is her stare. I recently talked with…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

Facebook has long said that it doesn’t use location data to make friend suggestions, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t thought about using it. In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique that employs smartphone data to figure out if two people might know each other. The author, an engineering manager at Facebook…

Tech News Kashmir Hill

New Avengers 4 Set Pictures Reveal an Intriguing Costume Change for Captain America

Jude Law talks getting into character for the Fantastic Beasts sequel. The Flash could be casting a classic Green Arrow villain. Could the Star Wars Rebels crew face a big casualty when the show returns? Plus, Gillian Anderson thoroughly reconfirms her X-Files and American Gods exits, and Morgan heads to Fear the Walking Dead. Spoilers!…

Television James Whitbrook

This Cellular-Connected Smart Credit Card Can Show You How Much Money You’ve Got Left to Spend

In the United States, the big banks have been very slow to adopt new credit and debit card technologies, with secure chip cards only being introduced in the past few years. Which is tragic, because Dynamics is introducing a new connected credit card with a GSM chip inside, and an E-Ink display, that’s no thicker…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Revenge Porn Posts Linked to High-Level US Government Computers

A number of IP addresses tied to users of a prominent revenge porn website have been traced back to several government offices, including the US Senate, the Navy, and the Executive Office of the President. Some of the users had posted message to an imageboard, know as Anon-IB, inquiring after nude photographs of women, while…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Sennheiser’s First Home Audio Product Is a 3D Sound Bar That Blew My Mind

If you’re like me, you know Sennheiser as that sleek German company that makes dependably terrific headphones and microphones. That’s about to change. Later this year, Sennheiser will release a next-generation sound bar that aims to bring 3D audio into the living room. It’s a lofty goal, since plenty of other companies are trying their…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

If Offshore Drilling Doesn’t Make Alaskans Sick, Climate Change Will

Climate change is already hitting Alaska hard, but it’s not just that coastlines are eroding and permafrost is thawing. For the people of Alaska, warming will mean new diseases, more mental illness, and an inability to live off the land the way many do now. “Of all the states in the United States, Alaska’s certainly…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Now the Senate Wants Answers About Apple’s iPhone Throttling Controversy

The fallout over Apple’s decision to throttle the performance of older models of iPhone with degraded batteries has continued to mount despite the company’s apologies, with Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee chair Sen. John Thune asking the company to give Congress more information. Per Reuters, Thune sent a letter on January 9th asking Apple…

Tech News Tom McKay

River Flooding Will Surge Globally Over Next 25 Years, Study Finds

This Beautifully-Detailed Replica Is the Best Way to Learn About the Moon Without Actually Visiting It

New Trailer for Netflix’s Altered Carbon Is All About a Stranger in a Strange Time

Good Luck Trying to Pronounce the Names of the American Kennel Club’s Newest Dog Breeds

Switzerland Outlaws Boiling Lobsters Alive

Bryan Fuller Lestat-us Update: He’s Working on Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles Show

This AA Battery Sucks Power Right Out of the Air

5 Design Trends We’d Like to See More of This Year

Michigan’s Most Polluted Neighborhood Demands Justice From Big Oil

Dipshit President Attacks Surveillance Bill His Own White House Says Must Pass [Updated]

The X-Files Course Corrects by Reminding Us Why We Love Mulder and Scully

Eighteen Species of Tweezer-Faced, Spider-Slaying Pelican Spiders Discovered in Madagascar

I Spoke to the Future and the Future Stared Back at Me, Blankly

Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

New Avengers 4 Set Pictures Reveal an Intriguing Costume Change for Captain America

This Cellular-Connected Smart Credit Card Can Show You How Much Money You’ve Got Left to Spend

Revenge Porn Posts Linked to High-Level US Government Computers

Sennheiser’s First Home Audio Product Is a 3D Sound Bar That Blew My Mind

If Offshore Drilling Doesn’t Make Alaskans Sick, Climate Change Will

Now the Senate Wants Answers About Apple’s iPhone Throttling Controversy

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