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Brutal Fungal Disease Could Threaten Snakes on a Global Scale

It starts with a single lesion. And then another. Soon, the snake’s entire body is covered in the unsightly sores. If the snake is lucky, its skin will start molting, expunging the reptile of the infection. Less fortunate snakes will die. And in some cases, desperate snakes will spend more time in the sun to…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Fans Can Finally Own a Great Version of the Original Teen Titans Series

Teen Titans fans have longed for a version of the show worthy of its quality. It’s been on DVD for a while, with varying levels of availability, but always in the same, standard edition. Now, after a long, long wait, that significant upgrade is happening. The complete first season of the original, circa 2003 Teen Titans…

Television Germain Lussier

Cops Catch Hackers Who Breached 65 Percent of DC’s Surveillance System

Back in January, police acknowledged that a mysterious hack had injected ransomware into Washington DC’s CCTV surveillance system. Now authorities have identified two Romanian suspects they say were responsible for hacking 123 of DC’s 187 surveillance cameras, as part of broader extortion plan. A criminal complaint against the two individuals was filed in court last…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones

Will Climate Change Actually Create More Asylum Seekers?

The civil war in Syria and unrest in Iraq and other parts of the world has spawned a huge humanitarian crisis. It’s the largest mass migration in history, and the shock waves will reverberate for decades to come. Climate change may even have played a role, particularly in destabilizing Syria. New research published on Thursday…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

The Opioid Crisis Has Again Shortened US Life Expectancy

The specter that is America’s opioid crisis claimed a record high number of lives—more than 40,000—this past year, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. And the collective destruction of the epidemic has helped lower the nation’s life expectancy for the second time in two years. The CDC’s National…

Health Ed Cara

Racist 1920s Article Worried That ‘Savage’ Styles Were the Wave of the Future

When you comb through old newspaper articles looking for predictions for the future like I do you can start to become numb to the racism of the 19th and 20th centuries. But I just stumbled upon an article from 1927 that was pretty damn racist, even for the time. The article, published in the January…

Tech News Matt Novak

How Puerto Rico’s Environmental Crisis Turned Into a Human Rights Disaster

It’s been over 100 days since Hurricane Irma struck Puerto Rico in September, followed by Hurricane Maria less than two weeks later. Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló initially said the island would have almost all its power restored by now, but that date is looking more like next May—just in time for the 2018 hurricane…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Watch the Magical New Trailer for Mary and the Witch’s Flower

January is usually a dark time for new movies, but one movie hopes to brighten all that up in 2018: Mary and the Witch’s Flower. The first film from the new animation studio Studio Ponoc, and helmed by former Studio Ghibli director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Mary and the Witch’s Flower is the story of a bored…

Trailers Germain Lussier

In Letter, Uber Said Drivers Didn’t Make Advertised Earnings Due to Their ‘Choices’

In January, Uber settled claims by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it misled drivers about how much money they could make on the platform. But in a letter obtained by Gizmodo under the Freedom of Information Act, Uber argued that drivers were fundamentally at fault for earning less than the advertised rates because they…

Tech News Kate Conger

Batfleck Still Has No Idea What He’s Doing

Just last month we took a pretty comprehensive look at the ups and downs of Ben Affleck’s Batman “situation.” It’s been complicated to say the least. But he’s talking about his future with the character once again and honestly I feel like it’s time for the actor/director to put up or shut up. The Daily…

Movies Jill Pantozzi

Less Internet, Please

Remember when surfing the web was a treat? A delicacy almost. You’d fire up the whatever-kilobaud modem and start the pay-per-minute meter running and read about politics on Salon or whatever. A fun time. That’s no longer the case, and I’m honestly rotting from overexposure to the online. This week, Amazon announced that all Fire…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Best and Worst Captains of 2017

This year’s genre fiction can be defined by many things, but weirdly enough, 2017 has been very big for Captains. Not majors, nor generals, not even sergeants or admirals or petty officers, or any other rank you can think of—just Captains, and here are how they all ranked this year. Note: Spoilers for The Last…

io9 James Whitbrook

Iced Tea Maker’s Stock Price Triples After Adding ‘Blockchain’ to Name [Update]

You see that chart below? That’s the stock price for Long Island Iced Tea Corp. Sure, studies show that times of economic hardship and political turmoil track with an increased desire to get sloshed, but the drinks this company makes are non-alcoholic. LTEA shot up over 200 percent today because it changed its name—to Long…

Tech News Avery Ellis

North Korea Is Main Suspect in Ruinous Hack of South Korean Bitcoin Exchange

World War III is going to be dumb. It only seems fitting that Bitcoin could get thrown into the mix of dumb reasons why it might get started. When South Korean cryptocurrency exchange YouBit was looted by hackers this week it seemed to be inevitable that North Korea would be at fault, and investigators believe…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Homeland Security’s Airport Facial Scans Are Buggy and Possibly Illegal, Report Finds

According to a new report by surveillance law researchers, the Department of Homeland Security’s $1 billion “Biometric Exit Program,” which requires travelers submit to face recognition scans, may violate federal law. Starting in June, several airports began mandating face scans at boarding gates for some international flights. The DHS has argued the program prevents identity…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Sunken Australian Submarine From WWI Finally Found After 103 Years

Just six weeks into the First World War, Australian submarine HMAS AE1 disappeared without a trace somewhere off the coast of New Guinea, marking the first time an allied sub had been lost in the conflict. Marine archaeologists have now discovered the historic wreck, ending a mystery that has endured for over a century. Australia,…

Tech News George Dvorsky

And Now, Arrow‘s Back to Not Being Able to Use Deathstroke Again

Hmm. I wonder why? It’s long been known that while the CW/DC universe does have access to a wide array of DC Comics’ roster, if plans are in the making for a movie with those characters, they have to duck out of TV appearances pretty sharpish. This isn’t new for Arrow, especially. Deathstroke’s absence after…

Television James Whitbrook

The Alaskan Senator Who Just Opened America’s Largest Wildlife Refuge to Drilling Wants to Study Ocean Acidification

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has spent decades seeking oil. Specifically, oil that lies beneath the tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). With this week’s passage of a GOP tax bill containing a provision to open ANWR to drilling, she’s finally achieving her goal. But you know what else Murkowski wants to do? Study…

Earther Maddie Stone

Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Secure Election Systems

A long-awaited election security bill is finally rolling out today with bipartisan support. The bill, which senators have hinted at for several months, would push federal agencies to share election security information with state and local officials, establish voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for election systems, and create a federal bug bounty program for voting machines and…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger

The Google Home Max Almost Made My House Go Boom

The weird thing about picking up the Google Home Max is the weight. It’s only 11 pounds, but it feels heavy, the way speakers used to feel. So I feel like I smirked when I plugged it in, thinking, “This thing’s gonna be loud.” At top volume, the Google Home Max did not blow me…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Adam Clark Estes

Brutal Fungal Disease Could Threaten Snakes on a Global Scale

Fans Can Finally Own a Great Version of the Original Teen Titans Series

Cops Catch Hackers Who Breached 65 Percent of DC’s Surveillance System

Will Climate Change Actually Create More Asylum Seekers?

The Opioid Crisis Has Again Shortened US Life Expectancy

Racist 1920s Article Worried That ‘Savage’ Styles Were the Wave of the Future

How Puerto Rico’s Environmental Crisis Turned Into a Human Rights Disaster

Watch the Magical New Trailer for Mary and the Witch’s Flower

In Letter, Uber Said Drivers Didn’t Make Advertised Earnings Due to Their ‘Choices’

Batfleck Still Has No Idea What He’s Doing

Less Internet, Please

The Best and Worst Captains of 2017

Iced Tea Maker’s Stock Price Triples After Adding ‘Blockchain’ to Name [Update]

North Korea Is Main Suspect in Ruinous Hack of South Korean Bitcoin Exchange

Homeland Security’s Airport Facial Scans Are Buggy and Possibly Illegal, Report Finds

Sunken Australian Submarine From WWI Finally Found After 103 Years

And Now, Arrow‘s Back to Not Being Able to Use Deathstroke Again

The Alaskan Senator Who Just Opened America’s Largest Wildlife Refuge to Drilling Wants to Study Ocean Acidification

Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Secure Election Systems

The Google Home Max Almost Made My House Go Boom

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