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The Movies That Had the Hubris to Open the Same Week as the Star Wars Films

Though it may not seem like it, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is not the only film opening this weekend. There’s also Ferdinand, an animated bull movie featuring the voice of wrestler John Cena. Studios have been attempting to counter-program the scifi juggernaut, with varying degrees of success, all the way back to 1977. Here…

Movies Germain Lussier

Smartphones Might Get Super Exciting Again in 2018

Let’s face it, even though phones continue to get faster and companies continue to cram even more tech into people’s pocket computers, you wouldn’t be wrong if you said smartphones have gotten a little boring to the casual consumer. Much of the time, it seems people are much more concerned with making sure there’s a…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Wait, Can Congress Stop the FCC From Trampling Net Neutrality?

The Federal Communications Commission has officially repealed net neutrality rules introduced in 2015 by the Obama administration, which established federal regulations prohibiting internet service providers from blocking or throttling content for customers or creating “fast lanes” for companies that pay more to have their services delivered at a faster speed. But the fight for a…

Tech News Kate Conger

This Star Trek Poster Is Either Very Silly or a Hint to One of Discovery‘s Weirdest Mysteries

One of the biggest mysteries that Star Trek: Discovery left unanswered by the end of its midseason break—other than, is everyone on this ship crazy or good now, I can’t tell—is just what’s happened with Voq, the mysterious Albino Klingon who could be a secret spy within the Federation. This poster either hints at that,…

Television James Whitbrook

Against Better Judgement, I Made My Own Vape Juice

In spite of aggressively lame marketing, obnoxious YouTube evangelists, and unsteady legal status, vaping is here to stay. Studies haven’t yet determined the long-term impacts of inhaling plumes of flavor, but it’s likely less damaging to healthy lung function than traditional cigarettes. Teens think it’s cool. Adults—like yours truly—by and large don’t, but it can…

Gadgets Avery Ellis

AI Will Turn Regular Fitness Trackers Into Potentially Life-Saving Medical Devices

When the Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it had approved the first-ever medical accessory for the Apple Watch—a wearable EKG monitor made by the medtech company AliveCor—it was big news. Apple has increasingly invested in health tech, eyeing it as a market where the Watch might hit big. The FDA announcement suggested that…

Health Kristen V. Brown

NASA Announces Eighth Planet Around Distant Star, Tying Our Own Solar System

Amid considerable hype of its own making, NASA is announcing the discovery an eighth planet around the distant solar system, Kepler 90. For about a week, the media has been wondering what today’s announcement might bring. TRAPPIST-1? New planets? Instead, the space agency presented something a bit more mundane, but interesting nonetheless: Google assisted NASA…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

If You Missed Justice League, Here’s Your Chance to See Superman’s Very Bad Face VFX

By now you’ve heard multiple stories about it: Henry Cavill’s epic mustache that brought Warner Bros. to its knees and the awful CGI work they did to edit the thing out of Justice League. If, somehow, you haven’t actually seen Superman’s digitally-shaved face yet, now’s your chance. Deep breaths, people. Because of the way that…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Republicans Just Sold Out the Internet. Now What?

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday took an ax to net neutrality. The rest of us, now at the mercy of broadband providers unshackled from the chains of fair regulation, are left asking, will the open internet survive? More than a hundred Republican members of Congress voiced their support for repealing the net neutrality rules…

Tech News Dell Cameron

FCC Votes to Kill Net Neutrality, Capping a Year of Endless Bullshit

You tried, America. You tried. Despite overwhelming bipartisan support for safeguarding the open internet, the Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to ignore the public and kill net neutrality protections. With his familiar shit-eating grin, FCC chairman Ajit Pai went through the motions of holding a committee hearing on his “Restoring Internet Freedom” initiative. The…

Tech News Rhett Jones

You Must Watch These Two Last Jedi Stars Repeatedly Touch Weird Animals and Completely Freak Out

Gwendoline Christie and John Boyega are blood enemies in the newest Star Wars movies, but watching them alternately egg each other on and cringe with terror as they stick their hands into a box is extremely funny. “Is this a crab?!” “Is it a frog?! Is it a marble?!” Vanity Fair got the people who…

Movies Evan Narcisse

Snapchat Wants Your Help Inventing the Next Dancing Hot Dog

Snap has had a rough year. Its stock price is cratering, and its once hype-worthy new product, Spectacles, has left the the company with almost $40 million of unsold inventory. But even with all that, the thing people will probably remember the most about Snapchat in 2017 was that stupid dancing hot dog. So now,…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Doctor Who Is ‘The Greatest Television Show Ever Made,’ According to Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat’s tenure with BBC’s intrepid regenerating Time Lord is coming to a close, and he’s making a very bold assertion as to the Doctor’s quality and cultural impact. He’s saying it’s better than The Wire, people. After a screening of the Doctor Who Christmas special, Moffat offered a speech—reported by The Radio Times—where he…

Television Evan Narcisse

Scientists Figure Out Why Italian Family Can’t Feel Pain

An Italian woman, her two daughters, and her three grandchildren have always had trouble feeling pain. They can’t sense temperature. They break bones without noticing. Now, a team of scientists in the United Kingdom think they’ve figured out why. Pain—whether it’s the sharp agony of a stubbed toe or the warning heat that comes before…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

What Will Happen Now That Disney Basically Owns Hulu?

Walt Disney Co. has agreed to buy the bulk of 21st Century Fox’s holdings in a $52.4 billion deal. While the changing future of the Marvel Universe and the movie landscape, in general, is big news, this deal also changes the entire calculus of streaming services. Disney is now the proud majority owner of Hulu,…

Movies Rhett Jones

What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us About Climate Disasters

There are two things everybody knows about Roman Empire: that it was an invincible superpower, and that when it fell, it fell hard. Usually the death of the empire gets blamed on barbarian hordes, imperial decadence, or on simple exhaustion. But one factor in Rome’s slow tumble into chaos has often been ignored: the role…

Earther Asher Elbein

Disney Says the Door Is Open to Keep Deadpool‘s Killer Formula

Today’s announcement of Disney and Fox’s monumental deal raises a lot of questions. For example: What are the regulatory implications of dismantling one of Hollywood’s biggest film studios? But another question has to do with one of Marvel’s filthiest characters, Deadpool, who’s since become a valuable Fox asset. Well, we can (probably) rest easy, as…

Movies Beth Elderkin

What Would You Put in a Time Capsule to Explain How Terrible 2017 Was?

The year is almost over and Americans are reflecting on the highs and lows of 2017. Here at Paleofuture we’re obsessed with time capsules, so it got us thinking about what a 2017 time capsule might include. Which objects would you bury to show people of the future what it was like to live through…

Tech News Matt Novak

Read the Dissenting Opinions of the Only Two FCC Commissioners Trying to Save Net Neutrality [Updated]

With an issue this important, paraphrasing won’t do. At time of writing, the FCC’s open meeting has begun and soon the commission will vote on an order that will repeal net neutrality and place the future of the open internet in the hands of Verizon, AT&T, and a small handful of other powerful corporations. As…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Morbid Experiment Proves This Neolithic Weapon Was an Effective Skull Crusher

Humans have been killing other humans since the dawn of the species, but owing to the poor archaeological record, it’s unclear what sort of weapons our ancestors used to brutalize one another. Using models of human skulls and a replica of a weapon dating back thousands of years, researchers have shown that a bat-like club…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The Movies That Had the Hubris to Open the Same Week as the Star Wars Films

Smartphones Might Get Super Exciting Again in 2018

Wait, Can Congress Stop the FCC From Trampling Net Neutrality?

This Star Trek Poster Is Either Very Silly or a Hint to One of Discovery‘s Weirdest Mysteries

Against Better Judgement, I Made My Own Vape Juice

AI Will Turn Regular Fitness Trackers Into Potentially Life-Saving Medical Devices

NASA Announces Eighth Planet Around Distant Star, Tying Our Own Solar System

If You Missed Justice League, Here’s Your Chance to See Superman’s Very Bad Face VFX

Republicans Just Sold Out the Internet. Now What?

FCC Votes to Kill Net Neutrality, Capping a Year of Endless Bullshit

You Must Watch These Two Last Jedi Stars Repeatedly Touch Weird Animals and Completely Freak Out

Snapchat Wants Your Help Inventing the Next Dancing Hot Dog

Doctor Who Is ‘The Greatest Television Show Ever Made,’ According to Steven Moffat

Scientists Figure Out Why Italian Family Can’t Feel Pain

What Will Happen Now That Disney Basically Owns Hulu?

What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us About Climate Disasters

Disney Says the Door Is Open to Keep Deadpool‘s Killer Formula

What Would You Put in a Time Capsule to Explain How Terrible 2017 Was?

Read the Dissenting Opinions of the Only Two FCC Commissioners Trying to Save Net Neutrality [Updated]

Morbid Experiment Proves This Neolithic Weapon Was an Effective Skull Crusher

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