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Ashley Madison Is Fucking It Up Again

Ashley Madison is perhaps most famous for two things—infidelity and god awful security. In 2015, the website for cheaters was hacked, leaking almost 10 gigabytes of data on the dark web, which included account details, email addresses, and payment information for about 32 million users. And now security researchers have found that the dating site…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz

Runaways‘ Dinosaur Old Lace Is Proof That TV VFX Budgets Can Do Amazing Things

A big part of watching scifi and fantasy TV is teaching yourself to overlook the sometimes shoddy special effects used to bring the impossible to life. Some shows, like The Flash, lean into their VFX’s crappiness for camp, while others, like Inhumans, seem to simply not care. But then there are shows like Hulu’s Runaways…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

I’m Begging You Emoji Overlords, Rescue This Adorable Animal Horn Section

Newly proposed guidelines under consideration by the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit group that maintains Unicode as the international standard for symbols across software platforms, could soon radically change the way we use emojis. Yes, I mean that Unicode may finally update emoji standards to let your favorite symbols face either direction instead of just one…

Tech News Emily Lipstein

We Have Some Serious Questions About These Star Wars-Themed Sex Toys

Have you ever watched the Star Wars movies and thought about how you’d like to morph the various characters into sex toys for your masturbatory pleasures? If so, boy, should you be excited, because a company in Brisbane, Australia is making a whole slew of vibrators, dildos, bondage gear, and more, all “inspired” by the…

Toys & Collectibles Alex Cranz

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Gives Us the First Look at the Return of Jeff Goldblum

According to one of the filmmakers, the next Jurassic World movie is going to feature more dinosaurs than you’ve ever seen before. So it’s a good thing it’s going to be bringing back giant lizard expert Ian Malcolm, too. This new behind-the-scenes teaser for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom shows off a bunch of footage from…

Movies Evan Narcisse

How to Avoid Getting Tracked as You Browse the Web

As privacy barriers have gradually been eroded online, it’s become harder and harder to keep control over what you’re revealing to the websites you visit when you open up a web browser. For many users now, revealing who you are is just an inevitable consequence of being on the web and using apps, but if…

Gadgets David Nield

Here’s All the Data Collected From You as You Browse the Web

Unless protect yourself, as soon as you open up an internet browser, you begin to leave digital footprints behind you that the sites you visit can use to track your activities and recognize who you are. We’re not talking about some crazy government data mining operation. This is totally legal, above board tracking done by…

Gadgets David Nield

For Indigenous Communities, The Fight Against Climate Change Is a Fight For Human Rights

BONN, Germany—For Mina Susana Setra, there are scenes. One of her playing in a canoe with her brother in the river behind their old house. Another of the time her mom sent her on an errand and she got lost following the birds. Many of playing in the forest barefoot, memorizing the names of flowers,…

Earther Steph Yin

Gaze Long Into the Duck

What does this video represent to you? Are you the duck, the cat, or the human? What are the peas? Is this the future we wanted? [Boing Boing]

Sploid Avery Ellis

Yahoo’s Insanely Bad Deal to Pay Mozilla $375 Million a Year for Nothing Is Headed to Court

In its 23 years of existence, Yahoo made some really boneheaded deals. But of all of them, the deal to become Mozilla’s default search engine might have been the worst. In that deal, Mozilla retained the right to walk away and still collect hundreds of millions of dollars a year—if Yahoo was acquired by a…

Tech News Rhett Jones

The Terrible Inhumans TV Show Aside, Marvel’s Black Bolt Has Never Been More Interesting

Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time isn’t just the first volume of Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward’s excellent series about the Inhuman king escaping from a prison in space. It also offers some of the best examples of how to revitalize a well-established, but often ignored and misunderstood legacy character. When you compare him to…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Thousands Forced to Evacuate as Catastrophic Wildfires Continue to Ravage California

In what’s already been a particularly cruel wildfire season for California, a series of fast-moving blazes have torched more than 65,000 acres since Monday, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing thousands to flee. Alarmingly, winds are expected to pick up in the coming days, making a bad situation potentially worse. The latest California wildfire started…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Stannis Baratheon Had No Clue What Was Happening on Game of Thrones

Stannis Baratheon might have been a major contender for the Iron Throne, but Stephen Dillane (the actor playing him) had no idea what was going on in Westeros. So, much like his character, Dillane was forced to rely on his second-in-command to explain things. In an interview with The London Times, Dillane reflected on his…

Television Beth Elderkin

This Artist Turns Spilled Paint Into Gorgeous Avalanches of Color

Thomas Blanchard doesn’t paint like normal artists do. Instead of painstakingly applying colors to a canvas with a brush, he dumps gallons of brightly colored paints into a giant tank filled with oils and other liquids, producing psychedelic waterfalls of color that could never hang in an art gallery. Instead, his colorful experiments are documented…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The Atom Is Coming to Injustice 2 and He’s Going to Kick Your Ass With Science

There’s always an element of visual punnery with shrinking superheroes like the Atom. “Oh, look at him standing next to a spoon! So cuuute!” But, remember: Ryan Choi will bring the pain to the outside and inside of your body. DC Comics’ micro-sized adventurer will be joining NetherRealms’ hit fighting game Injustice 2 next week…

Games Evan Narcisse

Satellite Images Show the Ongoing Wildfire Devastation in Southern California

Beginning Monday night, dry conditions combined with the most intense Santa Ana wind event of the year started a massive series of wildfires just north of Los Angeles in what has already been California’s most destructive wildfire year. The fires have been nearly unstoppable, raging unchecked over hillsides and through cities. Satellites images that have…

Earther Brian Kahn

Gorgeous Nintendo Games Are Coming to Nvidia Shield, But Not In the US Because Someone Hates Me

If you live in China and own an Nvidia Shield, you can now play great Wii games like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess—no need to own a Switch, a 3DS, or even the console that Twilight Princess originally appeared on. All you need to enjoy one of the best games Nintendo has ever made…

Games Alex Cranz

Amazon Prime Video Finally Lands on Apple TV

While Google and Amazon continue to bicker back and forth about which company’s services will be available for what platforms, it seems Apple is finally getting its act together now that Amazon Prime Video is available on the Apple TV. After years of waiting, Prime Video is available now for free. All you have to…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

A New WarGames Reboot Promises a Contemporary Spin on Cold War Hackers

MGM has partnered with interactive video company Eko to revive its 1983 cult classic WarGames, reimagined with contemporary hackers. A new trailer for the interactive series, out in 2018, has just dropped, and it looks to be taking some liberties with its campy source material. The original WarGames followed high schoolers David and Jennifer, played…

io9 Frederick Blichert

Rian Johnson Teases a Mysterious New Weapon in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Captain Marvel could be casting another familiar Marvel supporting character. Alice Eve is joining Iron Fist. Patrick Stewart discusses what could bring him back to Star Trek. Plus, what’s to come when Flash and Legends of Tomorrow return, and New Mutants teases its mysterious villain. To me, my spoilers! Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rian…

Television James Whitbrook

Ashley Madison Is Fucking It Up Again

Runaways‘ Dinosaur Old Lace Is Proof That TV VFX Budgets Can Do Amazing Things

I’m Begging You Emoji Overlords, Rescue This Adorable Animal Horn Section

We Have Some Serious Questions About These Star Wars-Themed Sex Toys

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Gives Us the First Look at the Return of Jeff Goldblum

How to Avoid Getting Tracked as You Browse the Web

Here’s All the Data Collected From You as You Browse the Web

For Indigenous Communities, The Fight Against Climate Change Is a Fight For Human Rights

Gaze Long Into the Duck

Yahoo’s Insanely Bad Deal to Pay Mozilla $375 Million a Year for Nothing Is Headed to Court

The Terrible Inhumans TV Show Aside, Marvel’s Black Bolt Has Never Been More Interesting

Thousands Forced to Evacuate as Catastrophic Wildfires Continue to Ravage California

Stannis Baratheon Had No Clue What Was Happening on Game of Thrones

This Artist Turns Spilled Paint Into Gorgeous Avalanches of Color

The Atom Is Coming to Injustice 2 and He’s Going to Kick Your Ass With Science

Satellite Images Show the Ongoing Wildfire Devastation in Southern California

Gorgeous Nintendo Games Are Coming to Nvidia Shield, But Not In the US Because Someone Hates Me

Amazon Prime Video Finally Lands on Apple TV

A New WarGames Reboot Promises a Contemporary Spin on Cold War Hackers

Rian Johnson Teases a Mysterious New Weapon in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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