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Rick and Morty’s Beloved Szechuan Sauce Is Coming Back to McDonald’s For One Day Only

If you went back in time to 1998 and told McDonald’s team of test kitchen chefs that the new Szechuan dipping sauce they’d just created as a promotional tie-in for the Disney movie Mulan would one day have a cult-like following, they’d probably listen to you and start hoarding bottles of the stuff to make…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

Google’s Top Stories Promoted Misinformation About the Las Vegas Shooting From 4Chan [Updated]

On Sunday night, a gunman killed more than 50 people at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. On Monday morning, authorities identified the gunman as Stephen Paddock. But in an episode that has become sadly familiar in the immediate aftermath of such tragedies, amateur sleuths on 4chan…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

The Best Beats Headphones Are Getting Better, Bit by Bit

Here’s a bold statement: Beats headphones have gotten better since Apple bought the company. They’re still kind of a trick, fueled by premium marketing from the tech company that invented premium marketing. The new Beats Studio3 Wireless headphones are no different. They’re better! But they’re still Beats. The new Beats Studio Wireless look a lot…

Headphones Adam Clark Estes

An Enormous Hole in Antarctica’s Sea Ice Could Help Solve a Climate Riddle

An enormous hole in the the wintertime sea ice surrounding Antarctica is attracting considerable scientific attention. Researchers think the so-called Weddell polynya is part of a natural cycle, but its present size—the biggest it’s been since it was first spotted in the 1970s—could help us understand the processes controlling Antarctic circulation, and how the Southern…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

This Scene Proves That Inhumans Has at Least One Good Idea

ABC troubled Inhumans television show premiered on network TV last Friday to passable ratings, despite being widely-panned by the press. The show is, by most accounts, a mess from top to bottom, but there are a few moments where you get the distinct sense that in another universe, it could have been great The easiest…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

Star Trek: Discovery Delves Into a Conflict That’s Been Simmering Under 50 Years of Trek

“Context Is for Kings” is the first true episode of Discovery and it’s a big improvement over the TV movie that kicked off the series last week. The characters are more interesting now, the ideas smarter, and the world better understood. Granted, I may be biased because it’s also examining a Trek issue I’ve been…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Couple Grifts Amazon Out of $1.2 Million in Electronics

Any retailer budgets for broken goods, shoplifting, and other losses, and Amazon is no different. But because of the volume of sales and a customer-forward policy, the gargantuan online marketplace appears to rarely investigate claims of broken or unreceived goods, opting instead to replace or refund—no questions asked. That’s how Indiana couple Erin and Leah…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Building a Gigantic Blender Is the Best Use For an Unwanted Lawnmower

What do you do when you move into a house without a lawn and no longer have any need for your electric mower? That’s easy, you strip it down and use its spinning blade to build an over-sized blender that can slice and dice much more than just chunks of ice. https://gizmodo.com/dont-get-hit-by-a-nerf-dart-traveling-at-twice-the-spee-1793601843 Giaco Whatever’s latest…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The Good Omens TV Show Will Use Ideas From the Sequel That Never Happened

Back when Good Omens first came out, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman had plans for a sequel—one that never came to pass, just like the planned movie adaptation of the novel. But now ideas from the sequel are being given new life in Amazon and the BBC’s TV miniseries remake, in the form of Jon…

Television James Whitbrook

Thandie Newton’s Han Solo Role Just Got Even More Mysterious

Daniel Dae Kim gets ready for action in Hellboy. Supergirl casts the mom of its big new villain. Riverdale is introducing more family drama for Betty. Matt Nix teases why the X-Men are gone in The Gifted. Plus, new pictures from the return of X-Files, and hope for even more Stranger Things. Behold, Spoilers! Han…

Television James Whitbrook

At Least 58 Dead and More Than 515 Injured in Las Vegas Concert Shooting, the Deadliest in Modern US History [Updated]

At least 58 people are dead and more than 515 people are injured after a man opened fire on concertgoers in Las Vegas from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Social media has been inundated with videos from the horrific scene. Police now say it’s the worst mass shooting in modern US history.…

Tech News Matt Novak

Court Rules FBI Can Keep Names of, Payments Made to iPhone 5C Hackers Secret

The FBI does not have to disclose the name of or how much it paid a private firm to crack Apple’s iPhone security, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled on Saturday. Per Politico, USA Today, the Associated Press and Vice Media were all suing the FBI to force it to reveal more details about…

Tech News Tom McKay

The Latest Star Wars: Forces of Destiny Short Has a Great Rebels Cameo

In the most recent Forces of Destiny short, Star Wars Rebels’ favorite Mandalorian heroine, Sabine Wren, shows up for a heist. And she brings a friend. The new short, which clocks in at just over three minutes, features Sabine on a rebel mission alongside Ketsu Onyo, a character introduced in the second season of Rebels…

Television Julie Muncy

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: What If We Just Turned the Hurricanes Into Electricity

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson had some seriously weird thoughts on hurricanes in an interview on Sunday, telling Sunday TODAY he believes man should harness the power of hurricanes for good rather than run from them, as one tends to do when 155mph winds and catastrophic storm surge are heading towards one’s beach house. While discussing…

Climate Change Tom McKay

Report: New York Police Are Cracking Down on Small-Scale Airbnb Rentals

According to a new report in Quartz, New York City authorities are deploying a number of tactics designed to go after large-scale Airbnb operations to crack down on people just using the service normally, citing violations of building and zoning codes. Quartz wrote that after New York passed “some of the toughest restrictions on short-term…

Tech News Tom McKay

On Saturday Night Live, Ryan Gosling Loses It Over James Cameron’s Font Choices

Last night, Ryan Gosling hosted Saturday Night Live, and he took the opportunity to reprise his role as the obsessive, moody driver from 2011’s Drive. This time, he only had one thing on his dark mind. Avatar. Specifically, the fact that James Cameron’s Avatar, one of the most expensive, elaborate motion pictures ever created, reportedly…

Television Julie Muncy

Mia Kirshner Will Play Spock’s Mom On Star Trek: Discovery

Since we learned the origins of Star Trek: Discovery protagonist Michael Burnham—that she’s an adopted human ward of Sarek, most famously known as the father of Spock—it’s been an open question as to how much of a presence the most famous Vulcan family is going to be in the new series. Now we know yet…

Television Julie Muncy

Donald Trump Tweets Rex Tillerson Is ‘Wasting His Time’ Trying to Avoid Nuclear War

President Donald Trump, who has spent most of this weekend using Twitter to bully beleaguered Puerto Rican authorities in the middle of the post-Hurricane Maria humanitarian crisis, cannot stop mashing that shitty tweet button. On Sunday morning, Trump abruptly announced on Twitter “our wonderful Secretary of State” Rex Tillerson is “wasting his time trying to…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Old Man Logan is Getting a Prequel All About Old Man Hawkeye

Those old men of Marvel, y’all. They never quit. The Old Man Logan timeline is a bleak one, full of near-apocalyptic death and crowded out by triumphant evil. Now, with a new prequel comic, it might be getting a bit more heroism in its history. Announced by the New York Daily News, Old Man Hawkeye,…

io9 Julie Muncy

The Latest The Punisher Promo is an Unsettling Flashback

The promotional campaign for Netflix’s The Punisher is getting a little off kilter. To wit, its latest Instagram promo video is one of the most unsettling superhero-related things I’ve ever seen. The Instagram Story, captured for posterity by Twitter user @Tin_Pan_Ali, shows a dazed Punisher wandering against a flickering screen of a background, memories flashing…

Television Julie Muncy

Rick and Morty’s Beloved Szechuan Sauce Is Coming Back to McDonald’s For One Day Only

Google’s Top Stories Promoted Misinformation About the Las Vegas Shooting From 4Chan [Updated]

The Best Beats Headphones Are Getting Better, Bit by Bit

An Enormous Hole in Antarctica’s Sea Ice Could Help Solve a Climate Riddle

This Scene Proves That Inhumans Has at Least One Good Idea

Star Trek: Discovery Delves Into a Conflict That’s Been Simmering Under 50 Years of Trek

Couple Grifts Amazon Out of $1.2 Million in Electronics

Building a Gigantic Blender Is the Best Use For an Unwanted Lawnmower

The Good Omens TV Show Will Use Ideas From the Sequel That Never Happened

Thandie Newton’s Han Solo Role Just Got Even More Mysterious

At Least 58 Dead and More Than 515 Injured in Las Vegas Concert Shooting, the Deadliest in Modern US History [Updated]

Court Rules FBI Can Keep Names of, Payments Made to iPhone 5C Hackers Secret

The Latest Star Wars: Forces of Destiny Short Has a Great Rebels Cameo

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: What If We Just Turned the Hurricanes Into Electricity

Report: New York Police Are Cracking Down on Small-Scale Airbnb Rentals

On Saturday Night Live, Ryan Gosling Loses It Over James Cameron’s Font Choices

Mia Kirshner Will Play Spock’s Mom On Star Trek: Discovery

Donald Trump Tweets Rex Tillerson Is ‘Wasting His Time’ Trying to Avoid Nuclear War

Old Man Logan is Getting a Prequel All About Old Man Hawkeye

The Latest The Punisher Promo is an Unsettling Flashback

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