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Why Do Facebook’s Algorithms Keep Abetting Racism? [Updated]

Call it algorithmic ignorance. Or maybe, algorithmic idiocy. On Thursday, Pro Publica uncovered that Facebook’s ad targeting system, which groups users together based on profile data, offered to sell ads targeting a demographic of Facebook users that self-reported as “Jew Haters.” “Jew Haters” started trending on Twitter when the piece went viral, and by Friday…

Social Media Sidney Fussell

Christopher Priest Is Taking Over DC’s Justice League Comic This Winter

Christopher Priest has written some of the most imaginative thrilling comics of the past thirty years and starting this winter, he’s bringing all of his talents to DC’s flagship Justice League series with a new story arc titled “Lost.” Beginning issue #34 out this December, “Lost” finds the Justice League in a state of disarray…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Irma Leaves Florida Streets Flooded With Raw Sewage

Before us humans drained it, South Florida was first and foremost a swamp. Infrastructure improvements went in to make it look the way it is today, with its sewers and drainage systems built to take water back to the ocean. But when Hurricane Irma made itself known last week, it brought back old memories of…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Chrome Will Soon Mute Autoplay Videos With Sound—Here’s Why You Should Be Worried

Google has surveyed the advertising landscape that it dominates and determined that it’s time for a change. Beginning in January, its Chrome web browser will mute autoplay video ads with sound by default. The effort is being framed as a drive to clean up the web, but it could just as easily be interpreted as…

Tech News Rhett Jones

See How Aegon Conquered Westeros in Game of Thrones‘ Official Animated History

Game of Thrones may be focused on the war for the Iron Throne, but there’s another epic battle in Westeros’ past that’s just as iconic, and it’s finally getting told thanks to its own special. HBO has unveiled a sneak peek at its storybook-style animated history called Game of Thrones: Conquest & Rebellion, which looks…

Television Beth Elderkin

Lenovo’s Best Gaming Laptop Drops the Ball in One Very Crucial Way

There’s no shortage of computer makers that would like to sell you a big, expensive gaming laptop. So in an effort to differentiate themselves, companies are thinking of ways to make a portable screen attached to a keyboard and some silicon inside seem more attractive. Asuslatched onto Nvidia’s new Max Q design program for its…

Laptops Sam Rutherford

Super-Accurate Sculpture of Ancient Sea Creature Is Surprisingly Adorable

Well, maybe it’s a face that only a mother could love, but this remarkable recreation of a prolific sea creature that lived over 500 million years ago is offering an entirely new perspective of a particularly well-known species. It’s called Agnostus pisiformis, and it lived between 506 to 492 million years ago, ending its brief…

Biology George Dvorsky

The Best Look at the Future of the Star Trek Universe Comes From a Video Game

Star Trek: Discovery is set 10 years before the events of the original Star Trek, but that wasn’t always going to be the case. It was almost an anthology show that was going to take fans from the pre-Kirk Federation into Star Trek’s future. If you’re disappointed Discovery is solely stuck in the past instead,…

io9 James Whitbrook

Liquid Cats, Vagina Speakers and More From the Ig Nobel Prizes of 2017

Scientists spend their days hypothesizing, experimenting, and analyzing in order to find evidence to better understand our strange Universe. Sometimes, that requires playing the didgeridoo and then falling asleep. The Nobel Prize, the annual awards ceremony commemorating the most important advances in the sciences and humanities, is coming up soon. But last night came the…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Venture Bros. Isn’t Dead But Will Take a Long Time to Come Back to Life

It’s been a long time since there was a new episode of Venture Bros. 543 days, according to Cartoon Network. Fans have been left fearing that the cult-fave nerd-culture pastiche had crossed over to the astral plane for good. But they got a good omen last night. Spotted by Reddit users and documented on a…

Television Evan Narcisse

Jon Hamm Will Play Boba Fett In a New Star Wars Audiobook

Yesterday, we brought you more details on From a Certain Point of View, a new 40th Anniversary Star Wars anthology tale gathering short stories set in and around the events of A New Hope. The audiobook just had its cast announced, and includes a surprising star: Jon Hamm as the legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! Is Incredibly Fascinating and Unbelievably Frustrating

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is grueling and gruesome. It’s a deliberately pretentious art-house movie, cast with some of the biggest stars on the planet. It’s horrifying on many levels—and yet there’s something deeply admirable about it. Whatever the opposite of “crowd-pleaser” is, this movie is it. mother! begins with imagery that echoes throughout the film: a…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Portland Says Uber Targeted More Than a Dozen Officials With ‘Greyball’ Software

In March, the New York Times revealed that Uber was evading and deceiving law enforcement officials in a number of cities through an internal software program called Greyball. The program goes to alarming lengths of surveillance to sidestep regulators, and an investigation by the city of Portland reveals how it was used to circumvent government…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Screaming Hairy Armadillos Articulate Our Existential Dread

Adulthood is kind of like the Olympics where the main event is trying not to fall apart under the weight of your own ennui. Sometimes, you’ve just got to let that internal tension out by screaming into the open air. Or a pillow. Or the frozen foods section at Whole Foods. But honestly, no creature…

Biology Rae Paoletta

Scarlet Spider Just Became Marvel’s Most Amazingly Weird Spider-Man Comic

Even by comic book standards, Ben Reilly has lived one of the most complicated and difficult lives that any fictional clone ever has. Introduced as a mentally unstable Spider-Man clone The Amazing Spider-Man #149, Ben truly believed himself to be the true Peter Parker before being forced to confront the truth. After learning that he,…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

David Bradley Returns as Doctor Who‘s First Doctor For His Own Audio Adventures

William Hartnell’s legacy as the First Doctor has lived on in the years since he left Doctor Who. Now the latest actors to take on Doctor Who’s earliest stars are reuniting to continue that legacy for a new series of audio dramas. Big Finish has announced a new volume of stories featuring David Bradley in…

Television James Whitbrook

It Took 297 Agonizing Tries For This Complex Rube Goldberg Machine to Work Flawlessly

After losing a bet, YouTube’s jackofallspades98 spent four months building one of the most complicated Rube Goldberg machines I’ve ever seen. Spread across two tables, it’s so dense and complex that it took 297 attempts before it worked all the way from start to finish. It’s hard to imagine trying anything 297 times until you…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

14 Things You Can Do in macOS High Sierra That You Couldn’t Do Before

macOS High Sierra is heading your way on September 25, and while it’s not packed with major new features to transform your Mac computing experience, there are some cool new tricks you should know about—here are 11 of them to get familiar with before the OS arrives on your machine. 1) Snap Live Photos from…

Gadgets David Nield

Huge Wafts of Smoke From North American Wildfires Have Traveled All the Way to Europe

It’s been a particularly brutal wildfire season in parts of western North America, as several large blazes continue to cause headaches from California up to British Columbia. As shocking new satellite images show, the smoke from these fires hasn’t been limited to the west coast, or even the North American continent. It’s drifted all the…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Tom Hanks Hints at David S. Pumpkins Returning to Saturday Night Live

Halloween is about to get a whole lot more Pumpkins. Last year, Tom Hanks became the Halloween Meme of 2016 with Saturday Night Live’s bizarrely wonderful David S. Pumpkins sketch. Now, it looks like he might be coming back this season. Hanks recently shared a script for “The David S. Pumpkins Song,” a (hopefully non…

Television Beth Elderkin

Why Do Facebook’s Algorithms Keep Abetting Racism? [Updated]

Christopher Priest Is Taking Over DC’s Justice League Comic This Winter

Irma Leaves Florida Streets Flooded With Raw Sewage

Chrome Will Soon Mute Autoplay Videos With Sound—Here’s Why You Should Be Worried

See How Aegon Conquered Westeros in Game of Thrones‘ Official Animated History

Lenovo’s Best Gaming Laptop Drops the Ball in One Very Crucial Way

Super-Accurate Sculpture of Ancient Sea Creature Is Surprisingly Adorable

The Best Look at the Future of the Star Trek Universe Comes From a Video Game

Liquid Cats, Vagina Speakers and More From the Ig Nobel Prizes of 2017

Venture Bros. Isn’t Dead But Will Take a Long Time to Come Back to Life

Jon Hamm Will Play Boba Fett In a New Star Wars Audiobook

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! Is Incredibly Fascinating and Unbelievably Frustrating

Portland Says Uber Targeted More Than a Dozen Officials With ‘Greyball’ Software

Screaming Hairy Armadillos Articulate Our Existential Dread

Scarlet Spider Just Became Marvel’s Most Amazingly Weird Spider-Man Comic

David Bradley Returns as Doctor Who‘s First Doctor For His Own Audio Adventures

It Took 297 Agonizing Tries For This Complex Rube Goldberg Machine to Work Flawlessly

14 Things You Can Do in macOS High Sierra That You Couldn’t Do Before

Huge Wafts of Smoke From North American Wildfires Have Traveled All the Way to Europe

Tom Hanks Hints at David S. Pumpkins Returning to Saturday Night Live

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