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Comcast to Customer Who Noticed It Secretly Injecting Code: Maybe It’s Your Fault?

Comcast is once again under fire for injecting JavaScript code into websites its customers visit. Last week, user bham3dman took to the Xfinity forum to complain about Comcast inserting hundreds of lines of code into their browsing session. The code surfaced a pop-up telling them to upgrade to a new modem. This is far from the…

Natalie Portman Gets Her Ripley on in the Excellent New Annihilation Trailer  

Bummed about the decline of the Alien movies? Cheer up! Because Annihilation, director Alex Garland’s scifi follow-up to the excellent Ex Machina, is going to give you what you’ve been missing, right here on planet Earth. Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Oscar Isaac star in the film, based on the…

What Do Porgs Taste Like? 

Move over Ewoks, there’s a new critter in this galaxy. Star Wars: The Last Jedi marks the debut of porgs, a species of alien birds that chill with Luke Skywalker on Ahch-To as he trains Rey in the ways of the Force. They may be cute, but we can’t help but wonder: How do they…

Gwyneth Paltrow May Have Accidentally Revealed a Big Avengers 4 Moment for Pepper Potts

George Lucas offers his thoughts on Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The Goosebumps sequel has found a director. John Cena talks up the Bumblebee spinoff. Plus, Titans could be casting some major flashback sequences, set pictures from Venom, and more. Behold, Spoilers! Avengers 4 Gwyneth Paltrow posted a few photos of herself on set wearing…

Netflix Fires Executive Who Told One of Danny Masterson’s Alleged Victims They Didn’t Believe Her

Netflix has fired Andy Yeatman, its director of global kids content, for telling one of several women who accused The Ranch star Danny Masterson of rape that the company did not believe them, the Hollywood Reporter wrote on Tuesday. A Netflix spokeswoman confirmed to the Reporter that as of December 11th, “Mr. Yeatman is no…

A Bunch of Twitter Users Got Punked With a ‘Baby Poops His Onesie’ Video

A good rule of thumb is that if a random website tries to trick you into giving it access to your Twitter account in order for you to watch a video titled “Baby Poops In His Onesie, But Dog’s Response Leaves Millions Of People In Hysterics,” you shouldn’t do it. You absolutely should not do…

It’s Not a Spoiler to Say These Last Jedi Posters Are Spectacular

With reviews for Star Wars: The Last Jedi out today (including ours), it’s understandable if fans are nervous about spoilers. We totally get it. But this story right here is a safe zone. It’s just some gorgeous, fan-made posters for The Last Jedi to get you excited for the film. No more, no less. These…

An AI With an Eerily Familiar Voice Offers a Musical Crash Course on the Electromagnetic Spectrum

It’s a science lesson, musical, 2001: A Space Odyssey homage, and video game shout-out all in one when an IT guy (Ed Wasser from Babylon 5) who hates cat videos encounters an AI who just wants a li’l internet access in the NASA-created “NOTGLaDOS: Electromagnetic Spectrum The Musical.” If the title doesn’t give it away, the…

Trump Signs Ban on Kaspersky Software

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed legislation officially banning the federal government’s use of software made by Kaspersky Labs, Reuters reports. The ban has been in the works for several months, following a Department of Homeland Security directive to remove Kaspersky products from federal systems. DHS alleged that Kaspersky had suspicious ties with Russian intelligence…

Hot Toys’ Last Jedi Luke Skywalker Figure Is Legitimately Intimidating the Hell Out of Me

There’s always been a unsettling realness to Hot Toys’ absurdly detailed figures. The absurdity of seeing such a lifelike visage in such a small scale is disconcerting. But then there’s the times when such visages aren’t just wildly lifelike, but also boring their tiny little plastic eyes into your very soul. Based on Luke’s new…

School will soon be a bigger bore for kids in France: Starting next fall, students there will be banned from using cellphones in primary and middle schools, the French government announced today. Bummer.

Court Upholds Obama’s Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that a 20-year ban on new uranium mining along the Grand Canyon will remain. The ban was first introduced by the Department of Interior in 2012 under former President Barack Obama and then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. It placed protections upon more than one million acres of land surrounding the Grand…

The Battle Angel Director Tries and Fails to Justify Alita’s Giant, Creepy-Ass Eyes

At some point in the production of every live-action adaptation of an illustrated franchise, creative teams have to go about the important business of choosing just how closely to hew to the aesthetic style of the source material. Staring into the lead character’s disturbingly large eyes, it’s safe to say Alita: Battle Angel’s director Robert…

Only 1 in 5 Republicans Want the FCC to Gut Net Neutrality Rules

A new survey of 1,077 registered voters found that the FCC’s plan to rollback net neutrality protections is staggeringly unpopular among Republican voters. The survey, conducted by the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation (PPC) and Voice of the People, a nonpartisan polling organization, found that only one in five Republican voters support FCC…

What a Good Soundtrack Does

Last weekend, while driving my kid to swim class, I was nodding my head along to the bassline of a song playing in the car. “Do you like this song, Daddy?” my daughter asked. My answer was yes. Yes, I like that one song from the My Little Pony: The Movie soundtrack. A month ago,…

It’s Time to Register Your Small Drones Again

Drone hobbyists have had a whirlwind of a time when it comes to registering their devices. In December of 2015, the FAA required that owners of small devices had to register their vehicles for a small fee. But then, in May of this year, that rule was revoked, and owners could get their five-dollar registration…

This New Harry Potter Chapter, Written With Predictive Keyboards, Is Magically Unhinged

By now, millions of readers across the world are familiar with the tone and voice J.K. Rowling used to approach the main Harry Potter novels, which makes the experience of reading Botnik’s take on the series that much more unnerving. It sounds like Rowling’s writing voice, but it reads like the ravings of a mad…

First Republican Congressman Demands FCC Delay Net Neutrality Vote

With the fate of Thursday’s net neutrality vote resting almost entirely in the hands of the Republican Party, a lone conservative has emerged to oppose FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to gift-wrap the internet for Verizon and Friends this Christmas. Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman, a staunch conservative in nearly every sense, called on the FCC…

New Juno Results Reveal the Weirdness of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Surely you’re aware of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The violent storm is the planet’s most noticeable feature, defining Jupiter in the same way that Saturn is defined by its rings, and Earth is defined by its yapping apes. There’s so much still to learn about this gas giant, and the yapping apes of Earth have…

She-Ra, Princess of Power, Is Making a Comeback on Netflix

Netflix and Dreamworks Animation have just announced a slate of new animated collaborations set to launch next year. There’s some wild stuff in there, but here’s the big news: She-Ra, the legendary Princess of Power, is back in action. The series—which will be showrun by the Eisner-winning Lumberjanes co-creater Noelle Stevenson—will be a reboot of…