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There Are Several New Poe-ments of Footage In These Last Jedi TV Spots

We’ve reached the final phase of marketing for Star Wars: The Last Jedi: the copious TV spots. Several have come online in the last few hours, all with a little new footage, but nothing too spoilery. Unless you consider Poe Dameron being a fucking badass a spoiler. Here’s the first new spot, which has probably…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 15 '17

At Least 400 Science Articles Cite Nonexistent ‘Phantom’ Study

Did you actually read all the works you cited in your high school and college papers? If not, you’re probably not the only one. Because a non-existent paper seems to have been cited over four hundred times by supposedly reputable research. Leiden University professor Pieter Kroonenberg found the “phantom reference” in a nonexistent journal while…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 15 '17

Trump May Inadvertently Protect This Stunning Texas Landscape

Deep in West Texas, in the heart of the Franklin Mountains just north of El Paso, conservationists have been fighting to protect a 7,000-acre swath of land for decades. Now, thanks to Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), the Castner Range is one giant step closer to being off limits to development—and the final hurdle, the stroke…

Conservation Ari Phillips Nov 15 '17

Amazon’s First Whole Foods Deal for Prime Members Is a Coupon With an FAQ

When it acquired Whole Foods in August, Amazon said that Prime members would eventually get “special savings and in-store benefits” at the grocery stores, and the company just announced the first one: It’s for turkey! For Thanksgiving! A whole 20 percent off (non-organic) birds! If you’re a member of Amazon Prime, all you have to…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes Nov 15 '17

10 Fictional Religions From Movies and TV That Don’t Involve Jedi or the Force

Many scifi and fantasy books explore religious themes: Octavia E. Butler’s Earthseed, Philip K. Dick’s Mercerism, etc. Onscreen, there’s no bigger spirituality movement than Star Wars’ Force. But there’s more to religion in genre movies and TV than the Jedi… so much more. Have you heard the good news? Note: I tried to pick more…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Nov 15 '17

New Firefox Defaults to Google, Ends Friendship With Yahoo [UPDATED]

Mozilla’s new Firefox Quantum browser launched on Wednesday, and there’s a lot to like about it. One change you might notice right away is that it now defaults to the Google search engine instead of Yahoo. Mozilla is framing this as doing the right thing for its users, but in reality, it may just be…

Tech News Rhett Jones Nov 15 '17

Watch This Dancer Perform a Flawlessly Choreographed Routine With a Giant Robotic Arm

Taiwanese dancer Huang Yi also happens to be a talented engineer and inventor. The two disciplines don’t seem like they’d naturally go together, but Yi recently gave a TED Talk performance where he danced alongside a perfectly choreographed Kuka robotic arm that he programmed himself. Humans already work alongside robots in factories and other industrial…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Nov 15 '17

A Superpowered Movie From the Director of Train to Busan Is Coming to Netflix

Over the past few months, Netflix has really gotten into establishing itself as a place for Asian-made genre content. Between the oodles of anime series its licensing and a whole host of Korean acquisitions, it’s becoming a go-to place for foreign genre. Now it’s bolstering that with a new Korean superhero movie. Psychokinesis, the next…

io9 James Whitbrook Nov 15 '17

In a Major First, Scientists Edit DNA Within the Human Body

For the first time, scientists have edited the DNA inside of a patient’s body, in an attempt to cure a genetic disorder by permanently changing the human genome. The news, reported Wednesday by the Associated Press, represents a major landmark in science. Therapies that aim to treat disease by altering a patient’s genetics have made…

Health Kristen V. Brown Nov 15 '17

Amazon Employees Use Pikachu to Test Automated Grocery Store, Which Is a Weird Thing to Do

Amazon is still struggling to get its automated grocery store, Amazon Go, to function right. Who knew it would be so hard to build a brick-and-mortar store with sensors and gadgets instead of cashiers? But in a recent test of the company’s experimental Seattle store, some of Jeff Bezos’ employees got a little weird. They…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes Nov 15 '17

Apparently No One Cares That Someone in Riverdale Cured Cancer

Betty’s mom is really terrible at her job. Not only is Riverdale’s resident media mogul using The Riverdale Register to service her propaganda machine against the Southside Serpents, bringing the town on the brink of civil war, but apparently she thinks a man curing cancer isn’t worth a goddamn cover story. During last week’s episode…

Television Beth Elderkin Nov 15 '17

Only the iPhone X Got Animoji, But Could It Work On Other iPhones? [Correction]

The $1,000 iPhone X has the best tech Apple could put in a phone. It let the company remove Touch ID and replace it with a 3D sensor that shoots out thousands of little infrared dots so you can unlock your phone with your face. It’s also the tech behind Apple’s Animoji, the iMessage app…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Nov 15 '17

Watch NASA’s Mars 2020 Parachute Unfurl at Supersonic Speeds

In preparation for NASA’s next robotic mission to Mars, the space station has performed a successful test of a special parachute that’s designed to withstand the intense speeds involved during an atmospheric descent. The test, called the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment, or ASPIRE, is a prelude to the real thing where NASA will…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Nov 15 '17

New Intergalactic Discovery Could Be Biggest Supernova Ever

The Earth, the Sun, Andromeda galaxy, they’ve all been around for as long as you can remember and as long as humanity has been around. So when a new light suddenly shows up in the distance, it’s a weird occurrence. But a newly detected explosion could be one of the weirdest—and it’s not the only…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 15 '17

Martha Wayne Hates Seeing Herself Die Over and Over Again

If you’re sick and tired of repeatedly seeing pearls snap off a necklace and the bodies of Bruce Wayne’s parents slumping to the cold, grimy concrete of Park Row, just imagine how Martha Wayne feels. That’s right: she hates it and says as much in a spoofy fake commentary track for Batman v. Superman: Dawn…

Movies Evan Narcisse Nov 15 '17

Watch This Neural Network Generate an Infinite Number of Totally Unique Anime Characters

Last month Nvidia revealed its work on using competing neural networks to generate random, but convincing, photos of non-existent celebrities. A website called MakeGirlsMoe does almost the same thing, but instead of celebs, it churns out never-ending headshots of anime characters. https://gizmodo.com/watching-this-neural-network-render-truly-photorealisti-1819957128 Nvidia’s photo-realistic celebrities require a bit of graphical horsepower to generate, but if…

Anime Andrew Liszewski Nov 15 '17

Our First Solid Evidence For What Climate Change Did to Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey appears to be just the beginning of what’s to come for Houston, and Texas as a whole. That’s according to a study published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The relationship between climate change and hurricanes is a tricky one. We know that, generally, storms are more intense…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Nov 15 '17

12 Useful Web Tools You Didn’t Know About

Google isn’t the only company creating useful apps for the web. There are plenty of great online resources not made in Mountain view, provided you know where to look. Here are 12 of our favorite online apps and websites that are worth collecting in your browser’s bookmarks, ready to go at a moment’s notice, to…

Gadgets David Nield Nov 15 '17

The First Trailer For Deadpool 2 Is Hidden in a Bizarre Tribute to Bob Ross

Our first look at Deadpool 2 in action is finally here. But you’re going to have to get through a totally weird, and pretty hilarious, skit to get to it. Ryan Reynolds has just dropped the first footage from Deadpool 2, but at first you might not realize it. Because the video starts—and goes on…

Trailers James Whitbrook Nov 15 '17

Jason Momoa Confirms an Intriguing Link Between Aquaman’s Justice League Backstory and Man of Steel

Supergirl casts a member of a cosmic DC race. Poe Dameron goes drifting in a new Last Jedi TV spot. You’re getting a little less Orville than expected this season. Plus, the first look at Rampage, more Happy! clips, and gruesome new Gotham footage. Behold, spoilers! Justice League Jason Momoa confirms that part of Aquaman’s…

Television James Whitbrook Nov 15 '17

There Are Several New Poe-ments of Footage In These Last Jedi TV Spots

At Least 400 Science Articles Cite Nonexistent ‘Phantom’ Study

Trump May Inadvertently Protect This Stunning Texas Landscape

Amazon’s First Whole Foods Deal for Prime Members Is a Coupon With an FAQ

10 Fictional Religions From Movies and TV That Don’t Involve Jedi or the Force

New Firefox Defaults to Google, Ends Friendship With Yahoo [UPDATED]

Watch This Dancer Perform a Flawlessly Choreographed Routine With a Giant Robotic Arm

A Superpowered Movie From the Director of Train to Busan Is Coming to Netflix

In a Major First, Scientists Edit DNA Within the Human Body

Amazon Employees Use Pikachu to Test Automated Grocery Store, Which Is a Weird Thing to Do

Apparently No One Cares That Someone in Riverdale Cured Cancer

Only the iPhone X Got Animoji, But Could It Work On Other iPhones? [Correction]

Watch NASA’s Mars 2020 Parachute Unfurl at Supersonic Speeds

New Intergalactic Discovery Could Be Biggest Supernova Ever

Martha Wayne Hates Seeing Herself Die Over and Over Again

Watch This Neural Network Generate an Infinite Number of Totally Unique Anime Characters

Our First Solid Evidence For What Climate Change Did to Hurricane Harvey

12 Useful Web Tools You Didn’t Know About

The First Trailer For Deadpool 2 Is Hidden in a Bizarre Tribute to Bob Ross

Jason Momoa Confirms an Intriguing Link Between Aquaman’s Justice League Backstory and Man of Steel

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