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Holy Crap, the First Avengers: Infinity War Trailer Is Here

The first trailer for the biggest, most anticipated Marvel movie ever is finally here. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, and starring basically everyone, here’s the trailer for Avengers: Infinity War. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-hints-and-details-hidden-in-avengers-infinity-1820817197 Four months ago, Marvel showed fans at the D23 Expo and San Diego Comic-Con the first footage from this highly anticipated film, but…

Trailers Germain Lussier Nov 29 '17

What Kind of Sorcery Lets People Swim In This Sand-Filled Hot Tub?

You can try as hard as you want, but you’ll never be as cool an uncle as ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober. Using elaborate experiments, he makes learning about science even more entertaining than Bill Nye did, and his latest invention is a sand-filled hot tub that somehow still behaves like water you can swim…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Nov 29 '17

Facebook May Soon Demand a Selfie if It Detects Suspicious Activity on Your Account

Facebook appears to be preparing to launch a new kind of captcha which asks users to prove their identities by uploading photos of their faces, Wired reported on Tuesday. At least some users reported encountering a prompt asking them to “upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face,” accompanied by a guarantee that…

Social Media Tom McKay Nov 29 '17

As North Korea Tests Longer-Range ICBMs, Hawaii Reactivates Nuclear Warning System

It’s been hard to ignore the ominous game of nuclear chicken currently ongoing between the totalitarian government of North Korea, which successfully tested an upgraded intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday morning local time, and the U.S., which is currently led by a belligerent lightweight with an extremely limited understanding of nuclear strategy. That goes double…

Tech News Tom McKay Nov 28 '17

Study: Vast Majority of Google Play Apps Are Covertly Tracking Users

A new study by France’s Exodus Privacy and the Yale University Privacy lab has concluded that over three out of four of apps available on Google’s Play Store contain third-party tracking plugins, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. Apps sucking up personal information included some of the most popular ones on the platform, “including Tinder, Spotify,…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Nov 28 '17

This Time-Lapse Video of Disneyland Transforming for the Holidays Is Truly Magical

In a rare peek behind the curtain, Disney just released a time-lapse video showing the holiday transformation of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle at Disneyland. That may sound like a small thing, but Disney is usually ultra careful about breaking the illusion of their parks. Anything that would make a child realize they aren’t in a special,…

Television Germain Lussier Nov 28 '17

The ’90s X-Men Cartoon’s Sixth Season Sounds Like It Would Have Been a Blast

X-Men: The Animated Series ended in 1997 after five seasons on a bit of a cliffhanger: the frail Charles Xavier, near death, was whisked into space by the Shi’ar Empress Lilanda in an attempt to save his life. We never got to see if Charles survived or returned to Earth, but showrunner Eric Lewald’s ideas…

Television James Whitbrook Nov 28 '17

DNA Evidence Shows Yeti Was Local Himalayan Bears All Along

A host of DNA samples “strongly suggest” that yetis are, in fact, local Himalayan bears. Watch out, bigfoot. An international team of researchers took a look at bear and supposed yeti DNA samples to better pinpoint the origin of the mythological creature. The researcher’s results imply that yetis were hardly paranormal or even strange, but…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 28 '17

FCC Chair Says Twitter and YouTube’s Political Biases Are the Real Threat to an Open Internet

Would more Nazis and terrorists on social media make our internet more free? FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, speaking Tuesday at a panel on the “future of internet freedom,” asked and answered this question in staunchly libertarian terms, calling out YouTube, Facebook and Twitter’s purported double standards against conservatives and identifying them as the “actual threat”…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Nov 28 '17

Sounds Like Ant-Man and the Wasp May Have a Major Impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe

With Ant-Man and the Wasp coming out two months after Avengers: Infinity War, it’s pretty obvious the films will have some connections. But star Evangeline Lilly has an even bigger idea of how the events in her film could impact the Marvel Cinematic Universe for years to come. Lilly, who plays Hope Van Dyne, hinted…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 28 '17

The Deepest Fish Ever Captured Is So Ugly I Want to Throw It Back in the Sea

The deep sea is a dark place both literally and figuratively, home to the stuff of nightmares. Now, scientists have named a new unholy terror deep beneath the ocean’s surface. The Mariana snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei for the nerds out there) is the deepest fish ever captured. The fish, which looks like a tumorous chicken filet,…

Earther Brian Kahn Nov 28 '17

Batman’s Alfred Gets the (Fake) Trailer That Gotham Deserves

The DC movie universe continues to expand, but one backstory has yet to be given its own cinematic introduction: Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne’s butler. A new parody trailer seeks to right this wrong, and the result is a surprisingly impactful glimpse into the history of Batman’s surrogate father. Funny Or Die has released a trailer…

Trailers Beth Elderkin Nov 28 '17

The Great Barrier Reef May Be More Resilient Than We Thought

Over the past two years, the Great Barrier Reef experienced unprecedented bleaching events that left hundreds of square miles of coral dead and dying. Events like this are only expected to continue as the planet’s temperature continues to rise. But amidst all the gloom and doom, a team of scientists are now offering a glimmer…

Conservation Maddie Stone Nov 28 '17

Watch These Daredevil Wingsuit Flyers Land in a Flying Plane

Because jumping off a mountain with just a pair of thin fabric wings underneath your arms isn’t already dangerous enough, professional wingsuit flyers Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet decided to do that and then try and land inside an airborne plane, using a side door that was just a few feet from the aircraft’s spinning…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Nov 28 '17

Man Pleads Guilty In Massive Yahoo Hack

Karim Baratov, the 23-year-old Canadian man implicated in the hacking of 500 million Yahoo accounts, pleaded guilty to multiple charges in a California court today. Baratov pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, and eight counts of aggravated identity theft. He could face up to 20 years in prison…

Tech News Rhett Jones Nov 28 '17

Google Decides Android Users Deserve Full Beers

Stand down, fierce citizens. Google has fixed its beer emoji. The beer icons that were once half empty but confusingly topped with froth are now full. Oh and those un-American burger emoji with cheese on the bottom bun? The cheese is now on top. The updated emoji are included in the forthcoming Android 8.1 release.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 28 '17

Fantastic Beasts 2 Director Offers a Truly Gross Defense for Casting Johnny Depp

The casting of Johnny Depp as the big villain of the Fantastic Beasts franchise has been causing consternation from some Harry Potter fans, due to the ongoing allegations of domestic abuse leveled against Depp by his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard. Director David Yates has now spoken about the issue directly after it bubbled up again…

Movies James Whitbrook Nov 28 '17

We Need a National Revenge Porn Law, But This Bill Is Flawed

Up until this month, revenge porn wasn’t criminalized in New York City, and there are still 11 states without laws criminalizing the unwanted distribution of private images. But on Tuesday, four US Senators introduced a revenge porn bill, titled ENOUGH, the Ending Nonconsensual Online User Graphic Harassment Act. The bill was introduced by Senators Kamala…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Nov 28 '17

Dark Matter Is Not Dead

It can be easy to take hyped-up science papers as fact, especially when they involve the most esoteric imaginable ideas. But scientists are taking issue with a hyped-up new paper that claims it can eliminate the need for dark matter or dark energy in our Universe. Observations of our Universe imply that something like 95…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 28 '17

Marvel’s New Editor-in-Chief Just Admitted That He Used a Pseudonym Years Ago to Pretend to Be Japanese [Update]

When news broke that C.B. Cebulski was Marvel’s new Editor-in-Chief, many lauded his history of bringing fresh, diverse voices and perspectives into the company. But the news also rekindled longstanding rumors that Cebulski had been spent months writing for Marvel as “Akira Yoshida,” a Japanese man. Cebulski is not Japanese. This week Cebulski, a white…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 28 '17

Holy Crap, the First Avengers: Infinity War Trailer Is Here

What Kind of Sorcery Lets People Swim In This Sand-Filled Hot Tub?

Facebook May Soon Demand a Selfie if It Detects Suspicious Activity on Your Account

As North Korea Tests Longer-Range ICBMs, Hawaii Reactivates Nuclear Warning System

Study: Vast Majority of Google Play Apps Are Covertly Tracking Users

This Time-Lapse Video of Disneyland Transforming for the Holidays Is Truly Magical

The ’90s X-Men Cartoon’s Sixth Season Sounds Like It Would Have Been a Blast

DNA Evidence Shows Yeti Was Local Himalayan Bears All Along

FCC Chair Says Twitter and YouTube’s Political Biases Are the Real Threat to an Open Internet

Sounds Like Ant-Man and the Wasp May Have a Major Impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Deepest Fish Ever Captured Is So Ugly I Want to Throw It Back in the Sea

Batman’s Alfred Gets the (Fake) Trailer That Gotham Deserves

The Great Barrier Reef May Be More Resilient Than We Thought

Watch These Daredevil Wingsuit Flyers Land in a Flying Plane

Man Pleads Guilty In Massive Yahoo Hack

Google Decides Android Users Deserve Full Beers

Fantastic Beasts 2 Director Offers a Truly Gross Defense for Casting Johnny Depp

We Need a National Revenge Porn Law, But This Bill Is Flawed

Dark Matter Is Not Dead

Marvel’s New Editor-in-Chief Just Admitted That He Used a Pseudonym Years Ago to Pretend to Be Japanese [Update]

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