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The NSA Warned Jared Kushner Not to Do the Dumb Email Thing That He Then Did

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and a number of other senior White House officials who used their personal emails for work purposes were expressly warned by the National Security Agency not to do so, Politico reported on Friday. Per Politico, Kushner and other staffers (including former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus) all continued to use…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Sep 30 '17

Wow, There Might Be An Actual Release Date for Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film

A number of great directors have spent large portions of their careers working on widely ambitious passion projects that never see the light of day. Famously, Stanley Kubrick spent years of his life working on a sprawling biopic about Napoleon Bonaparte, the project failing to materialize again and again before his death. For a long…

Movies Julie Muncy Sep 30 '17

The Star Wars Extended Universe‘s Coolest Jedi Could’ve Been in Rogue One

When building a prequel to A New Hope, the writers and producers of the Lucasfilm top brass had a lot of possible material to work with. In the old Star Wars canon, that time period was absolutely flush with exiled Jedi, daring heroes, and villains that never made it anywhere close to the big screen.…

io9 Julie Muncy Sep 30 '17

European Scientists Agree: Homeopathy Is Pure Quackery

There are a lot of ancient medicinal cures that we no longer use. We don’t consume dried mummy powder, for example. We generally don’t use leeches (though there’s still at least one present-day use). But somehow, some so-called medical practitioners are still employing homeopathic medicine, a discredited 18th-century practice. Homeopathy describes an entire system of…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 30 '17

Downsizing Is a Clever Big-Idea Science-Fiction Comedy With A Glaringly Terrible Flaw

In Alexander Payne’s new movie, a dainty Easy Bake Oven bell-chime signals the completion of the cellular reduction process. People who were normal-sized adults are now only inches tall, gently lifted off their beds with implements that look like spatulas. The moment is both cute and terrifying at the same time, much like Downsizing itself.…

io9 Evan Narcisse Sep 29 '17

Gerry Anderson’s Dark Scifi Thriller Captain Scarlet Is Getting a Glorious HD Restoration

Fifty years ago today, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s seminal follow up to Thunderbirds hit British TV: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, the scifi adventures of an indestructible secret agent battling a sinister Martian threat. Now, for the first time ever, it’s making its way to high-definition with a loving restoration. Announced to commemorate today’s anniversary,…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 29 '17

78/52 Is the Nerdiest Movie About Movies We’ve Ever Seen, and We Love It

78/52 is a 90-minute film about three minutes. The three minutes or so, comprised of 52 cuts shot with 78 set-ups, that make up the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror thriller Psycho. The film is solely about breaking down the scene’s genius and importance, and it takes the term “deep dive” to a…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 29 '17

The Ankle Monitor Business Accused of Using Fear to Bind Immigrants in Debt

A staggering report from The Texas Observer describes a scheme that allegedly preys upon immigrants recently released from ICE detainment centers. Libre by Nexus, a Virgina-based company that reportedly brings in more than $30 million a year, offers to help detained immigrants by arranging for their bail to be paid by bondsmen. Upon their release,…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Sep 29 '17

The Insanity That Is the Cars Universe Can Now Add Motorcycles and Cinderella to the Mix

If there’s one constant truth in the Disney Pixar films, it’s that Cars will never make sense. Every Cars movie that comes out only adds to the confusion, and the latest tidbits that’ll stick a potato in your tailpipe have to do with why there are no motorcycles in Cars world, but there are fairy…

Movies Beth Elderkin Sep 29 '17

One Dead as Two Major Rockfalls in Two Days Rattle Yosemite’s El Capitan

At least one man is dead following a dramatic series of rockslides at Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan on Wednesday. A second “significantly larger” rockfall occurred a day later, dropping thousands of tons of rock to the forest floor below. For a period of four hours on Wednesday, a series of seven rockfalls occurred on the…

Tech News George Dvorsky Sep 29 '17

Arrow‘s Big Bad Prometheus Will Return for the DC Crossover, But With a Twist

The last season of Arrow centered around the mysterious arrival of Prometheus, a masked bowman seeking vengeance against everything Oliver Queen has been working toward since becoming the Green Arrow. But even though he perished at the end of the season, Promethus will rise again in the CW/DC crossover event. Although we first glimpsed a…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 29 '17

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review?

Earlier this month, when the biotech firm Human Longevity published a controversial paper claiming that it could predict what a person looks like based on only a teeny bit of DNA, it was just a little over a week before a second paper was published discrediting it as flawed and false. The lightening speed with…

Health Kristen V. Brown Sep 29 '17

Scientists Just Made the First Super-Secure Quantum Video Call

A “quantum satellite” sounds at home in the James Bond franchise, but there really is a satellite named Micius with some truly quantum assignments. In this case, it helped the president of the Chinese Academy of Science make a video call. A quantum-safe video call. The Micius satellite has made the news several times this…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 29 '17

Apple’s Firmware Updates Were Borked, Security Firm Says

Apple touts its closed ecosystem as a security advantage. Because it tightly controls its hardware and software, Apple can push security updates much more quickly than an open system like Android. But researchers at Duo Security say that Apple’s security update system hasn’t been working exactly as intended, with thousands of Macs not getting proper…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Sep 29 '17

Kids and Their Imaginary Friends Do Battle in Cute Fantasy Short Imaginapped

Short fantasy film Imaginapped is set in a world where every kid has a superpowered imaginary friend—which sounds totally awesome, until you realize that not everybody is in it for fun. There are some little villains out there who are willing to use dark magic to get as much power as possible. The main character,…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Sep 29 '17

What Whole Foods Hasn’t Said About Its Payment Card Data Breach [Updated]

On Thursday Whole Foods publicly revealed that a data breach had potentially compromised its customers’ credit card details. But a day later, we still know nothing about which customers, or how many of them, may have been affected. In response to Gizmodo’s inquiry on Thursday, Whole Foods declined to say how many of its stores…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Sep 29 '17

Here Come the Men in Black in a New Spinoff Movie

Sony is digging deep into the well that works. The studio has announced a spinoff film set in the Men in Black universe—one that’s apparently being fast-tracked for a May 2019 release, even though there’s only a script to show for it so far. According to Deadline, Sony Pictures is developing a Men in Black…

Movies Beth Elderkin Sep 29 '17

This is the Best MacBook Pro Clone For Windows Die-Hards

For more than a decade, Razer has peddled aggressive, brightly colored peripherals and PCs to people who cared more about frame rates and kill death ratios than mainstream appeal. But when Razer launched its first ultraportable laptop last year, it was a very different, relatively game-free story. Now, the Stealth is back with an even…

Laptops Sam Rutherford Sep 29 '17

Following Mysterious ‘Sonic Weapon’ Attacks, US Pulls Most of Diplomatic Staff From Cuba

It appears that the Trump administration has an opportunity to undo the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba—just like it wanted to do. Following unexplained “covert sonic device” attacks on envoys from both the US and Canada that were stationed in Havana, the State Department is pulling more than half of its staff out of…

Tech News Rhett Jones Sep 29 '17

The Justice League and Power Rangers Bring Out the Best in Each Other

Comic book events often rely on a narrowly defined idea of “edgy coolness” to convey a sense of import to the story they’re trying to tell. It’s not enough that the world’s ending—everything’s gotta be gritty and dark. But DC and Boom Studios’ Justice League/Power Rangers crossover is fueled by something else: the power of…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 29 '17

The NSA Warned Jared Kushner Not to Do the Dumb Email Thing That He Then Did

Wow, There Might Be An Actual Release Date for Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film

The Star Wars Extended Universe‘s Coolest Jedi Could’ve Been in Rogue One

European Scientists Agree: Homeopathy Is Pure Quackery

Downsizing Is a Clever Big-Idea Science-Fiction Comedy With A Glaringly Terrible Flaw

Gerry Anderson’s Dark Scifi Thriller Captain Scarlet Is Getting a Glorious HD Restoration

78/52 Is the Nerdiest Movie About Movies We’ve Ever Seen, and We Love It

The Ankle Monitor Business Accused of Using Fear to Bind Immigrants in Debt

The Insanity That Is the Cars Universe Can Now Add Motorcycles and Cinderella to the Mix

One Dead as Two Major Rockfalls in Two Days Rattle Yosemite’s El Capitan

Arrow‘s Big Bad Prometheus Will Return for the DC Crossover, But With a Twist

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review?

Scientists Just Made the First Super-Secure Quantum Video Call

Apple’s Firmware Updates Were Borked, Security Firm Says

Kids and Their Imaginary Friends Do Battle in Cute Fantasy Short Imaginapped

What Whole Foods Hasn’t Said About Its Payment Card Data Breach [Updated]

Here Come the Men in Black in a New Spinoff Movie

This is the Best MacBook Pro Clone For Windows Die-Hards

Following Mysterious ‘Sonic Weapon’ Attacks, US Pulls Most of Diplomatic Staff From Cuba

The Justice League and Power Rangers Bring Out the Best in Each Other

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