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Here’s the Pro-Trump Attack Ad That Will Air During James Comey’s Testimony

Former FBI Director James Comey will testify in an open session at the US Senate tomorrow. And every single news network plans to air the hearing live. But viewers may notice a strange ad during breaks in the testimony. A shady pro-Tump nonprofit plans to run an ad attacking Comey. And it was just posted…

Tech News Matt Novak

Watergate Pales in Comparison to Trump’s Assault on American Institutions, Says Former Spy Chief

James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, explained to an audience in Australia today precisely how quickly things are unraveling back home. How bad does Clapper think it’s getting? He called Trump’s current scandals worse than Watergate. “I lived through Watergate. I was on active duty then in Air Force, I was a young…

Tech News Matt Novak

Couple Claims They Ordered Pizza on UberEats But Received… Oh My God What Is That?!

For all I know, Uber’s food delivery service UberEats is a perfectly fine method of ordering food. But the stomach-turning product that a Canadian couple claims showed up at their door instead of pizza ensures that I’ll be thinking twice about placing an order. Anna Kotlikova and her boyfriend, Blake Weinzettl, live in the suburbs…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Police Crowdsource the Hunt for Stolen Star Trek Trading Cards Exactly as You’d Expect

Recently, 3,800 Star Trek trading cards were stolen and police in Northern Ireland are on the hunt for them. And because we live in a world where everything goes on social media, PSNI Foyle asked for information with a Facebook post that includes all the obvious Star Trek quotes you can think of. The cards…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Tech Companies and Activists Set Date for Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’

The last time we had a major fight over net neutrality, the “Internet Slowdown Day” protests were credited with helping push the FCC to reclassify the internet as a Title II utility. Now that net neutrality is the closest it’s ever been to dead, activists and tech giants are rallying to mount a protest and…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Game of Thrones Decided to Set Even More People on Fire This Season, Because Sure, Why Not

Recently, we told you about Game of Thrones’ craziest stunt: a sequence in season five’s “The Dance of Dragons” which saw Dany’s dragon Drogon—or at least a ginormous flamethrower representing him—toast 20 people. But apparently the upcoming seventh season of the show has already topped that, naturally with even more fire. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly,…

Television James Whitbrook

Researcher Found Another Twitter Vulnerability That Allowed Tweeting From Any Account

A bug in a Twitter product could have allowed attackers to send tweets from any account and delete photos and videos from published tweets, according to a recent blog post by the security researcher who discovered it. It’s the second broad vulnerability in the product, called Studio, that’s come to light recently, raising questions about how…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger

Sofia Boutella Had to Lick Tom Cruise Eight Times on the Set of The Mummy

Sometimes people like to render metaphors literally, and in the case of The Mummy, the metaphor “take a licking” results in the Mummy (Sofia Boutella) laying her tongue on Nick Morton (Tom Cruise). Although, let’s be honest, Tom Cruise is always just playing Tom Cruise. A short USA Today article on Boutella’s turn as Ahmanet…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Freeform’s New Misfits Pilot Has Found Four of Its Five Young Superheroes

Misfits, E4’s dark (and yet sometimes campy) teen superhero drama about a group of juvenile delinquents, is coming to Freeform and now we have our first information about who’ll be in the cast. According to Deadline, Ashleigh LaThrop (Sirens), Tre Hall (Rebel), Allie MacDonald (Orphan Black), and Jake Cannavale (Nurse Jackie) have been cast as Misfits’…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Free Speech Group Says Trump Violates the First Amendment by Blocking Critics on Twitter

The Knight First Amendment Institute, a digital rights group out of Columbia University, published an open letter to President Trump on Tuesday asking him to unblock his critics on Twitter or potentially face legal action for violating their constitutional rights. In the four-page letter, the lawyers argue that Twitter “operates as a ‘designated public forum’…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Particle Accelerators Are Changing the Way We Look at Ancient Turds

Shit’s wild. No, seriously, there’s so much you can learn about animals, their lifestyles, and the world they interacted with based on what shows up in their poo. Especially if the poo is over 200 million years old. Most of the methods used to look at fossilized shit, more commonly called coprolites, are fairly outdated.…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Here’s the First Look at an Actor Doing Double Duty on American Gods

We’ve known for a while that Emily Browning, who plays Shadow Moon’s (Ricky Whittle) semi-devoted wife Laura, would be showing up as another character later in the season. Now we’ve got our first look at Browning as the young and pretty thief, Essie. In the book, the character’s name is Essie Tregowan and she appears…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Stunning Timelapse of Rolling Clouds Looks Like Someone Flipped the Ocean Upside Down

He’s been chasing storms for eight years, but filmmaker Mike Olbinski called this event—a sunset that blasted a rare display of rolling undulatus asperatus clouds with an amazing lightshow of colors—“one of the most incredible scenes [he’s] witnessed.” The resulting 4K timelapse is one you’re going to want to watch in fullscreen. Were you to…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

4,000 Google Earth Photos Were Edited and Assembled Into This Dizzying Race Across the Earth

You don’t always need a wealthy record label to create a memorable music video. As YouTube’s Adnaan demonstrates, all you need is access to the massive archive of satellite photos on Google Earth, and enough time to painstakingly assemble over 4,000 of them into a frantic race across the Earth. Set to the track Midnight…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

These Are the Essential Comics to Read After You’ve Watched Wonder Woman

If, like us, after seeing Wonder Woman you’d pray to the entire pantheon on Olympus to be watching Wonder Woman 2: Wonder Harder right now, we’ve got the next best thing while you wait for the sequel: the most outstanding comics to dive into starring everyone’s favorite Amazon warrior princess. We’re going to split our…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Uber Has Already Fired More Than 20 Employees While Investigating Harassment [Updated]

The details of an independent investigation into Uber’s workplace culture that was sparked after a female engineer came forward with allegations of sexual harassment are starting to come out. Uber’s independent investigators looked into 215 complaints and ended up firing more than 20 employees since this February. Bloomberg first reported the numbers and Gizmodo has…

Tech News Kate Conger

New Game of Thrones Featurette Has Fresh Glimpses of the Costumes (and Characters) of Season Seven

As the penultimate season of Game of Thrones draws closer, we’re getting more and more looks at the storm about to sweep across Westeros. But not all clues can come in the form of explosive trailers—sometimes, we get to see them in between lavish shots of gorgeous costumes being prepared. This new feature on the…

Television James Whitbrook

Batman Is Proposing to Catwoman in This Week’s Comics

Be prepared for potential wedding bells in Gotham! DC Comics has announced that this week’s Batman #24 will see a major step forward for Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle’s relationship—one that culminates in the Dark Knight himself getting down on one knee, asking Selina for her hand in marriage. Revealed by USA Today, the scene—written…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Universal Adds Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame to Its Monsterverse, Which Is Very Dumb

Universal is desperate to create a franchise out of the classic “monsters” that ruled the studio from the 1920s to 1960. It’s calling this thing “Dark Universe” and it’s all kicking off with that ridiculous Tom Cruise-starring Mummy. And now we get word about more monster movies being planned and they make no sense. Alex…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

British Cops Make First Arrest Using Facial Recognition Surveillance Vans

Science fiction authors have been writing about it for decades. Privacy activists have warned it’s just around the corner. Today, perfected facial recognition is one step closer to becoming a reality. UK authorities landed their first arrest last week relying on an automatic facial recognition (AFR) system, the South Wales Police confirmed to Ars Technica…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Here’s the Pro-Trump Attack Ad That Will Air During James Comey’s Testimony

Watergate Pales in Comparison to Trump’s Assault on American Institutions, Says Former Spy Chief

Couple Claims They Ordered Pizza on UberEats But Received… Oh My God What Is That?!

Police Crowdsource the Hunt for Stolen Star Trek Trading Cards Exactly as You’d Expect

Tech Companies and Activists Set Date for Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’

Game of Thrones Decided to Set Even More People on Fire This Season, Because Sure, Why Not

Researcher Found Another Twitter Vulnerability That Allowed Tweeting From Any Account

Sofia Boutella Had to Lick Tom Cruise Eight Times on the Set of The Mummy

Freeform’s New Misfits Pilot Has Found Four of Its Five Young Superheroes

Free Speech Group Says Trump Violates the First Amendment by Blocking Critics on Twitter

Particle Accelerators Are Changing the Way We Look at Ancient Turds

Here’s the First Look at an Actor Doing Double Duty on American Gods

Stunning Timelapse of Rolling Clouds Looks Like Someone Flipped the Ocean Upside Down

4,000 Google Earth Photos Were Edited and Assembled Into This Dizzying Race Across the Earth

These Are the Essential Comics to Read After You’ve Watched Wonder Woman

Uber Has Already Fired More Than 20 Employees While Investigating Harassment [Updated]

New Game of Thrones Featurette Has Fresh Glimpses of the Costumes (and Characters) of Season Seven

Batman Is Proposing to Catwoman in This Week’s Comics

Universal Adds Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame to Its Monsterverse, Which Is Very Dumb

British Cops Make First Arrest Using Facial Recognition Surveillance Vans

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