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Why Did Kellyanne Conway Consult For America’s Top Science Organization?

You might not associate our fleshy president’s senior counselor Kellyanne Conway with science, seeing as she popularized the term “alternative facts.” But her consulting firm received thousands of dollars from the world’s largest organization of scientists, reports STAT. The White House dumped a series of financial disclosures on Friday, including Conway’s. Her consulting fees included…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

It’s Going to Be Insanely Hard to Get Lego’s Special Star Wars Celebration Set

Star Wars Celebration gets under way in Florida next week, and with it comes countless exclusives that only attendees will be able to snatch up and sell on eBay afterwards. But Lego’s special edition Celebration set could be the hardest one to get your hands on since it will only be available to attendees lucky…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

This Guy Invented the World Wide Web and All He Got Was a Lousy Million-Dollar Prize

Haha, just kidding. Well, not about the prize part. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, just won the ACM Turing Award and the $1 million purse that comes with it. The sum seems menial for such a world-changing contribution, but seriously, Sir Tim will be fine. The Turing Award is also known…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Here Are the 2017 Hugo Awards Finalists

The finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards have been announced, and the final voting process begins this week. The winners will be announced at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, Finland, on August 11, 2017. In a nice turn of events, the problems with slate voting—exemplified by Vox Day and the “Rabid Puppies”…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

The Original Brexit Was Probably Far More Catastrophic

Britain’s geographical isolation is one of the cornerstones of its identity which, combined with nationalist fervor, probably played at least some role in the country’s recent decision to depart from the European Union. But when the Isles first split from the rest of Europe hundreds of thousands years ago, things were considerably more violent. British…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

RIP Cassini: A Look Back At the Doomed Probe’s Most Stunning Saturn Pictures

Alas, all good things must come to an end. Today, NASA will announce the details regarding its Cassini spacecraft’s Grand Finale—a resplendent ending to its 20-year-long adventure in space, which will begin later this month. From late April to September 15th, Cassini will perform 22 dramatic dives between Saturn and its rings. Then, the brave…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Netflix’s Defenders Assemble on August 18 (UPDATED)

A new viral teaser for Marvel and Netflix’s big crossover has just confirmed that we’ve got another four months until Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand start teaming up: because The Defenders is coming August 18. A new video teaser that hit Netflix’s Youtube—and then vanished pretty sharpishly—this morning features Luke, Jessica,…

io9 James Whitbrook

An Overhauled MacPro Is Finally Coming Next Year, No Matter What Anybody Thinks

Four years after the launch of the trashcan shaped MacPro, Apple has finally, slyly, announced a new MacPro. The news comes via John Gruber of Daring Fireball: Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Most of Us Don’t Need a Fitness Tracker

Fitness trackers aren’t what they used to be. The fad gadget you strap to your wrist has seen a precipitous fall in the last year. Pebble closed its doors after releasing a solid fitness tracker, and Fitbit has struggled (though we liked its new Fitbit Alta HR). There’s also the fact that fitness trackers, while…

Gadgets David Nield

Parkour in a T-rex Costume Is the Jurassic Park Sequel We Really Deserved

You’d think that putting dinosaurs in any movie would be blockbuster gold, but while Jurassic Park was a massive hit, its sequels aren’t remembered as fondly. Instead of rehashing the same ideas from the original, the sequels should have just put a talented parkour runner in a crappy T-rex costume. We could watch Jurassic Parkour…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Trump’s War on Climate Science Is a War on the Poor and People of Color

As the White House was preparing to implement deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month, Mustafa Ali, head of the Office on Environmental Justice, resigned. A week later, his motivation for departing became clear, when President Trump released a hardline budget draft that called for slashing EPA funding by 31 percent, and…

Climate Change Sidney Fussell

New Hints at Kylo Ren’s Appearance in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Arnold Schwarzenegger hints he’s not done with the Terminator franchise yet. Sigourney Weaver talks Avatar 2. Marc Guggenheim teases mortal danger in Legends of Tomorrow, and why Oliver and Felicity broke up in Arrow. Plus, a new look at Agents of SHIELD’s return, and more details on Bruce Timm’s next DC movie. Spoilers! Star Wars:…

Television James Whitbrook

Idiots Try to Ship Venomous Snakes and Spiders to Australia, as If They Need More

When a suspicious looking box labeled “two pair shoes” arrived in Australia from Northern Europe recently, the Australian Border Force sent it through an x-ray. They didn’t find shoes, of course. Instead, the box contained a terrifying assortment of venomous snakes, spiders, and scorpions—as if the country needed more of those. The box included everything…

Tech News Matt Novak

Scientists Are Developing a Contact Lens That Tells You When You’re Sick

Imagine a biosensing contact lens that can tell when your blood sugar is getting too low, or if there’s something wrong with one of your organs. By leveraging the power of ultra-thin transistor technology, researchers from Oregon State University have taken us a step closer to achieving that goal. A research team led by Oregon…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The Sonos Playbase Is Great, Comes a Little Too Late

There was a brief period of time—think 2011 to 2015—when the pedestal-like soundbar was convenient for TV owners. TVs had gotten skinnier and sound had gotten crummier as a consequence. Functioning as both speaker and stand, the pedestal was an appealing soundbar-style ideal for TV owners who had no plans to mount a set on…

Reviews Alex Cranz

The FBI Is Allegedly Recruiting Geek Squad Members to Find Child Porn

We know that the FBI has had a hard time finding tech talent and the current administration has so far shown little interest in hiring technology experts, but we didn’t expect this. New federal court documents show that the FBI has been actively coordinating with members of Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” to hunt for child…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Did North Korea Show Off Its Ability to Make a Hydrogen Bomb With an Online Ad?

These are weird times we live in and it’s tough to keep our heads on straight. An unnerving news cycle is building up around North Korea’s aggressive demonstrations of its military power. Today, the New York Times reported that the economically hobbled dictatorship may have accidentally shown off its capability to convert an atom bomb…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Love Blossoms Amid a Space-Time Anomaly in Wry Scifi Short Doubles

When parallel universes begin collapsing on each other, there are suddenly multiple versions of every person on Earth. While a certain amount of panic ensues, the situation enables one man—a self-described “sad sack”—to finally get the chance to woo his office crush. Or one version of her, anyway. Filmmaker Jacob E. Motz’ Doubles is longish…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The Original Ending of Alien Was Both Terrifying and a Huge Bummer

With the release of Alien: Covenant coming up on May 19, director Ridley Scott has been doing a lot of press discussing the future of the franchise. But there’s always room to share some fun facts about its past—or not-so-fun, as in the case of the ending he originally planned for 1979’s Alien. In a…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Nikon Tries to Right the Sinking Ship With a Stupid Swarovski Replica

Nikon is, ostensibly, a remarkable company. Sure, it had to lay off quite a few people last year, and back in February, it cancelled a hotly anticipated line of cameras. But Nikon’s a tech-based company that’s managed to innovate and survive a hundred years. Nikon started as an optics company and has endured as one,…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Why Did Kellyanne Conway Consult For America’s Top Science Organization?

It’s Going to Be Insanely Hard to Get Lego’s Special Star Wars Celebration Set

This Guy Invented the World Wide Web and All He Got Was a Lousy Million-Dollar Prize

Here Are the 2017 Hugo Awards Finalists

The Original Brexit Was Probably Far More Catastrophic

RIP Cassini: A Look Back At the Doomed Probe’s Most Stunning Saturn Pictures

Netflix’s Defenders Assemble on August 18 (UPDATED)

An Overhauled MacPro Is Finally Coming Next Year, No Matter What Anybody Thinks

Most of Us Don’t Need a Fitness Tracker

Parkour in a T-rex Costume Is the Jurassic Park Sequel We Really Deserved

Trump’s War on Climate Science Is a War on the Poor and People of Color

New Hints at Kylo Ren’s Appearance in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Idiots Try to Ship Venomous Snakes and Spiders to Australia, as If They Need More

Scientists Are Developing a Contact Lens That Tells You When You’re Sick

The Sonos Playbase Is Great, Comes a Little Too Late

The FBI Is Allegedly Recruiting Geek Squad Members to Find Child Porn

Did North Korea Show Off Its Ability to Make a Hydrogen Bomb With an Online Ad?

Love Blossoms Amid a Space-Time Anomaly in Wry Scifi Short Doubles

The Original Ending of Alien Was Both Terrifying and a Huge Bummer

Nikon Tries to Right the Sinking Ship With a Stupid Swarovski Replica

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