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It’s Man Vs. Corporation in the New Trailer for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Syfy Show

Incorporated, executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is set 60 years in the future, a time when big corporations have taken over completely. One man decides to take on the business world—or, more specifically, the business that runs the world. Take a look at the new trailer. Incorporated comes to Syfy starting November…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Sep 22 '16

Lyft Thinks It’s ‘Exciting’ That a Driver Was Working While Giving Birth

Lyft—the ridesharing app that most people only use when Uber surge pricing is too high—does something a lot of tech companies do: it runs a blog. It’s where the company publicly celebrates its own excellence, for things like new features and anniversaries. It’s also where, earlier this month, a story appeared praising one of the…

Tech News Avery Ellis Sep 22 '16

Who’s Going to Be in Batman’s Version of the Suicide Squad?

Next month, Batman’s going to assemble a special team to penetrate the stronghold of one of his most fearsome enemies—a team with total deniability, who’ll do things the Justice League can’t—or won’t. Sound familiar? We don’t know who’s on the Bat-Suicide-Squad yet, but let’s take some guesses. DC Comics has put up a preview of…

io9 Evan Narcisse Sep 22 '16

The Feds Will Probably Get Records of Anthony Weiner’s Alleged Sexts With a Teenager

Earlier this week, the Daily Mail broke a story reporting that former New York congressman Anthony Weiner was sending explicit texts to an underage girl. Now, federal authorities have issued a subpoena for Weiner’s “cell phone and other records,” according to CNN. The CNN report is still thin on details, and the federal subpoena isn’t…

Privacy & Security William Turton Sep 22 '16

A Woman Continues Her Family’s Grisly Work in the Eerie Trailer for The Eyes of My Mother

Horror rendered in black-and-white can convey a haunting quality that the goriest of blood-reds could never dream of achieving. No wonder contemporary filmmakers are still fond of it. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a recent example—as is The Eyes of My Mother, from writer-director Nicolas Pesce. Here’s the official description: In their…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Sep 22 '16

Mjolnir’s Weird ‘New’ Comic Book Power in Thor Isn’t Actually New at All

In this week’s issue of The Mighty Thor, Thor’s trusty hammer gets to do something totally strange, and unlike anything we’ve seen it do in a long time. But while people are freaking out about this strange “new power,” it’s not really new. It’s more of a mix of some weird and wonderful things the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Sep 22 '16

What to Do With Your Hacked Yahoo Account

Yahoo just announced that it was the victim of a devastating state-sponsored hack that resulted in the personal data of half a billion users being breached. If you’re a Yahoo user, your account may have been comprised. It’s so far unclear exactly which accounts were breached. Yahoo says personal information “like names, email addresses, telephone…

Privacy & Security William Turton Sep 22 '16

What Ötzi the Iceman’s Voice Sounded Like

Ötzi the Iceman, the world’s favorite prehistoric mummy, has been subjected to every scientific test imaginable, since his remains were discovered poking out of a glacier high in the Italian Alps in 1991. Now, a team of Italian researchers has reconstructed Ötzi’s vocal cords and used it to reproduce what his voice may have sounded…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette Sep 22 '16

Our Last Line of Defense Against Gonorrhea Is Failing

Health officials in the US have identified a cluster of gonorrhea infections that exhibited unusual resistance against the last two main antibiotics known to work against the dreaded sexually transmitted disease. Health officials reported the findings today at the 2016 STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta. It’s yet another disturbing reminder that our antibiotics are increasingly…

Health George Dvorsky Sep 22 '16

The Original Westworld Movie Had a Really Dark View of What It Meant to Be Human

On October 2, the 1973 scifi movie Westworld will be reimagined as a sleek, modern TV series courtesy of HBO. Given that the show is produced by the likes of Jonathan Nolan and J.J. Abrams, expectations are sky-high—but what about the movie it’s based on? I decided it was time to re-watch the film and…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Sep 22 '16

These Deep Space Images Reveal a New Type of Galaxy

Hubble’s deep field images have provided the farthest glimpses we’ve ever had of galaxies in spaces. Combining those images with a new telescope view has revealed that there are even more galaxies there than we knew—including a mysterious, new type of galaxy. “We are seeing galaxies of a type never before dreamed of,” Chris Carilli,…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 22 '16

Some Startup Is Definitely Going to Use This Gigantic Bounce House as an Office

The Guinness Book of World Records doesn’t officially recognize this enormous inflatable city of fun as the world’s largest bounce house, but when was the last time you were at a birthday party and saw one of these as big as a McMansion? Not only does it look larger than most homes, you can apparently…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Sep 22 '16

Long Lost Proposal Shows Plan for EPCOT’s Cashless City of the Future

Before Walt Disney’s Epcot was a theme park, it was supposed to be an actual city. With actual humans inside of it around the clock. After Walt died in 1966, the plans for Florida slowly changed. But in a newly uncovered proposal for the park’s computer and communications system in 1968, we can see what…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 22 '16

Transfomers: The Last Knight Goes Behind-the-Scenes With Its Real Star, Britain’s Loneliest Dog

A few months ago, it was reported that Michael Bay cast a poor shelter pup named Freya in the fifth Transformers movie, after reading about her in a UK newspaper. Now the film’s released a whole featurette about her starring role, which will no doubt be as exciting as Optimus fighting a dragon whatever other…

Movies James Whitbrook Sep 22 '16

You Can Try the iPhone 7 Plus’ Coolest Camera Feature Now

Apple has released the first public beta for iOS 10.1. In addition to fixing some niggling bugs, it adds a beta version of the new “Portrait” feature for owners of the iPhone 7 Plus. Portrait mode uses both then normal wide-angle lens from the iPhone 7 Plus and its secondary “telephoto” lens to create a…

Tech News Christina Warren Sep 22 '16

How the Rosetta Spacecraft Will Crash Onto Comet 67P

In just seven days, the Rosetta spacecraft will smash into Comet 67P. A new visualization shows how it’ll go down. This video shows Rosetta’s final two months of trajectories around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, starting on August 8 and ending on September 29. The European Space Agency is ending the mission because the comet is now heading…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Sep 22 '16

How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions

By the time ITT Technical Institute (ITT) closed its doors earlier this month, the for-profit college had been selling tenuous diplomas at exorbitant prices for more than 20 years. The company had been taking millions in federal grant money, burying low-income and first-generation students in insurmountable debt, and evading regulators since the early 1990s—all while…

Tech News Michael Nunez Sep 22 '16

State-Sponsored Hackers Stole Personal Information From 500 Million Yahoo Users

It turns out the Yahoo hack was much bigger than we expected. https://gizmodo.com/report-yahoo-to-confirm-massive-hack-affecting-200-mil-1786936019 Yahoo just released a statement claiming that state-sponsored actors breached the company’s servers and stole data from half a billion users. The statement reads: A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen…

Privacy & Security William Turton Sep 22 '16

The Apple Watch No Longer Totally Sucks

The original Apple Watch wasn’t amazing, but it did what it set out to do. You could answer phone calls on your watch, see notifications from your phone, and even track your heart rate. And with the most recent software upgrade, the watch has speed and interface improvements that refine it further. You can now…

Accessories & Wearables Alex Cranz Sep 22 '16

The Original Superman Still Knows How to Embarrass Batman

This week DC Comics launched Trinity, a new series focusing on the relationship between Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman—and it shines a humanizing light on the World’s Finest in a way other series really can’t. It also reminds us that a) Batman’s history is filled with hilarious moments, and b) Bruce Wayne is a terrible,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Sep 22 '16

It’s Man Vs. Corporation in the New Trailer for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Syfy Show

Lyft Thinks It’s ‘Exciting’ That a Driver Was Working While Giving Birth

Who’s Going to Be in Batman’s Version of the Suicide Squad?

The Feds Will Probably Get Records of Anthony Weiner’s Alleged Sexts With a Teenager

A Woman Continues Her Family’s Grisly Work in the Eerie Trailer for The Eyes of My Mother

Mjolnir’s Weird ‘New’ Comic Book Power in Thor Isn’t Actually New at All

What to Do With Your Hacked Yahoo Account

What Ötzi the Iceman’s Voice Sounded Like

Our Last Line of Defense Against Gonorrhea Is Failing

The Original Westworld Movie Had a Really Dark View of What It Meant to Be Human

These Deep Space Images Reveal a New Type of Galaxy

Some Startup Is Definitely Going to Use This Gigantic Bounce House as an Office

Long Lost Proposal Shows Plan for EPCOT’s Cashless City of the Future

Transfomers: The Last Knight Goes Behind-the-Scenes With Its Real Star, Britain’s Loneliest Dog

You Can Try the iPhone 7 Plus’ Coolest Camera Feature Now

How the Rosetta Spacecraft Will Crash Onto Comet 67P

How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions

State-Sponsored Hackers Stole Personal Information From 500 Million Yahoo Users

The Apple Watch No Longer Totally Sucks

The Original Superman Still Knows How to Embarrass Batman

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