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Jerks Are Selling Endangered Species on Facebook

Gibbons, langurs, otters, sun bears. Those are just some of the hundreds of live animals listed for sale on Facebook in Malaysia. Many of them are vulnerable species, some of them critically endangered. Traffic, a global wildlife trade monitoring network, released a report today that exposes rampant illegal wildlife trade on the site. For five…

Biology Bryan Lufkin Mar 3 '16

How a Weather Satellite Gets Ready to Go to Space

Luckily for Sentinel-3a, there’s no bags to pack, no TSA, and expensive satellites only fly first class. Sentinel-3a is the first of three planned Earth observation satellites that will be focused on measuring weather variation and oceanic changes. It launched from Plesetsk, Russia and made it to space without a hitch on February 16th. If…

Sploid Avery Ellis Mar 3 '16

How Math Geeks Almost Doxxed Banksy

Describing graffiti as a “minor terrorism-related act,” researchers in the UK have used a technique developed for crime-fighting to tag the identity of a Banksy, a highly prolific but secretive street artist. The system could thwart more serious crimes, but its use in outing an anonymous artist shows the potential for abuse. The technique is…

Tech News George Dvorsky Mar 3 '16

Don’t Get Too Attached to the Heroes of Legends of Tomorrow

Zack Snyder says Superman can’t catch a break in Batman v Superman. Clark Gregg teases a dark path ahead for Coulson on Agents of SHIELD. Plus, Robbie Amell on more Agent Miller in X-Files, the Exorcist remake casts its stars, and awesome new posters for High Rise. Behold, Spoilers! Batman v Superman Zack Snyder describes…

Television James Whitbrook Mar 3 '16

Of Course Warner Bros. Has Already Planned a Suicide Squad Sequel

Why wouldn’t they? Otherwise, they might wait too long and the sequel would come out a few months later than it originally would have, and all the momentum would be gone! This news is actually buried in aWrap article about Will Smith and David Ayer’s other possible project together, Bright, which is apparently a cop…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Mar 3 '16

First Audio Recordings From the Bottom of the Mariana Trench are Nightmare Fuel

Deep rumbles, unearthly moans, high pitched screeching: these are but a few elements of the alien soundscape researchers have now recorded for the first time at Challenger Deep, the deepest known valley on the seafloor. One might expect Challenger Deep—which sits at the bottom of the Mariana trench some 36,000 feet beneath the ocean surface—to…

Tech News Maddie Stone Mar 3 '16

Simple Tool Turns Plastic Bottles Into Nearly Indestructible Plastic Rope

Big Rope has a stranglehold on the ‘tying things down’ industry, and if you’re tired of paying through the nose for a few feet of twine, you’ll want to consider backing the Kickstarter campaign for this simple tool that can turn empty plastic bottles into super strong plastic rope. The aptly-named Plastic Bottle Cutter works…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 3 '16

The New Ghostbusters Trailer Is Here, and Everything Looks Perfect

After decades of waiting for a new Ghostbusters movie, here’s your first footage from one. To celebrate the launch of this awesome trailer, we talked with director Paul Feig, producer Ivan Reitman and writer Katie Dippold, and they told us why this trailer reintroduces so many of the things we love. This trailer starts by…

Trailers Germain Lussier Mar 3 '16

Amazon Echo’s Brain Is Finally in Gadgets I Actually Want to Use

Amazon’s voice-controlled assistant, Echo, is getting a few siblings you can bark your orders at. Meet the Echo Dot, which is designed to connect to whatever speakers you already happen to own, and the Amazon Tap, a portable version of the Echo. You’ll recall Echo, the tabletop speaker tube with a baked-in intelligence engine called…

Commerce Cheryl Eddy Mar 3 '16

This Monkey is Controlling a Wheelchair With its Mind

Researchers have developed a wireless brain interface that allows monkeys to control the movements of a robotic wheelchair using their thoughts alone. The breakthrough suggests that similar interfaces could allow severely paralyzed individuals to navigate all sorts of robotic devices with their minds. Prior to this study, researchers used brain-machine-interfaces (BMIs) to help primates control…

Tech News George Dvorsky Mar 3 '16

An Architectural Tour of Donald Trump’s Gaudy Ass Skyscrapers

Before Donald Trump signed up for the presidential race, he signed his name to buildings. Lots of buildings. Sure, presidential candidates have owned real estate before. But no other candidate has been such an ostentatious developer of a real estate empire, with so many gilded phallic structures built in his likeness. Let’s look at Trump’s…

Tech News Alissa Walker Mar 3 '16

There’s Now 3D-Printed Graphene Aerogel

First there was aerogel. Then there was graphene aerogel. Now, there’s 3D-printed graphene aerogel. That’s a whole lot of scientific buzzwords in a single lump of feather-light material. The new process, developed by researchers from State University of New York at Buffalo and Kansas State University, uses 3D printing to layer up a graphene paste.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 3 '16

When You’ll Probably Get Married, Visualized

Single? Lonely? Looking for more commitment? Well, this chart will tell you when you’ll probably get married, based on your employment status, education, race, and gender. Created by Nathan Yau from Flowing Data, the interactive chart is based on data from the American Community Survey between 2009 and 2014. It lets you choose from a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 3 '16

This AI Helps You Find a Movie, Even If You Forgot the Title

There are times when you can’t remember the name of something but still need to find it—and a new AI wants to solve that problem when it comes to movies. Engadget reports that the new AI is developed by Valossa—a spin-out from the University of Oulu in Finland. The smart software is designed “to create…

Movies Jamie Condliffe Mar 3 '16

The Next Version of DisplayPort Will Drive 8K Monitors With HDR Video

You probably take the DisplayPort on your laptop for granted, but the folks that develop the standard have been working hard to make it perform way better—and the next version will allow you to drive an 8K display with HDR video, if you ever happen to own one. This will be the first spec bump…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 3 '16

This Is the First Image From Europe’s Sentinel-3A Satellite

Two weeks ago, the European Space Agency launched its Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite into orbit to image the Earth’s environment in unprecedented detail. This is the first image it captured, of dawn over Svalbard in Norway. The image above was captured on February 29th using the satellite’s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument. The eerie picture shows…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Mar 3 '16

North Korea Fired Missiles Into Sea Hours After UN Imposed Tight Sanctions

South Korea has announced that its nearest neighbour in the North has fired six short-range missiles into the sea, just hours after tight UN sanctions had been imposed upon the country. According to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, the six rockets were fired from Woman on North Korea’s east coast at about 10:00am local time.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 3 '16

Plane Debris Found in Africa ‘Consistent With Modelling’ For MH370

A piece of horizontal stabilizer found washed up on Mozambique over the weekend was already thought to be part of the downed MH370 plane. Now, Australia’s transportation chief has furthered the case, saying the location is consistent with how the debris would have drifted. “The location of the debris is consistent with drift modeling commissioned…

Tech News Chris Mills Mar 3 '16

Ikea Is Growing New Eco-Friendly Mushroom Packaging

To stop all those $20 side tables from getting banged up, Ikea has to use a lot of polystyrene packaging every year. Unfortunately, polystyrene isn’t biodegradable, and people are bad at recycling, leaving Ikea looking for a better material to stick between sheets of ply. The new packaging is made from mycelium, better thought of…

Tech News Chris Mills Mar 2 '16

Samsung’s 16TB SSD Is Now an Actual Thing People Can Buy

Last year, Samsung made the rest of the world feel mighty inadequate by announcing a world-record 16TB SSD. Turns out that was more than just talk—Samsung is shipping drives to (very wealthy) customers today. Making the largest-capacity drive/SD card/memory stick is a continual dick-measuring contest that most storage manufacturers engage in, routinely announcing “world first”…

Gadgets Chris Mills Mar 2 '16

Jerks Are Selling Endangered Species on Facebook

How a Weather Satellite Gets Ready to Go to Space

How Math Geeks Almost Doxxed Banksy

Don’t Get Too Attached to the Heroes of Legends of Tomorrow

Of Course Warner Bros. Has Already Planned a Suicide Squad Sequel

First Audio Recordings From the Bottom of the Mariana Trench are Nightmare Fuel

Simple Tool Turns Plastic Bottles Into Nearly Indestructible Plastic Rope

The New Ghostbusters Trailer Is Here, and Everything Looks Perfect

Amazon Echo’s Brain Is Finally in Gadgets I Actually Want to Use

This Monkey is Controlling a Wheelchair With its Mind

An Architectural Tour of Donald Trump’s Gaudy Ass Skyscrapers

There’s Now 3D-Printed Graphene Aerogel

When You’ll Probably Get Married, Visualized

This AI Helps You Find a Movie, Even If You Forgot the Title

The Next Version of DisplayPort Will Drive 8K Monitors With HDR Video

This Is the First Image From Europe’s Sentinel-3A Satellite

North Korea Fired Missiles Into Sea Hours After UN Imposed Tight Sanctions

Plane Debris Found in Africa ‘Consistent With Modelling’ For MH370

Ikea Is Growing New Eco-Friendly Mushroom Packaging

Samsung’s 16TB SSD Is Now an Actual Thing People Can Buy

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