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HBO Is Safe on Fire TV—Kind Of

In an apparent final-hour agreement between WarnerMedia and Amazon, Fire TV users will be able to continue streaming HBO. Let’s back up a bit because a couple of things happening simultaneously appeared to put Fire TV users at risk of losing HBO apps entirely. HBO Go is going away as of today, July 31, leaving…

Internet Catie Keck Jul 31 '20

The X2 Cast Allegedly Almost Quit the Marvel Film Over Bryan Singer

Director Bryan Singer became a name in Hollywood after The Usual Suspects but shot to fame after taking on the X-Men franchise. Years later, and after years of rumors of Singer allegedly sexually abusing a number of young men, a damning Atlantic report was released in which four men detailed their personal experiences with the…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 31 '20

How Sperm ‘Swim’ May Be Nothing But an Optical Illusion [UPDATE]

Update 5/29/2021, 10:15 a.m.: On May 1, 2021, the authors of the study covered in this article asked the journal to retract their work following concerns from outside scientists about the mathematical analysis used to support their conclusions. They agreed with criticisms that their findings couldn’t “be drawn unequivocally” from their data. Our article covering the retraction…

Health Ed Cara Jul 31 '20

Scream 5 Will Bring Back Horror’s Finest Tabloid Journalist

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! News reporter Gale Weathers, played by Courteney Cox, is coming back for Scream 5. “We can’t imagine Scream without the iconic Gale Weathers and are so incredibly thrilled and humbled to have the opportunity to work with Courteney,” the directorial duo Radio Silence told Deadline. “We’re absolute mega fans…

io9 Germain Lussier Jul 31 '20

GeForce Now Finally Lets Users Automatically Sync Games With Their Steam Library

Nvidia has given GeForce Now an easier way to search for compatible games with a new feature called Game Sync. Instead of scrolling through game categories in the main menu or typing game titles into the search bar, GeForce Now users can sync their Steam library with their account. Games will automatically appear under My…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Jul 31 '20

Big Oil Has Never Lost This Much Money

It’s never been a worse time to be an oil company. Even the biggest of Big Oil firms are falling apart like shoddily built McMansions on a patch of quicksand. The latest to start to sink is Exxon and Chevron, which each reported their largest quarterly loss in history on Friday. This comes a day…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jul 31 '20

Always Take the Wizard’s Staff, You Idiots!

People of Rohan, if someone asks you to take a wizard’s staff, you say yes! That’s the moral not just of a key moment in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, but also this excellent new stop-motion Lego parody by the Brotherhood Workshop—which takes some liberties with the moment where Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas,…

io9 Germain Lussier Jul 31 '20

The Three Biggest Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Your Privacy Before Congress

The landmark antitrust hearing earlier this week had a little bit of everything: tantrums over mandated masks, questions about cancel culture, and, of course, diapers dot com. And while a lot of us here might’ve predicted some of the turns that unfolded over the six and a half ungodly hours of CEO-grilling, the one thing…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky Jul 31 '20

Twitter Finally Bans the Nazi. No, Not That One. No, the Other One.

Twitter has finally booted David Duke, a former KKK grand wizard and founder of the KKK revival group the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Why has it taken years for a company whose policies explicitly bar “individuals who affiliate with and promote” violent extremist groups? Gizmodo wondered about this earlier this month and asked Twitter,…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Jul 31 '20

It Was 125 Degrees in Baghdad This Week

As the worldwide feast and celebration for Muslims around the world known as Eid wrapped up on Thursday evening, the Middle East has been trapped in a scorching heat wave. The region—where 20% of the world’s Muslim population lives—has seen record-breaking heat this week. According to the Capital Weather Gang, Lebanon saw its highest temperature…

Earther Dharna Noor Jul 31 '20

My Cat Wanted to Blog, So I Let Him Write This One

Pablo is a chatty cat. When he’s not sleeping, he’s either yowling or meowing in a way that sounds suspiciously like Borat saying “my wife.” He does this regardless of whether it’s 2 p.m. or 4 a.m. He has a lot to say. He also has a history of wanting to blog. Cats notoriously like…

Tech News Victoria Song Jul 31 '20

Leaked Galaxy Z Fold 2 Renders Depict Some Major Upgrades for Samsung’s Second-Gen Foldable Phone

Despite its flaws, I thought the Galaxy Fold was so innovative it was worthy of being named the most important phone of 2019. But now, some new leaked renders of Samsung’s next-gen foldable have appeared depicting a phone featuring some major upgrades that address many of its predecessor’s shortcomings. In advance of the Galaxy Z…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Jul 31 '20

The God of High School Teases Its Next Killer Brawl in This Exclusive Clip

Crunchyroll’s latest foray into original anime has only just kicked off, but we’ve already seen some wild fight scenes. If this clip from the next episode of The God of High School is anything to go by, Jin is in for even more scraps, and we’re in for more fisticuff treats. An adaptation of Yongje…

io9 James Whitbrook Jul 31 '20

Cheap Live TV Service Philo Finally Gets Chromecast Support

Philo today announced that Android users can soon cast to their Chromecast-enabled TVs with their phones, a move that the company says was one of its most-requested features. Philo, the over-the-top service for live TV with premium add-ons, said Friday that the support for Chromecast from Android devices was the first iteration of what it…

Internet Catie Keck Jul 31 '20

Looks Like the Apple Watch Series 6 Could Sport a Blood Oxygen Sensor

While we know many of the new features that are coming to the Apple Watch Series 6 via WatchOS 7, it’s been relatively quiet on what hardware changes Apple might make. However, it now looks like the Series 6 might be the first Apple Watch to include a blood oxygen sensor. The report about the…

Tech News Victoria Song Jul 31 '20

Image: Raffaele Ienco and Neeraj Menon for Marvel Comics

Darth Vader Is Letting the Past Die

When Ahsoka Tano faces Darth Vader in Star Wars Rebels, there is a moment when the Dark Lord growls to his former apprentice “Anakin Skywalker was weak, and I destroyed him.” But for all his confidence there, Marvel Comics is telling a much longer, more tragic tale of how Darth Vader pushed aside his former…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Jul 31 '20

Hurricane Isaias Is the First Hurricane to Hit Bahamas Since Destructive Dorian

The last time a hurricane struck the Bahamas, the impacts were catastrophic. Hurricane Dorian stalled over the islands as a Category 5 monster that killed dozens and unleashed a toxic oil spill. Now, the islands are bracing for another hurricane not even a year later as Hurricane Isaias careens toward them. The storm is currently…

Earther Yessenia Funes Jul 31 '20

Spacecraft Carrying Perseverance Switches to ‘Safe Mode’ After Glitch, but NASA Says Not to Worry

True to this agonizing year that is 2020, yesterday’s launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover was not without problems. Update 3:27 p.m. ET: As NASA now reports, flight controllers with the Mars 2020 mission have successfully returned the spacecraft to nominal flight operations. As scheduled, a ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the Perseverance rover and…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jul 31 '20

Bad Advice From Dictators: Gasoline Edition!

Has anyone else noticed a strong correlation between “countries where Covid-19 misinformation proliferates readily” and “countries with strong autocratic tendencies”? Maybe it’s just the fumes getting to me, but I’m pretty sure Rodrigo Duterte told the 106 million Filipinos he ostensibly governs to huff gasoline. The Philippines under Duterte’s regime is a brutal place to…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jul 31 '20

Mandy Patinkin Has Deleted About 28,000 Emails, So Far

Actor Mandy Patinkin announced in a video posted to Twitter Friday morning that he had deleted “about 28,000” of his wife Kathryn Grody’s unread emails. At the time of the recording, some 10,000 unread emails remained, according to Grody, who said she tasked the 67-year-old thespian and musician with conducting the purge. “Dad is clearing…

Tech News Andrew Couts Jul 31 '20

HBO Is Safe on Fire TV—Kind Of

The X2 Cast Allegedly Almost Quit the Marvel Film Over Bryan Singer

How Sperm ‘Swim’ May Be Nothing But an Optical Illusion [UPDATE]

Scream 5 Will Bring Back Horror’s Finest Tabloid Journalist

GeForce Now Finally Lets Users Automatically Sync Games With Their Steam Library

Big Oil Has Never Lost This Much Money

Always Take the Wizard’s Staff, You Idiots!

The Three Biggest Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Your Privacy Before Congress

Twitter Finally Bans the Nazi. No, Not That One. No, the Other One.

It Was 125 Degrees in Baghdad This Week

My Cat Wanted to Blog, So I Let Him Write This One

Leaked Galaxy Z Fold 2 Renders Depict Some Major Upgrades for Samsung’s Second-Gen Foldable Phone

The God of High School Teases Its Next Killer Brawl in This Exclusive Clip

Cheap Live TV Service Philo Finally Gets Chromecast Support

Looks Like the Apple Watch Series 6 Could Sport a Blood Oxygen Sensor

Darth Vader Is Letting the Past Die

Hurricane Isaias Is the First Hurricane to Hit Bahamas Since Destructive Dorian

Spacecraft Carrying Perseverance Switches to ‘Safe Mode’ After Glitch, but NASA Says Not to Worry

Bad Advice From Dictators: Gasoline Edition!

Mandy Patinkin Has Deleted About 28,000 Emails, So Far

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