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Looming Landslide in Alaska Could Trigger Enormous Tsunami at Any Moment, Scientists Warn

The collapse of an unstable mountain slope in Alaska could trigger a catastrophic tsunami in Harriman Fjord. A retreating glacier is producing this precarious situation, highlighting yet another type of hazard caused by climate change. An open letter signed by 14 experts in landslides, tsunamis, and climate change describes an unstable mountain slope above the…

Earther George Dvorsky May 15

It’s Official: Another Star Trek Spinoff Is on the Way With Captain Pike and Spock

Sorry, Star Trek: Enterprise was already taken. Welcome aboard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. CBS has given a series order to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a brand new series that will be set aboard the original U.S.S. Enterprise and follow the adventures of Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One as they explore the galaxy.…

io9 James Whitbrook May 15

The Internet Furry Drama Raising Big Questions About Artificial Intelligence

Much of the fun of internet drama comes from its frivolousness, but sometimes an online shitfest points to something bigger. Last week, the AI-powered furry art site thisfursonadoesnotexist did just that, igniting a fandom firestorm while also highlighting an important debate about digital art. Trained on more than 55,000 images pulled (without permission) from a…

Tech News Whitney Kimball May 15

Noted Sports Fan LeSean McCoy Didn’t Realize How Seriously Nerds Take the MCU

Let the record show that there aren’t really all that many demonstrable differences between sports nerds and genre nerds, two groups of people who obsess over and become overly emotionally involved in the minutiae of larger than life, titan-like people. On April 26, 2019, NFL running back LeSean McCoy (who’s currently a free agent) made…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore May 15

NOAA Is Flying Research Missions During Lockdowns to Improve Climate Models

In the past week alone, Xinrong Ren has taken four flights. He’s not actually headed anywhere, though. Ren is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. He’s been taking to the skies since February as part of a federal research project with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Earther Yessenia Funes May 15

MSI’s GS66 Stealth Gaming Laptop Packs Big Specs and Thankfully Goes Light on the RGB

There’s always something I’ve appreciated about powerful gadgets that are able to hide their power levels. I’m talking about stuff like the Volkswagen Phaeton W12 that had essentially the same engine you got in a flashy Bentley Continental (minus a couple turbos), but in a car that looked like, well, a VW. In short, gadgets…

Laptops Sam Rutherford May 15

An R2-D2 Robot Vacuum Is Exactly the Chore Droid I’m Looking For

It’s staggering to think that Matthew Scott Hunter came up with a way to combine his love of clean floors and Star Wars before the marketing teams at Disney, Lucasfilm, and iRobot did. Using random household items he turned his functional robot vacuum into an Artoo unit that roams and cleans his home. Inspired by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 15

Latest Research Finds Summer Heat Won’t Stop the Spread of Coronavirus

The U.S. is still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic: The death toll is climbing and quarantining is becoming increasingly unbearable. With summer around the corner, people are going to want to get outside again. While other illnesses are mostly seasonal—the flu, for instance, thrives in wintry conditions more than warm ones—it’s still unclear…

Earther Dharna Noor May 15

Pirates of the Caribbean’s Jerry Bruckheimer Still Won’t Say if Johnny Depp Will Return

Netflix is officially going forward with its superheroic vehicle for Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. Jordan Vogt-Roberts continues to share more concepts from that Metal Gear Solid movie he really wants to make. Agents of SHIELD reveals some more mysterious casting for its final season. Plus, what’s to come when the CW-DC Universe returns…eventually. Spoilers…

Television James Whitbrook May 15

U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower

The U.S. government proposed manipulating information about whether N95 masks worked to fight the spread of coronavirus in the general public, according to Dr. Richard Bright, a whistleblower who testified publicly for the first time on Thursday. The deception was an effort to avoid shortages and keep masks available for U.S. health care workers, but…

Health Matt Novak May 15

Google to Start Kicking Resource-Heavy Ads Off Chrome in August

Google’s planning to instate a resource cap on all Chrome advertisements after finding that a tiny contingent of resource-heavy ads is responsible for more than a quarter of all ad-related network data and CPU usage. On the user-end, these ads can “drain battery life, saturate already strained networks, and cost money,” wrote Marshall Vale, the…

Tech News Alyse Stanley May 15

This Proposed Bill Would Protect Health Data Shared on Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps

On Thursday, Democrats from both houses of Congress introduced the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act, legislation that aims to safeguard the kind of health data consumers can share with contact-tracing apps and, hopefully, satisfy privacy concerns that would make many Americans hesitant to download them in the first place. “This measure sets strict and straightforward…

Politics Alyse Stanley May 14

In a Race to Maintain Production, Studios Are Turning to Countries Slowly Lifting Their Lockdown Restrictions

As the impact of covid-19 continues to hammer away at virtually every industry on the planet, movie studios have been looking to find any way they can to work ahead on films that, thanks to lockdown restrictions, cannot feasibly shoot new material. One way? Flocking to countries that have started to re-open. In recent weeks,…

Movies James Whitbrook May 14

Gargoyles Could Have Been the MCU Before the MCU Existed

In the 1990s, the creator of Gargoyles was in a meeting with the then-chairman of Disney, Michael Eisner. The meeting was about potentially buying a comic book company we’re all very familiar with. “I was at a meeting where he wanted to buy Marvel Comics,” Greg Weisman said to Polygon as part of a fascinating…

io9 Germain Lussier May 14

A Furiosa Prequel Will Be George Miller’s Next Mad Max Movie

The rumors are true. George Miller is working on a Furiosa movie as his next film in the Mad Max franchise. Only, it won’t be Charlize Theron playing the character. Speaking to the New York Times, Miller confirmed that he has begun the casting process to find a younger actress to play Furiosa, working from…

Movies Germain Lussier May 14

The Guns Have Continued to Flow in States Where Gun Stores Were Supposed to Shut Down

Wow, shocker: Gun stores in at least five states where firearm dealers were supposed to shutter in April due to the coronavirus pandemic have refused to do so and likely made tens of thousands of sales, according to a report in USA Today in collaboration with the Trace. According to USA Today, FBI data from…

Tech News Tom McKay May 14

Tesla Factory Inspected by Police While It’s Supposed to Be Shut Down, Elon Not Arrested

The Fremont Police Department this week conducted an inspection of Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory to assess the facility’s safety measures and its degree of operation, a police spokesperson said, the latest development in the county’s standoff with CEO Elon Musk over the latter’s very dramatic, incredibly stupid refusal to comply with an order to cease…

Tech News Catie Keck May 14

Senate Votes to Reauthorize FBI Surveillance Powers, With a Few Worthwhile Tweaks

In an 80-16 vote on Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill to restore controversial surveillance tools used by the FBI in terrorism and espionage investigations. But the bill has at least one more hurdle to jump thanks to a series of changes implemented yesterday. A bipartisan amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act introduced…

Tech News Dell Cameron May 14

Dead Drop: The Human Is an Animal That Schemes

Why do Americans apply the word “murder” to “murder hornets”? This is a question that The New Yorker asked on Wednesday. “A murder requires premeditation. We don’t speak of bears or tigers murdering people,” the author explained while laying out their thought process. They suspect that the monicker is a mangled translation of the Japanese…

Tech News Whitney Kimball May 14

The USPS Is Reviewing Its Amazon Package Delivery Fees Because of Trump

Almost a month after President Donald Trump threatened to block a $10 billion emergency loan to the U.S. Postal Service unless it raised shipping prices on companies like Amazon, UPS, and FedEx, the USPS has decided to review its package delivery contracts, according to anonymous sources who spoke with the Washington Post. Trump has complained…

Tech News Joanna Nelius May 14

Looming Landslide in Alaska Could Trigger Enormous Tsunami at Any Moment, Scientists Warn

It’s Official: Another Star Trek Spinoff Is on the Way With Captain Pike and Spock

The Internet Furry Drama Raising Big Questions About Artificial Intelligence

Noted Sports Fan LeSean McCoy Didn’t Realize How Seriously Nerds Take the MCU

NOAA Is Flying Research Missions During Lockdowns to Improve Climate Models

MSI’s GS66 Stealth Gaming Laptop Packs Big Specs and Thankfully Goes Light on the RGB

An R2-D2 Robot Vacuum Is Exactly the Chore Droid I’m Looking For

Latest Research Finds Summer Heat Won’t Stop the Spread of Coronavirus

Pirates of the Caribbean’s Jerry Bruckheimer Still Won’t Say if Johnny Depp Will Return

U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower

Google to Start Kicking Resource-Heavy Ads Off Chrome in August

This Proposed Bill Would Protect Health Data Shared on Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps

In a Race to Maintain Production, Studios Are Turning to Countries Slowly Lifting Their Lockdown Restrictions

Gargoyles Could Have Been the MCU Before the MCU Existed

A Furiosa Prequel Will Be George Miller’s Next Mad Max Movie

The Guns Have Continued to Flow in States Where Gun Stores Were Supposed to Shut Down

Tesla Factory Inspected by Police While It’s Supposed to Be Shut Down, Elon Not Arrested

Senate Votes to Reauthorize FBI Surveillance Powers, With a Few Worthwhile Tweaks

Dead Drop: The Human Is an Animal That Schemes

The USPS Is Reviewing Its Amazon Package Delivery Fees Because of Trump

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