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Trump: Don’t Worry, We’re Putting Mike Pence on This Coronavirus Thing

The latest news from the White House on the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, which the Centers for Disease Control has warned is likely to hit the U.S. imminently, is not very reassuring: Vice President Mike Pence, whose poor epidemiological instincts helped fuel an HIV outbreak in his home state of Indiana, will lead…

Health Tom McKay

WHO Accused of Conducting Vaccine Trial Without Participant Consent in Three African Countries

A scathing opinion piece in the BMJ is accusing the World Health Organization of conducting a pilot program in Africa for an experimental malaria vaccine without acquiring the informed consent of participants. Experts are calling it a “serious breach” of international bioethical standards and potentially “a disaster for public trust in vaccines.” The trial in…

Health George Dvorsky

Rumble‘s First Trailer Introduces a World of Professional Kaiju Wrestling

Nerds love watching gargantuan kaiju beat the snot out of each other.

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Image: Dr. Horst Neve, Max Rubner-Institut

Study Maps the Hundreds of Bacteria That Live in the Human Vagina

Scientists say they’ve for the first time conducted an extensive analysis of the bacteria that live in the human vagina. And they seem to have found plenty of surprises. In recent years, much has been made of the gut microbiome: the unseen, symbiotic world of bacteria and other microorganisms that live in our digestive system.…

Health Ed Cara

The New Letter for the King Trailer Promises a Kid-Driven Fantasy Epic

In the age of Game of Thrones and The Witcher, traditional medieval fantasy TV has leaned more toward the adult focused aspects of the genre—blood, guts, boobs, and then occasionally some dragons (perhaps even multiple of the above at once). So it’s nice to see a fantasy saga that takes the production values of those…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Seamless+ Exists Now, Because Every Goddamn Thing Needs to Be a Subscription Service

Ten dollars a month will buy you some decent things, even in this economy. Or you can flush it down the shiny new toilet that is Seamless+. Launched today alongside Grubhub+ (Grubhub owns both delivery platforms, and they appear to be in every way identical), both extraneous Plus programs are proof there’s no limit to…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Someone Set Up a Weird, Fake Corporate Website to Trick Twitch Into Banning Left-Wing Streamers

Streaming giant Twitch.tv issued 24-hour bans to some of its biggest left-wing podcasters on Tuesday night, including Chapo Trap House, radio host David Pakman, and Mychal “Trihex” Jefferson, citing Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests over streams of the Democratic primary debate in South Carolina. That in and of itself is not unusual—some Twitch personalities…

Tech News Tom McKay

Saint Maud‘s Latest Spooky Trailer Is a Portrait of a Nurse on Fire

Normally, when people in horror movies suspect that they might be possessed by otherworldly beings, it’s cause for alarm, but for the nurse at the center of Rose Glass’ Saint Maud, the event’s something more of…a revelation, if you will. As a hospice nurse, Maud (Morfydd Clark, star of Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Data Breach at Controversial Face Recognition Firm Shows Company Can’t Be Trusted, Officials Say

A security breach at a face-recognition startup, already embattled over its unfettered collection of Americans’ personal data on behalf of its hundreds of law enforcement clients, further underscores the potential hazards faced by consumers at the hands of a controversial and largely-unregulated surveillance technology, federal officials said on Wednesday. Clearview AI, which has drawn criticism…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Amazon Manager Was Asked to Perform Racial Profiling, Lawsuit Alleges

Until recently, Lisa McCarrick was a loss prevention manager at Amazon, albeit one who alleges she was compensated significantly less than men who held her title prior, and her male subordinates. But in a wrongful termination lawsuit, filed yesterday in her home state of California, McCarrick references a pattern of superior-sanctioned profiling. According to the…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Why It’s Hard, But Not Impossible, to Make a Board Game About Climate Change

Game designer Elizabeth Hargrave helped jumpstart a tabletop revolution with Wingspan, an environmental board game about creating habitats for birds. Her upcoming release, Mariposas, has players guiding monarch butterflies on their migration. But there’s something unsettling lurking beneath the table. “It’s easy to overlook butterflies and to just think, like, they’re always there. We see…

Games Beth Elderkin

Is Gmail Biased Against Elizabeth Warren or Is Everything Just Awful?

If for some reason you have willingly handed over your Gmail address to allow yourself to be spammed by presidential campaigns—perhaps because you want to be alerted to fundraising efforts or to find out more on the candidates’ stances—you might have already noticed something a little funny about which candidates’ emails make it to your…

Tech News Caitlin McGarry

American Horror Story Recruits Macaulay Culkin for Untold Frights

The more star-studded any given season of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story has been, the wilder and more ridiculous the stories being told have tended to be, and the latest casting announcement suggests that the FX series’ 10th installment will be a doozy. Earlier today, Murphy posted a teaser for the upcoming season that listed…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Facebook Claims It’s Cracking Down on Ads Promising to Cure or Prevent Coronavirus

As tech and social media giants engage in a kind of Whac-A-Mole for COVID-19 scaremongering and product misinformation on their websites, Facebook says it’s cracking down on ads intended to mislead users about their products on its Marketplace. A spokesperson for the social media giant told Business Insider, which first reported the news, that it…

Tech News Catie Keck

The RG350 Is the Perfect Portable Retro Gaming Machine

A handheld gaming console capable of playing countless retro titles through emulation.

Gaming Andrew Liszewski

Report: Steven Spielberg Will No Longer Direct Indiana Jones 5

Indiana Jones is coming back for a fifth adventure—this we’ve known for ages, as the film’s been in a long development process. But now as it begins to slowly come out of that process, it’s going to be doing so without the man that has been behind the camera since the very first movie in…

Movies James Whitbrook

Red Pandas Might Actually Be Two Species

Scientists think they’ve helped settle a debate over one of the most endangered (and cutest) animals around: the red panda. New genetic evidence suggests there are really two different species of red panda, each with a unique evolutionary history. Red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) are the only mammals of their kind, though they are closely related…

Biology Ed Cara

Image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

China’s Space Agency Reveals What It Learned from Deep Radar Probe of Moon’s Far Side

On January 3, 2019, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) accomplished a human first: It successfully placed a lander on the far side of the Moon. Today, the team is revealing new insights about what they found beneath the lunar surface. The Chang’e 4 team has released the first ground-penetrating radar study of the Moon’s…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Altered Carbon’s Simone Missick Says Misty Knight Is Partially to Thank for Getting the New Gig

The newest star of Altered Carbon, Simone Missick, may be best known for playing Misty Knight in Marvel’s now-defunct Netflix Universe, but her latest role is going to turn (and decapitate) some heads. She’s shed the robotic arm for some neural implants and a gun, and she’s having the time of her life. “The introduction…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Trump Will Blow Up Sacred Lands the Same Day Tribal Leaders Testify Against It in Congress

On Wednesday, the House is holding a hearing on Trump’s racist border wall and the threat it poses to the cultural and environmental resources in Arizona, including Organ Pipe National Monument and parts of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s tribal lands. Guess what else is going down Wednesday? The Department of Homeland Security is blowing up…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Trump: Don’t Worry, We’re Putting Mike Pence on This Coronavirus Thing

WHO Accused of Conducting Vaccine Trial Without Participant Consent in Three African Countries

Rumble‘s First Trailer Introduces a World of Professional Kaiju Wrestling

Study Maps the Hundreds of Bacteria That Live in the Human Vagina

The New Letter for the King Trailer Promises a Kid-Driven Fantasy Epic

Seamless+ Exists Now, Because Every Goddamn Thing Needs to Be a Subscription Service

Someone Set Up a Weird, Fake Corporate Website to Trick Twitch Into Banning Left-Wing Streamers

Saint Maud‘s Latest Spooky Trailer Is a Portrait of a Nurse on Fire

Data Breach at Controversial Face Recognition Firm Shows Company Can’t Be Trusted, Officials Say

Amazon Manager Was Asked to Perform Racial Profiling, Lawsuit Alleges

Why It’s Hard, But Not Impossible, to Make a Board Game About Climate Change

Is Gmail Biased Against Elizabeth Warren or Is Everything Just Awful?

American Horror Story Recruits Macaulay Culkin for Untold Frights

Facebook Claims It’s Cracking Down on Ads Promising to Cure or Prevent Coronavirus

The RG350 Is the Perfect Portable Retro Gaming Machine

Report: Steven Spielberg Will No Longer Direct Indiana Jones 5

Red Pandas Might Actually Be Two Species

China’s Space Agency Reveals What It Learned from Deep Radar Probe of Moon’s Far Side

Altered Carbon’s Simone Missick Says Misty Knight Is Partially to Thank for Getting the New Gig

Trump Will Blow Up Sacred Lands the Same Day Tribal Leaders Testify Against It in Congress

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