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Neuroscientists Discover New Kind of Signal in the Human Brain

Scientists have uncovered a new kind of electrical process in the human brain that could play a key role in the unique way our brains compute. Our brains are computers that work using a system of connected brain cells, called neurons, that exchange information using chemical and electric signals called action potentials. Researchers have discovered…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

John Boyega’s Post-Star Wars Honesty Is a Good Thing

Despite the fact that Finn didn’t get all that much to do in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the first wave of heated discussion about the movie has come and gone, John Boyega’s name has been in the mouths of many a disgruntled Star Wars fan lately because of comments the actor made…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

All Your Base Are Belong to Bulbasaur

The heyday for Pokémon Go headlines has long since passed, but it turns out that in 2016, Canada’s military ordered officers to play the game after civilians kept wandering onto bases in pursuit of Pokémon. The news comes from CBC News which obtained 471 pages of documents nearly three-and-a-half years after filing an access to information…

Tech News Victoria Song

The Newest Dell XPS 13 Is a Tiny Laptop That Promises Incredible Battery Life

Perfection is only an idea, so despite the current XPS 13 being an almost flawless ultraportable, for this year’s revamp, Dell’s general game plan seems to be giving you more of everything you want crammed into a body that’s actually two percent smaller than before. The most noticeable improvement on the new XPS 13 9300…

Reviews Sam Rutherford

Man’s Confession of Killing His Sister Reportedly Caught on Doorbell Camera

A former football player accused by law enforcement of murdering his pregnant sister allegedly confessed to the killing while standing in front of a doorbell camera that captured the moment. A Travis County Sheriff’s Office report states that Michael Egwuagu, 25, allegedly stabbed his sister, Jennifer Ebichi, 32, several times with a kitchen knife in…

Crime Jennings Brown

The Doctor Is Back, and She Brought Doctor Who With Her

The first season of Jodie Whittaker’s tenure on Doctor Who was marked by change. New Doctor, new showrunner, new tone, there was a subdued approach that emboldened Doctor Who’s moral core while struggling as it pulled away from some of the show’s more primal pleasures. Back for her sophomore season, Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor is as…

io9 James Whitbrook

Australia Just Went Through Its Hottest Year on Record

Another year, another heat record broken. Australia entered the new year breaking its heat record in 2019. Last year was 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the historical average since 1910, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The hotter Australia becomes, the more likely it is to catch on fire…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes

Exercise Might Keep Your Sperm in Shape, Too

Regular physical activity can keep a man’s sperm in tip-top shape, a new study suggests. The research was published last month in the journal Human Reproduction. It looked at a sample of more than 700 healthy, relatively young men residing in China who signed up to be potential sperm donors. In addition to the thousands…

Health Ed Cara

Tax Ghouls Like TurboTax Can’t Hide Your Free Filing Options on Google Anymore

The Internal Revenue Service has announced that tax filing companies with which it has agreements to offer free filing tools are barred from hiding those programs from consumers in online searches and must be transparent about where to find them on their sites. In other words, they’re now required to do the absolute bare minimum…

Tech News Catie Keck

Google’s AI Proves Better at Detecting Breast Cancer Than Doctors

Google, in its bid to move into healthcare, reports that researchers have successfully trained AI to detect breast cancer with greater accuracy than doctors. In a Google-funded study, a team of independent researchers from various hospitals and universities, researchers from Google Health, and engineers from DeepMind (a Google-owned UK-based AI company) compared analyses of nearly…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Fire at German Zoo That Killed 30 Animals Ignited by New Year’s Eve Sky Lanterns

A fire that engulfed a primate enclosure at Germany’s Krefeld Zoo has resulted in the deaths of at least 30 animals. The blaze, which began shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day, is being attributed to the illicit use of sky lanterns. “Our worst fears have become reality,” the Krefeld Zoo grimly announced on its…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Make Technology Work for People With Disabilities—Not Against Them

Citing the hard-fought victories and tireless dedication of disability activists like Judith Heumann and Joyce Ardell Jackson, Senator Elizabeth Warren on Thursday unveiled an exhaustive plan to support the equal opportunity and self-determination of Americans with disabilities—pledging to ensure that advancements in technology will be used to improve their lives, rather than discriminate against them.…

Tech News Dell Cameron

A New Gretel & Hansel Trailer Promises a Delectable Dinner of Deadly Delights

The witch in the woods has found a new feast, along with a possible eating companion. The new trailer for Gretel & Hansel has arrived, promising a new take on a familiar tale. We all know what the Borg Queen witch has in store for Hansel (yummy num nums), but what about Gretel? That may…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Toyota CEO Predicted Peak Oil by 2020 Back in 2009

Toyota’s North American CEO, Jim Lentz, predicted back in 2009 that by 2020 the world would hit peak oil—the idea that the world’s demand for oil would exceed the world’s supply of oil. And since we’ve officially entered the year 2020, it feels like an appropriate time to look at whether his prediction was correct.…

Tech News Matt Novak

9 Improvements We Want to See in iOS 14 and Android 11

In 2019, Apple pushed out iOS 13 and Google launched Android 10—both polished, mature mobile operating systems that offer just about every feature you could want… or do they? We’ve got some ideas about how Apple and Google might go further with these OSes in 2020. As always we’re keen to hear your thoughts as…

Gadgets David Nield

Marvel’s WandaVision Is Arriving Sooner Than Expected

James Gunn says he won’t bring Yondu back from the grave for the third Guardians of the Galaxy. Nicholas Pesce reveals his plans for even more Grudge movies. Plus, a new glimpse at the next Mobile Suit Gundam movie, and what’s to come on this Sunday’s Doctor Who. Here’s to a new year of spoilers!…

Television James Whitbrook

Poop-Spotting Cameras Could Be This Robovac’s Secret Weapon

The biggest problem with even the smartest robovacs is that they’re not actually that smart. They can navigate your home and avoid collisions with large pieces of furniture, but smaller obstacles, like hazards left behind by pets, they’ll simply plow right through creating even larger messes. Lucy, a new robot vacuum from a company called…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Chelsea Manning Responds After Top U.N. Official Labels Her Imprisonment ‘Torture’

In her first public statement since a top United Nations official equated her imprisonment to torture, former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning reaffirmed her pledge to remain in jail rather than testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “My long-standing objection to the immoral practice of throwing people in jail without charge…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Come Shaken, Not Stirred, to Our Spoiler-Laden Doctor Who Premiere Discussion Zone

It must be every once in a while in a very long while, every day in a million days when the wind stands fair—because The Doctor has come to call, and she’s brought a brand new season of Doctor Who with her. The explosive season premiere has just wrapped up, so come chat about it…

io9 James Whitbrook

I Am Hooked on Riverdale Cringe Videos

I mostly watch Riverdale nowadays to make fun of it, and I don’t think I’m the only one. In fact, I can’t imagine there’s anyone out there who actually takes this show seriously anymore, including the show itself (with the occasional exception, like the Luke Perry tribute episode). Once you put a cult leader in…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

Neuroscientists Discover New Kind of Signal in the Human Brain

John Boyega’s Post-Star Wars Honesty Is a Good Thing

All Your Base Are Belong to Bulbasaur

The Newest Dell XPS 13 Is a Tiny Laptop That Promises Incredible Battery Life

Man’s Confession of Killing His Sister Reportedly Caught on Doorbell Camera

The Doctor Is Back, and She Brought Doctor Who With Her

Australia Just Went Through Its Hottest Year on Record

Exercise Might Keep Your Sperm in Shape, Too

Tax Ghouls Like TurboTax Can’t Hide Your Free Filing Options on Google Anymore

Google’s AI Proves Better at Detecting Breast Cancer Than Doctors

Fire at German Zoo That Killed 30 Animals Ignited by New Year’s Eve Sky Lanterns

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Make Technology Work for People With Disabilities—Not Against Them

A New Gretel & Hansel Trailer Promises a Delectable Dinner of Deadly Delights

Toyota CEO Predicted Peak Oil by 2020 Back in 2009

9 Improvements We Want to See in iOS 14 and Android 11

Marvel’s WandaVision Is Arriving Sooner Than Expected

Poop-Spotting Cameras Could Be This Robovac’s Secret Weapon

Chelsea Manning Responds After Top U.N. Official Labels Her Imprisonment ‘Torture’

Come Shaken, Not Stirred, to Our Spoiler-Laden Doctor Who Premiere Discussion Zone

I Am Hooked on Riverdale Cringe Videos

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