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Newly Discovered Widow Spider Lays Bright Purple Eggs

Scientists have discovered a spider living in South Africa that’s truly a sight to behold. The arachnids feature a scarlet, exclamation mark-shaped blotch on their backs, along with a white squiggle pattern that creates the vague shape of a human face, mouth agape in horror. Oh, and they lay bright purple eggs. The South African…

Biology Jake Buehler Dec 9

U.S. Army Worries Humanity is Biased Against Deadly Cyborg Soldiers Because of Movies Like Terminator

The U.S. Army is hard at work imagining what the human-machine hybrids of the future will be able to accomplish on the battlefields of 2050. But the folks in charge of keeping America safe also have their concerns. Specifically, the U.S. Army is worried that humans are biased against deadly cyborg soldiers, just because we’ve…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 9

This Gorgeous Garmin Hybrid Smartwatch Is Too Damn Complicated to Beat Fitbit

When it comes to Garmin, most people I know tend to think of GPS navigation for their cars. When I ask them about smartwatches or fitness trackers, the first company that comes to their mind is Fitbit or Apple. If they’re not a runner, they generally haven’t heard of Garmin watches. As a wearables reviewer,…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song Dec 9

European Space Agency Approves Mission to Yoink a Piece of Trash Out of Orbit

The European Space Agency has commissioned the first-ever mission to remove a single piece of space debris from orbit. Humans put so many satellites into low Earth orbit that the space around us is now littered with junk. Much of this debris breaks up in collisions with other pieces of debris, resulting in over 120…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Dec 9

RIP Everyone: A Whole Lot of People Died in the First Episode of CW’s Crisis

I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that “a lot of people died” in the first episode of Crisis on Infinite Earths, a five-episode miniseries of nearly a dozen DC universes where the plot is “everyone is gonna die.” We all knew going into the huge CW Arrowverse crossover that heroes and cameos would…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz Dec 9

T-Mobile and Sprint Head to Court to Defend Their Very Bad Megamerger

More than a dozen states are suing to stop a deal that would see two of the top U.S. telecoms companies merge into one, a move that state attorneys general argue would harm consumers and raise prices. That trial was scheduled to begin early Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New…

Tech News Catie Keck Dec 9

A Fight Over a ‘False Solution’ Is at the Center of Madrid Climate Talks

Civic leaders are gathered in Madrid for the international climate talks known as COP25. And they’re entering the crucial final five days of negotiations. The stakes couldn’t be higher for COP25. The United Nation’s (UN) own recent reports show that the only way we can avert climate disaster will be rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions…

Environmental Justice Dharna Noor Dec 9

Remembering René Auberjonois, Star Trek‘s Compelling, Curmudgeonly, and Lovingly Comic Odo

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s moral murkiness meant that a lot of its heroes, unlike many of the noble Trek stars that came before them, started out as kind-of jerks who softened and grew with the time we spent with them across seven seasons. But it wasn’t really a Starfleet officer on the show that…

io9 James Whitbrook Dec 9

Antarctic Explorers’ Brains Shrunk During a 14-Month Polar Expedition

Spending over a year in the bleak desolation that is Antarctica might change your brain for the worse, according to new research out this month. It seems to show that polar explorers who lived for 14 months at an Antarctica research station experienced brain shrinkage, likely as a result of their isolation and boredom. But…

Health Ed Cara Dec 9

Jeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could Love

Renowned Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church has focused his work on reversing the effects of aging, helping humans become immune to viruses, and eradicating genetic diseases. He’s hoping to come closer to accomplishing at least one of those goals with a disturbing dating app that swipes right on eugenics. On Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes…

Health Jennings Brown Dec 9

Witness Spooky Evidence of Snapchat’s New Face-Swapping Feature

Sometimes social media dipsomania comes into harsh relief, as it did today when the technology wars manifested themselves as the ability to superimpose your face on a cat: aka, Snapchat’s new social drug “Cameos.” It’s terrifying. As TechCrunch first reported, Snapchat has selectively released a beta version of a feature which allows users to scan…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Dec 9

Birds of Prey Is Bringing Together More Than the Iconic Girl Gang From the Comics

Harley Quinn just wants some fucking coleslaw. It’s March 12, 2019, and on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, one of the key scenes in Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is being shot. This is day 41 of 64 on the production and the scene features Renee Montoya…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 9

AMD and Intel Could Be Screwed By New Chinese Mandate Forbidding Foreign Technology

Following the U.S. ban that prohibited domestic companies from supplying equipment to Huawei back in May, the technological Cold War between the U.S. and China just got a bit more intense now that Beijing has ordered all Chinese government and public-facing offices to replace any equipment featuring foreign components. According to The Financial Times, China’s…

Politics Sam Rutherford Dec 9

Watchmen’s Post Credits Scene Answered One Important Question While Raising Another

It took Watchmen eight episodes to do it, but the series finally managed to make Ozymandias’ side story interesting. But the new revelations about what the world’s smartest man is up to continue long after this week’s credits have finished rolling. One of the only things Adrian Veidt ever really wanted out of life was…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Dec 9

How Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Got Its Freaky ‘Tiger Stripes’

Since 2005, scientists have puzzled over a series of long fissures seen in the southern regions of Saturn’s frozen moon Enceladus. New research explains how these so-called tiger stripes formed and why Enceladus is the only place in the solar system where these features could have emerged. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spotted the stripes in 2005,…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Dec 9

Air France Hopes to Reduce Delays With Self-Driving Luggage Carts

A multitude of factors can contribute to a flight being delayed, but Air France, who partnered with a handful of other companies, is testing the world’s first self-driving luggage tug in hopes of streamlining airport operations and improving the speed of getting luggage to and from an aircraft. https://gizmodo.com/unruly-airport-cart-tries-to-ram-plane-at-ohare-is-pro-1838649601 The vehicle, known as the AT135…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 9

Joker Nabs Key Golden Globe Nominations, but Game of Thrones Gets the Kiss of Death

The latest crop of Golden Globes nominations has been revealed. Overall, it was a lackluster year for genre entertainment, especially for shows like Game of Thrones and Watchmen, but Joker did manage to get the last laugh. Last year, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse took home Best Animated Film at the Golden Globes, will Disney’s CGI remake…

Movies Beth Elderkin Dec 9

Dozens Feared Dead After New Zealand’s Most Active Volcano Erupts

White Island is home to New Zealand’s most active volcano. And on Monday, it erupted while tourists were visiting, and police reports indicate there are “no signs of life.” The volcano sits northeast of New Zealand’s North Island in the Bay of Plenty. Despite experiencing regular eruptions—most recently in 2016—the volcano has been a major…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes Dec 9

DC Apparently Has Big Plans for Wonder Woman‘s Amazons

Kevin Feige teases the Eternals’ place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Get a look at Armando Iannucci’s new sci-fi series. Plus, new posters from Wonder Woman 1984 and Birds of Prey, what’s to come on Crisis on Infinite Earths, and the clock’s ticking on new Watchmen finale footage. Spoilers now! Best Served Cold Variety reports…

Television James Whitbrook Dec 9

The First Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trailer Presents a Solemn, Stranger Things-Esque Look at the Past

Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside. The debut trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife takes the spectral hunting out of the city and into a small town, where a family with surprising connections to the original Ghostbusters is forced to return to their roots and bust some rural ghosts. Ghostbusters: Afterlife, directed by Jason Reitman and…

Trailers Beth Elderkin Dec 9

Newly Discovered Widow Spider Lays Bright Purple Eggs

U.S. Army Worries Humanity is Biased Against Deadly Cyborg Soldiers Because of Movies Like Terminator

This Gorgeous Garmin Hybrid Smartwatch Is Too Damn Complicated to Beat Fitbit

European Space Agency Approves Mission to Yoink a Piece of Trash Out of Orbit

RIP Everyone: A Whole Lot of People Died in the First Episode of CW’s Crisis

T-Mobile and Sprint Head to Court to Defend Their Very Bad Megamerger

A Fight Over a ‘False Solution’ Is at the Center of Madrid Climate Talks

Remembering René Auberjonois, Star Trek‘s Compelling, Curmudgeonly, and Lovingly Comic Odo

Antarctic Explorers’ Brains Shrunk During a 14-Month Polar Expedition

Jeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could Love

Witness Spooky Evidence of Snapchat’s New Face-Swapping Feature

Birds of Prey Is Bringing Together More Than the Iconic Girl Gang From the Comics

AMD and Intel Could Be Screwed By New Chinese Mandate Forbidding Foreign Technology

Watchmen’s Post Credits Scene Answered One Important Question While Raising Another

How Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Got Its Freaky ‘Tiger Stripes’

Air France Hopes to Reduce Delays With Self-Driving Luggage Carts

Joker Nabs Key Golden Globe Nominations, but Game of Thrones Gets the Kiss of Death

Dozens Feared Dead After New Zealand’s Most Active Volcano Erupts

DC Apparently Has Big Plans for Wonder Woman‘s Amazons

The First Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trailer Presents a Solemn, Stranger Things-Esque Look at the Past

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