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Robert Picardo Says He Could Sign Up for Star Trek: Picard‘s Second Season

It gives me all the joy in the world that Star Trek: Picard is starting to feel like Star Trek: Voyager 2: Seven and the Doctor’s Electric Boogaloo. Speaking to Trekkie Girls at London Film and Comic Con over the weekend, Picardo—who of course played both Voyager’s Emergency Medical Hologram, the Doctor, and said Hologram’s…

io9 James Whitbrook Jul 31

This Coalnado Is About as 2019 as It Gets

If last year was the year of firenado, it’s only fitting that this is the year of the coalnado. Video surfaced on Tuesday of a huge vortex of coal bits being sucked into the sky in Elkhorn, West Virginia, in what is surely the second swirl of the apocalypse. What I’m saying is we’re a…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Jul 31

This Extremely Tiny Gaming Laptop Recreates the ThinkPad’s Iconic Nipple As a Joystick

Aside from maybe Apple’s MacBooks, there isn’t a line of laptops with as much brand recognition as IBM’s ThinkPads—now manufactured by Lenovo. They’ve been around for almost 30 years now and were responsible for some real innovations in laptop design, including the TrackPoint nub in the middle of the keyboard that Paul Klinger has lovingly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 31

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Could Be the iPad Pro Alternative Android Fans Have Been Waiting For

Last year I really enjoyed the Samsung Galaxy Tab S4. It doubled as both a simple media consumption gadget and a mobile productivity machine. And with the imminent arrival of iPad OS, it feels like premium tablets have matured to a point where they can frequently replace a traditional laptop. However, the Tab S4’s outdated…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Jul 31

The Art of Pirated Software

If you grew up in the age of BBSes, chances are the image above (or something like it) is familiar to you—a big splashy piece of artwork made with only ANSI characters, often accompanying a piece of software some faraway group of kids had cracked for all to use. Pirated software, which BBS users called…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jul 31

Ava DuVernay Teases a Few Familiar Faces for the New Gods Movie

William Shatner once again offers his potential return to the Captain’s Chair. Tom McLoughlin makes his pitch for a new Friday the 13th. Jill Soloway discusses her approach to Red Sonja. Plus, what’s to come in The 100’s season finale, Sam Witwer swaps National City for Riverdale, and the cast of Agents of SHIELD bid…

Television James Whitbrook Jul 31

What Would You Put in a Time Capsule For the Year 2024?

I’m fascinated by time capsules. Sometimes they’re incredibly boring, but every once in a while they’re filled with some very cool stuff. So I was surprised this week when I did a search for “time capsule” on YouTube and saw a bunch of young people creating videos that were directed at the year 2024. It’s…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 31

The History Channel is Digging Up John Dillinger’s Body But Nobody Really Knows Why

The History Channel has received a permit to dig up the body of 1930s gangster John Dillinger from his grave at a cemetery in Indiana. Why? Nobody really knows yet. Dillinger became a folk hero for robbing banks as a kind of Robin Hood figure during the Great Depression. And by all accounts, Dillinger was…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 31

Google Sticks Another Knife in Flash’s Corpse

The killing blow to multimedia software Flash made contact with its skull in 2017, when maker Adobe announced that it would begin Flash’s “end-of-life” phase and stop updating and distributing it by the end of 2020. Flash—which nerds of a certain age cohort may remember from sites like Newgrounds or files like “annoying.swf”—has been riddled…

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 31

Google’s Project Zero Finds Six ‘Interactionless’ iOS Vulnerabilities in iMessage App

Apple released bug fixes for five major security issues in iOS that can be exploited via its iMessage client app last week after they were discovered by researchers for competitor Google’s exploit-hunting Project Zero, though an additional issue was reported and not totally resolved in the iOS 12.4 update, according to the BBC. All of…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jul 30

The New Trailer for The Hunt Is Gory, Scary, and a Little Too Real

The cryptic first teaser for Craig Zobel’s The Hunt set the stage for something terrifying: a world where humans hunt others for sport. It’s a preposterous premise, of course—and it’s one that’s done before. In this trailer, though, we truly see a world divided and that makes the gore and scares even worse. It feels…

Trailers Germain Lussier Jul 30

News of an Employee’s Death at a Tesla Facility Renews Spotlight on History of Safety Concerns

Tesla confirmed Tuesday that the body of one of its employees was found at the company’s Gigfactory last week and police are currently investigating the incident, Business Insider reported. The body of Michael Johnston, 61, was found on the Nevada factory’s third floor on July 22, the Storey County Police Department told the site. (A…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Jul 30

Night of the Creeps Still Thrills Us With Its Mashup of ’80s Sci-Fi and Comedy Tropes

“Thrill me.” This simple phrase, uttered numerous times in Fred Dekker’s 1986 sci-fi horror film Night of the Creeps, is both a command and a challenge. The characters want to be thrilled and so does the audience. Luckily, we both get our wish, as Night of the Creeps still delivers thrills almost 35 years since…

Movies Germain Lussier Jul 30

New York Attorney General Launches Probe Into Capital One Data Breach That Affects 100 Million People

Following news this week that a mammoth data breach affected the personal information of millions of Capital One users, and with an individual now arrested in connection to the incident, Attorney General Letitia James of New York has announced her office is launching an “immediate” probe into the breach. “We will begin an immediate investigation…

Tech News Catie Keck Jul 30

Everything Cops Say About Amazon’s Ring Is Scripted or Approved by Ring

Amazon’s home security company Ring has garnered enormous control over the ways in which its law enforcement partners are allowed to portray its products, going as far as to review and even author statements attributed to police in the press, according to emails and documents obtained by Gizmodo. This summer, Ring even urged a Florida…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jul 30

The Former Flash Directors Make a Saving Throw for the Dungeons & Dragons Movie

The D&D movie rolls for initiative once more, but this time a new Dungeon Master is in charge. Well, Dungeon Masters. Variety reports that hot off of their creative-differences-based exit from Warner Bros.’ long in the works, seemingly cursed Flash standalone DC movie, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley will replace now-outgoing director Chris McKay…

Movies James Whitbrook Jul 30

As Presidential Candidates Descend on Detroit, the City Wants to Be the ‘Engine of the Green New Deal’

Detroit has seen its fair share of environmental disasters from industry pollution to ridiculous water bills. But the city is also building equitable solutions to address these issues, especially as climate change further threatens the health and well-being of Detroiters. It’s against this backdrop that the second Democratic presidential debates will be popping off on…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jul 30

3M Reinvents Bubble Wrap, Promises to Reduce Shipping Materials By Half

Despite repeatedly being called out for the practice, online stores like Amazon are still occasionally getting caught shipping tiny items in comically oversized boxes. It’s wasteful, it reduces the amount of cargo a truck can carry, and it inspired 3M to redesign bubble wrap to greatly reduce the packaging needed to ship smaller items. https://gizmodo.com/bubble-wraps-new-design-is-unpoppable-and-its-all-our-f-1715420994…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 30

Fragment of Medieval Poem About a Talking Vulva Found in Austrian Library

The poem involves a woman who is having a debate with her apparently opinionated vulva about which of the two is more attractive to men.

Human History George Dvorsky Jul 30

Viola Davis Is Turning Julia Hart’s Underrated Sci-Fi Film Fast Color Into an Amazon Series

The year is 2019, and people are not heeding the warnings about our planet’s imminent pivot to the apocalypse. Also, not enough of them are watching movies like Julia Hart’s Fast Color that provide insightful commentary about the state of the world through the superheroic lens we all love so much. That’s about to change,…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 30

Robert Picardo Says He Could Sign Up for Star Trek: Picard‘s Second Season

This Coalnado Is About as 2019 as It Gets

This Extremely Tiny Gaming Laptop Recreates the ThinkPad’s Iconic Nipple As a Joystick

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Could Be the iPad Pro Alternative Android Fans Have Been Waiting For

The Art of Pirated Software

Ava DuVernay Teases a Few Familiar Faces for the New Gods Movie

What Would You Put in a Time Capsule For the Year 2024?

The History Channel is Digging Up John Dillinger’s Body But Nobody Really Knows Why

Google Sticks Another Knife in Flash’s Corpse

Google’s Project Zero Finds Six ‘Interactionless’ iOS Vulnerabilities in iMessage App

The New Trailer for The Hunt Is Gory, Scary, and a Little Too Real

News of an Employee’s Death at a Tesla Facility Renews Spotlight on History of Safety Concerns

Night of the Creeps Still Thrills Us With Its Mashup of ’80s Sci-Fi and Comedy Tropes

New York Attorney General Launches Probe Into Capital One Data Breach That Affects 100 Million People

Everything Cops Say About Amazon’s Ring Is Scripted or Approved by Ring

The Former Flash Directors Make a Saving Throw for the Dungeons & Dragons Movie

As Presidential Candidates Descend on Detroit, the City Wants to Be the ‘Engine of the Green New Deal’

3M Reinvents Bubble Wrap, Promises to Reduce Shipping Materials By Half

Fragment of Medieval Poem About a Talking Vulva Found in Austrian Library

Viola Davis Is Turning Julia Hart’s Underrated Sci-Fi Film Fast Color Into an Amazon Series

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