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Google Wants to Use AI to Track Pollution from Every Power Plant on Earth

Satellites are our eyes in the sky or, er, in space. Now, a coalition of groups is turning to satellites and AI technology to help monitor emissions from all the world’s power plants. This week, Google announced it had awarded $1.7 million to the team, which include WattTime, a nonprofit that develops tech to help…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes May 10 '19

The Wachowskis Are Plugging Back Into The Matrix, According to John Wick’s Director [Updated]

Looks like they might not be taking the blue pill after all. According to John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum director and The Matrix stunt performer Chad Stahelski, Lilly and Lana Wachowski are indeed returning to their groundbreaking franchise to work on a new Matrix project. The stunt performer-turned-filmmaker told Yahoo Movies that the Wachowskis are…

Movies Beth Elderkin May 10 '19

Right to Repair Is Less Complicated and More Important Than You Might Think

Take a second to look around you and consider the various gadgets within eyeshot. How many of them, if they broke, could you reasonably fix right now? Could you afford (or even know how) to repair your phone or computer? Your car? How about your coffee maker? Consider what you’d do with them if pricey…

Politics Catie Keck May 10 '19

Nest, as You Knew It, Is No More

There was a lot of news at Google’s I/O developer conference this year, but when it came to the smart home, one thing stuck out. Nest, which Google bought back in 2014 for $3.2 billion, has been fully absorbed and rebranded as Google Nest. This isn’t the sort of rebranding where Google just slaps the…

Tech News Victoria Song May 10 '19

Penis Enlargement Surgery Is a Total Scam, Big Study Finds

In case there was any doubt—penis enlargement surgeries are usually ineffective and can leave men psychologically and physically damaged, according to a new study. The analysis, published in Sexual Medicine Reviews, reviewed 17 studies that had assessed 21 different types of operations used on the penises of 1,192 men. The two most common types of…

Health Jennings Brown May 10 '19

Thanks to Fox News, Republicans Now Hate the Green New Deal

For a brief, shining moment, Americans were largely united in their support of a Green New Deal. When the policy was first announced, Americans didn’t know a lot about it but they generally liked the sound of transitioning to 100 percent clean energy through a massive, New Deal-style jobs program. New polling results from Yale…

Climate Change Brian Kahn May 10 '19

Ryan Reynolds Didn’t Immediately Say ‘Yes’ to Detective Pikachu

When Ryan Reynolds was first offered the role of Detective Pikachu, Legendary Pictures didn’t just send him the script. The studio also sent him a fully-rendered version of the character paired with his voice. “It was pretty mind-blowing,” Reynolds told io9 late last month in Tokyo. “The motion capture hadn’t been done yet, so my…

Movies Brian Ashcraft May 10 '19

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No Jeff, We Don’t Need to Go to Space to Save Humanity

I love space. I am very excited for humans to explore space more, and I’m even okay with us going back to the Moon for starters. Space is a vast frontier of scientific discoveries waiting to be made; a chance for us to probe the mysteries of the universe and learn more about ourselves. What…

Earther Maddie Stone May 10 '19

Here’s Everything Jeff Bezos Said to Convince Humanity That Space Colonies Are the Future

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest man on the planet, gave an hour-long presentation yesterday about his plans for humanity’s future living on the moon and in space colonies. It was a bit like watching a monologue from a sci-fi movie in a lot of ways. And now you can finally view the entire presentation…

Space & Spaceflight Matt Novak May 10 '19

Star Trek’s Picard Series Will Be a ‘Psychological’ Look at His Later Years

We’ve known for a while that the upcoming Jean-Luc Picard series wasn’t going to be about the glory days of an older Jean-Luc still captaining his way to adventures across the stars. But here’s your latest reminder that, well: this is not going to go the way you think. Speaking to the L.A. Times as…

io9 James Whitbrook May 10 '19

AirPods Suck Compared to the New Powerbeats Pro

The only earbuds more recognizable than the tortured white teardrops that are AirPods might be Powerbeats. These things look like rubberized hoop earrings glued to plastic boxes, flipped upside down and strung together with a dorky wire. Well, at least they used to look like that. Beats just released a new truly wireless model called…

Headphones Adam Clark Estes May 10 '19

A Guardians of the Galaxy Star Could Play The Suicide Squad‘s King Shark

Fast and Furious’ villainous car-wizard Cipher could be getting her own spinoff. Jason Momoa teases an eco-minded Aquaman 2. Harvey Birdman’s assistant Birdgirl is getting a TV series. Plus, Cloak & Dagger gets downright pixellated, a violent new clip from Brightburn, and it takes two to tango on the next iZombie. To me, my spoilers!…

Television James Whitbrook May 10 '19

Two Charged in Anthem Breach That Exposed the Personal Data of 78 Million Americans

Federal prosecutors have charged two individuals in connection to the 2014 data breach of a major health insurance provider that exposed the personal data of tens of millions of Americans. An indictment unsealed Thursday names Chinese national Wang Fujie, known also by the name Dennis Wang, and another individual identified only by online aliases—including “Zhou…

Tech News Catie Keck May 10 '19

Google Is Releasing More Than 50 New Gender-Inclusive Emoji

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, emoji have become a key part of the way that many of us communicate, and that makes representation vitally important to the way they’re designed. With this in mind, Google is releasing 53 new emoji that work to be more gender inclusive. In an exclusive, Fast Company reported Tuesday that…

Tech News Catie Keck May 9 '19

Avengers: Endgame Has Some Nerve Making Fun of Time Travel Movies

Because real-world time travel back and forth between the past and present is not (yet) possible, and the underlying science behind our working theories as to how it might one day be possible can be difficult to grasp, our ideas about it have largely been shaped by fictional depictions in books, television shows, and movies…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore May 9 '19

San Francisco Has More Billionaires Per Capita Than Anywhere Else on Earth

Have you ever been to billionaire’s row in San Francisco? It’s an exceptionally rich part of San Francisco filled with enormous tech wealth, the kind of place where you can make a living out of digging through the trash of the rich. Sitting on top of Silicon Valley, San Francisco has the highest density of…

Tech News Patrick Howell O'Neill May 9 '19

Chelsea Manning Has Been Released From Jail

Chelsea Manning was released today from the Virginia jail where she spent 62 days for refusing to testify about her past ties to WikiLeaks before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Attorneys for Manning said the release came after the grand jury’s term expired on Thursday. Her legal team has already…

Tech News Dell Cameron May 9 '19

Here’s How You’ll Be Told to ‘Move Along’ at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

It’ll take more than a Jedi mind trick to get people to “move along” from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge when the attraction first opens. Fans who were lucky enough to secure a four-hour reservation to visit the highly anticipated Disneyland expansion next month will wear wristbands designating their time slots. When their time is over,…

Movies Germain Lussier May 9 '19

There’s Something Off About the Caregiving Robot in the First Trailer for I Am Mother

When your robot mother tells you the world has been destroyed and not to go outside, you do what robot mom tells you. That is until Hilary Swank joins the fun, of course. That’s a jokey way of explaining the much more serious new film I Am Mother, which debuted at Sundance earlier this year…

Trailers Germain Lussier May 9 '19

These Are the U.S. Counties Where Measles Could Strike Next

Like every single live-action Disney movie out this year, measles is making the comeback no one asked for. Already, there have been more than 700 cases of the viral and vaccine-preventable disease reported in the U.S. this year—a record high since it was eradicated in the country nearly 20 years ago. Things could get much…

Health Ed Cara May 9 '19

Google Wants to Use AI to Track Pollution from Every Power Plant on Earth

The Wachowskis Are Plugging Back Into The Matrix, According to John Wick’s Director [Updated]

Right to Repair Is Less Complicated and More Important Than You Might Think

Nest, as You Knew It, Is No More

Penis Enlargement Surgery Is a Total Scam, Big Study Finds

Thanks to Fox News, Republicans Now Hate the Green New Deal

Ryan Reynolds Didn’t Immediately Say ‘Yes’ to Detective Pikachu

No Jeff, We Don’t Need to Go to Space to Save Humanity

Here’s Everything Jeff Bezos Said to Convince Humanity That Space Colonies Are the Future

Star Trek’s Picard Series Will Be a ‘Psychological’ Look at His Later Years

AirPods Suck Compared to the New Powerbeats Pro

A Guardians of the Galaxy Star Could Play The Suicide Squad‘s King Shark

Two Charged in Anthem Breach That Exposed the Personal Data of 78 Million Americans

Google Is Releasing More Than 50 New Gender-Inclusive Emoji

Avengers: Endgame Has Some Nerve Making Fun of Time Travel Movies

San Francisco Has More Billionaires Per Capita Than Anywhere Else on Earth

Chelsea Manning Has Been Released From Jail

Here’s How You’ll Be Told to ‘Move Along’ at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

There’s Something Off About the Caregiving Robot in the First Trailer for I Am Mother

These Are the U.S. Counties Where Measles Could Strike Next

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