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YouTube Has Plans for Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Shows—But Don’t Expect Bandersnatch

Well, folks, it appears the inevitable choose-your-own-adventure-style YouTube programming may soon be coming to a channel near you. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that YouTube will designate a new team to the interactive programming. This is, as you might have guessed, a money-making initiative that Bloomberg said is intended to boost views and ad revenue for the…

Tech News Catie Keck Apr 9

Doctor Who‘s Newest Animated Adventure Is a Truly Brilliant Rejuvenation

The fact that so much of Doctor Who’s early history is lost to time—97 episodes seemingly gone forever, thanks to the BBC’s program of archive junking throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s—has made every chance to see it recovered a monumental event. But it also gives us some blinders when it comes to how we remember…

Television James Whitbrook Apr 9

Microsoft Claims Nearly Half of People in the U.S. Don’t Use the Internet at Broadband Speeds

Tomorrow the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to better examine the state of broadband maps in the U.S. These maps currently suggest just 25 million Americans are without access to broadband internet, which is defined as speeds of 25Mbps. But according to numbers released by Microsoft today, 162.8 million people don’t use broadband…

Tech News Alex Cranz Apr 9

Game of Thrones Language Builder David Peterson Is Working on Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

The man who crafted the languages of Essos for HBO’s Game of Thrones is heading to Arrakis. Dothraki and Valyrian language builder David J. Peterson is doing language work for Denis Villeneuve’s highly-anticipated Dune. Now, how do you say “the spice must flow” in High Valyrian? Peterson, who previously stated he was in the middle…

Movies Beth Elderkin Apr 9

The Forecast for the Midwest’s Next Giant Storm Just Got Way Worse

Well, that escalated quickly. Less than a day after calling for a half foot of snow and gusty winds to hit a portion of the Midwest this week, the National Weather Service has vastly upped its forecast. A sprawling complex of winter weather, storm, blizzard, and flood warnings now blanket an area from Colorado to…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Apr 9

A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Without Ever Knowing Her Organs Were in the Wrong Places

A 99-year-old woman in Oregon lived a long life with one of the world’s rarest and often fatal conditions: a body in which most of her major organs were on the wrong side. Even more amazingly, the woman remained blissfully unaware of her unusual predicament. It was only after medical students and their professor got…

Health Ed Cara Apr 9

Declassified U2 Spy Plane Photos Expose Hidden Archaeological Sites

During the Cold War, the United States flew U2 spy planes over Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia in search of potential military targets. These missions inadvertently gathered historical information, which archaeologists are now using for scientific purposes. New research published last month in the science journal Advances in Archaeological Practice describes the…

Human History George Dvorsky Apr 9

The First Machine-Generated Book by a Scholarly Publisher Is a Boring Read

Amazon’s online book store is plagued with thousands of auto-generated ebooks crudely hacked together from other texts by shady authors” looking to make a quick buck. Most are unreadable, but it’s not always going to be that way. Springer Nature, a publisher serving the research community, just published its first book that was generated by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 9

There’s a Good Reason Why the Avengers’ White Suits Are in Endgame’s Marketing

So far, the trailers for Avengers: Endgame have given us almost nothing. We know a lot of people are dead, we know the Avengers are sad and have a plan, but that’s kind of it. However, there are those intriguing white suits everyone is wearing, which seem more than a little significant. “Obviously anything that…

Movies Germain Lussier Apr 9

You Can Soon Create and Edit Google Files in Dropbox

Dropbox has finally delivered on a long-awaited partnership with G Suite for native editing tools, and it definitely seems like it was worth the wait. Dropbox Group Product Manager Josh Kaplan said in a blog post on Tuesday that the open beta—for now available only to Dropbox Business teams—allows a whole host of functions, including…

Tech News Catie Keck Apr 9

That Viral Story About Selfie-Takers on a Thai Beach ‘Facing the Death Penalty’ Is Totally Fake

Recently, you may have seen news stories claiming that tourists could “face the death penalty” for taking selfies on a certain beach in Thailand—which we can all agree is a little bit extreme. Thankfully, those claims are totally fake. This week, a flurry of fear-mongering reports came out warning that taking a photo on Mai Khao…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Apr 9

Apple Music Censors Songs in China Referencing 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and Democracy, Watchdog Says

Apple needs China. But it comes at a cost. More than just the place where much of the company’s hardware is built, China is the biggest market in the world, and it’s the third-largest market for Apple. While other big American tech firms have limited their operations in China at least in part to avoid…

Tech News Patrick Howell O'Neill Apr 9

Witness Anson Mount’s Latest Dramatic Star Trek Transformation Come Together

Last week’s Star Trek: Discovery included a very major revelation for Captain Pike—a divisive one, depending on how you feel about the show’s relationship with its wider connections to the original Trek. But regardless of how you regarded the reveal, it’s hard to deny one thing: It took some pretty amazing practical work to achieve…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 9

Scientists Dream of a Future Where Flying Cars Fight Climate Change

The flying car has been just a few years away for, well, years. The predictions aren’t getting more optimistic under President Donald Trump, but now science is offering a surprising new reason for us to make flying cars a reality: We might need them to fight climate change. A study released Tuesday in Nature Communications…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Apr 9

New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine

If using the law to corral antivaxxers doesn’t work at first, try, try again. At least, that seems to be the lesson learned by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. On Tuesday, he declared a state of emergency and mandated residents of the Williamsburg neighborhood, where an outbreak of measles has been raging since…

Health Ed Cara Apr 9

Kids Start Bawling as Movie Theater Plays Horror Trailers Before Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun

The upcoming horror movies Ma and Brightburn aren’t intended for little kids. But a movie theater full of children got an unwanted peek at the films recently anyway when the trailers were screened for unsuspecting families. The poor kids were there to see the new Peppa Pig movie, Festival of Fun. A reporter from the…

Movies Matt Novak Apr 9

The First Details on Disney’s Streaming Monsters, Inc. Series Are Here

Disney+ is adding another marquee title to its growing list of streaming content. Star Wars has The Mandalorian. Marvel has shows for Loki and other characters in the works. And now, one of Disney’s other huge properties, Pixar, will have its own series, set in the world of Monsters Inc. Ahead of a Disney investor event…

io9 Germain Lussier Apr 9

Hacker Gets Six Years in Jail for Blackmailing Porn Site Visitors

A former computer science student who used the moniker K!NG and made more than $900,000 scamming visitors to legal porn sites using ransomware has been sentenced to six years in jail, the BBC reports. Zain Qaiser is now 24, but authorities say most of his hacking activity took place when he was 17 through 19,…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Apr 9

Why Captain Marvel Has on More Make-Up in Endgame Than Her Solo Movie

What’s up with the make-up? That’s what fans wanted to know after the second trailer for Avengers: Endgame, which finally added Captain Marvel into the manic mix of superheroes. Many noticed that in her solo outing, which was directed by a man and a woman, Carol Danvers didn’t wear much make-up, but in Endgame, which…

Movies Germain Lussier Apr 9

Intricate Skin Impressions Still Visible on ‘Exquisitely Preserved’ Dinosaur Footprints

During the Early Cretaceous, a small two-legged dinosaur walked across a stretch of fine-grained mud following a rainstorm. The resulting footprints became locked in stone, but unlike other fossilized dinosaur tracks, these 120-million-year-old fossils show skin impressions across the entire footprint, in what is considered an unprecedented discovery. Fossilized dinosaur footprints are fairly common in…

Biology George Dvorsky Apr 9

YouTube Has Plans for Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Shows—But Don’t Expect Bandersnatch

Doctor Who‘s Newest Animated Adventure Is a Truly Brilliant Rejuvenation

Microsoft Claims Nearly Half of People in the U.S. Don’t Use the Internet at Broadband Speeds

Game of Thrones Language Builder David Peterson Is Working on Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

The Forecast for the Midwest’s Next Giant Storm Just Got Way Worse

A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Without Ever Knowing Her Organs Were in the Wrong Places

Declassified U2 Spy Plane Photos Expose Hidden Archaeological Sites

The First Machine-Generated Book by a Scholarly Publisher Is a Boring Read

There’s a Good Reason Why the Avengers’ White Suits Are in Endgame’s Marketing

You Can Soon Create and Edit Google Files in Dropbox

That Viral Story About Selfie-Takers on a Thai Beach ‘Facing the Death Penalty’ Is Totally Fake

Apple Music Censors Songs in China Referencing 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and Democracy, Watchdog Says

Witness Anson Mount’s Latest Dramatic Star Trek Transformation Come Together

Scientists Dream of a Future Where Flying Cars Fight Climate Change

New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine

Kids Start Bawling as Movie Theater Plays Horror Trailers Before Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun

The First Details on Disney’s Streaming Monsters, Inc. Series Are Here

Hacker Gets Six Years in Jail for Blackmailing Porn Site Visitors

Why Captain Marvel Has on More Make-Up in Endgame Than Her Solo Movie

Intricate Skin Impressions Still Visible on ‘Exquisitely Preserved’ Dinosaur Footprints

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