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HBO’s Lovecraft Country Could Be Everything Green Book Wasn’t

There are as many valid criticisms of Peter Farrelly’s Best Picture Oscar-winner Green Book as there are listings in Victor Hugo Green’s The Negro Motorist Green Book. But an upcoming adaptation has a lot more potential to tell the real story, even if there are Lovecraftian monsters involved. The Negro Motorist Green Book (published from…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 6

President Trump Praises His Good Friend ‘Tim Apple’

Look at the photo above. “Why that’s Donald Trump and highly recognizable tech CEO Tim Cook!” you might think. But you’d be wrong, because below is video of the President calling the magnate by his true name during today’s Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting. “We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple,” said Trump. Early in…

Tech News Avery Ellis Mar 6

Trump Rescinds Policy of Reporting Civilian Deaths by Drone Strike

The head of the U.S. intelligence community is no longer required to publish an annual report detailing the number of civilians and enemy combatants killed in U.S. drone strikes abroad. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday revoking the reporting requirement, which had been implemented in the Obama administration’s final year. Section three…

Tech News Dell Cameron Mar 6

NASA Captures First-Ever Images of Intersecting Shockwaves From Two Supersonic Jets

An air-to-air imaging technology developed by NASA has resulted in the first images ever taken of interacting shockwaves produced by in-flight supersonic jets. The new images, in addition to being beautiful, will help NASA design jets capable of producing gentle rumbles instead of loud sonic booms when breaking the sound barrier. The project, called AirBOS,…

Tech News George Dvorsky Mar 6

George R.R. Martin Says There May Be ‘Discrepancies’ Between the Game of Thrones Finale and His Books

Yes, George R.R. Martin is still working on The Winds of Winter. Yes, that means A Dream of Spring will come eventually. But before that happens, we’re getting the eighth and final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. What will this spoil for fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire series? Hopefully: not…

io9 Beth Elderkin Mar 6

Professional Buster of Ghosts Ernie Hudson Joins Arrow in a Guest Role

He ain’t afraid of no arrows. Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson has signed onto a special guest role on an upcoming episode of the CW’s Arrow. According to Deadline, Hudson will appear in an upcoming episode called “Spartan,” playing a four-star general of the Defense Intelligence Agency (or DIA) who teams up with Oliver Queen and…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin Mar 6

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Privacy’

And on the sixth day of March the clouds above Menlo Park parted, and lo, Mark Zuckerberg spoke of privacy. Today was another Big Idea day for Mark, one where our pallid, lab-grown CEO shovels 3,000 words of pure disruption down our collective throats (in the form of a lengthy Facebook post). This particular sermon’s…

Social Media Avery Ellis Mar 6

Scientists Might Finally Know Why Some Icebergs Are Bright Green

In the 18th-century English ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a storm drives a sailor’s ship toward the South Pole, where he encounters all manner of fantastical sights, including floating icebergs “as green as emerald.” It may sound like author Samuel Coleridge was taking some poetic license, but emerald-colored icebergs are a real thing—and…

Earth Science Maddie Stone Mar 6

The Live-Action Gundam Movie Will Be Written By Saga’s Brian K. Vaughan

Legendary’s moving forward with its plans to put out a live-action movie based on Sunrise’s seminal and wildly influential Gundam series, and it’s found someone we’re very familiar with to write the script. Deadline reports that Saga co-creator Brian K. Vaughan has been tapped to write Gundam. The comic creator will also serve as an…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 6

Ritual Sacrifice of 137 Children Found at 15th-Century Archaeological Site in Peru

Archaeologists working at a 15th-century site in Peru have unearthed the remains of 137 children and 200 llamas in what’s now considered the largest mass child sacrifice known from the New World—and possibly of all time. The scene is almost impossible to comprehend. The researchers speculate it went something like this: One after one, the…

Human History George Dvorsky Mar 6

Ian McShane Says the American Gods Showrunners’ Firing Had to Do With ‘Ego, Hubris, and Money’

It’s no secret that—as fantastic as the first season of Starz’s American Gods was—there was enough behind-the-scenes drama involving the show’s co-creators and showrunners Michael Green and Bryan Fuller that they parted ways with the network, casting a certain amount of uncertainty over American Gods’ future. But American Gods has carried on into its second…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 6

Japanese Cops Investigate 13-Year-Old Prankster for Sharing Link to ‘Uncloseable’ Pop-Up Window

A 13-year-old girl living in Kariya, Japan has been investigated and chastised by police for sharing a prank link online. The link reportedly initiates a pop-up window designed to be impossible to close online. According to Japanese outlet NHK, the junior high school student was “guided” (a form of youth offender intervention in Japan) for…

Tech News Rhett Jones Mar 6

Ketamine Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment, but Who Will Be Able to Get It?

This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson’s Spravato, the nasal spray version of a ketamine-like sedative, for certain cases of depression. And the drug is already being heralded as a “game-changer” for depression and suicide treatment. But chief among the major questions the average person might have about the new drug…

Health Ed Cara Mar 6

It Looks Like Apple Is Softening Up Its Repair Policies

Multiple outlets report that Apple has changed its policy regarding repairs to iPhones with third-party battery replacements. These reports say that Apple will now fix iPhones even if the device has a non-Apple battery inside. And since batteries are perhaps the most essential repair for a mobile device, this is a big deal not only…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 6

Samsung Galaxy S10 Review: An Android Champ to Get Excited About

If the Pixel 3 was Google’s crowning achievement for showing how good a software-first approach to phone design can be, then the Galaxy S10 is a tribute to the hardware gods. Between a new take on the tired notched selfie cam, a redesigned rear camera setup with three different lenses, and incredible battery life, the…

Smartphones Sam Rutherford Mar 6

10 Cult Sci-Fi Movies About Environmental Revenge

Nature strikes back! That’s the shared theme of these 10 eco-horror movies we’ve compiled in honor of Garbage Week, all tales of terrible punishments that transpire when the environment lashes out against evil, wasteful, and destructive humans. Read on, and be warned: Mother Earth is growing weary of your shit. 10. Day of the Animals…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 6

Democrats’ Net Neutrality Bill Would Force Ajit Pai to Actually Do His Job

Top congressional Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation to restore the open internet rules repealed by the Trump administration in December 2017. Democrats in the House and Senate introduced companions bills aimed at reinstating the Obama-era net neutrality rules that prohibited broadband providers from blocking or throttling websites or offering preferred businesses higher-quality service for additional…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Mar 6

58 National Security Experts Denounce Trump’s Latest Plan to Dispute Climate Science

Top U.S. military and national security leaders have some Thoughts about President Donald Trump’s proposed Presidential Committee on Climate Security. The president is reportedly planning to inject some climate denial into the national security world with the panel whose existence first came to light last month, and 58 senior leaders with actual experience in this…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Mar 6

Facebook Wants to Help Your Heirs Better Manage Your Page When You Die

When you die in real life, your social media accounts remain—often as a digital mourning space for friends and family. Facebook is a particularly prominent example of that, and now the company is rolling out a new Tributes feature that lets users leave messages in a dedicated section of a memorialized account (that is, one…

Social Media Victoria Song Mar 6

Brightburn‘s Latest Trailer Might Be the Best Spin on Superman in Years

Raising a child is a terrifying, thrilling experience for all first-time parents because there’s no one way to make sure that you’re doing everything the “right” way and what said way would even necessarily look like. For the Breyers, the family at the center of David Yarovesky’s sci-fi/horror film Brightburn, the arrival of their first…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 6

HBO’s Lovecraft Country Could Be Everything Green Book Wasn’t

President Trump Praises His Good Friend ‘Tim Apple’

Trump Rescinds Policy of Reporting Civilian Deaths by Drone Strike

NASA Captures First-Ever Images of Intersecting Shockwaves From Two Supersonic Jets

George R.R. Martin Says There May Be ‘Discrepancies’ Between the Game of Thrones Finale and His Books

Professional Buster of Ghosts Ernie Hudson Joins Arrow in a Guest Role

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Privacy’

Scientists Might Finally Know Why Some Icebergs Are Bright Green

The Live-Action Gundam Movie Will Be Written By Saga’s Brian K. Vaughan

Ritual Sacrifice of 137 Children Found at 15th-Century Archaeological Site in Peru

Ian McShane Says the American Gods Showrunners’ Firing Had to Do With ‘Ego, Hubris, and Money’

Japanese Cops Investigate 13-Year-Old Prankster for Sharing Link to ‘Uncloseable’ Pop-Up Window

Ketamine Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment, but Who Will Be Able to Get It?

It Looks Like Apple Is Softening Up Its Repair Policies

Samsung Galaxy S10 Review: An Android Champ to Get Excited About

10 Cult Sci-Fi Movies About Environmental Revenge

Democrats’ Net Neutrality Bill Would Force Ajit Pai to Actually Do His Job

58 National Security Experts Denounce Trump’s Latest Plan to Dispute Climate Science

Facebook Wants to Help Your Heirs Better Manage Your Page When You Die

Brightburn‘s Latest Trailer Might Be the Best Spin on Superman in Years

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