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Hell Yeah, Burn Gorman Is Joining The Expanse

I’ll take one slice of “anything we actually get to learn about The Expanse season 4,” please. Amazon has announced, via a brief video greeting from the man himself, that Torchwood and Pacific Rim’s Burn Gorman will appear in The Expanse’s first-post-Syfy-outing as the hard-edged security chief Adolphus Murtry. In the original novels, Murtry (who…

io9 James Whitbrook Feb 7

There Are Odd Rumors About the Wild Length of Avengers: Endgame

Early rumors tease that the fifth Mad Max might finally be getting started. An Olympian joins the cast of American Horror Story’s ninth season. Boom Studio’s Talent might be coming to TV. Plus, new pictures from The Walking Dead’s return, meet the heroes of Doom Patrol, and say hello to Birds of Prey’s Black Canary.…

Television James Whitbrook Feb 7

A New Pet Sematary Trailer Reveals the Remake Will Scare You in a Slightly Different Way

The strongest argument against letting a young person ever have a pet is that, eventually, they’re likely to become emotionally attached to it, which’ll almost invariably become a problem once the pet in question decides to die. Everyone knows that there’s a certain amount of risk involving emotional trauma whenever kids are given the chance…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 7

AMD’s Radeon VII Is a Great Gaming Card, But That’s Just the Beginning

AMD’s fighting competitors on all fronts. It’s battling Intel in the CPU space, with each company advertising more cores and tacking on more features to woo users (and manufacturers) away from the other. Yet its battle against Nvidia in the GPU space is different. While Nvidia comfortably dominates the high-end space, AMD has been content…

Gaming Alex Cranz Feb 7

Watch the U.S. Test Another Unarmed Nuclear Missile During a Busy Week of Tests Worldwide

The U.S. launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base on February 5 in what’s shaping up to be a busy week of missile tests around the world. Much like other recent launches, the U.S. military insists that this latest test has nothing to do with current events, as military…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 7

Moto’s New Budget G7 Phones Pack Surprisingly Convincing Features for the Money

Motorola has made some of the best budget and mid-range phones for years. But Moto’s previous lineup of inexpensive devices was a bit confusing, as its offerings were split between the Moto G6 and G6 Play, and the even less expensive E5 Plus and E5 Play. In 2019, Moto is trimming down its G7 portfolio…

Reviews Sam Rutherford Feb 7

Facebook Says It Needs to Collect All Your Data to Protect Against Terrorism and Child Abuse

Facebook was slapped with a ruling in Germany today that limits how the social media giant can collect data across its multiple platforms, like WhatsApp and Instagram. And Facebook is not happy about it, to say the least. The company says it’s collecting all of that data for your own good. They’re simply using their…

Social Media Matt Novak Feb 7

Flickr: Seriously, Download Your Photos Before March 12 or Lose Them Forever

The good news is that Flickr has extended the deadline for users to download their images from its servers before it starts mass deleting photos. The bad news is that this is definitely still happening in mid-March, so really, really make it a priority this time if you want to save your stuff. “Based on…

Tech News Catie Keck Feb 7

Some iPhone Apps May Be Recording Users’ Screens Without Their Knowledge, Report Finds

Nothing is quite as unnerving as learning that the things we do on our phones aren’t private—even if we are regularly reminded that nothing is really sacred. On Wednesday, a TechCrunch investigation revealed that apps using analytics companies called Glassbox are not only recording the minutiae of how you use those apps, but also potentially…

Privacy & Security Catie Keck Feb 7

Tinder and Its Owner Match Group Had a Very, Very Horny 2018

Unstoppable online dating giant Match Group, a subsidiary of holding company InterActiveCorp, has acquired so many dating sites that some critics have wondered why it isn’t facing antitrust concerns. But the prize jewel in its empire is the Tinder app, which last year added 1.2 million subscribers and pulled in nearly as much money as…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 6

Amazon May Be Forcing Its Sellers to Contribute to Its Facial Recognition Program

Amazon has consistently faced ongoing outcry over its contentious Rekognition software, but that apparently isn’t stopping the company from testing out facial recognition technology on its sellers. BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday that an individual in Vietnam claimed that while attempting to create a seller profile, the company prompted him to grant access to Amazon to…

Commerce Catie Keck Feb 6

Marvel Is Celebrating Black History Month With Some Excellent (and Free) Black Panther Comics

It’s already been a good time for the King of Wakanda lately, with the Black Panther movie earning some historic Oscar nominations, and heading back to theaters to celebrate. But Marvel’s keeping the celebration going, and highlighting Black History Month, with a sweet deal on some of the best comics Wakanda has to offer. By…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Feb 6

I Like Pokémon Now

In my line of work, I need to know a little about a lot but I’m sorry, there are just too many damn Pokémon to keep track of.

Toys & Collectibles Jill Pantozzi Feb 6

Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf Will Be Adapted by Michael B. Jordan

Well, this is actually perfect. Marlon James’ epic fantasy novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf just his shelves yesterday, and it’s already been snapped up by Hollywood, in the form of Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan, who picked up the rights as part of a new producing deal with Warner Bros. If you read io9’s…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Feb 6

C.H.E.R.Y./L. the Robot Is Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt‘s Unsung Hero

Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has come to an end, and it’s time to celebrate its underappreciated hero. Way back in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s first season, Titus Andromedon (Titus Burgess) and Jacqueline White (Jane Krakowski) first met one another at a dinner party that ended up turning into the scene of a murder. The victim? Yuko…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 6

Cops Insist Waze Users Stop Snitching on DWI Checkpoints (Updated)

The popular traffic app Waze gathers user-submitted feedback to alert drivers to possible inconveniences they might experience on the road—inconveniences like getting stuck at DWI traffic point. Now, the NYPD reportedly has a message for Waze and its parent company Google: Snitches get stitches. CBS New York obtained a cease and desist letter that it…

Tech News Rhett Jones Feb 6

Google Should Force Better Security on Nest Users

It took a growing mountain of home hacking horror stories going viral, but Google on Wednesday finally took action by telling their customers to stop messing everything up. In the last few weeks, multiple stories have emerged about owners of Nest security cameras—at least some of which have speakers through which users can talk—seeing their…

Privacy & Security Patrick Howell O'Neill Feb 6

Skype Can Now Blur Your Background So You Don’t Have to Frantically Tidy Your Room

Slobs of the world, don’t work too hard KonMari-ing your apartment or office ahead of your next important Skype call. The video conferencing service is introducing blurred backgrounds so you can obscure your mess with dignity. According to Skype’s announcement, the new feature works like the background blur functionality in Microsoft Teams, which was introduced…

Tech News Victoria Song Feb 6

Six Newly Discovered Catfish Species Have Faces Full of Tentacles

The rainforest-flanked rivers of tropical South America hold six more species of catfish than previously thought, new research suggests. But these aren’t the wide-mouthed, whiskered catfish you may be familiar with from murky waterways throughout the U.S. interior. The new fishes look like something out of a D&D Monster Manual: sucker-mouthed, adorned in armor plating,…

Earther Jake Buehler Feb 6

Someone Needs to Tell Trump About Automation

The first substantive claim President Donald Trump made in his second State of the Union address concerned what is perhaps his favorite non-Wallean topic: blue-collar jobs. If there are two professions that Trump has awkwardly and effusively embraced during his tenure as president, it’s coal and manufacturing—you know, salt-of-the-earth jobs. Manly jobs. American jobs. Disappearing…

Artificial Intelligence Brian Merchant Feb 6

Hell Yeah, Burn Gorman Is Joining The Expanse

There Are Odd Rumors About the Wild Length of Avengers: Endgame

A New Pet Sematary Trailer Reveals the Remake Will Scare You in a Slightly Different Way

AMD’s Radeon VII Is a Great Gaming Card, But That’s Just the Beginning

Watch the U.S. Test Another Unarmed Nuclear Missile During a Busy Week of Tests Worldwide

Moto’s New Budget G7 Phones Pack Surprisingly Convincing Features for the Money

Facebook Says It Needs to Collect All Your Data to Protect Against Terrorism and Child Abuse

Flickr: Seriously, Download Your Photos Before March 12 or Lose Them Forever

Some iPhone Apps May Be Recording Users’ Screens Without Their Knowledge, Report Finds

Tinder and Its Owner Match Group Had a Very, Very Horny 2018

Amazon May Be Forcing Its Sellers to Contribute to Its Facial Recognition Program

Marvel Is Celebrating Black History Month With Some Excellent (and Free) Black Panther Comics

I Like Pokémon Now

Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf Will Be Adapted by Michael B. Jordan

C.H.E.R.Y./L. the Robot Is Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt‘s Unsung Hero

Cops Insist Waze Users Stop Snitching on DWI Checkpoints (Updated)

Google Should Force Better Security on Nest Users

Skype Can Now Blur Your Background So You Don’t Have to Frantically Tidy Your Room

Six Newly Discovered Catfish Species Have Faces Full of Tentacles

Someone Needs to Tell Trump About Automation

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