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Earth Is Dying and It’s Time for Humans to GTFO in the First Trailer for Netflix’s IO

The planet has become dangerously toxic, and a woman (Margaret Qualley) who’s determined to go down with the ship meets a fellow survivor (Anthony Mackie), who tells her the very last shuttle ferrying people to a space colony is about to depart. Will she go—and more importantly, will they make it? After Bird Box, Netflix…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Jan 10

Hubble Space Telescope Faces More Hardware Trouble

The Hubble Space Telescope team has temporarily suspended operations of Wide Field Camera 3 following a hardware glitch. The camera contains redundant electronics in case of an issue, according to the Space Telescope Science Institute, so it will hopefully be fine. Still, this is the second notable hardware problem Hubble’s faced in a few months.…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jan 10

YouTube Allows Disney Nerds to Relive Extinct Theme Park Attractions

The Disney nerd community recognized a sad anniversary yesterday. It’s been 20 years since the ride Horizons closed at the Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World. But there was one bright spot. People were able to share home videos of the beloved “extinct attraction” on YouTube. Some of the videos that were being widely…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 10

Aca-scuse Me? Netflix’s Carmen Sandiego Won’t Use the Acapella Theme Song

The Bellas from Pitch Perfect might be the queens of acapella, but the folks behind the theme song to PBS’s Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? game show are practically gods. So, it was delightful to see Rockapella’s founder back with a new version of the acapella theme song—but tragic to learn it won’t be…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jan 10

This Robot Doesn’t Care If You Want to Buy It, But Maybe That’s Why It’ll Succeed

Home robots had a bad 2018, and compared to previous years, they’re not as visible on the ground at CES 2019, too. The robots that haven’t bit the dust tend to be of the “teach kids how to code” variety, or conceptual bots like the laundry folding FoldiMate that at this point are more CES…

Tech News Victoria Song Jan 10

Updates From the World of Alien, Marvel’s Plans for Silver Surfer, and More

Karen Gillan could be leading her own assassin movie universe. Adam McKay says he’s talked to Marvel about bringing the Silver Surfer to the big screen. A few more Toho classics could appear in a potential Godzilla 3. Plus. Chris Pine teases Steve Trevor’s demeanor in Wonder Woman 1984 and what’s to come on The…

Television James Whitbrook Jan 10

Scientists Have a Plan to Turn Seabirds Into Tiny Ocean Science Labs

In the future, cyborg birds may help monitor ocean currents and help ground-truth satellite data. It may sound like an odd prognostication, but a study released on Thursday in Scientific Reports lays the groundwork. Scientists slapped small GPS units on Scopoli’s shearwaters, a common seabird found throughout the Mediterranean and east Atlantic. Rather than tracking…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Jan 10

Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD’s New GPU: ‘The Performance Is Lousy’

Yesterday I spent two hours listening to the CEOs of rival companies talk trash about each other. It reminded me of my parents right after their divorce. Nvidia was shit talking AMD, and AMD politely responded with just enough bite for you to take notice. Yesterday, AMD announced a new graphics card, the $700 Radeon…

Tech News Alex Cranz Jan 10

Juul Is Leaning Hard Into Its New ‘Adult Education Campaign’

Following increased pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Juul Labs is taking a notably different approach from its ad campaigns of yore—the ones accused of making its e-cigarette products widely appealing to kids. The company unveiled new TV spots this week as part of its “adult education campaign” aimed at enticing adults to…

Tech News Catie Keck Jan 10

Trump Officially Nominates Coal Shill Andrew Wheeler to Head the EPA

President Donald Trump on Wednesday officially nominated Andrew Wheeler—former coal lobbyist and man with little tact on social media—to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wheeler, who has been serving as acting chief following the ouster of former EPA leader Scott Pruitt, could be confirmed to the role before the end of the ongoing…

Earther Catie Keck Jan 10

China Backs Second Kim Jong Un-Donald Trump Nuclear Summit

Given the nightmarish hustle of Donald Trump’s administration, it’s hard to believe that it was less than a year ago when Trump met North Korean totalitarian strongman Kim Jong Un for a historic nuclear summit in Singapore in June 2018. The two men described each other in glowing terms, watched a bizarre “Destiny Pictures” film…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jan 10

Self-Described Proud Boy, QAnon Believer Arrested for Allegedly Murdering Brother With Sword

A 26-year-old Seattle man who described himself online as both a member of the far-right Proud Boys group and a believer in the sprawling QAnon conspiracy theory, Buckey Wolfe, is in custody after allegedly stabbing his brother in the head with a sword on Sunday, the Seattle Times reported. Prosecutors say Wolfe stabbed his brother…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 9

Homeless Man Connected to $400,000 Alleged GoFundMe Scam Arrested in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Police Department said Wednesday that Johnny Bobbitt Jr., the homeless man linked to an alleged GoFundMe scam that raised more than $400,000, was arrested after he failed to appear in court in New Jersey the previous day. A spokesperson for the Philadelphia department, Jeff Chrusch, confirmed the arrest to CBS News, which reported…

Tech News Catie Keck Jan 9

Report of Bounty Hunters Buying Phone Location Data Leaves U.S. Senators Seething

Senate Democrats called on federal agencies Wednesday to investigate the practice by major telecommunications companies of selling location data generated by subscribers’ mobile devices following an undercover investigation by a security reporter that shed new light on a black market trade. In a report Tuesday, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox described the process he underwent to…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jan 9

Twitter Mulls Redesign That Looks a Heck of a Lot Like Facebook, Just With More Neo-Nazis

Twitter will be rolling out beta updates including “conversational”-style speech bubbles and indented/color-coded replies based on whether you follow another user in the coming weeks, the Verge reported on Wednesday. Other features under consideration, but which will not be available in the forthcoming beta, include green-colored status availability icons that might indicate whether a user…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 9

Netflix Gets Its Own Killer Time Loop Show in the First Russian Doll Trailer

Normal time loop stories are out. Time loop stories based around someone dying over and over? In. Netflix has just dropped the first trailer for Russian Doll, a new show from Amy Poehler, Natasha Lyonne, and Leslye Headland about a woman named Nadia (played by Lyonne), who finds herself sent back to a set point…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 9

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Second Season Is Being Helped by a New Captain Who’s Not a Massive Asshole

Turns out when you a) kill your good figure of authority two episodes in and b) replace them with a morally grey scapegoat you eventually reveal is an alt-universe, MAGA-quoting, colossal space-tool, you don’t really have the time to get into the heady moral questions of the day. So it’s a good job Star Trek:…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 9

ACLU Warns: Trump’s Attorney General Pick Is the ‘Godfather’ of America’s Surveillance Hell

The corporate lawyer and former chief U.S. law enforcement officer nominated to replace Jeff Sessions at the Justice Department has a controversial past involving the warrantless surveillance of Americans and once fought to make it easier for phone companies to secretly hand over customer records to the government, legal experts at the American Civil Liberties…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jan 9

Some More Extremely Minor Things From CES 2019 That You Just Might Like

As the dust settles on CES and all of the big gadgets have astounded or disappointed, it’s time for another round up of the little devices that weren’t notable enough to warrant their own coverage but still deserve plenty of love. ZenPod It’s been about a year since the fidget spinner fad died off and…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jan 9

New Steven Universe Trailer Teases an All-Out Diamond War

Though Steven him recently got a chance to escape all the action on Homeworld, the latest trailer for Cartoon Network’s next big Steven Universe event, “Battle of Heart and Mind,” is a promise that when the show returns in a few weeks, the battle’s back on and the stakes are raised. With the other Crystal…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 9

Earth Is Dying and It’s Time for Humans to GTFO in the First Trailer for Netflix’s IO

Hubble Space Telescope Faces More Hardware Trouble

YouTube Allows Disney Nerds to Relive Extinct Theme Park Attractions

Aca-scuse Me? Netflix’s Carmen Sandiego Won’t Use the Acapella Theme Song

This Robot Doesn’t Care If You Want to Buy It, But Maybe That’s Why It’ll Succeed

Updates From the World of Alien, Marvel’s Plans for Silver Surfer, and More

Scientists Have a Plan to Turn Seabirds Into Tiny Ocean Science Labs

Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD’s New GPU: ‘The Performance Is Lousy’

Juul Is Leaning Hard Into Its New ‘Adult Education Campaign’

Trump Officially Nominates Coal Shill Andrew Wheeler to Head the EPA

China Backs Second Kim Jong Un-Donald Trump Nuclear Summit

Self-Described Proud Boy, QAnon Believer Arrested for Allegedly Murdering Brother With Sword

Homeless Man Connected to $400,000 Alleged GoFundMe Scam Arrested in Philadelphia

Report of Bounty Hunters Buying Phone Location Data Leaves U.S. Senators Seething

Twitter Mulls Redesign That Looks a Heck of a Lot Like Facebook, Just With More Neo-Nazis

Netflix Gets Its Own Killer Time Loop Show in the First Russian Doll Trailer

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Second Season Is Being Helped by a New Captain Who’s Not a Massive Asshole

ACLU Warns: Trump’s Attorney General Pick Is the ‘Godfather’ of America’s Surveillance Hell

Some More Extremely Minor Things From CES 2019 That You Just Might Like

New Steven Universe Trailer Teases an All-Out Diamond War

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