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Our New Lois Lane Is Grimm‘s Elizabeth Tulloch

Though she’s been referenced several times on Supergirl, fans were wondering when Lois Lane would join the journalistic fray. Well, the CW has finally found its ace reporter. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Elizabeth Tulloch, who also goes by Bitsie Tulloch, has been cast as the intrepid reporter for the upcoming Arrowverse crossover event coming…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Sep 14

Maybe You Should Just Buy an Old iPhone

If you missed the memo, Apple showed off new iPhones this week, but it also kept a few older models on sale—all the way back to the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, which first made their bow back in 2016. But maybe iPhone doesn’t have to be a new new iPhone. For simplicity’s sake…

Tech News David Nield Sep 14

America’s Top Nazi Sued Warner Bros. for Libel in 1939 Because He Didn’t Like the Movie Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Fritz Kuhn was a despicable man. But he and his fellow Nazi followers in the United States thought he had a valuable reputation to protect. Which is why Kuhn sued Warner Bros. for libel in 1939 after the Hollywood studio released a film called Confessions of a Nazi Spy. If you know Fritz Kuhn’s name…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 14

The Latest Star Wars Resistance Video Introduces New Characters and Has Some Tantalizing Teases

Star Wars Resistance is just messing with us at this point, and we’re absolutely here for it. USA Today just posted a new video from the upcoming Star Wars animated series that introduces a group of characters on the show called “The Aces.” Unlike Team Fireball, who we met in this video, the Aces are…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 14

Solo Colonoscopies, Cannibal Calories, and More 2018 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

From workplace voodoo dolls and self-inflicted colonoscopies to cannibalistic diets and using roller coasters to pass kidney stones, here are the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes. It’s that time of year again, when some of the strangest science gets its turn to shine. To be clear, the Ig Nobel Prizes aren’t meant to…

Tech News George Dvorsky Sep 14

Apple Magically Makes the Notch Disappear

If you’re planning to buy one of the new iPhones Apple just announced, you should know something by now: It will have a notch. It’s tough to swallow, I know, but when Apple based all its new phones on the iPhone X, it was always going to show up and take a squircle-shaped bite out…

Tech News Harri Weber Sep 14

For Some Reason, Marvel Just Cancelled Chelsea Cain’s Upcoming The Vision Series

Writer Chelsea Cain has penned some of Marvel’s best comics in recent years, which is one of the things that made the targeted harassment campaign against her in the wake of her excellent Mockingbird series so difficult to witness. But now, a new series she was in the middle of has been canceled before the…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 14

House Passes Bill to Advance Quantum Science in the U.S.

The House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act yesterday. When signed into law, the bill will outline a 10-year plan to push forward applications using the counterintuitive science of subatomic particles. The House bill, sponsored by congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), serves to “ensure the continued leadership of the United States” in this technology—as…

Tech Policy Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 14

Python Programming Language Ditches ‘Master-Slave’ Terms, Pissing Off Some

A quiet debate has been brewing in the coding community for years that’s forced programmers to ask if using the terms “master” and “slave” are insensitive. Now, Python, one of the most popular high-level programming languages in the world, has ditched the terminology—and not everyone is happy about it. Master/Slave is generally used in hardware,…

Tech News Rhett Jones Sep 14

RIP, Young Orca J-50

Today, we mourn. J-50, a 4-year-old female orca with the imperiled southern resident pod off the coast of Washington state, was presumed dead Thursday after a long health battle that spurred unprecedented governmental intervention. Officials with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) still plan to search for her, but their intensive searches Thursday turned…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Sep 14

‘Telescope Did Not See Aliens,’ Director of Mysteriously Shut Down Observatory Claims

It has been a week since the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, was shut down, evacuated, and visited by FBI agents—and the undisclosed “security issue” behind all this activity remains a mystery to the public. Theories about the true reasoning behind the shutdown range from an accidental interception of military signals to captured…

Space & Spaceflight Jennings Brown Sep 14

SpaceX Reboots Plan to Send Tourists Around the Moon—and It’s About to Name the First Passenger

In a tweet posted late yesterday, SpaceX said it has signed a passenger to fly around the Moon aboard its next-generation launch system. Details are scarce, but the announcement suggests the Elon Musk-led rocket company is still intent on delivering private individuals, rather than just cargo and professional astronauts, into space. That SpaceX has revived…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Sep 14

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A Convenient Guide Through DC’s Wild and Uncertain Film Universe

It should tell you something that we have run multiple versions of these reminder guides for the state of Warner Bros.’s DC Entertainment movie universe. But it’s not every week that your whole understanding of the fragile state of a movie universe gets turned upside down by talk of one of its biggest stars exiting,…

Movies James Whitbrook Sep 14

Super Typhoon Mangkhut Is the Strongest Storm on Earth This Year

While the world watches Florence make a historic landfall in the Carolinas, there’s another storm on the other side of the planet worthy of our attention. Super Typhoon Mangkhut is the biggest, baddest storm on the planet, and it’s bearing down on the Philippines’ most populous island. After ripping apart houses in Guam like tin…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Sep 14

Emma Stone and Jonah Hill Have a Cosmic Connection In a New Look at Netflix’s Maniac

We’re just about a week out from the release of Netflix’s highly-anticipated sci-fi miniseries Maniac and the latest trailer highlights the incredible variety the show is going to have. From the mind of Cary Fukunaga, Maniac stars Oscar-winner Emma Stone and Oscar-nominee Jonah Hill as two people whose search for a cure to their depression…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 14

NASA’s Efforts to Contact Opportunity Rover Ramp Up as Martian Dust Storm Clears

As the planet-wide Martian dust storm clears, NASA scientists have increased their efforts to contact the nearly 15-year-old Opportunity rover, which has been silent since June 10. Some scientists are beginning to feel apprehensive, but there’s a plan in place.. The deep-space network of NASA communications satellites began a 45-day period of “active listening” on Wednesday,…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 14

This Wireless Charging Backup Battery Is a Wonderfully Convenient Upgrade

Aside from making them smaller, boosting their capacities, or adding more ports, there’s not much room to innovate when it comes to backup batteries. But Avido’s new WiBa power bank manages to squeeze wireless charging into a portable power source that’s so convenient, it now goes everywhere my smartphone does. If you’re a heavy smartphone…

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 14

Captain Marvel’s Clark Gregg Teases Coulson’s Early Relationship With Nick Fury

More Captain Marvel team chatter. Sony’s Venom film gets a surprising rating. Oliver Queen gets into a prison scuffle and another look at Titans. Plus Zachary Quinto boards one of Joe Hill’s horror adaptations. Spoilers right this way… Captain Marvel Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Clark Gregg teased his first meeting with Nick Fury as a…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 14

Oklahoma to Host Fleet of Udelv Autonomous Delivery Vehicles

While Uber spent the summer making drastic cuts to its self-driving vehicle operations—firing 100 drivers in Pittsburgh, then winding down its autonomous trucking division—upstarts have been happy to pick up the slack. Case in point: Udelv, which announced today a fleet of 10 self-driving delivery vans deploying in Oklahoma City. The San Fransisco-based startup, which…

Tech News Avery Ellis Sep 14

State Department Spent $52,000 on Motorized Curtains for Nikki Haley’s Apartment

The U.S. State Department’s budget has been slashed drastically under President Trump. But that hasn’t stopped some high-level people in government from living the high life. According to a new report, the State Department spent a whopping $52,701 on curtains for Nikki Haley’s Manhattan apartment last year. Why are these curtains so expensive? The New…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 14

Our New Lois Lane Is Grimm‘s Elizabeth Tulloch

Maybe You Should Just Buy an Old iPhone

America’s Top Nazi Sued Warner Bros. for Libel in 1939 Because He Didn’t Like the Movie Confessions of a Nazi Spy

The Latest Star Wars Resistance Video Introduces New Characters and Has Some Tantalizing Teases

Solo Colonoscopies, Cannibal Calories, and More 2018 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

Apple Magically Makes the Notch Disappear

For Some Reason, Marvel Just Cancelled Chelsea Cain’s Upcoming The Vision Series

House Passes Bill to Advance Quantum Science in the U.S.

Python Programming Language Ditches ‘Master-Slave’ Terms, Pissing Off Some

RIP, Young Orca J-50

‘Telescope Did Not See Aliens,’ Director of Mysteriously Shut Down Observatory Claims

SpaceX Reboots Plan to Send Tourists Around the Moon—and It’s About to Name the First Passenger

A Convenient Guide Through DC’s Wild and Uncertain Film Universe

Super Typhoon Mangkhut Is the Strongest Storm on Earth This Year

Emma Stone and Jonah Hill Have a Cosmic Connection In a New Look at Netflix’s Maniac

NASA’s Efforts to Contact Opportunity Rover Ramp Up as Martian Dust Storm Clears

This Wireless Charging Backup Battery Is a Wonderfully Convenient Upgrade

Captain Marvel’s Clark Gregg Teases Coulson’s Early Relationship With Nick Fury

Oklahoma to Host Fleet of Udelv Autonomous Delivery Vehicles

State Department Spent $52,000 on Motorized Curtains for Nikki Haley’s Apartment

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