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Ajit Pai Gives Congress New, Less Convincing Reason for Evading ‘DDoS’ Questions

The FCC’s chronic refusal to answer a few simple questions about an alleged security incident that supposedly wrecked its comment system has reached its final form. Despite being pressed for a straightforward response by a half-dozen lawmakers over the past year, the agency’s Republican chairman, like a malingering chicken, always finds a way to dodge…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jul 27

A Landowner Is Suing to Keep Louisiana Pipeline Off His Property

Court dates are racking up for Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the 163-mile Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana. Local landowner Peter Aaslestad filed a lawsuit in district court on Friday against the company for allegedly clearing trees and excavating on his property in St. Martin Parish without permission. “It appears that Bayou Bridge has…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jul 27

Supermassive Black Hole Stretches Starlight, Proving Einstein Right Again

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is magnificent. For a hundred years, it has consistently predicted all sorts of wacky phenomena scientists have later observed throughout space. One international team is now announcing that a 26-year-long observation campaign has once again confirmed the theory. Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) watched…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 27

Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill Confirmed for Star Wars: Episode IX Cast [Updated]

Disney has revealed the cast of Star Wars: Episode IX, which will see the directorial return of J.J. Abrams. Among the cast are the expected stars, like Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac. But it looks like Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) will be back and we’ll even see the return of the late Carrie Fisher as…

Movies Beth Elderkin Jul 27

Canadian Malls Secretly Tracked Shoppers’ Age, Gender Using Facial Recognition Technology

Shoppers at the Chinook Centre, a mall in Calgary, Canada, have been unwittingly scanned by face recognition software. Canadian outlet CBC reports that the mall’s parent company, Cadillac Fairview, has admitted to using the software without shopper consent, but the company claims they only collect limited data. The software has been in use since June.…

Privacy & Security Sidney Fussell Jul 27

New York Is Moving to Kick Charter Out of the State

In 2016, Charter, the U.S.’s second largest cable provider bought out Time Warner Cable and rebranded the company as Spectrum. However, in order for the deal to get approved, the company promised New York State officials that it would increase broadband speeds to 100 Mbps by the end of 2018 while also extending cable coverage…

Tech Policy Sam Rutherford Jul 27

Game of Thrones Star Peter Dinklage Is Eying a New Take on Rumpelstiltskin

Why hello dearie! Peter Dinklage might be moving from the pages of A Song of Ice and Fire to actual fairy tales. A new report says Sony is developing an adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin, with Dinklage set to star. According to Variety, Dinklage is very interested in working on this film, though it most likely won’t…

Movies Beth Elderkin Jul 27

The ‘Scutoid’ Is Geometry’s Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body

Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs and blood vessels. They think the scutoid shape is extremely efficient at keeping cells tightly-packed and organized in the literal twists and turns of…

Tech News Jessica Boddy Jul 27

Inmates ‘Hack’ Prison-Issued Tablets, Swiping $225,000 in In-App Bucks for Music and Games

Hundreds of inmates in Idaho prison facilities reportedly exploited a “hack” that allowed them to illegitimately add nearly a quarter-million-dollars worth of credits from prison-issued tablets into their accounts. JPay tablets, explains the Associated Press, have email functionality, games, and a music player. Inmates can use the JPay system to purchase music and games using…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Jul 27

Andy Serkis’ Mowgli Finds a New Home at Netflix

Warner Bros.’ Mowgli is the rare Hollywood film that has the curious misfortune of being released after another movie based on the same public domain property has already come out (in this case, Disney). After The Jungle Book, you might have forgotten that this version of the story from Andy Serkis was actually happening, but…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 27

MoviePass Almost Ruined My Night Because It Needed $5 Million to Keep the Lights On

MoviePass failed me last night—and now I know why. I arrived at Brooklyn’s Court Street movie theater the requisite 30 minutes early and made sure the app KNEW I was within 100 yards (91.44 meters) of the theater. But even after trying to troubleshoot the app itself, I had to fork over $16 to attend…

Tech News Emily Lipstein Jul 27

This Latest Straw Ban Also Comes With a Ban on Toxic Food Packaging

From Disney World to Seattle, plastic straw bans have become, well, trendy. So it’s perhaps no surprise that San Francisco became the latest city to move toward banning the drink accessory, as well as unrequested napkins and utensils for deliveries and take out, earlier this week (it still requires a second vote to be finalized). But…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jul 27

You Can Build This Creepy, Crawly Robotic Centipede Yourself—and Then Stomp It Back to Hell

Designing robots that emulate how creatures move and walk helps us not only understand the world around us, but also improve how automatons of the future will get around. But on the other hand, that same research has given birth to this creepy centipede robot toy that squirms around on 18 flailing legs like a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 27

Disney’s Next Heroine Will Be an African Princess

Disney has devoted a lot of its resources to bringing well-known fairy tales to the screen—but the studio’s latest acquisition is not only an original story, it’s a refreshingly international one, too. That said, it does involve a princess. Of course. Deadline reports that Disney has scooped up an original, live-action fairytale about an African…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Jul 27

Volcanic Ash Has Basically Turned Day Into Night in Vanuatu

I’m no expert, but I feel like our planet is trying to tell us something. In addition to every corner of the globe being on fire, doused in rain, or cooked by heat, a new volcanic eruption is adding heavy ash to the list of calamities befalling humanity. The Manaro Voui volcano popped off in…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Jul 27

Jell-O’s New ‘Special Recipe’ Kit Lets You Make Jiggly Blocks That Stack Like Lego

Lego might be the most popular toy on Earth, but it’s about to get some stiff (jiggly?) competition from Kraft-Heinz, which just tweaked the recipe of its Jell-O gelatin mix, making it thicker and sturdier. It’s only available in new Jell-O Play kits that also include plastic molds for making squishy bricks that can be…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 27

Michael Peña’s Alien Invasion Movie Extinction Is Mostly Terrible

The new Netflix film Extinction stars Michael Peña and Lizzy Caplan as a married couple who try to keep their family alive during a mysterious alien invasion. It’s the kind of premise that makes you think “Oh, I’m gonna watch the hell out of Extinction.” So I did. However, when the final credits rolled, two…

Movies Germain Lussier Jul 27

Russian Scientists Claim to Have Resurrected 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried in Ice

A team of Russian scientists is lining themselves up to be the opening cast of a John Carpenter film. Earlier this month, in the journal Doklady Biological Sciences, they announced they had discovered ancient nematode worms that were able to resurrect themselves after spending at least 32,000 years buried in permafrost. The discovery, if legitimate,…

Biology Ed Cara Jul 27

Google’s Smart Speakers Are Getting a New Feature I Can Actually Get Excited About

Google has been steadily improving its smart speaker with updates facilitating more fluid conversations, as well as the addition of routines for chaining together multiple tasks with a single command. Now Google is adding scheduling to the mix, which means your mornings can start just the way you want them, at the same time, every…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Jul 27

Anthony Mackie Is Altered Carbon‘s New Leading Man for the Newly Announced Season 2

Netflix’s Altered Carbon is a dystopian thriller that plays with the idea of identity by imagining a world where human immortality can only be achieved through the systematic swapping of consciousnesses into the bodies of other, less fortunate people. Though it seemed the show’s future was in question, the streaming service has just announced it…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 27

Ajit Pai Gives Congress New, Less Convincing Reason for Evading ‘DDoS’ Questions

A Landowner Is Suing to Keep Louisiana Pipeline Off His Property

Supermassive Black Hole Stretches Starlight, Proving Einstein Right Again

Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill Confirmed for Star Wars: Episode IX Cast [Updated]

Canadian Malls Secretly Tracked Shoppers’ Age, Gender Using Facial Recognition Technology

New York Is Moving to Kick Charter Out of the State

Game of Thrones Star Peter Dinklage Is Eying a New Take on Rumpelstiltskin

The ‘Scutoid’ Is Geometry’s Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body

Inmates ‘Hack’ Prison-Issued Tablets, Swiping $225,000 in In-App Bucks for Music and Games

Andy Serkis’ Mowgli Finds a New Home at Netflix

MoviePass Almost Ruined My Night Because It Needed $5 Million to Keep the Lights On

This Latest Straw Ban Also Comes With a Ban on Toxic Food Packaging

You Can Build This Creepy, Crawly Robotic Centipede Yourself—and Then Stomp It Back to Hell

Disney’s Next Heroine Will Be an African Princess

Volcanic Ash Has Basically Turned Day Into Night in Vanuatu

Jell-O’s New ‘Special Recipe’ Kit Lets You Make Jiggly Blocks That Stack Like Lego

Michael Peña’s Alien Invasion Movie Extinction Is Mostly Terrible

Russian Scientists Claim to Have Resurrected 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried in Ice

Google’s Smart Speakers Are Getting a New Feature I Can Actually Get Excited About

Anthony Mackie Is Altered Carbon‘s New Leading Man for the Newly Announced Season 2

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