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DC Announces Several New Young Adult Books, Including a Cassandra Cain Graphic Novel

This morning, DC announced that DC Ink and DC Zoom, their newest comic imprints aimed at teens and those a bit younger, will be releasing a lot of new graphic novels, with a heavy focus on the ladies of the DC universe—including often overlooked yet awesome ex-Batgirl Cassandra Cain. Nice! First, for the Ink imprint,…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy Jul 19

Facebook and Instagram Now Encouraging Moderators to Narc on Underage Users

It just became more difficult for children under the age of 13 to use Facebook and Instagram. Facebook already doesn’t technically allow children under the age of 13 to create accounts. But until recently, Facebook only looked into children’s accounts if someone reported them for being underage. Now, when reviewers come across accounts appearing to…

Social Media Jennings Brown Jul 19

Look at This Incredible New Armored Dinosaur Found in Utah

They’re calling this newly discovered dinosaur “thorny head,” and it’s changing what we know of North American ankylosaurs, the heavily armored herbivores that had the misfortune of living alongside Tyrannosaurus rex during the Late Cretaceous. Behold Akainacephalus johnsoni, a new species and genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur. It’s considered the most complete Late Cretaceous ankylosaur ever…

Biology George Dvorsky Jul 19

Deep Reefs Might Not Be the Climate Refuge We Hoped

By diving 500 feet down into the ocean’s twilight zone, a team from the California Academy of Sciences has learned that deeper-dwelling corals form entirely distinct ecosystems from those in shallow reefs—and they aren’t faring all that much better than their counterparts near the surface. Many scientists had considered deep reefs as a sort of…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Jul 19

Should I Worry About Asbestos From the New York Pipe Explosion?

A steam pipe blew up just blocks away from the Gizmodo office this morning, emitting a plume of white smoke on New York City’s Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District. The Gizmodo writers are all fine, unfortunately for you. But The New York Times reports that city officials believe the pipe, installed in 1932, might…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 19

Big Mysterious Sarcophagus Opened, Sucks

It’s been quite the month for Indiana Jones-inspired madness, after a sealed 2,000-year-old sarcophagus was discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, on July 1. Nobody knew what was inside, but some feared that the black granite coffin might be cursed. Those fears were put to rest on Thursday, when the sarcophagus was finally opened. It was full…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 19

A Terrifying New Monster Joined the Nun and Pennywise at New Line’s Horror Presentation

Well, “new” as in “new to recent horror cinema.” The monster in question has actually been spawning nightmares for generations, as we learned at New Line’s “ScareDiego” horror presentation at Comic-Con last night. And, of course, we also caught up with It’s Pennywise and the glowering star of The Nun. It: Chapter Two was up…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Jul 19

The DC Universe Streaming Service Is Priced to Take on Netflix

One of the biggest questions people have had about DC’s upcoming streaming platform DC Universe is how much accessing the service would cost. Given that DC Universe is a big part of the publisher’s plans to create new fans, it needed to be priced competitively in order to get people to stick. From the looks…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 19

More Young Adults Are Dying From Alcohol-Caused Liver Disease

Over the past few years, there’s been a steady rise in the rate of Americans who die by suicide and drugs each year. But while much of the attention surrounding these deaths has focused on the opioid crisis, a new study out Wednesday in the BMJ highlights a different aspect of that increase: More people,…

Health Ed Cara Jul 19

Timeskipping-Plane Show Manifest Wastes a Perfectly Good Sci-Fi Premise

Hollywood legend Robert Zemeckis has a few projects at this year’s Comic-Con. One is Project Blue Book, a retro UFO drama for the History Channel that looks pretty promising. But we’ve seen the first episode of Manifest, the NBC series he produced, and it’s overwrought in all the worst ways. The earnest voiceover at the…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jul 19

Experts Say Recent ‘Alien’ Mummy Study Was Deeply Flawed and Unethical

Earlier this year, scientists from Stanford University concluded that a strange skeleton known as the Atacama Mummy belonged to a human girl whose physical malformations were the result of several severe genetic mutations. A team of international experts is now questioning these findings, and accusing the scientists of breaching standard research ethics. The Atacama Mummy,…

Human History George Dvorsky Jul 19

Humans Are Making These Mysterious Clouds More Common

An otherworldly cloud phenomena found high in Earth’s atmosphere is becoming more visible due to our greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters this month. Noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds look like wispy shimmering sky webs formed from ice-crystals. Unlike most clouds that appear, at most, approximately four miles (six km)…

Climate Change Paola Rosa-Aquino Jul 19

Just One California for Now

A Silicon Valley venture capitalist’s pipe dream to split up California into several states inched a little closer to reality last month when it made it onto the November ballot. But on Wednesday, the California Supreme Court unanimously decided to scrap the plan from the ballot. Tim Draper, the billionaire behind the measure, responded to…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jul 19

Salesforce Faces Boycott Threat as RAICES Rejects $250,000 Donation Over CBP Contract

Embroiled cloud computing company Salesforce tried to sanitize its image through a hefty donation to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services—one of the highest-profile organizations resisting our draconian immigration policy. RAICES said no thanks—and at least six other high-profile organizations are now threatening to cut ties with the company. Salesforce’s work…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jul 19

Lego DC Super-Villains Lets You Wreak Havoc With the Baddies as a Custom Villain

The newest trailer for Lego DC Super-Villains has arrived, which will star a custom-created supervillain of the player’s choice alongside DC’s deep catalog of bodacious bad guys. The San Diego Comic-Con trailer, which dropped today, lays out the plot, featuring a group of impostor heroes, familiar to DC Comics fans as the Justice Crime Syndicate…

Trailers Julie Muncy Jul 19

YouTube Blocks ‘FamilyOFive’ Account of Parents Convicted of Child Neglect

YouTube has barred a channel belonging to parents who were convicted of child neglect after they stirred controversy for their prank videos depicting abusive behavior. Mike and Heather Martin lost custody of two of their children and were sentenced to five years of probation last year. Authorities began investigating the Martins after other YouTubers, like…

Tech News Jennings Brown Jul 19

How to Livestream From a Smartphone

Some moments in life demand a live stream: Protestors swarming down your street. The immediate aftermath of a World Cup final. Maybe even a best man speech. Livestreaming allows your friends, family, and followers unprecedented access to what’s going on around you, and nearly every major social network and video app seems to have some…

Gadgets David Nield Jul 19

Millions of Students In the US Face Lead Exposure at School: Report

The drinking water in Flint, Michigan, is doing a lot better these days. Elsewhere in the country, though, lead is still a problem. Especially in our schools. A new report the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published Wednesday shows that 43 percent of school districts in the U.S., serving 35 million students, tested their drinking water…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jul 19

Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Vodka Is Being Sent Into Space Before You Can Boldly Swig It

When the cosmic eddies of our facile existence gives us a year like 2018, the only appropriate answer is to make vodka inspired by Guinan’s bar on the Enterprise, apparently. Obviously. Silver Screen Bottling Company and CBS have just announced another addition to their line of Star Trek themed booze—which a) exists in the form…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook Jul 19

Swiss Town Replaces Church Bells With Ringtones, Ushers in Hell on Earth

While the local catholic church and its bell tower undergo renovations in Lucerne, a small town in Switzerland, the city reached out to students at the nearby university to help find a replacement for the hourly chimes that are now silenced. Their solution? Blast out the sounds of a smartphone’s ringtones instead, the BBC reports.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 19

DC Announces Several New Young Adult Books, Including a Cassandra Cain Graphic Novel

Facebook and Instagram Now Encouraging Moderators to Narc on Underage Users

Look at This Incredible New Armored Dinosaur Found in Utah

Deep Reefs Might Not Be the Climate Refuge We Hoped

Should I Worry About Asbestos From the New York Pipe Explosion?

Big Mysterious Sarcophagus Opened, Sucks

A Terrifying New Monster Joined the Nun and Pennywise at New Line’s Horror Presentation

The DC Universe Streaming Service Is Priced to Take on Netflix

More Young Adults Are Dying From Alcohol-Caused Liver Disease

Timeskipping-Plane Show Manifest Wastes a Perfectly Good Sci-Fi Premise

Experts Say Recent ‘Alien’ Mummy Study Was Deeply Flawed and Unethical

Humans Are Making These Mysterious Clouds More Common

Just One California for Now

Salesforce Faces Boycott Threat as RAICES Rejects $250,000 Donation Over CBP Contract

Lego DC Super-Villains Lets You Wreak Havoc With the Baddies as a Custom Villain

YouTube Blocks ‘FamilyOFive’ Account of Parents Convicted of Child Neglect

How to Livestream From a Smartphone

Millions of Students In the US Face Lead Exposure at School: Report

Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Vodka Is Being Sent Into Space Before You Can Boldly Swig It

Swiss Town Replaces Church Bells With Ringtones, Ushers in Hell on Earth

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