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The New House With a Clock in Its Walls Trailer Feels Magical and Adventurous

The first trailer for The House With a Clock in Its Walls was… fine. Cool visuals, great cast, but tonally, it felt a bit awkward. Well, that’s gone in this second trailer, which ups the wish-fulfillment, fantasy, and adventure elements in a way that will get you very excited. Directed by Eli Roth, The House…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 28

AT&T Has to Pay Up Millions After Two Major 911 Outages Last Year

The Federal Communications Commission just settled an investigation into AT&T 911 outages from last year, hitting the telecom company with a $5.25 million fine. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau made the announcement on Thursday, stating that “such preventable outages are unacceptable.” Aside from the fine—which is really a drop in the bucket for the billion-dollar behemoth—AT&T…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jun 28

I Wasted Approximately ¥3,896 on This Stupid Japanese Crane Game App and Learned Nothing

It started as all tales of hubris do: with Yeast Ken, a Japanese plushie who is a dog and also a loaf of bread, and recently went viral on Twitter. As someone easily captivated by anything involving Shiba Inus, and having recently been told by my significant other that “if u don’t get this for…

Games Tom McKay Jun 28

California Lawmakers Pass Bill Stopping Companies Like Facebook From Selling User Data Without Consent

The California legislature just passed one of the most robust data privacy bills in the United States. Known as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, the bill largely mirrors protections offered to European citizens under the recently implemented General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is likely to drastically change the ways that American companies…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jun 28

Interstellar Comet ‘Oumuamua Has a Built-In ‘Propulsion’ System

Remember that cigar-shaped interstellar object that whizzed through our Solar System last year? It was pretty weird, right? Well, new research shows ‘Oumuamua is even stranger than we realized. ‘Oumuamua, pronounced “oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah,” is a comet and not an asteroid, according to research published yesterday in Nature. That’s not a huge revelation, as many scientists had…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jun 28

RIP Harlan Ellison, the Legendary Scifi Author Behind One of Star Trek‘s Greatest Episodes

Harlan Ellison, the iconic yet controversial writer behind dozens of beloved speculative fiction and scifi works, has passed. He was 84. The news announced on social media today by Christine Valada, a close friend of Ellison and his wife Susan, at her request: Ellison’s work across multiple genres—from horror to scifi to speculative fiction, across…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 28

Disney Has Built Impressive Robot Stunt Doubles That Mean No One Any Harm

Following the debut of the Donald Trump robot that perfectly captured the soul of its namesake, many people are wondering what Disney’s Imagineers will do next. The answer turns out to be autonomous stunt double bots that bring us one giant leap closer to IRL Westworld. It might come as a surprise that it’s easier…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jun 28

North America’s Largest Coral Reef Is No Longer in Danger

A couple weeks ago, I met some corals for the first time off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. It was pretty rad. Now, I have a newfound appreciation for the animal and any good news about it. So here’s some: The Belize Barrier Reef is no longer on the World Heritage Committee’s List of World…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Jun 28

RIP Asimo, You Useless Robotic Honda Ad

Honda just announced that it will cease development of Asimo, the super cute humanoid that tours the world in the name of stunt marketing. Asimo was 18 years old. Asimo, once heralded as the future of robotics, was not even old enough to buy a beer. But it was always happy to help sell you…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jun 28

You’re Going to Have to Wait Longer for Indiana Jones 5

Indiana Jones 5 is currently scheduled for release July 10, 2020—but it seems like that’s about to change. According to Variety, production on the highly anticipated sequel, which was supposed to start in April 2019, will be moved back at least a few months and possibly up to a year. As a result, the film…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 28

Showtime’s Halo TV Series Is Still Happening, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes‘ Rupert Wyatt Has Joined It

Microsoft announced Steven Spielberg’s involvement in a live-action adaptation of its legendary shooter franchise Halo back in 2013—and now, there’s finally some new news on the series. And of course, as ever with Halo, there’s a familiar fight to finish. 343 Industries announced on the official Halo website today that Showtime has commissioned Halo for…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 28

Sling TV’s Great, Super-Cheap Streaming Plan Is Getting a Price Hike

Sling TV, like other streaming services out there, is hiking the price of its base package of channels, making the cord-cutting service five dollars less appealing. Lucky for cheapskates, Sling is also pushing some updates to its app, and letting users purchase certain channels à la carte, potentially saving them a few bucks in the…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Jun 28

The Strange Connection Between Opioid Addiction and Narcolepsy Might Help Us Treat Both

A new study could revive an abandoned theory about how to treat narcolepsy, the thus-far incurable disorder that makes people chronically sleepy. And it could also provide a new lead on how to treat drug addiction. The paper, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, suggests that opioids can restore a narcoleptic person’s ability to produce…

Health Ed Cara Jun 28

Ant-Man & The Wasp Is Bringing Us Into a New Kind of Uncanny Valley

Ant-Man & The Wasp is a visually-stunning film that toys with your senses in order to create a larger-than-life adventure befitting any Marvel blockbuster. But the film’s most impressive technical feat isn’t one of the flashy CGI-powered stunts you’ve seen in the trailers. [Ed’s note: This article contains very slight spoilers for the upcoming movie.]…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 28

Scientists Have Invented Craigslist For Shark Livers

In order to save endangered species, biologists are often forced to take a step that feels counterproductive: sacrificing wild specimens for study. Now, a pair of grad students have devised a virtual tissue bank that could help reduce the number of rare plants and animals killed in the name of science. Tens of millions of…

Conservation David Shiffman Jun 28

This New Tool Aims to Help Reunite Kids Seized at the Border With Their Families

Freedom for Immigrants, a California-based nonprofit working to expose and abolish U.S. immigration detention, launched a tool on Wednesday that it says will help reunite families separated through immigration incarceration. The tool, aptly named REUNITE, is designed to allow the organization to find people in U.S. immigration detention, criminal custody, and Office of Refugee Resettlement…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jun 28

The What We Do in the Shadows Spinoff Series Wellington Paranormal Looks Delightfully Mundane

Taika Waititi, a little-known indie filmmaker you’ve definitely never heard of, is taking his sweet-ass time working on the sequel to What We Do in the Shadows, but worry not. The first trailer for the movie’s spinoff TV series Wellington Paranormal is here, and it looks fantastic. Wellington Paranormal keeps in the cinematic documentary style…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 28

A Pertinent Reminder That Spider-Verse Is Still One of Marvel’s Best Comics in Years

It’s starting to feel like 2018 is the year of Spider-Man. Actually, scratch that, it’s become the year of the Spider-Verse. We’ve got a Spidey movie on the way that not only looks rad as hell but is diving straight into the idea of a multiverse of Spider-heroes. Sony is apparently bringing Silk to the…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 28

Controversial Study Suggests There’s No Limit to Human Aging

The older we get, the greater our likelihood of dying. Or at least that’s what we thought. New research suggests mortality rates level off after we turn 105, and that no upper limit exists for the human lifespan. It’s an extraordinary conclusion—one that’s not going over very well with other aging researchers. Back in 1825,…

Health George Dvorsky Jun 28

Earth Has Many More Rivers and Streams Than We Thought, New Satellite Study Finds

Rivers and streams cover much more of the planet than geologists previously estimated, according to a new study published in Science. In total, this new estimate shows that, excluding land with glaciers, Earth is covered by just under 300,000 square miles (773,000 square kilometers) of rivers and streams. That’s more square footage than the state…

Tech News Jessica Boddy Jun 28

The New House With a Clock in Its Walls Trailer Feels Magical and Adventurous

AT&T Has to Pay Up Millions After Two Major 911 Outages Last Year

I Wasted Approximately ¥3,896 on This Stupid Japanese Crane Game App and Learned Nothing

California Lawmakers Pass Bill Stopping Companies Like Facebook From Selling User Data Without Consent

Interstellar Comet ‘Oumuamua Has a Built-In ‘Propulsion’ System

RIP Harlan Ellison, the Legendary Scifi Author Behind One of Star Trek‘s Greatest Episodes

Disney Has Built Impressive Robot Stunt Doubles That Mean No One Any Harm

North America’s Largest Coral Reef Is No Longer in Danger

RIP Asimo, You Useless Robotic Honda Ad

You’re Going to Have to Wait Longer for Indiana Jones 5

Showtime’s Halo TV Series Is Still Happening, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes‘ Rupert Wyatt Has Joined It

Sling TV’s Great, Super-Cheap Streaming Plan Is Getting a Price Hike

The Strange Connection Between Opioid Addiction and Narcolepsy Might Help Us Treat Both

Ant-Man & The Wasp Is Bringing Us Into a New Kind of Uncanny Valley

Scientists Have Invented Craigslist For Shark Livers

This New Tool Aims to Help Reunite Kids Seized at the Border With Their Families

The What We Do in the Shadows Spinoff Series Wellington Paranormal Looks Delightfully Mundane

A Pertinent Reminder That Spider-Verse Is Still One of Marvel’s Best Comics in Years

Controversial Study Suggests There’s No Limit to Human Aging

Earth Has Many More Rivers and Streams Than We Thought, New Satellite Study Finds

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