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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

Japan’s ‘Naked Hermit’ Pried From Island Utopia After 29 Years

For nearly 30 years, Masafumi Nagasaki lived a life many of us extremely logged-on folks can only dream of. A life completely void of commuting, the internet, and screens. He had the entire island of Sotobanari to himself—foraging, raking debris from the shore, and watching baby turtles hatch from their eggs and scurry to the…

Tech News Jennings Brown Jun 28

The Thirteenth Doctor’s First Comic Book Journey Is a Trip Into Her Own Pasts

This autumn, the Thirteenth Doctor begins her adventures in time and space—not just on television, but in comics as well. But just before the real fun begins, a new comic series will see the latest Doctor look back on her life… or, rather lives, in an intriguing twist on an anthology series. As revealed by…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 28

Quiz App Left 120 Million Facebook Users’ Data Exposed as Recently as Last Month

Facebook’s race to prove it’s a good and trustworthy company over the last few months kicked off when it was revealed that a quiz app sold user data to a political firm. Now, a different quiz app is getting some heat. A researcher discovered that a third-party app called NameTests left the data of 120…

Social Media Rhett Jones Jun 28

Offshore Wind Could Finally Start to Catch on in the US

There’s a huge amount of energy blowing in the wind right offshore, but America has been slow to take advantage of it, with just one small offshore wind farm in U.S. waters. But that may soon be changing. Last month, Massachusetts selected an 800 megawatt (MW) offshore wind project to power about 400,000 homes off…

Energy Maddie Stone Jun 28

People in These US States Get the Least Exercise

Three-quarters of Americans aren’t getting enough exercise, finds a new report published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But some states are doing better that other when it comes to being active. The report comes courtesy of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Researchers looked at five years of data…

Health Ed Cara Jun 28

The First Disenchantment Teaser Is a Glimpse Into Matt Groening’s Magical New Fantasy World

Matt Groening’s upcoming Netflix series Disenchantment tells the story of, well, a disenchanted princess who realizes that her life’s true calling has less to do with ruling a kingdom and more with binge-drinking and swashbuckling with elves and demons. In the first animated teaser for the 10-episode series, we’re introduced to Princess Bean (Abbi Jacobson)…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 28

The Handmaid’s Tale Director Shares How the Show’s ‘Visceral’ Moment Was Born

The latest episode of The Handmaid’s Tale broke a lot of ground with its portrayal of a scene that was not only crucial for the series, but also a fantastic representation of a truly human experience. We spoke to the episode’s director about how she and star Elisabeth Moss brought that moment to life, and…

Television Beth Elderkin Jun 28

Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Ordered to Pay $25 Million to Former Beats Partner

A Los Angeles superior court jury has ordered Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Andre “Dr. Dre” Young to pay former business partner Steve Lamar just over $25 million over royalties on the sales of Beats headphones, Billboard reports. The ruling expands a 2007 settlement granting Lamar royalties for only one pair of headphones, the Beats…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Jun 28

The New DC Universe Streaming Service Will Bundle Superhero Comics and TV Shows All in One Place

As more and more people have begun reading comics digitally, DC’s fans have been wondering when (if ever) the publisher was going to get in on the all-you-can-read subscription service game much in the same way that Marvel has. As it turns out, that time is now. Today, DC Comics and Warner Bros. announced the…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 28

Origin Mystery of Ancient Rhino-Like Mammal Solved By 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil

Tens of millions of years ago, after most land-roaming dinosaurs died out in the Cretaceous Period, a hodgepodge of ancient animals started to fill the landscapes the dinos left behind. One such group was the embrithopods: hoofed mammals, now extinct, whose name means “heavy-footed.” But because of a patchy fossil record, scientists haven’t been sure…

Biology Jessica Boddy Jun 28

The Secret to Razer’s Sick New Mechanical Keyboard Is Freaking Lasers

Razer’s new Huntsman Elite keyboard feels so good to type on I’m willing to suffer the glares for all the noise I’m making.

Accessories & Wearables Alex Cranz Jun 28

Amazon Buys PillPack in a Move to Swallow Your Pharmacy

Amazon has a new side hustle. The company confirmed on Thursday that it’s buying its way into the pharmacy industry by snapping up PillPack, a service that sells prescription drugs online. Simple over-the-counter drugs are already available on Amazon.com, but this will mark Amazon’s first big foray into the pharmaceutical industry. PillPack describes itself as…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Jun 28

Artist Envisions The Incredibles’ Future, and It’s Powerfully Bleak

Disney’s The Incredibles series might be about a happy-go-lucky superhero family balancing superhero work, school crushes, and diaper changes, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to stay that way. Comics artist Warrick Wong has created an art series dedicated to his vision of the Parr family’s future, and it’s pretty damn intense. Wong has released…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jun 28

Bayou Bridge Pipeline is Nearing Completion But the Fight Isn’t Over

Looks like the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana will have a busy summer. The company developing the 163-mile long pipeline plans to finish it by October. Construction of the crude oil pipeline—which connects to the long-disputed, Canadian tar sands oil-carrying Dakota Access Pipeline in the Midwest to the Gulf—is 76 percent done as of Sunday,…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jun 28

This Brilliant Case Packs Built-in Springs to Protect Your Phone From Falls

I struggle with phone cases. On one hand, I’d like to protect my expensive handheld computer. But at the same time, I can’t stand ruining the look and feel of a phone with big, bulky hunks of plastic, which means my phones tend to be naked. But at long last, I think I’ve found a…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Jun 28

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

Japan’s ‘Naked Hermit’ Pried From Island Utopia After 29 Years

The Thirteenth Doctor’s First Comic Book Journey Is a Trip Into Her Own Pasts

Quiz App Left 120 Million Facebook Users’ Data Exposed as Recently as Last Month

Offshore Wind Could Finally Start to Catch on in the US

People in These US States Get the Least Exercise

The First Disenchantment Teaser Is a Glimpse Into Matt Groening’s Magical New Fantasy World

The Handmaid’s Tale Director Shares How the Show’s ‘Visceral’ Moment Was Born

Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Ordered to Pay $25 Million to Former Beats Partner

The New DC Universe Streaming Service Will Bundle Superhero Comics and TV Shows All in One Place

Origin Mystery of Ancient Rhino-Like Mammal Solved By 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil

The Secret to Razer’s Sick New Mechanical Keyboard Is Freaking Lasers

Amazon Buys PillPack in a Move to Swallow Your Pharmacy

Artist Envisions The Incredibles’ Future, and It’s Powerfully Bleak

Bayou Bridge Pipeline is Nearing Completion But the Fight Isn’t Over

This Brilliant Case Packs Built-in Springs to Protect Your Phone From Falls

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