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This New Star Trek Book Is a Remarkably Intimate Look at the People Making the Show, as They Made It

The making of the original Star Trek television series, has been well documented at this point. But a new book examines some of the rarest artifacts from the cast and crew and their time making the series, through behind-the-scenes photos, letters to fans and producers alike, and much more—and we’ve got a wonderful look inside.…

Television James Whitbrook Mar 23

DOJ Accuses Iran of Hacking Thousands of University Professors to Steal Scientific Research

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday unveiled an indictment in the Southern District of New York accusing nine Iranians of conspiring to hack into universities and businesses to steal intellectual property and academic data. The Iranians, allegedly working on behalf of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are said have to targeted, among…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Mar 23

My Ultra-Competitive Side Loves This Sensor-Packed Smart Ball

A Bluetooth-connected foam ball packed with sensors and a battery you need to charge sounds like one of Silicon Valley’s worst ideas. Haven’t balls been adequately entertaining kids for centuries already? But it only took one toss of Play Impossible’s Gameball for me to understand why a ball upgraded with stat-tracking technology isn’t actually a…

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 23

Congress Calls Burning Wood ‘Carbon Neutral,’ Prominent Ecologist Calls Bullshit

On Friday, Congress passed a 1.3 trillion dollar spending bill that, among other things, will continue to enshrine the controversial notion that biomass fuels are carbon neutral. The day before, a prominent ecologist penned an article in a prestigious journal explaining why that’s baloney. William Schlesinger may be an emeritus professor at the Cary Institute…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Mar 23

Scientists Are Building a Mini-Earth With 8 Tons of Spinning Liquid Sodium

Admit it, you don’t really understand why the Earth has a magnetic field. Sure, movement inside the Earth’s outer core is creating a electric current, generating a magnetic field through it. But what’s causing this movement? There’s tons that scientists still don’t know about our planet’s magnetosphere, and about planetary magnetic fields in general. There…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 23

South Korea Establishes Official Time to Log Off That Sadly Just Applies to Government Workers

The South Korea government has created an initiative to force its employees to stop working so damn much. Over the course of the next three months, it will shut down government computers progressively earlier on Friday nights. The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to to start the initiative on March 30th, and will roll it out…

Tech News Jennings Brown Mar 23

T-Rex Catches Fire at Amusement Park Despite the Fact That Real Dinosaurs Were Rarely on Fire

The Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience in Canon City, Colorado, used to have 16 regular T-Rex dinosaur statues. Now it has just 15, since one of the dinosaurs caught fire yesterday morning. It burned down in a glorious spectacle that was all caught on tape. But it wasn’t very scientifically accurate. As far as we know,…

Sploid Matt Novak Mar 23

More Than 140 Whales Are Dead After Mass Stranding in Australia

Rescuers in Australia’s Hamelin Bay are struggling to save six short-finned pilot whales out of an estimated 150 who beached themselves on the rocky shore earlier today. More than 100 volunteers descended upon the beach, which is located 185 miles (300 km) south of Perth along Australia’s southwest coast. The last time this happened at…

Biology George Dvorsky Mar 23

Cryptocurrency Companies Are Rushing to Gobble up Canada’s Cheap Electricity

Canada has always been defined by the vastness of its territory and its wealth of natural resources, especially in comparison to the small population. But today, the nation is in the first stages of a scramble for a new kind of digital resource. Drawn by Canada’s low electricity prices, cryptocurrency miners are rushing to set…

Conservation Corin Faife Mar 23

Frank Miller Is Illustrating a YA Novel That Will Tell the Lady of the Lake’s Origin

Though we all know the story of how King Arthur pulled Excalibur from the stone, comics heavyweight Frank Miller and writer Thomas Wheeler are teaming up to tell the tale from a new perspective. Cursed, a young adult graphic novel from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, follows Nimue, the teenaged girl who wielded…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 23

Noah Hawley Says the Fantastic Four Don’t Need to Be Rebooted For His New Doctor Doom Movie

Pacific Rim: Uprising director Steven S. DeKnight still dreams of a crossover with King Kong and Godzilla. John Boyega teases a war in the stars for Star Wars: Episode IX. A Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star is coming to iZombie. Plus, Ant-Man and the Wasp concept art, a gory new look at Ash vs. Evil Dead, and…

Television James Whitbrook Mar 23

Craigslist Is Shutting Down Its Personals Section

In response to the Senate passing H.R.1865, an anti-online sex trafficking bill that has the potential to seriously harm consenting, adult sex workers, Craigslist has shuttered its all of its personals sections. Even the platonic ones. Early Friday morning, Craigslist made a public post regarding the bill commonly known as FOSTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking…

Tech News Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 23

The Other Cambridge Personality Test Has Its Own Database With Millions of Facebook Profiles

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock on Mars, you’ve likely heard about a little scandal involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Cambridge Analytica got its hands on millions of people’s Facebook likes in 2014 by getting an academic, Aleksander Kogan, to design an app with a personality test that hoovered up data from the 250,000…

Tech News Kashmir Hill Mar 22

There’s a New Netflix Show About Killer Rain and Here’s the Trailer

It’s called…The Rain. And on The Rain, a deadly virus spread by precipitation has wiped out civilization. Now, two siblings who were protected in a bunker emerge to discover what they can only hope will be a very dry post-apocalyptic world. The first Danish original series on Netflix, The Rain will premiere May 4. Here’s…

Trailers Germain Lussier Mar 22

Schools Are Using AI to Check Students’ Social Media for Warning Signs of Violence

In the hopes of deterring violence, schools are turning to big data analytics to examine social media posts for the earliest signs of violence—depression, resentment, and isolation. Shawsheen Valley Technical High School in Massachusetts has turned to Social Sentinel, a data analytics company that says it can use the type of threat detection police agencies…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Mar 22

The CDC’s New Chief Was Accused of Fudging HIV Vaccine Research in the Early 1990s

The track record of Trump appointees tasked with safeguarding the country’s public health has been, in the kindest sense, spotty. So it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that the latest person tapped to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, is alleged to have engaged in research misconduct involving an experimental…

Tech News Ed Cara Mar 22

The Video Cards of the Future Will Be Able to Give You an Incredibly Shiny Captain Phasma

Right now, even the mightiest graphics card on the market would melt like Mustafar trying to render this new Star Wars short made with Epic Games’ Unreal engine. But in the future, Nvidia hopes new technology it showed off this week will bringing gamers one step closer to some… well, very shiny graphics. This cute…

Games James Whitbrook Mar 22

Trump’s Tariffs Could Make Some Gadgets a Lot More Expensive

When President Trump announced tariffs on imported steel and aluminum (which he later softened), he sent huge segments of the US economy—including the auto, aviation, and construction industries—into a panic. However, it seems those fines were only the start of a new trade agenda that may impose $60 billion of annual tariffs on products imported…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Mar 22

National Parks Are About to Get a Bunch of Birds They Didn’t Ask For

Acadia National Park is warbler heaven. During the summer, you can hear everything from the rising call of the black-throated blue warbler to the tinkling bell-like call of the black-and-white warbler. Keep your eyes on the underbrush for tell-tale the yellow breast of the Canada warbler, or heavy thickets for the mourning warbler. In all,…

Conservation Brian Kahn Mar 22

Six Months After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s Famous Telescope Is Still Under Threat

ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO—The drive to the Arecibo Observatory from San Juan is breathtaking in both beauty and treachery. The hour-long journey follows a roller-coaster-like path of humps and switchbacks through the dense tropical forest on what should be, but is not, a one-way road. Houses remain covered in tarps, awaiting repairs to their storm-ravaged roofs, and…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 22

This New Star Trek Book Is a Remarkably Intimate Look at the People Making the Show, as They Made It

DOJ Accuses Iran of Hacking Thousands of University Professors to Steal Scientific Research

My Ultra-Competitive Side Loves This Sensor-Packed Smart Ball

Congress Calls Burning Wood ‘Carbon Neutral,’ Prominent Ecologist Calls Bullshit

Scientists Are Building a Mini-Earth With 8 Tons of Spinning Liquid Sodium

South Korea Establishes Official Time to Log Off That Sadly Just Applies to Government Workers

T-Rex Catches Fire at Amusement Park Despite the Fact That Real Dinosaurs Were Rarely on Fire

More Than 140 Whales Are Dead After Mass Stranding in Australia

Cryptocurrency Companies Are Rushing to Gobble up Canada’s Cheap Electricity

Frank Miller Is Illustrating a YA Novel That Will Tell the Lady of the Lake’s Origin

Noah Hawley Says the Fantastic Four Don’t Need to Be Rebooted For His New Doctor Doom Movie

Craigslist Is Shutting Down Its Personals Section

The Other Cambridge Personality Test Has Its Own Database With Millions of Facebook Profiles

There’s a New Netflix Show About Killer Rain and Here’s the Trailer

Schools Are Using AI to Check Students’ Social Media for Warning Signs of Violence

The CDC’s New Chief Was Accused of Fudging HIV Vaccine Research in the Early 1990s

The Video Cards of the Future Will Be Able to Give You an Incredibly Shiny Captain Phasma

Trump’s Tariffs Could Make Some Gadgets a Lot More Expensive

National Parks Are About to Get a Bunch of Birds They Didn’t Ask For

Six Months After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s Famous Telescope Is Still Under Threat

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