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The Gorgeous Retro Superhero Comic Astro City Is Making Its Way to Television

Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, and Alex Ross’ Astro City is one of the longest-running superhero series around—yet it’s also one that’s never actually been adapted for screens big or small. That’s about to change, apparently. Deadline reports that FremantleMedia North America, the producers behind Starz’s hit adaptation of American Gods, has negotiated a deal with…

Television James Whitbrook Mar 23 '18

Apple Erases Tiny Bug From iPhone X Ad, Hasn’t Yet Fixed Actual Bug

Once you see it, you can’t un-see it. Last week, a purely cosmetic bug in iOS 11 embarrassingly found its way into an Apple ad. Now, the ad is fixed, but the bug isn’t. Apple’s iOS 11 has been so plagued with issues that the company reportedly decided to delay some features planned for the…

Tech News Rhett Jones Mar 23 '18

Don Cheadle Didn’t Know the Plot of Avengers: Infinity War While He Filmed It, and He’s Totally Fine With That

How far does Marvel go to keep the secrets for a film like Avengers: Infinity War? Most of the actors never get to read the entire script. Obviously, they see the scenes they’re in, but otherwise, directors Anthony and Joe Russo—along with the writers, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely—tell the actors the general story and…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 23 '18

Why You Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Excited About a Folding iPhone

LG, Samsung, and even Lenovo have been trying to make gadgets with foldable screens a thing for a while now. But after one tiny rumor said Apple could be working on one too, suddenly everybody is worked up in a frenzy? Please. According to CNBC, the only info people are working off of is one…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Mar 23 '18

Here’s Some Stuff Apple Might Launch at Its Education Event on Tuesday

It’s been about six years since Apple’s last education-focused event, but the company’s upcoming keynote on March 27th could mean more affordable devices and improved educational apps for classrooms and college campuses, a move designed to get more iOS devices in the hands of students. Apple says the event, to be held at Lane Tech…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Mar 23 '18

Mother-Son Orca Pair Commits Infanticide in Oceanic Shakespearean Drama

A pair of orcas earned their “killer whale” moniker one late fall day in 2016 by committing the first act of orca infanticide ever captured on film. Scientists in British Columbia, Canada detected orca noises in their underwater microphones on the morning of December 2, 2016. An hour later, they headed out by boat to…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 23 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

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 '18

The Gorgeous Retro Superhero Comic Astro City Is Making Its Way to Television

Apple Erases Tiny Bug From iPhone X Ad, Hasn’t Yet Fixed Actual Bug

Don Cheadle Didn’t Know the Plot of Avengers: Infinity War While He Filmed It, and He’s Totally Fine With That

Why You Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Excited About a Folding iPhone

Here’s Some Stuff Apple Might Launch at Its Education Event on Tuesday

Mother-Son Orca Pair Commits Infanticide in Oceanic Shakespearean Drama

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

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