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PSA: Marvel’s Black Panther Animated Series is Streaming for Free on YouTube

In 2011, Marvel, in co-production with BET, produced a six episode animated/motion comic hybrid series starring the Black Panther. Now, that entire series is streaming on Marvel’s YouTube channel. The 120-minute series was unusually ambitious for motion comics, blending original and striking animation with the sort of slow, start-and-stop vibe that usually characterizes the genre.…

Television Julie Muncy Mar 17 '18

Asthma Inhalers Fail Minority Children Due to a Lack of Diversity in Research

When inhaled, the drug albuterol opens up the airways of the lungs, providing fast-acting relief to the wheezing and shortness of breath that often accompany an asthma attack. It was discovered in 1966 by a team of British researchers, and went on to become an extremely popular medication for the widespread childhood condition. It is…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Mar 17 '18

AirDrop Is Your iPhone’s Most Underrated Tool

For all the complaints you can levy against Apple—user-hostile repair and upgrade practices, The Great Slowdown, removing the headphone jack—there remains an undeniable truth: Overall, the user experience you get from using Apple’s devices is simply better than anything else. And this is doubly true if you stay within Apple’s walled garden. Things just. work…

Tech News Joe Tonelli Mar 17 '18

Your Super-Sensitive Toothpaste May Not Save Your Teeth From the Brutality of Brushing

The toothpaste aisle, like so much of life, is filled with plenty of claims that seem too good to be true. One of these false promises, a recent study in Scientific Reports suggests, might be that toothpaste can stop our teeth from eroding. Researchers in Brazil and Switzerland worked together to test nine brand-name toothpastes.…

Health Ed Cara Mar 17 '18

Can You Name Every Alien in This All-Encompassing Scifi Cantina?

If you like Easter eggs, posters, and genre movies, today is your lucky day. Artists Vance Kelly and Kevin M. Wilson (also known as Ape Meets Girl) are teaming up for “Easter Eggs”—which, you guessed it, is a show wholly made up of artwork that is filled with Easter eggs. So, for example, here’s Kelly’s scifi…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 16 '18

This Week’s Mister Miracle Changed the Game for the Fourth World, in a Beautiful Way

Mister Miracle, DC Comics’ haunting, beautiful series about the small lives of Scott Free and Big Barda being swept up in the enormous scope of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World (soon to be seen in live-action), is all about contrasting the banal with the fantastical, the drama of real life amid the drama of scifi weirdness.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Mar 16 '18

This Artist Turns the All-Star Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Into Pop Art Superheroes

Watching a drag queen get into costume is a lot like watching a superhero transform from their civilian identity as they get ready to fight the battle of their lives. It should come as no surprise, then, that the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ third season look phenomenal as comic book heroes. Before…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 16 '18

North Carolina Police Issued Sweeping Warrants to Search Data On All Google Devices Near Murder Scene

Google was served at least four sweeping search warrants by Raleigh, North Carolina police last year, requesting anonymized location data on all users within areas surrounding crime scenes. In one case, Raleigh police requested information on all Google accounts within 17 acres of a murder, overlapping residences, and businesses. Google did not confirm or deny…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Mar 16 '18

Fantastic Beasts Gets the Lego Treatment, and More of the Most Wonderful Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular look at the shiny new collectibles tempting our wallets at the moment. This week, Playmobil’s amazing Ghostbusters toys get even better, there’s even more from the Lego wizarding world, and we covet a giant Jurassic Park dino, as we’re wont to do. Check it out! Lego Fantastic Beasts’…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Mar 16 '18

Digg’s Google Reader Replacement is Going the Way of Google Reader

Nothing lasts forever, I suppose. In what could be construed as a cruel joke, Digg is pulling the plug on Digg Reader, the company’s answer to the demise of popular RSS service Google Reader. Digg Reader will shut down on March 26th, 2018, giving you just enough time to export your data before the service…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Mar 16 '18

Chinese Citizens With Bad ‘Social Credit’ to Be Blocked From Taking Planes and Trains

China’s terrifying “social credit” system isn’t planned to be fully implemented until 2020, but we’re already seeing facets of it being put in place. In May, people who have committed acts of “serious dishonor” will reportedly be unable to travel on trains or flights for up to a year. Reuters first reported the policy announced…

Tech News Rhett Jones Mar 16 '18

Black Panther‘s Dora Milaje Are Teaming Up With Spider-Man in a New Comic Book Miniseries

In time-honored Marvel tradition, the breakout stars of the studio’s most recent blockbuster success—Black Panther’s Dora Milaje—are getting their own spin-off comic book. Oh, and Peter Parker’s tagging along. This June, the leaders of the Dora Milaje rebellion will journey to New York City and team up with Spider-Man in Wakanda Forever: The Amazing Spider-Man,…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 16 '18

Looks Like Someone Hid a Weed Joke on Home Depot’s Website

If you’re shopping for a “garden and kitchen scale with 0.5 gram precision weighing technology,” you might be a drug dealer. And evidently some joker at Home Depot knows this. Buried in the website’s listing for such an item, there are a bunch of pictures that appear to show what appears to be a pile…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 16 '18

New Teams of X-Men and Ghostbusters Both Battle the Dead in This Week’s Best Comics

One of the greatest things about comic books is that they can (and often do) tell stories about updated versions of classic teams we’re all familiar with, and at a much more rapid pace than you’d see in television or movies. As a result, comic teams change rosters almost as quickly as individual team members…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 16 '18

Microsoft’s Edge Browser Could Soon Be Harder to Ignore in Windows 10

It’s time for a look at the latest Insider Preview build of Windows 10. There are some small but welcome improvements, like the addition of HEIF (high efficiency file format) that lets you more easily save and view photos and videos from across the web, along with a safer removal process for people using external…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Mar 16 '18

Unfriended: Dark Web Puts Everything That Scares You About the Internet Into One Terrifying Movie

I’m not a guy who’s ever been paranoid enough to tape over the camera on my laptop. But Unfriended: Dark Web literally freaked me out enough to make me order one of those sliding webcam covers. Directed by Stephen Susco, Unfriended: Dark Web unfolds over the course of one horrible night. It opens with main…

Movies Evan Narcisse Mar 16 '18

Australian Biohacker Who Implanted Transit Pass in His Hand Was Convicted for Not Using Valid Ticket

Digging through your purse or pockets every time you enter public transit can be a hassle, so last year Australian biohacker Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow (yes, that’s his legal name) had a chip from a transit pass implanted in his hand. The chip allowed him to tap on or off of trains in Sydney with…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown Mar 16 '18

L.L. Bean No Longer Wants to Know What You’ve L.L. Been Up to

Chalk it up to the incredibly high creep factor or a second consecutive year of flat sales, but clothing and outdoor equipment chain L.L. Bean’s foray into blockchain-connected attire has reportedly been cancelled. What’s more, the company is downsizing its workforce and eliminating bonuses for employees for the second time in ten years. The company’s original…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Mar 16 '18

Does This Captain Marvel Re-Casting Mean Our Monica Rambeau Dreams Will Come True?

It was just revealed that actress DeWanda Wise was parting ways with Captain Marvel due to scheduling conflicts with the upcoming second season of Spike Lee’s rebooted She’s Gotta Have It series on Netflix. Within hours, we’ve found out which actress is going to replace her. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Still Star-Crossed’s Lashana Lynch…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 16 '18

Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance of Kids

Advanced surveillance technologies once reserved for international airports and high-security prisons are coming to schools across America. From New York to Arkansas, schools are spending millions to outfit their campuses with some of the most advanced surveillance technology available: face recognition to deter predators, object recognition to detect weapons, and license plate tracking to deter…

Privacy & Security Sidney Fussell Mar 16 '18

PSA: Marvel’s Black Panther Animated Series is Streaming for Free on YouTube

Asthma Inhalers Fail Minority Children Due to a Lack of Diversity in Research

AirDrop Is Your iPhone’s Most Underrated Tool

Your Super-Sensitive Toothpaste May Not Save Your Teeth From the Brutality of Brushing

Can You Name Every Alien in This All-Encompassing Scifi Cantina?

This Week’s Mister Miracle Changed the Game for the Fourth World, in a Beautiful Way

This Artist Turns the All-Star Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Into Pop Art Superheroes

North Carolina Police Issued Sweeping Warrants to Search Data On All Google Devices Near Murder Scene

Fantastic Beasts Gets the Lego Treatment, and More of the Most Wonderful Toys of the Week

Digg’s Google Reader Replacement is Going the Way of Google Reader

Chinese Citizens With Bad ‘Social Credit’ to Be Blocked From Taking Planes and Trains

Black Panther‘s Dora Milaje Are Teaming Up With Spider-Man in a New Comic Book Miniseries

Looks Like Someone Hid a Weed Joke on Home Depot’s Website

New Teams of X-Men and Ghostbusters Both Battle the Dead in This Week’s Best Comics

Microsoft’s Edge Browser Could Soon Be Harder to Ignore in Windows 10

Unfriended: Dark Web Puts Everything That Scares You About the Internet Into One Terrifying Movie

Australian Biohacker Who Implanted Transit Pass in His Hand Was Convicted for Not Using Valid Ticket

L.L. Bean No Longer Wants to Know What You’ve L.L. Been Up to

Does This Captain Marvel Re-Casting Mean Our Monica Rambeau Dreams Will Come True?

Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance of Kids

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