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1Password Helps You Find Out if Your Password Is Pwned

If your password winds up in a mega-breach like the ones at Yahoo, Dropbox, or Tumblr, it can be easy for a hacker to take over your account—especially if you reuse the same password across multiple services. But it’s not always easy to tell if your password has been stolen, and companies can sometimes take…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Feb 23

California Has a New Bureau of Environmental Justice

There’s a new bureau in town, and it’s all about environmental justice. On Thursday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra established the Bureau of Environmental Justice, a four-attorney team whose sole focus will be protecting the low-income and communities of color who suffer disproportionately from pollution. How will they do this, you ask? “Oversight, investigation, and…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Feb 23

The First Season of The Tick Wraps Up With a Super-Strong Hug for Your Brain and Your Heart

When we last left Arthur Everest and his indefatigable crimefighting partner the Tick, they were all abuzz with the tingles of life-threatening danger and possible dissociative fugue. The second part of the series’ first season sees the boys getting a much better grip on what’s real—just in time for reality to try and kill them.…

Television Evan Narcisse Feb 23

Oregon’s Botched Google Tax Break Shows Why You Don’t Bend the Knee to Tech Giants

As city officials around the US continue to carve out incentives that might convince Amazon to build its new headquarters in their town, lawmakers in Oregon are having regrets about their own efforts to please Big Tech. A new bill there would repeal tax breaks that were intended to lure Google to deploy high-speed fiber—but ended…

Tech News Rhett Jones Feb 23

First Evidence that Microplastics Travel Up the Food Chain and Into Seal Bellies

You’re familiar with the food chain: little fish eats plankton, bigger fish eats the little fish, then a seal eats the bigger fish, thus consuming the energy from all three smaller animals. But what if the little fish had also eaten an indigestible piece of plastic? New evidence demonstrates the plastic could make it all…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 23

Ordering Physical Comics Books Is About to Get Slightly Easier

One of the most intimidating aspects of getting into comics for the first time is… well, the actual process of buying comic books, especially if you’re looking to build a physical collection. But as difficult—if not outright arcane—as it can be, it’s about to get a little easier to manage. This morning, Diamond, the biggest…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Feb 23

Cyclone Remnant Spawns Horrifying River of Rock in New Zealand

Earlier this week, a storm spawned by the former Cyclone Gita swept across New Zealand, damaging buildings, knocking out electricity, and creating floods. But along the Rakaia River, the storm triggered a bizarre natural phenomenon known as granular flow—essentially a raging river of rocks. This incredible video was captured by Donna Field as she was…

Sploid George Dvorsky Feb 23

Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants You Off His Stretch of the California Coastline

When you’re having a picnic, the last thing you want is ants, and when you’re a billionaire venture capitalist, it’s equally irksome to have plebeians accessing the beach next to your 89 acres of land. On Thursday, Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla filed a 151-page petition with the Supreme Court in order to fight to…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Feb 23

Oil on Japanese Beaches Linked to Last Month’s Sanchi Tanker Spill

As feared, oil from a sunken Iranian tanker has reached the shores of over a dozen southern Japanese islands, Japanese Coast Guard officials have now confirmed to Reuters and AFP. The Sanchi sank on January 14 after colliding with a Hong Kong-registered freighter in the East China Sea, spawning four giant oil spills. Packed with…

Tech News George Dvorsky Feb 23

Where Is the Snow?

Outside of the Northern Rockies and Washington State, the U.S. is desperately seeking snow. Hot, dry weather has been the norm for much of this winter in the West, setting the region up for a summer of water woes. The snow drought is most severe in California and the Southwest. California’s Sierra Nevada are averaging…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Feb 23

Symantec Cuts Ties With NRA Amid Backlash Over School Shootings

Update, 7/12: Gizmodo has discovered that LifeLock has continued to grant discounts to NRA members nearly five months after claiming it cut ties. Symantec, one of the country’s largest security software companies, has ended its partnership with the National Rifle Association, Gizmodo has learned. The company is the latest to sever ties with the NRA…

Tech News Dell Cameron Feb 23

Michael B. Jordan Loves Anime, and Wants You to Know It

Michael B. Jordan’s stellar turn as Black Panther’s complex villain figure Erik Killmonger has the world talking. Sure, they’re talking about how great he is in Black Panther, but they’re also talking about something else: the fact that the young actor loves himself some anime, and is loud and proud about it. In the run…

io9 James Whitbrook Feb 23

Google Just Pushed Out a Bunch of Updates for Three of Its More Promising Android Features

Just a couple days before the world’s biggest smartphone convention kicks off in Barcelona, Google is rolling out updates for a number of its most interesting Android features. The first of which is Google Lens, which will finally be available inside the Google Photos app over the new few weeks to all English-language Android users…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Feb 23

Trump’s Attempt to Repeal Obama’s Methane Rule Just Suffered a Major Setback

The Bureau of Land Management knows what it wants the Methane Waste and Prevention Rule to look like, but the courts have something else in mind. The U.S. District Court for the North District of California ruled Thursday that the federal government did not justify its decision to suspend and rewrite this rule, which was…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Feb 23

California Emergency Responders Are Not Happy Apple Facility Accidentally Called 911 Hundreds of Times

Last fall’s updates for Apple Watches and iPhones were supposed to make requesting emergency assistance easier and faster, but in one California county, Apple could be interfering with the response process by bombarding local emergency systems with false alarms. Emergency responders in Elk Grove and Sacramento County say they have been receiving about 20 calls…

Tech News Jennings Brown Feb 23

Poop Is a Really Popular Kids Toy This Year

Poop should not be a trend. Nevertheless turd toys were everywhere at Toy Fair this year. But it wasn’t all fecal fare. Boogers, farts, and pimples were all the subject of toys appropriate for kids too. As toymakers can’t seem to stop pushing the limits, we set to find the grossest toys we could. Below…

Toys & Collectibles Alex Cranz Feb 23

David Tennant Promises the Good Omens Show Is ‘Faithful’ to the Book

Adaptations can be a tricky thing—especially when the source material you’re working with is something like Good Omens. For anyone worried we’d be seeing a complete 180-degree turn from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s vision, David Tennant is here to put your mind at ease. The apocalypse is still pretty funny. In an interview with…

Television Beth Elderkin Feb 23

#ThisEatsThat Highlights the Totally Weird Shit Animals Eat

Wildlife biologist and science educator David Steen is used to answering questions from the public. Mostly, these questions center on the day-to-day lives of backyard creatures: how they live, where they sleep, where they go during winter or droughts. One of the most common questions, though, is what various animals eat. The new twitter hashtag…

Conservation Asher Elbein Feb 23

Mute Is an Excellent Film Noir That Just Happens to Be Set in a Cyberpunk World

A scifi tale by virtue of its setting, but an old-school film noir at heart thanks to its story, Mute is a puzzle with eccentric pieces that eventually all fit together—perhaps a bit too neatly, given its fondness for jagged edges. But its love of sleazy neon and some unusual themes do much to make…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Feb 23

More Updates From What Could’ve Been in Joss Whedon’s Batgirl Movie

J.J. Abrams has his Star Wars: Episode IX script. Meet Mrs. Whatsit in a new Wrinkle in Time clip. Another member of the Doom Patrol joins Titans. Roy Harper returns in new pictures from Arrow. Plus, tons of new looks at Tomb Raider, and Netflix’s Sabrina show casts a major villain. To me, my Spoilers!…

Television James Whitbrook Feb 23

1Password Helps You Find Out if Your Password Is Pwned

California Has a New Bureau of Environmental Justice

The First Season of The Tick Wraps Up With a Super-Strong Hug for Your Brain and Your Heart

Oregon’s Botched Google Tax Break Shows Why You Don’t Bend the Knee to Tech Giants

First Evidence that Microplastics Travel Up the Food Chain and Into Seal Bellies

Ordering Physical Comics Books Is About to Get Slightly Easier

Cyclone Remnant Spawns Horrifying River of Rock in New Zealand

Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants You Off His Stretch of the California Coastline

Oil on Japanese Beaches Linked to Last Month’s Sanchi Tanker Spill

Where Is the Snow?

Symantec Cuts Ties With NRA Amid Backlash Over School Shootings

Michael B. Jordan Loves Anime, and Wants You to Know It

Google Just Pushed Out a Bunch of Updates for Three of Its More Promising Android Features

Trump’s Attempt to Repeal Obama’s Methane Rule Just Suffered a Major Setback

California Emergency Responders Are Not Happy Apple Facility Accidentally Called 911 Hundreds of Times

Poop Is a Really Popular Kids Toy This Year

David Tennant Promises the Good Omens Show Is ‘Faithful’ to the Book

#ThisEatsThat Highlights the Totally Weird Shit Animals Eat

Mute Is an Excellent Film Noir That Just Happens to Be Set in a Cyberpunk World

More Updates From What Could’ve Been in Joss Whedon’s Batgirl Movie

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