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Holy Crap, That’s a Lot of Money for Some Ugly Ass Goggles

On Wednesday, Magic Leap announced that it’s raised another $461 million, bringing the VR company’s total funding to more than $2.3 billion—without having released single product. Most of the new dough comes from the Public Investment Fund (PIF), an investment fund run by the Saudi Arabia government. The new cash signals Saudi Arabia’s continued influence…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Mar 7 '18

A Wrinkle in Time Tries to Soar, but Has Trouble Staying Grounded

A Wrinkle in Time might be a science fiction epic that takes place across galaxies, but its story is surprisingly small. It’s about one girl learning to find herself, set against the backdrop of the entire universe. But while the film tries to balance the personal journey of Meg Murry (Storm Reid) with director Ava…

Movies Beth Elderkin Mar 7 '18

Dutch Police Are DNA Testing 21,500 Men to Solve a 20-Year-Old Murder

In 1986, a technique called “DNA fingerprinting” was used for the first time in a criminal investigation, when a geneticist named Alec Jeffreys realized that when DNA was extracted from cells and attached to photographic film, it developed as a sequence of bars that could uniquely identify someone. His accidental discovery helped nail the suspect…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Mar 7 '18

We Guarantee This Cute Animated Short Will Send You Into a Blind Rage

Individually, these random, frustrating occurrences of everyday life aren’t enough to ruin your day. But when compiled into a short film that’s aptly titled Life Is Pain, this collection of ‘first world problems’ will undoubtedly leave you feeling frustrated as you’re reminded of life’s endless little annoyances. In the grand scheme of things, complaining about…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Mar 7 '18

Thunder and a Surprising Resurrection Change Everything for Black Lightning

Black Lightning is arguably one of the smartest, strongest comic book adaptations on television right now, but that’s not to say the show hasn’t been without its weaknesses. It’s been weird, for example, that everyone’s been keeping these huge, conspicuous secrets from one another right in the open. There’s a certain degree of convenient ignorance…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 7 '18

Amazon Slashes Prime Fees for Medicaid Enrollees in Play for Low-Income Customers

Today, Amazon extended its Prime membership program at a steep discount—$5.99 per month compared to the standard $12.99—to customers enrolled in Medicaid, as it began doing in June for those using Electronic Benefits Transfer cards (used to disperse government food and cash benefits.) Free two-day shipping and the other various perks of Prime remain identical…

Tech News Avery Ellis Mar 7 '18

Indigenous Hunters Are Being Scapegoated For Caribou Declines, Researchers Claim

The caribou herds that graze the expansive, treeless tundra lands of northern Canada have declined perilously since the 1990s. Now, a team of researchers is arguing that the government’s response—of placing limits on indigenous subsistence hunting—is misguided. Instead, they say policymakers should focus on the mining activity that’s degrading key caribou habitat. Their arguments, spelled…

Environmental Justice Maddie Stone Mar 7 '18

Microsoft Is Going to Stop Cramming Windows 10S Down People’s Throats

When Microsoft introduced Windows 10S last year, I was deeply concerned. If you didn’t think too hard about it, it kind of sounded like a good idea: a lightweight version of regular Windows 10, designed for systems without a ton horsepower, and a potentially competitive alternative to affordable Chromebooks, which have become a big hit…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Mar 7 '18

Last Night’s Flash Broke the Entire Premise of the Show in the Best Possible Way

So many moments of melodrama in Barry Allen’s life come down to him wailing that he, a man who tells us he is the fastest man alive all the time, just isn’t fast enough to save the day sometimes. But last night’s episode proved that he really actually is more than fast enough, he just…

Television James Whitbrook Mar 7 '18

‘Magic’ Twist in Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Superconducting Behavior

High-temperature electricity without resistance could revolutionize electronics. It could take less energy to move electric charge, meaning better-performing, more-efficient electronics that are cheaper to run. It could cut down on energy costs, and might even help researchers realize better quantum computers. Scientists have gotten a step closer with a little “magic” twist. A team of…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 7 '18

This New NASA Mission Could Unlock Secrets of the Northern Lights

The aurora borealis is one of the most spectacular light shows Earth’s skies have to offer—but it’s much more than that. The energy that drives the northern lights could also power upwelling in our planet’s upper atmosphere. Weather permitting, two NASA-funded sounding rockets are launching from Norway this month to probe that mysterious connection. That…

Earth Science Maddie Stone Mar 7 '18

Fired OpenTable Employee Booked Hundreds of Fake Reservations Through Rival Service

A “rogue” OpenTable employee booked more than 300 fake reservations in Chicago restaurants, the online reservation service recently said, leaving 45 Chicago food spots with dozens of empty seats for dinner. The bizarre tactic was apparently a smear campaign meant to make a rival reservations app, Reserve, look bad. The employee has been fired and…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Mar 7 '18

You Can and Should Hide Your Facebook and Twitter Likes

Its okay to fall out of love with social media, especially as it seems like it’s a painful reassessment of your own self-worth every time you post something. Every like, retweet, new follower or friend can feel like they’re contributing to a metric of your personal value. But with a the right add-ons you can…

Gadgets David Nield Mar 7 '18

Archie’s Getting the Bollywood Treatment in a New Movie Produced in India

America’s Favorite Teenager will be doing a lot more dramatic singing and dancing in an upcoming film being made in partnership with Archie Comics and film production company Graphic India. Announced today via Variety, the project will re-imagine Archie, Betty, Veronica, Reggie and other characters of Riverdale as Indian teenagers. Although there’s a thriving comics…

Movies Evan Narcisse Mar 7 '18

I Can’t Figure Out Who This Luxurious Wireless Mouse System Is for

You’ll have to forgive me, I’m working through a problem here. I’m faced with some seriously cool technology that gets me excited in a flying car, robot maids, vaporwave kind of way: A wireless mouse that never needs to be plugged in. No cord to transmit data. No dock or cable to keep it charged.…

Reviews Alex Cranz Mar 7 '18

Updates From Jessica Jones, Shazam, and More

Mike Mignola discusses his involvement in the Hellboy reboot. Good Omens continues to have some delightful casting. The could be more to come from the Vampire Diaries universe after the end of The Originals. Plus, new set footage from Shazam and The Boys casts a major character. To me, my spoilers! Epoch Index After an…

Television James Whitbrook Mar 7 '18

This New AMNH Exhibit Takes You Under the Sea and You Won’t Want to Come Up for Air

NEW YORK—From the moment you step from the cacophonous, bright halls of the American Natural History Museum into its new ocean exhibit, it’s clear how disorienting life under the sea is. The door to Unseen Oceans, a new exhibit, opens onto a foyer awash in digital waves projected on the floor. You literally have to…

Conservation Brian Kahn Mar 7 '18

Trump Administration, Which Said It Would Keep African Elephant Trophy Ban, Changes Its Mind

After months of back and forth on the subject, President Donald Trump’s administration has done what everyone pretty much knew it would do the whole time and has lifted a ban on the importation of some African elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. Per NPR, in a March 1st memo, the US Fish and Wildlife…

Biology Tom McKay Mar 7 '18

Intrepid Reporters Catch ‘Snowflake Students’ Correctly Surmising the Moral of Frankenstein

Monsters are bad and that’s just the way that it is, with no exceptions ever. But according to notorious British tabloid the Sun, sicko lib “snowflake students” in the UK are reading Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus—widely considered one of the first science fiction novels—and concluding that the titular doctor’s…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 6 '18

Uber and Lyft Drivers Are Probably Making More Than $3.37 an Hour, But That’s a Real Low Bar

Last week, researchers with MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy released a working paper with survey data from 1,100 Uber and Lyft drivers, saying the “detailed vehicle cost information” provided showed that after accounting for expenses those drivers were making a median profit of $3.37 per hour. If true, that would mean the average…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 6 '18

Holy Crap, That’s a Lot of Money for Some Ugly Ass Goggles

A Wrinkle in Time Tries to Soar, but Has Trouble Staying Grounded

Dutch Police Are DNA Testing 21,500 Men to Solve a 20-Year-Old Murder

We Guarantee This Cute Animated Short Will Send You Into a Blind Rage

Thunder and a Surprising Resurrection Change Everything for Black Lightning

Amazon Slashes Prime Fees for Medicaid Enrollees in Play for Low-Income Customers

Indigenous Hunters Are Being Scapegoated For Caribou Declines, Researchers Claim

Microsoft Is Going to Stop Cramming Windows 10S Down People’s Throats

Last Night’s Flash Broke the Entire Premise of the Show in the Best Possible Way

‘Magic’ Twist in Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Superconducting Behavior

This New NASA Mission Could Unlock Secrets of the Northern Lights

Fired OpenTable Employee Booked Hundreds of Fake Reservations Through Rival Service

You Can and Should Hide Your Facebook and Twitter Likes

Archie’s Getting the Bollywood Treatment in a New Movie Produced in India

I Can’t Figure Out Who This Luxurious Wireless Mouse System Is for

Updates From Jessica Jones, Shazam, and More

This New AMNH Exhibit Takes You Under the Sea and You Won’t Want to Come Up for Air

Trump Administration, Which Said It Would Keep African Elephant Trophy Ban, Changes Its Mind

Intrepid Reporters Catch ‘Snowflake Students’ Correctly Surmising the Moral of Frankenstein

Uber and Lyft Drivers Are Probably Making More Than $3.37 an Hour, But That’s a Real Low Bar

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