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Repealing the Clean Power Plan Sacrifices the Health of Communities of Color

The Clean Power Plan set a new standard for the U.S. response to climate change. It was supposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-burning power plants and help the U.S. meet its Paris Agreement targets. But it never had much chance under the climate change-denying Trump administration, and on Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency…

Earther Yessenia Funes Oct 11

Amazon’s Sick High-End Kindle Got a Serious Overhaul

When Amazon released the Kindle Oasis back in the spring of 2016, we said it was the best e-reader ever made. But that doesn’t mean it was perfect, and in the year and half since it came out, it’s become clear there was room for improvement. With a starting price of $290, the old Oasis…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Oct 11

The Controversial, Hail Mary Plan to Save Mexico’s Last Endangered Porpoises Starts Now

In a true sign of desperate times requiring desperate measures, four U.S. Navy search dolphins will be deployed on Thursday in the Gulf of California—the sea separating Baja from mainland Mexico—to help locate a critically endangered type of porpoise known as the vaquita. It’s part of a last-ditch effort to save the species from extinction.…

Conservation Daniel Setiawan Oct 11

9 More Horror Stories From People Who Had Their Electronic Devices Searched at the Border

On Monday, we looked at some of the complaints filed with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) about the treatment of travelers at the US border. People regularly have their electronic devices searched, often for no good reason at all, leading to an invasive and violating experience. And today we have more horror stories from…

Privacy & Security Matt Novak Oct 11

Mensa, an Association of Ostensible Geniuses, Takes Donald Trump’s Bait

The ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reached absolutely bizarre, reality-bending levels this week, with Trump responding to reports Tillerson had called him a “moron” by suggesting that they could “compare IQ tests … I can tell you who is going to win.” This juicy little distraction was apparently…

Tech News Tom McKay Oct 11

A Touch Panel Bug Turned a Google Home Mini Into a Creepy Surveillance Device

The Google Home Mini fits most of the features of the tech giant’s popular Home smart speakers into a $50, four-inch-wide package, except for the larger, $130 version’s better acoustics. But it is still very, very good at listening. As many as 4,000 Google Home Minis handed out at Made By Google press and pop-up…

Tech News Tom McKay Oct 10

Twitter Backs Down, Allows Rep. Marsha Blackburn to Promote ‘Baby Body Parts’ Video

Twitter has ended a standoff with Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn one day after taking down advertisements containing her Senate campaign announcement video, in which she bragged about fighting “the sale of baby body parts.” In a statement to Gizmodo, a Twitter spokesperson explained the original call was made on the basis of its advertising moderation…

Tech News Tom McKay Oct 10

Jeff Goldblum Riffing On the Meaning of ‘Ragnarok’ Is Absolutely Delightful

Walk up to someone and ask them what “Ragnarok” means, and chances are, they won’t have an answer. Even if they were randomly into Norse mythology, though, none of them would have answers as delightfully kooky as Thor: Ragnarok star Jeff Goldblum. Goldblum plays the Grandmaster in Thor: Ragnarok, the third Thor movie, which opens…

Movies Germain Lussier Oct 10

Disney Animation Just Shelved Its Jack and the Beanstalk Film, Gigantic

In 2015, Walt Disney Animation Studios announced a Jack and the Beanstalk adaptation called Gigantic for release in 2018. Earlier this year, 2018 became 2020. And now, the film has been shelved indefinitely. “It’s impossible to know when we begin a project how the creative process will unfold, and sometimes, no matter how much we…

Movies Germain Lussier Oct 10

A Bug on T-Mobile’s Website Exposed Its Customers’ Personal Information

A major flaw on T-Mobile’s website could have allowed hackers to extract personal information belonging to millions of customers, according to the researcher who discovered it. The bug was fixed on Friday after the company was approached by a security reporter. On Tuesday, Motherboard reported that it had contacted T-Mobile last week to inquire about…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Oct 10

When Constantine Returns to Legends of Tomorrow This Season, He’ll Be a Bisexual Chain Smoker

John Constantine is making his triumphant return to the CW’s Arrowverse in Legends of Tomorrow’s third season. He’ll be part of a massive, two-episode crossover that’ll see the chain smoking demon hunter team up with the show’s group of time-traveling misfits. Fans of NBC’s cancelled Constantine series will be pleased to hear that actor Matt…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore Oct 10

This Is What Half a Year For One of Greenland’s Most Imperiled Glaciers Looks Like

Satellites have changed how we see the world. That includes being able to watch climate change overrun everything beautiful in agonizing detail. Behold, the Petermann Glacier, a wending trail of ice that descends from Greenland’s ice sheet down to an icy tongue sticking out over a fjord on the island’s northwest edge. The animation above,…

Earther Brian Kahn Oct 10

Not Even Putin Can Scare Bitcoin Investors

Bitcoin’s having a wild day. It kicked off with a strange flash crash registered by the CoinDesk tracker that momentarily caused the cryptocurrency to appear to plunge by 12 percent. Almost simultaneously, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for regulatory restrictions on digital currencies for the first time. And then, as it does in recent times,…

Tech News Rhett Jones Oct 10

Here’s What You Missed at io9 and Kotaku’s Cosplay Ball

Thanks to everyone who came out to last week’s annual io9 + Kotaku Cosplay Ball during New York Comic Con! It was packed with great cosplayers—to the point that not everyone who showed up could get in (to be fair, we throw a hell of a party). Luckily, we have a massive gallery of those…

io9 Joe Tonelli and Rob Bricken Oct 10

Judge Orders Limitations on Sweeping DreamHost Warrant Seeking Info on Anti-Trump Site

A judge ordered the web hosting company DreamHost to redact identifying information about visitors to a website used to coordinate a protest during President Trump’s inauguration, imposing further limits on an extensive warrant obtained by the Justice Department that initially aimed to collect visitors’ IP addresses. Chief Judge Robert E. Morin of the Superior Court…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Oct 10

New Trailer Gives Professor Marston and the Wonder Women the Comic Book Treatment

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women tells the story of how an iconic comic book character was brought to life, and now a teaser trailer for the film has given the creators’ origin story the comic sans font it deserves. Annapurna has released a stylized trailer that shows the story of Professor Marston and the…

Movies Beth Elderkin Oct 10

Restored Prisoner’s Letter Uncovers Horrific Details of Life at Auschwitz Death Camp

In 1944, Marcel Nadjari—a Greek Jew who was forced to remove bodies from the Auschwitz gas chambers—buried a letter in a forest near the camp. The text was rediscovered in 1980, but it was virtually unreadable. Using a new imaging technique, scientists have finally reconstructed the letter, and it’s providing harrowing new details of the…

Tech News George Dvorsky Oct 10

Giving Indigenous People Land Rights is a No-Brainer for Fighting Climate Change

Ever since climate change become a widely-recognized problem, international leaders have been looking at forests as one of the best opportunities for greenhouse gas mitigation. One thing that they overlooked, up until very recently, is that forests aren’t just full of trees. Millions of people live in the world’s remaining forests, and evidence is mounting…

Environmental Justice Lou Del Bello Oct 10

Experiment Confirms a Crucial Property of Electrons, Unfortunately

When it comes to physics, fewer things are more exciting than proving something wrong. Proving theories wrong has led to entirely new fields of study. The fruits that come from wrongness can be so rewarding that scientists devote a considerable amount of time to probing well-known theories, hoping to find a crack. But a team…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Oct 10

This Fan-Made Episode of Steven Universe Is Fandom at Its Best

It feels like it’s been years since there were any new episodes of Steven Universe on the air. In anticipation of Steven and the Gems’ inevitable return, a group of super enthusiastic fans have been working on the sort of project that all hardcore Steven Universe lovers have fantasized about at one point or another:…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore Oct 10

Repealing the Clean Power Plan Sacrifices the Health of Communities of Color

Amazon’s Sick High-End Kindle Got a Serious Overhaul

The Controversial, Hail Mary Plan to Save Mexico’s Last Endangered Porpoises Starts Now

9 More Horror Stories From People Who Had Their Electronic Devices Searched at the Border

Mensa, an Association of Ostensible Geniuses, Takes Donald Trump’s Bait

A Touch Panel Bug Turned a Google Home Mini Into a Creepy Surveillance Device

Twitter Backs Down, Allows Rep. Marsha Blackburn to Promote ‘Baby Body Parts’ Video

Jeff Goldblum Riffing On the Meaning of ‘Ragnarok’ Is Absolutely Delightful

Disney Animation Just Shelved Its Jack and the Beanstalk Film, Gigantic

A Bug on T-Mobile’s Website Exposed Its Customers’ Personal Information

When Constantine Returns to Legends of Tomorrow This Season, He’ll Be a Bisexual Chain Smoker

This Is What Half a Year For One of Greenland’s Most Imperiled Glaciers Looks Like

Not Even Putin Can Scare Bitcoin Investors

Here’s What You Missed at io9 and Kotaku’s Cosplay Ball

Judge Orders Limitations on Sweeping DreamHost Warrant Seeking Info on Anti-Trump Site

New Trailer Gives Professor Marston and the Wonder Women the Comic Book Treatment

Restored Prisoner’s Letter Uncovers Horrific Details of Life at Auschwitz Death Camp

Giving Indigenous People Land Rights is a No-Brainer for Fighting Climate Change

Experiment Confirms a Crucial Property of Electrons, Unfortunately

This Fan-Made Episode of Steven Universe Is Fandom at Its Best

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