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Extremely Unruly Goat Smashes Office Glass Door, Comes Back for Seconds

A goat that was extremely bored, ornery, or both decided to smash in the front door of polyurethane manufacturer Argonics Inc.’s Colorado office this weekend, and the mystery may have gone unsolved were it not for the company’s surveillance system. Argonics uploaded video to YouTube of the goat’s July 16 rampage on Monday, writing its…

Sploid Tom McKay Jul 17

At This Point, Amazon Can Crush a Company Just By Filing for a Trademark

Amazon is an unstoppable beast, consuming all industries that are ripe for disruption and unfortunate enough to cross its path. On Monday, its latest victim was the struggling food delivery service Blue Apron. https://gizmodo.com/whole-foods-employees-must-be-shitting-their-pants-righ-1796274910 Following Amazon’s bombshell announcement of an agreement to acquire the Whole Foods grocery chain for $13.7 billion, stock prices for competitors…

Commerce Rhett Jones Jul 17

Theresa May’s Government Announces Plan to Thwart All Porn-Viewing Minors by April 2018

Malfunctioning Dalek and British Prime Minister Theresa May, fresh off of securing the support of the far-right Democratic Unionist Party, has reportedly set a timetable for her government’s plan to force all porn sites operating in the U.K. to check the ages of its users. According to Ars Technica UK, by April 2018, May’s government…

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 17

A Scientist Goes Mad (With Good Reason) in Weirdly Witty Scifi Short Eddie

Eddie takes place deep within an otherwise abandoned laboratory, where a struggling scientist has only his shambling, gruesome, zombie-like research subject—the title character—to keep him company. It’s a great set-up, elevated by a wonderfully deadpan tone and some very funny asides. Director and co-writer John Lynch hopes Eddie will serve as a proof-of-concept to make…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jul 17

Scientists Warn Climate Change Could Bring the Dust Bowl Back Out of the History Books

If there’s anything that just about sums up the desperation of the Great Depression in one filthy package, it’s photos of the Dust Bowl, when over-farming resulted in roving dust storms choking large swathes of the Great Plains region. Now, scientists are projecting that climate change could bring those hardscrabble days to a dystopian landscape…

Climate Change Tom McKay Jul 17

Would You Live In NBC’s Midnight, Texas, a Town Filled With Were-Tigers, Demons, and Witches?

Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town where were-tigers, vampires, and witches live side by side in their small, dusty town just trying to make a modest living while also fighting the oncoming forces of hell. Now ask yourself: would you wanna live in Midnight? Based on True Blood author Charlaine Harris’ Midnight, Texas trilogy, the…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 17

Companies Don’t Have a First Amendment Right to Talk About National Security Letters, Court Rules

Cloudflare and Credo Mobile today lost their fight to speak publicly about the National Security Letters they and other tech companies receive, which demand user data and frequently forbid companies from ever disclosing the demands to their users. The two companies received NSLs from the FBI in 2011 and 2013, requiring them to secretly disclose…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Jul 17

This Is How Inception Ends in 2017

Regardless of what you think of Inception’s ambiguous ending, if the film were released in 2017, it’s safe to assume that the final scene with the spinning top would have played out a bit differently—with a much, much more fitting and distracting reveal. By now, we’ve all seen that last, gut-wrenching scene of Christopher Nolan’s…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 17

You Can Soon Relive Your Childhood Fears of The Day After‘s Nuclear War in Stunning Blu-ray

Has it ever been this depressing to pay attention to world events than it is right now? Well, what about when we believed we’d soon be in a full-scale nuclear war? The utter devastation of the Cold War erupting into a hot one was the basic premise of The Day After, a 1983 made-for-TV movie…

Movies Zach Ezer Jul 17

Here’s Our Best Look at Star Trek: Discovery‘s New Ship

When it comes to Star Trek, the ship is vital. We’ve had the Enterprise. Then the Enterprise. Then a change with a space station in Deep Space Nine. And the Voyager. And then, oh look, Enterprise. And now we can add Discovery to that list. This new poster comes as Star Trek: Discovery prepares to…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Jul 17

The Director of the New It Movie Signs On To Bring Robotech To the Big Screen

Two long years after being announced, there are signs that Warner Bros.’ live-action Robotech movie might actually be moving forward. The Hollywood Reporter says that Andy Muschietti, fresh off directing the upcoming movie adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic It, has been hired to helm Robotech. Muschetti’s name was bandied about in the early stages,…

io9 Evan Narcisse Jul 17

Mischievous Monkey Causes Massive Blackout in Zambian Tourist Town

Around 50,000 residents of Zambia’s Western province were without electricity on Sunday, after a baboon wandered into a power station and fiddled with the equipment. Incredibly, the baboon managed to survive the incident. As Africa News reports, the blackout affected homes and businesses in Livingstone, a popular tourist town near Victoria Falls, and the surrounding…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jul 17

DC’s Superheroines Are Becoming a Badass Anti-Fascist Biker Gang in the New Gotham City Garage Series

Much like its Bombshells universe, where classic characters like Wonder Woman and Batwoman were reimagined as WWII-era heroes fighting undead Nazis, the publisher’s new Gotham City Garage began as a collection of highly-stylized, limited edition statues. Now, it’s becoming a comics series of its own. Penned by writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, with a…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 17

Why War for the Planet of the Apes Ended the Way It Did (and Where It Could Go Next)

War for the Planet of the Apes is a unique effects-driven summer blockbuster in that it has a very clear end to a major part of its story. There’s no cliffhanger or obvious sequel hook here. And yet there’s still more story of the apes to tell. War for the Planet of the Apes doesn’t…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Jul 17

MySpace Nukes Massive Security Loophole (But Go Delete Your Stuff Anyways)

Remember Myspace? Yeah, it’s still a thing. And for months, the social network reportedly had a security flaw that made it ridiculously easy to hack into any profile with just a date of birth. Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway first reported the flaw on her blog Monday morning. She said she’s been trying to get Myspace…

Tech News Alejandro Alba Jul 17

There’s Growing Evidence That Pluto’s Largest Moon Had a Massive Ocean

Pluto’s moon Charon is the best sidekick a dwarf planet could hope for: unwavering in its loyalty, content to be a minor character in somebody else’s narrative. But two years after the New Horizons flyby, the largest of Pluto’s five moons is finally getting some well-deserved time in the spotlight. New research suggests that Charon’s…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Jul 17

All the Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney News From This Year’s D23 Expo

With everything from Avengers: Infinity War and The Last Jedi footage to news about massive Disney theme park expansions, last weekend’s D23 Expo basically had it all. But there so many trailers, announcements, and reveals, it was hard to keep up with all the House of Mouse’s latest developments. Lucky for you, we’ve rounded up…

Television Zach Ezer Jul 17

Everything That Can Be Gleaned From the New Blade Runner 2049 Trailer

A new Blade Runner 2049 trailer landed this morning and if you thought Jared Leto was up to no good in the last trailer, he really ups his creepiness in this one. But we also noticed new characters, new locations, and more than a few lines that are subtly different from when we heard them…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta Jul 17

Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in ‘One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network’

Last week, Twitter’s security team purged nearly 90,000 fake accounts after outside researchers discovered a massive botnet peddling links to fake “dating” and “romance” services. The accounts had already generated more than 8.5 million posts aimed at driving users to a variety of subscription-based scam websites with promises of—you guessed it—hot internet sex. The bullshit…

Tech News Dell Cameron Jul 17

This Printer Doodles Stick Figure Robots to Explore Areas We Can’t

Building a robot that can replicate everything a human can do is both impossibly complicated and expensive. So, researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen are taking the exact opposite approach: building incredibly simple robots, on-demand, that only do what humans can’t. In a paper recently published to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 17

Extremely Unruly Goat Smashes Office Glass Door, Comes Back for Seconds

At This Point, Amazon Can Crush a Company Just By Filing for a Trademark

Theresa May’s Government Announces Plan to Thwart All Porn-Viewing Minors by April 2018

A Scientist Goes Mad (With Good Reason) in Weirdly Witty Scifi Short Eddie

Scientists Warn Climate Change Could Bring the Dust Bowl Back Out of the History Books

Would You Live In NBC’s Midnight, Texas, a Town Filled With Were-Tigers, Demons, and Witches?

Companies Don’t Have a First Amendment Right to Talk About National Security Letters, Court Rules

This Is How Inception Ends in 2017

You Can Soon Relive Your Childhood Fears of The Day After‘s Nuclear War in Stunning Blu-ray

Here’s Our Best Look at Star Trek: Discovery‘s New Ship

The Director of the New It Movie Signs On To Bring Robotech To the Big Screen

Mischievous Monkey Causes Massive Blackout in Zambian Tourist Town

DC’s Superheroines Are Becoming a Badass Anti-Fascist Biker Gang in the New Gotham City Garage Series

Why War for the Planet of the Apes Ended the Way It Did (and Where It Could Go Next)

MySpace Nukes Massive Security Loophole (But Go Delete Your Stuff Anyways)

There’s Growing Evidence That Pluto’s Largest Moon Had a Massive Ocean

All the Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney News From This Year’s D23 Expo

Everything That Can Be Gleaned From the New Blade Runner 2049 Trailer

Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in ‘One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network’

This Printer Doodles Stick Figure Robots to Explore Areas We Can’t

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