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President Obama Fails to Announce Election Do-Over

President Obama just wrapped up a much anticipated press conference, where he mostly answered questions about Russia hacking the election. Did the commander-in-chief announce a superheroic effort to bring Putin to justice and find a way to re-do the election? Nah. But he did blame the media for being gossipy sensationalists. Obama very clearly said…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 16

Skiing Through These Ice Caves on a Glacier Looks Majestic

Watching Sam Favret ski through Mer de Glace makes me think that there probably aren’t too many places in the world that are more fun to ski than that beautiful valley glacier in the Mont-Blanc massif in the French Alps. There are all these narrow pathways to zip through with huge ice walls surrounding you,…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 16

These Rogue One Characters Might Not Be Done With the Star Wars Universe

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has made it very clear that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a standalone movie. The sequel is A New Hope and that’s that. However, if that’s the case, why do some of the actors have options for more movie in their contracts? This is about to get into some…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 16

Fox Is Making a Family Drama Set in an A.I. Future

Fox is developing Familiar, a show about a family trying to put an A.I. in every home. Also, presumably, while having high family drama. Familiar comes from Heather Regnier (writer and producer on Sleepy Hollow) and will follow the Wiercinski family. The Wiercinskis run a company called Luminary, 2029’s “first mainstream consumer-oriented” robotics company. Apparently,…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Dec 16

Two Billion-Year-Old Water Found in Canadian Mine

Canadian Geoscientists have uncovered water that dates back a whopping two billion years. It’s the oldest water ever discovered on Earth, and it could broaden our understanding of how life emerged on our planet—and possibly elsewhere. “It won’t kill you if you drank it, but it would taste absolutely disgusting.” The University of Toronto researchers…

Tech News George Dvorsky Dec 16

Researchers Make an Obvious Discovery For Improving Drones

Even the most maneuverable aircraft we’ve designed is no match for the agility of a bird. Mother Nature has all but perfected flight, so why are we wasting our time re-inventing the wheel? As researchers at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne realized, we should just be copying our fine feathered friends. Planes are purpose-built…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 16

Famous Deer Saved From Euthanasia Dies the Very Next Day

A small deer that was at the center of a political tussle between New York State and New York City has died of stress after it was given a stay of execution. The white-tailed buck was discovered on Wednesday in Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem. The people that discovered the deer thought was part of…

Tech News Michael Nunez Dec 16

The Environmental Disaster Film Geostorm Sounds All Kinds of Crazy

For the past few years, we’ve been hearing rumblings about an environmentally centered science fiction disaster film called Geostorm, starring Gerard Butler and directed by Independence Day and Stargate producer Dean Devlin. But it sounds like we hadn’t even heard the half of it. What we first learned, back in 2014, was that it was…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 16

Yahoo Is More Screwed Than Ever, So Where the Hell Is Marissa Mayer?

It’s the end of 2016. Do you know where your CEO is? For a brief period of time, it looked like 2016 was going to be the year that Marissa Mayer finally did something good for Yahoo. She managed to sell the company’s core assets, which had been floundering for several years, to Verizon for…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Dec 16

All the Major Star Wars Cameos and Connections You May Have Missed in Rogue One

Rogue One is billed as a standalone Star Wars movie, but it’s far more entrenched in the story of the saga than many of us had thought. That’s not just in terms of its setting, though—it’s because it’s jam-packed with references and hints to the Star Wars stories that came before it. Here are all…

Movies James Whitbrook and Germain Lussier Dec 16

FBI Now Agrees That Russia Hacked the Election to Help Trump Win

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is supporting a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in United States elections, according to a Washington Post report quoting anonymous US officials. Some Republican lawmakers had hinted that the FBI may not agree with the CIA assessment that make news late last week. From The Washington Post: “Earlier this week,…

Tech News William Turton Dec 16

In the People of Earth Season Finale, an Alien Looks for Help With His Grief in the Worst Possible Place

One of the increasingly enjoyable parts of TBS’ People of Earth, a show about an alien abductee support group that isn’t actually wrong about what happened to them, is the development of the aliens as characters. Think…regular office workers who happen to have a particularly weird day job. In this clip from the finale, which…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Dec 16

The Best, Worst, and Most Unforgettable Movie Moments of 2016

In movies, there’s usually a moment where everything clicks. Where the image, emotion, and sound meet in perfect harmony and no matter what happens before or after, you realize you are in love with this moment. The cinema of 2016 had plenty of these moments, and we picked our 16 favorites. Note: Many of these…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 16

Investigators Reveal Why Facebook’s Internet Drone Crashed: Wind

We finally know exactly how Facebook’s Internet beaming drone that CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to use to cure poverty (seriously) crashed landed, prompting an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. The problems stems from the drone’s auto landing system and an unexpected wind gust. Five seconds before the drone crash landed, a gust of…

Social Media William Turton Dec 16

This $30,000 Coffee Table Floats Like a Hoverboard

If it’s not made of gold, furniture recovered from the Titanic, or extraterrestrial materials salvaged from a meteor, you’ll need one heck of a gimmick to convince people to spend $30,000 on coffee table. And that’s probably why Siren Design Studios made its Teles Taxídi table float like a hoverboard. Like the hoverboard that Marty…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 16

Next Year’s Big Superman Event Is Teasing Big Changes—and an Infamous Throwback

DC has started teasing a big story that will play out in the pages of Action Comics and Superman next year—a four-part event promising “drastic change” in the life of the Man of Steel (as if he’s not had enough to deal with recently!). It’s also teasing… well, one of the most rubbish moments in…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Dec 16

Facebook Will Now Let You Block Ads That Might Be “Upsetting”

Adage reports that Facebook is now letting users preemptively block the platform from showing them ads on two topics: alcohol and parenting. Speaking to the site, Mark Rabkin says it was out of empathy for users who have experienced the loss of a child: “Those are the two most common topics,” said Mark Rabkin, vp…

Social Media Sidney Fussell Dec 16

We Finally Know Why Freaky Sounds Come From the Deepest Stretch of Ocean

During exploratory missions to the Mariana Trench in 2014 and 2015, scientists recorded mysterious sounds they dubbed the “Western Pacific Biotwang.” New research has exposed the cause of these eerie noises from the deep. The recurring noises are a weird mixture of the biological and the mechanical, leading to confusion over the likely cause. The…

Tech News George Dvorsky Dec 16

The Man in the High Castle Season Two Is Too Good to Binge

Amazon’s original series Man in the High Castle returns for season two today, and the series—about an alternate 1960s where the Nazis and Japanese jointly conquered the United States during World War II—is as gorgeously realized, smartly expanded, and thoughtfully created as ever. At the end of season one, regular factory worker Ed (DJ Qualls)…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Dec 16

David Tennant Is Your New Scrooge McDuck In DuckTales

We’ve known that Disney is doing a brand new DuckTales for a while, but now we’re starting to get some solid details about who’ll be providing the voices of our feathered friends… and it turns out a former Time Lord and Marvel villain is lending his brogue to Scrooge McDuck himself. The full voice cast…

io9 James Whitbrook Dec 16

President Obama Fails to Announce Election Do-Over

Skiing Through These Ice Caves on a Glacier Looks Majestic

These Rogue One Characters Might Not Be Done With the Star Wars Universe

Fox Is Making a Family Drama Set in an A.I. Future

Two Billion-Year-Old Water Found in Canadian Mine

Researchers Make an Obvious Discovery For Improving Drones

Famous Deer Saved From Euthanasia Dies the Very Next Day

The Environmental Disaster Film Geostorm Sounds All Kinds of Crazy

Yahoo Is More Screwed Than Ever, So Where the Hell Is Marissa Mayer?

All the Major Star Wars Cameos and Connections You May Have Missed in Rogue One

FBI Now Agrees That Russia Hacked the Election to Help Trump Win

In the People of Earth Season Finale, an Alien Looks for Help With His Grief in the Worst Possible Place

The Best, Worst, and Most Unforgettable Movie Moments of 2016

Investigators Reveal Why Facebook’s Internet Drone Crashed: Wind

This $30,000 Coffee Table Floats Like a Hoverboard

Next Year’s Big Superman Event Is Teasing Big Changes—and an Infamous Throwback

Facebook Will Now Let You Block Ads That Might Be “Upsetting”

We Finally Know Why Freaky Sounds Come From the Deepest Stretch of Ocean

The Man in the High Castle Season Two Is Too Good to Binge

David Tennant Is Your New Scrooge McDuck In DuckTales

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