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This Interesting Game of Thrones Critique Considers What to Do When You're Out of Time
If you weren’t a fan of the last season of Game of Thrones, you probably wish there had been more episodes. What do you do when your story is ending, and you might not have enough time to communicate everything that needs communicating?Read more...
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Uh, Those 'Death of iTunes' Rumors Are Starting to Look More Real
Apple appears to be giving us even more indication that those rumors about the death of iTunes may hold water.Read more...
Watch the Opening Few Minutes of the Fifth Season Premiere of Fear the Walking Dead
Fear the Walking Dead premieres its fifth season this Sunday, but if you’re eager to dig your teeth into some zombie action, you can see the first few minutes early.Read more...
Void Bastards Is Good But Getting A Bit Repetitive
I fell in love with Void Bastards before I even played a moment of it. The art style just instantly clicked with me in a way that rarely happens. I didn’t even know what kind of game it was until I started playing it earlier this week. It turns out this beautiful and stylish game is like a randomized Bioshock mixed…Read more...
E-Cig Giant Juul Is Considering Opening Its Own Vape Shops
Vape giant Juul is looking into opening its own vape shops, according to reports, and may already be exploring ways to squash arguments that doing so would grant greater access to its products to teens amid intense scrutiny from the Food and Drug Administration.Read more...
Justice Department Is Reportedly Looking Into an Antitrust Investigation Into Google
The Justice Department may be preparing to launch an antitrust investigation into Google, according to reports.Read more...
There's One Deleted Scene Captain Marvel's Directors Wish Had Made the Final Cut
Deleted scenes are often moments that, in isolation, are good ideas. But in the broader framework of the movie, where it’s going, how much time it has to get there, they just don’t work.Read more...
Amazon's Blowing Out a Ton of Trendy Furniture Right Now
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Underland Reimagines Nature Writing About an Increasingly Unnatural World
Traditional nature writing explores the majesty of earth’s topographies—its fields and streams and mountains—those sunlit places bursting with blues and greens. Such writing reminds us of the beauty of pristine nature and evokes a desire to get out of our concrete cities and into the wild. In the extraordinary …Read more...
These Little Silica Hexagons Are Like Super-Advanced Lego Bricks
The problem with atoms is that they’re small. Too small. Don’t you wish they were... bigger?Read more...
Chelsea Manning's Lawyers Again Ask For Her Release, Say She'll Never 'Betray Her Principles'
Attorneys for Chelsea Manning on Friday have once again asked the court to release the activist and whistleblower from her confinement in Virginia on the basis that she cannot be coerced to testify in the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange.
You Need to Patch Your Older Windows PCs Right Now to Patch a Serious Flaw
If the idea of someone running Windows XP in 2019 makes you laugh, I urge you to maintain that blissful naïveté. Just leave now.Read more...
Freshly Published Patent Keeps the Dream of an Apple Self-Driving Car Alive
Bumpy car rides suck and a newly published patent reveals Apple has fairly recently been exploring a “fully-actuated suspension system” using variable pressure air springs and a haptic-feedback system to create a smoother ride.
Closing the West's Largest Coal Plant Will Leave the Navajo Nation With $40 Million in Missing Revenue
The Navajo Generating Station in Arizona is closing, and that’s terrible news for the Native American communities that rely on the coal plant for their income. A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) is calling on the federal government to step in for this major economic…Read more...
Punctured Skulls Suggest Saber-Toothed Cats Fought Amongst Themselves
An analysis of two punctured saber-toothed cat skulls suggests these extinct creatures engaged in intra-species combat. It’s further evidence that the exaggerated fangs of saber-toothed cats were strong enough to penetrate bone.
Workers Came Up With a Brilliant Plan to Use Postmates' Exploitative Platform Against Itself
Food and beverage delivery platform Postmates has been hard at work making enemies, mainly out of its own contractor workforce.
Tourist Infected by Brain-Invading Parasite After Eating Slug on a Dare in Hawaii
Hawaii health officials are warning residents and visitors to avoid slugs, snails, and rats after the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that three travelers visiting the state were recently infected with rat lungworm disease. One visitor got the disease because the individual ate a slug.Read more...
Apple Reportedly Plans to Limit Tracking in Kid’s Apps
Sometimes I lose track in Silicon Valley. Apple is supposed to be the privacy company, right?
More Than Half a Million Corals Died to Bring Bigger Ships Into Miami Port
Off the coast of Miami, corals are dying. Why? Because of a 16-month-long project to expand the harbor channel. A new study shows how the project killed over half a million corals between 2013 and 2015.Read more...
California Man Becomes the First ‘Death With Dignity’ Patient to Undergo Cryonic Preservation
A terminally ill patient who opted for assisted death has undergone cryonic preservation at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. This preservation—the first of its kind—signifies an important milestone for cryonics advocates, who argue that the right to death, paradoxically, is a potential pathway to an eternal life.
Internet Providers in Maine Will Soon Have To Get Consent Before Selling Customer Data
Internet service providers gobble up a disconcerting amount of information about you—your browsing history, your geolocation information, your financial information, and a lot (a lot) more. There have been many attempts to pass state-level bills that prevent ISPs from selling this type of data—since Republicans in…Read more...
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Is Here: The Good, the Bad, and the Incredible
Everywhere you look in Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, there’s something to see, something to explore, or something to do. Even though it’s not 100 percent complete, the land itself is a star. You walk in, and you instantly feel like you’ve left Disneyland in Anaheim, California and become immersed in the Star Wars universe.Read more...
Man Suffers 9-Day Erection After Bruising Taint in Moped Accident
A man’s fall from a moped caused him much stranger trouble than anyone could have imagined. According to his doctors, a bruise near his genitals left him with a days-long erection—one that eventually required a trip to the emergency room to treat. Thankfully, doctors were able to resolve his awkward complication, and…Read more...
Think HBO's Chernobyl Is Brutal? Check Out This Haunting Animation That Aired on TV in the 1950s
HBO’s new miniseries Chernobyl has gotten a lot of attention for its gory realism. Radiation from a nuclear power plant disaster is brutal for the human body, to say the least. But the explicit nature of Chernobyl almost pales in comparison to some of the things that were shown in the 1950s. Like this British short…Read more...
Purged App Makers Want Apple to Prove It's Serious About the App Store Being Open to Competitors
Last month, Apple removed or put restrictions on several apps meant to limit screen time in the App Store. Now, the New York Times reports that 17 affected by that purge have proposed Apple create an API so their apps can return to the store without violating the company’s strict privacy guidelines.Read more...
Watching Someone Restore a Filthy Game Boy to Its Original Pristine Condition Is Soothing For the Soul
It was a tragic day when, after being dropped on the floor, my original Game Boy was left with a bunch of dead lines on its screen. But it lived a good life, and has the scars, knicks, and scratches to prove it. However, it wasn’t quite as abused as this Game Boy that YouTube’s Odd Tinkering purchased and managed to …Read more...
Five Years After Surgery, Face Transplant Recipients Experience Significant Improvements
A five-year follow-up of six face transplant patients has found significant improvements in their sensory and motor functions, along with reported improvements to their quality of life.
Canadian Wildfires Are Already Turning Sunsets Red in the US
The calendar hasn’t turned to summer yet, but skies in Canada and across the U.S. already look like August. Smoke from massive Canadian wildfires has made the sun disappear in Edmonton and turned Friday’s sunrise blood red as far east as Vermont.Read more...
Sprint Drove Me to a Dumpster in Texas to Show Me the Future
The experience of using a 5G phone for the first time is a bit anticlimactic, if I’m being honest. When I picked up an LG V50 ThinQ running on Sprint’s hours-old 5G network in Dallas on Wednesday, an LG rep urged me to observe just how quickly YouTube videos would load. It was fast, no doubt. But after I whipped out…Read more...
There Is Absolutely No Reason to Trust the Safety Record of Tesla’s Autopilot System
Tesla has long lurked in a category of its own in the self-driving car race; where Uber and Google’s Waymo are building fully autonomous vehicles essentially from the ground up, Elon Musk’s electric car company is slouching towards autonomy through a series of increasingly sophisticated updates to its semi-autonomous…Read more...
Car2stay: Frustrated Man Builds Fence Around Car2go Parked in His Driveway, Demands Fee
After Seattle property-owner Dan Smith tried unsuccessfully for hours to have a Share Now (formerly car2go) car removed from his property, he took an unconventional approach. He constructed an elaborate barricade around the Mercedez-Benz.
The Biggest Questions Apple Might (or Might Not) Answer at WWDC 2019
On Monday, a host of developers and press will gather in the heart of San Jose to learn about Apple’s software plans for the coming year. Here’s a collection questions we hope Apple answers at this year’s WWDC.Read more...
These DIY Hot Glued AirPods Are Definitely Not a Status Symbol, but They Only Cost $4 to Build
It doesn’t matter how easy they are to pair with your phone, paying $160 for a pair of wireless earbuds whose tiny battery dies after a year and a half just doesn’t feel worth it. Redditor Sam Cashook agrees, so instead of spending a small fortune on Apple’s most losable gadgets, he hacked together his own AirPods…Read more...
‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'—Management Is
Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and then landing the gig on its comparatively superior merits. ‘Robots’ are not currently algorithmically scanning LinkedIn…Read more...
Report: So Robert Pattinson Is Definitely, Maybe Batman Now?
A few weeks ago, the internet was shook by news that Robert Pattinson was the new Batman, replacing Ben Affleck under the comic book cowl. And then...maybe he wasn’t just yet? Maybe it was X-Men’s Nicholas Hoult? Who could say. Now, we have an update, and the update is...“maybe?”
Are You Ready for Amazon or Comcast to Be the Next Big Wireless Carrier?
While the T-Mobile–Sprint merger still hasn’t gotten the green light from the Justice Department, the FCC has already approved the deal and as part of the FCC’s stipulations, T-Mobile/Sprint would be forced to sell off Boost Mobile. However, the more important question is trying to figure out which company would be…Read more...
We Found the Very Best Truly Wireless Earbuds
Deciding which of the many sets of truly wireless earbuds to buy can feel like a daunting task. Unless you’re one of those people who believes the AirPods hype, in which case the decision might seem very easy. Don’t be that person.Read more...
Upgrade to a Reader Favorite Mesh Network For Just $200
If you take your home Wi-Fi coverage seriously, Netgear’s Orbi mesh routers are some of the best you can buy, and Woot’s running a great deal on a refurbished three-pack. This Reader Favorite is now selling for just $200.Read more...
Bias Against Female Lab Animals Is Messing Up Scientific Research
Gender discrimination in science doesn’t just affect women scientists. It also skews the results of animal research, as a new paper out this week describes. Animals used in experiments are still overwhelmingly male, thanks to outdated stereotypes that hormones like estrogen can distort an experiment’s findings.Read more...
The Director Behind Amazing Spider-Man Could Bring Snow White to Live-Action Life at Disney
King Ghidorah hunts Millie Bobbie Brown in a new Godzilla: King of the Monsters clip. Creepshow adds some familiar faces to its cast. The Chucky TV show gets an update. Plus, a new vague tease for Godzilla’s scrap with Kong, and what’s to come on iZombie. To me, my spoilers!Read more...
Facebook Screws Up a Critical Piece of Its Anti-Revenge Porn Tech
At the end of 2017, Facebook announced a pilot program that lets users send the company their intimate photos and videos that they don’t want to be shared on its main platform as well as Instagram. Facebook said in March that it is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect that content, and in the…Read more...
China Creates 'Unreliable Entity List' of Foreign Companies Following U.S. Ban on Huawei
The Chinese government announced on Friday that it would create an “Unreliable Entity List” of foreign companies and individuals that threaten the interests of Chinese companies.Read more...
Assign All Of Your Repetitive Computer and Gaming Tasks To This Fully-Programmable Keypad
The problem with keyboards is that the keys are all already assigned to something. Letters? Numbers? Lame. Razer’s Orbweaver, on the other hand, includes 30 mechanical, RGB-backlit keys that can be whatever you want them to be. Ostensibly, it’s designed for gamers who want to create complicated in-game macros to get a…Read more...
Measles Cases in 2019 Have Hit a 25-Year High Amid Ongoing Outbreaks, CDC Says
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said that measles cases hit a higher number this year than has been reported since 1994. If the outbreaks continue as they are, the health agency says it could cost the U.S. its elimination status.
Mark Zuckerberg's Head of Security Accused of Sexual Harassment and Other Misconduct by Two Former Staff
Two employees who previously worked as personal staff for Mark Zuckerberg have leveled alarming allegations of misconduct against the head of Zuckerberg’s security detail, including sexual harassment and racist, transphobic, and homophobic comments.
Take a Moment to Admire These Passing Clouds on Mars
Life can be stressful and full of toil. To ease your tortured mind, we present to you some stunning photographs of clouds on Mars, recently taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover.
North Face Apologizes for Showing Us the Future of Marketing
This week The North Face pulled off a clever marketing stunt that continues to deliver. Even following the company’s retraction and apology, the glittering underhandedness of the campaign will inspire marketing scum for generations.Read more...
Ever Wanted to Smoke a Genie? Your Wish Just Came True With This Aladdin's Lamp Vape
Be honest, how many times have you watched Disney’s animated Aladdin with your mod in hand and wondered what it would be like to vape that genie as he comes blasting out of that lamp in a cloud of smoke? It turns out you don’t need three wishes to find out; just a fully-functional lamp-shaped vape that Disney’s…Read more...
Uber Lit $1 Billion on Fire Last Quarter Because That's What Uber Does
In its first earnings as a public company, Uber posted losses of $1 billion over the previous quarter, more or less matching investor expectations, because sending the GDP of Vanuatu off a cliff every three months is Uber’s current business model, more or less.Read more...
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