November 3, 2021 Last Action Hero Is an Underappreciated Time Capsule of Meta-Movie-Magic “Last Action Hero is a joyless, soulless machine of a movie. An $80 million-plus mishmash of fantasy, industry in-jokes, self-referential parody, film-buff gags, and…
November 3, 2021 Australia Plans to Kill Thousands of Feral Horses—But Scientists Say It Isn’t Enough A proposed plan to cull upwards of 10,000 feral horses, while still retaining a smaller population, won’t prevent ongoing damage to a sensitive Australian…
November 3, 2021 Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Dragons of Winter Night Upon finishing Dragons of Winter Night, the second book in Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s beloved first Dragonlance series, I realized I had a…
November 3, 2021 The ‘Facebook Papers’ Leak Is Back With a [REDACTED] The deluge of damning news stories about Facebook (now named Meta) is far from over. These stories were made possible thanks to Facebook whistleblower…
November 3, 2021 The World’s First iPhone With a Working USB-C Port Is Now Up for Auction Last month, engineering student Ken Pillonel showed off the world’s first iPhone with a USB-C port, and now Pillonel has returned to reveal how…
November 3, 2021 Doctor Who’s New Era Might Cost the BBC a Pretty Penny A lot of things are about to change on Doctor Who, and not just in front of the camera, as Jodie Whittaker’s incarnation of…
November 3, 2021 Amazon Must Pay Thousands of Flex Drivers an Average of $422 After Tips Were Withheld Starting today, the Federal Trade Commission will start doing something Amazon failed to do for around 140,000 of its Flex delivery drivers: pay them…
November 3, 2021 Colonial Pipeline’s Year Just Got a Little Worse (Couldn’t Have Happened to Nicer Company) More than a year after the discovery of what’s the largest gasoline spill in the U.S. in decades, the owners of a massive pipeline…
November 3, 2021 This Ultra-Light Glider Flies on Wings Made of Liquid Water As a general rule, if you want to make a vehicle more fuel-efficient, you do everything you can to make it lighter. For planes,…
November 3, 2021 Matrix Resurrections Funkos Are the Plastic Avatars of Your Dreams and/or Nightmares What if, instead of going through life in the Matrix as the coolest version of you, you were a Funko Pop avatar instead? Probably…