November 26, 2019 Amazon Quietly Reveals Plan to Put Alexa in Almost Everything Just when you thought Alexa wasn’t integrated into enough stuff, Amazon has casually announced a new way to add the artificially intelligent voice assistant…
November 26, 2019 UN Report Shows the World Needs to Cut Emissions 78 Percent Over the Next Decade World leaders have wasted a ton of valuable time not pursuing climate action—so much that our only hope now is curtailing greenhouse gas emissions…
November 26, 2019 That Time Animators Brought a Guillotine to the Disney Labor Strike in 1941 Today, we often think of labor strikes as fairly mundane affairs—at least in the United States. But there was a time when labor actions…
November 25, 2019 Has Anyone Seen a Bear?! His Dark Materials sometimes it feels like it’s moving through plotlines at breakneck speed, but the latest episode knew to slow things down. That’s…
November 25, 2019 Netflix Doing Something That Was Basically Illegal Until Last Week Netflix has saved a well-known movie theater in New York City from imminent closure, and that is ostensibly a good thing. But something much…
November 25, 2019 Google Escalates Internal Crackdown, Firing Four Employees An internal memo sent this afternoon states that four Google staffers have been fired for “clear and repeated violations of our data security policies.”…
November 25, 2019 Is Julian Assange Okay or What? Julian Assange got a doctors’ note—doctors’, plural, from over 60 doctors, yes, s-i-x-t-y. In an assessment culled from “harrowing eyewitness accounts” from his October…
November 25, 2019 In this Exclusive Animated Game of Thrones History, Ponder the True Power of King’s Landing Winterfell. Highgarden. Storm’s End. The Wall. King’s Landing. Westeros is filled with iconic locations and cities teeming with rich histories that made them the…
November 25, 2019 Facebook Working On a Messenger Feature for Sorting Your Real Friends From Your Fake Friends Facebook is prototyping a feature to mimic Instagram’s Close Friends feature, which allows users to share some content with a select group of friends…
November 25, 2019 Millennial Republicans Aren’t Quite as Into Climate Denial as Boomers Younger Republicans are finally kinda sorta starting to understand climate change, according to new survey results. But they’ve got a seriously long way to…