April 28, 2021 Amazon’s Already Busted Out Its Anti-Union Playbook in Staten Island A bootstrap Amazon unionization effort is underway in Staten Island, and lo and behold, Amazon is firing up the union-busting campaign early. We’ve heard…
April 28, 2021 Confused Feds Subpoena Signal for Data It Doesn’t Collect For the second time in several years, Signal has been subpoenaed by federal investigators for data that the encrypted chat app company doesn’t actually…
April 28, 2021 The Jiobit GPS Tracker Changed My Tune on Toddler Surveillance I’d convinced myself long ago that when I became a parent, I’d do everything in my power to avoid overly surveilling my child. But…
April 28, 2021 42 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Consider for Your May Reading List Somehow, it’s May—and that means not only are we one step closer to summer, we’ve also got several dozen new sci-fi and fantasy books…
April 28, 2021 Jeff Goldblum Is Doing a Dungeons & Dragons Podcast, Which Is as Excellent as It Is Unfathomable Yeah. So, Jeff Goldblum—the Jeff Goldblum, star of Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and so much more—is going to play Elven sorcerer Balmer in a…
April 28, 2021 Google Just Rolled Out New Features to Help You Plan Post-Vaccine Travel I know you’re thinking it, because it’s all I’ve been thinking about myself: This summer is going to be filled with travel as the…
April 28, 2021 Glowing Pumpkin Toadlet Can’t Hear Its Own Tiny Scream Scientists in Brazil say they’ve discovered a new species of poisonous toad—hidden in plain sight due to its close resemblance to another related species….
April 28, 2021 Industries Responsible for 75% of Air Pollution Hurt Communities of Color More Unhealthy particulate matter comes from, among other things, factories, cars, construction, and fossil fuel power plants. A new study analyzing 14 major sources of…
April 28, 2021 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Head Writer Explains the ‘Toll’ of John Walker’s Arc John Walker’s journey through Disney+ and Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier—from Captain America, to… well, not that—is one of dramatic highs and…
April 28, 2021 Maybe We Don’t Need an In-Person CES? CES is coming back to Vegas. The show’s parent organization, the Consumer Technology Association, will hold an in-person event in Las Vegas in January…