The Big Apple is staring down a problem it hasn't seen in roughly eight years: rabid raccoons in Manhattan.
Authorities on Friday announced the arrest of one of the founders of Bulgarian cryptocurrency business OneCoin, saying it was nothing more than a pyramid scheme designed to defraud users. While crypto scams are disturbingly common, according to a Department of Justice press release, prosecutors allege that this...
Health
A Single Person Infected 21 Others With Measles Amid New York's Worst Outbreak in Decades
Mar 11, 2019Amid two ongoing measles outbreaks on both sides of the United States, New York City health officials say an unvaccinated student who was permitted to attend school was linked to 21 other cases of the virus. Dozens of people have been infected since last fall in the city's ongoing outbreak, one of particular magnitude.
Strange Creatures
What Did T. Rex Look Like? A New Exhibit Has the 'Ultimate Predator' in Feathers
Mar 11, 2019The latest fossil discoveries and paleontological research continue to revise our view of the world's most famous dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex. An updated depiction of the extinct giant is now on display in a New York City exhibit that's bound to ruffle some feathers.
Movies
The Mouse Guard Adaptation Has Its Stars: Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Mar 11, 2019Mouse Guard, written and illustrated by David Petersen, is the story of an order of mice sworn to protect a medieval realm from all enemies and threats. It's wonderful, has won two Eisner Awards, and courtesy of Fox is getting a long-overdue film adaptation.
The anti-vaccination movement has more than earned its latest round of bad press. The U.S. is currently dealing with several outbreaks of measles, a disease effectively wiped out by routine childhood vaccination in the country two decades ago. And just this week, Oregon doctors reported that a six-year-old boy had to...
Everybody loves to compare the new Samsung Galaxy Buds to Apple's AirPods. It's pretty obvious. Samsung and Apple make popular phones, and now both companies have truly wireless earbuds to pair with them. I've spent two weeks with the $130 Galaxy Buds. They're frankly pretty awesome. But are they better than AirPods?...
Captain Marvel, the last stop on the journey to Avengers: Endgame, is finally here. That means it's time to talk spoilers. There are a lot of them--so, below, you'll find a place to safely chat about them with the entire io9 community.
At what point is it time to just log the hell off?
Science
CDC Preparing Report on E-Scooter Injuries Amid Claims of People Getting Seriously Hurt
Mar 10, 2019Love 'em or hate 'em--and many, many do--e-scooters are taking cities across the globe by storm. But amid ongoing reports that people are seriously messing themselves up on these things, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided last year to take a closer look at why this is happening.
With the upcoming Twilight Zone reboot keeping the anthology structure of the original series, actors can join without a long commitment. It's a few weeks to make their episode and then that's it. Which is a small part of why, with every single piece of casting you read, the show keeps sounding so unbelievably...
Chelsea Manning is not accused of committing any new crime. But she is now a prisoner of the U.S. government once again and may remain one for up to 18 months.
Minnesota has become a hotbed of labor unrest within Amazon's ranks, where a contingent of workers organized via local East African community group Awood Center first pressured the company's brass to sit in on negotiations in November and staged a mass protest outside their facility a month later.
Breaking up the tech giants is one of the few major issues that cuts across party lines in Washington, D.C., and it even reaches into Silicon Valley itself.
Privacy & Security
Cop Used Police Database to Creep on Over 100 Women, Investigation Finds
Mar 9, 2019After a woman in Florida experienced a "chance brief encounter" with a police officer in a parking garage last year, authorities say the officer showed up at her parents house in an effort to see her again. The woman then filed a complaint, and the department says it discovered the officer had been misusing a police...
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