Last week, Amazon started quietly teasing just where its massive Lord of the Rings TV show would take place in the Middle-earth timeline. Now, the speculation has been confirmed: We're heading back into the Age of Númenor.
In the months leading up to Carol Danvers' impending arrival into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both the studio and Captain Marvel's stars have made a point of letting us know just how powerful the movie's titular is. She stronk. She fly. Photon blasts? She's got those in spades. But up until recently, we'd been led...
Following a report from the New York Times earlier this week that such a move was imminent, Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei has announced that it is suing the United States government for restricting federal agencies from using its products as it continues to hit back against claims that it poses a national...
News
Snap Reportedly Settled With Multiple Female Employees Who Said Layoffs Targeted Women
Mar 8, 2019Two cost-cutting rounds of layoffs affected hundreds of Snap employees last year beginning in March. While the company, which owns Snapchat, maintains that the majority of these employees were men, a greater number of employees across some teams who worked directly with the company's top brass and were laid off were...
News
Woman and Homeless Man Plead Guilty to Charges Related to Alleged $400,000 GoFundMe Scam
Mar 8, 2019On Wednesday, the saga of the most infamous GoFundMe campaign in history came closer to a conclusion. A woman and a homeless man whom prosecutors claim engaged in a fraudulent scheme that raised $400,000 on the crowdfunding site have pleaded guilty to federal charges.
The head of the U.S. intelligence community is no longer required to publish an annual report detailing the number of civilians and enemy combatants killed in U.S. drone strikes abroad.
Air & Space
NASA Captures First-Ever Images of Intersecting Shockwaves From Two Supersonic Jets
Mar 7, 2019An air-to-air imaging technology developed by NASA has resulted in the first images ever taken of interacting shockwaves produced by in-flight supersonic jets. The new images, in addition to being beautiful, will help NASA design jets capable of producing gentle rumbles instead of loud sonic booms when breaking the...
Television
George R.R. Martin Says There May Be 'Discrepancies' Between the Game of Thrones Finale and His Books
Mar 7, 2019Yes, George R.R. Martin is still working on The Winds of Winter. Yes, that means A Dream of Spring will come eventually. But before that happens, we're getting the eighth and final season of HBO's Game of Thrones. What will this spoil for fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire series? Hopefully: not everything.
I hang my geeky head in shame for never trying this earlier, but I just noticed the other day that you can right-click in Gmail to pull up a useful Gmail-themed context menu. In fact, it's probably faster to organize your emails this way then to select an email and use the chubbier buttons toward the top of Gmail's UI...
And on the sixth day of March the clouds above Menlo Park parted, and lo, Mark Zuckerberg spoke of privacy.
In the 18th-century English ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a storm drives a sailor's ship toward the South Pole, where he encounters all manner of fantastical sights, including floating icebergs "as green as emerald." It may sound like author Samuel Coleridge was taking some poetic license, but...
Science
Ritual Sacrifice of 137 Children Found at 15th-Century Archaeological Site in Peru
Mar 7, 2019Archaeologists working at a 15th-century site in Peru have unearthed the remains of 137 children and 200 llamas in what's now considered the largest mass child sacrifice known from the New World--and possibly of all time.
News
Japanese Cops Investigate 13-Year-Old Prankster for Sharing Link to 'Uncloseable' Pop-Up Window
Mar 7, 2019A 13-year-old girl living in Kariya, Japan has been investigated and chastised by police for sharing a prank link online. The link reportedly initiates a pop-up window designed to be impossible to close online.
Health
Ketamine Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment, but Who Will Be Able to Get It?
Mar 7, 2019This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson's Spravato, the nasal spray version of a ketamine-like sedative, for certain cases of depression. And the drug is already being heralded as a "game-changer" for depression and suicide treatment. But chief among the major questions the average...
Multiple outlets report that Apple has changed its policy regarding repairs to iPhones with third-party battery replacements. These reports say that Apple will now fix iPhones even if the device has a non-Apple battery inside. And since batteries are perhaps the most essential repair for a mobile device, this is a big...
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