December 17, 2019 Legendary Cats, a Barkham Horror, and More in Tabletop Gaming News Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's regular column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. It’s almost the holiday season, which means it’s…
December 17, 2019 Study: Massive Blowout at Gas Well in 2018 Spewed 5 Times as Much Methane as ExxonMobil Estimated Research published this week shows that an ExxonMobile-owned natural gas well blowout in Belmont County, Ohio in February 2018 released a hell of a…
December 17, 2019 Rian Johnson Thinks Catering Foremost to Fanservice Is a Potential Mistake (and He’s Right) As we sit waiting to see (and hear more about beyond vague social media reactions) just how Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker puts…
December 17, 2019 Unroll.me Settles With FTC for Rifling Through Its Users’ Email Inboxes to Find Receipts Email cleanup service Unroll.me has settled with the Federal Trade Commission and must delete information it gathered from some consumers after it was revealed…
December 17, 2019 Google resumes Chrome 79 update for Android after fixing data bug Android users can now update their Chrome browser without having to worry that it would affect their other applications. Google has resumed Chrome 79's…
December 17, 2019 A Space Scavenger Makes a Very Strange Discovery in Sci-Fi Short Eden Would you hand over your soul for the ultimate score? Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast
December 17, 2019 Pinterest slashes contractor pay for the holidays It’s been a big week for investigations here at The Interface. On Monday, we published my investigation into the mental health woes of content…
December 17, 2019 Dish’s smaller AirTV 2 can hide while it streams local TV Dish has unveiled a new version of its AirTV media box, and it's good news for those who want their over-the-air broadcasts in a…
December 17, 2019 Unroll.me settles with FTC after falsely claiming it didn’t collect and sell email data Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Before this year’s blockbuster Superhuman scandal, in which the email app maker was caught providing a non-consensual…
December 17, 2019 SEC charges IT administrator over $7 million insider trading ring Insider trading among tech companies is nothing new, but some of these unscrupulous workers are more 'successful' than others. The SEC has charged former…