December 12, 2019 FTC Considering Steps to Block Facebook from Merging With Instagram and Whatsapp: Report The Federal Trade Commission is considering asking the courts to put a halt to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to merge the technical backends…
December 12, 2019 Sunrise Movement Is Planning a 2020 Reckoning for Democrats Over the Green New Deal Young climate activists with the Sunrise Movement broke into the national spotlight last year by occupying members of Congress’ offices demanding a Green New…
December 12, 2019 Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a theoretically huge announcement: he wanted Twitter to stop being a…
December 12, 2019 NASA picks the asteroid crater its spacecraft will steal rocks from next summer Next year, NASA plans to scoop up a small batch of dirt from an asteroid named Bennu, located millions of miles from Earth —…
December 12, 2019 Yap is the best new chatroom I’m an inveterate chatter. I miss the days of AIM and Gchat; I regularly reread n+1’s fantastic essay on the history and rise of…
December 12, 2019 New Evidence Suggests Ancient Egyptian Head Cones Were Real For years, archaeologists have debated the existence of ancient Egyptian head cones. These objects are portrayed in Egyptian artworks, but not a single one…
December 12, 2019 Lyft debuts car rentals in Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area Lyft's car rental service now exists as more than just an experiment. Rentals are now available for "select users" in Los Angeles and the…
December 12, 2019 New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker scene hints at an unexpected return Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s release is just a week away, bringing the end of both Disney’s modern sequel trilogy and the overarching…
December 12, 2019 Vudu now lets you undo a movie rental within the first 30 minutes Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images We’ve all started a movie only to realize it’s not quite what we were expecting…
December 12, 2019 The Witcher’s last trailer shows off a fantasy epic that could replace Game of Thrones Netflix’s big-budget TV series adaptation of The Witcher (based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of fantasy novels, and not the popular video game series that,…