I wasn’t ready to see a live-action Winnie the Pooh this morning. I just wasn’t. But the first trailer for Disney’s Christopher Robin is here. It stars Ewan McGregor as the title character, a man who, as a boy, spent lots of time in the Hundred Acre Wood with Pooh and his friends. However, Christopher … Continued

The Tech Workers Coalition on Tuesday posted an open letter to Recode’s Kara Swisher, Peter Kafka, and Code Conference organizers urging them to relocate the media and tech conference because the resort hosting it is in the midst of multiple controversies involving its employees. But it appears the conference won’t move, at least not this … Continued

If you’re like us, your head is still spinning after the series finale of Star Wars Rebels. There’s so much to digest, not the least of which is that the show is finally over. So what questions did it answer? What mysteries were solved? And what’s next after that cliffhanger ending? Well, here’s everything we … Continued

The health of the world’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, is rapidly declining, bringing the subspecies’ inevitable extinction closer to a reality. Even as scientists and conservationists work on an ambitious in vitro fertilization effort, there’s little reason for hope that the 45-year-old Sudan and his two female companions—the last of the entire subspecies—will … Continued

Despite conflicting reports, the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation is obviously the best starship that Starfleet has ever built. That alone makes this Enterprise Bluetooth speaker worth the $80 asking price. But sweetening the pot is a secret feature that turns the device into a soothing, Star Trek-themed white noise machine. https://gizmodo.com/all-11-versions-of-the-u-s-s-enterprise-ranked-1823170805 … Continued

Her, the Oscar-nominated film about a future world in which people disconnect from reality and form emotional connections with their virtual assistants, seems more timely every day. And apparently, someone at Apple thought it would be a good idea for Her’s director, Spike Jonze, to make a pseudo-prequel to sell the HomePod. In Her, a … Continued

Earlier today, Facebook filed a patent for “a self-balancing robot that transitions from a three-wheeled mode to a two-wheeled self-balancing mode” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Facebook isn’t typically thought of a as a hardware company, and the details on what this is intended to do are left vague. The included illustrations … Continued

Heads-up displays that use a car’s windshield as a screen are a good way to keep drivers informed while their eyes stay on the road ahead. But Daimler thinks it has an even better solution, and on its high-end vehicles it says it will soon introduce programmable, “million-pixel” headlights that project warning symbols and driving … Continued

It’s been a while since the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Luke Cage got a chance to just go home to sit back, relax, and enjoy a little time to himself—he’s been busy saving the world and whatnot. In the first trailer for Luke Cage season 2, though, Luke’s headed back to Harlem for some much needed … Continued

Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google’s involvement. Google’s pilot project with the Defense Department’s Project Maven, an effort to identify objects in drone … Continued

On June 12th, 1886, a German ship in the Indian Ocean tossed a bottle into the water to track the currents. Amazingly, that bottle was discovered earlier this year on a beach in Australia, making it the oldest message in a bottle ever found—a time capsule, 131 years in the making. On January 21st, Tonya … Continued

Everyone knows the four houses of Hogwarts: Braves, Snakes, Smarts, and Puffs. What? That’s not what you call them? The Harry Potter satire Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic does and it’s funnier than anything you’d find in the Weasley’s joke shop. The off-Broadway comedy focuses on … Continued

The Dyson upright ball vacuum, an iconic piece of engineering and design that made vacs a gadget worthy of your lust, is being eliminated. In its place is Dyson’s latest cordless vac, the Cyclone V10. The company claims the V10’s upgraded electric motor can suck better and last longer on a single charge. But can … Continued

A small, parasitic plant that is basically the IRL version of the Facehugger from Alien—or, more charitably, a “fairy lantern”—has been rediscovered in a rainforest in Borneo—151 years after its first and only sighting. Michal Sochor, a botanist at the Crop Research Institute in Olomouc, Czech Republic who led the discovery, called it a “fantastic … Continued

The first full trailer for Netflix’s Lost in Space has arrived, and the Robinsons are playing a whole new ball game—with a very alien-looking robot. The original Lost in Space was about the Space Family Robinson heading out into the unknown to pioneer a colonizing mission. This time around, as shown in the trailer, they … Continued

Emma Thompson is helping to bring a long-lost horror movie to life. Rampage is coming a little sooner than expected, thanks to Avengers: Infinity War. The Charmed reboot finds its final witch. Plus, John Wesley Shipp on Flash’s Flashtime powers, and Dan Stevens on Legion’s Professor X connection. Behold, spoilers! Harrow’s Alley Emma Thompson is … Continued

Two years ago, a group of gunmen stormed into the home of Berta Cáceres in La Esperanza, Honduras, and fatally shot her. The death of the 43-year-old indigenous environmental activist—who won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for her work to block the construction of a dam on a river sacred to her Lenca people—shed … Continued

The Utah State Bar is very confused as to how it emailed a picture of some titties to lawyers throughout the state and is “investigating” how the image was included alongside content promoting its 2018 Spring Convention in St. George. Bar communications director Matt Page told the Salt Lake Tribune that they are “aware of … Continued