Ridesharing livestreams on Twitch raise privacy worries

When you step into a ridesharing car, you probably assume that whatever you do inside the vehicle won’t be recorded for posterity. But what if it turned out that you were not only on camera, but live on the internet? Like it or not, that’s happening…

City Responds To Complaint About Boy’s Hot Dog Stand By Helping Him Get Permit

Minneapolis Department of Health workers pitched in to help Jaequan Faulkner get licensed.

These Are The Victims Of The Missouri Duck Boat Accident

Nine members of the same family were among those who died when a tourist boat capsized Thursday.

In the New Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer, Danger Is Brewing for Wizards and Muggles

As popular as the Harry Potter films are, they oddly were never much of a mainstay at Comic-Con. That’s changed with the new Fantastic Beasts franchise, though, as the second film, The Crimes of Grindewald, arrived with a new trailer to dazzle the crowds.

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters' First Trailer Is an All-Out Kaiju Epic

If Godzilla is truly the King of the Monsters, then surely he needs a few monsters to fight to earn his title, right?

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Facebook hopes to launch an internet satellite in early 2019

Facebook has cooperated on internet satellite initiatives (with less-than-ideal results), but there’s been precious little word of plans to make its own satellite beyond high-level promises. Now, however, there’s something tangible. Both publicly d…

This Feminist Revenge Fantasy Show Is Exactly What We Need Right Now

The feminist revenge fantasy TV show can be heavy-handed, but maybe that’s exactly what we need right now.

How Mike Cernovich keeps getting people fired.

He just took down director James Gunn. Now he’s using a trollish rumor about a sex tape to go after journalists.

Trump’s Endangered Species Act Overhaul Could Have a Weird Side Effect

The war on endangered species has intensified since Republicans took over all branches of the federal government. It intensified further when the Trump administration proposed a large overhaul of the Endangered Species Act this week. Ironically, the biggest change could lead to more species being declared endangered.

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George R.R. Martin’s sci-fi horror Nightflyers gets first trailer

Game of Thrones has become one of the most popular (not to mention pirated) shows in the world, and now the author of the books it’s based on, George R.R. Martin, is seeing another of his stories adapted for the screen. First announced earlier this year, Martin’s novella Nightflyers is being turned into a TV series for the Syfy Channel, … Continue reading