Sunday's Best Deals: Marvel Comics, Thermapen Mk4, TCL TV, and More
Discounted Pioneer Woman Instant Pots, an Intex above-ground pool Gold Box, and a Levi’s flash sale lead off Sunday’s best deals.
Leia's Rescue of Han is Just as Romantic in Animation
In the galaxy of adventures, nothing’s more romantic than killing a bounty hunter, taking his place, and then using his cred to save your beloved.
Samuel L. Jackson Gave Brie Larson a Great Star Wars Surprise for May the Fourth
Even celebrities are fans, and Brie Larson is, like, well, everyone else, a noted huge Star Wars fan.
That Alien High School Play Got to Put on an Encore Performance for Ripley Herself
One of the coolest fan works in recent memory is a stage adaptation of the original Alien movie, performed by a New Jersey high school drama program, complete with locally sourced props and a decently convincing xenomorph.
Report: Boeing Insiders Called FAA Hotline to Report Issues With 737 Max Jets
At least four current or former Boeing employees called a Federal Aviation Administration hotline to report issues with the company’s 737 Max line of jets on April 5, the day after Ethiopia’s minister of transportation released a preliminary report on the crash of Ethopian Airlines flight 302 in March 2019 that killed…
Shooting at San Diego Area Synagogue Leaves 1 Dead, 3 Injured [UPDATING]
Update, Saturday, 7:01 p.m. ET: NBC News has identified the suspect as 19-year-old John T. Earnest of San Diego. Earnest, who allegedly entered the Chabad synagogue of Poway on Saturday morning and began firing, published a “manifesto” online shortly after 10 a.m. local time, NBC 7 San Diego reported.
FCC Clears SpaceX to Launch Nearly 1,600 Internet-Beaming Satellites to a Lower Orbit
The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX’s plans to fly a fleet of internet-transmitting satellites, Starlink, at a “lower orbit than originally planned,” the Verge reported on Saturday.
Dennis Quaid Is Terrifying as the Worst Former Occupant Ever in The Intruder
Dennis Quaid has had a long, storied career. He’s done some great movies in his time, and he’s also done some stranger ones. The Intruder is probably in that latter category.
Report: Screen-Time App Developers Say Apple Is Systematically Kicking Them Off App Store
Apple has removed or imposed restrictions on at least 11 out of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental control apps on the App Store, the New York Times reported on Saturday, as it implemented its own screen-time tracker in iOS—a move that has threatened the viability of some of the companies involved and may…
Santa Clarita Diet Won't Be Eating Its Way Into a Fourth Season
The zombie comedy (zom com is, yes, the correct term) Santa Clarita Diet has, unfortunately, been cancelled.
The Terrible Truth About Alexa
This week, I read through a history of everything I’ve said to Alexa, and it felt a little bit like reading an old diary. Until I remembered that the things I’ve told Alexa in private are stored on an Amazon server and have possibly been read by an Amazon employee. This is all to make Alexa better, the company keeps…
We Have to Do Something About Outdoor Cats
I hate outdoor cats with a burning passion. I set out to write a blog calling for an Isle of Dogs-style roundup of feral cats, a mass adoption drive and cat cull, and outlawing outdoor and community cats. But I’ve realized that things aren’t that simple.
The Orville Wraps Up a Strong Second Season With Its Most Ambitious Episode Yet
The Orville has never been shy about paying homage to its sci-fi influences. But while last night’s season finale made use of one of the genre’s most famous tropes, “The Road Not Taken” was also a solid showcase of the show’s (mostly) unique strengths.
Elon Musk Reaches Deal With the SEC Requiring Tougher Oversight of His Bad Tweets
Elon Musk has reached a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission following a dispute over his bad tweets and what he can—or more specifically, can’t—share on the platform after he was accused of violating the terms of an earlier agreement. It now looks like Musk will (for real) have to clear some of his…
Hydro Flask Is Celebrating Our National Parks With Stunning, Limited Edition Bottles
Quick, before our national parks get sold off to Exxon Mobil because because their CEO told Trump that he’s an assassin with a 9-iron, grab one (or more!) of Hydro Flask’s limited edition National Park Foundation bottles.
Peanut Immunotherapy May Actually Increase Your Risk of Serious Allergic Reactions
A promising therapy for certain food allergies may be riskier than hoped, according to a new review. It found that patients with a peanut allergy given oral immunotherapy—a treatment that exposes them to small doses of the food over time—were more likely to experience life-threatening allergic reactions like becoming…
I Wouldn't Even Make My Worst Enemy, Who Happens to Be Mark Zuckerberg, Listen to 90 Minutes of Mark Zuckerberg Bloviating About, Uh, People, or Technology, or Something
First off, Mark, I’m sorry you had to find out this way but in fact, you are my professional nemesis. Of all the tech titans living rent-free in my brain, some are arguably more evil than you, but none soar to the same disruptive heights of molar-grinding tediousness. Unsurprisingly, the dry, positionless-ness of your…
FBI Raids Microbiome Testing Startup uBiome and Boy, Its Online Reviews Sure Aren't Gonna Help
On Friday, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the uBiome Inc. offices in San Francisco for what is reportedly an investigation into the biotech startup’s billing practices.
The 10 Best Deals of April 26, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Hubble Measurements Confirm There's Something Weird About How the Universe Is Expanding
New results from the Hubble Space Telescope have deepened one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy.
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