Hundreds of naturally mummified human remains in the Tarim Basin, part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, have long perplexed archaeologists. The remains, which date from 2,000 BCE to around 200 CE, are confounding for their remarkable state of preservation, luxurious clothing, and their burial in boat coffins…
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Intel's Next-Gen Alder Lake Processors Are Officially Here, and Now We Know All the Details
Intel has officially announced details on its much-anticipated 12th-gen Alder Lake processors, including pricing and performance details for three new chips.
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Mario's Charles Martinet Doesn't Plan on Stepping Down Until He's Good and Ready
No matter who Nintendo and Universal announced as the voice of Mario for their upcoming animated movie based on the video game franchise, people were certain to have rather strong feelings if the role didn’t go to Charles Martinet, the actor who’s been lending his voice to the character for 30 years.
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Facebook Has No Clue How to Solve Its Image Problem, Leaked Doc Shows
Despite what the company’s stock prices might tell you, Facebook is a company with an image problem. At best, critics warily regard Facebook as a company that ruthlessly strips users for their data so it can curbstomp competitors in increasingly hostile ways. At worst, people call the company a threat to democracy…
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Brazilian Senate Committee Recommends Bolsonaro Face Charges of Mass Murder, Genocide
The Brazilian Senate committee that produced a draft report accusing fascist gut flora gravy-boat President Jair Bolsonaro of 11 crimes against humanity including mass homicide, genocide, and charlatanism crimes in his handling of the covid-19 pandemic has voted to recommend charges.
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Wheel of Time’s New Trailer: Magic, Monsters, Moiraine, Oh My!
A snazzy new trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy epic The Wheel of Timeis here, and it gives us our best look yet at the magical world inhabited by forces both good—like Rosamund Pike’s Moiraine—and evil, led by the aptly named Dark One.
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Adobe Created a Deepfake Tool That Can Turn Your Trigger-Happy Camera Habits Into Living Photos
Every year Adobe uses its Max conference to share sneak peeks at the technologies created up by the company’s R&D departments that may one day find their way into apps like Photoshop and Premiere. For 2021 that includes Project In-Between which can turn a pair of similar photos into a short animation.
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Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Big Oil Misinformation Hearing
This is a special joint investigation from Earther and HEATED, a newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis. HEATED is a must-read news outlet for anyone who cares about the future of the planet. Subscribe here.

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Masters of the Universe: Revelation Returns With a Powerful Trailer for Part 2
It’s rare that trailers are as spoiler-filled as this new video for the second half of Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Kevin Smith’s “continuation” of the classic ‘80s He-Man cartoon. I assume it’s in hopes of winning back some of those grumbling fans who disliked the first half of the series. I hope it…
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Here's One of the Creepiest Things You Could Catch While Fishing
Wildlife officials in Texas recently documented a peculiar natural horror: a fish with its tongue replaced by a parasitic crustacean known as an isopod. These isopods aren’t dangerous to humans and are usually not deadly to their hosts, but their unique way of life is another example of the terrors created through…
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Pixel’s Spam-Blocking Call Screen Feature Is Rolling Out More Widely
One of the Pixel lineup’s best features is Call Screen, which seamlessly roots out spam and other unwanted calls. Previously only available in U.S., Canada and Japan, the feature is now being quietly deployed in seven new markets—meaning that the global crusade against spam calls will soon gain some key allies.
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Peter Pan's Villain Explores Life After Neverland in New Fantasy Novel Hooked
After spending several lifetimes playing foil to Peter Pan, Captain Hook finally finds a way out of Neverland and into the real world—where unfortunately life doesn’t get much easier. A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling, explores the villainous pirate’s strange twists of fate in Hooked, a new fantasy novel arriving…
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This Cleverly Designed Deck of Cards Can Turn Into a Chess Board
There are thousands of games that can be played with a simple deck of cards, but Rob Halifax has found a way to make 52 cards even more versatile with a redesign that lets you play games like chess, checkers, and even dominoes with the same deck that entertains you for hours on end with Solitaire.

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Bill Murray Is Either in Ant-Man 3 or Lying to Germans
Bill Murray is an unpredictable man. He shows up in weird places to hang with random people, like that time in 2009 when he read poetry to construction workers. He’s certainly not above a bit of trolling, so take a grain of salt—or should I say salz—at Murray’s announcement he’s in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp…
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SpaceX Claims to Have Fixed Its Leaky Toilet Ahead of Upcoming Launch
An upcoming launch to deliver four astronauts to the International Space Station is ready for 3, 2, 1, blast off—oh, aside from NASA still having to approve a last-minute adjustment made to SpaceX’s leaky toilet.

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Here Are All the 'Facebook Papers' Docs We've Published So Far
You’ve likely seen the deluge of damning news stories about Facebook everywhere this past week. Those came thanks to Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former employee who recently leaked thousands of internal documents, including internal employee discussions, memos, research, and presentations, to a consortium…
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Eternals Could Have Been Better If It Wasn't a Marvel Movie
Eternals might be the first Marvel Studios movie that doesn’t benefit from being a Marvel Studios movie. After over a decade of interconnected films, the company has carefully crafted audience expectations. To us, a Marvel movie has a certain undeniable energy; a blend of action, humor, and heart that’s aimed to…
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Now Anyone Can Add Links to Instagram Stories
Instagram’s arbitrary rules for who gets to post links have always been frustrating. But now, the social media platform will allow anyone to post links in their Stories. Yes, anyone.
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What You Need to Know About Thursday's Big Oil Hearing
Big Oil has had a reckoning with the public. It’s had a reckoning in court. And on Thursday, it will have a reckoning in front of Congress’ most powerful committee.
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The New Name for Olympus Cameras Is... OM System
Last year, Olympus announced it was getting out of the camera business. And today, the company taking over Olympus’ camera division has announced a new brand name for the business going forward: OM System.

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Steinway's Self-Playing Pianos Can Now Sync With Live Performances From Anywhere in the World
It doesn’t matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars you shell out for an audiophile-grade home stereo, a recorded piano performance will never sound as good as a live one on an actual piano, so Steinway is finally introducing a feature that allows live performances to be streamed and performed, in real-time,…
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