In just a couple of hours, Nintendo is finally going to reveal all the details about its upcoming Switch console. The Switch is basically two consoles in one: When docked and hooked up to a TV, it’s a typical gaming console. But it also has a screen that can be used as a portable gaming … Continued

If you had a power that no one else had, when would you choose to unleash it? That seems to be one of the questions at the center of Sleight. The main character can do something amazing, but when to do it is the real problem. Directed by JD Dillard, Sleight stars Jacob Lattimore (last … Continued

Fifteen years ago, US public health officials declared that infections resistant to antibiotics could become a major threat. That threat, it seems, has arrived. Nevada public health officials are reporting that a woman died in September of a so-called superbug infection. The infection, which had spread throughout her entire system, could fend off 26 different … Continued

You might be surprised to learn that people try to bring loaded guns through TSA checkpoints. In reality, however, thousands of people try to do it every year, because this is America, after all. In its yearly roundup of weird shit that looks like it could kill someone, the TSA says it discovered 3,391 guns … Continued

When I was 18 years old, I bought a baby Louis Vuitton handbag off of eBay. It was about $300 and light blue. I loved it. Then, the zipper broke and when I took it to the Louis Vuitton store to get repaired, the snooty sales girl informed me that it was counterfeit. Eighteen-year-old me … Continued

Exxon Mobile was ordered to turn over 40 years of documents on Wednesday showing the company’s views on and knowledge of climate change. The ruling was made by a Massachusetts judge in an investigation led by the state’s attorney general Maura Healy, who is working to determine how much the company knew about the link … Continued

If you were on social media yesterday, you probably noticed that Nutella has joined the long list of good things that supposedly cause cancer, like alcohol, red meat and maybe coffee. Trouble is, scientists never said that Nutella causes cancer. There’s definitely a food safety problem afoot, and Nutella is a part of it. This … Continued

This afternoon, online viewers of politics-meets-Ambien channel C-SPAN were treated to a disturbing change in programming: For around 10 minutes, the web stream aired RT (formerly Russia Today) instead. The clip below, first noticed and thoughtfully ripped by Deadspin editor Tim Burke, begins as the fairly bland proceedings of the Securities and Exchange Commission. At … Continued

Late last weekend, semi-pro photographer Timothy Joseph Elzinga woke up in the early hours of the morning to attend to his crying two-year-old son. When he looked out the window, he was greeted with a rare and spectacular sight known as light pillars. Smartly, he picked up his camera and captured some of the most … Continued

Earth’s very clingy friend, the Moon, has long been an object of human fascination. It makes sense, considering we’re just a hop, skip and a 238,855-mile jump from our celestial pal. That said, when it comes down to understanding the basic details about the Moon, we kind of don’t know what we’re talking about. According … Continued

The NSA is changing how it shares data with other federal intelligence agencies—like the CIA, FBI, and DEA—to include what’s called raw signals intelligence, the original data that gets swept up by the NSA’s various spying and data collection programs. Previously, when the NSA passed data it collected through its secretive, advanced, and sometimes illegal … Continued