Watch Hulu’s Super Bowl spot for original series The Handmaids Tale

Hulu just released a trailer for its adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a science fiction tale in which the U.S. Government has been toppled by a theocratic authoritarian dictatorship and women suffer a horrible revocation of rights. So yeah it’s a little too on the nose right now. Maybe the hope is that […]

Facebook created a horrific dancing monster made of reactions

In a horrific experiment for its 13th birthday, Facebook gave Reactions a hideous humanoid form. Image: Facebook While International Friendship Day was popularized by greeting card companies, Facebook went a step forward and coined its own birthday, Feb. 4 as Friends Day a few years ago. Facebook, which has finally turned old enough to be […]

Wearable tech: This dress uses graphene to light up when you breathe

(CNN)The little black dress just got revamped. Together with scientists, fashion designers have used graphene — a Nobel-Prize winning material that’s tougher than diamonds — to give their LBD a high-tech cut. “We are trying to showcase the amazing properties of graphene,” Francesca Rosella, the co-founder of fashion company CuteCircuit, told CNN. “If you look […]

Baileys Prize: Why do book awards keep changing their name? – BBC News

Image copyright PA Image caption Lisa McInerney won the 2016 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Glorious Heresies It’s all change in the world of literary prizes. This year will be the last Women’s Prize for Fiction has the word Baileys attached to it. The liqueur company, owned by Diageo, said it had “regretfully […]