Image: Sinemia MoviePass competitor Sinemia appears to smell blood in the water. Following MoviePass’s introduction of surge pricing and a Friday night outage, Sinemia is dropping the price of all of its theater subscription packages for the rest of the summer. Sinemia has flown a little under the radar in the U.S. with its cheaper…

A vial of Botox, made by the pharmaceutical company AllerganPhoto: Damian Dovarganes (AP) Scientists are scrambling to find painkillers that can ease suffering without the addictive potential of opioids. One potential solution, a new study out Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine suggests, might involve creating modified versions of the common wrinkle treatment botox, otherwise known…

Illustration: Dell Cameron (Gizmodo) Buying a robotic vacuum cleaner probably sounds like a great idea. Who the hell likes to vacuum? But if it was marketed as an internet-connected device with a microphone and camera that wanders your house at all hours of the day, you should probably skip out. Researchers at Positive Technologies discovered…

Image: Instagram Instagram is getting that little green dot—the universal sign for “I’m available to chat, please bother me.” If, like me, you don’t need your friends to know when you’re mindlessly scrolling through photos in bed, you can easily turn the feature off. “DMing friends and connecting over the content you love is more…

The Imperial Russian Cruiser Dmitriy Donskoi. Image: Wikimedia Commons A missing Russian Imperial Navy cruiser said to contain 200 tons of gold bullion worth an estimated $133 billion has been discovered after being lost at sea for 113 years. The wreck of the Dmitrii Donskoi, a 6,200-ton warship that went down during the Russo-Japanese war…

A whale sharkPhoto: Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation The world’s biggest fish is the mysterious whale shark, which can grow as heavy as 40,000 pounds and as large as 60 feet, though most top out a few feet and pounds smaller than that. It also appears these behemoths can live to be 130 years old, new…

Photo: PublicDomainPictures (Pixabay) Getting a stomach bug is bad enough. But a new outbreak of salmonella bacteria spread by raw turkey that has sickened nearly 100 people across several states has an troubling wrinkle to it: The germ at fault is likely also resistant to multiple antibiotics. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and…

Photo: Getty Apparently, even sell-out corporate shills have their breaking point. Ajit Pai’s FCC released documents on Thursday that explain why it’s sending Sinclair Broadcasting’s proposed takeover of local news in the U.S. to a judge for further review. Defying all expectations, the deal now looks like it’s next to dead. On Wednesday, the Federal…

Photo: Getty American political candidates are again being targeted, a Microsoft executive said Thursday, by the Russian intelligence agency formerly known as the GRU. At the Aspen Security Forum, a gathering of top-level government officials and industry experts, Microsoft’s Tom Burt, vice president for customer safety and trust, said that his team had uncovered evidence…