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Charlize Theron reveals all the latest secrets of Prometheus and Mad Max: Fury Road!

The producers of The Amazing Spider-Man go in-depth with their big reboot. A certain True Blood character isn’t going anywhere. Anna Torv looks ahead to Fringe’s final season. Plus tons of new release dates for tons of big science fiction movies! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Amazing Spider-Man. The Dark Knight…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Why Time Machines Should Only Be Operated By Historians

We’ve all argued over the standard old time travel paradoxes, but here’s a rule we can all abide by: If you’re going to kill Hitler, do it early. Besides, who do you think’s easier to bump off, a bunkered dictator or a failing art student? [xkcd]

Tech News Brian Barrett

Girl Leaves Laptop Open in Quiet Library, Porn Plays at Full Volume, Mortification Ensues

We all watch porn. We all like porn. We don’t all need to watch the porn we like in the library. In fact, we should never, ever, not ever try to—not even with headphones and in a distant corner of the stacks—because inevitably your cans will come unplugged and all of a sudden it’s Ooooh!…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

MP3-Playing Mouth Gear Makes Headphones Obsolete

Remember when your orthodontist said you could get a flavored retainer and you were all Glitter? Pshh. I want my mouth gear watermelon-flavored or not at all! Well, prepare to feel like a dated, oldtimey loser: Aisen Chacin, a Design and Technology student at Parsons the New School for Design, has created a music-playing mouth…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Harvard Scientists Make Graphic Designers Look Lazy by Using DNA to Create a New Font

Three postdoctoral students at Harvard Medical School—Bryan Wei, Mingjie Dai, and Peng Yin—have found a way to turn individual DNA strands into a fully-loaded font: all the letters of the Roman alphabet, punctuation marks, emoticons, and digits 0-9. The shapes are made using individual, unique single strands of DNA, each one just 42-letters long. The…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: Gregory Isaacs Does Brixton, Harry Potter Porn, and Britain’s First Trip

The British Were ‘Shrooming back in the 18th Century The guys over at Mindhack have uncovered the first recorded medical incident involving hallucinogenic mushrooms on the British Isle, way back in 1799. Here’s an excerpt: “Edward, one of the children (eight years old), who had eaten a large proportion of the mushrooms, as they thought…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Automated Typewriter Creates Never-Ending Story, Honoring Journalists Killed on Assignment

“On Journalism #2 Typewriter” is a typewriter installation that honors journalists who been killed worldwide between 1992 and present day, by writing generatively constructed stories about about them based on their published work and the existing data of their lives (via the Committee to Protect Journalists). The installation is the project of Julian Koschwitz, an…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Black Keys: Gold On The Ceiling

The just-released video for their song “Gold On The Ceiling” is either too high-concept to understand, or just The Black Keys being lazy with a shitty video camera and four pairs of adult footsie pajamas and four baby bottles. …Except, this was actually directed by Harmony Korine, the guy responsible for everyone’s favorite depressing teen…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Would You Eat the Meat of a Robot-Deboned Chicken?

Robots and other various non-human “workers” are increasingly performing the work and labor that was once the province of human hands. Often, it’s because the machinery is less costly than the salaries paid to flesh-and-blood workers. Other times, it’s because humans cannot perform certain tasks as well as a piece of machinery specially designed for…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The io9 Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy in June! [Updated!]

The future awaits! June’s science fiction and fantasy offerings include brand new David Brin and Terry Pratchett. Plus Prometheus and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter! Plus tons and tons of conventions, author appearances, and summer TV premieres. Learn everything you need to know to make June the most exciting month of all. Now updated and corrected…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Coolest Waterproof Backpack Money Can Buy

If you carry a backpack, you might feel like you’re in grade school. But you’re not, damnit, you’re a professional, and you need a tote that reflects that status. Cote&Ciel makes a sleek, handsome flat backpack that you won’t make you feel like you’re a kid. It can hold your 15-inch and encase it in…

Tech News Leslie Horn

How does the Buffy the Vampire Slayer porn capture Joss Whedon’s themes of destiny and choice?

Yesterday, we brought you a quick and dirty (so to speak) history of superhero porn, from the 1940s to today. But how has porn handled one of our most epic heroes of them all? We speak, of course, of Buffy Summers, heroine of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She’s the subject of a new porn video,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Low-Res Screens Can Transform into Better-Looking Hi-Res Displays With Simple Vibration

Well this is fantastic news for anyone who’s ever wanted a device with a high-res display, but can’t afford fancy hardware like the iPhone or iPad. Floraine Berthouzoz and Raanan Fattal, a couple of graphics researchers, have found a way to make crappy low-res displays show high-res imagery. And the secret is to simply just…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Ask Nick Harkaway anything you want about Angelmaker

In May, the io9 Book Club read Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker. Now Harkaway is coming to answer your questions about the book tomorrow, June 1. https://gizmodo.com/the-io9-book-club-is-in-session-lets-talk-about-nick-h-5914071 He’ll be making the comment thread on this very post approximately 9 percent better on June 1 between 12:00-1:00 PM Pacific Time. Start posting your questions for him now, and…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The First 3 Chapters from Daniel H. Wilson’s Thrilling New Novel Amped

First he gave us helpful advice for the robot uprising, then he wrote the robot war novel Robopocalypse. Now Daniel H. Wilson is turning his attention to the plight of cyborgs and posthumans, with his dystopian new novel Amped. And we’ve got the first three chapters right here! Come back tomorrow for chapters four and…

io9 Daniel H. Wilson

This Beautiful Retro Airplane Porn Is My New Desktop Background

Gizmodo reader Rob Hall took this amazing photo of a MiG-17F performing a minimum radius horizontal turn with afterburner at the Warriors Over The Wasatch Airshow, which happened over Hill Air Force Base, Utah. It’s a beautiful plane and a beautiful shot. [Flickr]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Is Vinyl Tap

Nobody has to remind us how fun it can be to mess around with music apps designed to mimic the formats of days gone by. However, the same instinct that compels us to try them also encourages app developers to build lots of random iPad apps for pretending to play vinyl. It’s an odd concept,…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

This New Ballistics Tester Will Play Catch with Air Force Artillery

Normally, when the military tests an artillery prototype, it uses the direct method—they fire it at a wall using a cannon and record what happens. But that’s an expensive and destructive test method. A new method, however, developed by students at Rice University may soon revolutionize how the Air Force tests its big guns. The…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Crazypants Synopsis to the Wachowskis’ Next Movie Jupiter Ascending

The Wachowski’s next big movie, after Cloud Atlas, is titled Jupiter Ascending. The only details we had no the strange futuristic movie was that Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis were starring in it… until now. Vulture has released what they are claiming is the synopsis for Jupiter Ascending. And it is bat-shit crazy: A universe…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Usher Will Be Joined By Hologram Backup Dancers in Upcoming Concert

One hologram performance is enough for the year, and we’re already put that behind us with Tupac’s Coachella reincarnation. Now Usher is jumping on the virtual performance bandwagon—he’ll be appearing with digital backup dancers in a concert next month in London. https://gizmodo.com/tupac-hologram-wasnt-a-hologram-5902625 Brush off your Harlem Shake and ready your Roger Rabbit, because you can…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Charlize Theron reveals all the latest secrets of Prometheus and Mad Max: Fury Road!

Why Time Machines Should Only Be Operated By Historians

Girl Leaves Laptop Open in Quiet Library, Porn Plays at Full Volume, Mortification Ensues

MP3-Playing Mouth Gear Makes Headphones Obsolete

Harvard Scientists Make Graphic Designers Look Lazy by Using DNA to Create a New Font

The Stoner Channel: Gregory Isaacs Does Brixton, Harry Potter Porn, and Britain’s First Trip

Automated Typewriter Creates Never-Ending Story, Honoring Journalists Killed on Assignment

The Black Keys: Gold On The Ceiling

Would You Eat the Meat of a Robot-Deboned Chicken?

The io9 Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy in June! [Updated!]

The Coolest Waterproof Backpack Money Can Buy

How does the Buffy the Vampire Slayer porn capture Joss Whedon’s themes of destiny and choice?

Low-Res Screens Can Transform into Better-Looking Hi-Res Displays With Simple Vibration

Ask Nick Harkaway anything you want about Angelmaker

The First 3 Chapters from Daniel H. Wilson’s Thrilling New Novel Amped

This Beautiful Retro Airplane Porn Is My New Desktop Background

This Is Vinyl Tap

This New Ballistics Tester Will Play Catch with Air Force Artillery

The Crazypants Synopsis to the Wachowskis’ Next Movie Jupiter Ascending

Usher Will Be Joined By Hologram Backup Dancers in Upcoming Concert

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