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The Care Bears are back, and they’re creepy as hell

The Hub is bringing back 1980s cartoon bear juggernaut The Care Bears in a new horrifyingly CG series called Care Bears: Welcome to Care-A-Lot. Is it just me, or do the humans in this trailer look like skulls? More importantly, will this new 1980s nostalgia cartoon provoke the rage of the Bronies? We can only…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Illusion tricks you into thinking these celebrities are downright hideous

Society harbors a strange obsession with seeing celebrities disheveled, out of makeup, and out of shape. The video featured here takes that fascination and turns it totally inside out, by using normal photographs of good-looking celebrities to illustrate what’s known as the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect” — an optical illusion first described last year by…

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Hulu’s Summer Shows Might Actually Be Worth Watching

Hulu has been investing more and more in producing its own original series as well as securing exclusive rights to other shows—it’s how the service plans to survive in the face of competition from Netflix and the cable companies. Here’s a look at what’s in store for you on Hulu this summer. https://gizmodo.com/real-online-tv-is-finally-here-5876456 The trailer…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

A sneak peek of the new architecture-obsessed Batman graphic novel

For his first graphic novel about the Caped Crusader, author and designer Chip Kidd (who worked on Bat-Manga! and oodles of famous book covers) teamed up with illustrator Dave Taylor (2000 AD) for the upcoming Batman: Death By Design. In this love letter to the concrete canyons of Gotham City, suspicious building accidents place Batman…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Samsung and Apple CEOs Will Meet Today To Talk Possible Settlement

Apple’s Tim Cook and Samsung’s Choi Gee-sung will meet in San Francisco today to discuss a potential settlement in the all-out patent battle the two companies are currently engaged in. The CEOs aren’t going to be friending each other on Facebook anytime soon, but last month, a federal judge forced them to have a pow…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Location Changed! Come hear io9’s Charlie Jane Anders read in NYC with Brian Slattery

If you’re in New York tomorrow evening, you should stop by the Soho Gallery for the Digital Arts around 6:30, when Charlie Jane Anders will be reading from her novelette “Six Months, Three Days” with Lost Everything author Brian Francis Slattery. This is part of the long-running and illustrious New York Review of Science Fiction…

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Ice Cream Burger, Only $1.99. Needs Bacon. That’s All.

Can life get any better than a burger ice cream under the California sun? No, not it can’t. Well, maybe if it had some crispy real bacon inside. Reader Chris Rundgren found this in his local Carl’s Jr. in Orange County, California. [Thanks Chris!]

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Google Chrome Just Beat Out Internet Explorer as the Most Used Browser

It appears that Google Chrome finally overtook Microsoft Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser last week—at least according to statistics fromthe web analytics service Statcounter. As TNW points out, measuring this kind of usage is hardly a perfect science, but as you can see from the trend line in the graph above, this…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Did You Miss the Solar Eclipse? Check Out This Gorgeous Time Lapse Video

Cory Poole—science teacher at University Preparatory School in Redding, California, and Gizmodo reader—has composed this 60-second time lapse video made from 700 frames captured by a Coronado Solar Max 60 Double Stacked Hydrogen Alpha Solar Telescope. His words: The pictures were shot in Redding California which was directly in the annular eclipse path. The filter…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Ender’s Game will be like the science fiction epic Stanley Kubrick never made!

The long-awaited adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s classic novel will feature epic zero-gravity battles that would make the man behind 2001: A Space Odyssey jealous. Plus producer Roberto Orci discusses just how the movie tackles the book’s military themes. Plus Ridley Scott drops a key detail for his Blade Runner sequel. Star David Giuntoli reveals…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Apple Defends New Spaceship Headquarters with This Predictably Apple-Like Letter to Neighbors

Remember the giant spaceship campus Apple’s building in Cupertino? The people who live in the neighborhood where Apple’s mothership is landing definitely do. So Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer sent out a packet to neighborhood residents pumping up the virtues of the new campus—in a decidedly Apple way. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-wants-to-a-build-a-spaceship-like-campus-in-5809788 The big circle will be awesome, of…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

We Upload 72 Hours of Video to YouTube Every Minute

YouTube does pretty well for itself. So well, in fact, that between us we upload 72 hours of video to the site every minute—a number which has gone up by 50 percent in the last year. https://gizmodo.com/two-days-of-video-hit-youtube-every-single-minute-5805450 That’s a whole year’s uninterrupted viewing posted ever two hours or—assuming you reach the age of 80—a lifetime’s…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

New James Bond Trailer For Skyfall Looks Awesome

We’ve been waiting long enough, fuelled by teasers, behind the scenes sneak peeks and a couple of photos from the sets, but now we’ve finally got a full-blooded trailer to sate our Bond cravings. I have to admit I’m a bit of a Bond fan; gadgets, girls and espionage – what’s not to love? Out…

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The first trailer for the next James Bond flick, Skyfall

The first trailer for the Sam Mendes-directed twenty-third Bond film is here. Looks like 007 is enjoying existential malaise, some word association, and übergritty spy games. No iceberg-shaped boats in this one! Skyfall hits November 9 stateside, and here’s the synopsis: https://gizmodo.com/the-absolute-goofiest-old-school-james-bond-gadgets-5909329 In Skyfall, Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

Why Apple’s iPhone Charger Is So Expensive

There is no getting around the fact that Apple accessories are expensive. But instead of assuming that price meant quality, Ken Shirriff decided to tear an iPhone charger apart—and what he found justifies the expense. Ken has written up an exhaustive analysis of his iPhone charger teardown over on his website. Those of you who…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

40,000 Orthodox Jews Protest the Internet at NYC Baseball Stadium

Citi Field is usually home to the Mets, but yesterday the stadium was filled by over 40,000 Orthodox Jews—who gathered to discuss the dangers of the Internet. The crowd—entirely male, in accordance with the ultra-Orthodox tradition of separating the sexes—were there to hear about potential problems that can stem from access to pornography and other…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

NASDAQ: We Really Messed Up the Facebook IPO

If all the noise and fanfare of Friday was anything to go by, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Facebook’s IPO was nothing but a roaring success. Turns out that, behind the scenes, NASDAQ was a crumbling wreck. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-going-to-be-even-more-annoying-now-that-its-5911172 The Wall Street Journal reports that Robert Greifeld, chief executive of NASDAQ, has come out as…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Is This the Best Gesture Control System Ever?

Gesture control as we know it is rudimentary at best. But a new San Francisco startup called Leap Motion has just announced a new 3D motion control system that its claims is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market—and it’s set to cost just $70. CNET reports that Leap Motion’s technology uses…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Best Solar Eclipse Photos

If you were lucky enough to live in Asia or the western United States or anywhere in between, you would’ve been graced with the clear sight of what looked like a ring of fire in the sky. Or more specifically, an annular eclipse. If you missed the eclipse, don’t worry, we got you. Here are…

Tech News Casey Chan

What if we could animate NASA’s space murals? It would look like this

Remember the gloriously vibrant space art of astronauts walking on the moon? If those images were made into a movie they would look a whole hell of a lot like the trailer for Liquid Skies. Check it out, it’s absolutely beautiful. Liquid Skies You’re going to like this, check out the trailer for Annis Naeem’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Care Bears are back, and they’re creepy as hell

Illusion tricks you into thinking these celebrities are downright hideous

Hulu’s Summer Shows Might Actually Be Worth Watching

A sneak peek of the new architecture-obsessed Batman graphic novel

Samsung and Apple CEOs Will Meet Today To Talk Possible Settlement

Location Changed! Come hear io9’s Charlie Jane Anders read in NYC with Brian Slattery

Ice Cream Burger, Only $1.99. Needs Bacon. That’s All.

Google Chrome Just Beat Out Internet Explorer as the Most Used Browser

Did You Miss the Solar Eclipse? Check Out This Gorgeous Time Lapse Video

Ender’s Game will be like the science fiction epic Stanley Kubrick never made!

Apple Defends New Spaceship Headquarters with This Predictably Apple-Like Letter to Neighbors

We Upload 72 Hours of Video to YouTube Every Minute

New James Bond Trailer For Skyfall Looks Awesome

The first trailer for the next James Bond flick, Skyfall

Why Apple’s iPhone Charger Is So Expensive

40,000 Orthodox Jews Protest the Internet at NYC Baseball Stadium

NASDAQ: We Really Messed Up the Facebook IPO

Is This the Best Gesture Control System Ever?

The Best Solar Eclipse Photos

What if we could animate NASA’s space murals? It would look like this

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