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Three Legendary Marvel Comics Covers Are Getting the Limited Edition Poster Treatment

Starting tomorrow you can get Amazing Fantasy #15, Uncanny X-Men #1, and The Incredible Hulk #181 for $40 each. Now, they’re limited edition posters instead of the actual comics—but for most of us, that’s probably as close as we’ll ever get to owning those legendary issues. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Marvel Comics, Grey…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier

Get Ready for the New Ghostbusters Film With a Revival Screening of the Original Classic

There’s something strange coming back to theaters. Who you gonna call? Fathom Events and Sony Pictures have announced they’re bringing the original Ghostbusters back to theaters for two nights of 35th anniversary screenings. According to the press release, the revival screenings will include an intro featuring key members of the original cast sharing memories of…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Greta Is Here

The air at North Cove Marina, a small slip amid the towering high rises of Lower Manhattan, felt pregnant. With rain. With hope. With anticipation. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish activist trying to turn the world back from the climate crisis brink, had spent the night docked off Coney Island after 330 hours at sea.…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

House of X Is Diving Into the Heady Idea of What It Means to Die

Jonathan Hickman’s ongoing rejuvenation of the X-Men has already asked interesting questions of its readers, from inviting us to consider the sinister intent of our mutant heroes to having us question their entire history as we know it. This week’s entry in the House of X/Powers of X duology is no different, and it’s perhaps…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

TSA Is Testing Face Recognition at Airport Security Checkpoints in Las Vegas Now

The Transportation Security Administration will use face recognition technology at security checkpoints at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. The good news is you can opt-out. The bad news is that the program in Vegas furthers the TSA’s ongoing efforts to expand biometric technology more broadly. According to a document from the Department of Homeland…

Tech News Catie Keck

YouTube Is Creating a New Website That Puts All of Its Problems With Kids’ Videos in One Place

YouTube has built a separate kids-only website in the wake of growing concerns about the platform showing disturbing videos to children. The video-sharing platform’s creepy kid problem started getting widespread public attention a couple of years ago after parents began noticing their kids were watching videos of Peppa Pig drinking bleach and Spiderman doing weird…

Tech News Jennings Brown

Another Nail in the Coffin of the Most Obnoxious Thing About TVs

At an event in LA yesterday the UHD Alliance, which is behind the standards for UHD Blu-rays, a group of studios, including Warner Bros, and the tv maker Vizio, announced a plan to make your TV stop looking like shit. A new Filmmaker mode will be available in TVs from Vizio starting in 2020 and…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Europe Is Warming Even Faster Than Climate Models Predicted

Over the past seven decades, the number of extreme heat days in Europe has steadily increased, while the number of extreme cold days has decreased, according to new research. Alarmingly, this trend is happening at rates faster than those proposed by climate models. For most Europeans, this new study will hardly come as a surprise.…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

G. Willow Wilson Discusses Killing Love in Wonder Woman and Her Dreams for Ms. Marvel’s MCU Debut

G. Willow Wilson’s current Wonder Woman run has pitted the Amazons against one another and pushed Diana to her psychological limits in ways that have surfaced complicated, human emotions in her. She’s every bit the badass warrior we’ve always known Wonder Woman to be, but Wilson’s spent time trying to dig into the flesh and…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

MIT Researchers Designed this Robotic Worm to Burrow Into Human Brains

Robotics engineers at MIT have built a threadlike robot worm that can be magnetically steered to deftly navigate the extremely narrow and winding arterial pathways of the human brain. One day it could be used to quickly clear blockages and clots that contribute to strokes and aneurysms, while at the same time making the current…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Coolest Futuristic Deaths

The far future is notoriously unknowable, but one thing we can be reasonably certain of is that we will die. Some very rich and imaginative people like to think that this is not the case—which will honestly make it pretty funny when they eat it like the rest of us proles. While death itself might…

Tech News Hudson Hongo

8 Fantasy Films From the 1980s to Fuel Your Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Obsession

If The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, which hits Netflix on Friday, has you in the mood to watch more 1980s fantasy movies about unlikely heroes—preferably with puppets—we’ve got you covered. And if you finish your Dark Crystal binge and want more in the same vein…well, this same list still applies. https://gizmodo.com/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-is-the-groundbreaki-1837447298 8. The NeverEnding…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Why Does Darpa Need a Huge Underground Facility by Friday?

Darpa is often described as the “mad science” wing of the Defense Department. They’re the ones who have a history of working on cutting edge technology for the military like virtual fences, disaster relief robots, and the invention of the internet itself. They even tried to build Skynet in the 1980s. But Darpa sent out…

Tech News Matt Novak

Newark Needs a Massive Lead Pipe Replacement, and Advocates Don’t Believe Officials Can Handle It

Monday, on the night of the MTV Video Music Awards, some 150 people arrived at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, to protest. Police officers—on horses and in helicopters—were prepared to block activists, but nothing would stop Newark Water Coalition co-founder and organizer Anthony Diaz from spreading his message. The city where he grew…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

MIT Researchers Build Functional Carbon Nanotube Microprocessor

Scientists at MIT built a 16-bit microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes and even ran a program on it, a new paper reports. Silicon-based computer processors seem to be approaching a limit to how small they can be scaled, so researchers are looking for other materials that might make for useful processors. It appears that transistors…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Ambush Bug Is the Super-Fool the DC Comics Universe Needs Right Now

Ambush Bug needs to be in comics. Ambush Bug needs to be in movies. Ambush Bug needs to be part of TV shows. Who is Ambush Bug? Why, only the greatest character to sing karaoke with Darkseid. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-cozy-new-comics-series-to-settle-in-with-this-f-1837566893 A teleporting nuisance reminiscent of Bugs Bunny, Ambush Bug was created by Keith Giffen and first appeared…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse

Ransomware Attackers and Insurance Companies Are Forming a Human Centipede of Profits

Ransomware incidents—cyberattacks in which bad actors demand payment in exchange for encrypted files—are a frighteningly common fixture of our modern era. But more troubling is that the number of attacks may be hiking due, in part, to the insurance companies tasked to deal with the fallout in the event of such crime, according to a…

Privacy & Security Catie Keck

Amazon Really Filled Its Diaper Trying to Build HQ2 in New York

Amazon, a trillion-dollar firm that employs some of the brightest minds in engineering and logistics and has the power to upend entire industries just by announcing its possible encroachment into them, just wants to be liked. And like any well-adjusted people-pleaser, it keeps copious notes on the haters who just can’t stand to see it…

Commerce Avery Ellis

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All the Cozy New Comics Series to Settle in With This Fall

Sure, the planet’s on fire more often than not these days, but fall usually means nights drawing in, chilly breezes, and dreary weather as the leaves on the trees turn a golden hue. Basically: perfect comics reading weather. Need a new series or 25 to get into this fall? io9 has you covered! https://gizmodo.com/theres-something-for-every-sci-fi-and-fantasy-fan-on-io-1837007435 https://gizmodo.com/all-the-new-and-returning-sci-fi-fantasy-superhero-a-1837384823…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Ring Discloses Over 400 Partnerships With Police in Most Complete Map Yet

Amazon’s home security company Ring is opening up about just how many police departments it’s partnered with across the country. Today the company published a map showing hundreds of departments with which it’s inked deals. For months, Ring has refused to provide basic details about its partnerships with local law enforcement agencies, going as far…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Three Legendary Marvel Comics Covers Are Getting the Limited Edition Poster Treatment

Get Ready for the New Ghostbusters Film With a Revival Screening of the Original Classic

Greta Is Here

House of X Is Diving Into the Heady Idea of What It Means to Die

TSA Is Testing Face Recognition at Airport Security Checkpoints in Las Vegas Now

YouTube Is Creating a New Website That Puts All of Its Problems With Kids’ Videos in One Place

Another Nail in the Coffin of the Most Obnoxious Thing About TVs

Europe Is Warming Even Faster Than Climate Models Predicted

G. Willow Wilson Discusses Killing Love in Wonder Woman and Her Dreams for Ms. Marvel’s MCU Debut

MIT Researchers Designed this Robotic Worm to Burrow Into Human Brains

The Coolest Futuristic Deaths

8 Fantasy Films From the 1980s to Fuel Your Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Obsession

Why Does Darpa Need a Huge Underground Facility by Friday?

Newark Needs a Massive Lead Pipe Replacement, and Advocates Don’t Believe Officials Can Handle It

MIT Researchers Build Functional Carbon Nanotube Microprocessor

Ambush Bug Is the Super-Fool the DC Comics Universe Needs Right Now

Ransomware Attackers and Insurance Companies Are Forming a Human Centipede of Profits

Amazon Really Filled Its Diaper Trying to Build HQ2 in New York

All the Cozy New Comics Series to Settle in With This Fall

Ring Discloses Over 400 Partnerships With Police in Most Complete Map Yet

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