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One of Pop Culture’s Most Influential Art Shows Is Back for Its 12th Year

“Crazy 4 Cult,” an annual gallery show that helped put pop culture art on the map, is returning this weekend—and this time it’s bringing along a friend, a second awesome pop culture art show right next door. “Crazy 4 Cult 12” opens Friday, December 7 at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, California, with “Lost Days”—a three-person…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier Dec 6 '18

10 Awesome New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Shorts That All Run Under 10 Minutes

Got a minute? Got 10 minutes, more like? We’ve gathered 10 recent sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and animated shorts, ranging from low-budget efforts by emerging filmmakers to more professionally polished works. Two things they all have in common: They’re all very brief, and they’re all highly entertaining. Enjoy! 1) The Lake This animated short by single-named…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Dec 6 '18

Tokyo Disneyland Is Getting a Beauty and the Beast Ride With Animatronics That Look Like Living Cartoons

Disney’s Imagineers—the company’s term for the artists, designers, and engineers who create its theme park attractions—are about to revolutionize the art of turning the studio’s animated films into rides that bring visitors right into the movie. Tokyo Disneyland is in the process of building a Beauty and the Beast ride with animatronic characters that are…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Dec 6 '18

Another Missing Doctor Who Story Is Being Revived With Animation

Ninety-seven episodes from the earliest eras of Doctor Who remain lost, after old BBC archival policies meant the original film copies were destroyed to save space. Slowly but surely, parts of that missing TV history are being recovered—and when they can’t be, the BBC is turning to animation to bring them to life. The BBC…

io9 James Whitbrook Dec 6 '18

Verizon: Maybe a Few Hamiltons Would Change You First Responders’ Minds

Mobile giant Verizon has faced withering criticism in the months since it throttled Santa Clara County Fire Department firefighters trying to contain California’s Mendocino Complex Fire, then tried to force them to purchase increased data even as they were begging for immediate assistance. It said it would immediately stop throttling emergency personnel responding to wildfires…

Tech News Tom McKay Dec 6 '18

Marvel Found a Replacement for Chuck Wendig’s Scrapped Darth Vader Comic Surprisingly Quickly

In the space of weeks, Marvel went from proudly announcing a new Darth Vader miniseries at New York Comic Con to scrapping the whole thing entirely. Now, less than a month later, they’ve already found a replacement. Marvel has announced—via the official Star Wars website—Vader: Dark Visions, a new limited miniseries that will launch in…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Dec 6 '18

The Trump Administration Is Spinning Its Latest Pro-Coal Policy as Good for People of Color

The Environmental Protection Agency is using energy affordability among low-income communities and people of color as an argument to bring back coal. Yes, the same coal responsible for an estimated 3,000 American deaths a year. Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced a new proposal Thursday that would repeal Obama-era regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Dec 6 '18

A Few Things Facebook Forgot to Include in Its Year in Review

It’s been quite a year for Mark Zuckerberg and his friends at Facebook. You might even say that 2018 has been the single worst year in the company’s history. But you wouldn’t know it by reading “Facebook’s 2018 Year in Review.” The annual blog post leaves one with the impression that Facebook’s involvement in global…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 6 '18

Too Much UV Light Could Turn Gas Planets Into Sad Rocky Cores

The atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet located 163 light-years from Earth is being blasted into space by its host star, forming a ghostly tail. Excessive ultraviolet radiation is responsible for the celestial phenomenon, according to a new study, a discovery that could provide new insights into planetary formation. The excellently named WASP-69b is roughly…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Dec 6 '18

Game of Thrones‘ Final Season Video Teases a Song of Ice and Fire

Winter may have already arrived around the globe, but next year we’ll also be getting a winter the likes of which we’ve never seen. We’re a few months away from the final season of Game of Thrones, where good will take its last stand against the forces of the undead, and we’ve gotten a gorgeously…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 6 '18

MoviePass Has a Plan to Bring You Back: Complicated Pricing

Subscription movie theater service MoviePass gained massive popularity last year by offering something so simple and sensible it was unavoidable: a movie a day for 10 bucks a month. But that plan didn’t work for MoviePass’s bank account, and it started bleeding cash and customers. Now, it hopes to make a comeback by… making things…

Tech News Rhett Jones Dec 6 '18

For Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Every Cool Surprise You Can Imagine Was Considered

“Meanwhile in another universe.” Those four words at the end of Venom may have changed everything when it comes to Spider-Man movies. By shifting out of Venom’s universe and showing a scene from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the filmmakers and studio made it abundantly clear that Venom and Into the Spider-Verse are both happening in…

io9 Germain Lussier Dec 6 '18

The Snapdragon 8cx Is Qualcomm’s First Purpose-Built Chip for Laptops

Thanks to the Windows on Snapdragon initiative, Qualcomm has been dabbling in the laptop processor business for about a year now. And while systems like the Asus Nova Go and Samsung Galaxy Book 2 have their share of flaws, those laptops demonstrated the potential benefits of ARM-based chips through things like seriously good battery lives,…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Dec 6 '18

Predictim Claims Its AI Can Flag ‘Risky’ Babysitters. So I Tried It on the People Who Watch My Kids.

The founders of Predictim want to be clear with me: Their product—an algorithm that scans the online footprint of a prospective babysitter to determine their “risk” levels for parents—is not racist. It is not biased. “We take ethics and bias extremely seriously,” Sal Parsa, Predictim’s CEO, tells me warily over the phone. “In fact, in…

Artificial Intelligence Brian Merchant Dec 6 '18

The Director of Kong: Skull Island Made a Bonkers PUBG Short Film

PUBG, otherwise known as Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, is the game that started a brand new trend in video games. It turned massive multiplayer battle royales, where up to 100 people get put on the same map at the same time and try to kill each other, into big business. After PUBG came Fortnite, then Call of…

Games Germain Lussier Dec 6 '18

Lois Lanes, Ranked

Next week the CW will air a three-part superhero crossover of Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl, and besides featuring Nora Fries (Mr. Freeze’s usually Popsicle wife), and Crisis on Infinite Earth character the Monitor, it will also finally introduce us to the CW DC-verse’s version of Lois Lane. And that’s great—because you really can’t tell…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz Dec 6 '18

Why the Large Hadron Collider Is Shutting Down for Two Years

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, will be turned off for the next two years for upgrades. Hopefully, its particle-hunting abilities will be even better once it restarts in 2021. The LHC experiment is the crown jewel of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. A complex of successive rings accelerate subatomic particles before injecting…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Dec 6 '18

Introducing Automaton

Automation is killing jobs Automation is the future Automation is good Automation is bad Automation is coming Automation is inevitable According to one of our most infamous and widely experienced automated features, the searching masses are divided—or being divided, maybe—over just what it is that automation is doing. Still, if you want to take a…

Artificial Intelligence Brian Merchant Dec 6 '18

Miles Morales Is the Most Relatable Person Ever in This New Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Clip

Regardless of who’s wearing the suit, one of the things that defines Spider-Man is the fact that the hero’s supposed to be a kind of an everyman. Relatable. Understandable. Exceptional, but still very much a regular person with the kinds of issues we’ve all got. Like, for instance, a huge problem with procrastination. In the latest…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Dec 6 '18

Major Scientific Society’s Decision to Honor Anti-Environment Senator Sparks Outcry

American’s largest annual Earth science conference doesn’t kick off until next week, but things are already getting heated. Members of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) are up in arms over the organization’s decision to give a prestigious award to Senator Cory Gardner, who in 2015 voted against a measure declaring human activity “significantly contributes to…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Dec 6 '18

One of Pop Culture’s Most Influential Art Shows Is Back for Its 12th Year

10 Awesome New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Shorts That All Run Under 10 Minutes

Tokyo Disneyland Is Getting a Beauty and the Beast Ride With Animatronics That Look Like Living Cartoons

Another Missing Doctor Who Story Is Being Revived With Animation

Verizon: Maybe a Few Hamiltons Would Change You First Responders’ Minds

Marvel Found a Replacement for Chuck Wendig’s Scrapped Darth Vader Comic Surprisingly Quickly

The Trump Administration Is Spinning Its Latest Pro-Coal Policy as Good for People of Color

A Few Things Facebook Forgot to Include in Its Year in Review

Too Much UV Light Could Turn Gas Planets Into Sad Rocky Cores

Game of Thrones‘ Final Season Video Teases a Song of Ice and Fire

MoviePass Has a Plan to Bring You Back: Complicated Pricing

For Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Every Cool Surprise You Can Imagine Was Considered

The Snapdragon 8cx Is Qualcomm’s First Purpose-Built Chip for Laptops

Predictim Claims Its AI Can Flag ‘Risky’ Babysitters. So I Tried It on the People Who Watch My Kids.

The Director of Kong: Skull Island Made a Bonkers PUBG Short Film

Lois Lanes, Ranked

Why the Large Hadron Collider Is Shutting Down for Two Years

Introducing Automaton

Miles Morales Is the Most Relatable Person Ever in This New Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Clip

Major Scientific Society’s Decision to Honor Anti-Environment Senator Sparks Outcry

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