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Kamala Khan, America Chavez, and Squirrel Girl Will Be Teaming Up for a New Secret Warriors Animated Movie

With as many big-budget action movies as Marvel puts out, it can be easy to forget that the studio has an impressive portfolio of animated projects in the mix. Marvel’s aiming to change that with Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors, a feature-length animated movie starring a new generation of heroes. Next year, Marvel’s launching a new…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Brain Stimulation Trains Monkeys to Perform Tasks

Recall The Matrix. Neo asks Trinity if she can fly a helicopter. She can’t. This has happened to most of us. But then, she makes a phone call to Tank, who uploads the knowledge of helicopter flight directly into her brain. I tell you this because a researcher at the University of Rochester implied to…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Worst-Dressed Villains in Doctor Who History

Doctor Who is almost as defined by its legacy of incredible villains as it is by its ever-changing hero. But not all Who villains are made equally—especially when it comes to their outfits. Here are some of the worst fashion criminals in Doctor Who history… who also just happen to be actual criminals, too. Skagra,…

Television James Whitbrook

Trump Officials Say Warrantless Surveillance Program Will Continue Whether Congress Approves It This Year or Not

Having come to the realization there may be little hope for renewing the warrantless surveillance program known as Section 702 by the end of the month, Trump administration attorneys now contend there’s a legal basis for continuing the program through next April, despite the widely held assumption it would expire come New Year’s Day. Debate…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Vampire Veronica Descends on Riverdale in a New Archie Horror Series

Between Afterlife with Archie, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and the recent addition of Jughead: The Hunger, Archie Comics’ horror imprint is flying higher than Sabrina’s broomstick ever thought possible. But there’s already another series coming to Archie Horror, and it’s got a bit of a bite to it. io9 can exclusively reveal the amazingly-titled Vampironica,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

I Tried Deepak Chopra’s $350 ‘Meditation Glasses’ and They Are Unbearable

“Go back to the time of your ancestors, and be still,” meditation guru Deepak Chopra said as lights flashed onto my eyelids. “Journey back to the beach or a grassy knoll or the cool forest or the dessert oasis or the waterfall or mountain top or river bank or the campfire where your ancestors sat…

Accessories & Wearables Melanie Ehrenkranz

The Secret to Sorting 25,000 Jumbled Dice Involves Some Surprisingly Simple Physics

Physics has a bit of a problem. Stuff that you don’t really think about, like single items moving on frictionless surfaces or two bodies traveling in the void of space, are really easy to explain. Stuff you experience every day, like water dropping or M&Ms spilling on the floor, are incredibly complex. A team of…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Best Smartphone for Everyone

You did it. You waited out all the announcements back in the spring during Mobile World Congress and the deluge of new handsets that debuted this fall. But now, after upstarts such as Essential have had a chance to shine and giants like Apple and Samsung are done plying their latest wares, there’s a big…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Survey Reveals Hurricane Harvey Hit Blacks and Latinos Hardest

A new survey has confirmed that Black and Latino residents, and those with lower incomes, reported the highest rates of property and income loss after Hurricane Harvey. It’s a reminder that while hurricanes may be blind to race and class, the recovery process after the storm often isn’t. Previous hurricanes (like Hurricane Katrina) have shown…

Earther Yessenia Funes

Illinois Scraps Child Abuse Prediction Software for Not ‘Predicting Much’

Chicago is ending an algorithmic child abuse prevention program after the data mining software failed to flag at-risk kids who died while swamping caseworkers with alerts that thousands of other children were at imminent risk of death. As the Chicago Tribune reports, the Rapid Safety Feedback program regularly overestimated the likelihood of abuse in many cases…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Photos Promise Death and Destruction, Plus Our First Look at Jessica Chastain

We got our first details earlier today on Fox’s upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix film. We know Xavier’s students will make it into space and inadvertently unleash the Phoenix sleeping within Jean, but newly released photos reveal just how dark and devastating the film will be for the X-Men. In a new set of photos and…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Modified CRISPR Could Treat Common Diseases Without Editing DNA

The unassumingly named CRISPR/Cas9 is a technology that stands to remake the world as we know it. By allowing scientists to more easily than ever cut and paste all those As, Cs, Ts, and Gs that encode all the world’s living things, for one thing, it could one day cure many devastating diseases. All that…

Biology Kristen V. Brown

Here Are the 5 Biggest Things Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 Is Bringing to Next Year’s Android Phones

A couple days ago at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, the company finally unveiled its next flagship smartphone processor: the Snapdragon 845. But until recently, all we had was a name to talk about. Now that details are trickling out about Qualcomm’s new silicon chip—the one that’s going to power all of 2018’s big Android…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

AlphaZero Annihilates World’s Best Chess Bot After Just Four Hours of Practicing

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and after just four hours of self-training. AlphaZero is now the most dominant chess playing entity on the planet. In a one-on-one tournament…

Artificial Intelligence George Dvorsky

New Star Wars Survey Says People Like Jar Jar Binks Better Than Kylo Ren

Star Wars statistics, admittedly, can be kind of boring—that is, unless they’re so batshit that you wonder what the hell is even happening. According to this latest gem of a survey, not only is Jar Jar Binks more popular than Kylo Ren but apparently, people prefer a giant slug monster over literally every character in…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Watch Barry and Iris’ Honeymoon Get Interrupted in This Adorable Flash Deleted Scene

By the time The Flash’s midseason finale rolled around, Barry and Iris were already back from their honeymoon after finally tying the knot (and punching some Nazis) in Crisis on Earth-X. What we didn’t get to see though, was that it was cut short in a pretty hilarious fashion, thanks to Ralph Dibny… and Netflix?…

Television James Whitbrook

Warning: This Is Why You Don’t Pop Zits With a Woodworking Blade

There are two very important lessons to take away from a recent article in The Journal of Emergency Medicine: 1) Don’t pop zits using a woodworking blade, and 2) Don’t wait seven months to seek medical help if your lower lip starts to resemble a puddle of moldy raspberries. Unfortunately, a 23-year-old construction worker in…

Tech News Jennings Brown

Trump’s Decision to Shrink Utah’s Monuments Really Pissed Off Paleontologists

Native American tribes, outdoors associations, and everyone else who does not want to see America’s national monuments shrunk found an unlikely ally this week: folks who study dinosaurs. On Dec. 4, hours after Trump announced his decision to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by 1.1 million and 800,000 acres, respectively, the Society…

Earther Maddie Stone

Lion Forge’s New Benefit Anthology Is a Love Letter To Puerto Rico

Even though the news cycle has moved on and shifted the focus away from Puerto Rico, the island is still struggling to recover from hurricanes Irma and Maria that ravaged the island, killed hundreds, and left over a million people without power. Though many have forgotten Puerto Rico, Lion Forge hasn’t. Next March, indie comics…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Why Do I Need Two Instagram Apps?

It’s painfully obvious that Instagram wants to watch Snapchat flame out into a pillar of dust. It has copied a number of its features, fine-tuning them and deploying them even better than Snapchat. And it looks like Instagram is back on its bullshit with a new standalone messaging app. The app, Direct, is available now…

Social Media Melanie Ehrenkranz

Kamala Khan, America Chavez, and Squirrel Girl Will Be Teaming Up for a New Secret Warriors Animated Movie

Brain Stimulation Trains Monkeys to Perform Tasks

The Worst-Dressed Villains in Doctor Who History

Trump Officials Say Warrantless Surveillance Program Will Continue Whether Congress Approves It This Year or Not

Vampire Veronica Descends on Riverdale in a New Archie Horror Series

I Tried Deepak Chopra’s $350 ‘Meditation Glasses’ and They Are Unbearable

The Secret to Sorting 25,000 Jumbled Dice Involves Some Surprisingly Simple Physics

The Best Smartphone for Everyone

Survey Reveals Hurricane Harvey Hit Blacks and Latinos Hardest

Illinois Scraps Child Abuse Prediction Software for Not ‘Predicting Much’

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Photos Promise Death and Destruction, Plus Our First Look at Jessica Chastain

A Modified CRISPR Could Treat Common Diseases Without Editing DNA

Here Are the 5 Biggest Things Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 Is Bringing to Next Year’s Android Phones

AlphaZero Annihilates World’s Best Chess Bot After Just Four Hours of Practicing

New Star Wars Survey Says People Like Jar Jar Binks Better Than Kylo Ren

Watch Barry and Iris’ Honeymoon Get Interrupted in This Adorable Flash Deleted Scene

Warning: This Is Why You Don’t Pop Zits With a Woodworking Blade

Trump’s Decision to Shrink Utah’s Monuments Really Pissed Off Paleontologists

Lion Forge’s New Benefit Anthology Is a Love Letter To Puerto Rico

Why Do I Need Two Instagram Apps?

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