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Leia Tries to Stop Ewoks From Consuming Human Flesh in the Latest Forces of Destiny Short

You know, if there’s one place I did not expect Disney’s female-character-empowering Star Wars shorts to go, it was absolutely going to be the ethical treatment of prisoners. But here we are! “Imperial Feast”—excellent name, in hindsight—wants to sell you on the fact it sees Han and Star Wars Rebels’ Hera Syndulla interacting for the…

Television James Whitbrook

The Movies That Scared the Shit Out of Us

We’ve all had a movie that’s scared us to death. You may hate horror films, but chances are you had to watch at least one to discover you dislike them, and chances are also that the reason you dislike them is because that film terrified you. The io9 staff is no different—and these are the…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Pot Industry Could Be a Big Problem For Conservation in California

Cannabis—for obvious reasons—has always been a lucrative crop in the U.S. As state-by-state legal landscapes have warmed to the use and production of medical and recreational cannabis, the market has mushroomed, with an upcoming seismic shift in the national market associated with California’s start of recreational sale in January 2018. But there may be a…

Earther Jake Buehler

Gotham Has Recast Poison Ivy Again

Remember when Pamela Isley—sorry, Ivy Pepper—started out on Gotham as a young, plant-loving kid? And then the show went through the frankly wildly uncomfortable process of aging her up with a new actress to further speed Ivy’s evolution into, well, Poison Ivy? Well, hold on to your bat-butts, Gotham fans, because it’s happening yet again.…

Television James Whitbrook

Space Has Never Sounded Scarier Than on NASA’s Halloween Playlist

In space, it has been said, no one can hear you scream. That may very well be the case, but that doesn’t mean space isn’t filled with an abundance of strange sounds in the form of radio bursts, electromagnetic pulses, solar wind, charged particle bursts, and other celestial emissions. We can’t hear these sounds in…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

The Spirit of Wonder Woman Is Waging War on the World of Men in This Horrifying Comic

DC’s House of Horrors anthology is, in no uncertain terms, a collection of stories that dig deep into the hearts of DC’s classic heroes and wrenches out the deepest, darkest, most horrific parts of them that we don’t usually see in comics. This is particularly true of the book’s Wonder Woman story. Of all the…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Ghostbusters Theme Played on Floppy Drives Is the Perfect Trick-or-Treat Soundtrack for Nerds

For a while now, Paweł Zadrożniak has been treating us to some classic tunes played on his Floppotron— a musical instrument built from 64 floppy disk drives Frankenstein-ed together. His latest work nails the Ghostbuster theme song just in time to update your trick-or-treat playlist. Some songs on the Floppotron work better than others. Of…

Sploid Rhett Jones

Sorry Bose, the Best Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones Are Now Made By Sony

It’s rare to see a company make an almost perfect product. It’s even rarer to see one improve an almost perfect product. And yet, here we are. Sony’s already incredible MDR-1000X wireless, adaptive noise-cancelling headphones got an upgrade earlier this year and dropped the price to $350. I’ve been testing the new model for a…

Headphones Adam Clark Estes

This Two-Foot-Long RC Replica Is as Close as You’ll Ever Get to Driving the Batmobile

There’s a good reason many superheroes are also billionaires: because the fancy gadgets that Iron Man and Batman rely on cost untold millions. It makes fantasies like owning your very own Batmobile nearly unachievable, although with its new RC Ultimate Justice League Batmobile, Mattel might have a half-decent way to alleviate your superhero envy. Every…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Google’s Next Android Update Could Turn Chromebooks Into Texting Machines

Chrome OS is getting there. What started out as a way to make an OS that runs well on inexpensive laptop components is slowly marching to a point where it may actually be a real competitor to Windows, macOS, and Linux. And based on a some code found in the developer preview for Android 8.1,…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Has Google Ever Seen a Goddamn Hamburger?

America, these are troubling times we live in. All the more reason we need to talk about the real issues dividing our great nation: namely, have any of those soft, simpering eggheads at Google ever even seen a damn hamburger? Maybe some of you have lost your way and can’t recall the simpler times of…

Tech News Avery Ellis

A Water Slide Ferris Wheel Might Be the Most Stomach-Turning Ride Ever Invented

Water slides are best when they take you on a long meandering ride through curves and hills, but not every amusement park has room for a big installation. That’s why a German company has combined water slides with Ferris wheels to create this dizzying attraction that will have riders wondering which way is up. The…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

How a Single Fallen Tree Can Reshape a Rainforest

In 1996, a tree fell in the Bolivian Amazon, jamming up a river like a chicken bone lodged in a drain. 119,000 acres of forest died in the catastrophic flooding that ensued. Twenty years later, new research has concluded that this wasn’t a one-off event: So-called ‘logjams’ are constantly reshaping vast swaths of western Amazonia.…

Earther Maddie Stone

Welp, There’s a Stranger Things Dildo Now

Whenever there’s a new, popular sci-fi movie like Avatar or television show like Stranger Things that features otherworldly creatures, there’s a certain number of the people who see the strange beasts and think to themselves “I wanna have sex with that alien demon thing or whatever it is.” This is a perfectly natural response that…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

RIP Robert Blakeley, Designer of the Fallout Shelter Sign

Designer Robert W. Blakeley isn’t a household name, but every American has seen his work. No, he wasn’t employed by Coca-Cola or Ford or Disney, but instead worked for the US government. Blakeley’s most famous design? He came up with the yellow and black fallout shelter sign. Sadly, he died last week at the age…

Tech News Matt Novak

Who Actually Owns Your Content When You Post It to the Web

Thanks to the wonders of the web, you can get your content up and in front of an audience of millions in seconds—but that doesn’t necessarily mean you still own that photo of your dog once it is live. Signing the terms and conditions on your favorite social networks could mean signing away the rights…

Gadgets David Nield

Dozens of Octopuses Crawl Ashore Along Welsh Coast: ‘It Was a Bit Like an End of Days Scenario’

For three consecutive nights, droves of octopuses have been seen walking out of the sea and stranding themselves along several beaches in Wales. Experts say the unusual behavior may have something to do with recent storms that swept through the region. One by one they came ashore, stranding themselves along beaches in Cardigan Bay. It…

Biology George Dvorsky

Last Night Was Star Trek: Discovery‘s Best Episode

If you’ve been sitting around waiting for Discovery to find a balance between classic Trek storytelling and its commitment to serialized storytelling with a single main character, than “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” is the best we’ve got so far. I will admit up front that I love a time loop episode.…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Global CO2 Levels Surged to a Disturbing, Record High in 2016

Last year’s powerful El Niño left meteorologists expecting a major surge in atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions. A World Meteorological Organization report released on Monday confirms these projections, showing that CO2 concentrations “surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years.” A combination of human activities and El Niño—which led to…

Climate Change Ari Phillips

On The Walking Dead, Jesus Saves

Alexandria, Hilltop, and the Kingdom continued their assault on the Saviors last night on several fronts. The result was The Walking Dead turning into a live-action video game with barely any zombies in it, for the most part. But there were a few interesting conflicts scattered in there that didn’t involve gunfire—often involving the post-apocalypse’s…

Television Rob Bricken

Leia Tries to Stop Ewoks From Consuming Human Flesh in the Latest Forces of Destiny Short

The Movies That Scared the Shit Out of Us

The Pot Industry Could Be a Big Problem For Conservation in California

Gotham Has Recast Poison Ivy Again

Space Has Never Sounded Scarier Than on NASA’s Halloween Playlist

The Spirit of Wonder Woman Is Waging War on the World of Men in This Horrifying Comic

Ghostbusters Theme Played on Floppy Drives Is the Perfect Trick-or-Treat Soundtrack for Nerds

Sorry Bose, the Best Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones Are Now Made By Sony

This Two-Foot-Long RC Replica Is as Close as You’ll Ever Get to Driving the Batmobile

Google’s Next Android Update Could Turn Chromebooks Into Texting Machines

Has Google Ever Seen a Goddamn Hamburger?

A Water Slide Ferris Wheel Might Be the Most Stomach-Turning Ride Ever Invented

How a Single Fallen Tree Can Reshape a Rainforest

Welp, There’s a Stranger Things Dildo Now

RIP Robert Blakeley, Designer of the Fallout Shelter Sign

Who Actually Owns Your Content When You Post It to the Web

Dozens of Octopuses Crawl Ashore Along Welsh Coast: ‘It Was a Bit Like an End of Days Scenario’

Last Night Was Star Trek: Discovery‘s Best Episode

Global CO2 Levels Surged to a Disturbing, Record High in 2016

On The Walking Dead, Jesus Saves

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