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Amazon Wants to Install Their Slick Mailboxes in Your Apartment Building

While Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was wavering between being the richest person in the world and the second-richest person in the world, his company stealthily revealed its plans to secure precious real estate inside apartment buildings. Amazon is now offering a new service called Hub, consisting of modular lockers that the company aims to install…

Commerce Jennings Brown

Unethical Breeding Is Creating Serious Health Problems for German Shepherds

German Shepherds are among the most popular breeds in the world, but their numbers have started to decline. New research suggests the decreasing demand for German Shepherds may have something to do with the breed’s propensity for health problems—likely the result of selective breeding for cosmetic traits. A relatively recent shift in the way German…

Tech News George Dvorsky

I Tested Two Retro Consoles―One Good, One Hot Garbage

For all of the hullabaloo its generated with its tiny consoles, Nintendo didn’t invent retro gaming consoles. Not by a mile. When it released the NES Classic late last year, Nintendo wasn’t creating a new field of consoles fueled by nostalgia and the fat wallets of aging Gen Xers. Rather, Nintendo was reinventing the retro…

Gaming Alex Cranz

Tales From The Loop RPG Will Make You Feel Like a (Stranger Things) Kid Again

Tales From The Loop, a role-playing game, is what happens when Netflix’s Stranger Things and the Welcome to Night Vale podcast go bump in the night. Players step into the role of kids in the 1980s, trying to get by in a town where anything can happen. Only the biggest scares aren’t from aliens or…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Robert Pattinson Was Almost Fired From Twilight for Acting as Miserable as We Felt

It’s no secret Twilight star Robert Pattinson hates the franchise more than almost anyone else. He stopped bathing during filming, he’s talked shit about the fandom for years. And he was almost fired for refusing to be happy. During an interview on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, Pattinson chatted about how he was almost fired…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Hasbro’s Own Convention Will Sell You a Giant Transformer That Actually Charges Your Phone

Hasbro’s first HasCon is on the way, and what would a convention dedicated to toys be without a few exclusives of its own? Everything from Star Wars to My Little Pony to Magic: The Gathering will have exclusive merchandise at the convention, but the best of all: an Optimus Prime toy that’s part robot, part…

io9 James Whitbrook

A Microsoft Font Really Did Take Pakistan’s Prime Minister Down

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will resign his position immediately following a landmark decision by his country’s Supreme Court. Sharif has been under fire since last year, when leaked documents appeared to show his family had hidden wealth in shell companies overseas. Earlier this month, investigators revealed that crucial financial documents provided by the Sharifs…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Power Rangers’ Post-Credit Scene Was Almost Much More Explicitly About the Green Ranger

Anyone who sat through Power Rangers’ credits long enough earlier this year saw the tiny mid-credit scene that teased the only logical next step for the franchise’s sequels: the introduction of Tommy Oliver, future Green Ranger. But according to screenwriter John Gatin, the scene was originally very different. In the scene that showed in theaters,…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

TNT’s Tales From The Crypt Reboot Refuses To Die

The Crypt-Keeper may already have been laid to rest, but TNT hasn’t given up on resurrecting M. Night Shyamalan’s beleaguered Tales From The Crypt reboot. Turner Entertainment’s chief creative officer Kevin Reilly recently gave an update on the project, saying that he and others at TNT still want the rights needed to produce a new…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Laurene Powell Jobs, Philanthropist and Widow of Steve Jobs, Just Took Over The Atlantic

Today, in unexpected news, The Atlantic announced that the Emerson Collective has taken a controlling stake in the magazine. That may sound like humdrum media news until you realize that the president of the Emerson Collective is none other than Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs. So now, one of America’s…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Why Daredevil Is No More When The Defenders Begins

Charlie Cox explains the state of Matt Murdock when The Defenders begins. Ant-Man has another returning character and you will absolutely be able to tell the difference between the Infinity Gems in Infinity War. Spoilers ahead! Ant-Man & The Wasp Judy Greer will return for the sequel as Ant-Man’s ex-wife, Maggie Lang, according to Deadline. Little…

io9 James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson

Marty Sklar, Disney Legend and Futurist, Dies at 83

Marty Sklar, arguably one of the most influential people to work at the Disney Company aside from Walt Disney himself, died yesterday. He was 83. Sklar started at Disney just a month before Disneyland opened in 1955 and would work his way up to becoming one of the most tireless and dedicated storytellers at the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Did Scientists Just Spot the First Exomoon?

Thanks largely to NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets lurking outside our solar system. Finding what creeps around those planets, however, has proven itself to be incredibly challenging. While scientists have had a few close calls with exomoons over the years, so far, no discovery’s been legit. But a group of…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

How Scientifically Plausible Is the ‘Simian Flu’ in Planet of the Apes?

The Planet of the Apes prequels did much to explain how humans lost their status as the dominant species on the planet—a cataclysmic set of events fueled by a global pandemic known as the “Simian Flu.” This virus, the product of a medical experiment gone horribly wrong, wiped out the vast majority of humans, but…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Mike Huckabee Tweets About Scrapping the Election of Senators As US Slides Into Authoritarianism

In the age of Trump, a tweet from a political figure can be a canary in a coal mine. And it looks like America’s canary is currently having trouble breathing. Early this morning, Mike Huckabee tweeted out a bizarre proposal, and it legitimately makes me concerned for the future of American democracy. Or whatever’s left…

Tech News Matt Novak

Oh Shit, Will.i.am Could Soon Be in Charge of Your Smart Home

Will.i.am has had a hard time breaking into the tech market. In his latest entrepreneurial venture, he’s jumping into the smart home game. What could go wrong? https://gizmodo.com/let-us-count-some-reasons-why-you-wont-want-will-i-ams-1778367350 Innovator and musician Will.i.am’s lack of luck in the gadget world has always come down to the fact that he’s been so far ahead of his time.…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones

Vampire Bikers Rule the Road in the New Episode of Eerie Animated Web Series Ghost Radio

In May, we shared the first episode of Cristian Ponce’s spooky animated web series, Ghost Radio, about a late-night radio show wafting over the airwaves from the monster-choked town of Kirlian. Episode two is here, and it’s another tale of terror, titled “Masters of the Night.” In this installment, a motorist stranded in Kirlian overnight…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Somehow, Thor’s Appearance in the Infinity War Footage Isn’t a Ragnarok Spoiler

The past two weekends, at two different conventions, Marvel has screened footage from Avengers: Infinity War. And each time, the first new scene in the footage, featuring Thor, gets a shocked gasp. At San Diego Comic-Con, io9 asked the director of Thor: Ragnarok about that moment and he gave a very curious answer. When we…

io9 Germain Lussier

Steven Universe‘s Best Song Now Has Its Own Fantastic, Heartwarming Official Music Video

“Stronger Than You” is perhaps Steven Universe’s best-known song, and is certainly one of its most beloved—a funky ode to the power of love that defines the series’ core themes. Cartoon Network took to Comic-Con last weekend to give the song its own music video, and it’s a lovely tribute to the show’s fans. In…

io9 James Whitbrook

This Homemade Evil Dead Bird Feeder Is So Damn Good

Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy is one of those series that has almost too much merchandise, in the form of toys, props, t-shirts—you name it, and it’s probably been licensed. One thing we’ve never seen, though, is maybe the best of the bunch: this custom bird feeder that looks exactly like the haunted cabin from the…

io9 Germain Lussier

Amazon Wants to Install Their Slick Mailboxes in Your Apartment Building

Unethical Breeding Is Creating Serious Health Problems for German Shepherds

I Tested Two Retro Consoles―One Good, One Hot Garbage

Tales From The Loop RPG Will Make You Feel Like a (Stranger Things) Kid Again

Robert Pattinson Was Almost Fired From Twilight for Acting as Miserable as We Felt

Hasbro’s Own Convention Will Sell You a Giant Transformer That Actually Charges Your Phone

A Microsoft Font Really Did Take Pakistan’s Prime Minister Down

Power Rangers’ Post-Credit Scene Was Almost Much More Explicitly About the Green Ranger

TNT’s Tales From The Crypt Reboot Refuses To Die

Laurene Powell Jobs, Philanthropist and Widow of Steve Jobs, Just Took Over The Atlantic

Why Daredevil Is No More When The Defenders Begins

Marty Sklar, Disney Legend and Futurist, Dies at 83

Did Scientists Just Spot the First Exomoon?

How Scientifically Plausible Is the ‘Simian Flu’ in Planet of the Apes?

Mike Huckabee Tweets About Scrapping the Election of Senators As US Slides Into Authoritarianism

Oh Shit, Will.i.am Could Soon Be in Charge of Your Smart Home

Vampire Bikers Rule the Road in the New Episode of Eerie Animated Web Series Ghost Radio

Somehow, Thor’s Appearance in the Infinity War Footage Isn’t a Ragnarok Spoiler

Steven Universe‘s Best Song Now Has Its Own Fantastic, Heartwarming Official Music Video

This Homemade Evil Dead Bird Feeder Is So Damn Good

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