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Is Dark Tower‘s Short Runtime a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?

If trailers are to be believed, the first movie based on Stephen King’s massive Dark Tower series has a lot going on. Like, more than is even in one of the doorstopper books King’s written. And that’s why the purported 95-minute runtime has so perplexed people. The runtime comes courtesy of the British Board of…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Basically No One Has Joined Twitter for Months

And why the hell should they? In the past three months, President Trump’s favorite social network has grown by zero (0) users, according to Twitter’s latest earnings report. That’s 66 million fewer new users than Facebook added in the same time period, and 9 million fewer than Twitter itself added during the first quarter of…

Tech News Harri Weber

The Uncanny Sound Illusion That Creates Suspense in Christopher Nolan’s Movies

Ever notice how Christopher Nolan’s movies (Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige) feel like an anxiety attack? Well, maybe that’s overstating things a bit. But the director does have a knack for creating an unnerving degree of tension. Turns out he’s using a little bit of musical magic to do it. The magic is actually a science-based audio…

Sploid Adam Clark Estes

The Actor Who Plays Game of Thrones‘ Hot Pie Has a Real Bakery and Sells Direwolf Bread

On this past week’s episode of Game of Thrones, we finally learned what happened to Hot Pie, the reformed bully who found his true calling as a baker and whom we last saw in season four. As fate would have it, Ben Hawkey, the actor who plays Hot Pie, has been busy in the kitchen…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Building a Molten Metal Squirt Gun Is the Worst Way to Stay Cool This Summer

Shortly after the Super Soaker was first released in 1990, it became surrounded with controversy about hooligans allegedly filling the toy with harmful chemicals. But if that sounds dangerous, just imagine how local news stations would freak out over a squirt gun that blasts molten liquid metal. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-biggest-super-soaker-is-powerful-enough-to-s-1796820585 Kevin Kohler—aka the Backyard Scientist—used pewter, a malleable…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Google vs Apple vs Microsoft: Which Online Office Suite Should You Be Using?

You don’t necessarily need to install a desktop application to get your hands on a decent office suite any more, and the biggest names in tech all have free, online productivity tools you can access from any browser—so which one should you be using? We take a look at the features, strengths, and weaknesses of…

Gadgets David Nield

How the Marvel Universe is Reacting to Iceman Coming Out

The process of coming out is one that LGBTQ people go through multiple times in their life—speaking to family, speaking to friends, speaking to co-workers, hell, speaking to complete and utter strangers, sometimes. In the world of comic books, out heroes have one other category… telling their fellow superheroes. The opening page of this week’s Iceman…

io9 James Whitbrook

The DJI Spark Is an Incredibly Exciting Start to an Insane Future

Small drones are not new. Toy-sized quadcopters have been on the market for years helping kids (and dads) start flying for a relatively reasonable price and not much expertise. Yet small drones that can do almost anything a big drone can do? That’s new. And that’s what makes the DJI Spark so exciting. The first…

Other Gadgets Adam Clark Estes and Michael Roselli

Punch Your Zip Code Into This Website To Learn If Your Tap Water Could Be Unsafe

On Wednesday, the public health nonprofit and advocacy group Environmental Working Group released a searchable database detailing chemical and heavy metal contaminants in drinking water for all 50 states. In contrast, to the EPA’s extremely clunky site, this is highly simplified. In all, EWG compiled data from more than 50,000 water companies. By entering their…

Health Sidney Fussell

This Newly-Discovered Dinosaur Looks Just Like a Modern Day Cassowary

As virtually every school-aged child knows, birds are descended from dinosaurs. But holy toledo, does this newly discovered oviratporid ever look like a modern cassowary—right from the dramatic crest atop its head through to its long neck and ostrich-like shape. The paleontologists who discovered the dino are now studying modern cassowaries to get a better…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Arrow‘s Flashbacks Will Return For One Major Character Next Season

Stefan Kapicic hypes up the return of Colossus in Deadpool 2. Elizabeth Olsen confirms love is in the air for Infinity War. Charlie Cox talks about Matt and Foggy’s relationship in The Defenders. Plus, new Game of Thrones pictures, and Henry Cavill issues a very important statement about his mustache. To me, my Spoilers! Dumbo…

io9 James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson

The Pentagon Worried Trump Was About to Start a Nuclear War With His Tweets Yesterday

It’s official. President Trump is, objectively speaking, a threat to the safety and security of the United States. And perhaps nothing demonstrated that better than when Trump started a tweetstorm that sent the Pentagon into a panic yesterday. The US military spent nine full minutes wondering if the president was about to start a war…

Tech News Matt Novak

FCC Chair Ajit Pai Can’t Come Up With a Single Plausible Reason Not to Screw Up the Entire US Internet

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, ISP-endorsed frontman and villain of a theoretical future Revenge of the Nerds reboot, is trying to dupe everyone into believing abandoning open internet principles is inevitable because no opponents have any convincing arguments. At an FCC oversight hearing with the House Commerce Committee this week, Democratic Rep. Michael Doyle challenged Pai…

Tech News Tom McKay

Adobe Flash Fans Want a Chance to Fix Its One Million Bugs Under an Open Source License

While Adobe is finally mercy killing Flash, its multimedia software that helped power countless web applications like games and videos faced but widespread criticism for its rapid decline in usefulness and growing number of security vulnerabilities, some fans want to keep it alive as an open-source project for the future. A petition circulated by web…

Tech News Tom McKay

This Willy Wonka Poster Is as Colorful and Manic as the Movie Itself

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is one of the most well-represented movies in pop culture art. The reason being it’s such a vibrant, wide-ranging movie, it offers almost innumerable visual interpretations. One such example is this new one by Tom Whalen, which is chock-full of detail and eye-popping brightness. Here are two different versions of the…

io9 Germain Lussier

It Looks Like The Wrong Person Just Died In Marvel’s Secret Empire

In the fifth issue of Marvel’s Civil War II, the Avengers, Inhumans, and more were at war with one another over whether they have the right to apprehend villains for crimes that they’ve yet to commit. But their battle stops when everyone is suddenly struck with a vision of Miles Morales, Ultimate Spider-Man, killing Captain…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Is This Foxconn Factory the ‘Big, Big, Big’ Apple Plants Donald Trump Bragged About?

On Wednesday, top Republican leadership including President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan all appeared at the White House alongside Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn CEO Terry Gou to announce a new LCD production line in Wisconsin. The $10 billion plant, which they said would create 3,000 jobs…

Tech News Tom McKay

RIP Google Instant Search, You Were Never Necessary

In 2010, Google’s then-VP of Search Products Marissa Mayer called Instant Search a “fundamental shift in search,” and the media marveled at this new time-saving feat of engineering. Now that shit is dead, because technology has fundamentally shifted once again. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-google-instant-5632969 Google Instant was the search giant’s response to the fact that a lot of…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Screenwriter John Ridley on Making Scifi and Superheroes for the World We Live In

Maybe you’ve seen Three Kings, Twelve Years a Slave or American Crime. Maybe you know that the Oscar-winning writer/producer behind those works also scripts comics, too. Last week at San Diego Comic-Con, John Ridley talked about why. Ridley was at Comic-Con, at least in part, to talk up The American Way: Those Above and Those…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Latest Disgraced Tech CEO Worked at a Damn HR Company

Kris Duggan looms large in Silicon Valley, serving as an adjunct professor at the Ray Kurzweil-founded Singularity University, and according to his Crunchbase profile, holds advisory positions with nine different companies including the secretive Palantir Technologies. Duggan is best known for co-founding BetterWorks in 2013, which has since sopped up a generous $35 million in…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Is Dark Tower‘s Short Runtime a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?

Basically No One Has Joined Twitter for Months

The Uncanny Sound Illusion That Creates Suspense in Christopher Nolan’s Movies

The Actor Who Plays Game of Thrones‘ Hot Pie Has a Real Bakery and Sells Direwolf Bread

Building a Molten Metal Squirt Gun Is the Worst Way to Stay Cool This Summer

Google vs Apple vs Microsoft: Which Online Office Suite Should You Be Using?

How the Marvel Universe is Reacting to Iceman Coming Out

The DJI Spark Is an Incredibly Exciting Start to an Insane Future

Punch Your Zip Code Into This Website To Learn If Your Tap Water Could Be Unsafe

This Newly-Discovered Dinosaur Looks Just Like a Modern Day Cassowary

Arrow‘s Flashbacks Will Return For One Major Character Next Season

The Pentagon Worried Trump Was About to Start a Nuclear War With His Tweets Yesterday

FCC Chair Ajit Pai Can’t Come Up With a Single Plausible Reason Not to Screw Up the Entire US Internet

Adobe Flash Fans Want a Chance to Fix Its One Million Bugs Under an Open Source License

This Willy Wonka Poster Is as Colorful and Manic as the Movie Itself

It Looks Like The Wrong Person Just Died In Marvel’s Secret Empire

Is This Foxconn Factory the ‘Big, Big, Big’ Apple Plants Donald Trump Bragged About?

RIP Google Instant Search, You Were Never Necessary

Screenwriter John Ridley on Making Scifi and Superheroes for the World We Live In

Latest Disgraced Tech CEO Worked at a Damn HR Company

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