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Tinder Keeps Swiping Right on New Ways to Take Your Money

Summer’s here, the weather’s hot and sticky. What did you expect Tinder to do? It has needs… …It needs your money to stay afloat! In the infamous app’s latest scheme to get you to pay for the ability to swipe right on your future excruciatingly awkward first date, Tinder’s offering to let you peek behind…

Tech News Alejandro Alba

The Clue Comic Delightfully Smashes the Fourth Wall to Pieces

It’s no surprise that a comic book based on the classic whodunnit board game Clue is outlandishly silly—after all, just like the beloved movie, it’s hard to take the fact you’re an adaptation of a board game with any sense of seriousness. IDW’s new Clue series rolls with that, and takes it a step further…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Wildlife Officials Assure Citizens That Alleged Lake Shark Threat Isn’t Real [Updated]

It’s hard work being online these days. What with all of the “fake news” and “viral posts” corrupting the World Wide Web. So how are you supposed to know what’s real and what’s bullcrap, or rather, bull shark crap? When it comes to hoax stories about inland shark sightings, at least, the Kentucky Department of…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Uber Reveals $120 Million Bonus Dispute Between Fired Engineer and Google

Uber laid out new details in a court filing today about how it learned the former lead of its self-driving car unit, Anthony Levandowski, took documents from Google, his former employer. The ride-hailing company has long maintained that it didn’t know Levandowski had allegedly downloaded 14,000 documents from Google’s autonomous vehicle unit before leaving to…

Tech News Kate Conger

The Most Important Thing in the Universe to Star-Lord Was Almost a Darth Vader Figure

There are few items that have had a larger effect on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise than the Sony Walkman. While its presence in the studio’s films is played up largely for laughs and character work, the Walkman and the music held on its cassettes have profoundly shaped the look and feel of the…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Witness Spider-Man’s Origin Story (Again) in Marvel’s New Cartoon Series

With so many iterations of Peter Parker in comics, cartoons, movies, games, and more, the moment a radioactive spider bites the young student while on a field trip is burned into the minds of anyone who is even vaguely familiar with Spider-Man. That doesn’t stop Marvel’s new Spidey cartoon from revisiting it. At least this…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Era of Chaos-Inducing Ransomware Is Here and It’s Scary as Hell

The ‘90s cyberpunk thriller Hackers is used too often to illustrate the fearful future of cyber security, but it’s popular for a reason. The film’s seemingly fictional scenarios keep coming true. Take this week’s global ransomware attack, for instance. It’s a plot twist that would make Matthew Lillard leer at the camera and cackle. On…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Eerily Accurate Facial Reconstructions Are Allowing the Dead to Speak

Researchers at Liverpool John Moore’s University have reconstructed the face of a man who lived in Dublin some 500 years ago. Incredibly accurate reconstructions like this are providing archaeologists with new way of studying the past—while also allowing them to visualize some of the most forgotten figures in history. Known only as SK2, the remains…

Tech News George Dvorsky

It Turns Out Selling Ugly $50,000 Smartphones Is Actually a Bad Business Model

Despite selling $50,000 Android cellphones to rich and famous stars like Quincy Jones and Seal, the England-based company Vertu appears to be struggling with paying its bills and employees. What a shocking development. According to a juicy new report in the Telegraph, employees are worried about the future of the company after noticing that production had…

Tech News Alejandro Alba

Batman’s Greatest Adversary Isn’t the Joker, It’s Elmer Fudd

Even though Batman’s rogues gallery is a horde of murderous lunatics, you always get the sense that Batman himself is never in any real danger from them. They’re fixated with him. They want him around. But what if Batman came face to face with a true hunter singularly obsessed with killing him? By framing DC’s Elmer…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Incredible New Observation Shows Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

You think our galaxy is special? Ha. Our boring pinwheel of gas and dark matter might be a nice hangout for humans. But 750 or so million light years away, there’s an elliptical galaxy, Galaxy 0402+379, whose two supermassive black holes are orbiting each other from a distance of only 24 or so light years.…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Leaked Manual Reveals How CIA Can Track Windows Users by Gauging Wi-Fi Signal

On Wednesday, WikiLeaks released the latest issue in its ongoing Vault 7 series—a trove of secret or otherwise classified US Central Intelligence Agency files from 2013 to 2016 describing previously undisclosed malware and viruses. Today’s release includes documentation on “ELSA,” a purported CIA project for tracking human targets carrying wi-fi-enabled devices. The malware involved in…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Creepy, Crawly, Unlikely Scifi Film The Untamed Now Has a Freaky First Trailer

Outside of one or two shots, the trailer for The Untamed doesn’t really reflect the movie’s title. There’s some drama going on here. Some frank discussions of sexuality. Pretty tame stuff. And then… what the HELL is that weird, slimy thing? All is revealed in The Untamed, directed by Amat Escalante, which opens in a…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Leaked Facebook Rules Reveal Why It Won’t Protect Black Children From Hate Speech

On Wednesday, ProPublica published dozens of startling training documents reportedly used by Facebook to train moderators on hate speech. As the trove of slides and quizzes reveals, Facebook uses a warped, one-sided reasoning to balance policing hate speech against users’ freedom of expression on the platform. This is perhaps best summarized by the above image…

Social Media Sidney Fussell

6 Things the US Government Is Doing That Supervillains Have Also Done

Supervillains have seized power many times over the past several decades. Sometimes they simply want domination, or they employ military might to eliminate those they hate or fear. Sometimes, it’s even worse. Our current government may not be hunting the X-Men (at least not yet) but it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that the people…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

A Fax Machine and a Photocopier Walk Into a Bar: The Hasselblad X1D

There’s a terrible noise every time I click the shutter. Like a machine out of an office in the 80s clawing its way thirty years into the future to emit an obnoxious noise from this stunning camera in my hands. The Hasselblad X1D is among the first crop mirrorless medium format cameras to hit the…

Other Gadgets Victor Jeffreys II

New Evidence of an Ancient Neolithic Skull Cult Proves Humans Have Always Been Metal

It’s hard to say how long The Metal has been around. This is because The Metal does not care for the laws of linear time. What we do know is that for thousands of years, humanity has both feared and revered The Metal, as evidenced once again by the recent discovery of an ancient skull…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

How Spider-Man: Homecoming Balanced Peter Parker’s Legacy and Tony Stark’s Influence

Part of what makes Spider-Man Spider-Man is his ingenuity. His ability to make things on his own and be an independent superhero. Which is why some fans were concerned when trailers for Spider-Man Homecoming made it seem like Tony Stark did most of the work for him. So did the filmmakers and star of the…

io9 Germain Lussier

Samsung Wants to Sell Refurbished Note 7s With the Silliest Possible Name

Samsung caught a whole mess of bad press last year after numerous reports of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone exploding. The company, however, apparently believes there’s still a rabid fanbase demanding a defused version of its mobile time bomb. So a refurbished version of the phone is going back on shelves next month—bearing what might…

Gadgets Alejandro Alba

iZombie‘s Season Finale Obliterated the Status Quo and Made Next Season a Must-Watch

Remember back when Rob Thomas said that the end of season three of iZombie would reset the series? And that there was a major reveal cut from the season finale and saved for the season four premiere, even though the cast and crew didn’t know for sure if they’d get one? Well, I think we…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Tinder Keeps Swiping Right on New Ways to Take Your Money

The Clue Comic Delightfully Smashes the Fourth Wall to Pieces

Wildlife Officials Assure Citizens That Alleged Lake Shark Threat Isn’t Real [Updated]

Uber Reveals $120 Million Bonus Dispute Between Fired Engineer and Google

The Most Important Thing in the Universe to Star-Lord Was Almost a Darth Vader Figure

Witness Spider-Man’s Origin Story (Again) in Marvel’s New Cartoon Series

The Era of Chaos-Inducing Ransomware Is Here and It’s Scary as Hell

Eerily Accurate Facial Reconstructions Are Allowing the Dead to Speak

It Turns Out Selling Ugly $50,000 Smartphones Is Actually a Bad Business Model

Batman’s Greatest Adversary Isn’t the Joker, It’s Elmer Fudd

Incredible New Observation Shows Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

Leaked Manual Reveals How CIA Can Track Windows Users by Gauging Wi-Fi Signal

Creepy, Crawly, Unlikely Scifi Film The Untamed Now Has a Freaky First Trailer

Leaked Facebook Rules Reveal Why It Won’t Protect Black Children From Hate Speech

6 Things the US Government Is Doing That Supervillains Have Also Done

A Fax Machine and a Photocopier Walk Into a Bar: The Hasselblad X1D

New Evidence of an Ancient Neolithic Skull Cult Proves Humans Have Always Been Metal

How Spider-Man: Homecoming Balanced Peter Parker’s Legacy and Tony Stark’s Influence

Samsung Wants to Sell Refurbished Note 7s With the Silliest Possible Name

iZombie‘s Season Finale Obliterated the Status Quo and Made Next Season a Must-Watch

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