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A Third Conjuring Is in the Works, and It’s Unlikely To Be Set In a Haunted House

With the huge success of The Conjuring, its sequel, and spin-off Annabelle, —and three more spin-offs already on the way—is it any surprise that New Line Cinema has started to prep a third Conjuring film? Deadline reports that the studio just hired Conjuring 2 screenwriter David Leslie Johnson to write The Conjuring 3. The story…

io9 Germain Lussier

NASA: You Could Probably Make Wine In Space

As humanity expands to become a multi-planetary species, some important questions must be considered: Can we bring cats? What about dogs? Also, can we make wine in space? Thankfully, some scientists are hard at work answering the first two questions—and now, a scientist from NASA’s Vegetable Production System called “Veggie” says space viticulture might be…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

William Gibson’s ‘Hinterlands’ Is Becoming a Multimedia Animated Franchise

The hand-drawn animation studio Last Studio Standing just announced plans to adapt William Gibson’s scifi story “Hinterlands” into a short film and a television series, with a potential second TV series that could spin off the first. The short story, originally published in 1981, is about a Russian space station that goes missing, only to…

Television Germain Lussier

These Finches Have a Brilliant Strategy For Fighting Off Ticks

Everyone is talking about ticks this year, for good reason: This year’s tick forecast is especially bad. But humans aren’t the only ones worried about the horrible little buggers. It seems like at least one bird species safeguards its nests against ticks with a surprising piece of litter. Cigarette butts. Scientists have long known that birds…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

How to Install the iOS 11 Public Beta (If You Dare)

Apple just launched the iOS 11 public beta for the whole world to try, and holy heck, don’t get too excited yet. Obviously, your iPhone or iPad will be cooler than all your friends’ are if you’re running the new software before any of them. There will be consequences, though. First off, not all Apple…

Gadgets Adam Clark Estes

More Than Two Years After It Was Announced, the Greatest Action Figure Ever Is Finally Shipping (Soon)

When a fancy new toy is revealed, it’s not uncommon to have to wait a few months to actually get your hands on one. But Hot Toys has been testing the resolve of Iron Man fans who pre-ordered the company’s towering Hulkbuster figure over two and a half years ago, and will now have to…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why Chimps Are So Damn Strong

Humans may have big, bulbous brains, but when it comes to pure muscle power, we’re often considered the weakest of the great apes. Even chimpanzees, who are significantly smaller than us, exhibit levels of strength that are practically super-human by our standards. New research shows the degree to which our primate cousins are stronger than…

Biology George Dvorsky

This Is My Harry Potter Gateway Story, What’s Yours?

Twenty years ago today, a book was published that changed many of our lives forever. That book was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, later renamed Sorcerer’s Stone in the U.S. It was our first taste of a wondrous world of witchcraft and wizardry that has inspired billions around the world. Here’s how that happened…

Movies Germain Lussier

Oscar Mayer Made a Drone to Rain Hot Dogs Down on Humanity

As is currently en vogue for any company making a product that ends up in consumers’ hands, Oscar Mayer is expanding its Wienermobile fleet with a phallic flying drone that can (supposedly) drop a single hot dog on someone not too worried about what they’re eating. If Silicon Valley had its way, we’d only eat…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Far-Right Alliance Is Over

We were promised a showdown at high noon. Instead, Washington DC was host to two pitifully-attended competing rallies this Sunday, followed by a Twitter slapfight between two 39-year-old men. What was scheduled to be a single rally for free speech at the Lincoln Memorial was cleaved in two when several speakers became aware they were…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Facebook Wants Kids in Juvenile Detention to Get Internet Access

Facebook is supporting a bill currently before the California legislature that, if passed, would give children in juvenile detention facilities and foster care homes the right to internet access. The bill, AB 811, would require that kids in the system be allowed to send and receive unopened mail and make and receive confidential phone calls,…

Social Media Kate Conger

Tom Holland Confirms That Peter Parker Appeared in Iron Man 2 (UPDATED)

For years, it was one of the better fan theories out there, and now it’s confirmed to be true: Peter Parker was in Iron Man 2. “It is Peter Parker,” Spider-Man: Homecoming star Tom Holland told The Huffington Post. He’s referring to a moment near the end of Iron Man 2 when a young boy wearing…

Movies Germain Lussier

Kevin Feige Confirms That Miles Morales Exists Somewhere in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Sony and Marvel are obviously all in on Peter Parker being the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s definitive Spider-Man. But according to Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, a certain other webhead does, in fact, exist somewhere in the MCU. In a recent interview with Screen Crush, Feige addressed how, during Spider-Man: Homecoming, Donald Glover’s character Aaron Davis…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Transformers: The Last Knight: The Spoiler FAQ

Did you see Michael Bay’s fifth movie in the disturbingly profitable Transformers franchise this weekend? Did you have a question about it, besides “Why is this movie about giant robots and explosions so boring?” Our patented Spoiler FAQ has all the answers you need and also probably several you didn’t. Here we are again. Hello,…

Movies Rob Bricken

How Hogwarts Crushed All Other Fantasy Schools Under Its Heel

Harry Potter turns 20 today. (Technically, because of how the publishing world works, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone turns 20 next year, on September 1, when the US version came out.) Pottermania is so well-entrenched that all you need to see is a red and gold scarf to instantly know a lot about the…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta

Super Nintendo Classic Edition Arrives September 29th With 21 Games [Updated]

After the insanely successful NES Classic Edition completely sold out until Nintendo inexplicably stopped making it, the company is following up with a miniature version of the Super Nintendo that will come bundled with 21 classic 16-bit games including Super Mario World and F-Zero. According to a tweet on the official Nintendo of America Twitter…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

What Sorcery Keeps This Giant Ball Floating on a Tiny Stream of Water?

We’ve all made a tiny ping-pong ball float on a hair dryer, but what YouTube’s Veritasium is demonstrating here—a giant styrofoam ball floating on the side of a thin stream of water—seems to contradict every scientific law governing our universe. But there is an explanation as to what’s happening. When you place a ping-pong ball…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The Amazon Echo Show Is the Best Dumb Smart Machine in My Home

The first night the Amazon Echo Show was in my bedroom I had to carefully lay it face down on my nightstand. The display, which was cycling through my upcoming meetings, most recent news, and the weather, was simply too bright. It was like having a little super informative sun shining in my face. The…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Alex Cranz

If Batman and Superman Were Pokémon Trainers, Who Would Win In a Battle?

As long time frenemies, Batman and Superman are no strangers to fighting each another. We all know that Bruce and Clark are both perfectly capable of beating the crap out of each other with their fists, have you ever considered which of them would win… if they were Pokémon trainers? Of course you have. In…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Report: Lucasfilm Was So Concerned About Alden Ehrenreich’s Han Solo Performance It Brought in an Acting Coach

The fallout from Chris Miller and Phil Lord’s shocking exit from the Han Solo film a week ago continues, with more and more details about the rift emerging day by day. One new report even claims that Lucasfilm weren’t just unhappy with Miller and Lord’s approach: they were concerned about the performance they were getting…

Movies James Whitbrook

A Third Conjuring Is in the Works, and It’s Unlikely To Be Set In a Haunted House

NASA: You Could Probably Make Wine In Space

William Gibson’s ‘Hinterlands’ Is Becoming a Multimedia Animated Franchise

These Finches Have a Brilliant Strategy For Fighting Off Ticks

How to Install the iOS 11 Public Beta (If You Dare)

More Than Two Years After It Was Announced, the Greatest Action Figure Ever Is Finally Shipping (Soon)

Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why Chimps Are So Damn Strong

This Is My Harry Potter Gateway Story, What’s Yours?

Oscar Mayer Made a Drone to Rain Hot Dogs Down on Humanity

The Far-Right Alliance Is Over

Facebook Wants Kids in Juvenile Detention to Get Internet Access

Tom Holland Confirms That Peter Parker Appeared in Iron Man 2 (UPDATED)

Kevin Feige Confirms That Miles Morales Exists Somewhere in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Transformers: The Last Knight: The Spoiler FAQ

How Hogwarts Crushed All Other Fantasy Schools Under Its Heel

Super Nintendo Classic Edition Arrives September 29th With 21 Games [Updated]

What Sorcery Keeps This Giant Ball Floating on a Tiny Stream of Water?

The Amazon Echo Show Is the Best Dumb Smart Machine in My Home

If Batman and Superman Were Pokémon Trainers, Who Would Win In a Battle?

Report: Lucasfilm Was So Concerned About Alden Ehrenreich’s Han Solo Performance It Brought in an Acting Coach

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