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The High Schoolers Hunting for the Universe’s Secrets

Four British schoolboys had just been called from class. They were ten days away from their A-level exams, the ones that determine the direction the rest of their lives would take, but they’d been interrupted from their studies to discuss the deepest secrets of the universe—their work hunting for the magnetic monopole at the Large…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

This Was the Futuristic Robot Chauffeur of 1911

Predictions about driverless cars became incredibly popular in the 1950s and 60s. But the idea is nearly as old as the automobile itself. One example? This short film from 1911, featuring a robot chauffeur. The word “robot” wasn’t even invented until the 1920s, but the mechanical man in this film followed in the tradition of…

Tech News Matt Novak

Huge Collection of Nazi Artifacts Discovered Inside Secret Room in Argentina

Federal police in Argentina recently discovered a time capsule of evil, hidden inside a house near Buenos Aires. Roughly 75 Nazi artifacts, including everything from a large knife to Nazi medical devices to a photo negative of Adolph Hitler, were uncovered in a secret room. Police are investigating when and how the items entered the…

Tech News Matt Novak

In a Rare Moment of Self-Doubt, Steve Jobs Wanted a Back Button on the iPhone

Steve Jobs was legendary for knowing what he wanted and leaning on his designers until he got it. But according to a new book on the history of the iPhone, he insisted that it should have a back button. After one of his people presented a good argument for the distinctive single home button, he…

Tech News Rhett Jones

If You Ordered a Rare Indian Root Online, It’s Probably Just a Dried Lizard Penis

The Hatha Jodi root is believed to bring good luck, allegedly because it looks like two praying hands. You know what also looks like two praying hands? Dried lizard penis. And poachers have noticed. According to a statement from the nonprofit group World Animal Protection, scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University in England have confirmed various…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Which Tech Industry Leaders Ditched the White House Tech Summit Today?

Trump summoned his group of tech-world minions to the White House today for another round of nervously nodding and accomplishing nothing. But attendance was down a little bit this time around. Sure, plenty of cowards still showed up with a foolish but optimistic gleam in their eye. But some, at least, seem to be feeling…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Just Try Not to White-Knuckle Your Way Through This Unbelievably Tense Short Horror Film

A desperate woman trapped on a smooth precipice tries to figure out how to keep from plunging into an abyss of certain death. The premise of writer-director Tim Egan’s Curve is simple—with just the right pacing, doses of body horror, and bursts of music—and the end result is almost uncomfortably suspenseful. Your heart will start…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

In Black Panther & The Crew, Hydra’s Getting Into the Most Nefarious Business of All: Gentrification

In this week’s issue of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther & The Crew, T’Challa, Storm, and Misty Knight continue to look into the mysterious death of Harlem-based civil rights activist Ezra Miller. The team’s sleuthing takes them to the newly christened “So-Ha,”a place that used to be known as South Harlem. Coates is taking his time…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Official Reason for Star Trek: Discovery‘s Many Delays: World Building Is Hard

Earlier today CBS finally announced a premiere date for Star Trek: Discovery, ending months of delaying the series even further from its original January 2017 release window. The series’ showrunners also gave an answer as to why the show constantly got pushed back… and well, let’s just say it has us raising a furtive eyebrow,…

Television James Whitbrook

Yes, The Dark Tower Movie Is a Sequel to the Books

Ever since a tweet of a very important prop was posted to Twitter last summer, fans have assumed that the upcoming Dark Tower movie is a sequel to the books. And now, the film’s director has confirmed that. “It is, in fact, a continuation,” director Nik Arcel told IGN. “It is a canon continuation. That’s…

Movies Germain Lussier

New Super-Man Is Reimagining the Trinity’s Origin Stories In The Coolest Way

Gene Luen Yang’s New Super-Man began with a fairly straightforward premise: what if Kenan Kong, a regular teenager living in China, was suddenly imbued with all of Superman’s abilities and recruited by the government to fight crime? As the series has progressed, Kenan’s met a number of other teen heroes modeled after the American Justice…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Mark Wahlberg Is Probably Done With the Transformers Movies

Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox left after three films. And now it seems like it’s possible the latest Transformers star, Mark Wahlberg, won’t even make it that far. Wahlberg, who came onto the Transformers franchise with 2014’s Age of Extinction, has suggested in two interviews that the fifth film in the series, The Last Knight,…

Movies Germain Lussier

Supreme Court Rules Sex Offenders Can’t Be Barred from Social Media

In a unanimous decision today, the Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina law that prevents sex offenders from posting on social media where children might be present, saying it “impermissibly restricts lawful speech.” In doing so, the Supreme Court asserted what we all know to be true: Posting is essential to the survival of…

Tech News Libby Watson

Injustice‘s Booster Gold and Blue Beetle Might Be a Couple

The entire point of DC’s Injustice is to imagine a universe in which traditional canon is basically thrown out of the window in favor of a riveting series of what ifs. What if Superman became tyrannical despot? What if everyone had super strength? What if… Booster Gold and the Blue Beetle were lovers? In the…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Unseen Photos of Mount St. Helens Eruption Uncovered From Forgotten Camera

A vintage camera from the early 20th century containing a roll of undeveloped film has yielded an extraordinary set of images showing the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, considered among the most disastrous volcanic eruptions in US history. Whenever photographer Kati Dimoff finds herself in southeast Portland, she stops into the Goodwill on Grand…

Tech News George Dvorsky

More Details Surface About Carrie Fisher’s Death

“My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life. She ultimately died of it,” Carrie Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd told People this weekend in a compassionate statement about her mother’s passing. Fisher’s autopsy has, tragically, confirmed her struggle continued right up to her death. A newly released coroner’s report confirmed the legendary actress…

Movies Germain Lussier

I Ventured to the Most Radioactive Spot in Town With This Super High-Tech Radiation Camera

If I were in America, the TSA agent would have called in backup on the spot and I would have received a long questioning. I had just asked the airport security agent if I could leave my laptop open as it rolled through the x-ray scanner. I pointed to the black thumb drive-looking thing sticking…

Other Gadgets Ryan F. Mandelbaum

How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition

In the summer of 2015, Alexandra Franco got a letter in the mail from a company she had never heard of called AcurianHealth. The letter, addressed to Franco personally, invited her to participate in a study of people with psoriasis, a condition that causes dry, itchy patches on the skin. Franco did not have psoriasis.…

Privacy & Security Kashmir Hill

Gail Simone Is Teaming Up Wonder Woman and Conan the Barbarian For a New Comic

Two legends of Wonder Woman comics are teaming up to bring two comic book legends together this September. For the first time, Diana of Themiscyra is going to come face to face with Conan to tackle some suitably world-destroying threats that necessitates the mother of all fantastical warrior team-ups. Gail Simone will write the six-issue series…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Stranger Things Gets Some Suitably Retro Action Figures

I am not usually a big fan of “retro style” figures, but if there’s one franchise perfect for the treatment, it’s the nostalgia-laden aesthetic of Stranger Things. So thankfully, Funko is more than happy to oblige with not one, but two collections of old-school figures depicting Eleven and the gang. Being released this August, the…

io9 James Whitbrook

The High Schoolers Hunting for the Universe’s Secrets

This Was the Futuristic Robot Chauffeur of 1911

Huge Collection of Nazi Artifacts Discovered Inside Secret Room in Argentina

In a Rare Moment of Self-Doubt, Steve Jobs Wanted a Back Button on the iPhone

If You Ordered a Rare Indian Root Online, It’s Probably Just a Dried Lizard Penis

Which Tech Industry Leaders Ditched the White House Tech Summit Today?

Just Try Not to White-Knuckle Your Way Through This Unbelievably Tense Short Horror Film

In Black Panther & The Crew, Hydra’s Getting Into the Most Nefarious Business of All: Gentrification

The Official Reason for Star Trek: Discovery‘s Many Delays: World Building Is Hard

Yes, The Dark Tower Movie Is a Sequel to the Books

New Super-Man Is Reimagining the Trinity’s Origin Stories In The Coolest Way

Mark Wahlberg Is Probably Done With the Transformers Movies

Supreme Court Rules Sex Offenders Can’t Be Barred from Social Media

Injustice‘s Booster Gold and Blue Beetle Might Be a Couple

Unseen Photos of Mount St. Helens Eruption Uncovered From Forgotten Camera

More Details Surface About Carrie Fisher’s Death

I Ventured to the Most Radioactive Spot in Town With This Super High-Tech Radiation Camera

How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition

Gail Simone Is Teaming Up Wonder Woman and Conan the Barbarian For a New Comic

Stranger Things Gets Some Suitably Retro Action Figures

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