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The Story Behind Alias‘ Infamous Red Wig and What Would Need to Happen for a Reboot

Alias, the spy-fi show that also included an old Italian prophet for some reason, put star Jennifer Garner in a number of wigs. But the bright red one she wore in the premiere still made the biggest impact. At the ATX Festival, the writers of Alias reunited, gave the usual vague answer about a reboot—“It…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

The Best macOS High Sierra Features You Probably Haven’t Heard of Yet

At the start of the week Apple showed off some of the upcoming features in macOS HIgh Sierra, but the company’s keynote by no means covered everything in the desktop OS update. We’ve been using the developer beta of macOS 10.13 for the last few days and scouring the web to uncover some of the…

Gadgets David Nield

Trump’s Social Media Director Broke the Law With a Tweet

Laws, the Trump administration doesn’t like them. They don’t like following the law, they don’t like the fact that laws impede their agenda, and they don’t like that they’re bad at getting laws passed. Now, Trump’s social media director has been informed that he’s violated the law with a tweet and there will be repercussions…

Tech News Rhett Jones

I’m So Freaking Stoked for Microsoft’s Big Xbox Announcement

Technically E3, video games’ biggest trade show of the year, starts next Tuesday. That’s when the doors will open at Los Angeles Convention Center and over 500,000 attendees will swarm hundreds of booths filled with the latest video games, consoles, and gaming paraphernalia. But the event really starts Saturday night, when EA, one of the…

Tech News Alex Cranz

RIP Adam West, TV’s Batman

Adam West, forever known to many as Batman and whose name is synonymous with taking your most famous role and parodying it, has passed away. He was 88. Born in 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington, West was eventually drafted into the United States army where he acted as an announcer on American Forces Network television.…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Binky Is a Perfect Pacifier App for People Who Can’t Stop Looking at Their Phone

The fact that we all walk around with our heads down compulsively tapping on our phones is no longer even worthy of satire, it’s just a fact of life. Binky is an app that’s kind of like a social network that doesn’t connect you to anyone. It understands the banality of our mobile screen time…

Tech News Rhett Jones

The Orphan Black Co-Creator Explains Which Clone Would Win in a Fight and Why

Orphan Black returns this weekend with its fifth and final season. This year is all about the sestras coming together to fight for each other… but what if they all chose to fight each other instead? Co-creator, producer, and writer Graeme Manson has an idea how it’d play out… and who’d come out on top.…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Everything We Learned From the Black Panther Teaser Trailer

We got our first good look at Black Panther last night. And it was great and shockingly revealing about how things are going to go. As usual, we dissected the whole thing for you. The trailer starts in an interrogation in a safehouse in what’s been confirmed to be Korea. Both men should be familiar…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta

The First Black Panther Teaser Trailer is Here and It’s Epic as Hell

After making us wait for literally years in feverish anticipation, Marvel’s finally released the first Black Panther teaser trailer and it’s every bit as intense as you were hoping it would be. As secretive and notoriously isolationist as Wakanda has always been, nearly everybody knows about it in Marvel’s comics universe. The Black Panther trailer,…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Killjoys Trailer Proves That Being a Space Bounty Hunter Is the ‘Coolest Job in the Universe’

Syfy’s Killjoys, a show about three bounty hunters running around space and revealing bits of their past as they do—returns June 30. In anticipation of that, we have this trailer, which aims to show just how much fun Killjoys really is. We ended the season with Pawter (Sarah Power) dead at the hands of Delle…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

You Can Now Buy That Kickass Wonder Woman Poster You Fell in Love With Last Weekend

To celebrate the triumphant launch of the Wonder Woman movie last week, Poster Posse unleashed a whole gallery of excellent art tributes to Diana. But even for us, one stood out as something we just had to have on our walls… and the good news is, you now can, with some of the proceeds going…

Movies James Whitbrook

The Actual Skywalker Lightsaber From Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back Is Up for Auction

Even before it became crucial to The Force Awakens, the lightsaber passed from Anakin to Luke Skywalker, though Obi-Wan Kenobi, was the iconic weapon in the Star Wars series. And later this month, one of the screen-used props from the first two films is going up for auction. The Skywalker Lightsaber that was used in…

Movies Germain Lussier

Trump Accuses Comey of Perjury While Dodging Questions About Secret Tapes He Probably Made Up

At a White House press conference today, President Trump accused former FBI director James Comey of perjuring himself before the US Senate—a very serious charge—and further advanced the ridiculous charade that he can prove it all with secret “tapes” which almost certainly do not exist. After managing to stop tweeting for an entire day (hallelujah),…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Spider-Man: Homecoming Went Through Seven Lego Death Stars For One Gag

It’s been in a bunch of the trailers for Homecoming, but apparently a lot—a lot—of work went into the simple moment that poor Ned Leeds, upon learning his best friend is Spider-Man, drops approximately 4,000 Lego bricks worth of Death Star all over the floor. Why? Because there wasn’t one Lego Death Star. There were…

Movies James Whitbrook

These Female Crabs Store a Shitload of Sperm [Updated With Pictures]

Lots of species do some wild sex stuff. The purple stone crab is no exception: Females have seminal receptacles, a special organ that just holds and stores sperm for later. Researchers studying the purple stone crab’s female parts wanted to get a better look at these sperm holders. But they’re not just any sperm-holders. The…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Creepy New Killing Ground Trailer Will Make You Seriously Rethink Ever Going Camping Again

Horror movies about rural jaunts gone horrifically awry are nothing new, but Killing Ground, from writer-director Damien Power, tightens the screws in a few key ways. One, as we noted when the first trailer dropped, is by bringing a baby into the mix. The other is by setting the movie in Australia, where nature is…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Scientists Created Biodegradable Microbeads So Your Face Scrub Won’t Pollute Our Oceans

By now it’s well documented that those tiny plastic microbeads used in face scrubs and toothpastes are contaminating lakes and oceans at an alarming rate. Starting next month they’ll be officially banned in the US for personal care products, but oily faces rejoice, eco-friendly replacements are already in the works. https://gizmodo.com/why-those-little-plastic-microbeads-in-your-soap-are-so-1588673783 A single bottle of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

If You Have to Watch a Mummy Movie This Weekend, Make It the One From 1999

The new Mummy movie, out this weekend, does not sound, uh, particularly great. If you have your heart set on seeing a mummy movie, and assuming you don’t want to go all the way back to the black-and-white movies of the ‘30s and ‘40s, I have a recommendation: Why not watch the 1999 movie instead?…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

If You Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth, Can You Still Call It a Woolly Mammoth?

In the early 20th century, seeking riches, fur and its medicinal qualities, the people of Europe hunted the Eurasian beaver to near extinction. Clever scientists, though, had an idea of how to atone for their sins. The North American beaver, at least from the outside, seemed nearly identical. They would introduce this far-flung cousin to…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

A Goldfish-Controlled Hammer Is Scarier Than Jaws

After turning a hamster into a self-portrait artist and a bunch of inanimate rocks into a band, Neil Mendoza has created a bizarre contraption that lets goldfish finally extract revenge on the humans that have imprisoned them in tiny bowls for decades. Sort of. In five years, when goldfish have successfully overthrown most of humanity’s rule…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The Story Behind Alias‘ Infamous Red Wig and What Would Need to Happen for a Reboot

The Best macOS High Sierra Features You Probably Haven’t Heard of Yet

Trump’s Social Media Director Broke the Law With a Tweet

I’m So Freaking Stoked for Microsoft’s Big Xbox Announcement

RIP Adam West, TV’s Batman

Binky Is a Perfect Pacifier App for People Who Can’t Stop Looking at Their Phone

The Orphan Black Co-Creator Explains Which Clone Would Win in a Fight and Why

Everything We Learned From the Black Panther Teaser Trailer

The First Black Panther Teaser Trailer is Here and It’s Epic as Hell

The Killjoys Trailer Proves That Being a Space Bounty Hunter Is the ‘Coolest Job in the Universe’

You Can Now Buy That Kickass Wonder Woman Poster You Fell in Love With Last Weekend

The Actual Skywalker Lightsaber From Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back Is Up for Auction

Trump Accuses Comey of Perjury While Dodging Questions About Secret Tapes He Probably Made Up

Spider-Man: Homecoming Went Through Seven Lego Death Stars For One Gag

These Female Crabs Store a Shitload of Sperm [Updated With Pictures]

The Creepy New Killing Ground Trailer Will Make You Seriously Rethink Ever Going Camping Again

Scientists Created Biodegradable Microbeads So Your Face Scrub Won’t Pollute Our Oceans

If You Have to Watch a Mummy Movie This Weekend, Make It the One From 1999

If You Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth, Can You Still Call It a Woolly Mammoth?

A Goldfish-Controlled Hammer Is Scarier Than Jaws

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