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Gaze in Awe at Logan’s Beautifully Gruesome Visual Effects

Rising Sun Pictures, the visual effects team behind Logan, has released a behind-the-scenes look at their work on the critically and commercial successful X-Men film. According to the video description, Rising Sun Pictures (which previously worked on The Wolverine) contributed about 230 shots to the film… and man oh man, those shots are bloody. The…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

FCC Considering Nightmare Rules That Allow Telemarketers to Go Straight to Voicemail

It’s a legal gray area that some companies are already taking advantage of, but the FCC is currently deciding if it wants to make it officially acceptable. Telemarketers and robocall services hope to take advantage of a loophole that would allow them to skip the call and just flood your voicemail inbox with messages. https://gizmodo.com/shameless-fcc-votes-to-charge-ahead-on-plan-to-kill-the-1795335046…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Queen Cersei Must Be Jealous She Doesn’t Have This Custom Lego Game of Thrones Throne Room

What is this, an Iron Throne for ants? YouTuber Tusserte recently released a video sharing his custom Lego Red Keep Throne Room, which is currently occupied by Queen Cersei on Game of Thrones. According to the video, the project took about 18 months to conceptualize and build, and consists of over 15,000 Legos. The video’s…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Al Gore’s Sequel to An Inconvenient Truth Gets Recut for One Very Obvious Reason

Al Gore’s sequel to his Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth was scheduled to hit theaters on July 28th, but some major news dropped this week that you may have heard about. Now, an early cut will screen in cities for free next week and the decision for America to drop out of the Paris…

Climate Change Rhett Jones

Amazon Now Has Every Issue of Omni, the Scifi ‘Magazine of the Future’

Omni Magazine, one of the most iconic science fiction publications in history, is back. Jerrick Media has released the entire 200-issue archive on Amazon, with select proceeds going to help the Museum of Science Fiction. Founded in 1978 (not-so-coincidentally one year after Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope came out), Omni Magazine was a…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Make Your Own Bootleg HoloLens With the Cardboard Holokit

While the world catches up with VR, imperfect but affordable options for entry like Google Cardboard and Samsung’s Gear VR will get the job done. But augmented/mixed reality is also proving itself to be a ripe new field and for anyone looking to dip their toes in the water of this brave new world, the…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Baby Ursula’s Descendants 2 Song Is Here to Cast Us All Down Into a Watery Grave

I come to you, now, a changed person. I sank to the depths of Davy Jones’ Locker, clawing at the water to survive, and have emerged tired, weak, and broken. The salt water, along with my sanity, clings to me like a slowly shedding second skin. Amidst the emotional trauma and chaos, I can only…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Even If the Siri Speaker Sucks You’ll Want It

We all know Apple’s game by now. Wait in the wings while all of the other companies fuck up while trying to innovate, and then, just when it seems almost too late, introduce a product that does the same thing as everybody else’s product, but better. This is bound to be true with the rumored…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Fox News Gets Mad That Wonder Woman Isn’t in Her American Apparel Underwear

Leave it to Fox News to get pissed that a movie starring a Greek demi-goddess isn’t American enough… and this isn’t even the first time. During Friday’s episode of Your World with Neil Cavuto, host Cavuto got into it with guests Dion Baia and Mike Gunzelman about about actor Gal Gadot’s lack of red, white,…

io9 Beth Elderkin

This May Be the Best Art Ever Made To Hang in Your Bathroom

Wait, you don’t know about the three seashells? It’s a reference to the 1993 film Demolition Man. Observe. As for the art, it’s by artist Barry Blankenship and is an 11 x 17 inch screenprint in a limited edition of 44. It’s part of a gallery show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles inspired by…

Movies Germain Lussier

It Comes at Night Gouges Out an Intensely Intimate Horror Story From an Unseen Apocalypse

There’s an apocalypse happening in It Comes at Night but we never get to see it. We see and hear only faint inklings of its terrors. What we do see—the desperation of a family trying to stay alive—is far more terrifying than any monster or zombie lurking in the darkness. It Comes at Night examines…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Former Trump Spokeswoman Cries Censorship Because She Has No Idea How Twitter Works

Who among us hasn’t claimed censorship from “the man” at the slightest inconvenience? On Friday, political strategist and former Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson took to Twitter to suggest the site was “suppressing” her tweets about Kathy Griffin. Given the absurdity of whining about a comedian while the president is selling out planet Earth to…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Spidey Battles Scorpion in the First Footage From the New Spider-Man Cartoon

Spider-Man’s about to get his third cinematic reboot, so naturally it’s time he got a new cartoon to go with it. And while this first look definitely borrows some things from the new movie, it otherwise looks to be set in its own Spider-Verse. Simply dubbed Spider-Man this time around (not an Ultimate, Spectacular, or…

Trailers James Whitbrook

The More Female Dumpling Squids Bone, the Sooner They Die

Female dumpling squids just can’t catch a break—mating is awful for them. Insemination can induce physical trauma, take a long time, and sometimes the male will just keep boning the female while predators are around. Poor, tiny little boning dumpling squids. Given the apparent horrors of sex, some scientists from Australia and the United States…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Most Amazing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Set, and More Wonderful Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of the fanciest toys around. This week we’re already hiding our wallets from amazing SDCC exclusives, plus Hot Toys teases its next Wonder Woman figure, Thor: Ragnarok comes to Lego, and a Transformer turns into a giant medieval dragon. No, really! Hot Toys Wonder Woman in Training…

io9 James Whitbrook and Andrew Liszewski

Neptune’s Rings Are Tragically Underrated

Saturn’s rings are easy to love. They’re hauntingly beautiful reminders of how insignificant we are in the scope of the universe. But they also unfairly outshine the rest of the gas giants’ ring systems. Uranus, for example, is a wonderland encompassed by at least 13 rings. Jupiter’s got its own ghostly rings, too. But perhaps…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Researchers Used Rideshare Service To Test a Stingray-Detecting Device

Researchers at the University of Washington are developing tech to detect the use of a controversial device used by law enforcement to track and surveil cellphones. Recently, the researchers conducted tests in Seattle and Milwaukee over a two-month period, paying rideshare service drivers $25 a week to haul around a device which may detect cell-site…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Remember the Time Lwaxana Troi Beat the Crap Out of Q in a Star Trek Book?

Tie-in books often get to tackle things the shows they are based on do not. Sometimes it’s things that would need too many special effects; sometimes it’s letting the X-Men visit the Star Trek universe. In the case of Q-in-Law, it’s letting two giant guest star characters meet. Like the epic meeting between Q, who…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta

Steven Universe Creator Rebecca Sugar on the Show’s Fantastic Music and Its New Soundtrack

When you talk to people about what they love about Steven Universe, the conversation usually touches on the show’s commitment to a diverse cast and crew, its thoughtful portrayals of queerness, and the overall strength of its storytelling. Invariably, though, when people open up about which part of the show really sticks with them, it’s…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Here’s Your First Look at Gotham‘s Take on Ra’s al Ghul

We’ve known for a while that the Demon’s Head himself would be coming to Gotham—as well as the fact that Game of Thrones and Deep Space Nine star Alexander Siddig would be playing him. Now we’ve got our first look at him in action, and for Gotham, it’s surprisingly an on-point comic book look for…

Television James Whitbrook

Gaze in Awe at Logan’s Beautifully Gruesome Visual Effects

FCC Considering Nightmare Rules That Allow Telemarketers to Go Straight to Voicemail

Queen Cersei Must Be Jealous She Doesn’t Have This Custom Lego Game of Thrones Throne Room

Al Gore’s Sequel to An Inconvenient Truth Gets Recut for One Very Obvious Reason

Amazon Now Has Every Issue of Omni, the Scifi ‘Magazine of the Future’

Make Your Own Bootleg HoloLens With the Cardboard Holokit

Baby Ursula’s Descendants 2 Song Is Here to Cast Us All Down Into a Watery Grave

Even If the Siri Speaker Sucks You’ll Want It

Fox News Gets Mad That Wonder Woman Isn’t in Her American Apparel Underwear

This May Be the Best Art Ever Made To Hang in Your Bathroom

It Comes at Night Gouges Out an Intensely Intimate Horror Story From an Unseen Apocalypse

Former Trump Spokeswoman Cries Censorship Because She Has No Idea How Twitter Works

Spidey Battles Scorpion in the First Footage From the New Spider-Man Cartoon

The More Female Dumpling Squids Bone, the Sooner They Die

The Most Amazing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Set, and More Wonderful Toys of the Week

Neptune’s Rings Are Tragically Underrated

Researchers Used Rideshare Service To Test a Stingray-Detecting Device

Remember the Time Lwaxana Troi Beat the Crap Out of Q in a Star Trek Book?

Steven Universe Creator Rebecca Sugar on the Show’s Fantastic Music and Its New Soundtrack

Here’s Your First Look at Gotham‘s Take on Ra’s al Ghul

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