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Intelligence Officials Disturbed by Trump’s Attempts to Get World Leaders to Call His Personal Cellphone

Donald Trump just wants to be everyone’s best bud and he’d rather they skip the formalities and give him a call on his personal cellphone. For many reasons, this is very worrisome to the people who get paid to worry about this sort of thing. https://gizmodo.com/any-half-decent-hacker-could-break-into-mar-a-lago-we-1795276155 Let’s just say that since the day Trump was…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones

Twitch Users Are Playing the Stock Market With $50K of One Dude’s Money

One of the most consistently entertaining features of the video game streaming platform Twitch is the series of “Twitch Plays” videos that allow users to work together to beat a game. Today, a software developer who is either a genius or a fool launched StockStream, a channel in which users are trying to beat the…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Godzilla vs. Kong Just Landed an Unexpected but Inspired Choice as Its Director

You’ve seen Godzilla. You’ve seen Kong: Skull Island. Godzilla is coming back next year for sequel King of the Monsters, and then, finally, the two will fight. Now, a director for that epic clash has been chosen. Adam Wingard, the director of You’re Next, The Guest, and most recently Blair Witch, has just signed to…

Movies Germain Lussier

Tune Into the First Episode of Creepy Animated Web Series Ghost Radio

From Argentinian filmmaker Cristian Ponce comes an intriguing new animated web series, Ghost Radio, about a midnight-hour talk show broadcasting from the very mysterious and apparently monster-infested city of Kirlian. Here’s the first episode, followed by a trailer for the series. Obviously, if you don’t speak Spanish, make sure you enable the English subtitles to…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Watch 95 Weird, Wondrous Minutes of Star Wars Found Footage Through the Decades

Star Wars is one of those franchises that has been everywhere and done everything. There probably isn’t a “thing” you can imagine that Star Wars hasn’t been at some point: porn parody, pet toys, television show, garden tools, virtual reality, you name it and Star Wars has probably done it. And if it’s been done,…

Movies Germain Lussier

Sean Spicer Was Weirdly Unprepared to Talk About Trump’s Favorite Subject: Fake News

On Tuesday, Sean Spicer held his first press briefing in two weeks, following Donald Trump’s first trip abroad as president. It didn’t go well. As became increasingly clear during the briefing, Spicer no longer has a handle on the White House’s collapsing definition of “fake news.” One minute, it was anonymous sources in news media (except…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Don’t Let That Global Warming Sleep Study Keep You Up at Night

Climate change is bad—it’s causing sea levels to rise, it’s exacerbating heat waves, it’s damaging coral reefs, the list goes on. But that doesn’t mean every time researchers find a correlation between some bad thing and the temperature, we should freak out about how global warming is going to make everything on this round Earth…

Health Maddie Stone

In Stephanie Barros’ Fantasma, Death and Lucha Libre Are the Ultimate Superpowers

Traditionally, when a comic book character dies, it’s fairly safe to assume that they’ll eventually be resurrected in a not-at-all surprising turn of events. In Stephanie Barros’ Fantasma, though, a person’s life doesn’t even really begin until they die, which is cool. Less cool—people still have jobs in the afterlife. Movies like The Book of…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Wonder Woman Writer Is Glad He Changed Diana’s Origin Because World War I Is So Relevant Right Now

One very interesting choice made for Wonder Woman was changing the time of Diana’s entry into the world of man from World War II to World War I. Writer Allan Heinberg feels like the change, made awhile ago, showed foresight because of the relevance of that war to today. Speaking to EW, Heinberg said, “We…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

The Hardest Word to Spell in Wisconsin Is ‘Wisconsin’

We’ve all been there: violently ill with elbows on your knees and pants around your ankles, vigorously tapping on a phone screen looking for any advice to alleviate the symptoms. Then suddenly you ask yourself, “How the hell do I spell ‘diarrhea?’” That is, if you’re in New Hampshire. Maybe it’s “pneumonia” in Maine. Or…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Cult Cartoon Favorite Animaniacs Could Be Staging a Comeback

The totally insane-y ’90s cartoon Animaniacs might be back on its way to a screen near you. IndieWire reports that Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation are currently in the early stages of “kicking around a brand new version” of the show. Nothing is certain yet, but according to the report, the show’s original producer…

Television Germain Lussier

This Teen Is Restoring the Showbiz Pizza Robots That Creeped You Out As a Kid

If you were a child of the ’80s, if there wasn’t a Chuck E. Cheese’s location in your town, odds are you celebrated a birthday or two at Showbiz Pizza while the animatronic band Rock-afire Explosion performed. To some, it’s a creepy memory they’d rather not revisit. But to others, it’s a piece of pop…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Here’s What It Looks Like to Get Attacked by a Bear

So you’re doing some hunting in Canada and all you have is a bow and arrow. And then, suddenly, a black bear appears in the distance and starts charging straight at your face. What do you do? You scream—scream and hope for the best. That’s exactly what happened to Richard Wesley this spring. It probably…

Sploid Adam Clark Estes

Meet American Gods‘ Vulcan, an Old God Turned New

It’s to be expected that in adapting a book into a television show, some new characters are going to show up. On American Gods, Vulcan (Corbin Bernsen) is now in the very interesting position of being a old god who has found a way to glut his need for worship in America as, partially, a…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Fans of Cheap Drugs and Printer Ink Just Won Big in the Supreme Court

On Tuesday, a scary case reached a surprisingly positive outcome in the Supreme Court of the United States. Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. was seven-year-long standoff between a small business and an international corporation that stood to upend the world of consumer rights, especially for tech and pharmaceutical companies. Guess what: the little…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

What TV Show or Movie From Your Childhood Do You Actually Want Resurrected?

We live in a time where everything is being resurrected and rebooted. And sometimes the end result proves the phrase “be careful what you wish for.” But sometimes it’s exactly what you need to rekindle an obsession that once ruled your childhood. With the report that Animaniacs is the very early stages of a reboot,…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Stranger Things‘ Eleven Auditioned For X-23 In Logan

No one disputes that James Mangold struck gold when he cast Dafne Keen as X-23 in his hit film, Logan. You can even watch her audition and see why he made that choice. She was amazing. It’s even more impressive, though, when you realize Keen beat out at least one more much more prominent young…

Movies Germain Lussier

What You Need to Know About Max-Q, Nvidia’s Plan to Make Gaming Laptops That Aren’t Monstrosities

When you think gaming and laptops, images of massive, dictionary-thick machines come to mind. Notebook computers purpose-built for PC gaming are only barely portable, but Nvidia wants to change that with a new approach to hardware and software design for laptops called Max-Q that lets mobile gamers have their cake, and easily carry it too.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Lucifer Really Shouldn’t Be as Good as It Is

Lucifer just wrapped up its second season, resolving its “Satan’s mum comes to Earth and fucks shit up” plotline in typically over-the-top style. The show is consistently nuts—a mix of crime-solving, relationship drama, spiritual angst, and cheeky humor that should feel overstuffed, especially given the hero is the literal devil. But somehow, it’s consistently entertaining.…

Television Cheryl Eddy

You Will Never Get Any Work Done on This Amazingly Distracting Ninja Turtles Origins Desk

Tom Spina Designs’ studio has made a name for itself crafting custom pieces of furniture that will satisfy almost any nerdy obsession. Remember that Star Wars Dewback sofa? It will go perfectly in your office alongside this custom Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles desk. Finished to look like it was extracted from a construction site, the…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Intelligence Officials Disturbed by Trump’s Attempts to Get World Leaders to Call His Personal Cellphone

Twitch Users Are Playing the Stock Market With $50K of One Dude’s Money

Godzilla vs. Kong Just Landed an Unexpected but Inspired Choice as Its Director

Tune Into the First Episode of Creepy Animated Web Series Ghost Radio

Watch 95 Weird, Wondrous Minutes of Star Wars Found Footage Through the Decades

Sean Spicer Was Weirdly Unprepared to Talk About Trump’s Favorite Subject: Fake News

Don’t Let That Global Warming Sleep Study Keep You Up at Night

In Stephanie Barros’ Fantasma, Death and Lucha Libre Are the Ultimate Superpowers

Wonder Woman Writer Is Glad He Changed Diana’s Origin Because World War I Is So Relevant Right Now

The Hardest Word to Spell in Wisconsin Is ‘Wisconsin’

Cult Cartoon Favorite Animaniacs Could Be Staging a Comeback

This Teen Is Restoring the Showbiz Pizza Robots That Creeped You Out As a Kid

Here’s What It Looks Like to Get Attacked by a Bear

Meet American Gods‘ Vulcan, an Old God Turned New

Fans of Cheap Drugs and Printer Ink Just Won Big in the Supreme Court

What TV Show or Movie From Your Childhood Do You Actually Want Resurrected?

Stranger Things‘ Eleven Auditioned For X-23 In Logan

What You Need to Know About Max-Q, Nvidia’s Plan to Make Gaming Laptops That Aren’t Monstrosities

Lucifer Really Shouldn’t Be as Good as It Is

You Will Never Get Any Work Done on This Amazingly Distracting Ninja Turtles Origins Desk

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