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Male Tortoises Mysteriously Stop Boning

There are only a few things in this life animals really have to do. They have to eat, they have to shit, and they have to bang. So when conservation biologists transplant a bunch of wild animals in order to save them, but half of them stop getting laid as a result, it’s cause for…

Biology Maddie Stone

Battle of the TV Boxes: Android vs Apple vs Amazon vs Roku

If you’re in the market for a dinky little black box to slide under your living room TV set and pipe through some quality content, you’re in luck: there’s lots of them to pick from. All the major names now have established boxes on the market. While Gizmodo is a big fan of the Roku…

Gadgets David Nield

We Chatted With the World’s Coolest Astronaut About Inspiring Kids and Sending Dogs to Space

Leland Melvin is a unicorn of a human being. He’s been drafted to the NFL, flown in the final frontier (twice), and now, written a book called Chasing Space. On the internet, the former NASA astronaut is best known for this unforgettable photo with his two dogs, Jake and Scout, who grace the cover of…

Tech News Rae Paoletta and Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Game of Thrones’ Final Season Is Going to Be Very, Very Short, Like Arya

The past six seasons of Game of Thrones have all managed to spread their stories of love, lust, murder, and war over uniform sets of 10 episodes each. Season seven’s shaking things up a bit by cutting down its episode count down to seven (the Faith of the Seven will be pleased,) but a new…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Mark Hamill Has a Big Issue With Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi

Some very ominous news about The Last Jedi. The New Mutants movie is taking a surprising direction. The Doctor may change, but Doctor Who itself doesn’t appear to be going anywhere. Plus: A tease about the setting of the Wonder Woman sequel, hints about the monsters of Stranger Things’ second season, and more! Spoiler ho,…

Television James Whitbrook

If Someone Tries to Steal Your Car, Don’t Jump On the Hood

On Tuesday, 27-year-old Melissa Smith was filling up at a gas station in Milwaukee when a man jumped into the driver’s seat of her car, trying to steal it. Smith immediately jumped on the hood, and held tight long enough that the thief eventually ran off. The media are hailing her as a hero. But,…

Tech News Matt Novak

Trump Team’s Go-To Vetting Process Was ‘A Quick Google Search’

After Michael Flynn set a record for the shortest tenure as the national security advisor, many people were asking what kind of vetting process the Trump administration had used for hiring its people. According to a new report from the Washington Post, the campaign preferred to just Google people and go for it. https://gizmodo.com/this-old-fbi-file-is-a-great-reminder-of-just-how-screw-1794663795 According…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Injustice 2 Almost Had a Version of Static, Milestone Media’s Awesome Electric Superhero

Damn it, we were so close to getting one of Milestone Media’s best characters in the new superhero fighting game. Heroes and villains from all over the DC Comics multiverse are part of the roster in Injustice 2 but, for the most part, they come from the well-known core of characters clustered around the Justice…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Cordcutting Hits an All-Time High as Cable TV Reaches New Lows in Popularity

According to pretty much everyone, we’re in the “golden age” of television. But new data shows a huge jump in people who are ready to ditch cable as well as disastrous satisfaction ratings for the industry. Despite investing $300 million in fixing its customer service problems, Comcast managed to sink another six percent in popularity…

Tech News Rhett Jones

A Sanitation Worker Learns Why You Should Never Cross a Raccoon in This Surreal Comedy Short

In Alan Miller’s Garbage Man, a grouchy sanitation worker makes the grave mistake of pissing off the wrong “trash panda.” He’s soon afflicted with a peculiar curse that turns him into the literal personification of the film’s title—and his crummy day on the job gets way stinkier before taking a surreal, weirdly uplifting final turn.…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

io9 Is Proud to Present the Poe Dameron Scale, the Ultimate Star Wars Name-Ranking System

It is well documented that we—we being James and Katharine—are obsessed with the names in Star Wars. We even have our own not-at all-scientific rating system to judge our favorite, comical names from the galaxy far, far away: the Poe Dameron Scale™. And we are proud now to introduce the PDS to the world. The…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta and James Whitbrook

Scenes From Mark Zuckerberg’s First Big Stump Speech

Facebook founder and domestic travel enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg pretended to be a politician at his Harvard commencement address on Thursday afternoon. Not many people showed up, probably because it was cold and rainy and generally miserable outside. Not even Facebook can control the weather. The speech sounded like a political one, because it was. The…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes

Florida Republican Who Teamed Up With Guccifer 2.0 Says Secretly Working With Russia Is NBD

The WSJ revealed today that a GOP operative named Aaron Nevins requested and received confidential files stolen from the Democrats by hacker Guccifer 2.0 last year. Nevins, a former aide to Florida State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, confessed to the Journal that not only did he receive files stolen from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Mexican Politician Says He Meant to Use #Campaignhashtag as His Campaign Hashtag

We’ll never know for sure if Mexican politician Javier Zapata intended to use “#hashtagcampaña”—“#campaignhashtag” in English—as an official hashtag for his run for governor, or if it was just dummy text that made it through the printers. But if he wanted to raise his profile, it’s definitely working. Recently, at least one billboard supporting the…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Valiant High Is Exactly How Publishers Should Get New Readers Into Their Books

I have a confession to make. Two years ago at New York Comic-Con, I picked up a bunch of Valiant trade volumes with the intention of getting caught up with the publisher’s rapidly expanding universe of heroes and villains. Immediately, I blew through and loved both The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage and Harbinger Volume 1: Omega…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Watch Every Non-Eleven Stranger Things Kid Rock Out on Lip Sync Battle

The latest episode of Spike’s Lip Sync Battle is getting a visit from the Upside Down. The stars of the hit Netflix show, with one Eleven-sized exclusion, all show up to move their mouths and dance around in time with some of their favorite songs. And god help me, it’s the cutest thing I’ve seen…

io9 Beth Elderkin

NOAA Predicts More Hurricanes Than Usual This Year

Stock up on your canned beans and galoshes, folks: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook dropped this morning, and for the first time in years, the weather monitoring agency is predicting more hurricanes than average. Hurricane season, which kicks off next week and runs through the end of November, will…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Sony’s Black Cat/Silver Sable Movie Might Have a New Name and a New Director

Sony’s Marvel Universe—yeah, that’s still a terrible name, right?—is making some big moves lately. While the Venom movie recently found its host, the studio’s other planned film, starring Spidey supporting characters Black Cat and Silver Sable, might have just landed itself a director in the form of Gina Prince-Bythewood. The Hollywood Reporter also notes that…

Movies James Whitbrook

What’s the Best Order to Watch All the Star Wars Movies Now?!

Bonjour, my bonny mailboxes. Thanks to your abundance of excellent letters, I have an extra big mailbag for you today! So let’s get right to it: What’s the best Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack? Who could save the Transformers movie franchise? Why did WB decide to make the DCEU’s Batman so damn old? And more…

Movies Rob Bricken

Good Deal Alert: RadioShack Is Selling Its Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents

Who doesn’t love a good deal? If you do, it’s time to head on over to your local RadioShack. The iconic retailer is now selling the last of its remaining office supplies as part of a liquidation process brought by a bankruptcy filed in March, and everything must go. RadioShack is peddling pretty much everything…

Tech News Michael Nunez

Male Tortoises Mysteriously Stop Boning

Battle of the TV Boxes: Android vs Apple vs Amazon vs Roku

We Chatted With the World’s Coolest Astronaut About Inspiring Kids and Sending Dogs to Space

Game of Thrones’ Final Season Is Going to Be Very, Very Short, Like Arya

Mark Hamill Has a Big Issue With Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi

If Someone Tries to Steal Your Car, Don’t Jump On the Hood

Trump Team’s Go-To Vetting Process Was ‘A Quick Google Search’

Injustice 2 Almost Had a Version of Static, Milestone Media’s Awesome Electric Superhero

Cordcutting Hits an All-Time High as Cable TV Reaches New Lows in Popularity

A Sanitation Worker Learns Why You Should Never Cross a Raccoon in This Surreal Comedy Short

io9 Is Proud to Present the Poe Dameron Scale, the Ultimate Star Wars Name-Ranking System

Scenes From Mark Zuckerberg’s First Big Stump Speech

Florida Republican Who Teamed Up With Guccifer 2.0 Says Secretly Working With Russia Is NBD

Mexican Politician Says He Meant to Use #Campaignhashtag as His Campaign Hashtag

Valiant High Is Exactly How Publishers Should Get New Readers Into Their Books

Watch Every Non-Eleven Stranger Things Kid Rock Out on Lip Sync Battle

NOAA Predicts More Hurricanes Than Usual This Year

Sony’s Black Cat/Silver Sable Movie Might Have a New Name and a New Director

What’s the Best Order to Watch All the Star Wars Movies Now?!

Good Deal Alert: RadioShack Is Selling Its Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents

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