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A New Approach to 3D Printing Removes the Limitations of Gravity

The potential for 3D printing to revolutionize manufacturing is astounding—if the technology can overcome a few limitations. Researchers at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab have come up with a novel way to both speed up the 3D printing process, and free it from the restrictions imposed by gravity. 3D printing involves slowly building up an object using…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

(Don’t) Stop Asking Neil Gaiman How You Can Watch American Gods

All Neil Gaiman wanted was to help fans watch the upcoming TV adaptation of his book American Gods. So he took steps to make sure they knew where they could do that. Then things went horribly wrong. People all around the world are excited for the upcoming TV adaptation of American Gods. Seeing as how…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Please Help Me Understand This Horrifying and Confusing Cars Theory

I’m so sorry, but I’m a Cars truther now. It’s been fairly well-documented at this point that I and James Whitbrook have a few questions about the world of Cars. Okay, we have a lot of questions. We’re basically Daleks yelling “EXPLAIN” with every new movie. But the one we really, really want to know…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

This Sick Video Drone Is the Future of Inescapable Advertising

Advertisers have found ways to bombard us with promotions no matter what we’re doing: watching TV, checking social media, and even when streaming music. But the future of advertising could be even more invasive when the next public event you attend is full of flying video drones projecting inescapable video everywhere you look. NTT Docomo,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

What Up With All the Tornadoes So Far This Year?

As of mid April, at least 570 tornadoes have been reported in the United States this year. That’s nearly a hundred more than the typical tally for mid-spring. So what’s going on there, America? As the NOAA notes in an agency release, the 2017 tornado season across the United States is off to an incredibly…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

The Greatest Hot Wheels Track Ever Built Ends With an Explosive Finale

Mark Rober, who we last saw engineering a dart board that guaranteed a bullseye with every throw, has just built what every car-loving kid always dreamed of: an epic Hot Wheels track that has tiny vehicles racing between floors, through swimming pools, and jumping over giant explosions. Ecto-1, Back to the Future’s time-traveling DeLorean, Knight…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Even the Guardians of the Galaxy Theme Park Ride Has Its Own Damn Soundtrack

Next month, the world’s first Guardians of the Galaxy theme park ride opens at Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim, CA. And as the clock ticks down to the opening, Disney just revealed the six songs that make up the ride’s soundtrack. The ride is called Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout and the story is…

io9 Germain Lussier

FCC Chair Ajit Pai Announces Bullshit Plan to Destroy Net Neutrality

The agonizing wait is finally over. Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his plan to dismantle net neutrality. During a speech in Washington, DC at the conservative nonprofit Freedomworks, Pai outlined his plan to roll back the 2015 Open Internet Order. The order established the principles of the open internet in law, reclassifying internet service…

Tech News Libby Watson

The Latest Wonder Woman Drops Hints About Why Diana Can’t Get Back To Themyscira

The vast majority of Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp’s Rebirth-era Wonder Woman series has focused on Diana’s search for a path back to Themyscira and her fellow Amazons. In this week’s issue #21, we finally get an idea of where Paradise Island just might be and why she can’t return. If you haven’t been keeping…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Phoenix Force Just Showed Up in the Last Place You’d Expect

The Phoenix Force is one of the deadliest entities in the entire Marvel universe, a roiling mass of pure destruction that leaves nothing but cinders in its wake. Usually, it’s associated with the iconic Phoenix sagas in the pages of X-Men, but now the entity is back—and playing its part in a totally unexpected story.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Watch Elizabeth Shaw Return in a Short Film Linking Prometheus and Alien: Covenant

What happened after Prometheus? How does that lead into Alien: Covenant? We won’t know for sure until the new film opens on May 19 but a new short film gives us a pretty good idea. For Alien Day, Fox just dropped this official Alien: Covenant prologue short called The Crossing, which stars both Prometheus survivors…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Handmaid’s Tale Starts Strong, but Stumbles When It Tells Us How to Feel

The Handmaid’s Tale debuted on Hulu with its first three episodes, throwing the audience head-first into the Red Center for a hard education on life in Gilead. It’s largely effective, except for the moments it reminds us it’s effective. The latest Hulu series, based on a book by Margaret Atwood, is undoubtedly one of the most…

io9 Beth Elderkin

DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain to Make You Learn Faster

If the brain is just a bunch of wires and circuits, it stands to reason that those components can simply be re-wired in order to create a better, smarter us. At least, that’s the theory behind a new project from the military’s secretive DARPA research branch announced on Wednesday, which aims to enhance human cognitive…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

What Kind of Dog Is This?

Have you seen this dog? If you’ve been on Reddit lately, where this video by Japanese good boy enthusiast Hirofumi Kawano has been making the rounds, there’s a good chance you have. What a sweetie! Unfortunately for anyone hoping to adopt one of their own, Kawano failed to include the pup’s breed in his video.…

Tech News Hudson Hongo

All the Science Fiction and Fantasy TV to Watch (or Avoid) This Summer

When summer comes, it brings with it lazy days in the sun and kids free of school. It also brings a slew of TV shows, perfect for watching when it’s too hot to leave the air conditioning (which is most of the time). Here’s the io9 guide to everything our beloved nerdy genres are putting…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

In the Cars 3 Trailer, Lightning McQueen Is Urged to Give Up Racing and Become a Corporate Shill

Because… cars? And racing? And it’s for kids, I guess? I gotta tell you, I’m really in the weeds on understanding the world of Cars. This trailer has mooing tractors and it’s honestly more confusing than AP Physics ever was. I really wish I could just see this movie as Pixar’s take on the usual…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Chris Sacca, Shark Tank‘s Singing Cowboy, Retires From Tech Investing

Chris Sacca, the amateur Hank Williams Jr. impersonator best known for his early investments in Twitter and Uber, published 1,700 words on Wednesday to say what he could have said in just one tweet: he’s retiring. “It’s hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well. I’m good at what I…

Tech News William Turton

Controversial Study Makes a Staggering Claim About When the First Humans Settled North America

In a study that’s already attracting considerable controversy, a research team says it has found evidence of human habitation along the southern coast of California dating back an astounding 130,000 years. That’s ten times older than most estimates, and a complete upending of what we thought we knew about how and when humans first arrived…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Scientists Are Already Planning the Next Mission to Pluto

The Pluto-shaped void in our hearts has yet to be filled by Planet 9, copious amounts of Ben & Jerry’s, or anything. Ever since the summer of 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons performed a six-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons, fans of the dwarf planet have wondered if or when we’d ever…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Glass, the Sequel Both to Split and Unbreakable, Will Be Out January 2019

Well, spoilers be damned, now it’s out there. M. Night Shyamalan just announced via Twitter that his next movie is called Glass. It’s a sequel to Split and Unbreakable simultaneously and it’ll be in theaters January 18, 2019. Bruce Willis will return as David Dunn. Samuel L. Jackson will return as Mr. Glass. James McAvoy…

io9 Germain Lussier

A New Approach to 3D Printing Removes the Limitations of Gravity

(Don’t) Stop Asking Neil Gaiman How You Can Watch American Gods

Please Help Me Understand This Horrifying and Confusing Cars Theory

This Sick Video Drone Is the Future of Inescapable Advertising

What Up With All the Tornadoes So Far This Year?

The Greatest Hot Wheels Track Ever Built Ends With an Explosive Finale

Even the Guardians of the Galaxy Theme Park Ride Has Its Own Damn Soundtrack

FCC Chair Ajit Pai Announces Bullshit Plan to Destroy Net Neutrality

The Latest Wonder Woman Drops Hints About Why Diana Can’t Get Back To Themyscira

The Phoenix Force Just Showed Up in the Last Place You’d Expect

Watch Elizabeth Shaw Return in a Short Film Linking Prometheus and Alien: Covenant

The Handmaid’s Tale Starts Strong, but Stumbles When It Tells Us How to Feel

DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain to Make You Learn Faster

What Kind of Dog Is This?

All the Science Fiction and Fantasy TV to Watch (or Avoid) This Summer

In the Cars 3 Trailer, Lightning McQueen Is Urged to Give Up Racing and Become a Corporate Shill

Chris Sacca, Shark Tank‘s Singing Cowboy, Retires From Tech Investing

Controversial Study Makes a Staggering Claim About When the First Humans Settled North America

Scientists Are Already Planning the Next Mission to Pluto

Glass, the Sequel Both to Split and Unbreakable, Will Be Out January 2019

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