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New Video Proves That One Billion DuckTales ‘Woo-oo!’s Might Be Too Many

For their newest DuckTales promo, Disney has tapped into the tragicomic heart of the internet. Beware: The woo-oo looks also into you. For a while now, the internet’s favorite terrible hobby has been distorting, repeating, and generally fucking with cultural ephemera to produce glitch nightmares (glitchmares?) right out of the darkest parts of the Jungian…

io9 Julie Muncy Aug 12 '17

Richard Spencer Claims Virginia Restaurant Was Refusing Service. It Wasn’t Open.

Yesterday as white nationalists flooded into Charlottesville, Virginia for the Unite the Right rally, headlining speaker and key organizer Richard Spencer had the time to complain on Twitter about a local restaurant supposedly refusing service to himself and the pale turds who follow his example. Embarrassingly, the restaurant simply wasn’t open. Based solely on the…

Tech News Avery Ellis Aug 12 '17

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Study: North Korea’s Missiles Built For Show, Can’t Hit US Mainland Yet

Are we on the brink of all-out nuclear war with North Korea? Experts say no, probably not. But according to a new technical analysis of North Korea’s missile technology in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, even if it did come to that, the closest to the heartland Kim Jong Un can strike is Anchorage,…

Tech News Tom McKay Aug 12 '17

Big Hero 6 TV Show is Coming This November

Baymax and Hiro are coming to just cute up the gosh-darn heck out of Disney XD’s lineup this fall, and now we’ve got a month: November. There’s also a lovely, albeit all-too brief, new teaser. When Big Hero 6 came out in 2014, it was one of the best surprises of the past few years.…

io9 Julie Muncy Aug 12 '17

James Cameron Made Only One Change When Bringing Terminator 2 Back to Theaters

James Cameron, perfectionist that he is, seems pretty happy with Terminator 2: Judgment Day And who can blame him? It’s a stunning action film. So for the 3D theatrical re-release this month, Cameron left the film alone. Mostly. Talking to Entertainment Tonight, Cameron discusses his decision to avoid going fully George Lucas on his old…

io9 Julie Muncy Aug 12 '17

What the Heck Is Going on With the HBO Game of Thrones Hack?

Episode 5 of the penultimate season of Game of Thrones will air on Sunday. As with episode 4, an outline of the script has been circulating online in what seems to be the latest leak from the huge HBO hack. And suddenly, it seems like the “cyber incident” that some people—including this blogger—thought would be…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes Aug 12 '17

A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated

A certain portion of the internet is freaking out over a change to an important list used by ad blockers that facilitates their function. Popular coding repository GitHub received a DMCA request (the same tool copyright holders use to remove links to pirated music and movies online) to remove a domain name from the ad…

Tech News Rhett Jones Aug 12 '17

A Short Horror Film About the Perils of Choosing the Wrong Hashtag for Your Selfie

Lounging around at home, a bored teenage girl snaps a selfie and posts it to social media with the hashtag “#homealone.” When she checks to see the reaction a few minutes later, she realizes it suddenly reads “#notalone”—and a quick search reveals the hideously grisly fate she may soon face. Sotiris Petridis and Dimitris Tsakaleas’s…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Aug 11 '17

The Spider-Man Spinoff Silver and Black Is Coming in February 2019

The second film in Sony’s No-Spider-Man Movie Universe now has a release date. Silver and Black, the Silver Sable/Black Cat superhero movie directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, will be released February 8, 2019. That’s just about four months after Venom, starring Tom Hardy and directed by Ruben Fleischer, hits theaters. Venom is first film in this…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 11 '17

Watch the Sandman Fan Film That Earned Neil Gaiman’s Stamp of Approval

Even with the success of American Gods, we still may never get a Sandman movie, or even a TV series. But Neil Gaiman diehards need not despair completely, because there’s a new fan film that pays impressively exacting tribute to one of Sandman’s most brutal installments. It’s “24 Hours,” originally published in 1989, and faithfully…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Aug 11 '17

Though Departed, Han Solo Still Plays a Crucial Role in The Last Jedi

One of the complaints fans had about The Force Awakens was the death of Han Solo wasn’t powerful enough. It happened too quickly and we never saw anyone process it. Well, maybe that’s because his death was so big, it’s going to reverberate into The Last Jedi too. In a new set of interviews with…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 11 '17

Atari’s New Centipede Comic Is More Brilliant and Heartfelt Than It Has Any Business Being

Every so often, you come across a comic that throws you for the sort of loop that makes you pause a few pages in and think, “I wasn’t at all prepared for how damned good this is.” Atari and Dynamite’s new Centipede series, based on the classic 1980s video game, is definitely one of those comics.…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 11 '17

That New Pro-Vegan Documentary on Netflix Made Me Want to Die

If there’s one thing you should always remember about science, it’s that fact and truth are established after multiple studies converge on an answer. Even after that, further research might turn over what you thought was true of the other studies, because you were looking at it through too narrow of a lens. Single papers…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Aug 11 '17

The 2017 Hugo Award Winners Are Here

The most prestigious awards in science fiction had their 2017 ceremony today, at WorldCon 75 in Helsinki, Finland—and just like last year, female creatives have swept some of the biggest awards of the event. This year’s slate of nominees, unlike the drama surrounding the 2016 and 2015 Hugos, was less impacted by the ballot-stuffing tactics…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 11 '17

As Trump Tweets World Into Nuclear Standoff, Bomb Shelter Sales Are Booming

After North Korea threatened to launch an “enveloping strike” at Guam, the territory’s office of civil defense posted emergency guidelines on Friday, explaining what citizens should do in the event of a missile attack. (“Do not look at the flash or fireball—It can blind you. Take cover behind anything that might offer protection.”) The advisory followed…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 11 '17

James Cameron Is Coming Back to Terminator Because the World Caught Up To His Ideas

The Terminator franchise helped launch James Cameron’s career to a level few other filmmakers dream of. However, after his first two films in the franchise, he walked away—mostly due to complicated rights issues—and the subsequent sequels suffered for it. Soon, those rights return to Cameron’s camp and he’s planning to produce a new film (or…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 11 '17

Benicio Del Toro Is Just the Latest in a Long Line of Star Wars Hacker Characters

Yesterday, EW broke the news that Benicio Del Toro’s Last Jedi character is a “slicer” that Finn (John Boyega) and Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) are tracking down. Despite the fact that you may never have heard the word slicer in a Star Wars movie, they have a long and important history in that universe. First…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 11 '17

Hipster Ducks, Money Bins, and Gods All Show Up in This New DuckTales Map

You are going to want to blow up this map of Duckburg, I promise you. There are a lot of fun things hidden here, not just Launchpad McQuack’s plane crashed into the mountain that Scrooge’s McDuck Manor is on. Click to enlarge this image, and you will see a god lounging in the right-hand corner,…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Aug 11 '17

Google Expels Spyware From Play Store That Recorded Audio and Took Photos Without Permission

Android users are facing new threats to their privacy with the recent discovery of over a thousand spyware apps on the loose. A security firm found that at least three of these apps—which are capable of covertly taking photos, recording audio, retrieving call logs, and more—were available for download on Google Play. Google has removed…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Aug 11 '17

Everyone’s Favorite Alien System Is a Cranky Old Grump

TRAPPIST-1 would like to remind you that it was drinkin’ beer while you were still rompin’ around in your diapers—or whatever old people say. The ultracool dwarf star system, which first was announced back in February, has garnered a lot of interest because it harbors seven Earth-size planets. At least three of those planets are…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta Aug 11 '17

New Video Proves That One Billion DuckTales ‘Woo-oo!’s Might Be Too Many

Richard Spencer Claims Virginia Restaurant Was Refusing Service. It Wasn’t Open.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Study: North Korea’s Missiles Built For Show, Can’t Hit US Mainland Yet

Big Hero 6 TV Show is Coming This November

James Cameron Made Only One Change When Bringing Terminator 2 Back to Theaters

What the Heck Is Going on With the HBO Game of Thrones Hack?

A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated

A Short Horror Film About the Perils of Choosing the Wrong Hashtag for Your Selfie

The Spider-Man Spinoff Silver and Black Is Coming in February 2019

Watch the Sandman Fan Film That Earned Neil Gaiman’s Stamp of Approval

Though Departed, Han Solo Still Plays a Crucial Role in The Last Jedi

Atari’s New Centipede Comic Is More Brilliant and Heartfelt Than It Has Any Business Being

That New Pro-Vegan Documentary on Netflix Made Me Want to Die

The 2017 Hugo Award Winners Are Here

As Trump Tweets World Into Nuclear Standoff, Bomb Shelter Sales Are Booming

James Cameron Is Coming Back to Terminator Because the World Caught Up To His Ideas

Benicio Del Toro Is Just the Latest in a Long Line of Star Wars Hacker Characters

Hipster Ducks, Money Bins, and Gods All Show Up in This New DuckTales Map

Google Expels Spyware From Play Store That Recorded Audio and Took Photos Without Permission

Everyone’s Favorite Alien System Is a Cranky Old Grump

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