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Marvel Would Really, Really Like to Remind You That There’s a Ton of X-Men Comics on the Way

There is only one way to remind people that the X-Men are coming back to Marvel’s comic roster in big way, other than liberally sprinkling oodles of X-Men comics among your solicitations. And that way includes copious amounts of the classic X-Men cartoon theme song. As if the almost ceaseless amount of announcements about them…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Twitter User Accused of Sending Journalist Seizure-Inducing GIF: ‘Let’s See If He Dies’

Friday evening, disturbing new details emerged in the case of a Maryland man accused of sending a seizure-inducing GIF to Newsweek journalist Kurt Eichenwald, including private Twitter messages where the suspect allegedly wrote “I hope this sends him into a seizure” and “let’s see if he dies.” https://gizmodo.com/fbi-arrests-man-for-allegedly-sending-journalist-seizur-1793375081 According to the Department of Justice, 29-year-old…

Tech News William Turton

Zelda Fanatic Controls His Dang House With an Ocarina

OK, you think you like the Legend of Zelda? You don’t. Not compared to this guy. His entire goddamn house is ocarina-operated now, and if he forgets to bring a plastic toy instrument with him he’s probably locked out. So suck on that, I guess. In all seriousness, this is a really impressive and complicated…

Sploid Avery Ellis

The Makers of The Relationtrip Explain How a Puppet Fits Perfectly Into Their Modern Love Story

Two friends, bonding over a mutual hatred of commitment, decide to take a trip together. On their journey, they still manage to experience all the ups and downs of an actual relationship… and then encounter a puppet, too. This is The Relationtrip. Written and directed by real-life couple Renée Felice Smith (NCIS: Los Angeles) and…

Movies Germain Lussier

Rogue One Never Had a Scripted Opening Crawl (UPDATED)

Correction: After our interview, writer Gary Whitta admitted that he misremembered this. While he told me the crawl was never in the script, he realized it was in the very first draft of the very first script, and was then taken out during the first revision. The original posts follows. Rogue One: A Star Wars…

Movies Germain Lussier

YouTube’s Restricted Mode Is Hiding Some LGBT Content [Update]

Anyone who’s ever visited YouTube and ventured into the comments knows that the site struggles with how to deal with offensive content, and now it seems one of its content filtering features might have gone a bit too far. Over the past few days, several LGBT vloggers have accused YouTube of hiding their material through…

Tech News Libby Watson

Worlds We Love: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild‘s Hyrule

For the past 31 years, the setting of the Legend of Zelda games has mostly stayed the same—until now. The latest game in the series, Breath of the Wild, has transformed the traditional kingdom of Hyrule into something fundamentally different to its predecessors: a world which, now more than ever, is there to be lost…

io9 James Whitbrook

The UK Just Granted the First License to Commercialize Controversial ‘Three-Parent’ Babies

A fertility clinic in Newcastle was just granted permission to start performing what’s known as the ‘three-parent baby’ technique, a controversial in vitro fertilization procedure that prevents genetic diseases from being passed on to children by giving them three genetic ‘parents.’ The technique relies on DNA from a mother, father, and a female donor in…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

Why the Hell Does the James Webb Space Telescope Look Haunted?

One of the most powerful telescopes ever built—NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—is set to make its big debut in 2018. But before it starts scouring distant galaxies, or searching for life around at TRAPPIST-1, the telescope must undergo quite a bit of testing. Apparently, during “lights out inspections,” James Webb gets a little creepy. On…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Hans Zimmer Quit Superhero Movies Because He Can’t Stop Loving Christian Bale’s Batman

It’s been a year since composer Hans Zimmer retired from superhero movies, and it looks like we finally know why. He loves Christian Bale’s Batman too much. In an interview with Inverse, Zimmer went into more detail about why he chose to retire from composing for superhero movies after Batman v Superman. In the past,…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Panicked Secret Service Says It Lost Encrypted Laptop But It’s Fine, Everything’s Fine

Today, a Brooklyn-based Secret Service agent learned what those of us without security clearance have known for years: Don’t leave a laptop in your car if you don’t want it to be stolen. Law enforcement sources told both ABC and The New York Daily News on Friday that a laptop containing private information—including the floor…

Tech News Christina Warren

An Iron Man Figure That’s Basically a Gundam, and This Week’s Other Awesome Toys

Welcome back to the Toy Aisle, io9’s new weekly collection of the best toys around. This week, we’ve got cosmic Marvel monopoly, adorable Power Rangers toys for toddlers, a gorgeous Blade Runner collectible, and more Star Wars goodness than you could shake a double-bladed lightsaber at. Hot Toys Death Star Gunner Hot Toys is back…

io9 James Whitbrook and Andrew Liszewski

Why Scientists Think This Silly-Ass Bird Can’t Stop Looking at Its Reflection

We all like to admire ourselves in the mirror from time to time, but there’s a bird in Australia that seems to have developed a rather unhealthy fixation, gazing upon its reflection for hours on end while seemingly oblivious to its surroundings. It’s pretty funny, but should we be worried about this fine feathered fellow?…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Secret Empire Is Giving Us a New Patriot to Fight Back Against Steve Rogers

Steve Roger’s Hydra reveal is going to bring out all sorts of old and new heroes to fight against his attempt to rule the world—and one of the new ones is going to be the latest incarnation of one of Marvel’s oldest heroes. But could another familiar face be behind the mask? The new Patriot…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Will Humans Have to Upgrade Their Bodies to Survive on Mars?

Living and boning in space—particularly on Mars—has fascinated our degenerate species for decades. Recently, SpaceX founder Elon Musk decided to put his very large amount of money where his mouth is by announcing his plans to colonize the Red Planet. NASA also likes to bloviate about its Journey to Mars in the 2030s, and there…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

The Grassroots Campaign to Make Reddit Less Toxic

As a company, Reddit has shown itself to be either ambivalent or complicit in abuse on the site, but users are fed up. Two new but rapidly-growing subreddits—r/esist and r/fuckthealtright—want to do something about it, and they’ve already claimed credit for getting hate speech community r/altright banned for harassment. Yesterday, they set their sights on…

Tech News Avery Ellis

White House Cites Satire Story to Support Trump’s Nightmare Budget [Update]

1600 Daily is an official newsletter from the White House. It includes important information about the goings-on of the president, including his meeting schedule for the day and upcoming policy initiatives. And, at the very bottom, it includes positive coverage from the media. Under President Trump, previous issues of 1600 Daily have included predictable write-ups…

Tech News Avery Ellis

It’s Friday and the Gif Party’s Got Cows

We’ll never stop missing Bill Paxton, one reason being our ongoing obsession with his 1996 tornado-chasing classic, Twister. The look on everyone’s face in this famous scene is how we feel at the end of this week. (Everyone including the cow.) How about you?

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Hugo-Winning Author Nnedi Okorafor on How Whitewashing Once Came to Her Book Cover

Ten years ago, Hugo Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor was getting ready to publish her second novel. She was thrilled to share her latest work with the world, which envisioned an African country after an apocalypse, centered around a black protagonist. Then she saw her book’s cover. Okorafor recently took to Twitter to share an experience…

io9 Beth Elderkin

FBI Arrests Man for Allegedly Sending Journalist Seizure-Causing GIF [Updated]

On Friday, the Dallas FBI confirmed to Gizmodo that it has made an arrest in a case involving Newsweek journalist Kurt Eichenwald, who claims a man sent him a GIF over Twitter that triggered his epilepsy, causing him to have a seizure. A Dallas FBI spokesperson told Gizmodo that a press release with more details…

Tech News William Turton

Marvel Would Really, Really Like to Remind You That There’s a Ton of X-Men Comics on the Way

Twitter User Accused of Sending Journalist Seizure-Inducing GIF: ‘Let’s See If He Dies’

Zelda Fanatic Controls His Dang House With an Ocarina

The Makers of The Relationtrip Explain How a Puppet Fits Perfectly Into Their Modern Love Story

Rogue One Never Had a Scripted Opening Crawl (UPDATED)

YouTube’s Restricted Mode Is Hiding Some LGBT Content [Update]

Worlds We Love: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild‘s Hyrule

The UK Just Granted the First License to Commercialize Controversial ‘Three-Parent’ Babies

Why the Hell Does the James Webb Space Telescope Look Haunted?

Hans Zimmer Quit Superhero Movies Because He Can’t Stop Loving Christian Bale’s Batman

Panicked Secret Service Says It Lost Encrypted Laptop But It’s Fine, Everything’s Fine

An Iron Man Figure That’s Basically a Gundam, and This Week’s Other Awesome Toys

Why Scientists Think This Silly-Ass Bird Can’t Stop Looking at Its Reflection

Secret Empire Is Giving Us a New Patriot to Fight Back Against Steve Rogers

Will Humans Have to Upgrade Their Bodies to Survive on Mars?

The Grassroots Campaign to Make Reddit Less Toxic

White House Cites Satire Story to Support Trump’s Nightmare Budget [Update]

It’s Friday and the Gif Party’s Got Cows

Hugo-Winning Author Nnedi Okorafor on How Whitewashing Once Came to Her Book Cover

FBI Arrests Man for Allegedly Sending Journalist Seizure-Causing GIF [Updated]

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