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Interactive Map Shows How Healthy (or Unhealthy) Your Neighborhood Is

In my particular Oakland neighborhood, not that many people smoke or binge drink (about 13%) and a lot of us exercise (about 80%). Not bad. We’re even doing a tad better than the city of Oakland overall, where 14% of people binge drink, nearly 16% smoke and closer to 75% of people regularly engage in…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Adam Nimoy Would Not Mind If Star Trek Resurrected Spock, Rogue One Style

Adam Nimoy thinks it would be pretty cool if his father’s most iconic role was digitally restored in the Star Trek universe. You know, like how Rogue One did with some of Star Wars’ most familiar characters. In an interview with Trek Movie, Adam Nimoy, the director of the upcoming Deep Space Nine documentary, was…

io9 Beth Elderkin

An Alarming Number of Kids Are Getting Sick From Drinking Hand Sanitizers

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are practically everywhere these days, but a new government report suggests an increasing number of children are ingesting these products and getting quite sick. Troublingly, many of these kids are drinking sanitizers to get a quick buzz from the alcohol. The new report, compiled by the US Centers for Disease Control and…

Health George Dvorsky

Here’s How You’ll Explore New Worlds in Mass Effect: Andromeda

Most of the pre-release glimpses we’ve seen so far for Mass Effect: Andromeda have shown off combat or customization. But people love this series for the story and characters more than anything, and a new trailer gives a little taste of how side quests will play out on the new planets you’re going to explore.…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Be Our Guest for the Gif Party

It’s Friday, why don’t you come to our house for a party? You just have to bring a gift for the host, in the form of a gif.

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Guy Builds a Portable SNES That’s Basically the Switch’s Great-Great-Grandfather

It sounds like the best thing the new Nintendo Switch has going for it, at least at launch, is a new Legend of Zelda game. That makes it a hard sell, especially when this custom portable Super Nintendo already has a massive library of classic 16-bit games—most of which are probably collecting dust in your…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

NASA Spacecraft Avoids Very Embarrassing Collision With Mars’ Moon

We’re all a little uncoordinated at times, but when you’re a hunk of metal hurling through space, the consequences are a bit more severe. This week, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN), which has been orbiting the Red Planet for two years, had to perform a last-minute maneuver to avoid a disastrous collision with…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

This Single Gram of DNA Contains an Amazon Gift Card, a Virus and an Entire Movie

Ten years ago, if you wanted to back up some old photos, you might have stored them on a big, clunky external hard drive that weighed a couple of pounds and was a pain to lug around. Ten years from now, you might back up all the data from your entire life on just a…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

How Tiny Would Donald Trump’s Hands Be If They Were Black Holes?

Let me tell you a little something about gravity: It’s weird. A hundred or so years ago, Albert Einstein realized Isaac Newton’s laws didn’t work so well for really extreme situations, ones Newton never would have encountered on 17th century Earth. So Einstein said, alright, let’s come up with a new theory that looks like…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Cult Classic Superhero Comic Mage Is Returning For One Last Series

Matt Wagner has been trying to get his superhero series Mage finished for decades now—and it looks like the end is finally nigh for Kevin Matchstick, because the last chapter in the saga just got announced for release this year. Revealed at Emerald City Comic Con Mage: The Hero Denied will begin this July with…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Japan Forced to Shut Down Two Cameras on Venus Probe

Following an unexpected energy surge, Japan’s space agency has hit the pause button on two of the five cameras aboard its Venus-orbiting Akatsuki spacecraft. It’s a bad sign for the troubled orbiter, which has been exposed to more radiation than anticipated. Back in December, an electronic device that controls the two cameras started to consume…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Ten Deliberately Stupid Inventions That Are Still Better Than Half of Kickstarter

Thanks to crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the internet is flooded with ridiculous gadgets, devices that over-promise and under-deliver, and straight-up scams, all vying for your cash. Maybe that’s why this Stupid Hackathon, which encourages people to invent stupid things, is so refreshing—no one is desperately begging your for money. Organized by Sam Lavigne…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Why These Great Game Consoles Failed Spectacularly

While there have been remarkable successes in gaming consoles, there have also been many unmitigated failures.

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Yelp Will Now Help Users Find Gender Neutral Bathrooms

On Friday, Yelp announced that it will now allow users to find out if a business has a gender neutral bathroom. Yelp’s definition of a gender neutral bathroom is a single-stall bathroom accessible by any gender. There are third-party apps such as REFUGE Restrooms that allow individuals to find restrooms that are safe or accessible…

Tech News Christina Warren

Kong Retakes His Throne in the Incredible Skull Island

King Kong started his reign in 1933, but it didn’t last long. He was eventually overshadowed by Godzilla and a crowd of B-movie pretenders for decades, to the point where even Peter Jackson’s attempt to revive him in 2005 couldn’t help. But with Kong: Skull Island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has created an action-packed spectacle truly…

Movies Germain Lussier

Old Man’s AOL Account Hacked

Does your dad still use AOL? It’s like, ugh, daaaaad, get with the times, right? Apparently he’s not alone. The Indianapolis Star reported last night that Vice President Mike Pence used his personal AOL email for official business when he was governor of Indiana, and that the email address was hacked. The paper reports that…

Tech News Libby Watson

The Next Archie Comic Is Going to Turn Jughead Into a Bloodthirsty Werewolf

Jughead Jones is already well known for his love of eating, although his favorite food is normally hamburgers. A sideways step into the world of Afterlife with Archie-style horror means it’s not that hard to imagine the Riverdale teen becoming a werewolf hungry for something more sinister, is it? Although we heard a while ago…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

How to Snoop-Proof Any Phone or Tablet

It’s likely that you’ve got details of your whole life stored on your phone—the people you know, the banks you’ve used, the videos you’ve wasted hours watching—and you don’t necessarily want that info getting out into the wider world. If you’re keen to lock down your handset against unwelcome visitors, you need to take a…

Gadgets David Nield

Major Casting News for Inhumans, the X-Men TV Show, and More

It’s a casting blowout as another member of Inhuman royalty joins the TV show, Matt Nix’s X-Men series casts its female lead, and Black Lightning finds some superpowered siblings. Plus, what might tempt Patrick Stewart back to playing Professor X, and when to expect the return of Game of Thrones. To me, my spoilers! Deadpool…

Television James Whitbrook

Gundam Wing Is Finally Coming to Blu-ray in the US

In the wider Mobile Suit Gundam fandom, Gundam Wing isn’t regarded as the cream of the Gundam crop—but it still holds a special place in the hearts of many, as the series that introduced one of Japan’s most iconic Real Robot franchises to the West. And now, finally, it’s going to be made available on…

io9 James Whitbrook

Interactive Map Shows How Healthy (or Unhealthy) Your Neighborhood Is

Adam Nimoy Would Not Mind If Star Trek Resurrected Spock, Rogue One Style

An Alarming Number of Kids Are Getting Sick From Drinking Hand Sanitizers

Here’s How You’ll Explore New Worlds in Mass Effect: Andromeda

Be Our Guest for the Gif Party

Guy Builds a Portable SNES That’s Basically the Switch’s Great-Great-Grandfather

NASA Spacecraft Avoids Very Embarrassing Collision With Mars’ Moon

This Single Gram of DNA Contains an Amazon Gift Card, a Virus and an Entire Movie

How Tiny Would Donald Trump’s Hands Be If They Were Black Holes?

Cult Classic Superhero Comic Mage Is Returning For One Last Series

Japan Forced to Shut Down Two Cameras on Venus Probe

Ten Deliberately Stupid Inventions That Are Still Better Than Half of Kickstarter

Why These Great Game Consoles Failed Spectacularly

Yelp Will Now Help Users Find Gender Neutral Bathrooms

Kong Retakes His Throne in the Incredible Skull Island

Old Man’s AOL Account Hacked

The Next Archie Comic Is Going to Turn Jughead Into a Bloodthirsty Werewolf

How to Snoop-Proof Any Phone or Tablet

Major Casting News for Inhumans, the X-Men TV Show, and More

Gundam Wing Is Finally Coming to Blu-ray in the US

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