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The Era of Chaos-Inducing Ransomware Is Here and It’s Scary as Hell

The ‘90s cyberpunk thriller Hackers is used too often to illustrate the fearful future of cyber security, but it’s popular for a reason. The film’s seemingly fictional scenarios keep coming true. Take this week’s global ransomware attack, for instance. It’s a plot twist that would make Matthew Lillard leer at the camera and cackle. On…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes Jun 28 '17

Eerily Accurate Facial Reconstructions Are Allowing the Dead to Speak

Researchers at Liverpool John Moore’s University have reconstructed the face of a man who lived in Dublin some 500 years ago. Incredibly accurate reconstructions like this are providing archaeologists with new way of studying the past—while also allowing them to visualize some of the most forgotten figures in history. Known only as SK2, the remains…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jun 28 '17

It Turns Out Selling Ugly $50,000 Smartphones Is Actually a Bad Business Model

Despite selling $50,000 Android cellphones to rich and famous stars like Quincy Jones and Seal, the England-based company Vertu appears to be struggling with paying its bills and employees. What a shocking development. According to a juicy new report in the Telegraph, employees are worried about the future of the company after noticing that production had…

Tech News Alejandro Alba Jun 28 '17

Batman’s Greatest Adversary Isn’t the Joker, It’s Elmer Fudd

Even though Batman’s rogues gallery is a horde of murderous lunatics, you always get the sense that Batman himself is never in any real danger from them. They’re fixated with him. They want him around. But what if Batman came face to face with a true hunter singularly obsessed with killing him? By framing DC’s Elmer…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 28 '17

Incredible New Observation Shows Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

You think our galaxy is special? Ha. Our boring pinwheel of gas and dark matter might be a nice hangout for humans. But 750 or so million light years away, there’s an elliptical galaxy, Galaxy 0402+379, whose two supermassive black holes are orbiting each other from a distance of only 24 or so light years.…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jun 28 '17

Leaked Manual Reveals How CIA Can Track Windows Users by Gauging Wi-Fi Signal

On Wednesday, WikiLeaks released the latest issue in its ongoing Vault 7 series—a trove of secret or otherwise classified US Central Intelligence Agency files from 2013 to 2016 describing previously undisclosed malware and viruses. Today’s release includes documentation on “ELSA,” a purported CIA project for tracking human targets carrying wi-fi-enabled devices. The malware involved in…

Tech News Dell Cameron Jun 28 '17

Creepy, Crawly, Unlikely Scifi Film The Untamed Now Has a Freaky First Trailer

Outside of one or two shots, the trailer for The Untamed doesn’t really reflect the movie’s title. There’s some drama going on here. Some frank discussions of sexuality. Pretty tame stuff. And then… what the HELL is that weird, slimy thing? All is revealed in The Untamed, directed by Amat Escalante, which opens in a…

Trailers Germain Lussier Jun 28 '17

Leaked Facebook Rules Reveal Why It Won’t Protect Black Children From Hate Speech

On Wednesday, ProPublica published dozens of startling training documents reportedly used by Facebook to train moderators on hate speech. As the trove of slides and quizzes reveals, Facebook uses a warped, one-sided reasoning to balance policing hate speech against users’ freedom of expression on the platform. This is perhaps best summarized by the above image…

Social Media Sidney Fussell Jun 28 '17

6 Things the US Government Is Doing That Supervillains Have Also Done

Supervillains have seized power many times over the past several decades. Sometimes they simply want domination, or they employ military might to eliminate those they hate or fear. Sometimes, it’s even worse. Our current government may not be hunting the X-Men (at least not yet) but it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that the people…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin Jun 28 '17

A Fax Machine and a Photocopier Walk Into a Bar: The Hasselblad X1D

There’s a terrible noise every time I click the shutter. Like a machine out of an office in the 80s clawing its way thirty years into the future to emit an obnoxious noise from this stunning camera in my hands. The Hasselblad X1D is among the first crop mirrorless medium format cameras to hit the…

Other Gadgets Victor Jeffreys II Jun 28 '17

New Evidence of an Ancient Neolithic Skull Cult Proves Humans Have Always Been Metal

It’s hard to say how long The Metal has been around. This is because The Metal does not care for the laws of linear time. What we do know is that for thousands of years, humanity has both feared and revered The Metal, as evidenced once again by the recent discovery of an ancient skull…

Tech News Rae Paoletta Jun 28 '17

How Spider-Man: Homecoming Balanced Peter Parker’s Legacy and Tony Stark’s Influence

Part of what makes Spider-Man Spider-Man is his ingenuity. His ability to make things on his own and be an independent superhero. Which is why some fans were concerned when trailers for Spider-Man Homecoming made it seem like Tony Stark did most of the work for him. So did the filmmakers and star of the…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 28 '17

Samsung Wants to Sell Refurbished Note 7s With the Silliest Possible Name

Samsung caught a whole mess of bad press last year after numerous reports of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone exploding. The company, however, apparently believes there’s still a rabid fanbase demanding a defused version of its mobile time bomb. So a refurbished version of the phone is going back on shelves next month—bearing what might…

Gadgets Alejandro Alba Jun 28 '17

iZombie‘s Season Finale Obliterated the Status Quo and Made Next Season a Must-Watch

Remember back when Rob Thomas said that the end of season three of iZombie would reset the series? And that there was a major reveal cut from the season finale and saved for the season four premiere, even though the cast and crew didn’t know for sure if they’d get one? Well, I think we…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Jun 28 '17

How a Chlorine ‘Freak Accident’ in a Pool Hospitalized Five Kids

You can finally add “swimming pools” to your running list of seemingly mundane-but-murderous-pastimes. At around 7pm EDT on Monday, local authorities in Tampa responded to an emergency call involving five sick children at a local pool. As reported by ABC News and others, a “cloud of chlorine gas” appeared in the Calypso Pool hours after…

Tech News Rae Paoletta Jun 28 '17

Scientists Push Back Against Controversial Paper Claiming a Limit To Human Lifespans

Humans don’t like dying, they don’t like the idea of dying, and most have made not dying an important part of their life. Lots of folks are interested in making us not die for longer, so it was a real bummer last year when a team of researchers said that the maximum human lifespan has…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jun 28 '17

Steve Rogers Reveals a Shocking Secret Weapon in the Newest Issue of Secret Empire

Over the course of Secret Empire, we’ve seen Stevil Rogers toy and play with the heroes of the Marvel Universe—from corrupting the Avengers, to wielding Mjolnir for his own. In his rise to dictatorship Steve has done all he can to twist his old life into a tool of Hydra… and now he’s planning to…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Jun 28 '17

Trump Accuses Amazon of Not Paying ‘Internet Taxes,’ Which Aren’t a Thing

In an apparent attempt to discredit The Washington Post the day after it published a report on fake Donald Trump Time magazine covers hanging up at his golf courses, the president posted one of his most confusing tweets since taking office. Syntax issues aside, this sentence makes absolutely no sense. Of course, there is no…

Commerce Jennings Brown Jun 28 '17

Screwing In This Lightbulb Turns Your Entire Desk Into a Touchscreen Smartphone

What if all those apps you rely on at work weren’t trapped on your smartphone’s tiny screen? They may not be for much longer. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group lab have come up with a novel way for your smartphone to spill out onto your desk while still letting you interact with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 28 '17

Not a Parody: Watch Rob Lowe and His Sons Investigate the Paranormal in the Lowe Files Trailer

When he isn’t staying perpetually employed, Rob Lowe spends a lot of time thinking about how much he loves his kids and how fascinated he is by paranormal creatures like the Loch Ness Monster. It was only a matter of time before he brought these two passions of his together as a reality TV show.…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 28 '17

The Era of Chaos-Inducing Ransomware Is Here and It’s Scary as Hell

Eerily Accurate Facial Reconstructions Are Allowing the Dead to Speak

It Turns Out Selling Ugly $50,000 Smartphones Is Actually a Bad Business Model

Batman’s Greatest Adversary Isn’t the Joker, It’s Elmer Fudd

Incredible New Observation Shows Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

Leaked Manual Reveals How CIA Can Track Windows Users by Gauging Wi-Fi Signal

Creepy, Crawly, Unlikely Scifi Film The Untamed Now Has a Freaky First Trailer

Leaked Facebook Rules Reveal Why It Won’t Protect Black Children From Hate Speech

6 Things the US Government Is Doing That Supervillains Have Also Done

A Fax Machine and a Photocopier Walk Into a Bar: The Hasselblad X1D

New Evidence of an Ancient Neolithic Skull Cult Proves Humans Have Always Been Metal

How Spider-Man: Homecoming Balanced Peter Parker’s Legacy and Tony Stark’s Influence

Samsung Wants to Sell Refurbished Note 7s With the Silliest Possible Name

iZombie‘s Season Finale Obliterated the Status Quo and Made Next Season a Must-Watch

How a Chlorine ‘Freak Accident’ in a Pool Hospitalized Five Kids

Scientists Push Back Against Controversial Paper Claiming a Limit To Human Lifespans

Steve Rogers Reveals a Shocking Secret Weapon in the Newest Issue of Secret Empire

Trump Accuses Amazon of Not Paying ‘Internet Taxes,’ Which Aren’t a Thing

Screwing In This Lightbulb Turns Your Entire Desk Into a Touchscreen Smartphone

Not a Parody: Watch Rob Lowe and His Sons Investigate the Paranormal in the Lowe Files Trailer

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