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Scott Pruitt Is Dead Wrong About Public Perception of the EPA

Scott Pruitt, the recently confirmed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday. He announced his plans for rolling back regulations and said that what he wants for the agency is what the American people want. He is wrong. https://gizmodo.com/chickenshit-scott-pruitt-is-never-going-to-stand-up-to-1792687124 Pruitt was a controversial pick to lead the…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Game of Thrones Actor and Britain’s Tallest Man Neil Fingleton Dies at 36

Neil Fingleton, the man who brought the Game of Thrones giant Mag the Mighty to life, has passed away from apparent heart failure. He was 36 years old. Fingleton, who stood 7-feet and 7-inches tall, received the Guinness World Record in 2016 for being named Britain’s Tallest Man. He started out as a basketball player…

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Open Channel: Let’s Dish About the Oscars!

The 2017 Oscars are tonight, and while scifi and comic book fans didn’t get everything they wanted this year, there are some cool nominations that are worth getting psyched about. What are you hoping takes home the trophy this time? And just how pissed are you that Deadpool got snubbed? Arrival is one of the…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Samsung’s Latest Surface-Style Laptops Look So Nice You Might Forget the Exploding Phones

Less than six months after Samsung’s exploding phone debacle the company is at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. MWC has sometimes been the venue where Samsung’s announces updates to its flagship Galaxy phone brand, but after the exploding phones, and with the company’s chief in the clink, a decision was clearly made to focus…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Nokia Calls Attention to Itself by Relaunching Obsolete 3310 Dumb Phone

HMD Global, the Finnish company that owns the rights to Nokia’s phone brand licensing for the next ten years, took the stage at MWC in Barcelona today to showcase its first full line of Nokia-branded smartphones. The company revealed two new budget Android phones, and announced that the flagship Nokia 6 launched in China earlier…

Tech News Michael Nunez

SciFi Short Film Project Shows How Amazon’s Drones Will Destroy Us All

Drones might be seen as a cool way to get packages from Amazon Prime without having to talk to anybody, but they could lead to a dystopian police state. At least, that’s one what scifi short film is suggesting. Skywatch, a short film nearing its fundraising goal on Kickstarter, is all about what would happen…

io9 Beth Elderkin

A War Is On to Destroy the Fall Armyworm in Africa

A coalition of officials met in Zimbabwe this month to discuss a little pest that has become a big problem. The fall armyworm has spread through Africa over the course of the last year and it has had devastating effects on crops. Experts fear that globalization and climate change are setting the caterpillar up to…

Climate Change Rhett Jones

Facebook’s Day at CPAC, the Right Wing Nightmare Circus

For many Americans, life has been darker, bleaker, more difficult since Donald Trump was elected president. The clouds rolled in on November 8, and they have yet to part. Did we slip into an alternative universe, they wonder, where everything is just a little bit… wrong? Not so at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC),…

Social Media Libby Watson

Bill Paxton Dies at 61 After Surgery Complications

Bill Paxton, the actor behind iconic roles in Aliens, Titanic, and Apollo 13, has passed away at 61 years old. According to TMZ, who first reported the loss (later confirmed by People Magazine), Paxton died after complications from surgery. The 61-year-old actor had a string of hits with films like Aliens and Twister, and was…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Leaked Image Shows Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2‘s Kurt Russell In All His Bearded Glory

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has been super secretive about Ego the Living Planet, keeping Kurt Russell’s character mostly hidden from the public eye. The closest glimpse we’d had (until now) was an action figure two-pack, but here’s a look at Star-Lord’s daddy in the flesh. https://gizmodo.com/this-action-figure-is-our-best-look-yet-at-kurt-russell-1792511387 A leaked photo of Russell’s Ego has…

io9 Beth Elderkin

LG G6 First Impressions: Back to the Basics

Smartphone design just isn’t as interesting as it used to be; top phones are all basically beautiful slabs of glass and metal with glimmering displays that make you go “ahhhhh.” Last year, in an effort to combat the boredom, LG launched the G5, an ambitious disaster of an Android phone, which was most notable for…

Tech News Michael Nunez

ZeniMax Asks Court to Halt Oculus Sales Completely

Earlier this month, ZeniMax won a $500 million lawsuit against Oculus and its parent company Facebook. The court ruled that the VR headset manufacturer had indeed violated the company’s copyrights and a non-disclosure agreement. That half a billion looks like it wasn’t enough because ZeniMax wants blood. It has now filed an injunction demanding all…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Gareth Edwards Used VR to Direct Rogue One‘s Digital Scenes

If there’s anything Star Wars fans know about Gareth Edwards, it’s that he’s a very hands-on director. A recent demonstration shows how Industrial Light and Magic found a way to bring Edwards’ physical camerawork to the digital stage for Rogue One, using virtual reality. BBC Click shared a visit to ILM London to get a…

io9 Beth Elderkin

You’ll Never See ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ the Same Way After This Video

Robert Zemeckis has been hit or miss for almost two decades. But in the eighties, he was on fire. Along with Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is just one of those movies that remains great no matter how many years pass and its technical achievements are still a marvel. But why does…

Sploid Rhett Jones

Batman v Superman ‘Wins’ Big at Razzie Awards

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice cleaned (some of the) house at this year’s Razzies, winning four awards and making us all a little more afraid that Ben Affleck really will end up dropping out of The Batman altogether. The Golden Raspberry Awards, which happen the day before the Oscars, celebrate the worst and most…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Marvel Games Won’t Be Tied to MCU, Which Is the Best Decision They Could Make

Marvel Games isn’t forcing its developers to tie their video games into existing Marvel Cinematic Universe storylines. This might sound weird, given how interconnected the MCU has been over the past decade, but it’s actually a blessing in disguise. Marvel Games creative director Bill Rosemann told IGN at DICE 2017 that the teams behind Marvel’s…

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Doctor Who Teaser Shows New Companion Is Cool With Dying for the Doctor, and She Might

The latest teaser for Doctor Who’s 10th season gives us an inside look at Bill, the Doctor’s latest companion. She knows he’s “the most dangerous man in the universe” and it could result in her demise, but she’s cool with it because fun times. It’s probably a good thing, because they might be hitting a…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Google’s Project Ara Was Going to Offer a Tardigrade Aquarium Module

Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone was a weird concept that didn’t make it to market. The idea was to give users the option to change out custom modules for upgrades and odd individual features. A new report reveals that one of the most unusual modules would’ve featured a personal tardigrade aquarium. https://gizmodo.com/nobody-wants-a-modular-smartphone-1786099302 Venturebeat has taken…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Patrick Stewart Is Retiring From X-Men

It looks like Hugh Jackman isn’t the only one hanging up his mutant hat after Logan. Patrick Stewart has announced that he’s officially retiring from the X-Men franchise, saying, “I’m done.” Stewart had previously left his future as Professor Charles Xavier up in the air, throwing out tongue-in-cheek hints that he could reprise the role…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Creepy Critters Befriend a Lonely Princess in Adorable Animated Short Dark Dark Woods

Students at the Animation Workshop in Denmark collaborated on Dark Dark Woods, about a rambunctious young princess who slips away from her stuffy royal life to hang with the bug-eyed beasties that lurk in the forest outside her castle. The cute animation is an ideal match for this not-so-fractured fairy tale. [Everything Animated]

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Scott Pruitt Is Dead Wrong About Public Perception of the EPA

Game of Thrones Actor and Britain’s Tallest Man Neil Fingleton Dies at 36

Open Channel: Let’s Dish About the Oscars!

Samsung’s Latest Surface-Style Laptops Look So Nice You Might Forget the Exploding Phones

Nokia Calls Attention to Itself by Relaunching Obsolete 3310 Dumb Phone

SciFi Short Film Project Shows How Amazon’s Drones Will Destroy Us All

A War Is On to Destroy the Fall Armyworm in Africa

Facebook’s Day at CPAC, the Right Wing Nightmare Circus

Bill Paxton Dies at 61 After Surgery Complications

Leaked Image Shows Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2‘s Kurt Russell In All His Bearded Glory

LG G6 First Impressions: Back to the Basics

ZeniMax Asks Court to Halt Oculus Sales Completely

Gareth Edwards Used VR to Direct Rogue One‘s Digital Scenes

You’ll Never See ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ the Same Way After This Video

Batman v Superman ‘Wins’ Big at Razzie Awards

Marvel Games Won’t Be Tied to MCU, Which Is the Best Decision They Could Make

Doctor Who Teaser Shows New Companion Is Cool With Dying for the Doctor, and She Might

Google’s Project Ara Was Going to Offer a Tardigrade Aquarium Module

Patrick Stewart Is Retiring From X-Men

Creepy Critters Befriend a Lonely Princess in Adorable Animated Short Dark Dark Woods

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