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Legion Might Have Capes, Will Not Have a ‘Big Fight’

It used to be—back when the easiest superhero joke was to make fun of Adam West’s Batman—that everyone fretted over making more realistic superheroes. Okay, I say “used to,” but we all know that the fear of making something campy has never, ever left most studios’ psyches. FX’s Legion, however, isn’t interested in avoiding capes…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

This Magical Spray Can Modify a Plant’s Genes

If you wanted to, say, turn a red pepper yellow, you have a few options. You could directly tinker with with the plant’s genetic code, tweaking the genes that control its color. Or, perhaps, you could just mist the plant with a spray that changes its gene expression without altering its genetics. A team at…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

The Best Underwater Photographs of 2016 Are Out of This World

This year may have been a rough one up here on Earth’s dry surface, but beneath the waves ocean life flourished and dazzled. The world’s most prestigious underwater photography competition has just announced its winning images for 2016—and they’re absolutely spellbinding. The Ocean Art Photography competition has been ongoing for six years, and with each…

Tech News Maddie Stone

A Brief History of Ben Affleck’s Conflicted Feelings About Directing a Batman Movie

Ben Affleck seems slightly worried about the high expectations that come with directing a Batman movie. Since the rumors about him directing the film began, he’s been expressing the contradictory “I’m really excited to do it” and “it’s not happening” sentiments. These last two weeks have only been the latest round in the Batfleck boom…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Who Does Elon Musk Play as in Overwatch? [Now We Know]

Elon Musk, our beloved spaceboy, sat down yesterday with Y Combinator’s Sam Altman to talk about, well, a whole bunch of stuff: Colonizing new planets, productivity, artificial intelligence. Stuff we generally associate with Musk and his business ventures. But in one of these video clips Altman asks for recommendations on video games and Musk, without…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Watch an Artist Sculpt Wonderfully Wacky Sculptures

Meet Wilfrid Wood. He’s an artist who specializes in sculpting heads and figures that are never boring because they go far beyond the safe and traditional look many of us are used to seeing. Wood’s sculptures are often wacky, definitely fun, and always wildly expressive, like he’s managed to capture a person’s very specific reaction…

Sploid Casey Chan

New Apple Patent Shows How That Edge-to-Edge Display Could Work

On Tuesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a patent that gives credence to those rumors of an edge-to-edge OLED iPhone. For years, users have longed for a phone that’s totally made up of a screen—no bullshit bezel needed—and this looks like one way it could happen. The patent, which was…

Tech News Christina Warren

The James Bond Comic Has a New Mission, Courtesy of Green Arrow‘s Ben Percy

Warren Ellis’ time with 007 at Dynamite Comics has come to an end, but the life of Britain’s premiere special agent goes on. Green Arrow’s Benjamin Percy is sending Bond off on new missions to new locales, and we caught up with him to see whats in store for MI6’s finest. Although starting out with…

io9 James Whitbrook

Snow Monkey Fucks Deer

Mating season has taken a strange turn for two normally platonic species on Japan’s Yakushima Island. The Japanese macaque—better known as the snow monkey—has a good thing going with the island’s population of sika deer. As noted by a study in Primates, the monkeys groom the deer, drop food from the trees while foraging (which…

Tech News Avery Ellis

When The Walking Dead Returns, Rick and His Crew Will Prepare for War

The Walking Dead returns on February 12 and AMC has started to pull back the curtain. The network has released three new images from the second half of the seventh season, as well as an uncharacteristically detailed plot description setting up everything that’ll happen. A description you can read right here: The first half of…

io9 Germain Lussier

Autofill on Chrome and Safari Can Give Hackers Access to Your Credit Card Info [UPDATED]

With a simple exploit, browsers like Chrome and Safari can be tricked into handing over your credit card information to hackers. And you wouldn’t even realize it. Viljami Kuosmanen is a hacker with Futurice and took to Github and Twitter to point out a simple exploit on malicious websites that can rip you off. As…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Trump Just Asked an Anti-Vaxxer to Chair a Commission on ‘Vaccine Safety’

On Tuesday, Donald Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine critic who once wrote a book arguing that flu vaccines are linked to autism, to chair a committee on vaccine safety. Kennedy has accused government scientists of being “involved in a massive fraud” to cover up safety concerns associated with vaccines. In case it’s…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

Trump’s Lawyer Says Untrue Tweets Were Hyperbolic, Gets Libel Suit Thrown Out

One of Donald Trump’s lawyers just successfully got a libel lawsuit against the president-elect thrown out of court. And you’re never going to believe how he did it. The lawyer successfully argued that Trump’s potentially libelous tweets were not only opinion, but that Twitter is merely “hyperbolic.” Yes, the next President of the United States…

Tech News Matt Novak

First Details on The Dark Star Trilogy, Author Marlon James’ ‘African Game of Thrones‘

“African folklore is just as rich, and just as perverse as [Lord of the Rings],” Marlon James said in a Vulture interview more than a year ago, after winning the the prestigious Man Booker Prize for his sprawling crime opus A Brief History of Seven Killings. Today, the first few details of James’ fantasy cycle…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse

Watching Robots Stuck in Repetitive, Mundane Tasks Is Stressing Me Out

If you’re living under the assumption that your job could never be filled by a robot, think again. Your day-to-day routine might not seem as monotonous as the tasks that factory line robots perform, but as Michael Marczewski’s stressful short film Vicious Cycle asks, is it really? Even activities like chopping wood or playing baseball…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

All the Fabulous New Comics Kicking Off 2017

Last year was a brilliant one for comics, but now that’s all in the past. Let’s look to the future! Thankfully, that future is already teeming with great new comics just waiting to be read. Here’s the all the stuff we’re looking forward to coming our way in the next few months. January Marvel Monsters…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Problem With Treating Gun Violence Like a Virus

Gun violence moves through a city the way a virus moves the body: predictably, but with uncanny precision. New research suggests “virus” patterns can be spotted and possibly help predict and even prevent shootings. But questions remain of whether this can be done ethically, and, most crucially, who can be trusted with this predictive technology.…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

This May Be the Best Explanation Yet For That Mysterious ‘Alien Megastructure’

New research suggests that Tabby’s star—the celestial object voted most likely to host an alien megastructure—is acting weirdly because it recently annihilated an entire planet, and the shattered remains of that planet are now producing strange flickering effects. It’s probably the best theory we’ve heard so far. It’s not aliens. At least that’s the conclusion…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Um, Deadpool Could Actually Get a Best Picture Oscar Nomination

No one takes the Golden Globes seriously. So when the awards show nominated Deadpool for Best Musical or Comedy Film, it was seen as fun nod for fans with no real weight. But the film has been lauded by multiple critics groups, it’s been nominated for a Writers Guild Award and won a Critics’ Choice…

io9 Germain Lussier

This Story About Feral Cats Eating KFC Only Gets Weirder

Australia has a kitty problem, and it’s not “the cat scratched up the couch.” It’s that feral cats roam 99.8 percent of the country—cats cover more Australian land than internet access does. To alleviate the problem, officials from Parks Victoria are, uh, feeding the cats KFC. But some don’t think the spending was justified. The…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Legion Might Have Capes, Will Not Have a ‘Big Fight’

This Magical Spray Can Modify a Plant’s Genes

The Best Underwater Photographs of 2016 Are Out of This World

A Brief History of Ben Affleck’s Conflicted Feelings About Directing a Batman Movie

Who Does Elon Musk Play as in Overwatch? [Now We Know]

Watch an Artist Sculpt Wonderfully Wacky Sculptures

New Apple Patent Shows How That Edge-to-Edge Display Could Work

The James Bond Comic Has a New Mission, Courtesy of Green Arrow‘s Ben Percy

Snow Monkey Fucks Deer

When The Walking Dead Returns, Rick and His Crew Will Prepare for War

Autofill on Chrome and Safari Can Give Hackers Access to Your Credit Card Info [UPDATED]

Trump Just Asked an Anti-Vaxxer to Chair a Commission on ‘Vaccine Safety’

Trump’s Lawyer Says Untrue Tweets Were Hyperbolic, Gets Libel Suit Thrown Out

First Details on The Dark Star Trilogy, Author Marlon James’ ‘African Game of Thrones‘

Watching Robots Stuck in Repetitive, Mundane Tasks Is Stressing Me Out

All the Fabulous New Comics Kicking Off 2017

The Problem With Treating Gun Violence Like a Virus

This May Be the Best Explanation Yet For That Mysterious ‘Alien Megastructure’

Um, Deadpool Could Actually Get a Best Picture Oscar Nomination

This Story About Feral Cats Eating KFC Only Gets Weirder

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