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Why Is Donald Trump Suddenly Interested in the F-35?

President-elect Donald Trump sent Lockheed Martin stocks plummeting on Monday morning after he published a hostile tweet about the huge cost of the F-35 Lightning II program. By now, it’s well known that Trump’s tweets have a tendency to set the daily news agenda on his own terms. For example, last week Trump tweeted about…

Tech News Michael Nunez

Here Are the Amazing Comics You’ll Be Reading For Free Comic Book Day 2017

Free Comic Book Day is already a good deal—after all, there is no better deal than “free comics.” But it’s an even better deal when the comics made available for the annual event sound absolutely incredible, and 2017’s output is shaping up to be very interesting. Three words, you guys: Mirror. Universe. Picard. The “Gold…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

These Crazy Coin Stack Sculptures Seem Impossible

Japanese artist Thumb Tani may have negotiated some deal with how gravity works on Earth for his coin sculptures. Or maybe he is somehow channeling Magneto’s superpowers. No way could be just carefully placing these coins on top of each other, because I struggle with making a nickel stand up straight. The structures are pretty…

Sploid Casey Chan

Ash vs Evil Dead Season Two Did Everything a Kick-Ass Sequel Should Do

The first season of Ash vs Evil Dead was nonstop insane mayhem, continuing a story that began 35 years ago in the most rewarding way possible. How could the second season possibly top that? Sam Raimi had the answer: raise the stakes, allow certain characters to evolve, and make everything at least 10 times gorier.…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Star Trek: Discovery Has Found Its Klingons

CBS All Access’ show has added three new castmembers—all reportedly playing Klingons—to Star Trek: Discovery. This tells us that instead of the traditional rotating cast of Klingons, we’re going to have an ongoing focus on specific members of the Klingon Empire. Deadline reports that Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful) will be playing Kol, a Klingon “commanding…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

How Super Rich Tech Companies Make Employees Live in Squalor

Amazon is a very rich company, with a market cap of $361 billion and stock price of over $750 a share. But as we’ve seen, the fortune of huge tech companies don’t often translate down to its employees. In some cases, it leaves them living in squalor. Take the blight of Amazon’s warehouse workers, especially…

Commerce Christina Warren

The Ultimate Social Network Goes Rogue in Rob Reid’s New Scifi Novel After On [Updated]

Rob Reid’s 2012 novel Year Zero drew from his experiences as the founder of the music-streaming service that became Rhapsody. His new book, After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, is similarly tech-obsessed—though from what we can tell, there aren’t any aliens in this one. But we’ve still got an exclusive excerpt to share below.…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Surprise! Netflix’s Trippy New Metaphysical Drama Starts This Friday

Sometimes, really cool-looking TV shows appear out of nowhere. The freshly revealed Netflix drama The OA is one of those and it looks eerie and good. Debuting this Friday in an eight-episode chunk, The OA comes from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the filmmakers behind the excellent Another Earth and Sound of My Voice. It…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Hugh Jackman Took a Paycut to Make Sure Logan Could Be Rated R

In Hollywood, the prevailing thought is an R-rating holds a film back. The feeling is, by limiting the audience to people over 17, studios aren’t allowing films to live up to their full financial potential. Forget the fact forcing a rating hinders creativity and kids will see a movie anyway, it’s just the way some…

Movies Germain Lussier

A New Dragon Ball Spinoff Imagines a World Where Yamcha Doesn’t Totally Suck

Poor Yamcha, the butt of 90 percent of all Dragon Ball jokes. The poor guy has had his ass kicked time and time again—and hell, infamously got killed off by a nameless grunt—and can’t really keep up with his friends. But a new official manga spinoff imagines a world where Yamcha is the greatest hero…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The 10 Best (and Five Worst) TV Shows of 2016

Unlike pretty much everything else, science fiction and fantasy had a great 2016. There were so many great shows that we had a lot of contenders for our best list, and only a few for our worst, so we ended up with twice as many TV series to acclaim as disparage. After a fair amount…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Go Download Your New iOS Emoji Right Now

Apple on Monday released iOS 10.2 for the iPhone and iPad. There are a number of new features, including the new TV app, but the real reason you want to download iOS 10.2 is for the hundreds of new and redesigned emoji. In addition to a slew of new more inclusive emoji, Apple also added…

Tech News Christina Warren

The Earliest Digital Cameras Used Floppy Disks

It’s 1997 and digital cameras were just coming on the market. Native support didn’t exist on Mac or PC, USB ports weren’t standard, and the miniSD card wouldn’t exist for another 6 years. The best storage option for the time was the humble floppy disk. As The 8-Bit Guy shows in a walk down tech’s…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Star Wars Is and Always Has Been Political

At the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story this weekend, Disney CEO Bob Iger said, “It is not a film that is, in any way, a political film. There are no political statements in it, at all.” That cannot be true. Star Wars is, and always has been, inherently political. It’s impossible to…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

JetBlue Invites Passengers to Watch Fun Show Called Why Planes Crash

As many of us prepare for holiday season travel, armed with headphones and Xanax, it’s incredible to realize that we can now watch TV on an airplane. On a recent JetBlue flight from JFK to SFO, I realized how modern marvels can be far from marvelous. The airline was broadcasting a show called Why Planes…

Tech News Cara Rose DeFabio

We Should Turn All Rifles Into Candy Dispensers

Artist Constantine Zlatev, working with Kostadin Ilov, a computer scientist at UC Berkeley, has come up with a clever way to repurpose old weapons as candy dispensers so that they only pose a risk to a perfect smile. At the heart of The Candy Machine is a disabled Model 94 Winchester rifle featuring a lever-action…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

DC Superheroes Will Team Up With Hanna-Barbera Characters Next Year

DC’s crossover game is strong lately. Not only have we got stuff like Justice League/Power Rangers on the way, along with the next Batman/TMNT crossover, the company has now announced that several of its weird (and very wonderful) comic takes on Hanna-Barbera characters will now host a series of team-ups with DC’s own finest heroes.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Crashed Enterprise Is a Gingerbread Masterpiece

‘Tis the season to recreate classic pop-culture references using the age-old medium of gingerbread, frosting, and candy, but Redditor ejustice has boldly gone where no gingerbread engineer has gone before. The U.S.S. Enterprise, and other Starfleet ships, have made emergency crash landings on random planets and worlds countless times, so it’s hard to pinpoint the…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Brightest Supernova Ever Seen Was Actually Something Much Darker

Last year, astronomers recorded the brightest supernova explosion ever seen. Follow up observations now suggest this cataclysmic event wasn’t a supernova at all, but rather, an extremely rare celestial phenomenon involving a supermassive black hole and a rather unfortunate star. In 2015, astronomers participating in the the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) witnessed…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

The Walking Dead Finally Got Its Shit Together

If you’ve been as bored watching The Walking Dead twiddle its decomposing thumbs this season as I’ve been, then last night’s mid-season finale was probably equally satisfying to you. It was a pretty low-key episode—with a few violent exceptions—but one that finally got Rick out of his funk and put Alexandria and the other groups…

Television Rob Bricken

Why Is Donald Trump Suddenly Interested in the F-35?

Here Are the Amazing Comics You’ll Be Reading For Free Comic Book Day 2017

These Crazy Coin Stack Sculptures Seem Impossible

Ash vs Evil Dead Season Two Did Everything a Kick-Ass Sequel Should Do

Star Trek: Discovery Has Found Its Klingons

How Super Rich Tech Companies Make Employees Live in Squalor

The Ultimate Social Network Goes Rogue in Rob Reid’s New Scifi Novel After On [Updated]

Surprise! Netflix’s Trippy New Metaphysical Drama Starts This Friday

Hugh Jackman Took a Paycut to Make Sure Logan Could Be Rated R

A New Dragon Ball Spinoff Imagines a World Where Yamcha Doesn’t Totally Suck

The 10 Best (and Five Worst) TV Shows of 2016

Go Download Your New iOS Emoji Right Now

The Earliest Digital Cameras Used Floppy Disks

Star Wars Is and Always Has Been Political

JetBlue Invites Passengers to Watch Fun Show Called Why Planes Crash

We Should Turn All Rifles Into Candy Dispensers

DC Superheroes Will Team Up With Hanna-Barbera Characters Next Year

Crashed Enterprise Is a Gingerbread Masterpiece

Brightest Supernova Ever Seen Was Actually Something Much Darker

The Walking Dead Finally Got Its Shit Together

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