Latest

AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile Stop All Note 7 Sales and Replacements After Reports of Further Fires [UPDATED]

Three of America’s largest wireless providers suspended their replacement programs for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 this weekend following reports of “safe” replacement phones igniting. In separate statements, AT&T and T-Mobile announced on Sunday that they would continue to accept Note 7s to be exchanged but would only replace them with other devices. Verizon said…

Gadgets Hudson Hongo Oct 9 '16

How to Stream Tonight’s Presidential Debate For Free, No Cable Required

The second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is tonight at 9pm ET, 6pm PT. And after Trump’s latest scandal, it’s guaranteed to be explosive. If you don’t have cable TV, you might be wondering how to stream the debate live. Well, Gizmodo has you covered. The second debate is “town hall style,”…

Social Media Matt Novak Oct 9 '16

Hurricane Matthew Unearths 150-Year-Old Civil War Artillery in South Carolina

On Sunday, explosives experts were dispatched to Folly Island, South Carolina, after a resident found what appeared to be at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs uncovered by Hurricane Matthew. During the Civil War, Folly Island served as a key staging area for Union troops attacking nearby Fort Morris. Since then, remnants of the occupation…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Oct 9 '16

The Beautiful and Terrifying Behavior of the Most Active Metal in the World

For practical purposes, the metal Cesium can be found in spacecraft propellant, radiation devices that treat cancer and atomic clocks. For impractical purposes, it reshapes itself and explodes in the most beautiful and unpredictable ways. Cesium (also spelled Caesium) is one of the most extreme elements on the periodic table—depending on how you’re measuring, it’s…

Sploid Rhett Jones Oct 9 '16

Jemaine Clement Joins X-Men Spin-off Series Legion

Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement is trading in his singing pipes for another mutant superpower. It was announced online that Clement is joining the cast of Legion in a multi-episode role. The news came right around Legion’s New York Comic-Con panel, which also showed fans the first half of the one-hour pilot episode.…

io9 Beth Elderkin Oct 9 '16

HealthCare.gov Warns It Might Just Change Your Coverage For You By January

Are you one of the millions of people who signed up for health insurance through HealthCare.gov? If your health insurance company is pulling out of Obamacare, you might want to head over to the site before the start of the new year. If you don’t switch your health insurance provider by January, the government will…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 9 '16

NASA Releases Photos of Hurricane Matthew Damage at Kennedy Space Center, Says It’s Okay for Now

Many feared that NASA’s Kennedy Space Center was in for a world of hurt this weekend as the category 4 Hurricane Matthew plowed its way towards the Florida Panhandle. But the space agency says that damage was relatively minor and further inspections are taking place today. https://gizmodo.com/hurricane-matthew-is-a-nightmare-scenario-for-kennedy-s-1787471900 After wobbling west and east on Friday morning,…

Tech News Rhett Jones Oct 9 '16

12 Monkeys Season 3 Promises Even More Futuristic Insanity

The Season 3 trailer for Syfy’s time-traveling thriller 12 Monkeys is here, and we’re spending more time in 2163, over a century in the future. Do you think they can tell us who won this election, so we don’t have to think about it anymore? The last season left things on a pretty dire (yet…

io9 Beth Elderkin Oct 9 '16

Ron Perlman Says Hellboy 3 Has Been Shelved, Possibly Forever

There have been rumors, hopes, and wishes that we’d finally get a third-installment of Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy series. But Ron Perlman, the actor who brought Hellboy to life, says the series is most likely dead. Perlman was asked about Hellboy 3 during a New York Comic-Con roundtable for Trollhunters, the animated Netflix series that…

io9 Beth Elderkin Oct 9 '16

Science Gives Silkworms Spiderman-esque Silk

Researchers have successfully beefed up the delicate thread of the silkworm by feeding them graphene, or single-walled carbon nanotubes. You know what that means. Get ready for some silky-smooth wearable tech. According to Scientific American: To make carbon-reinforced silk, Yingying Zhang and her colleagues at Tsinghua University fed the worms mulberry leaves sprayed with aqueous…

Tech News Rhett Jones Oct 9 '16

SNL Tackles Stranger Things Season 2’s Greatest Mystery

The first season of Netflix’s surprise hit Stranger Things left us with a lot of questions. Is Eleven stuck in the Upside Down (Maybe)? Will Barb come back (No)? What about Will’s weird slug thing (No clue)? However, Saturday Night Live chose to answer the biggest question of all: Where the heck were Lucas’ parents?…

io9 Beth Elderkin Oct 9 '16

Daniel Craig Would No Longer Rather Slit His Wrists Than Play James Bond Again

Is it a true change of heart or is he just psyching himself up to say yes to the dump truck of money the franchise gives him? At the New Yorker Festival on Friday, Daniel Craig was given the opportunity to give some perspective on his now infamous Time Out interview where he said that,…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Oct 9 '16

Man’s Replacement Galaxy Note 7 Catches Fire, Samsung Accidentally Texts ‘I Can Try and Slow Him Down’ [Updated]

A third replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire in Kentucky earlier this week. Not only did the incident send the device’s owner to the hospital after suffering from smoke inhalation. Someone at Samsung sent him a text that was apparently meant for a colleague: “I can try and slow him down if we…

Tech News Rhett Jones Oct 9 '16

The Most Incredible Cosplay of New York Comic-Con, Day Three

Saturday’s winner in my personal cosplay sweepstakes: a dude done up as Kitty Pryde dissing the telepathic founder of the X-Men. The ski jacket, facial expression and word balloon from the cosplay above blew me away, instantly transporting me back to seeing that iconic opening page of Uncanny X-Men #168 for the first time way…

io9 Evan Narcisse Oct 9 '16

Negan Might Do Something That Was Once ‘Impossible’ in the Latest Clip From the Walking Dead Premiere

In a clip shown during the Walking Dead panel at New York Comic Con, we saw Negan threaten more brutality than the murder we still have not had revealed to us. Of course, what Negan is joking about doing is really unlikely. In this new clip, Negan makes a comment about the importance of having…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Oct 9 '16

The Footage We Just Saw Showcases All the Best Parts of Iron Fist

At a packed panel at New York Comic Con, Marvel and Netflix shared a bunch of information about Iron Fist, which had literally just finished filming the last scene of the show at nine in the morning before coming to the Javits Center. Despite that, they still had clips to share. So many clips. In…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Oct 8 '16

Behold the Power of Danny Rand’s Glowing Hands in the Iron Fist Teaser Trailer

We finally got a better look at Marvel and Netfix’s Iron Fist, a look which gives you everything you expect from the character. The second this video showed his hands, the crowd who saw it premiere at New York Comic Con went wild. The trailer is all about the fighting, and pay special attention to…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta Oct 8 '16

Sigourney Weaver Will Be the Villain of The Defenders

Not content to show tons of footage from Iron Fist or to bring out all the Defenders together, Marvel and Netflix also announced that Sigourney Weaver would add another classic science fiction franchise to her filmography. She will be the villain of The Defenders. There were rumors that the villain of the movie would be…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Oct 8 '16

Karen Page Is Going to Be on Netflix’s Punisher Series

Jon Bernthal surprised a crowd at New York Comic Con to say that season one of Punisher is already in production. But more than that, that Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) will be making the jump from Daredevil to The Punisher. Woll said on the stage, “You don’t love him as much as I do.”…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Oct 8 '16

Disney and Marvel Add a Brand New Spider-Man Cartoon to Their Line-Up

Announced today at New York Comic Con, Disney XD’s going to premiere a new animated show called Marvel’s Spider-Man in 2017. “But what about Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man? Isn’t that a Spider-Man cartoon already on Disney XD?” Yes, yes it is. Ultimate Spider-Man will have its series finale in January, with Spider-Man stopping Doctor Octopus and…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Oct 8 '16

AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile Stop All Note 7 Sales and Replacements After Reports of Further Fires [UPDATED]

How to Stream Tonight’s Presidential Debate For Free, No Cable Required

Hurricane Matthew Unearths 150-Year-Old Civil War Artillery in South Carolina

The Beautiful and Terrifying Behavior of the Most Active Metal in the World

Jemaine Clement Joins X-Men Spin-off Series Legion

HealthCare.gov Warns It Might Just Change Your Coverage For You By January

NASA Releases Photos of Hurricane Matthew Damage at Kennedy Space Center, Says It’s Okay for Now

12 Monkeys Season 3 Promises Even More Futuristic Insanity

Ron Perlman Says Hellboy 3 Has Been Shelved, Possibly Forever

Science Gives Silkworms Spiderman-esque Silk

SNL Tackles Stranger Things Season 2’s Greatest Mystery

Daniel Craig Would No Longer Rather Slit His Wrists Than Play James Bond Again

Man’s Replacement Galaxy Note 7 Catches Fire, Samsung Accidentally Texts ‘I Can Try and Slow Him Down’ [Updated]

The Most Incredible Cosplay of New York Comic-Con, Day Three

Negan Might Do Something That Was Once ‘Impossible’ in the Latest Clip From the Walking Dead Premiere

The Footage We Just Saw Showcases All the Best Parts of Iron Fist

Behold the Power of Danny Rand’s Glowing Hands in the Iron Fist Teaser Trailer

Sigourney Weaver Will Be the Villain of The Defenders

Karen Page Is Going to Be on Netflix’s Punisher Series

Disney and Marvel Add a Brand New Spider-Man Cartoon to Their Line-Up

Latest news

Apple Is Officially Coming for Meta’s Privacy-Invading Lunch With Its Own Smart Glasses in Late 2027

A New Book Chronicles the Birth of ‘E.T.’

The ‘Minecraft’ Movie Sequel Gets a New Name and First Look

’28 Years Later’ May Get a Third Movie After All

The Best Gadgets of May 2026

Anthropic Is Now Worth More Than OpenAI

Polymarket Cracks Down on VPN Users as Legal Pressure Intensifies in Dozens of Countries

A Remake of ‘The Birds’ Is Flying to Television

Latest Reviews

Sony 1000X The Collexion Review: Too Expensive for Anyone but Sony Superfans

Alienware Fixed the One Problem With the Area-51, and Now I’m Afraid I Love It

Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Max Review: Wireless Earbuds With Enough Features to Make Your Head Spin

Anker Solix E10 Review: No Power? No Problem

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker Review: Sonos Can Start Sweating Now

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar Review: A Boisterous Stab at Dominating Home Theater

Dell’s XPS 16 (2026) Is Almost Everything I Could Have Asked for… Almost

Smart Glasses With Subscriptions Are As Bad as They Sound

Let us help you find what you’re looking for...