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Supreme Leader-Elect Donald Trump Has Summoned Silicon Valley Elites To His Lair

Roughly a dozen leaders of Silicon Valley, from Apple CEO Tim Cook to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, will assemble at Trump Tower in New York this week. But it’s still unclear what kind of punishment Supreme Leader-elect Donald Trump has in store for his disloyal subjects. Recode is reporting that Deputy Jester Reince Priebus and…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 10 '16

The Insides of Ordinary Objects in Macro Glory

The advancements in consumer-level photography mean that we have a lot of good people out there giving us a fresh look at things we’ve seen a million times. Things like the inside of a tube of toothpaste, or a stick of deodorant, or a pomegranate. In the past, you might get a glimpse of this…

Sploid Rhett Jones Dec 10 '16

Big Reveals Seem Stupidly Obvious After Watching the Westworld Dubsmash Mix

Who knew the Westworld cast was spoiling the first season all along…and on Dubsmash? Hey, guess what, there were multiple timelines, William was the Man in Black, and Dolores is going on yet another murderous rampage. Every single one of those reveals didn’t come to light until the final episode of season one; that is,…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 10 '16

Bank Glitch Allows Man to Spend Over $1 Million and Walk Away Free

Normally a glitch is a bad thing. Maybe it means your video game character gets stuck in a wall or maybe a glitch gets you wrongfully arrested. For an Australian man named Luke Moore, a simple bank glitch meant that he was able to blow $1.3 million on cars, travel, strippers and drugs over the…

Tech News Rhett Jones Dec 10 '16

Andy Serkis Thinks Planet of the Apes is ‘Boyhood in the Jungle,’ and He’s Right

The main difference between the original Planet of the Apes series and the latest reboot is whose journey we take. In the first two films, the focus was on whatever human was nearby, and then shifted to time-traveling primates. The Tim Burton reboot zeroed in on Marky Mark. This time around, Planet of the Apes…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 10 '16

CIA Report Concludes That Russia Tried to Help Trump Win

Following President Obama’s order for a full report on “cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election,” multiple sources are telling multiple publications that Russia used hacking as a tool to benefit the election of Donald Trump and harm his opponent, Hillary Clinton. A flurry of information has led to accusations of partisanship harming…

Tech News Rhett Jones Dec 10 '16

Viking Larper Fights Ninjas with Odin in Funny Short Film

It’s basically what you get when you combine The History Channel’s Vikings with Geek & Sundry’s LARP. Vikings & Pirates has released its first short film, Total Awesome Viking Power, on YouTube. Directed by Morten Forland, it’s about a Viking Larper who’s sentenced by his crew to the Land of the Dead for breaking the…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 10 '16

Westworld Fans Keep Forgetting That Logan is Queer

There’s been a bit of criticism circulating about Westworld’s representation of LGBT sexuality, or stated lack thereof. While the backlash is fair, a lot of it completely blankets over Logan, who is canonically queer. The concern is that interesting queer characters like Elsie and “what’s-her-name” from episode 3 disappear from the storyline when they’ve served…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 10 '16

Muppets ‘Pigs In Space’ Reboot Has Pig Guts, Hussies, and Alien Humping

Just in case a show that gave Fozzie an inter-species relationship, mocked Miss Piggy for her weight and gave Animal side chicks wasn’t adult enough, The Muppets are back in a recreation of one of the most messed-up moments in science fiction movie history. Yippee? The Muppet Show’s iconic space opera “Pigs in Space” is…

io9 Beth Elderkin Dec 10 '16

A Neon-Bright Look at the Electricity Between Soul Mates

In a futuristic city, a scientist’s daughter continues her late father’s research into a very special kind of sea creature—and wonderful things happen once it finds its long-lost mate. There isn’t any dialogue in Luke Saunders’ animated scifi short The Fisherman, but its neon color scheme practically pops off the screen.

io9 Cheryl Eddy Dec 9 '16

Something Doesn’t Add Up About Tim Miller’s Reason for Leaving Deadpool 2

Something smells off in the world of Deadpool 2 and it ain’t the chimichangas. Earlier this week, star Ryan Reynolds and producer Simon Kinberg addressed what fans could expect from the highly anticipated sequel. They said, though most sequels deliver bigger everything, that wasn’t what they wanted for Deadpool. They wanted to make another smaller…

io9 Germain Lussier Dec 9 '16

A Monster Prowls a Christmas Tree Lot in the First Clip from YouTube Red Horror Series 12 Deadly Days

We’ve all heard of the 12 days of Christmas—but the axe-wielding creature in this first clip from 12 Deadly Days, YouTube and Blumhouse Television’s horror-comedy series, is a far cry from a partridge in a pear tree. The series, set in a small California town that’s home to all kinds of not-so-joyful holiday mayhem (vampires!…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Dec 9 '16

Tom Holland Enrolled in a New York City School to Do Spider-Man Research

I can think of very few people who would voluntarily go back to high school. On the other hand, English actor Tom Holland didn’t have any actual memories of the American high school experience to fall back on for Spider-Man: Homecoming. Holland did a Q&A on Facebook Live, where he described something he did to…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Dec 9 '16

This Simulation of a Monkey Speaking Is the Stuff of Nightmares

New research shows that macaques have a vocal tract capable of emitting human-like speech, but they lack the brain circuitry to make words happen. That may be a good thing, because their simulated speech is creepy as hell. For nearly four decades, scientists have thought that the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech…

Tech News George Dvorsky Dec 9 '16

Batman and the Pink Power Ranger Make For a Fabulous Team

The Justice League/Power Rangers crossover miniseries is nearly upon us, which means it’s time for variant covers—and that means time for team-ups between members of the League and the teens with attitude. Kimberly and Batman make for a great pairing, no? DC has released its first slew of variants for the first issue of Justice…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Dec 9 '16

Where Is the Farthest Place You Can Be That’s Away from Everyone Else?

My life now has a purpose. I’ve discovered what I have to do before I die. From now on, every decision I make will be motivated to do one thing and one thing only: to find my way to Point Nemo, a place in the Pacific Ocean that’s the loneliest place on Earth. Point Nemo…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 9 '16

Why Apple Can’t Figure Out How to Make AirPods Work

Apple’s AirPods have been plagued by delays after they were announced alongside the iPhone 7 earlier this year, and now we might finally know exactly why. A new report in the Wall Street Journal says that Apple engineers are still struggling to make the product ready for mass production, citing a sync issue and a…

Tech News William Turton Dec 9 '16

A New Facebook Glitch Is Reposting People’s Random, Old Updates

Facebook users are reporting a bizarre bug that—like the video Year In Review or the persistent On This Day feature—dredges up digital memories. The only problem is that it’s doing so without their knowledge or permission. The glitch appears to be grabbing users’ posts at random and tossing them back onto their walls—and their friends’…

Social Media Avery Ellis Dec 9 '16

Behold the Awesome Power of the Death Star in New Rogue One Footage

Okay so it’s not blowing up a planet yet, but it is very, very pretty. At this point, you might feel like there’s been enough snippets and shares of Rogue One footage that you can piece together the whole movie—but that’s apparently not the case quite yet, as this new IMAX spot for the film…

Movies James Whitbrook Dec 9 '16

You Can Now Play Piano on the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar

Since the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar was released, we’ve seen a handful of fun apps that take advantage of the new hardware feature. Now we have the most logical toy app for the Touch Bar: A piano. Frankly, I’m a little disappointed it took this long to create. Graham Parks of Utsire Software created…

Tech News Christina Warren Dec 9 '16

Supreme Leader-Elect Donald Trump Has Summoned Silicon Valley Elites To His Lair

The Insides of Ordinary Objects in Macro Glory

Big Reveals Seem Stupidly Obvious After Watching the Westworld Dubsmash Mix

Bank Glitch Allows Man to Spend Over $1 Million and Walk Away Free

Andy Serkis Thinks Planet of the Apes is ‘Boyhood in the Jungle,’ and He’s Right

CIA Report Concludes That Russia Tried to Help Trump Win

Viking Larper Fights Ninjas with Odin in Funny Short Film

Westworld Fans Keep Forgetting That Logan is Queer

Muppets ‘Pigs In Space’ Reboot Has Pig Guts, Hussies, and Alien Humping

A Neon-Bright Look at the Electricity Between Soul Mates

Something Doesn’t Add Up About Tim Miller’s Reason for Leaving Deadpool 2

A Monster Prowls a Christmas Tree Lot in the First Clip from YouTube Red Horror Series 12 Deadly Days

Tom Holland Enrolled in a New York City School to Do Spider-Man Research

This Simulation of a Monkey Speaking Is the Stuff of Nightmares

Batman and the Pink Power Ranger Make For a Fabulous Team

Where Is the Farthest Place You Can Be That’s Away from Everyone Else?

Why Apple Can’t Figure Out How to Make AirPods Work

A New Facebook Glitch Is Reposting People’s Random, Old Updates

Behold the Awesome Power of the Death Star in New Rogue One Footage

You Can Now Play Piano on the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar

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