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Hackers Snag $2 Million From ATMs Without Using Credit Card

Earlier this week, Taiwanese hackers tricked ATMs into unloading piles of cash—more than $2 million dollars, in fact—without using a credit card. Instead of using a stolen credit card like most ATM thieves, these masked robbers used a computer program and walked away with piles of cash in a backpack. The hackers attacked 30 ATMs…

Tech News William Turton

The Lost Boys Is Finally Getting the Sequel it Deserves, Just in Comic Book Form

“I don’t like horror comics,” new kid in town Sam says in The Lost Boys when the weirdos he’s just met, the Frog Brothers, try to give him a book about vampires. The theme has come full circle now that The Lost Boys are getting a sequel in comic book form—featuring Sam and both Frogs—courtesy…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Movie Review: Ghostbusters Isn’t Perfect, But It’s So Much Fun You Won’t Care

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is a film for anyone who ever watched the first Ghostbusters and thought, “I wish they got to use their guns more.” It’s bigger, brighter, and louder—the sort of movie that features the Ghostbusters shooting ghosts in slow motion set to the iconic theme song. It’s also incredibly funny. The only problem…

Movies Germain Lussier

3 Uses for a Second Email Address That Don’t Involve Spam

You probably have a second email address you use for blocking spam and other junk that you don’t want in your primary inbox—but that’s not the only reason you should set up an alternative address for yourself. Here are three more ways you can put a second email account to good use. 1) Save your…

Gadgets David Nield

Groot Is Still Tiny in the First Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Image

There are some interesting details in the very first piece of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 concept art. For one thing, Groot hasn’t grown big yet. For another, there’s a brand new character standing there behind our team. The image, tweeted by director James Gunn, shows not only Rocket, Groot, Gamora, Peter Quill, and…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Mark Hamill Had a Very Different Idea for Luke’s Intro in The Force Awakens

Mark Hamill was extremely excited when he finally sat down with the script for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The first line of the script was “Luke Skywalker has vanished” and he anxiously read to see when he’d appear. Like all of us, Hamill was surprised to find out not only did he not appear…

io9 Germain Lussier

3D-Printed Gatling Gun Fires 48 Rubber Bands in Mere Seconds

Matthew Davis’ Arcus is officially the most impressive thing we’ve ever seen come out of a 3D printer. Sure, cheap prosthetics and replacement body parts are important uses of the technology, but this spinning rubber band blaster is what finally makes us want to put a 3D printer on our desks. Unlike most rubber band…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Experience One of the Darkest Places On the US Coast in This Timelapse

Dry Tortugas National Park is one of the darkest places on the east coast of the United States. So if you’re going to make a timelapse video of the night sky, that’s an ideal place to do so. Located around 70 miles west of Key West, this set of islands is home to a fort…

Tech News Carli Velocci

The Untold Stories of Ahsoka Tano Broke Our Hearts—And Ahsoka’s, Too

Star Wars Celebration Europe kicked off today, and started with a bang: an entire panel dedicated to the life and times of Ahsoka Tano, from Clone Wars to Rebels, and all the untold moments in between. Huge, emotional secrets were revealed, not just to us, but to Ahsoka herself, actor Ashley Eckstein. The panel, featuring…

io9 James Whitbrook

This Insane Caterpillar Infestation Can Be Seen From Space

Hordes of gypsy moth caterpillars are currently ravaging parts of the Northeastern United States. Newly released images from space show the alarming damage being done to New England forests by these leaf-munching insects. Incredible as it may seem, insects and disease damage 45 times more forest area annually than wildfires. A single caterpillar or bug…

Tech News George Dvorsky

New Research Shows That Opposites Attract, But Only Under One Condition

The saying “opposites attract” is a little too simple for my liking when it comes to relationships, but if two new studies are any indication, there might be some science behind that theory. Researchers at Charles University in the Czech Republic published a paper last month in Frontiers in Psychology that proposes single people are…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Dean Devlin Explains Why They’re Rebooting Stargate and Sidestepping the TV Shows

We’re already getting teases for a Fantastic Beasts sequel. An Agent Carter alum joins the Death Note adaptation. The full cast of The Mist TV series has been revealed. Spidey hangs around in more Spider-Man Homecoming set footage. Plus, new Star Trek Beyond footage, and another terrible teaser for The Walking Dead’s return. Behold, Spoilers!…

Television James Whitbrook

Fascinating Stop-Motion Film Reveals All the Animation Gear You Never See

Turning inanimate puppets into beautifully animated stop-motion characters requires a lot of patience, a thorough understanding of movement, and countless supports, armatures, and lighting gear the viewer never gets to see. But in Dario Imbrogno’s OSSA, that animation gear is as much a star of the film as the dancing characters are. [Vimeo via The…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

New 3D Map of the Universe Features a Whopping 1.2 Million Galaxies

The astronomical map you see here doesn’t depict stars, it shows galaxies—1.2 million of them, to be exact, a new record for astronomers. This extraordinary new 3D scan of the universe provides yet more evidence that a mysterious substance known as dark energy is likely causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate. The…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Star Wars Is Adding Some Gorgeous New Ships For Rogue One

Star Wars Celebration Europe just opened and, on the show floor in London, is an exhibit of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story costumes and props. Most of the costumes we’ve seen before, but there are some new ships that look absolutely incredible. Above you see the TIE Striker, which was revealed in a smaller…

Movies Germain Lussier

70-Year-Old Tolkien Poem To Be Republished, Will Probably Make You Cry

Just because J.R.R. Tolkien has been dead since 1973 doesn’t mean he can’t still continue to publish work. So of course, after two of his poems were found earlier this year, we’re set to get another poem. According to The Guardian, “The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun,” which was published in 1945 in the literary…

io9 Carli Velocci

This Statue for a Chinese Warrior Is Very Probably the Most Badass Statue Ever

Damn. That’s a good statue. This 158-foot-tall bronze figure depicts Guan Yu, an ancient Chinese general, and majestically towers over Jingzhou, China. Shanghaiist says that over 4,000 strips of bronze have been stuck onto the body of Guan Yu and he stands atop the 86,000 square foot Guan Yu museum. All that is great but…

Sploid Casey Chan

Someone Just Made a New Episode of the 1980s He-Man Cartoon

Confused? Understandably. But Super7, purveyors of all sorts of nerdy nostalgia, have clearly done a shocking amount of work to make this as authentic a version of the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series as possible, right down to Skeletor’s insults of his minions. Watch this trailer and see for yourself!…

io9 Rob Bricken

How to Make a DIY Dyson Bladeless Fan with a Water Jug and a Plant Vase

Dyson’s Bladeless Fans are wonderfully awesome but also ridiculously expensive. Am I really going to spend 300 bucks on a fan? Nah. Thankfully, Rulof the master maker of things breaks down how to build the bladeless fan with a water jug, a few vases, and a microwave fan. Just like Dyson, this DIY version of…

Sploid Casey Chan

Game of Thrones and All the Other Nominations You Care About [Updated]

The Emmy nominations were finally announced this morning, and, unsurprisingly, Game of Thrones was honored a lot, including Best Drama. And here are all the other shows and categories you likely have a stake in. Updated: Now that the full list is out, Game of Thrones is officially the most nominated, with 23 nominations. The…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Hackers Snag $2 Million From ATMs Without Using Credit Card

The Lost Boys Is Finally Getting the Sequel it Deserves, Just in Comic Book Form

Movie Review: Ghostbusters Isn’t Perfect, But It’s So Much Fun You Won’t Care

3 Uses for a Second Email Address That Don’t Involve Spam

Groot Is Still Tiny in the First Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Image

Mark Hamill Had a Very Different Idea for Luke’s Intro in The Force Awakens

3D-Printed Gatling Gun Fires 48 Rubber Bands in Mere Seconds

Experience One of the Darkest Places On the US Coast in This Timelapse

The Untold Stories of Ahsoka Tano Broke Our Hearts—And Ahsoka’s, Too

This Insane Caterpillar Infestation Can Be Seen From Space

New Research Shows That Opposites Attract, But Only Under One Condition

Dean Devlin Explains Why They’re Rebooting Stargate and Sidestepping the TV Shows

Fascinating Stop-Motion Film Reveals All the Animation Gear You Never See

New 3D Map of the Universe Features a Whopping 1.2 Million Galaxies

Star Wars Is Adding Some Gorgeous New Ships For Rogue One

70-Year-Old Tolkien Poem To Be Republished, Will Probably Make You Cry

This Statue for a Chinese Warrior Is Very Probably the Most Badass Statue Ever

Someone Just Made a New Episode of the 1980s He-Man Cartoon

How to Make a DIY Dyson Bladeless Fan with a Water Jug and a Plant Vase

Game of Thrones and All the Other Nominations You Care About [Updated]

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