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Ancient Insects Had Some Pretty Funky Camo

New evidence shows that insects were using camouflage to hide from their predators as many as 100 million years ago—and wow did these ancient bugs ever employ some strange forms of deception. During the Cretaceous period, insects were already using a panoply of tricks to evade their predators, a new study in Science Advances shows.…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The Director of The Shallows Talks Shark Sex and Moving On From Akira

Since The Shallows is a shark movie, director Jaume Collet-Serra researched the crap out of sharks in preparation—the result of which is a film that explores aspects of the creatures we’ve rarely seen before. The weird thing is that the director himself doesn’t see The Shallows as a shark movie. “I didn’t look at any…

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Baby Turtles Getting Hypnotized For Science Is So Cute It Hurts

Baby sea turtles don’t really need our help being adorable, but remarkably, scientists have figured out a way to make the tiny shelled reptiles even more mind-numbingly cute: by hypnotizing them. Mohd Uzair Rusli, a biologist at the University of Malaysia Terengganu, ran into some trouble recently when he was trying to weigh baby green…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Oculus Backtracks on DRM and Allows the HTC Vive to Play Rift Games Again

Games exclusivity is common place for consoles. Master Chief is on Xbox and Nathan Drake is on PS4. That’s the way it is. But for VR, many fans and developers want things to be more open, so gamers can able games on any headset they want. Today, Oculus’ latest update removes a perviously controversial DRM…

Tech News Darren Orf

And Now the Important News: How the Brexit Will Impact Game of Thrones

Winter is coming, but the Brexit is already here—the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. Economists are worried. Scientists are worried. Adam from Manchester is worried, and also a complete buffoon. But so are Game of Thrones fans, as the show films across the EU. Good news, though: the show will be fine. https://gizmodo.com/british-scientists-are-flipping-out-about-brexit-1782557431…

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Self-Expanding Curtain Makes Your Shower Feel Like a Spacious Luxury Spa

The tiny bathtub shower crammed into your equally tiny apartment probably feels like a claustrophobic nightmare every morning. But the Curvi’s an easy way to make it feel larger, spacious, and almost luxurious—without having to knock down walls or perform any kind of renovation. If you know how to install a new shower curtain without…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hungry Scientists Will Soon Eat a Vegetable Grown in Martian Soil

For two years, researchers have been farming a series of crops in Martian and lunar soils. Now, a vegetable from the garden is finally about to get its first taste test. It will be a radish. The radish wasn’t actually grown on Mars or the moon. Researchers in the Netherlands Wageningen University have grown a…

Tech News Ria Misra

Roland Emmerich’s Next Space Action Movie Is Already on the Way

Roland Emmerich’s latest film hasn’t even been in theaters a day and he’s already got a follow-up. It’s not a third Independence Day film, though; it’s called Moonfall. Moonfall is “best described as Emmerich’s 2012 mashed together with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, following an unlikely band of misfits who must unite to save…

io9 Germain Lussier

Check Out This Sweet Autocorrect Joke

I don’t know why the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra used an autocorrect joke as a vehicle to promote their brand, but you know what? At least it’s not a horrifying ad for breast augmentation. Judging by its Instagram feed, the NJSO is pretty hip with the kids, so perhaps the subway ad was an attempt…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

George Lucas Is Taking His Museum Away from Chicago

After a prolonged battle with San Francisco’s NIMBY empire, George Lucas announced two years ago that he would take his giant filmmaking museum project to the friendlier shores of Chicago. Now, after yet another vicious battle with Chicago’s NIMBYs, he’s abandoning his plans there, too. You’d think he was trying to build the Death Star…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This Scanner in the Dirt Captures All That’s Going on Underground

Dirt is boring. Soil isn’t fun. Who cares what’s happening down there. So I thought. Josh Williams changed my mind with his SoilCam, a waterproof scanner that’s controlled by a Raspberry Pi. He places it in the dirt so we can see everything that’s happening underground. It’s so alive. It’s a whole different world down…

Sploid Casey Chan

Beat the Heat With the Gif Party

If it’s summer where you are, then it is statistically likely that it’s been pretty hot. Why not come by and cool down with the gif party?

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Apple Discontinues Its Big Beautiful Thunderbolt Display

Apple hasn’t updated its Thunderbolt display in five years, and now it won’t be selling it either. Yesterday, Apple announced that its old displays would be sold on Apple.com while supplies last, and then the hardware would officially retire. But the weird thing is that Apple hasn’t announced any new displays to replace it, instead…

Tech News Darren Orf

Just Make the Spider-Gwen Disney Infinity Figure Anyway, Disney

The surprise cancellation of the successful Disney Infinity video game franchise rocked gamers and collectors when news broke earlier this year. We’re starting to see concept designs for what some of the never-produced figures would have looked like and the sight of them just intensifies the yearning for what could have been. Images of a…

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The Curiosity Rover Sure Looks Lonely When Seen From Space

A remarkable new image captured by a satellite in orbit around Mars shows the Curiosity rover as it explores the barren landscape. Curiosity is currently investigating the Naukluft Plateau, which is just north of the Bagnold Dune field. A newly released photo taken by the HiRISE instrument on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Japan’s New Godzilla Makes for a Beautifully Monstrous Action Figure

We’ve seen the gnarly-looking star of Shin Godzilla stomping about in the trailer and stills already, but this new Figuarts action figure of the monstrous design really gives us our best look yet at the new King of Kaiju. It also helps that it’s a fantastic-looking toy, too. https://gizmodo.com/our-first-solid-details-about-japans-next-godzilla-movi-1781981552 Part of Tamashii Nations’s ‘Monsterarts’ spin-off…

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Every Wave’s a Towering Wall of Water For This Foot-Tall RC Surfer

If the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week has left you terrified of the ocean, here’s a much safer way to try your hand at surfing. Just let Kyosho’s foot-tall RC surfer be your proxy, risking life and limb amongst the sharks while you’re safely lounging on the beach controlling it with a wireless remote in one…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

This Is the Least Scary Lights Out Trailer Yet and It’s Still Great

This summer has been pretty weak so far in terms of big-budget blockbusters but, maybe the horror genre will save it. The Conjuring 2 was great and soon, Lights Out will be here. A new trailer is out and, no, it’s not as good as the last few, but it’s still ultra effective. Directed by…

io9 Germain Lussier

What If Pixar Movies Ended at the Sad Parts?

Pixar movies are funny and fantastic and all ploy at your emotions with wonderful characters and an always relatable story. But almost everything works out in the end of all their movies. What if they didn’t? Chris Huebs hilariously re-edited Pixar movies so they ended at all the sad parts of the film. Right when…

Sploid Casey Chan

Marvel Brought Back One of Its Most Embarrassing Kids Characters in a Really Funny Way

You know those terrible links you see floating around the web that scream, “28 Awkward Child Stars That Are Now Crazy Hot?” This is one of those. Sort of. Back in the 1980s, Marvel rolled out a kid-focused imprint called Star Comics. Aside from Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham, most of the Star titles have…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Ancient Insects Had Some Pretty Funky Camo

The Director of The Shallows Talks Shark Sex and Moving On From Akira

Baby Turtles Getting Hypnotized For Science Is So Cute It Hurts

Oculus Backtracks on DRM and Allows the HTC Vive to Play Rift Games Again

And Now the Important News: How the Brexit Will Impact Game of Thrones

Self-Expanding Curtain Makes Your Shower Feel Like a Spacious Luxury Spa

Hungry Scientists Will Soon Eat a Vegetable Grown in Martian Soil

Roland Emmerich’s Next Space Action Movie Is Already on the Way

Check Out This Sweet Autocorrect Joke

George Lucas Is Taking His Museum Away from Chicago

This Scanner in the Dirt Captures All That’s Going on Underground

Beat the Heat With the Gif Party

Apple Discontinues Its Big Beautiful Thunderbolt Display

Just Make the Spider-Gwen Disney Infinity Figure Anyway, Disney

The Curiosity Rover Sure Looks Lonely When Seen From Space

Japan’s New Godzilla Makes for a Beautifully Monstrous Action Figure

Every Wave’s a Towering Wall of Water For This Foot-Tall RC Surfer

This Is the Least Scary Lights Out Trailer Yet and It’s Still Great

What If Pixar Movies Ended at the Sad Parts?

Marvel Brought Back One of Its Most Embarrassing Kids Characters in a Really Funny Way

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