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40 People Got Burned ‘Firewalking’ in Texas For the Dumbest Reason

Around 40 people attending a seminar with motivational speaker Tony Robbins in downtown Dallas yesterday were injured when a group exercise involving walking across hot coals went wrong. And it’s not the first time this has happened: back in 2012, for instance, 21 people in San Jose were burned after attempting the stunt at another…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

Pop Culture’s Greatest Vehicles Get Ready for a Mad Max-Style Dystopia

The iconic vehicles of film and TV—your Ecto-1s, your Deloreans, your Batmobiles and what have you—are already pretty cool. Kit them out for the Mad Max post-apocalypse though? Infinitely cooler. That’s what Scott Park did for his latest project, part of a monthly art challenge by Planet Pulp for artists to put their take on…

io9 James Whitbrook

This 1938 Magazine Cover Showed Britain a Shinier, Happier Future

The late 1930s were dark times for Britain. War was on the horizon, and things were about to get very, very tough. But some periodicals tried keeping things light with utopian visions of tomorrow. Like this March 5, 1938 cover of Modern Wonder which featured the streamlined transportation of the future. The magazine reads: Our…

Tech News Matt Novak

Why You Should Stop Using Telegram Right Now

Telegram, the supposedly secure messaging app, has over 100 million users. You might even be one of them. If you are, you should probably stop using it right now. Here’s the unfortunate truth about Telegram: it’s not as secure as the company’s marketing campaigns might lead you to believe. According to interviews with leading encryption…

Privacy & Security William Turton

This $900 Wetsuit Promises to Make You the Fastest Swimmer

When you’re designing a shirt, it makes sense to cut the fabrics so that the wearer is most comfortable with their arms down at their sides in a resting position. But for a swimmer, whose arms are constantly in motion, Roka Sports believes it’s advantageous to instead design a wetsuit with an athlete’s arms raised…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Right Before They Erupt, Volcanoes Become Ominously Silent

If an active volcano nearby suddenly kicks up its activity with steam, smoke, and below-ground rumblings, it’s a good idea to get away very quickly. But now researchers have found an even more dangerous sign to watch volcanoes for: sudden, total silence. A team led by researchers at Carnegie Institution of Science has been monitoring…

Tech News Ria Misra

How Person of Interest Became Essential Science Fiction Television

This past Tuesday night saw the season finale of Person of Interest, a show that premiered in 2011 as basically just a high-concept vigilante show. By the time it ended, it had transformed the one of the best science fiction series ever broadcast. And it did it without ever losing its primetime, network-friendly premise. When…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Why the Hell Did It Take So Long for YouTube to Do Live Streaming for Mobile?

On Thursday, YouTube announced the launch mobile live streaming capabilities for select users, a service that will compete with Periscope and Facebook Live. “We’ve been offering live streaming on YouTube since 2011, before it was cool,” the blog post publicizing the news began, which sounds an awful lot like the rationalization of a company that…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

British Scientists Are Flipping Out About Brexit

Britain is saying goodbye to the European Union, a monumental decision that’s triggering some serious alarm bells among the country’s researchers. Here’s why they have a right to be worried. For months, scientists and environmentalists in the UK have been warning about the consequences of a Brexit. And now it’s actually happened. It’ll likely take…

Tech News George Dvorsky

These Images Were Taken With an Entirely New Kind of Photography

These beetles may look like two different species, but they’re the same individual. The difference lies in how they were photographed, using a new lens that allows scientists to “see” one of the most fundamental properties of biology: chirality. Many of the building blocks of life are geometrically chiral, meaning they come in a “left…

Physics & Chemistry Maddie Stone

Hot Toys’ Force Awakens Han Solo Is the Grumpiest Harrison Ford Figure Ever Made

Look at that face. That is the face of an action figure that has had enough of this shit. Hot Toys, makers of extraordinarily detailed and expensive action figures, has finally unveiled a duo many fans were waiting for in their Force Awakens range: Han Solo and Chewbacca, older, wiser, and now 1:6th scale-ier than…

io9 James Whitbrook

Chrome Bug Makes It Easy to Download Movies From Netflix and Amazon Prime

For the past decade, Hollywood’s battle against online pirates has been mainly been focused on leaked DVD screeners and illegal streaming sites. Now a pair of security researchers say they’ve discovered a vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser that allows people to save illegal copies of movies from streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime.…

Tech News Michael Nunez

Hacked Slack Chats Reveal High School Teachers Are Insufferable Dicks

It’s a harsh lesson to learn, but internal chat messages like Slack are really not your friend. In fact, they can be your worst enemy. Teachers at the Blackstone Valley Prep High School in Rhode Island learned that lesson in the most embarrassing way possible. Earlier this week an unknown hacker used a teacher’s email…

Tech News Darren Orf

Independence Day: Resurgence Has the Spectacle of the Original, But It Forgot the Heart

Independence Day Resurgence feels like someone took the original film and fast forwarded to only the action scenes. Maybe that sounds good to you, and certainly the sequel’s epic scope exceeds its predecessor. But without characters that mean anything to us, there’s no drama or tension to the second round of this intergalactic war. Once…

io9 Germain Lussier

Flooding in West Virginia Is So Bad a Burning House Floated Down a Creek

West Virginia is in the midst of a rash of deadly flooding, and one particularly dystopian video shows what appears to be a burning house floating through a creek in the town of White Sulphur Springs. West Virginia MetroNews reports that the house was seen floating down Howard’s Creek on Thursday afternoon. In the video,…

Climate Change Sophie Kleeman

These Astronauts Are Getting Sealed in a Cave to Practice Life in Space

An underground cave is precisely the wrong direction if you’re hoping to go into space—so why is the European Space Agency sending the latest batch of ISS-bound astronauts on a spelunking expedition? To practice for life in a sealed tin can, of course. On July 1st, six astronauts—the ESA’s Pedro Duque, NASA’s Jessica Meir and…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

The Heath Ledger Joker-in-a-Box Is the Stuff of Nightmares

San Diego Comic-Con is getting nearer, and day by day we’re getting to see more of the exclusive goodies that will be available at the convention. Sometimes, they delight us. In this case, they scare the living bejeezus out of us. https://gizmodo.com/behold-glorious-saga-action-figures-that-will-be-nearl-1782306689 Announced by retailer Entertainment Earth as one of the many exclusive toys they’ll…

io9 James Whitbrook

More Details About Darth Vader’s Presence in Rogue One

Legends of Tomorrow casts its new Vixen. Norman Reedus continues to hype up The Walking Dead’s gruesome return. Kevin Conroy teases the Batman’s laugh in The Killing Joke. Plus, even more casting for Spider-Man: Homecoming, behind the scenes on Doctor Who season 10, and Stephen Amell on Arrow’s future. Spoilers! Rogue One: A Star Wars…

Television James Whitbrook

Heat Waves in New York Could Cause Thousands of Deaths

Attention, New Yorkers: If climate change continues unabated, over 3,000 people in the city will die every year from heat by 2080. Do something, and maybe only about 1,500 will die. This fun news is according to a paper published online this week in Environmental Health Perspectives that analyzes the effect of future climate change…

Climate Change Angela Chen

You Might Be Able to Watch Netflix Offline Soon

It’s (almost, maybe) here. Finally, Netflix could have offline video—the service we’ve all been waiting for—by the end of the year. Netflix is working on a “download-and-go” video feature like the ones already offered by Amazon and Comcast, according to industry sources who spoke with communications trade company LightReading. The report cites both the COO…

Tech News Angela Chen

40 People Got Burned ‘Firewalking’ in Texas For the Dumbest Reason

Pop Culture’s Greatest Vehicles Get Ready for a Mad Max-Style Dystopia

This 1938 Magazine Cover Showed Britain a Shinier, Happier Future

Why You Should Stop Using Telegram Right Now

This $900 Wetsuit Promises to Make You the Fastest Swimmer

Right Before They Erupt, Volcanoes Become Ominously Silent

How Person of Interest Became Essential Science Fiction Television

Why the Hell Did It Take So Long for YouTube to Do Live Streaming for Mobile?

British Scientists Are Flipping Out About Brexit

These Images Were Taken With an Entirely New Kind of Photography

Hot Toys’ Force Awakens Han Solo Is the Grumpiest Harrison Ford Figure Ever Made

Chrome Bug Makes It Easy to Download Movies From Netflix and Amazon Prime

Hacked Slack Chats Reveal High School Teachers Are Insufferable Dicks

Independence Day: Resurgence Has the Spectacle of the Original, But It Forgot the Heart

Flooding in West Virginia Is So Bad a Burning House Floated Down a Creek

These Astronauts Are Getting Sealed in a Cave to Practice Life in Space

The Heath Ledger Joker-in-a-Box Is the Stuff of Nightmares

More Details About Darth Vader’s Presence in Rogue One

Heat Waves in New York Could Cause Thousands of Deaths

You Might Be Able to Watch Netflix Offline Soon

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