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Brazil Just Shot and Killed Its Own Olympic Mascot

Here we go again: A jaguar that was brought out during an Olympic torch event earlier this week was shot and killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers. The local Games organizing committee is now investigating the incident, but animal welfare advocates say the big cat should never have been there in the first…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Gene-Editing Tool Approved For Use in Humans

Brace yourself for GATTACA comparisons. A powerful gene-editing tool that could pave the way for genetic engineering has been approved for use in humans to fight cancer. Scientists will use the tool, called CRISPR cas-9, to change immune-system cells. That way, when they’re put back into the patient, the cells attack the tumor cells responsible…

Tech News Angela Chen

Google’s AI Safety Rules Are Way More Boring Than Asimov’s

Good news, everyone: Google is looking out for us! It doesn’t want a cleaning robot to knock over grandma’s vase. That’s one of the potentially dangerous scenarios Google engineers explored in a new paper on “concrete problems in AI safety.” For some strange reason, the researchers chose to illustrate these dangers using the example of…

Tech News Angela Chen

Facebook Is Paying Celebrities to Use It

Get ready to see Gordon Ramsay in your Facebook news feed, right next to your high-school friend’s endless wedding updates. Facebook has agreed to pay more than 140 celebrities (including Deepak Chopra, NFL player Russell Wilson, and Ramsay) and media companies (CNN, the New York Times, BuzzFeed) to use Facebook Live, the live-streaming feature the…

Social Media Angela Chen

Scary Video Shows a Bounce House Floating Away Straight into Power Lines

This is definitely what you don’t want to see at a kid’s birthday party: a bounce house flying away straight into the power lines after being swept up in the air by a big gust of wind. You can actually see it first fly away from the power lines but then suddenly make a quick…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Woodpecker-Inspired Collar Could Protect Athletes from Concussion

Last year, Chris Borland of the San Francisco 49ers announced he was quitting football because of the high risk of concussion and long-term brain damage, despite protective helmets. And he’s not alone: it’s a growing concern, particularly for teenaged athletes. But a new collar inspired by the humble woodpecker may help protect athletes from such…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Going to Space in Movies Is Basically a Suicide Mission

Going to space in movies isn’t just a bad idea, it’s often a suicide mission. Luc Bergeron’s latest space movie mashup puts 32 science fiction movies together to show how desperate things get when you’re all alone in space, and are the only one left that can save the Earth or fly into the Death…

Sploid Casey Chan

Bryan Cranston Is the Leader Zordon in the New Power Rangers Movie

It would take a pretty big actor to be the leader of the Power Rangers, and who better than Bryan Cranston? Lionsgate just announced that the award-winning star of Breaking Bad will be playing Zordon in the 2017 film. Zordon is the ultimate foe of Rita (Elizabeth Banks) and the being that helps train the…

Movies Germain Lussier

DC’s Metro Should Probably Just Take the Whole Summer Off

Washington DC’s subway is scheduled to be shut down for an extended period of time to deal with a slew of deferred maintenance. But after today’s service problem—literal waterfalls in one station—maybe DC’s Metro needs a vacation sooner than that. https://gizmodo.com/watch-this-apocalyptic-timelapse-of-the-dc-metro-flood-1782453501 Due to very heavy rain, commuters at the Cleveland Park station were greeted with…

Tech News Alissa Walker

A Kitchen-Dwelling Evil Spirit Visits a Lonely Woman in This Wry Short

Fred Rowson’s Pauline begins like something out of The Conjuring 2—we meet a woman (the wonderfully droll Joanne Brookes) who is convinced her London house is haunted by “pure and total evil.” Specifically… the oven part of her house. Is the ghost a nuisance, or a figment of the lonely woman’s imagination? See the evidence…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Kong: Skull Island Will Feature ‘The Biggest Kong Ever’

King Kong returns to the big screen next year and he’s about to get an upgrade. The Eighth Wonder of the World stars in the action-adventure film Kong: Skull Island, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, and starring Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson. Skull Island is the second film in a planned universe that’s leading up to…

Movies Germain Lussier

Tesla Is About to Buy America’s Biggest Solar Energy Provider

Elon Musk is on the brink of acquiring the the next critical component in a solar-electric transportation future. Tesla Motors just made a $2.8 billion stock-to-stock offer to buy SolarCity, one of the largest solar energy companies in the country. It also happens to be a company founded by Musk’s cousins and one where he…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Syfy’s Krypton Show Already Sounds Goofy as Shit

And we mean “sounds” literally. We have the names of the main characters, a few side characters, and descriptions for all of them—and they’re all going to be a bit of a problem. Krypton will be a show about Superman’s grandfather and life on Krypton before, you know, the planet exploded. As a result of…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks Book Offers Cryptic Hints About the New Series [Updated]

Fan site Welcome to Twin Peaks got ahold of the abstract of Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost’s upcoming book, The Secret History of Twin Peaks—an exploration of the town’s mysteries that may hold some clues about the new series, too. Of course, this is Twin Peaks, so who can really say? Here’s how Welcome to…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The Star of How I Met Your Mother Is Directing a Multi-Dimensional Love Story

Hear us out, this is good news. His first two movies are really wonderful! Josh Radnor, the star of the long-running CBS show How I Met Your Mother, has just signed to direct a film called The Leaves, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s about a man who ends up in a parallel dimension and…

Movies Germain Lussier

This Trippy Infinite Animation Will Melt Your Brain

Ben Ridgway’s specialty is creating flawlessly repeating animations that can be left on loop forever if you’re trying to intentionally trigger the worst acid flashback you’ve ever experienced—minus the acid. Continuum Infinitum has no beginning and no end, just an infinite zoom into a never-ending abyss of trippy mind-melting shapes. [Vimeo via BoingBoing] SPLOID is…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Photoshop’s Phone Sex Ad is the Weirdest Update Request Ever

Software updates exist to patch vulnerabilities and to add features, and installing those updates is just common sense. Photoshop will usually remind you on startup if you haven’t updated, but Adobe has gone the extra mile and created an ad based on phone sex hotlines. The update includes a content-aware crop tool and font suggestions,…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Wow, Mark Zuckerberg Is Paranoid As Fuck

Mark Zuckerberg, a man who runs a service that collects the personal information of more than a billion people daily, seems to be worried about being spied on. There’s something very interesting in the photo Zuckerberg posted today to celebrate Instagram’s 500 million monthly active users, can you see it? Look closer. As Chris Olson…

Social Media William Turton

Marvel Comics Writer Brian Michael Bendis Talks About Killing [REDACTED] in Civil War II

Marvel Comics’ second Civil War is in full swing now, with the main miniseries and multiple tie-in issues out in the wild. Civil War II started with a major character death and superstar writer Brian Michael Bendis explains why it had to happen that way. When I spoke to Bendis over the phone last week,…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Archer Renewed For Three More (Shorter) Seasons

FX has renewed animated spy/drug dealer/private investigator/outlaw country comedy Archer for three more seasons, which will take the show through its 10th season. But while previous seasons ranged between 10 and 13 episodes, these upcoming editions will contain just eight eps each. Variety reports that season eight will debut in 2017, but offers no other…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Brazil Just Shot and Killed Its Own Olympic Mascot

Gene-Editing Tool Approved For Use in Humans

Google’s AI Safety Rules Are Way More Boring Than Asimov’s

Facebook Is Paying Celebrities to Use It

Scary Video Shows a Bounce House Floating Away Straight into Power Lines

This Woodpecker-Inspired Collar Could Protect Athletes from Concussion

Going to Space in Movies Is Basically a Suicide Mission

Bryan Cranston Is the Leader Zordon in the New Power Rangers Movie

DC’s Metro Should Probably Just Take the Whole Summer Off

A Kitchen-Dwelling Evil Spirit Visits a Lonely Woman in This Wry Short

Kong: Skull Island Will Feature ‘The Biggest Kong Ever’

Tesla Is About to Buy America’s Biggest Solar Energy Provider

Syfy’s Krypton Show Already Sounds Goofy as Shit

Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks Book Offers Cryptic Hints About the New Series [Updated]

The Star of How I Met Your Mother Is Directing a Multi-Dimensional Love Story

This Trippy Infinite Animation Will Melt Your Brain

Photoshop’s Phone Sex Ad is the Weirdest Update Request Ever

Wow, Mark Zuckerberg Is Paranoid As Fuck

Marvel Comics Writer Brian Michael Bendis Talks About Killing [REDACTED] in Civil War II

Archer Renewed For Three More (Shorter) Seasons

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