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How to Watch Today’s Total Solar Eclipse Live

There’s a solar eclipse today—should you watch it? Yes, but safely! Here’s how, when, and where to watch the solar eclipse. Plus, we’ve got a link to a livefeed that you can watch if you’re not in the eclipse zone. Eclipses are not particularly rare events, we see four every year, sometimes more. A total…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

How Many Lego Bricks Would It Take to Build Famous Sci-Fi Structures and Vehicles

It’s hard to truly grasp the size of famous science fiction megastructures like the Death Star or the Halo ring and basically impossible to understand how big the Millennium Falcon or Starship Enterprise is because they all exist in different universes, which sadly isn’t the same one we exist in. If only we could look…

Sploid Casey Chan

Bill Clinton’s AMA From 1999 is a Treasure Trove of Reaction GIFs

Last week we looked at President Bill Clinton’s 1999 “internet town hall”—an event that was essentially the very first Presidential AMA. The Clinton Library has kindly released the full video of the event, and even though it’s filled with technical glitches and wonky talking points, it’s amazing, if only for the GIF potential alone. Watching…

Tech News Matt Novak

New Surveilliance Tool Can Identify Terrorists by Analyzing Their V-Signs

Terrorists and enemy insurgents are difficult to identify because they often conceal their faces with scarves and masks. A new algorithm has shown surprising promise being able to identify individuals by their characteristic “V for victory” signs. Fingerprints used to be the cutting edge of biometric profiling, but this field has expanded significantly over the…

Privacy & Security George Dvorsky

Captain America Civil War Has a Huge Problem and Agents of SHIELD Has the Answer [UPDATED]

We’re less than two months away from getting to see the new Captain America movie which is another major turning point for the live-action Marvel Universe. But one thing is already certain: If Civil War doesn’t acknowledge Agents of SHIELD, this movie’s throwing away an opportunity. [Update: It turns out they’re definitely throwing away an…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Lucifer Is the Clear Winner in the Monday Night Satanic TV Derby

The dark lords of television have arranged it so that on Mondays, you can watch Lucifer at 9pm on Fox, then switch over to A&E for Damien at 10pm. The jury’s still out on Damien—we weren’t super-stoked on the first episode—but Lucifer turned in one of its best yet with “Wingman,” as the relationship between…

Television Cheryl Eddy

That ‘Yelp for Humans’ App Is Still Awful

Remember that app Peeple? You know, the “Yelp for People?” It launched this week under the guise of a more sugar-coated definition of rating your friend. But guess what: It still sucks. Founders Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough announced the app in October last year, and it was immediately received with a flurry of ethical…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

The Animated Ghostbusters Movie Has a Director and Is, Apparently, Happening

Sony’s banking hard on new Ghostbusters content saving them putting them back in the black. In that vein, they’ve gotten a move on with their long-rumored animated Ghostbusters movie, hiring Fletcher Moules to direct it. Moules is the animator and director behind those Clash of Clans commercials that you can’t escape no matter how hard…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

A Sleeping Bag With a Built-in Air Mattress, Pillow, and Sheets Makes Camping Easier

If camping for you is more about an enjoyable weekend away from the big city than an extreme survival situation, there’s no shame in making the trip more comfortable and more convenient. And the Bundle Beds sleeping bags promise to give you a better night’s sleep—with less stuff to pack. When rolled up the Bundle…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Clean Up Your Gmail Inbox Using Drag-and-Drop Filters

If you have the default inbox view in place on Gmail, you’ll see tab headers like Primary, Social, Updates, and Promotions across the top of your messages. By simply dragging and dropping messages between tabs, you can set up customized filters for your incoming emails and make sure Gmail gets smarter at sorting your messages…

Gadgets David Nield

Cool Photo of a F-18 Flyby of an Aircraft Carrier

It’s like the F/A-18E Super Hornet is splitting the horizon as it flies through the line between ocean and sky. It’s actually just zipping through a flyby during an aerial change of command ceremony above the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier. Either way, it’s such a perfect picture of a giant mothership and aircraft.

Sploid Casey Chan

Carbon Dioxide Levels Just Hit Another Disturbing Milestone

Global temperatures aren’t the only thing rising faster than anyone can remember. The same goes for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, according to the latest dispatch from the Mauna Loa Climate Observatory in Hawaii. It’s almost as if the two phenomena are related or something. From February 2015 to February 2016, the atmospheric…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Everyone’s Having a Crisis of Faith in This Game Of Thrones Season 6 Trailer

The brand new Game of Thrones season 6 trailer shows us our heroes in even worse shape than the last time we saw them… to the strains of Chris Isaak, no less. Spoilers ahead… This new trailer sees Jon Snow definitely, totally dead, Melisandre backtracking on her crazy religion, and Daenerys somehow destitute. Kudos to…

io9 Avery Ellis

The Real Reason Why Shannara Chronicles Failed to Copy the Success of Game of Thrones

The Shannara Chronicles is a strange TV show. It’s clearly the result of some producer’s desire to replicate the crazy success of HBO’s Game of Thrones, but it fell way short. And maybe the reason is because Shannara is a standard-issue epic fantasy, and Game of Thrones is something different. Science fiction and fantasy are…

Television Andrew Liptak

The International Ghostbusters Trailer Has Way More Russian and Way More Chris Hemsworth

We’ve only just gotten our first look at Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters movie. But there’s a ton of new footage in this Ukrainian-language international trailer, including a few more jokes—and a hell of a lot more of Chris Hemsworth’s counterpart to the original film’s Janine. Sadly, we here at io9 aren’t exactly up on our Ukrainian,…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Watch a Bowling Ball Get Shot Out of a Cannon and Smashed into Pieces

Would shooting bowling balls out of a cannon make for good artillery? Sort of! The bowling balls whirrs out fast and strong and tries to strike everything in its way. It won’t break everything because if the ball comes in contact with a hard surface, it basically gets smashed into smithereens. Still, it’s a fun…

Sploid Casey Chan

Megatron Faces the Sins of His Past in Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #50

It’s a time of celebration for IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye as it hits its 50th issue this week, especially for James Roberts. The fan-turned-comic writer has transformed Megatron from the evil leader of the Decepticons to a ‘bot trying to atone for his past, which is about to catch up with him……

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Watch a Hydra Rip Open Its Own Skin to Eat

Hydra are small, tentacled beasties that spends their time floating around freshwater, stinging and eating small shrimp. To eat, a hydra has to rip open its own skin. This behavior is well known, but it hadn’t been captured on video—until now. As described in a new paper in Biophysical Journal, scientists from the University of…

Sploid Esther Inglis-Arkell

World’s Worst Cable Nightmare Is Out of This World

So you think you have a really bad cable nightmare behind your home theater system or under your desk at work? Look at this photo above taken aboard the International Space Station, and think again. This pretty horrific cable mess was caused by ESA astronaut Tim Peake and NASA astronaut, space station commander Tim Kopra,…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Here Are All 59 Beautiful US National Parks in 1 Minute

Need somewhere to escape to this year? Easy. Just pick a US National Park, any US National Park. From canyons to glaciers to valleys to lakes and everything in between, this here country has so many different textures that it’s a neat reminder in how different this here planet can be.

Sploid Casey Chan

How to Watch Today’s Total Solar Eclipse Live

How Many Lego Bricks Would It Take to Build Famous Sci-Fi Structures and Vehicles

Bill Clinton’s AMA From 1999 is a Treasure Trove of Reaction GIFs

New Surveilliance Tool Can Identify Terrorists by Analyzing Their V-Signs

Captain America Civil War Has a Huge Problem and Agents of SHIELD Has the Answer [UPDATED]

Lucifer Is the Clear Winner in the Monday Night Satanic TV Derby

That ‘Yelp for Humans’ App Is Still Awful

The Animated Ghostbusters Movie Has a Director and Is, Apparently, Happening

A Sleeping Bag With a Built-in Air Mattress, Pillow, and Sheets Makes Camping Easier

Clean Up Your Gmail Inbox Using Drag-and-Drop Filters

Cool Photo of a F-18 Flyby of an Aircraft Carrier

Carbon Dioxide Levels Just Hit Another Disturbing Milestone

Everyone’s Having a Crisis of Faith in This Game Of Thrones Season 6 Trailer

The Real Reason Why Shannara Chronicles Failed to Copy the Success of Game of Thrones

The International Ghostbusters Trailer Has Way More Russian and Way More Chris Hemsworth

Watch a Bowling Ball Get Shot Out of a Cannon and Smashed into Pieces

Megatron Faces the Sins of His Past in Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #50

Watch a Hydra Rip Open Its Own Skin to Eat

World’s Worst Cable Nightmare Is Out of This World

Here Are All 59 Beautiful US National Parks in 1 Minute

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