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Everything You Can Do Offline With a Chromebook

When Chrome OS first appeared, it was practically useless without an internet connection. Now, an offline Chromebook is no longer the functionless brick it once was because there are dozens of web apps with offline capabilities. Here’s everything you can do today on Chrome OS without online access. Create and edit documents As you might…

Gadgets David Nield Jun 6 '16

If You Give Peace a Chance on Game of Thrones, You’ll Regret It

There was an inevitable sense of things falling into place on “The Broken Man.” Sure, the seventh episode of the season is usually when Game of Thrones starts putting its endgame in motion, but there was an extra sense of finality to it, making it a gut-punch of an episode. Hmm. Maybe gut-stab is a…

Television Rob Bricken Jun 6 '16

Hayley Atwell Perfectly Sums Up the Creepiness of Captain America’s New Love Interest

If you’ve seen both Captain America: Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War, then you know that the first one sets up a possible relationship between Agent 13 (Emily VanCamp) and Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), and the other just throws that relationship together out of nowhere. Well, Hayley Atwell has weighed in. Of all the…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Jun 6 '16

Ultra-Thin Dongles Make It Easy To Add Biometric Security To Your Old Laptop

Using your fingerprint to verify your identity is not only more secure than a password, there’s also no complex string of characters for you to forget or repeatedly mistype. But if you’re also determined to use your ancient laptop until the day it dies, Synaptics’ will soon have an easy and unobtrusive way to upgrade…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski Jun 6 '16

Check Out This Huge, Gross Earthworm

The Amazon rain forest is full of enormous flora and fauna that are more than happy to kill you without blinking an eye. But compared to say, a giant centipede or a harpy eagle, the giant earthworm seems downright friendly. If the prospect of befriending a five foot worm is your cup of tea, that…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jun 6 '16

Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Resigns, Denies Sexual Assault Claims

Former Tor Project employee and well-known computer security and privacy advocate Jacob Appelbaum has issued a statement denying public accusations of sexual assault. His statement was made days after anonymous claims of sexual mistreatment led him to step down from the Tor Project. “In the past few days, a calculated and targeted attack has been…

Privacy & Security William Turton Jun 6 '16

James Gunn Addresses Those Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Cameo Rumors

Tom Hiddleston talks about James Bond. Norman Reedus continues to hype up The Walking Dead’s return. The Star Trek TV show adds a franchise veteran to its writing team. Stephen Amell teases the CW/DC TV universe’s four-way crossover. Plus, Paul McGann wants to return to Doctor Who. Spoilers Now! Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2…

Television James Whitbrook Jun 6 '16

Google’s AlphaGo Will Now Compete Against World’s Best Go Player

Humanity has been given another chance to redeem itself: Google’s Go-playing computer will compete against the world’s best Go player, Ke Jie, before the year is out. The decision is a change of heart for Ke, who is 18 and comes from China. Ke initially boasted that he could beat the AlphaGo machine, which sounds…

Artificial Intelligence Angela Chen Jun 6 '16

Verizon’s ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’ Guy Works for Sprint Now

The onetime public face of Verizon—famous for asking “can you hear me now?” in its ads—has defected to Sprint. And it’s not subtle. In Sprint’s new ads featuring actor Paul Marcarelli the actor calls out his old employer by name. The ads are even called “Paul Switched.” “Hey, I’m Paul, and I used to ask…

Tech News Angela Chen Jun 6 '16

Mark Zuckerberg Hacked on Twitter and Pinterest Because Even He Has Bad Password Security

First the hackers came for Katy Perry. Now they’ve come for someone who should know better than to use the same password on multiple sites: Mark Zuckerberg. Turns out he’s as dumb as the rest of us. Zuck’s Twitter and Pinterest (though, crucially, not Facebook) accounts were hacked over the weekend, and, supposedly, it wasn’t…

Tech News Angela Chen Jun 6 '16

This Is Probably the Most Normal Thing Elon Musk Has Recommended

Elon Musk may think we’re all living in a video game, but the man still has suggestions for which video game we should play while we’re all stuck in this simulation. And of course the game involves fighting sentient AI. On Sunday, the tech billionaire tweeted a recommendation to play Overwatch, Blizzard’s new multi-player shooter…

Tech News Angela Chen Jun 6 '16

Everyone Learns a Harsh Lesson in Tonight’s Game of Thrones

The question is this: How many people will live long enough to use that knowledge? So tonight saw the much-anticipated return of the Hound, the less-anticipated but still welcome return of the Blackfish, Sansa making a fateful decision, and poor Arya feeling the consequences of the fateful decision she made last week… feeling it two…

io9 Rob Bricken Jun 5 '16

Story of Your Life Might be Getting a Blander Title: Arrival

We’ve been eagerly waiting to see the upcoming adaptation of Ted Chaing’s short story, The Story of Your Life, ever since we first heard about it. A preview screening for the film appears to point to a name change for the film. According to a listing for a preview screening of the movie, it’s looking…

io9 Andrew Liptak Jun 5 '16

A Big LA Fire Isn’t Worse Because People Are Finally Preparing for the Worst

It had all the elements of a catastrophe: a truck hit an electrical pole in the bone-dry canyons outside LA, exploding a transformer. Winds were brisk with temperatures above 90 degrees. Despite that, the 500-acre blaze that looked particularly scary has only damaged three structures, reportedly because local residents had take the right precautions to…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jun 5 '16

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tells Bill Maher That Anti-Science Liberals Are Full of Shit Too

Every Friday night comedian Bill Maher puts on a show with an interesting mix of guests. But this past Friday, Maher repeated a claim he often makes that was finally smacked down by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Namely, Maher said that conservatives are consistently more anti-science than liberals. That’s bullshit. “Let’s not pretend that Democrats and…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 5 '16

This is the Saddest Supercut Ever

Burger Fiction has put together some really great supercuts lately, but their latest will absolutely break your heart. This supercut collects some of cinema’s most heartbreaking moments, from films such as the Iron Giant, Toy Story 3, Up, and quite a few others. How long can you watch before you break down sobbing? There is…

io9 Andrew Liptak Jun 5 '16

Dig in to the Latest Issue of the Journal of Science Fiction

We really dug the inaugural issue of the Journal of Science Fiction earlier this year, and the Museum of Science Fiction has just released their second issue. This latest issue takes a look at a pretty interesting variety of topics: Spanish Utopia novels from the 1930s, Soviet Science Fiction, Fahrenheit 451, Afrofuturism and author M.R.…

io9 Andrew Liptak Jun 5 '16

When the Slingshot Guy is Inspired by the Hydraulic Press Guy

We love the destruction video channels: hydraulic presses, waterjets, and slingshots. Now, Joerg Sprave, the guy behind the Slingshot Channels has come up with his own version of a press. The Hydraulic Press channel sent him some gifts, which prompted Sprave to go and create his own ‘The Rubberaulic Press’, powered with a 7.5 kilogram…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Jun 5 '16

Use YouTube as a Free Screencast Recorder

YouTube has more tricks up its sleeve than you might think—including a built-in video editor and tools for the extra paranoid—and you can actually use the regular YouTube site to record anything happening on your computer screen. From showing off an app to the world to showing the grandparents how to use Skype, there are…

Gadgets David Nield Jun 5 '16

Imitation Game Director Morten Tyldum Might Direct The Shining Girls

Imitation Game director Morten Tyldum’s next film Passengers is coming out later this year, but it appears that he’s set his sights on a new project: an adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ novel, The Shining Girls. When we last heard about the project, it was going to be a television series, but it seems that it’s…

io9 Andrew Liptak Jun 5 '16

Everything You Can Do Offline With a Chromebook

If You Give Peace a Chance on Game of Thrones, You’ll Regret It

Hayley Atwell Perfectly Sums Up the Creepiness of Captain America’s New Love Interest

Ultra-Thin Dongles Make It Easy To Add Biometric Security To Your Old Laptop

Check Out This Huge, Gross Earthworm

Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Resigns, Denies Sexual Assault Claims

James Gunn Addresses Those Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Cameo Rumors

Google’s AlphaGo Will Now Compete Against World’s Best Go Player

Verizon’s ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’ Guy Works for Sprint Now

Mark Zuckerberg Hacked on Twitter and Pinterest Because Even He Has Bad Password Security

This Is Probably the Most Normal Thing Elon Musk Has Recommended

Everyone Learns a Harsh Lesson in Tonight’s Game of Thrones

Story of Your Life Might be Getting a Blander Title: Arrival

A Big LA Fire Isn’t Worse Because People Are Finally Preparing for the Worst

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tells Bill Maher That Anti-Science Liberals Are Full of Shit Too

This is the Saddest Supercut Ever

Dig in to the Latest Issue of the Journal of Science Fiction

When the Slingshot Guy is Inspired by the Hydraulic Press Guy

Use YouTube as a Free Screencast Recorder

Imitation Game Director Morten Tyldum Might Direct The Shining Girls

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