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Apple Might Be Buying Tidal for Some Reason

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks to acquire Tidal, also known as Jay-Z’s music streaming service that lets you listen to Kanye’s music a little bit earlier. The deal isn’t close to being done yet, according to WSJ sources. But if it is completed, Apple would presumably inherit the (supposedly) friendly…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 30 '16

American Wizards of the 1920s and George W. Bush Have Something Truly Bizarre in Common

It’s using a color-coded threat level system to determine how much danger the world is in. Please send help to America’s wizards because they are not well. As is now pretty much a daily occurrence, Pottermore has another article about life in in the Wizarding United States in the run-up to Fantastic Beasts and Where…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 30 '16

That Black-and-White Version of Mad Max: Fury Road Is Finally Getting Released (UPDATED)

Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller probably didn’t realize the avalanche of discussion he set off when he first mentioned a black-and-white version of his award-winning film. We’ve chronicled the mystery behind this version of the film in the past, but now it seems like it’s actually happening. Empire Online found an Amazon listing…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 30 '16

Get Your Jaegers Ready, the Pacific Rim Sequel Is Coming in 2018

John Boyega will be kicking some kaiju ass on February 23, 2018. That’s when the untitled Pacific Rim sequel, directed by Daredevil’s Steven S. DeKnight, will now hit theaters. Guillermo del Toro will be executive producing the sequel to his 2013 film, which continues the futuristic story where humans drive massive robots called jaegers against…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 30 '16

Apple and Spotify Are in a Legal Punch-Up

Apple is under fire after it allegedly blocked Spotify’s new iPhone app from being released in the App Store. According to a Recode report, Spotify’s general counsel sent a letter to Apple’s legal team claiming that Apple is “causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers” by not allowing the latest version of the app…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jun 30 '16

Harry Potter’s Nemesis Joins the Cast of The Flash

Tom “Draco Malfoy” Felton will be a series regular on The Flash when it returns in the fall, as one of Barry Allen’s new co-workers at the Central City Police Department. Will he play a villain? (Does he ever not play a villain?) And what will his role mean in the season three’s Flashpoint storyline?…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jun 30 '16

Dell Just Killed One of Its Best Products

Android tablets are mostly garbage, but the Dell Venue 8 7000 was a feat of engineering that even the most avid Apple fan would be loathe to put down. So it’s a major bummer that the Venue 8 and the rest of the Venue line up have been discontinued, effective immediately. Dell axed the rest…

Tech News Alex Cranz Jun 30 '16

US Regulators Are Investigating Tesla’s Autopilot Feature After Fatal Crash

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that they will investigate what role Tesla’s autopilot feature had in a fatal crash in 2015. The agency said the crash “calls for an examination of the design and performance of any driving aids in use at the time of the crash.” In a statement, Tesla said…

Tech News William Turton Jun 30 '16

Descender Has Some of the Best World-Building in Comics Right Now

One of the best feelings in nerd culture fandom is the thrill of watching a grand tapestry of imagination unfurl before you. Descender is killing it in this department, pulling readers into a universe where the stakes feel deliciously high from all angles. When I last checked in with Descender—written by Jeff Lemire with art…

io9 Evan Narcisse Jun 30 '16

A Smart Crib Is a Stupid Idea

Baby products have always been part of a predatory industry that feasts on the paranoia of new parents. But it’s gotten worse in the last few years with the wave of baby-tracking tech. Now Nest—which makes a camera which is one of the top-rated baby monitors—is proposing a smart crib, according to patent documents filed…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jun 30 '16

The Juiciest Parts of The New Facebook Tell-All Book

In early June, Vanity Fair ran a lengthy excerpt of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, a purported tell-all from Antonio Garcia Martinez, a former Facebook employee who was fired after two years at the company. The book was finally released on June 28th, and there’s a fair heap of dirt…

Social Media Sophie Kleeman Jun 30 '16

Please Stop Marrying Fictional Characters to People They Met as Children, It’s Creepy

Here’s a fun idea: if you’re writing a book where the protagonists are children, maybe consider not having them marry each other later in life. This is a trope that is nigh ubiquitous in YA novels and it’s creepy as hell. The reason it exists at all is that, forever in our culture, happy endings…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 30 '16

We Can Finally Stick a Name on iRobot’s Rumored Lawn Mowing Robot

Your lawn is a money pit that requires ungodly amounts of water and labor to keep it green and trim. We’ve known for sometime that iRobot, the Roomba company, has been on a mission to put your landscaper out of a job with a robot. Thanks to a trademark filing reported by Robotics Trends, there’s…

Tech News Gautham Thomas Jun 30 '16

The Day After Tomorrow Happened 30,000 Years Ago

Toward the end of the last ice age, Earth’s climate was a turbulent beast, warming up and chilling out again every 1,500 years. Research published today in Science links these abrupt temperature swings to changes ocean circulation, filling an important gap in our understanding of past climate change. Scientists have long debated the impacts of…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Jun 30 '16

Researchers Spotted Something Very Strange in the Sands of Mars

No, it’s not aliens writing messages in the sand. But there is something weird happening on Mars’ surface—and it’s something that hasn’t been seen anywhere else in the universe. Researchers looking at images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Curiosity rover spotted a strange combination of almost wave-like ripples forming in the sands of…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Jun 30 '16

‘Scooby Snack’ Added to Oxford English Dictionary, Presumably After Bribe of Scooby Snacks

There are two food groups in the Scooby-Doo universe. One is the giant sandwich, crafted from whatever ingredients can be found in a haunted kitchen. The other is the Scooby Snack, a treat with delicious powers of bribery and persuasion—and now, an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. The dictionary made the announcement via…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jun 30 '16

Seeing How Sex Dolls Are Made Is Hauntingly Eerie (NSFW)

Being inside a sex doll factory and watching all that plastic nakedness get shaped is much more haunting than it is titillating. It gets unsettling, like if you were trapped inside a scene from a horror movie and couldn’t get out. But it’s also somewhat intriguing, just to see the mixture of products and body…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 30 '16

This Massive K’NEX Ball Machine Is Bigger Than My Apartment

As a kid, did you ever stop to wonder what you could build with K’NEX if you just kept playing with the toy for the next three years? Here’s the answer: a massive ball machine nicknamed the Citadel that fills an entire corner of a room and is made from more K’NEX than all the…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jun 30 '16

Aquaman and Cyborg Get Their Close-Ups in These Batman v Superman Behind-the-Scenes Photos

The funniest comment I read about Batman v Superman was when someone said they loved the scene in the movie when Wonder Woman sat down and watched the trailer for Justice League. Thanks to that scene—and a new behind-the-scenes featurette—we finally have a closer look at Aquaman and Cyborg. Comic Book Resources pulled some screen…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 30 '16

Can You Tell Which One of These Baseball Stories Was Written By a Robot?

It’s only a matter of time before robots replace all jobs, right? Well, today they’re coming for mine. The Associated Press announced today it will begin using automated software to write stories for 10,000 Minor League Baseball games not previously covered by the news organization. In order to get the stories written, the AP is…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jun 30 '16

Apple Might Be Buying Tidal for Some Reason

American Wizards of the 1920s and George W. Bush Have Something Truly Bizarre in Common

That Black-and-White Version of Mad Max: Fury Road Is Finally Getting Released (UPDATED)

Get Your Jaegers Ready, the Pacific Rim Sequel Is Coming in 2018

Apple and Spotify Are in a Legal Punch-Up

Harry Potter’s Nemesis Joins the Cast of The Flash

Dell Just Killed One of Its Best Products

US Regulators Are Investigating Tesla’s Autopilot Feature After Fatal Crash

Descender Has Some of the Best World-Building in Comics Right Now

A Smart Crib Is a Stupid Idea

The Juiciest Parts of The New Facebook Tell-All Book

Please Stop Marrying Fictional Characters to People They Met as Children, It’s Creepy

We Can Finally Stick a Name on iRobot’s Rumored Lawn Mowing Robot

The Day After Tomorrow Happened 30,000 Years Ago

Researchers Spotted Something Very Strange in the Sands of Mars

‘Scooby Snack’ Added to Oxford English Dictionary, Presumably After Bribe of Scooby Snacks

Seeing How Sex Dolls Are Made Is Hauntingly Eerie (NSFW)

This Massive K’NEX Ball Machine Is Bigger Than My Apartment

Aquaman and Cyborg Get Their Close-Ups in These Batman v Superman Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Can You Tell Which One of These Baseball Stories Was Written By a Robot?

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