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This Ultra-Thin Inhaler Can Fit in Your Wallet

Fashion-conscious asthmatic readers will be excited to know that a new ultra-thin inhaler is on the horizon. Though it’s still in the testing phase, the prototype looks cool. It’s designed to carry six doses of medication, but still fits in the credit card compartment of a wallet. This is the iWheeze. Just kidding, it’s called…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Vanessa Hudgens Will Star in NBC’s DC Comics Office Comedy

Every time we hear about it, it amazes us that Powerless, NBC’s comedy series about a completely normal insurance company office in the DC comics world, might actually be happening. But now it has its taking a big step towards reality with the casting of Vanessa Hudgens in the lead role. https://gizmodo.com/holy-shit-nbc-is-really-gonna-make-that-the-office-bu-1751811364 Hudgens, hot off…

Television James Whitbrook

Mark Zuckerberg Is on Apple’s Side Even Though Most Americans Are Not

Facebook is the latest tech giant to join Apple’s battle against the FBI. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he supports Apple’s decision not to provide back-door access for the government to crack the iPhone of a suspected terrorist. As reported by Re/code Zuckerberg’s said: We’re sympathetic…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This Week’s TV: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Finally Gets a Sequel

Also this week: The X-Files concludes its mini-season! Vixen debuts on Arrow, The Flash fights King Shark, and Supergirl meets a major comics villain, Silver Banshee! All this, and Enrico Colantoni on iZombie! It’s all on This Week’s TV! Tonight Supergirl (8PM, CBS) Truth, Justice and the American Way “Supergirl does battle with the deadly…

io9 Gordon Jackson

IFC’s New Comedy Has Simpsons Cred and a Killer Premise

IFC is getting in on the current witch/Satan/hellfire trend with an eight-episode order of Stan Against Evil, a comedy from Emmy-winning Simpsons writer and producer Dana Gould. The description sounds a wee bit like Ash vs Evil Dead—which is a total compliment—though a lot will depend on who gets cast. Here’s the description from Variety:…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Here’s All the Cool Stuff From Mobile World Congress (So Far)

We’ve just wrapped up the second day of Mobile World Congress, the annual mobile technology conference in Barcelona. We’ve seen smartphones, VR headsets, and some batshit crazy stuff (see photo above)—and almost all of it has been awesome. Here are some of our favorites: Galaxy S7 Hands-on: The Six Things You Need to Know Samsung…

Gadgets Darren Orf

A Galaxy Moving So Fast It Leaves a 300,000 Light-Year Wide Plume of Gas in Its Wake

Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered a galaxy with a rather remarkable feature—a massive plume of gas measuring 300,000 light-years across. That’s five times the length of the galaxy itself. Located in the Virgo Cluster, galaxy NGC 4569 is located 55 million light-years from our own Milky Way. Scientists have…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Yet Another Marvel Character Will Be Joining Captain America: Civil War

When Civil War announced its initial cast list as a veritable Who’s Who of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seemed like there weren’t many more characters the movie could add—and then it added Spider-Man for good measure. But it turns out that somehow, there’s yet another MCU character the movie can add, in the form…

Movies James Whitbrook

John Oliver’s Attack on Hollywood Whitewashing Is Both Sad and Hilarious

Sometimes you sit in front of your TV and realize you’re watching something important. It happens quite often on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Sunday’s episode was no exception. In addition to an incendiary piece about abortion laws, Oliver attacked Hollywood whitewashing. Whitewashing is when Hollywood casts a white actor in a…

Movies Germain Lussier

LG 360 VR Is One of the Shittiest Virtual Reality Headsets I’ve Ever Tried

LG is jumping on the VR bandwagon with the release of its new LG 360 VR headset, designed exclusively for the new G5 phone. We had a chance to try it during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ended up with some strong feelings. The LG 360 VR is way less immersive (and impressive) than…

Tech News Carlos Rebato

Without Humans, Global Sea Levels Could Actually Be Falling

In the absence of humans, global sea level might have dropped a smidge last century, according to a detailed analysis of our past and future climate published today in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Instead, sea level rose about 5.5 inches—faster than it has in at least 27 centuries. “The 20th century…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Using Nothing But Google’s Project Tango Tablet To Escape A Maze

The Palau Nacional (Catalan for National Palace) is a gigantic Renaissance-style palace built in 1929 that now serves as the main art museum in Barcelona. Google sent me into that gorgeous maze of never-ending halls and corridors armed only with a Project Tango Prototype. We already know that Lenovo and Google are making a phablet…

Tech News Carlos Zahumenszky

The Most Important New Smartphone Feature Is a Little Magic Slot

When LG announced its new flagship smartphone, the G5, at Mobile World Congress yesterday, it did something radically different. At the base of the phone, LG built a small slot that might just change everything. Here’s how the thing works: This new slot gives LG the distinction of being the only all-metal smartphone with a…

Tech News Darren Orf

POV Solo Climb of the World’s Tallest Residential Building Is Guaranteed to Get Your Palms Sweating

The Marina 101 is a residential skyscraper in Dubai which is, as the name suggests, 101 stories tall. James Kingston decided to (illegally) ascend the building and walk out onto a crane which he repeatedly and alarmingly describes as “greasy.” Personally, I’m feeling sick to my stomach just watching the gif above. But Kingston is…

Sploid Avery Ellis

Agents of SHIELD‘s Ward Has Turned Into a Supervillain and Now We Know Which One

When we last saw the traitorous ex-Agent of SHIELD Grant Ward, he wasn’t just Grant Ward. He’d been hijacked by an alien entity known as the Beast, but it turns out that the transformation has also made him a (semi-)major Marvel supervillain. Spoilers! At the Wizard World Portland con this weekend, Actress Elizabeth Lily (“Simmons”)…

Television Rob Bricken

Blacksmiths Recreate a Badass Sword From League of Legends

Even if you are not a League of Legends junkie or a professional blacksmith, that doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate the incredible work that the Man At Arms folks put into their replicas of seemingly impossible weapons. This sword belongs to a LoL champion called Master Yi who is an assassin of sorts. Nothing about…

Sploid Avery Ellis

You Can Finally Get Morgan Freeman to Narrate Your Commute

When Waze got Arnold Schwarzenegger to add his voice to their navigation app, it felt like a huge deal. But that was before the company recruited the best damn narrator in the history of the planet, Morgan Freeman. Freeman’s deep, soothing voice can be accessed in Waze starting right now. It’s a promotional gimmick for…

Tech News Germain Lussier

All 10 Minutes of Batman v Superman Released So Far, in (Theoretically) Chronological Order

The runtime of Batman v Superman is a hefty 151 minutes. Also hefty? The amount of footage from the film Warner Bros. has released in trailers, TV spots, promos, etc. YouTube user M1llion has very kindly assembled all the footage we’ve seen into this video. Care to see nearly seven percent of the finished film?…

Movies Rob Bricken

Intrepid Scientists Turn a Laser Cutter Into a Super Cheap 3D Printer

Laser cutters use lasers to cut shapes into existing material, but Rice University scientists have figured out how to make one build objects instead of cut them. The result is the $2,000 3D printer that you see above, constructing the blood vessel network inside a mouse liver. If we want to maximize the usefulness of…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Scientist Is Turning Every Element In the Periodic Table Into Music

Materials scientists typically rely on their eyes to analyze data, but soon they could employ their ears as well. Setting the motions of molecules to music can help scientists identify hidden patterns in their data that might otherwise be too small, or occur over such short time scales that they’re easily missed by the human…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

This Ultra-Thin Inhaler Can Fit in Your Wallet

Vanessa Hudgens Will Star in NBC’s DC Comics Office Comedy

Mark Zuckerberg Is on Apple’s Side Even Though Most Americans Are Not

This Week’s TV: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Finally Gets a Sequel

IFC’s New Comedy Has Simpsons Cred and a Killer Premise

Here’s All the Cool Stuff From Mobile World Congress (So Far)

A Galaxy Moving So Fast It Leaves a 300,000 Light-Year Wide Plume of Gas in Its Wake

Yet Another Marvel Character Will Be Joining Captain America: Civil War

John Oliver’s Attack on Hollywood Whitewashing Is Both Sad and Hilarious

LG 360 VR Is One of the Shittiest Virtual Reality Headsets I’ve Ever Tried

Without Humans, Global Sea Levels Could Actually Be Falling

Using Nothing But Google’s Project Tango Tablet To Escape A Maze

The Most Important New Smartphone Feature Is a Little Magic Slot

POV Solo Climb of the World’s Tallest Residential Building Is Guaranteed to Get Your Palms Sweating

Agents of SHIELD‘s Ward Has Turned Into a Supervillain and Now We Know Which One

Blacksmiths Recreate a Badass Sword From League of Legends

You Can Finally Get Morgan Freeman to Narrate Your Commute

All 10 Minutes of Batman v Superman Released So Far, in (Theoretically) Chronological Order

Intrepid Scientists Turn a Laser Cutter Into a Super Cheap 3D Printer

This Scientist Is Turning Every Element In the Periodic Table Into Music

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