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The Team Behind Coraline and ParaNorman Have Made a Samurai Adventure Movie

You may not know LAIKA by name, but you probably know their movies. They did the stop-motion animated films Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls and their latest film, Kubo And The Two Strings, is about to be unveiled to the world. Here’s the evocative first poster for the samurai adventure film, which will be released…

Movies Germain Lussier

This Navy Ship Looks Like It Is Sailing Through Interstellar Clouds

A spaceship navigates interstellar cosmic dust and plasma clouds in the photograph above— or rather, a U.S. Navy ship sails the sea under a starry sky. It was taken on December 7, and the spacey effects are due to the weather not being clear. You’re looking at the aft section of the dock landing ship…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

A Spy Falls, and a Monstrous Choice Is Made, on Manhattan

There’s just 48 hours left until the Trinity Test, and Charlie Isaacs must make a choice: Be a good man, or be a monster, thereby condemning tens of thousands of innocent civilians to a gruesome death. Spies are unveiled, and trusts are betrayed, in the penultimate episode of Manhattan. Spoilers below…. The members of the…

Television Jennifer Ouellette

I wish it was possible to ski without snow like in this crazy video

It’s an ad. And the video is heavily assisted with visual effects. But still. It’s just fun as hell. You go in thinking, “oh yeah, it’s been relatively warm this year, so I could see why a guy would want to do this” and then you get wowed by the tricks and the stunts and…

Sploid Casey Chan

25 Years Ago, Edward Scissorhands Changed Monster Movies Forever

Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, which came out 25 years ago this week, is more than just an updating of Frankenstein. It’s the story of a gentle robot who tries to live among regular people—and when I saw it as a little kid, this movie meant everything to me. Spoilers for a quarter-century-old film follow. I…

Movies Bryan Lufkin

I Asked For a Transformers Toy For Christmas. What I Got Instead Was Horrible.

We all have our own stories of getting the wrong toy for a birthday or the holidays. But there’s nothing worse than what happened to author Tobias Buckell. Nothing! So it’s the 80s, I’m a little boy growing up in Grenada, WI and money is tight. Some of my friends are super into Transformers. I…

io9 Tobias Buckell

Fun word origin stories that are hiding in plain sight

Why is a daisy called a daisy? Because it comes from the Old English of Day’s Eye, when the flower opens up during the day and closest in the evening. Bonfire? Started from bone fire. Month? A moon cycle, moonth. Being alone? It’s because it’s just all one. Here are some really fun word origins…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Strange Life and Death of Dave Kleiman, A Computer Genius Linked to Bitcoin’s Origins

About two weeks before his grisly death, there was a change in Dave Kleiman. The formerly generous and lively computer forensics expert became confrontational and bitter. Around that time, Kleiman left the Veteran’s Affairs hospital where he’d been a patient, and called his close friend and business partner Patrick Paige to let him know. “They’ve…

Tech News Andy Cush

The Killer Is Revealed and the Terror of Scream Queens Is Finally, Finally Over

In a double-episode finale, Scream Queens’ jigsaw plot finally came together in a semi-coherent manner. The Red Devils were all revealed, and most of the guilty parties were punished. But the satisfaction of knowing the truth wasn’t enough to redeem a show that’s consistently cloaked its satire in grating shrillness. Spoilers! We knew already Boone…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Craig Wright, The Man Who Claimed He Invented Bitcoin, Has Erased Himself

As soon as Gizmodo began its investigation into evidence that shows Craig Wright, an Australian academic and serial entrepreneur, claimed to have invented Bitcoin, he started to cover his tracks. After Gizmodo and Wired published separate stories yesterday, Wright’s digital existence has almost completely vanished. Three days before Gizmodo’s story went up, our correspondent in…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Two Most Powerful Words That You Can Say To Yourself While Writing

“I’m bored.” These two words are the hardest thing to admit, when you’re writing your deathless novel, or screenplay, or short story. You’re supposed to be creating a work of timeless brilliance. How can you be bored? But admitting that you’re bored is the first step to not being bored. The power of boredom A…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Watch a North Korean Military Parade In VR With This Free App

I went to Pyongyang today: I stayed in an immaculate North Korean hotel room, watched as the country’s ballistic missiles paraded past me, and saw thousands of followers wave flags and flowers in honor of their leader. No. I didn’t have a special invitation from Kim Jong-un. I went in virtual reality. In a collaboration…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Wild wingsuit video shows a guy flying through a narrow canyon

Here’s a really fun wingsuit video that reminds you why you’ll never actually strap on a wingsuit and fly in your entire life: two guys make a jump and fly a line through a completely narrow canyon in Switzerland. It’s like pod racing through the canyons of Tatooine in Star Wars except even more dangerous…

Sploid Casey Chan

New Findings Might Reveal the People of Angkor Wat’s “Last Stand”

A new excavation on an iconic Cambodian temple reveals who worked there, how they lived, and how they may have been conquered. The Temple at Angkor Wat is an icon, both within Cambodia and around the world. Even people who don’t know anything about it often recognize the image. Today, the temple is a Buddhist…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

SETI: KIC 8462852 Is Not Shooting Alien Laser Beams At Us

Everyone’s favorite alien-megastructure-that-never-was got another affirmation that it’s just a goddamn star today. According to SETI, there are NO EXTRATERRESTRIAL LASERS emanating from the baffling stellar body. That’s right—no laser pulses beaming at the Earth from star KIC8462852! Believe it or not, this is a real thing that SETI researchers say we might expect to…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Watch a Paper-Puppet Short About the Life and Work of Mary Leakey

We’ve featured videos from Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shatttuck’s Animated Life series for the New York Times before. The subject this time is paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, with a particular focus on her discovery of the Laetoli footprints, which showed how hominids walked upright 3.5 million years ago. In addition to covering the science, the video…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

That Time a Girl Wrote to JFK Asking If The Soviets Were Going to Nuke Santa Claus

In 1961 an eight-year-old girl from Marine City, Michigan wrote to President Kennedy. She wanted to know if the Russians were going to bomb the North Pole. JFK responded with the letter below, assuring her that Santa would be just fine. Young Michelle Rochon of Michigan had nothing to worry about when it came to…

Tech News Matt Novak

The New Power Rangers Comics Feature Really Stylish Teens

Outside of their iconic ranger suits, Power Rangers’ the fashion of the series’ teen heroes can probably best be described as “Achingly 90s.” But that’s not going to be case in Boom studio’s new Power Rangers comic: these are teenagers with attitude and really nice clothes. Comics Alliance exclusively revealed concept art from the series’…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Ships Have Black Boxes—And Apparently, They’re a Cinch to Hack

Voice, navigation, and radar data aboard ships are all at risk, according to an expert who claims that some devices that contain sensitive ship information just aren’t secure enough. This could be good news for pirates and spies, and bad news for the good guys. Motherboard reports that large boats, like cruise or cargo ships,…

Privacy & Security Bryan Lufkin

J.J. Abrams Told Us the Origin Story of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars is something that’s so special to so many people, that the mere idea of actually creating something new and fresh in that universe would be daunting. And yet, that’s what J.J. Abrams did with The Force Awakens. Abrams co-wrote the script for Episode VII with Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Team Behind Coraline and ParaNorman Have Made a Samurai Adventure Movie

This Navy Ship Looks Like It Is Sailing Through Interstellar Clouds

A Spy Falls, and a Monstrous Choice Is Made, on Manhattan

I wish it was possible to ski without snow like in this crazy video

25 Years Ago, Edward Scissorhands Changed Monster Movies Forever

I Asked For a Transformers Toy For Christmas. What I Got Instead Was Horrible.

Fun word origin stories that are hiding in plain sight

The Strange Life and Death of Dave Kleiman, A Computer Genius Linked to Bitcoin’s Origins

The Killer Is Revealed and the Terror of Scream Queens Is Finally, Finally Over

Craig Wright, The Man Who Claimed He Invented Bitcoin, Has Erased Himself

The Two Most Powerful Words That You Can Say To Yourself While Writing

Watch a North Korean Military Parade In VR With This Free App

Wild wingsuit video shows a guy flying through a narrow canyon

New Findings Might Reveal the People of Angkor Wat’s “Last Stand”

SETI: KIC 8462852 Is Not Shooting Alien Laser Beams At Us

Watch a Paper-Puppet Short About the Life and Work of Mary Leakey

That Time a Girl Wrote to JFK Asking If The Soviets Were Going to Nuke Santa Claus

The New Power Rangers Comics Feature Really Stylish Teens

Ships Have Black Boxes—And Apparently, They’re a Cinch to Hack

J.J. Abrams Told Us the Origin Story of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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