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Good news: The kickstarter-funded “Geek Girl” comic anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is getting worldwide distribution through Dark Horse. The Mary Sue have revealed that the collection, featuring work from Margaret Atwood, Kate Leth, Mariko Tamaki, and many more will be out in October 2016.

In the Battle of Ears Vs. Eyes, Who Wins?

Two well-documented sensory biases enter. One entirely new sensory bias leaves. This is what happens when researchers pit your eyes against your ears to see which one you’ll believe. Sit a test subject down in front of a row of five speakers and play a sound in one of those speakers. Then ask the subject…

Everybody Makes Their Choices In a Stone Crazy Agents of SHIELD Episode

Last night was the midseason finale of Agents of SHIELD, and it put a pretty definitive capstone on the “alien planet” storyline as well as the ATCU storyline. Most importantly, it gave a few of our main characters some defining choices, which turned out about as well as you’d expect. Spoilers ahead… In “Maveth,” Ward’s…

We Finally Have the Full Story on Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots

Water ice from a subterranean ocean? Giant salt deposits from an alien mining operation? Since March, dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spots have mystified scientists, dazzled space nerds, and sparked all manner of wild speculation. A study published today in Nature has the answers we’ve been waiting for. Ceres, you are one fantastically complex beast of…

The Batman Comic Is Teasing Big Changes to Its New Status Quo

The last few months have seen some huge changes for Batman. First of all, he’s not even Bruce Wayne—he’s a heavily armored Jim Gordon. Bruce can’t remember being Batman, and arguably doesn’t want to be him again. But today’s issue of Batman has begun to tease some big changes to the new normal. Spoilers ahead…

This Exclusive Boy and the World Clip Looks Like a Trippy Side-Scrolling Video Game

No, you didn’t drop acid and start playing Super Mario Bros. That’s just the unique, beautiful aesthetic of Boy and the World, a new animated film which hits theaters on December 11. We’ve got an exclusive clip—a clip that undoubtedly feels like the most amazing side-scrolling video game you will never play. In the film,…

There’s a 12-Inch Keyboard Inside This 8-Inch Laptop

The problem with technology shrinking is that our hands aren’t getting smaller, creating usability issues. Apple’s 12-inch MacBook is about as small as you can make a laptop with a full-size keyboard, but Japan’s King Jim has found a clever way to make its Portabook XMC10 even smaller. The ultra-compact laptop—which powers Windows 10 with…

Harrison Ford Says Han Solo’s Lines in The Force Awakens Trailers Aren’t What They Seem

When Han Solo declared “Chewie, we’re home” in the second trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it brought tears to even most hardened fans. And in another trailer, he thrilled us by declaring, “It’s true, all of it.” But Harrison Ford says both those lines are being wildly misinterpreted. Though he’s now in his…

Google Play Music’s Family Plan Is Live, and It’s a Great Deal

You can now sign up for the Google Play Music family plan announced earlier this fall. $15 connects up to six accounts to Google Play Music. It’s a fantastic deal. In addition to unfettered, ad-free access to Google’s great streaming music service, the six accounts will also get access to YouTube Red, Google’s newly launched…

Watch How Particles Come Together to Jam a Hopper

It’s like the Avengers of inefficiency. Particles from different locations, having undergone vastly different journeys, all assemble, for one moment, to work as a group to jam up a hopper. This particular experiment was done in 2011 by scientists at Duke University to study the microscopic aspects of what’s known as granular flow — the…

The Ninth Doctor Is Getting His Own Ongoing Comic Series!

Hooray! Titan Comics are adding another Doctor to their ever-expanding roster of ongoing Doctor Who comic books. After a pretty smashing miniseries, the Ninth Doctor is back for good with a whole host of new comic adventures in time and space. https://gizmodo.com/nine-rose-and-captain-jack-return-in-our-doctor-who-1-1690608674 The five-part miniseries from Cavan Scott and Blair Shedd came to a close…

These 7 wildly creative burgers look so damn tasty

There’s probably not a person on this planet that would associate burgers with Christmas but after watching this video from Food, People, Places, I just might start. They made burgers inspired (very loosely!) by Christmas and the sheer visual deliciousness of all their wild creations is so incredible and the recipes are so inventive that…

Comic Con is headed to Tokyo, courtesy of Steve Wozniak. It’s the first time the convention will ever be held in Japan, and it’s planned for December 2016. It’s going to be a sister event to the Apple co-founder’s Silicon Valley Comic Con, and the Woz himself appeared in Tokyo last weekend to get people…

Here’s All the Evidence That Craig Wright Invented Bitcoin 

Parallel Gizmodo and Wired investigations into the identity of mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, published yesterday, pointed to Australian academic and serial entrepreneur Craig Wright as potentially involved with the invention of the cryptocurrency. While the evidence does not conclusively pinpoint Wright or his business associate Dave Kleiman as the creator(s) of Bitcoin, it does…

The io9 Guide to The X-Files

You may have heard that The X-Files is coming back in January. If you were a fan when the show was originally on in the ‘90s—or caught it later in syndication or streaming—this is potentially great news. If you missed the whole phenomenon, we’re here for you. Once again, we venture into the io9 Guide…

This Flamethrower-Equipped Drone Looks Like a Legal Nightmare

The same Connecticut teen whose shotgun-outfitted drone video went viral this summer is back—this time with a flamethrower attached to an unmanned aerial vehicle. Reminder: there is currently no law formally banning individuals from weaponizing drones. The video, uploaded to YouTube on Monday by drone enthusiast Austin Haughwout and entitled “Roasting the Holiday Turkey,” shows…

You Can Now Download Cortana for Android and iOS

Every mobile operating system comes with its own digital assistant. iOS has Siri, Android has Google Now, and Windows phone has Cortana. But now, Microsoft is giving all smartphone users some choice, now that Cortana has escaped (the sinking ship that is) the Windows phone and officially migrated to Android, iOS and also Cyanogen. Cortana…

On The Flash, Barry Is an Oblivious Christmas Turkey (Seriously)

How do you follow last week’s epic, ridiculous, wonderfully fun Flash/Arrow crossover? You don’t even try to match it. You just make a Christmas episode, throw in a couple of major emotional revelations for a few characters, bring back three great villains, and then add a metric ton of silliness. “Running to Stand Still,” as…

Can you tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not in these amazing illusions?

It’s all about the perspective. Well, it’s also a little about how easily our eyes can be tricked. Here’s optical illusion expert BrussPup pulling the old perspective trick on us by making us think something is real when it’s not and making us believe something is fake when it’s actually the real object. It’s a…

Sad Supervillain Martin Shkreli Bought That Top Secret Wu-Tang Album

I offer my deepest apologies to Wu-Tang fans. The buyer of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, a record-slash-art-project of which only a single copy will ever be sold, is now owned by a huge douchebag. The millionaire buyer’s identity has been revealed as pill price gouger Martin Shkreli. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that the pharmaceutical…