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Reddit’s New Site Cuts Out Comments and the Heart of Reddit

Reddit is a site built on the backs of user contributions and engagement, and their new publication Upvoted doesn’t allow comments. This is bullshit. Today Reddit launched Upvoted, a site with a dedicated editorial team that will cull and curate from Reddit’s top content. Popular stories are verified, rewritten, and repackaged for the ad market.…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Sony’s Image Sensors Are Good Enough To Survive as a Separate Company

Sony is spinning its moneymaking image sensor business into its own company that’ll be named Sony Semiconductor Solutions. And rather than propping up other electronics lines that haven’t been performing as well, the semiconductor business will now be able to make a lot of money. Last year, for example, Sony’s image sensors dominated its competitors,…

Tech News Leah Becerra

A Man Who Makes Babies–Lots of Babies–But Lives Alone

People who want to start a family but have, for whatever reason, a problem with the sperm half of the equation have options. There are in-vitro methods that get sperm right next to or injected directly inside an egg. There are sperm banks. Some people have friends who are willing to be sperm donors. And…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Workers of New Ant Species Have Big, Weird Heads

This is a worker ant of the newly-discovered species Carebara lilith. You may notice that it has an absolutely enormous noggin. Why? This Charlie-Brown-looking insect is not a special kind of ant—it’s a special kind of a special kind of ant. This is one of two species discovered Western Kenya, the other one being Carebara…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell

If Minority Report Would Get Over Itself, It Might Actually Be Watchable

We’re three episodes into Minority Report, and it’s 100% settling into its crime procedural format. Which would be perfectly fine, if it weren’t so pleased with itself for being in the future. Spoilers ahead. That little weed breath mint strip is representative of one of Minority Report’s two biggest failings. We’ll get to the second…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Are you Ready to Visit Ryugu, the Undersea Castle in the Asteroid Belt?

The target for the asteroid retrieval mission Hayabusa2 now has a name! Ryugu is leaving the undersea world of myth to take up residence in the main asteroid belt just in time to welcome a swarm of robotic visitors in 2018. Ryugu is a 1-kilometer wide C-type asteroid with a higher probability of organic and…

Space & Spaceflight Mika McKinnon

17 Photos That Are Vanishing Away

As parallel lines extend into the Z-space of a painting of photograph, they gradually converge toward a vanishing point. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you captured the phenomenon right as it disappeared in front of your eyes. Winner: Bridge to Nowhere This was taken during our first Cub Scout camping trip on Hood Canal…

Tech News Mark Wilson

A Closer Look at the Microsoft Band 2: Definitely More Wearable, But Not Without Problems

In the crazy world of new Microsoft—where Surfaces are now more fully-fledged laptops and Lumias turn into complete PCs—Band 2 was met with little fanfare. But getting a closer look at Band 2 helped convince me that Microsoft has something brewing inside this little wearable, but it’s not quite there yet. The biggest hurdle crossed…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Epic New Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Trailer Will Give You Chills

The new, and probably last, trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 is so good, you could close your eyes and it would still give you goosebumps. Jennifer Lawrence stars in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, which open November 20. Finally, after three movies of death, betrayal and intrigue Katniss will lead the…

Trailers Germain Lussier

The 9 Weirdest Italian Horror Movies

Italian horror is, by its very nature, weird as hell. Even the genre’s most acclaimed standouts (Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, for instance) are disgustingly freakish nightmares. But there are certain titles lurch into realms so intensely bizarre, we can’t quite believe our eyes … or stop showing them to our friends, and quoting their most…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Surface Book Hands-On: Towards a More Perfect Laptop

So we haven’t really noticed it, but the laptop has been broken for years. That’s why the Surface—minus Book nomenclature—seemed so important when it dropped a few years ago. And Microsoft just proved how boring and futile laptops have become, by showing us a laptop that’s exciting. When is the last time you were legitimately…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The F-18 Blue Angels look truly angelic in this photo

They look supernatural, don’t they. According to the The US Navy, the Blue Angels are performing a “high speed diamond break-away maneuver” at the Miramar Air Show in this photo but to me, because of the way they’re in the clouds, they’ve never looked more angelic. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook,…

Sploid Casey Chan

Valiant’s Hero Bloodshot Gets Reborn in a Mad Max-esque, Monster Truck-Filled Apocalypse

The Valiant universe is never boring. With the events of The Book of Death barely over, the comics publisher has revealed that its nanotech-infused hero Bloodshot will be thrust 30 years forward into a post-apocalyptic future in Bloodshot Reborn #10 in a new arc titled “The Analog Man.” We spoke to writer Jeff Lemire about…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

This Heat Shield Test Takes Us One Fiery Step Closer to Mars

Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center finished testing of their brand-new flexible heat shield designed for future Mars exploration vehicles, according to an announcement by the space agency today. Also included? This amazing image of one test. In order to land a spacecraft safely on the surface of Mars, a larger heat shield is needed—because…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Will the World End on October 7th?

Chris McCann, the founder of the fringe Christian group eBible Fellowship, says the world is going to end on October 7, 2015. He confidently claims that the Earth will be completely “annihilated.” Could he be right? According to McCann, God “shut the door to heaven” on May 21, 2011. And ever since, He has just…

Tech News Matt Novak

7,000 Falling Dominoes Make Van Gogh’s Starry Night Even More Beautiful

FlippyCat—easily the most patient YouTube celebrity—spent around 11 hours recreating Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night using 7,067 carefully stacked dominoes that were then sent tumbling in a glorious chain reaction. And thankfully, there was a camera rolling the whole time. FlippyCat actually had to build this setup twice, because the first attempt was foiled when…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Bizarre Lex Luthor Fortune Profile Teases a Bunch of Back Story For Batman v Superman

I mean, I get all of my superhero blockbuster news out of fake editorials from Fortune. Don’t you? Batman v Superman may be a considerable while off for now, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start your viral marketing machine up already. The faux-profile hosted on Fortune’s website began making the rounds yesterday evening, when…

Movies James Whitbrook

How Pixar’s Inside Out Avoided Its Greatest Danger: Becoming An “After-School Special”

Inside Out is a complex film about the human psyche, but it has a really simple message: Sadness is an important part of life. You can’t have joy without sadness, and growing up means accepting that memories can be happy and sad. Director Pete Docter told io9 it was hard to avoid making this feel…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Yes, a New JLA Cartoon Is Definitely on Its Way

The poster was right! Cartoon Network Canada has confirmed that a new Justice League cartoon, titled JLA, to begin airing next fall. I think we can safely assume that Cartoon Network USA will also air the series, possibly even before its Canadian debut. No other info is known, but I previously speculated that based on…

Television Rob Bricken

Surface Book Is Microsoft’s Glorious New Laptop

Well here’s a surprise! After spending years undermining the laptop—or at least trying to—with the Surface, now Microsoft is making its own damn laptop. Oh hell yes folks, here is Surface Book. Yes, it’s beautiful. For those of you keeping track at home, yes, this is Microsoft’s first laptop. The basics: The Surface Book has…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Reddit’s New Site Cuts Out Comments and the Heart of Reddit

Sony’s Image Sensors Are Good Enough To Survive as a Separate Company

A Man Who Makes Babies–Lots of Babies–But Lives Alone

Workers of New Ant Species Have Big, Weird Heads

If Minority Report Would Get Over Itself, It Might Actually Be Watchable

Are you Ready to Visit Ryugu, the Undersea Castle in the Asteroid Belt?

17 Photos That Are Vanishing Away

A Closer Look at the Microsoft Band 2: Definitely More Wearable, But Not Without Problems

This Epic New Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Trailer Will Give You Chills

The 9 Weirdest Italian Horror Movies

Surface Book Hands-On: Towards a More Perfect Laptop

The F-18 Blue Angels look truly angelic in this photo

Valiant’s Hero Bloodshot Gets Reborn in a Mad Max-esque, Monster Truck-Filled Apocalypse

This Heat Shield Test Takes Us One Fiery Step Closer to Mars

Will the World End on October 7th?

7,000 Falling Dominoes Make Van Gogh’s Starry Night Even More Beautiful

This Bizarre Lex Luthor Fortune Profile Teases a Bunch of Back Story For Batman v Superman

How Pixar’s Inside Out Avoided Its Greatest Danger: Becoming An “After-School Special”

Yes, a New JLA Cartoon Is Definitely on Its Way

Surface Book Is Microsoft’s Glorious New Laptop

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