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EU Ruling to Stop US Companies Moving Data Freely Across the Atlantic

A new court ruling from the European Court of Justice deems invalid a legal framework that has untul now been used to justify the free transfer of data between the European Union and the U.S.. Known as the Safe Harbour agreement, the law has in the past allowed organizations based in the U.S. to pull…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Read an Excerpt from “Lightless”, the Space Opera Novel Everyone’s Talking About

Lightless is the debut novel of C.A. Higgins, a fast-paced, gripping read inspired in part by the author’s college thermodynamics class. io9 is proud to feature the excerpt below. You can also read our Q&A with Higgins here. “We know who you are,” Domitian said, his low rumbling voice poorly picked up by the cameras,…

io9 C.A. Higgins

Reddit Is Launching a News Website Called Upvoted — Without Comments

Reddit is launching a brand new website today to unearth news from its social aggregator. Called Upvoted, the site will surface pictures, videos and commentary from Reddit and present it as news — without the option to comment on a single thing. Wired reports that the new website, which is set to launch later today,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Strava Insights Lets You See How the World Runs and Cycles

Since Strava burst on to the fitness scene to track runs and rides, it’s collected an extraordinary amount of data—so much, in fact, that it even sells it to city planners. Now, it’slaunched a new website called Insights that lets you explore how the entire world runs and cycles. Drawing on a frankly bewildering 136…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Hail the Tiny Moons of Pluto!

Goodnight, moons! These are the best images we’re going to see of Nix and Hydra, the largest of the little moons swooping around Pluto and Charon. Pluto’s largest moon Charon is massive enough to yank the dwarf planet around their mutual center of gravity, the barycenter. The two create a miniature binary system orbited by…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

How France Plans to Bury Its Carbon Emissions — Literally, in Its Soil

French wine lovers have always taken their soil very seriously. But now the country’s government has introduced fresh reasons for the rest of the world to pay attention to their terroir. As industrial emissions of greenhouse gases continue to increase and concerns about climate change grow, scientists and policy wonks are searching for potential solutions.…

Tech News John Quinton

The Beefy New Roku 4 Makes It Easy to Find 4K Content

We called the Roku 3 the best new streaming box a while back. Now, the next generation is finally here, and it looks even better. Meet the Roku 4. The Roku 4 is different. The powerful set top box features a larger footprint than its predecessors, and that extra large case sports an extra powerful…

Television Adam Clark Estes

This Year’s Nobel Prize for Physics Celebrates Neutrinos

The 2015 Nobel Prize in physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for their work on neutrino oscillations. By tracking neutrinos in subterranean water tanks, the researchers watched neutrinos change flavour, in turn proving that the subatomic particles have mass. Two research groups—the Super-Kamiokande led by Takaaki Kajita in Japan and the Sudbury…

Physics & Chemistry Mika McKinnon

Long Before Will Forte, In Living Color Already Told The Story of the Last Man on Earth

You think the sitcom Last Man on Earth has a weird spin on post-apocalyptic survival and the problems of the one man left alive? Check out this bizarre skit from In Living Color, in which the last man on Earth has an uncomfortable awakening. This short comedy sketch manages to veer all over the place,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s The Moment When Continuum Revealed Its Greatest Personal Tragedy

Continuum is in its final few episodes, but the show still has the power to startle us. Just check out this scene from last Friday’s episode, “Zero Hour,” in which Alec discovers the greatest tragedy of his own future self. Spoilers ahead… What’s fascinating about this storyline is how it sneaks up on you. We’ve…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Want a Reversible USB-C Cable? OnePlus Has You Covered

If you’re the kind of lucky person who owns a USB-C enabled piece of electronica, listen up: OnePlus is selling its fantastic reversible USB-C cables for a song. The 1-meter and 1.5-meter (3 feet and 5 feet, for people who don’t like order) cables go for $5.50 and $7 respectively. That’s a bunch cheaper than…

Tech News Chris Mills

Donald Trump’s Bad Twitter Is Explained By His Bad Phone

Among a fascinating examination of Donald Trump’s Twitter strategy in the New York Times, we learn one important thing: the GOP candidate-in-waiting sends his mostly offensive 140-character missives from an undefined Samsung Galaxy smartphone. The Times story has a bunch of different conclusions, from how Trump is using social media in place of traditional ads,…

Gadgets Chris Mills

Simulating a Universe With a Computer: Yes, This Is Complicated

TheEAGLE Project isn’t some neo-Nazi project to bring a cloned Hitler to life; rather, it’s trying to simulate a universe inside a supercomputer. Yes, it’s exactly as complicated as it sounds. The project, housed at the University of Durham in the UK, is trying to understand how galaxies form and evolve. It starts using the…

Tech News Chris Mills

Adorable Black-Footed Ferret Sure Does Like the Taste of Freedom

This sweet li’ll face belongs to a rare black-footed ferret, one of 30 released today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo. The 25-square-mile site was once a toxic waste dump, but has gotten new life (literally) after a billion-dollar cleanup. AP Photo/David…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

How an Affluent Neighborhood Banished Private Cars for a Month

Last week, Paris shooed cars from its downtown for a single photogenic day. Now a neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa is one-upping that car-free day with a celebration that kicks cars off the street for the entire month of October. As part of theEcoMobility World Festival, which started today, cars have been banished from Sandton,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Making a clay bottle from dirt you find on the ground is messy fun

In continuing his really awesome hand made series, Andy George of How to Make Everything learns how clay pots and bottles are made from the very beginning (dirt!) to the beautiful end (ceramics). In between, you see him show us every step of the process like digging up the dirt, filtering out the crap in…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Entropy of Bones Is One of the Year’s Best Action Movies, Except It’s a Book

Sometimes the best books are the ones which just kick your ass on the first page and keep thwacking you up one side of the page and down the other, for pages and pages. That’s pretty much what The Entropy of Bones by Ayize Jama-Everett is like. We loved Jama-Everett’s first novel The Liminal People,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

What Should We Call The “@” Sign?

A New York Times article points out that many languages have creative names for the @ symbol. The Dutch refer to it as a monkey’s tail. For Italians, it’s a snail. But in boring old English, we just say “at.” Let’s get inventive. The Times piece discusses how many English Internet terms have become increasingly…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

DC Lets Frank Miller Draw Superman’s Penis for Dark Knight III

Hello. This is an actual comic cover drawn by legendary comic artist Frank Miller. It’s the cover to a companion comic to Miller’s upcoming Dark Knight III: The Master Race series, and it appears DC is actually going to publish it despite the fact that 1) it is horrible, 2) it is laughable and 3)…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

The Port of LA’s Big Tech Upgrade Worked So Well It’s Hitting Its 2023 Emissions Goals

If you live in the US, most of the imported goods in your possession have traveled through the Port of Los Angeles, one of the largest ports in the world, and now, one of the biggest environmental success stories on the planet. A new study shows that due to major upgrades started a decade ago,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

EU Ruling to Stop US Companies Moving Data Freely Across the Atlantic

Read an Excerpt from “Lightless”, the Space Opera Novel Everyone’s Talking About

Reddit Is Launching a News Website Called Upvoted — Without Comments

Strava Insights Lets You See How the World Runs and Cycles

Hail the Tiny Moons of Pluto!

How France Plans to Bury Its Carbon Emissions — Literally, in Its Soil

The Beefy New Roku 4 Makes It Easy to Find 4K Content

This Year’s Nobel Prize for Physics Celebrates Neutrinos

Long Before Will Forte, In Living Color Already Told The Story of the Last Man on Earth

Here’s The Moment When Continuum Revealed Its Greatest Personal Tragedy

Want a Reversible USB-C Cable? OnePlus Has You Covered

Donald Trump’s Bad Twitter Is Explained By His Bad Phone

Simulating a Universe With a Computer: Yes, This Is Complicated

Adorable Black-Footed Ferret Sure Does Like the Taste of Freedom

How an Affluent Neighborhood Banished Private Cars for a Month

Making a clay bottle from dirt you find on the ground is messy fun

The Entropy of Bones Is One of the Year’s Best Action Movies, Except It’s a Book

What Should We Call The “@” Sign?

DC Lets Frank Miller Draw Superman’s Penis for Dark Knight III

The Port of LA’s Big Tech Upgrade Worked So Well It’s Hitting Its 2023 Emissions Goals

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