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Why Brave New World is No Longer the Terrifying Dystopia it Used to Be

Brave New World used to be one of the most terrifying stories about a false utopia. It gave us the concept of “test tube babies,” and its name became synonymous with technological progress run wild. But many of the things Aldous Huxley predicted are coming true, and it turns out they’re not so scary. Ranked…

io9 George Dvorsky

Apple’s Electric Car Could Ship Within the Next Five Years

Apple’s electric vehicle project, once a blurry rumor, is coming into increasingly clear focus. A major scoop from the Wall Street Journal today gives us details about the car’s team, manufacturing, and a ship date–of 2019. The sources of the Wall Street Journal’s Daisuke Wakabayashi are anonymous—he citied “people familiar with the matter”—but Wakabayashi has…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Fun time travel short is like a silly version of Terminator

If I had a chat with my future self it would go something like this: I’d ask him if I achieved all my hopes and dreams and he’d be totally bitter and would absolutely complain about how lazy I’ve been and all opportunities I’ve missed. The hero of this film has that kind of chat…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Skype Is Still Working To Restore Service To Some

Skype has been working to get its service back up and running for many users since about 4 AM Eastern Time. Most of those impacted by the network issue are having difficulty logging in on mobile and desktop apps. At 11AM, the company said that it had identified the problem and is working on a…

Tech News Leah Becerra

What Transhuman Space Operas Teach Us About the Future

In the 1660s the Irish chemist Robert Boyle made a list of 24 wishes: a page or two of solutions to all the challenges of 17th century life that he hoped might come about in the not too distant future. They ranged from the explorative: ‘the art of flying’, or the practical: ‘the acceleration of…

Books & Comics Tom Toner

You Can Own Princess Leia’s Actual Metal Bikini From Return of the Jedi

Assuming you have a great deal of disposable income. Like, a lot. Yes, the famous, infamous and iconic metal bikini that Carrie Fisher wore as Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi—while trapped as the enslaved sexy dancer of the alien/slug crimelord Jabba the Hutt—is going up for auction. It’s expected to sell for $80,000…

io9 Rob Bricken

Company Offers $1 Million for iOS Hack, Will Probably Sell It to the NSA

A cleverly-named security company has a clever idea. Zerodium will pay you $1 million if you find a zero-day exploit in iOS 9. Then, if history is any indicator, it will turn around and sell that intelligence to a despotic regime like the NSA. Chaouki Bekrar, the founder of Zerodium, is infamous for founding the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Peru’s “Apostle of Death” Serial Killer Has a Brother Who Just Might Be a Serial Killer Too

A Peruvian man suspected of six brutal slayings in Japan may be the younger brother of Peru’s most prolific serial murderer, a diagnosed schizophrenic known as the “Apostle of Death” because he claimed God urged him to kill. In 2006, Pablo Nakada Ludeña was captured after shooting at least 17 people (he claimed 25 total…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

WatchOS 2 Is Finally Available for Apple Watch

After a last minute delay last week due to an unforeseen bug, WatchOS 2 is now available for Apple Watch. The new version brings a lot of must-have upgrades including new watch faces, third-party complications, and support for third-party apps. Basically, this is what the Apple Watch should have been at launch. To download the…

Tech News Darren Orf

Fear the Walking Dead Just Became a Very Different Show

A few minutes into the fourth episode of Fear the Walking Dead, Madison and Alicia talk about paint. It’s an appropriate conversation because this episode was as entertaining as watching paint dry and it covered up all the goodwill won by the last episode. Obviously, Fear the Walking Dead has to be different from The…

Television Germain Lussier

The Internet Is Having a Field Day Over David Cameron’s Pig Sex Act Allegations

A new book alleges that British Prime Minister David Cameron put “a private part of his anatomy into a dead pig’s mouth” as part of a university initiation ritual. This is what the social internet was made for. The gossip that launched a bevy of hashtags and an ongoing flood of hilarious tweets comes from…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

New Art Installation Makes Music Out of Bitcoin Trades

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin enjoy a brisk pace of trading activity. But what does all that cyber wheeling and dealing look like? Better yet, what does it sound like? A new art installation in Moscow takes all that raw data and transforms it into musical notes, making melody out of global finance. Silk is…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Johnny Depp’s 6 Most Inexplicable Career Decisions

We are not anti-Johnny Depp. We love films like Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas—all of which are highlighted by stellar Depp performances. But for a Hollywood A-lister, he’s made some undeniably bizarre career decisions, and here are his oddest. 1) The Lone Ranger In the wake of…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The Marines Are Sending This Robotic Dog Into Simulated Combat

The battlefield can be one of the most useful places for robots. And now, the US Marines are testing out Spot, a robo dog built by Boston Dynamics to see how helpful the ‘bot could be in combat. Remember Big Dog, also from Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics? Well, Spot is a tinier, more agile…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

This Game Has Kids Knocking Down Schools With a Wrecking Ball

There are more than a few childhood rhymes that involve the destruction of a school; it’s a fantasy that most kids have every time recess comes to an end. So, naturally, someone has made a game that lets kids take a miniature wrecking ball to a school they just built. There aren’t exactly a lot…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Rejoice! DC’s Awesome Omega Men Comic Has Been Saved From Cancelation!

With last week’s release of December solicitations, DC unveiled a culling of its ongoing comics—eight comics in total were announced as being canceled by the end of the year. But thanks to fans, one of the comics scheduled for cancellation has been saved: The Omega Men, one of DC’s best current comics, lives on! https://gizmodo.com/two-of-dcs-greatest-recent-comics-are-coming-to-an-earl-1730638346…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Have Some Physics With Your Tea Next Time You’re in Malaysia

Travelers to southeast Asia frequently marvel at the showman-like skill with which street vendors prepare a drink known as teh tarik (“pulled tea”). They might not realize those same vendors are intuitive physicists at heart. Teh tarik is the national beverage of Malaysia, a mixture of black tea and condensed or evaporated milk, whipped into…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Watch flowing lava scorch the Earth

Here’s beautiful footage of lava flowing from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. The hot red burning orange lava oozes its way across the ground and basically swallows everything in its path in a fiery inevitability. It’s quite mesmerizing to see from up close. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Sploid Casey Chan

America’s New Largest Pumpkin Is So Ridiculously Large, You Guys

You think you know what a big pumpkin looks like? You don’t know what a big pumpkin looks like. The record for America’s largest pumpkin ever grown was broken over the weekend by this monster squash, weighing in at 2,145 pounds. It was grown by pumpkin farmer Gene McMullen and submitted to Wisconsin’s annual Cedarburg…

io9 Ria Misra

We Really Have No Idea Why Some Male Bats Have Spiny Penises

Some mammals have a dangerous-looking penis because their glans is covered in spines. In a few cases, we know why they’re there (typically, to induce ovulation during copulation). But in many other species, the purpose of the spiky bits is something of a mystery. Bats are one group of mammals in the still-a-mystery camp. Not…

Biology Diane Kelly

Why Brave New World is No Longer the Terrifying Dystopia it Used to Be

Apple’s Electric Car Could Ship Within the Next Five Years

Fun time travel short is like a silly version of Terminator

Skype Is Still Working To Restore Service To Some

What Transhuman Space Operas Teach Us About the Future

You Can Own Princess Leia’s Actual Metal Bikini From Return of the Jedi

Company Offers $1 Million for iOS Hack, Will Probably Sell It to the NSA

Peru’s “Apostle of Death” Serial Killer Has a Brother Who Just Might Be a Serial Killer Too

WatchOS 2 Is Finally Available for Apple Watch

Fear the Walking Dead Just Became a Very Different Show

The Internet Is Having a Field Day Over David Cameron’s Pig Sex Act Allegations

New Art Installation Makes Music Out of Bitcoin Trades

Johnny Depp’s 6 Most Inexplicable Career Decisions

The Marines Are Sending This Robotic Dog Into Simulated Combat

This Game Has Kids Knocking Down Schools With a Wrecking Ball

Rejoice! DC’s Awesome Omega Men Comic Has Been Saved From Cancelation!

Have Some Physics With Your Tea Next Time You’re in Malaysia

Watch flowing lava scorch the Earth

America’s New Largest Pumpkin Is So Ridiculously Large, You Guys

We Really Have No Idea Why Some Male Bats Have Spiny Penises

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