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Colin Trevorrow has started work on Star Wars Episode IX. Or, at least he’s started doing something Star Wars related. The Jurassic World director posted the below image on Twitter, which is pretty crazy considering we’re still three months from Episode VII, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and about 20 until Rian Johnson’s Star Wars…

18 Marvel Superheroes and Villains That Desperately, Desperately Need Action Figures

Hasbro has made hundreds of Marvel action figures over the years, but when you’re dealing with a comic universe of thousands, there are plenty of deserving heroes and villains who can slip through the cracks. Here are a dozen and a half Marvel characters—some obscure, some overdue, and some shockingly excluded—who need the toy treatment…

DC’s Crime Museum, Home of Ted Bundy’s Death Car, Set to Close

Washington, D.C.’s Crime Museum, which opened in 2008, will close at the end of September, citing “various circumstances.” The museum’s attractions include Ted Bundy’s VW, which he used to snatch his victims, as well as paints used by John Wayne Gacy to create his clown portraits on Death Row. According to a statement released by…

Ben Affleck’s Batman Is So Good, They Want More of Him in Batman v Superman

Two years ago, when Ben Affleck was cast as Batman, no one would’ve guessed it could come to this. A new rumor says the studio is so excited about his performance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, they want more of him in the film. How much more? Heroic Hollywood reports that “Warners is…

iPhone 6s Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know

How do you make the best iPhone ever even better? That’s the perennial question, one that’s inevitably easier to answer as Apple releases innovative new products. This year, the fan universe finds a plethora of clues in the company’s wearable computer. The iPhone 6s, these clues suggest, will be a giant Apple Watch. Check out…

How To Stop Videos From Auto-Playing in Your Browser

Whether it’s a music clip on YouTube, a Flash ad on a news site or the latest viral sensation on Facebook, most videos you come across on today’s web want to get going without any input from you—and that can cause problems with bandwidth as well as audio output you weren’t expecting. Here’s how to…

The Air Force Is Trying to Fix Drone Pilot Burnout With Dank Memes 

Air Force drone pilots are stressed out, burnt out, overworked and undertrained. But ain’t they got memes! In August, the Air Force launched a “Culture and Process Improvement Program” to combat what a bummer flying military drones can be: “We’re seeing problems in the MQ-1/9 community at both the major command and base levels that…

This 17-Inch Vader Figure Talks, Moves, and Poses All By Itself

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens comes a bunch of new characters that fans of the saga have already embraced, but will any of them ever hold a candle—or lightsaber—to Vader? Not when there’s a giant animated action figure now available in his likeness. You may not have heard of Thinkway Toys before, but in…

Steven Universe‘s Extended Opening Teases Major Villains and Heart-Exploding Joy

Back at Comic-Con this year, Steven Unvierse’s joint panel with Adventure Time treated fans to an extended version of the show’s opening theme, teasing an awesome hint at the show’s future. Now Cartoon Network have started streaming the opening on their website, so everyone can see it! Although the clip has made its way onto…

Russia Just Banned PornHub

In Soviet Russia, porno was a big no-no. And while the land of Putin has loosened up in recent years, it’s still very much frowned upon. Case in point: Russia has banned PornHub and ten other sexy websites. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media overlords, just added the 11 sites hosting “illegal pornography” to the Unified Register of…

This Fake Baby Car Seat Is Designed to Help Governments Spy on People

As governments look for new ways to spy on people, the commercial surveillance business is getting creative. One of the weirder offerings: a video and audio recording device hidden inside a baby seat. A report on surveillance equipment sales to the Colombian government from Privacy International shows a flyer for the baby car seat, modeled…

Can This Real, Working Imperator Furiosa Prosthetic Be Beat? We Think Not.

Someone made an actual prosthetic based on Imperator Furiosa’s from Mad Max: Fury Road. Is saying something is “shiny and chrome” passé yet? I love this. Not just because it looks so good, but because there’s competence porn to go along with it in the form of the detailed process photos and writing from the…

These Insanely Adorable Marvel Plushes Are Earth’s Squishiest Heroes

Disney’s ridiculously addictive “Tsum Tsum” puzzle app has spawned a merchandising fury of its own, as fans desperately try to get cuddly versions of the cutesy, stackable Disney characters from the game. But now Marvel’s heroes are joining in on the fun, and have never looked cuter. For those not in the know, Tsum Tsum…

How Halloween Horror Nights Makes America’s Scariest Haunted Houses

Universal Orlando transforms itself into a murderous, terrifying gothic wonderland every fall. This year is the 25th anniversary of Halloween Horror Nights, and it’s filled with iconic scenes from horror history that make the guests victims in their personal horror movies. Here’s how they build their elaborate horror houses. It’s been about a year since…

The Largest Air Purifier Ever Built Sucks Up Smog And Turns It Into Gem Stones 

What’s 23 feet tall, eats smog, and makes jewelry for fun? In Rotterdam this week, the designer Daan Roosegaarde is showing off the result of three years of research and development: The largest air purifier ever built. It’s a tower that scrubs the pollution from more than 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour—and then…

The World Is Running Out of an Essential Snakebite Anti-Venom

Doctors Without Borders is warning that global stocks of a critical snakebite treatment are poised to run out next year—a troubling development that could put tens of thousands of lives at risk. The last batch of one of the world’s most effective snakebite treatments, known as Fav-Afrique, is set to expire in June 2016. This…

Drunk Guy Arrested for Kicking a Pepper Robot 

Pepper, Japan’s talking, humanoid robot that reads emotions and tells you jokes when you’re sad, sold out of its initial 1,000 units in one minute back in June. But apparently the robot isn’t beloved by everyone. A drunk 60-year-old man reportedly kicked a Pepper unit in Yokohama Sunday morning after getting pissed at a (human)…

Adblock Plus Now Works on iOS Devices

Two days before Apple is expected to release iOS 9—including new adblocking capabilities in Safari—the company that makes Adblock Plus is jumping the gun. Eyeo just released the Adblock Browser for iPhone and iPad. It works a lot like every other browser except, you know, it blocks ads. Well, the Adblock Browser says it blocks…

See the FantastiCar and H.E.R.B.I.E. That Almost Made It Into Fantastic Four

I don’t think having a flying car or a lovable robot could have saved Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four movie, but by god, they definitely couldn’t have hurt. As it turns out, both H.E.R.B.I.E. and the FantastiCar were almost included in the film, and here’s the concept art to prove it. The art comes from concept…

The 40th Anniversary Python Holy Grail Box Set Doubles As a Working Catapult

It’s hard to believe that the greatest achievement in comedic filmmaking is already 40 years old. And to help get another generation hooked on the antics of Monty Python, the 40th anniversary box set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail includes a tiny (but working) cow catapult. What kid could resist launching bovines and…