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Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall

Summer is slipping away fast, but there’s still time to spend a long weekend devouring a book on the beach. And it doesn’t have to be the trashy romance variety: We’ve collected a bunch of great science and tech reads that’ll entertain you while getting your brain in shape for school — or just get…

Tech News Maddie Stone

5 Horror Movies That Should Be Made Into TV Shows (And 3 That Shouldn’t)

Television shows inspired by horror movies are nothing new; Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which ended in 2003, is one of the genre’s most successful examples. But there’s a trend afoot, with the likes of Scream, Damien, and Ash vs. Evil Dead hitting the airwaves (and Hannibal having just left). Naturally, when one thing catches on,…

Television Cheryl Eddy

The “Taxi of Tomorrow” Is Finally the Official Cab for New York City

Against all odds, the Nissan NV-200 will rule the streets of New York. As of today, the vast majority of cab drivers must buy the so-called Taxi of Tomorrow when they retire their old yellow cabs. Anybody who’s ever taken a cab in the city will agree that new cars are a good thing. This…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Harry Potter’s Kid Starts at Hogwarts Today and Death Is Coming for Us All

We are mortal and every step we take brings us one step closer to the grave. We know this because today—September 1st, 2015—is the day that Harry and Ginny Potter (née Weasley) send their first son to Hogwarts to begin his wizard education, according to none other than J.K. Rowling herself. Yes, if you’re one…

io9 Rob Bricken

A Reality TV Show Starring Sea Otters Is Taking the Internet by Storm

Last night, I did something that many Americans do on the regular: I decided to watch reality TV. Except I wasn’t watching bridezillas squabble over seating arrangements or desperate housewives cope with each other’s husbands. Nah, I was watching sea otters. Last night marked the first US airing of Big Blue Live, a 3-part TV…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Under The Dome Has Been Canceled! In Related News, Anyone Want To Hire a Dome?

The great colonnades of Rome have lasted for centuries, through political upheaval and some really questionable fashion choices. But for some of us, glory is more fleeting. CBS, because genius is never recognized in its time, has decided to pull the plug on my show, Under the Dome. In other words, I’m looking for work.…

Television The Dome

A perfectly skinned watermelon looks so hilariously ridiculous

Since a watermelon looks like it’s ripped off the screen of like a Super Mario Bros video game and is wonderful at exploding because of its red flesh and is even more excellent at housing molten aluminum, it very probably is the world’s funnest fruit to play with. Here’s another fun trick you can do…

Sploid Casey Chan

Genius Screen Protector Makes iPhone 6 Easier to Use With One Hand

Using the iPhone 6 one-handed isn’t easy, but reaching the top corners of the screen on the iPhone 6 Plus is nigh impossible with regular-sized hands. So PureGear has created a new glass screen protector with a set of shortcuts to the top corners of the screen positioned next to the home button. Being able…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Google Has a Brand New Logo, Here It Is

Google recently changed its logo a little. Now they’ve changed it a lot. And it’s actually a heck of a lot better, too. I kinda love it. The idea here is that Google doesn’t need as much of logo anymore as it needs a constantly morphing identity that can quickly resonate across mediums, from smartwatches…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Chloe Grace Moretz Details All the Ways Humans Were Killed in the 5th Wave Trailer

Things do not look good for humanity in the first trailer for Sony’s The 5th Wave, based on the Rick Yancey novels. We’ve got Moretz’s Cassie going through the empty world with a gun at the ready, while her voiceover lists the four other waves of alien destruction. Then Liev Schreiber shows up to talk…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Ditch the Binary Model: Sexual Orientation Is More Like Height, with Many Variations

Research on the biological origins of human sexual orientation remains controversial (and poorly funded), and more than two decades of slow work is starting to reveal a much more complex process than anyone first suspected. In an article for the Boston Globe Magazine last month, Neil Swidley examines the current state of the field, and…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Mad genius creates a crazy super drone flying machine using 54 propellers

Man can’t fly but with the help of 54 drone propellers and an umbrella to protect the ol’ noggin, man can kind of fly. This mad genius made what he calls, The Swarm, which is essentially a lawn chair strapped to some metal bars and 54 counter-rotation propellers and six grouped control channels with Hobbyking…

Sploid Casey Chan

PayPal Launches Service That Will Compete With Venmo, a Company It Owns

Do you like Venmo? Then you’re going to love PayPal.me, a new Venmo-like payment platform by PayPal, Venmo’s parent company. It works a lot like Venmo except, you know, it’s PayPal instead. It’s not quite as confusing as it sounds. PayPal.me is basically a streamlined version of its namesake that also makes it easy for…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

NASA Tossed Astronauts with this Gimbal Rig Before Launching Them into Space

How do you regain control of a spacecraft tumbling through space? The Mercury astronauts trained by spinning in this gimbal rig in an effort to mimic the disorienting chaos they’d need to battle during the earliest human spaceflight missions. All Mercury astronauts trained on this multi-axis space test intertia device, nicknamed the gimbal rig, to…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Transparent Batteries That Charge in the Sun Could Replace Smartphone Screens

A group of Japanese researchers have managed to improve the design of a transparent lithium-ion battery so that it’s now able to recharge itself when exposed to sunlight without the need for a separate solar cell. The transparent battery was first developed by the researchers, led by Kogakuin University president and professor Mitsunobu Sato, back…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Land Rover Has Come Up With a Way To Make Trailers Invisible

Driving with a trailer in tow leaves with you a gigantic blind spot directly behind your vehicle. So to make it easier to keep an eye on traffic following you, Land Rover has come up with a way to make trailers appear to be transparent using strategically placed cameras. The system augments a Land Rover’s…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This First Clip From the Gotham Season Premiere Is Already Completely Bonkers

As io9’s reviewer of Gotham, I’ve been looking forward to the second season much like I look forward to a dentist appoint—painful, but necessary. But this two-minute clip from the show’s first new episode has dropped, and it’s so terrible, so insane, and yet so promising you all have to give it a watch. The…

io9 Rob Bricken

Hilarious video does the impossible and turns Joffrey into the hero of Game of Thrones

Joffrey is such a despicable character on Game of Thrones with such a punchable face and hateful personality that it’s pretty much impossible to make him look good. And yet! This video by Blood Blitz Comedy tries its hardest to re-edit the show to make Joffrey look like the true hero he could have been…

Sploid Casey Chan

How to Maximize Battery Life on Windows 10

Whether you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 on your laptop or bought a brand new machine, you’re going to want to eke out as much battery juice as you can while you’re on the go. Microsoft’s shiny new OS includes a new native battery saver feature — and there are a few other tricks you can…

Gadgets David Nield

Amazon Video Now Has Offline Playback For Prime Subscribers, See Ya Netflix

For the first time on any subscription video service, Amazon Prime subscribers will now be able to download movies and TV shows from the company’s huge catalog. Roll over Netflix. The new service is a huge deal. It means precisely what it sounds like: If you’re a Prime subscriber, you’ll be able to download that…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall

5 Horror Movies That Should Be Made Into TV Shows (And 3 That Shouldn’t)

The “Taxi of Tomorrow” Is Finally the Official Cab for New York City

Harry Potter’s Kid Starts at Hogwarts Today and Death Is Coming for Us All

A Reality TV Show Starring Sea Otters Is Taking the Internet by Storm

Under The Dome Has Been Canceled! In Related News, Anyone Want To Hire a Dome?

A perfectly skinned watermelon looks so hilariously ridiculous

Genius Screen Protector Makes iPhone 6 Easier to Use With One Hand

Google Has a Brand New Logo, Here It Is

Chloe Grace Moretz Details All the Ways Humans Were Killed in the 5th Wave Trailer

Ditch the Binary Model: Sexual Orientation Is More Like Height, with Many Variations

Mad genius creates a crazy super drone flying machine using 54 propellers

PayPal Launches Service That Will Compete With Venmo, a Company It Owns

NASA Tossed Astronauts with this Gimbal Rig Before Launching Them into Space

Transparent Batteries That Charge in the Sun Could Replace Smartphone Screens

Land Rover Has Come Up With a Way To Make Trailers Invisible

This First Clip From the Gotham Season Premiere Is Already Completely Bonkers

Hilarious video does the impossible and turns Joffrey into the hero of Game of Thrones

How to Maximize Battery Life on Windows 10

Amazon Video Now Has Offline Playback For Prime Subscribers, See Ya Netflix

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