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This Week’s TV: The End of Everything

Mr. Robot, Defiance, and Dark Matter end for the season, Teen Wolf ends for the summer, and Hannibal ends forever! All on This Week’s TV. Tonight Gravity Falls (8:30PM, DISNEY XD) Grunkle Stan runs for mayor! Super promising. Star Wars: Droid Tales—Crisis on Coruscant (9PM, DISNEY XD) Series premiere: “C-3PO and Ackbar’s pursuit of the…

io9 Gordon Jackson

Stephen Colbert Will Host Elon Musk and Uber’s CEO His First Week

When Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show launches on September 8 there will be a few surprising guests on his couch: Both Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick are booked for a very tech-focused first week. But that’s not the only hint that Colbert’s show might promise to be the most nerd-friendly late night show…

Television Alissa Walker

Courts Will Let the FTC Punish Companies for Bad Cybersecurity

Last week, hackers released a ton of data stolen from Ashley Madison, and scared the shit out of internet users everywhere. Now, with an uncanny sense of timing, an appeals court says the Federal Trade Commission has the power to regulate companies’ cyber security. That’s good news for you! A United States appeals court just…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Here’s Proof That Most Teleporters Have a Very Limited Imagination

Tom Scott, of the incredibly useful “Things You Might Not Know” has a bone to pick with teleporters. As Scott points out, there are so many things you could do with that ability. And yet, the only thing people with this ability choose to do is fight crime. In addition to his gripe with superheroes,…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

The Cutest Agent Coulson Figure Comes With A Sweet Ride

Sure, the Marvel Legends Phil Coulson had his own giant alien gun to blast people with, but it’s unlikely we’ll ever get to see a Lola in the same scale for him to ride around in. Good job Funko are here to provide their giant-headed Agent Coulson with a flying hot rod to ride then!…

Tech News James Whitbrook

When Did You Last Share a Gaze With Someone for More Than a Few Seconds?

A recent study found that extended bouts of eye contact could trigger “dissociative symptoms, dysmorphic face perceptions, and hallucination-like strange-face apparitions.” Sounds like a fun experiment to try at home, right? Maybe—if you can stomach ten minutes of direct eye contact. For the study, Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo had 20 people stare into one another’s…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

OnePlus 2 Review: It’s Powerful, It’s Cheap, and Dangit, It’s Exciting

Even as Apple, Samsung, and Motorola are pounding out their latest flagship superphones, the OnePlus 2 is easily the most interesting handset hitting the market right now. It’s different: An ambitious, powerful phone that won’t set you back too much loot. What Is It? A smartphone with near-flagship specs at a reasonable price. It’s got…

Reviews Mario Aguilar

Faster Scouting, Sun-Purified Water Bottles, Make Your Own Bow: What’s New Outside

Still uncomfortable in a mummy bag? Worried you might be caught without the ability to disinfect water? Thinking about running with the bulls? Doing your first deer scouting? What’s New Outside has the answers for you. 10 Killed Running With Bulls In 2015: 2015 is already on-par with Spain’s deadliest bull running year to-date, 2009.…

Tech News Wes Siler

Keep this Clumsy Mr. Bean Minifigure Away From Your Favorite Lego Sets

Lego won’t officially make one, but if you head on over to Minifigures.com you can grab this Lego-compatible Minifig version of Mr. Bean—complete with a tweed blazer—that’s ready to wreak havoc on your many sets. At around $15 it’s not a cheap addition to your celebrity Minifig collection, but right now this is the only…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Every Place We Used to Think Was a Planet (Until We Knew Better)

We once considered the Sun a planet, and it took finding Uranus to decide that moons should really be their own category of thing. These are all the places in our solar system that were once planets—but now have far more suitable names. The Sun and the Moon When the Ptolemaic model of an Earth-centric…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

This Message in a Bottle Could Be the Oldest Ever Found

Back in April, a retired postal worker named Marianne Winkler discovered a message in a bottle that had washed up on a German beach—and her find may be the oldest message in a bottle ever recovered. Between 1904 and 1906, George Parker Bidder, a researcher for the UK Marine Biological Association (pictured above) tossed about…

Tech News Matt Novak

How to make fizzy fruit that bubbles like soda inside the fruit

Here’s something every one of us should do before summer is over and the weather kills off all the fruits and the cold sadness diminishes our souls into nothingness: carbonate fruit with dry ice. ChefSteps shows just how easy it is to do: stick a bunch of fruit with dry ice inside a cooler, wrap…

Sploid Casey Chan

You Can Now Officially Install Cortana for Android

Microsoft just released the public beta for Cortana on Android. Though we already got a sneak peek thanks to a leaked private beta, anybody can now download the personal assistant software in the Google Play store. Just don’t expect to be blown away. Cortana on Andoid seems like a cool idea. The program basically works…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Cat + Cute Robot = The Absolute Best Thing Ever

A tiny robot comes to life, and immediately is full of curiosity about the world, in our exclusive excerpt from the graphic novel Little Robot by Ben Hatke, creator of Zita the Spacegirl. But maybe not surprisingly, the robot’s explorations start with a cat that gets maybe too friendly. Here’s the official description for Little…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

John McAfee: Ashley Madison “Was An Inside Job”

John McAfee is not known for his reasonableness. McAfee, founder of the eponymous antivirus software company, is very well known for being a security expert, however. Wearing both hats, McAfee now says that “Ashley Madison hack was not hacked.” He claims, “It was an inside job.” And it was a woman!? The International Business Times,…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

How SETI Will Understand Messages Broadcast by an Alien Intelligence

Imagine the day when we finally receive a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, only to find that there’s a message embedded within. Given that we don’t speak the same language, how could we ever hope to make sense of it? We spoke to the experts to find out. Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, aka “CETI”, is…

io9 George Dvorsky

LG Updates Its 10.1-inch G Pad With a Modest Spec Bump

LG’s G Pad II is an upgrade for the G Pad series, famously copied for the much-loved Nexus 7. But aside from a decently-sized battery, this new tab is pretty run-of-the-mill. The G Pad II won’t make an official debut next week at IFA 2015 in Berlin, so we’re still in the dark about prices…

Tech News Leah Becerra

What’s With the Gorilla, Masters of Sex?

After a decade of working on their own–as a team, but without a lot of input from other scientists–Masters and Johnson’s research is starting to have growing pains. The problem? They may be the experts on human sexual response, but that doesn’t make them experts in anything else. And if you want to expand a…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Police Are Investigating Reports of Two Suicides Related To Ashley Madison

At a press conference this morning, the Toronto Police said it was investigating “two unconfirmed reports” of suicides related to the Ashley Madison hack. At the presser, Toronto Police Superintendent for Specialized Investigations Bryce Evans updated the media on the department’s probe into the Ashley Madison hacks and subsequent data dumps. Avid Life Media, Ashley…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Fear The Walking Dead Is Finally Here, And It Kind of Sucks

After months of teasing and anticipation, The Walking Dead prequel Fear the Walking Dead started Sunday and maybe it’s because we’ve had five blood-soaked seasons of The Walking Dead as lead up, but it was a disappointment. Very slow, very obvious and very long. Basically, Fear the Walking Dead takes place before The Walking Dead,…

io9 Germain Lussier

This Week’s TV: The End of Everything

Stephen Colbert Will Host Elon Musk and Uber’s CEO His First Week

Courts Will Let the FTC Punish Companies for Bad Cybersecurity

Here’s Proof That Most Teleporters Have a Very Limited Imagination

The Cutest Agent Coulson Figure Comes With A Sweet Ride

When Did You Last Share a Gaze With Someone for More Than a Few Seconds?

OnePlus 2 Review: It’s Powerful, It’s Cheap, and Dangit, It’s Exciting

Faster Scouting, Sun-Purified Water Bottles, Make Your Own Bow: What’s New Outside

Keep this Clumsy Mr. Bean Minifigure Away From Your Favorite Lego Sets

Every Place We Used to Think Was a Planet (Until We Knew Better)

This Message in a Bottle Could Be the Oldest Ever Found

How to make fizzy fruit that bubbles like soda inside the fruit

You Can Now Officially Install Cortana for Android

Cat + Cute Robot = The Absolute Best Thing Ever

John McAfee: Ashley Madison “Was An Inside Job”

How SETI Will Understand Messages Broadcast by an Alien Intelligence

LG Updates Its 10.1-inch G Pad With a Modest Spec Bump

What’s With the Gorilla, Masters of Sex?

Police Are Investigating Reports of Two Suicides Related To Ashley Madison

Fear The Walking Dead Is Finally Here, And It Kind of Sucks

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