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This Terrifying Robotic Dog Has a Built-In Drone That Launches From Its Back

The future of autonomous robots is inching ever-forward–look no further than this combination of drone and autonomous quadruped that has me both freaked out and scratching my head. A new video illustrates a new concept for robo-drones. Remember BigDog, the unnervingly agile quadruped Terminator robot? Well, here we’ve got a smaller version of this type…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 21 '15

Hot Toys’ Army of The Force Awakens Snowtroopers Are Here To Commandeer Your Wallet

It’s been nearly three weeks since Force Friday came along and ravaged the wallets of Star Wars fans (myself included). Hot Toys nearly delivered a killing blow with the announcement of their first Force Awakens figures that day, but now they’re here to finish your wallet off once and for all with some gorgeous new…

Tech News James Whitbrook Sep 21 '15

Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights Is So Much Freaking Fun It’s Scary

Lots of amusement parks have scary Halloween attractions that feature cameos by popular horror franchises. But very few are actually created with the help and permission of the people who created those franchises. One that is: Halloween Horror Nights. And 2015’s version is absolutely terrifying. Halloween Horror Nights is an annual event that takes place…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 21 '15

This Week’s TV: A Ton of New Shows, But Only One of Them is Worth Your Time

It’s officially the start of fall TV season, and seven new shows are launching. But only one of them has bowled us over. Plus Gotham is back, and nuttier than ever. And how will the Doctor save Clara from the Daleks? Plus, David Tennant as the Fugitoid! All this and more, on This Week’s TV!…

Television Gordon M. Jackson and io9 staff Sep 21 '15

Blue Apron Now Ships Wine to Your House, Making You Even Lazier

It’s the tech industry’s latest ploy to keep you from ever setting foot in a supermarket again: meal delivery service Blue Apron just announced a new program that ships bottles of wine to your home. Blue Apron, which recently achieved unicorn status and is now worth $2 billion, already ships packages of pre-washed seasonal ingredients…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Sep 21 '15

Awesome view of a sunset through the nose of an old B-25 bomber

What. A. View. The nose of the B-25 bomber offers up such a fantastic view that it’s probably the perfect place to be for a sunset because not only do you get to see the entire world in a clear bubble, you get to see the old rickety steering wheel of a plane used since…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 21 '15

Your Sex Education Data Sucks

The way we teach sex education in the United States is such a crazy-quilt of curricula that it’s hard to know what’s being taught to our high school students, or how accurately. And when we lack that kind of data, we can easily make some pretty terrible mistakes. Take, for example, Hannah Smothers’ article in…

Tech News Diane Kelly Sep 21 '15

France Says Google Must Honor the “Right to Be Forgotten” Around the World

Europe’s “right to be forgotten” rules have been around for a while, but they pretty much just applied to Europeans who wanted to hide embarrassing or incorrect content about them. Now a French court says that Google needs to go a step further and apply the rules to all of its domains. In the past,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 21 '15

Can You Spot the Two Moons Hidden in this Picture of Saturn’s Rings?

Fact: There are two moons hiding in this picture. But can you spot them? Are you sure? The ability of moons Prometheus and Pandora to hide themselves (like they are in this new picture from Cassini) inside of Saturn’s rings owes itself to the distance that both moons hold from the planet—almost precisely the same…

io9 Ria Misra Sep 21 '15

Express Exactly How You Feel With a Thousand-Key Emoji Keyboard

Sometimes a simple smile or frown is enough to convey the emotion of a sentence. But for those times when you need a more specific emoji, Tom Scott has transformed the 1,000+ keys on 14 combined keyboards into one monstrous contraption to help you quickly access those expressive little pictographs. To make them easier to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

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 Sep 21 '15

This Terrifying Robotic Dog Has a Built-In Drone That Launches From Its Back

Hot Toys’ Army of The Force Awakens Snowtroopers Are Here To Commandeer Your Wallet

Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights Is So Much Freaking Fun It’s Scary

This Week’s TV: A Ton of New Shows, But Only One of Them is Worth Your Time

Blue Apron Now Ships Wine to Your House, Making You Even Lazier

Awesome view of a sunset through the nose of an old B-25 bomber

Your Sex Education Data Sucks

France Says Google Must Honor the “Right to Be Forgotten” Around the World

Can You Spot the Two Moons Hidden in this Picture of Saturn’s Rings?

Express Exactly How You Feel With a Thousand-Key Emoji Keyboard

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

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