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First Signs Of Geology Spotted On Pluto’s Surface

We’re so close to Pluto, we’re starting to see geologic features on the dwarf planet’s surface. In its latest portrait from the New Horizons spacecraft, scientists are able to pick out distant surface formations, including a polygonal band of terrain stretching east-northeast across the planet, and a dark band near the south pole that’s now…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Comic-Con’s Behind-The-Scenes Footage of Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

New characters! New villains! Familiar faces! Real sets! Practical effects! If there’s one Comic-Con video you can’t miss, it’s this one! Contact the author at [email protected].

Movies Rob Bricken

Ancient Roman Concrete Was Inspired By Volcanic Chemistry

In 1982, the ground beneath the historic port city of Pozzuoli began to rise like a cake in the oven. Within two years, the swell had exceeded 6 feet. Then the earth started shaking—first, a swarm of microquakes. When the first magnitude 4 quake hit, Pozzuoli became a ghost town overnight. Tiziana Vanorio, a geophysicist…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

Do you hear that, Gizmodo denizens? It’s the sound of the glorious weekend approaching. Gather ‘round, let’s celebrate. This here is an open thread for your end-of-week pleasure. At current on Gizmodo, our top stories cover a range of tech-related topics: the trip to Pluto, the truth about Beats by Dre, the hijinks of Google’s…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Who Needs Google’s Dreaming Robot? Just Eat Some Shrooms Instead

The first week of July 2015 will forever be known as the week the internet freaked out about a bunch of triiiiiiippy images generated by a snoozing computer. Please. In my day we didn’t need Google to help us see melting dog faces with six eyes that are actually snails with centipedes crawling on their…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Angry Redditors Win: Ellen Pao Is Out as CEO

After a week of controversy, Ellen Pao is out as the CEO of Reddit, the tenth most-trafficked site in the US. The controversy began when Pao fired Reddit’s popular AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor. Subreddits appeared across the site calling for her resignation, as well as over 200,000 people signing a Change.org petition urging her to…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

This supercut of Disney movies is basically a time machine to the 90’s

There’s a stupid obsession with the 90’s that’s weird because the 90’s were pretty boring and really just speaks to our base desires of wanting to re-live childhood because all of us are old and slowly deteriorating into dust. But still, even cold hearted me can appreciate this supercut of Disney movies from the 90’s.…

Sploid Casey Chan

Liveblogging Star Wars: The Force Awakens Panel at Comic-Con 2015!

San Diego Comic-Con is once again strong with The Force. After a decade-long absence, Lucasfilm is back at the world’s biggest pop culture convention with news on a new movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And we’re live-blogging the whole panel. From 5:30 to 6:30pm PST, in Hall H at Comic-Con, J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy,…

io9 Germain Lussier

Which Inhuman From the Comics Is About to Join Agents of SHIELD?

The crew at Marvel TV was rather cagey about what’s ahead for Agents of SHIELD in today’s Comic-Con panel, but we did learn one thing the upcoming season: There’s a new Inhuman joining the show, one who has already appeared in the comics. Head of Marvel TV Jeph Loeb gathered several SHIELD cast members in…

Television Lauren Davis

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Are Fighting for Cheaper Internet

Internet-loving Americans have been waiting way too long for a team of benevolent juggernauts in Washington to take on massive money-hungry cable companies. This week, four freedom-fighting senators took their first swing in the form of a strongly worded letter to the Federal Communications Commission. The message was clear: Bring down broadband prices. Senators Bernie…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

How We Keep ‘New Telescope Smell’ From Killing Space Telescopes

Like new cars, new telescopes come with their own unique smell. Unlike cars, telescopes are delicate enough that this smell can damage the high-precision instruments, killing them with their own outgassing. Here’s how NASA protects fragile space telescopes from themselves. New materials outgas, releasing volatile organic chemicals that quickly disperse into the surrounding environment. The…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Are Beats Headphones Really Designed To Trick You?

Last month, Beats by Dre headphones went in for a thorough slagging across the internet, and on this here blog, on the basis of a teardown of the flashy cans. The exercise, conducted by a venture capital outfit called Bolt that focuses on hardware startups, seemed to prove that the headphones were a sham. It…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Does Water Ever “Go Bad”?

The water on your bedside table hasn’t had anything bad happen to it while you slept, but in the morning it tastes stale. Why? And how long can water stay out before it’s too bad to drink? We know that water, after a few hours of sitting out, tastes indefinably nasty, but it’s tough to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

First picture of the new Ghostbusters in front of the ECTO-1 is badass

Man, this is cool. Paul Feig just tweeted a picture of the new all-female Ghostbusters cast in front of the new ECTO-1. They look so cool and bad ass that I want to watch this movie right now. Or I’ll just watch Ghostbusters again for like the 14th time. From left to right, Leslie Jones,…

Sploid Casey Chan

Check Out Ant-Man’s Rad Suit in Exquisite Detail

Is your name not Hank Pym or Scott Lang? Then the closest you’re going to come to the Ant-Man suit is by watching this video from Comic-Con, where Marvel gave us up close and personal access to the outfit of Marvel’s newest (and smallest) hero. Contact the author at [email protected].

Movies Rob Bricken

The 100 Will Return to “Hardcore Science Fiction” Next Season

Today, the cast and creator of The 100 gathered in San Diego Comic-Con to discuss the fallout from last season and tease a little bit of what’s ahead. And we were promised a more science fiction plotline for season three as well as the characters dealing with grief, guilt, and disability. Spoilers through season two…

Television Lauren Davis

Leatherman Tread Review: Is The Bracelet Multitool Genuinely Useful?

A TSA-compliant multitool you wear on your wrist. Neat! But does it work as well as a tool as it does manly wrist jewelry? I put it to work around the house and on my bike to find out. What Is It? While visiting Disneyland with his family, Leatherman President Ben Rivera was stopped by…

Reviews Wes Siler

How Much Would You Pay for a Fully Functional Spitfire Airplane?

A fully restored Vickers Supermarine Spitfire shot over France during the Second World War has sold at auction for $4.8 million (£3,106,500). That’s a new record. Proceeds have been donated to wildlife and veterans’ charities. Prince William inspecting the plane. (Christie’s) More here. Contact the author at [email protected] and @dvorsky. Images: Christie’s

io9 George Dvorsky

Broadway Shows Suffer Total Phone Etiquette Meltdown

This week, the theater world and social media exploded over a man who jumped on stage at Hand to God in order to plug his charger into a (fake) on-set outlet. Then queen diva Patti LuPone snatched a phone straight out of a texting audience member’s hand and sauntered off with it. What the hell…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Indian Police Are Asking Citizens To Periscope Crimes As They Happen

It’s just after midnight and you’re jolted awake by the sound of a window breaking somewhere on your street. You look outside and you see two men who you’re pretty sure are stealing your neighbor’s car. You take out your phone but instead of calling 911, you start live-streaming to Periscope. That scenario might soon…

Tech News Alissa Walker

First Signs Of Geology Spotted On Pluto’s Surface

Comic-Con’s Behind-The-Scenes Footage of Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

Ancient Roman Concrete Was Inspired By Volcanic Chemistry

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

Who Needs Google’s Dreaming Robot? Just Eat Some Shrooms Instead

Angry Redditors Win: Ellen Pao Is Out as CEO

This supercut of Disney movies is basically a time machine to the 90’s

Liveblogging Star Wars: The Force Awakens Panel at Comic-Con 2015!

Which Inhuman From the Comics Is About to Join Agents of SHIELD?

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Are Fighting for Cheaper Internet

How We Keep ‘New Telescope Smell’ From Killing Space Telescopes

Are Beats Headphones Really Designed To Trick You?

Does Water Ever “Go Bad”?

First picture of the new Ghostbusters in front of the ECTO-1 is badass

Check Out Ant-Man’s Rad Suit in Exquisite Detail

The 100 Will Return to “Hardcore Science Fiction” Next Season

Leatherman Tread Review: Is The Bracelet Multitool Genuinely Useful?

How Much Would You Pay for a Fully Functional Spitfire Airplane?

Broadway Shows Suffer Total Phone Etiquette Meltdown

Indian Police Are Asking Citizens To Periscope Crimes As They Happen

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