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Who Will Be the First Gay Superhero in the Movies?

Your vaguely friendly, dilapidated neighborhood fake postman here before Fourthbay, which is the holiday I believe you used to call “The Fourth of July.” I vaguely recall hearing about how you guys celebrated it—grilling? Fireworks?—but nowadays we basically just strap explosives to meat. Cuts out the middleman. The Ice Age Mike A: Dear Mr. Postman,…

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There May Be Nowhere Near the Number of Galaxies We Thought There Were

It looks like we might have overestimated how many neighbors we have. New predictions show that the universe might be an emptier place than we imagined. Since the Hubble launched, we’ve been seeing stunning image of the crowded universe. Most of the images come accompanied by assurances that what we see in the images is…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What I Learned From Re-Reading Stephen King’s The Stand

I was twelve the first time I read Stephen King’s The Stand. My dad read it before I did. We were on vacation, and I saw him with the paperback, the edition with the silver binding and blue-black cover. There was a face on the cover—a mysterious, spooky sort of face, creepy and weirdly beautiful.…

Books & Comics Zack Handlen

The Most Dangerous Motorcycle Race In The World Meets The Drone Master

Over 200 people have been killed racing the Isle of Man TT. Who are they and why do they do that? A new film from the world’s top aerial cinematographers seeks to answer that question. Click here to watch the trailer and order the movie. Its makers, Berlin’s Studio Kippenberger say In Loving Memory is,…

Tech News Wes Siler

This Experiment Will Make You Believe in Spontaneous Generation of Life

This experiment involves two liquids and a machine that will jiggle them. That’s all. So how does it create a family of “worms” that branch out from and interact with each other? Check out this incredible video. If you want to see the razzle-dazzle in this one, skip to 1:55, and then prepare to be…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

There Are Strawberries Growing Underwater Off the Coast of Italy

Just off the coast of Noli, Italy, tethered twenty feet below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, hover five bulbous biospheres filled with plants, light, and warm, wet air. The underwater greenhouses make up Nemo’s Garden, an experimental agricultural project, now in its fourth year, operated by a company that specializes in diving equipment. As…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Where’s My Hoverboard?

Is the hoverboard just over the horizon? Not quite. But you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise! You can’t open a newspaper, turn on the radio, or bathe in the ones and zeroes of the internet without getting inundated with promises that the world of hoverboards is upon us. So where in the kickflipping heck is…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Death Star Crashing Through Your Wall Makes For a Great Night Light

3DlightFX has a new series of Star Wars-themed 3D Deco Lights enroute including this tiny glowing version of the Death Star that appears to be smashing its way through your wall thanks to an included decal surrounding its mount. Other new versions of the lights include R2-D2, C-3PO, and Vader’s hand holding a red glowing…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hunt Down and Remove Duplicate Files from Your PC

Duplicate files can cause all kinds of problems on your computer, taking up precious storage room, confusing your photo or media manager apps, and generally getting in the way of searches and other operations when you’d rather they didn’t. You don’t have to accept duplicate files as an inevitability of running a PC, though: Here’s…

Gadgets David Nield

What to Expect From Aliens When We Make First Contact

Given the vastness of space, it may only be a matter of time before we make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. But how might an alien civilization react to such a monumental meet-and-greet, and can we possibly know their intentions? Here’s what we might expect. Alien civilizations will most assuredly be like snowflakes: no two will…

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Help Celebrate And Preserve The Amazing Art Of Animated Short Films

Some of the coolest movies ever made are short animated features. In a shorter film, without the constraints of live-action, you can let your imagination run wild. That’s why it’s totally worth giving your support tothe Animation Show of Shows Kickstarter campaign, which ends in 11 hours. Film archivist and animation buff Ron Diamond is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

MasterCard’s Gonna Let You Pay With Your Face

Do you like your face? Then you’re going to love MasterCard’s new ID Check security system. The experimental feature uses your camera’s front-facing camera and facial recognition technology so that you can pay with your face. MasterCard thinks millenials will love it. The biometric identification system sounds kind of silly, but it’s definitely more secure…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Chevrolet Made An Air Conditioner Just for Your Smartphone

Who doesn’t love having an ultra-thin smartphone you can slip into your pocket? But during hot summer days with little room to breathe, that collection of plastic, metal, and silicon can get a pretty heated—especially when charging. That’s why Chevrolet is introducing a smartphone air conditioner as a thing we need. In the 2016 Malibu,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Terrifying great white shark attacking a cage is like real life Jaws

Oh. My. Holy. Bananas. This shark attack video from Hillary Rae shows an 11 and a half foot shark biting and gnawing and trying to rip open an underwater cage with such fury and abandon and ferocity that it looks like the killer beast might actually break through. You get an up close view of…

Sploid Casey Chan

The 12 Creepiest Card Descriptions in Magic: The Gathering

One of the most iconic elements of Magic: The Gathering is the tiny snippets of lore written on the bottom of each card, known as “flavor text” to fans. These bits of story are frequently funny, but just as often they can be haunting. Here are 12 bits of flavor that turn good Magic cards…

io9 James Whitbrook

Mr. Robot Recap: Are You a One or a Zero?

The second episode of the moody, surprisingly accuratehacker drama that’s your new crack aired last night on USA to much fanfare. So how does it stack up to the pilot that already nabbed a second season? Set in New York, Mr. Robot centers around neurotic, socially anxious computer prodigy Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), who despises…

Television Bryan Lufkin

No, a Nuclear Explosion Did Not Launch a Manhole Cover into Space

In 1957, the Nevada Test Site saw a series of nuclear explosions that, according to legend, launched a manhole cover into space. Except it probably didn’t. Here’s where the story came from—and why the inadvertent source of the story has been trying to stop its spread for years. Operation Plumbbob was a series of 29…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This House Dangling From a Construction Crane Is Art, Not an Accident

This summer, the German city of Karlsruhe is staging a series of installations around town that are themed around a surprising topic: Construction work. The series is called The City Is a Star, and it focuses on “machines and materials of construction work,” as Designboom points out today. Karlsruhe—and its local ZKM Center for Art…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Sinister Mystery of the Circleville, Ohio Poison-Pen Letter Writer

New Jersey’s eerie “Watcher” mystery has a precedent: In 1976, the citizens of Circleville, Ohio began receiving sinister handwritten letters. The anonymous author knew many personal details about each resident and claimed to be watching them. They were postmarked from Columbus, without a return address. The most dangerous letters were directed at Mary Gillispie. The…

Tech News Stephanie Almazan - The Lineup

Holy Cow, Sentinel’s Hulkbuster Figure Looks Amazing

We’ve already gotten a pretty decent look at Sentinel’s Re:Edit Hulkbuster toy in its prototype form, and it looked outstanding then—but this is our first look at the final figure, and it somehow manages to look even more fabulous now. Coming iin at just under 10 inches tall, the Hulkbuster—a rad redesign of the original…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Who Will Be the First Gay Superhero in the Movies?

There May Be Nowhere Near the Number of Galaxies We Thought There Were

What I Learned From Re-Reading Stephen King’s The Stand

The Most Dangerous Motorcycle Race In The World Meets The Drone Master

This Experiment Will Make You Believe in Spontaneous Generation of Life

There Are Strawberries Growing Underwater Off the Coast of Italy

Where’s My Hoverboard?

The Death Star Crashing Through Your Wall Makes For a Great Night Light

Hunt Down and Remove Duplicate Files from Your PC

What to Expect From Aliens When We Make First Contact

Help Celebrate And Preserve The Amazing Art Of Animated Short Films

MasterCard’s Gonna Let You Pay With Your Face

Chevrolet Made An Air Conditioner Just for Your Smartphone

Terrifying great white shark attacking a cage is like real life Jaws

The 12 Creepiest Card Descriptions in Magic: The Gathering

Mr. Robot Recap: Are You a One or a Zero?

No, a Nuclear Explosion Did Not Launch a Manhole Cover into Space

This House Dangling From a Construction Crane Is Art, Not an Accident

The Sinister Mystery of the Circleville, Ohio Poison-Pen Letter Writer

Holy Cow, Sentinel’s Hulkbuster Figure Looks Amazing

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