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Quite Possibly Our First Look At Princess Leia In The Force Awakens

The Crow loses another lead. Gambit gets a director. The cast and crew of Game of Thrones discuss the finale, and what’s to come in season six. Plus, behind-the-scenes footage from SPECTRE, Doctor Who’s return, and teasers for Fear The Walking Dead, Salem and more. Behold, Spoilers! Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Hashtag Show…

Television James Whitbrook

Verizon May Have Finally Got the Sony Smartphone Right With the Z4v

Verizon makes weird smartphones. For a while, the carrier convinced Motorola to churn out the admittedly wonderful Droid line of smartphones and last year recruited a new partner with Sony and the quirky Z3v—a great phone that also looked like an old phone. Now, the Verizon/Sony team up is returning with the new Z4v. Just…

Tech News Darren Orf

Russia’s Testing a ‘Microwave Gun’ That Will De-Arm Drones at 6 Miles

A state-owned Russian engineering company has developed, and is now testing, a new kind of super-high-frequency gun that is said to be capable of deactivating unmanned aerial vehicles from over six miles away. Sputnik News claims that a representative from Russia’s United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation has explained the capabilities—though not the technical features—of the new…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Nepal Earthquake Shifted Mount Everest by an Inch

The recent Nepalese earthquake turned swathes of Kathmandu into rubble and killed 8,700. But it also had a large—if less perceptible—impact on one of Nepal’s largest assets: it shifted Mount Everest by three centimeters. According to the state-run China Daily newspaper, local geologists have determined that the first earthquake to hit Nepal this spring shifted…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

What Does Homesickness Mean in the Technological Age?

What does it mean to be homesick in 2015, and does technology help or hinder us when we move to a new place? I’m standing outside a cottage in the Vienna woods. It’s where I used to live and this is the first time I’ve been back since I left ten years ago. The roads…

Tech News John Osborne

Boaz Yakin Talks About the “Cyberpunk” Batman Beyond Movie He Wrote

For a brief moment after he finished Remember the Titans, director Boaz Yakin was attached to a live-action version of Batman Beyond. Of course, Batman Begins ended up being the Batman project that Warner Bros. made, but Yakin calls Batman Beyond was the “best script I ever wrote that never got made.” Speaking to IGN,…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

A Sheet of Graphene Is the World’s Thinnest Lightbulb

Amid a revolution in low-energy lighting, some scientists are returning to older ways of thinking. Now, graphene has been turned into a working filament, lighting up when it’s pumped with electricity. A team of researchers from Columbia, Seoul National University and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science report that they’ve been able to use…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Privacy Experts Gave Up on Facial Recognition Talks With Big Tech Firms

A team of privacy lobbyists have been working with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to “craft privacy safeguards for the commercial use of facial recognition technology.” But talks with major technology firms have gone so badly that they’ve abandoned the discussions. The goal of the discussions, started last year, was to bring together “representatives…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

This Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker Could Be the New Tiny Champ

The company behind the best Bluetooth speaker we love, the UE Boom, has completely revamped its smallest speaker into a new $100 noise machine. Ultimate Ears’ Roll could be the best new tiny guy on the market. The new UE Roll is the first smaller speaker designed by Ultimate Ears. Its predecessor, the UE Mini,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Does the Climate Science in Game of Thrones Make Sense?

The climate has been a persistent theme of Game of Thrones ever since Ned Stark (remember him?) told us “winter is coming” back at the start of season one. The Warden of the North was referring, of course, to the anticipated shift in Westerosi weather from a long summer to a brutal winter that can…

Tech News Alex Farnsworth and Emma Stone

A Treasure Trove of Mad Max: Fury Road Concept Art

Peter Pound has a truly stunning amount of concept art up on his website. Apparently no one involved in this movie was anything less than amazing. It’s obvious Pound was working on this film for a long time — you can see a lot of evolution in the characters. Especially Max, who is clearly based…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

How 15 Years Of Drought Has Changed Lake Powell, In One GIF

The 21st century has not been kind to the water levels in Lake Powell, a meandering reservoir that straddles the border between Arizona and Utah. This series of images, taken by NASA’s Landsat satellites from 1999 to 2015, document the change. The change that’s occurred in 15 years is astounding. In that time, the reservoir…

Tech News Chris Mills

Adobe Now Supplies Terrible Stock Images Right In Photoshop

If you’re in the habit of using Shutterstock to find terrible filler photos, there’s a new option: Adobe Stock, a 40 million-strong stock image library from the same people who make Photoshop. Stock was unveiled today alongside a raft of new updates to Adobe’s entire Creative Cloud range, including updates to Photoshop and Premiere, and…

Tech News Chris Mills

Disney Gets Started on Maleficent Sequel, All Hope Lost.

As not a single week seems to go by without an announcement like this, I’m envisioning a future where Disney creates an interlocked live-action movie universe of re-imaginings of their animated tales. So, yes, Disney’s already working on a Maleficent sequel by having Linda Woolverton write a script. Maleficent II thus joins Beauty and the…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

How One Twitter Troll Created a Fake Islamic State Battle

Twitter is a pretty easy platform to troll with fake rumors, like celebrity deaths or Justin Bieber self-harm. But making up an entire fake battle between Iraqi and IS forces, complete with battlefield maps and hilarious(ly fake) place names? That takes some skill. The BBC Trending blog has documented the curious case of the battle…

Tech News Chris Mills

Intimidating head on view of an F-16

I wouldn’t want to stand in front of a fighter jet like this or see one in my rear view for fear of soiling my pants. The F-16 is just on the ground and undergoing pre-flight inspection and it still has such a commanding presence. Killer machine birds. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

Sploid Casey Chan

Playstation Vue Will Let You Pay For Individual TV Channels (Updated)

Sony’s alternative to cable TV, Playstation Vue, has been available in select cities for a few months now. But it’s been just that — cable TV without the cable. You still had to pay at least $50 a month a bundle of channels. Well, starting in July, all that’s going to change. https://gizmodo.com/playstation-vue-review-online-tv-is-great-but-its-sti-1693819089 At the…

Television Chris Mills

7 things you might not know about Toy Story

Toy Story changed animation movies forever, Toy Story 2 changed animation sequels forever and Toy Story 3 might very probably be the best movie out of the bunch. Even though I love to poke fun of Pixar running out of ideas for movies (though Inside Out is getting good buzz!), I can watch Toy Story…

Sploid Casey Chan

African Scientific Academies Say Science Doesn’t Support Anti-Gay Laws

Last week, the Academy of Science of South Africa released a comprehensive review of the research on sexual orientation, hammering home that the grand diversity of human sexuality isn’t something people really choose – it’s all biology. The study, completed in conjunction with the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, examined over 150 recent research papers…

Tech News Diane Kelly

The Xbox One’s New Dashboard: Better, Faster, And Not Just for Gamers

As part of a major update coming in the fall, the Xbox One is getting a new dashboard, including a newer, slicker UI, and the addition of Microsoft’s Cortana assistant. Not only will the changes make for a better gaming experience, they should also improve the Xbox One’s claim to being the only box you…

Tech News Chris Mills

Quite Possibly Our First Look At Princess Leia In The Force Awakens

Verizon May Have Finally Got the Sony Smartphone Right With the Z4v

Russia’s Testing a ‘Microwave Gun’ That Will De-Arm Drones at 6 Miles

The Nepal Earthquake Shifted Mount Everest by an Inch

What Does Homesickness Mean in the Technological Age?

Boaz Yakin Talks About the “Cyberpunk” Batman Beyond Movie He Wrote

A Sheet of Graphene Is the World’s Thinnest Lightbulb

Privacy Experts Gave Up on Facial Recognition Talks With Big Tech Firms

This Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker Could Be the New Tiny Champ

Does the Climate Science in Game of Thrones Make Sense?

A Treasure Trove of Mad Max: Fury Road Concept Art

How 15 Years Of Drought Has Changed Lake Powell, In One GIF

Adobe Now Supplies Terrible Stock Images Right In Photoshop

Disney Gets Started on Maleficent Sequel, All Hope Lost.

How One Twitter Troll Created a Fake Islamic State Battle

Intimidating head on view of an F-16

Playstation Vue Will Let You Pay For Individual TV Channels (Updated)

7 things you might not know about Toy Story

African Scientific Academies Say Science Doesn’t Support Anti-Gay Laws

The Xbox One’s New Dashboard: Better, Faster, And Not Just for Gamers

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