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7 Reasons Horror Movie Sequels Can Only Get Less and Less Scary

People go to horror movie sequels for many reasons—genuine interest, idle curiosity, tradition, blind optimism—but they almost never go to be scared. Horror movie sequels don’t just negate the point of the previous movie, the negate the point of their entire genre. They can’t help being increasingly less scary than the originals, and here are…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Aug 13 '15

Tinder Swipes Left On Its CEO

Rejection is tough. Just a few days after Tinder lashed out in a choreographed and ill-advised Twitter attack over a silly magazine story about its app, the company has fired its short-lived CEO. Yes, Tinder’s now-former chief executive Chris Payne is having a tough week. Tinder and Payne broke up on Wednesday, pretty much before…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 13 '15

Samsung’s Mysterious Gear S2 Smartwatch Looks Downright Wearable

Samsung showed us two jumbo phones today that were, you know, more or less what we were expecting—and frankly not all that interesting. At the end of the show, though, Samsung teased the Gear S2 smartwatch, set to be announced on September 3rd at IFA in Berlin. Now that’s what I’m talking about! We know…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar Aug 13 '15

This Is How Much America Is Willing to Pay to Have Little Designs Drawn into our Coffee

Hey, that’s a nice-looking picture you just drew in my latte there, barista! But what fair price could one charge for something priceless? A new study out in the Journal of Sensory Studies attempts to pin down the exact price—and comes away with a figure: Americans are willing to pay exactly 11-13% over the price…

io9 Ria Misra Aug 13 '15

Older Ovaries, Not Older Eggs, May Reduce Fertility With Aging

Women who are over 40 have a notoriously hard time getting pregnant by in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and it’s long been assumed that their problem stems from “old eggs”. But a preprint now available online at the Journal of Endocrinology suggests that the real problem might be the aging of the cells that surround the eggs.…

Tech News Diane Kelly Aug 13 '15

Wow, Samsung’s New 16 Terabyte SSD Is the World’s Largest Hard Drive

Gone are the days when you have to sacrifice size for speed with an SSD drive in your laptop. At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung just revealed a new 2.5-inch SSD drive with an incredible 16 terabytes of storage. It’s not only the world’s largest SSD—it’s actually now the world’s largest hard drive,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Aug 13 '15

All the New Craziness We Spotted in Doctor Who‘s Latest Trailer

Yesterday, the BBC unveiled a brand new look at the upcoming season of Doctor Who, and even though it’s only a minute long, it’s packed with a ton of new, delicious details to pore over. Let’s uncover them and delve into a bit of wild speculation, shall we? https://gizmodo.com/clara-oswald-is-armed-and-dangerous-in-the-new-doctor-w-1723674389 The trailer opens with The Doctor…

Television James Whitbrook Aug 13 '15

The Gigantic K’NEX Big Ball Factory Is Back After 20 Years

No toy has managed to unseat Lego from its building toy throne, but K’NEX probably came the closest. What it lacked in small, highly-detailed sets, it made up for with massive creations like the legendary Big Ball Factory that the company is now bringing out of retirement after 20 years. The $300 set stands over…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 13 '15

Your Updated Guide To Every Leaked Star Wars: The Force Awakens Toy

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a few months away, but there’s less than a month until its Toys hit shelves across the world—and that means until then, toys will inevitably leak their way onto the internet before release. Here’s your guide to every leak so far, with rolling updates as and when they happen.…

Tech News James Whitbrook Aug 13 '15

Sesame Street Will Air on HBO For the Next Five Seasons

HBO and Sesame Street just announced a surprise deal that will put America’s most famous children’s TV program on the same network as Game of Thrones. PBS, the non-profit channel that has aired Sesame Street since it debuted in 1969, will still be allowed to air the program nine months after its initial run. The…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 13 '15

Investigators Can Get Your DNA From the Guts of Maggots That Have Fed On You

Some crime scenes don’t have bodies. What they have is a place where a body was, and a suspiciously large amount of maggots. Up until recently, the maggots could only have been a very bad sign. Now, it seems that maggots can help genetically identify their last meals. According to the case studies in this…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Aug 13 '15

Here’s a M1 Abrams tank shooting out a giant fireball

What a perfect picture. A M1 Abrams tank is seen frozen in time as it blasts out its 120mm gun, shooting out a giant fireball that looks more like a fire cloud than anything else. It’s funny because the rest of the picture seems so calm but that giant boulder of fire is anything but.…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 13 '15

The Four Things You Need to Know About the New Galaxy Note 5

Love it or hate it, Samsung’s Galaxy Note is the original ultra-big smartphone, a style that even Apple has finally adopted. It’s also Samsung’s ultimate productivity tool, complete with a capacitive pen and specific software to take advantage of the ginormous screen. Now, the fifth iteration of the Note has arrived. But this isn’t the…

Reviews Darren Orf Aug 13 '15

The Galaxy S6 Edge Plus: Yep, It Certainly Is Bigger

So the word “Plus” could mean many things, right? Better processor? Camera? Features? In the case of the S6 Edge Plus, though, it’s just size. This phone is almost an exact copy of this year’s S6 Edge except for its whopping 5.7-inch display. As far as “innovation” goes, Samsung is kind of phoning it in…

Reviews Darren Orf Aug 13 '15

Arena of the Planeswalkers Board Game is Part Heroscape, Part Magic: the Gathering

As you stare at the box cover for Arena of the Planeswalkers (and Jace’s leering, vacant face), one question springs to mind: why does the world need a board game based on a card game? Is it for people who like Magic but want to play a game that isn’t Magic but includes some vague…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Aug 13 '15

Cygnus Restarts Cargo Runs to the Space Station After Antares Rocket Explosion

The Cygnus spacecraft is back in rotation for cargo runs to the International Space Station for the first time since the previous spacecraft was destroyed during the Antares rocket explosion in October 2014. The cargo craft will launch on an Atlas V rocket in December, resuming flights while the Antares rocket continues safety upgrades. Resuming…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Aug 13 '15

Watch Samsung Announce the New Galaxy Note 5 Live Right Now

Samsung’s getting ready to announce something big today—and rumors and leaks suggest it’s gonna be the new Galaxy Note 5. What will the new jumbo phone with a stylus offer us? Watch the stream above to find out at 11AM Eastern. Oh goody.

Gadgets Mario Aguilar Aug 13 '15

Facebook Dumped Intern After He Pointed Out Messenger’s Creepy Location Tracking

Advice if you want to work for Facebook: Don’t rock the boat. A student lost his internship with Facebook after provoking the company into updating its location sharing settings for Messenger. Harvard student Aran Khanna had an internship lined up at Facebook, but Khanna wasn’t going to sit around with his thumb up his butt…

Social Media Kate Knibbs Aug 13 '15

17 Spectacular Photos of This Year’s Ongoing Perseid Meteor Shower

The best meteor shower of the year is upon us right now. If you go outside to a dark enough place, far from the city lights, you may spot tons of shooting stars during the annual Perseid meteor shower. We’ve scoured the web for the photos, and we took our own, too. The Perseids are…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Aug 13 '15

Can the United States Cope With a Resurgence of Tropical Disease?

Having stamped out a number of tropical diseases—including malaria—decades ago, is the United States today complacent about a rising wave of infectious disease? One rainy Friday morning in March 2015, Dr Laila Woc-Colburn saw two patients with neurocysticercosis (a parasitic infection of the brain) and one with Chagas disease, which is transmitted by insects nicknamed…

io9 Carrie Arnold—Mosaic Science Aug 13 '15

7 Reasons Horror Movie Sequels Can Only Get Less and Less Scary

Tinder Swipes Left On Its CEO

Samsung’s Mysterious Gear S2 Smartwatch Looks Downright Wearable

This Is How Much America Is Willing to Pay to Have Little Designs Drawn into our Coffee

Older Ovaries, Not Older Eggs, May Reduce Fertility With Aging

Wow, Samsung’s New 16 Terabyte SSD Is the World’s Largest Hard Drive

All the New Craziness We Spotted in Doctor Who‘s Latest Trailer

The Gigantic K’NEX Big Ball Factory Is Back After 20 Years

Your Updated Guide To Every Leaked Star Wars: The Force Awakens Toy

Sesame Street Will Air on HBO For the Next Five Seasons

Investigators Can Get Your DNA From the Guts of Maggots That Have Fed On You

Here’s a M1 Abrams tank shooting out a giant fireball

The Four Things You Need to Know About the New Galaxy Note 5

The Galaxy S6 Edge Plus: Yep, It Certainly Is Bigger

Arena of the Planeswalkers Board Game is Part Heroscape, Part Magic: the Gathering

Cygnus Restarts Cargo Runs to the Space Station After Antares Rocket Explosion

Watch Samsung Announce the New Galaxy Note 5 Live Right Now

Facebook Dumped Intern After He Pointed Out Messenger’s Creepy Location Tracking

17 Spectacular Photos of This Year’s Ongoing Perseid Meteor Shower

Can the United States Cope With a Resurgence of Tropical Disease?

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