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What Do You Hate About Technology?

My current pet peeve is being out with friends who seem incapable of putting their phones down. We’re existing in a time when there is zero etiquette about when it is appropriate to use your phone in public. What gets your goat these days? You know the old psychological yarn about how we often hate…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Neat time lapse of NASA assembling the space shuttle engine, the RS-25

NASA’s RS-25 rocket engine powered the space shuttles and four of them will be used to power the core stage of NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS), the launch vehicle that’ll bring humans to deep space missions like landing on asteroids and Mars. This two minute time lapse video shows how NASA assembles it. You…

Sploid Casey Chan

Before-And-After Pics Show The Arkansas River Bloated By Flood Waters

The U.S. Deep South has been deluged by rain over the past several weeks. These satellite images show the extent of the flooding along the Arkansas River. These images were captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. The image on the right was taken on May 14, 2013 under normal…

io9 George Dvorsky

Chocolate Diet Paper Won’t Be Retracted, Because It Was Never Published

Yesterday, John Bohannon reported on his deeply (and intentionally) flawed study claiming chocolate accelerates weight loss. Today, we have a new twist: The editor of the journal that published his paper claims they never really published it in the first place, despite emails to Bohannon to the contrary. https://gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800 One of the most popular questions…

io9 Mika McKinnon

Damn, the Best Way to Get American Netflix Abroad Is Actually Shady

As an American living in Canada, there’s one Chrome extension I cherish more than any other: Hola Unblocker, a free VPN designed to help people abroad watch American Netflix, and other streaming US media. Unfortunately, it turns out Hola is up to some dubious business practices, ones that could put its users at risk. Hola…

Movies Kate Knibbs

What’s Your Dream Casting That Will Never, Ever Happen?

There’s one thing that fans love almost as much as inventing our own canon for our favorite universes — and that’s coming up with our own dream casts for things. Which actor would you dearly love to see play your favorite character… but you know it’ll never, ever happen? Please include a picture, poster, clip,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Meet The Eight Interconnected Stars Of The Wachowskis’ New Show Sense8

Still wondering about the Wachowskis’ and J. Michael Straczynski’s new TV show Sense8, debuting on Netflix on June 5th? Well, these eight new trailers — each one devoted to one of the Sensates who share their minds with the others — will at least give you a better clue who the main characters are. Of…

io9 Rob Bricken

New Google Platform Will Save Your Passwords on Third-Party Apps

Straight up too much time is spent punching a wide array of passwords for various apps onto the tiny text fields of our phones. Google’s trying to fix that with the Identity Platform, new tools for developers to help keep users signed into their apps in a secure, hassle-free way. Google already has a password…

Tech News Alissa Walker

MIT’s Robot Cheetah Now Jumps While Running, So Walls Won’t Protect You

MIT has already demonstrated that its incredibly nimble and fast robot cheetah can run free without the need for cables or safety tethers. But now it’s not only able run down its prey out in the open, it can also jump without losing its stride. So when the robot uprising eventually happens, ducking behind a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Getting Treated For Depression Is Even Harder When You’re Pregnant

Getting pregnant changes a woman’s hormonal state: there’s a normal chemical interplay between mother and fetus. Hormones affect the brain, and their effects can differ in people. So if no one is surprised when a pregnant woman feels elated, why are they surprised when some pregnant women are clinically depressed? Image: Teza Harinaivo Ramiandrisoa via…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Funny video combines all the major movie studio intro sequences into one

I’m always goofily interested in tracking the changes that happen to movie studio intro sequences just to see the ridiculous flair they add to them now that they have the technology to do so. This video by Art404 pokes fun of all the studios by merging them into one epic sequence, as if all the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Google’s New Cardboard Hands-On: A Little Bigger, A Little Better

Google Cardboard is still made of cardboard. Sorry about that. But the crazy cheap virtual reality viewer does have a new version that’s bigger and better than ever. What’s changed? From a does-this-advance-the-state-of-virtual-reality perspective, not a whole heck of a lot. It’s still just a chunk of cardboard with no fancy cameras, positional trackers, or…

Tech News Sean Hollister and Brent Rose

Here’s Who Andy Serkis Will Be Playing In Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Who is Andy Serkis playing in the upcoming Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens? Well, it turns out that when Annie Leibovitz photographed the movie’s cast for Vanity Fair, she captured Serkis in his mocap suit, and now that photo and his character’s name have been revealed. StarWars.com shared the photograph above and announced that…

io9 Lauren Davis

Particles Meet For A Charged-Up Jam Session In This Whimsical Short Film

Professor Soap — a.k.a. artist Ryan Mauskopf — has done it again. He describes his latest short film, the musical science lesson Positronic, as “a sock-puppet-rock-saga about positrons and electrons.” The vibe is charmingly retro and the instrumental is quite the snappy toe-tapper. https://gizmodo.com/this-simple-space-story-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-510505368

io9 Cheryl Eddy

What’s Behind Marvel’s Campaign To Remove The X-Men From Merchandising?

It’s not too surprising that Marvel and Fox are engaged in a little “secret war” of their own, over the licensing of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. But as Fox presses forward with movies based on both properties, that war is slowly becoming public. Here’s a guide to how Marvel is trying to erase…

io9 James Whitbrook

I Live, I Die, I Live Again. Goodbye, io9

After 7 years and a whole lot of vampire sex watching, I’m leaving io9. Gather up friends, this is the goodbye post. The first out-of-the-office assignment I did for io9 was covering Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy 2 presentation at New York Comic-Con. At the Javits Center, Guillermo gave a little speech, said a few curse…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Direct Image Of Another Solar System’s Kuiper Belt

By using the Gemini Planet Imager, an international team of astronomers have captured an image of a protoplanetary disc that shares remarkable similarities with our own Kuiper Belt — though as it was at a much earlier time in our Solar System’s history. The young system, called HD 115600, is located about 360 light-years away.…

io9 George Dvorsky

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This week is the big annual tech holiday for Android fans (with Google Photos as a present), and Apple enthusiasts big day isn’t far behind, but we still got some great apps to talk about amidst the big headlines concerning new OS features and the like. Android gets completely caught up in the world of…

Tech News Darren Orf

Serial Will Return For Two More Seasons With “Distinct New Stories”

If you were among the bazillions who became obsessed with Sarah Koenig’s Serial podcast, which was spun off from This American Life, time to rejoice: the popular show will return for two more seasons, during which it will report on two brand-new cases. In an email newsletter sent to subscribers, host and exec producer Koenig…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

A Predator Hunts Medieval Knights In This Action-Packed Fan Film

One of those extraterrestrial trophy hunter swings by Earth during the Crusades in the fan film Predator: Dark Ages. After dead bodies start piling up, a party of Templar Knights is sent to find a “demon,” which turns out to be a familiar alien killer. Predator: Dark Ages was written and directed by James Bushe,…

io9 Lauren Davis

What Do You Hate About Technology?

Neat time lapse of NASA assembling the space shuttle engine, the RS-25

Before-And-After Pics Show The Arkansas River Bloated By Flood Waters

Chocolate Diet Paper Won’t Be Retracted, Because It Was Never Published

Damn, the Best Way to Get American Netflix Abroad Is Actually Shady

What’s Your Dream Casting That Will Never, Ever Happen?

Meet The Eight Interconnected Stars Of The Wachowskis’ New Show Sense8

New Google Platform Will Save Your Passwords on Third-Party Apps

MIT’s Robot Cheetah Now Jumps While Running, So Walls Won’t Protect You

Getting Treated For Depression Is Even Harder When You’re Pregnant

Funny video combines all the major movie studio intro sequences into one

Google’s New Cardboard Hands-On: A Little Bigger, A Little Better

Here’s Who Andy Serkis Will Be Playing In Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Particles Meet For A Charged-Up Jam Session In This Whimsical Short Film

What’s Behind Marvel’s Campaign To Remove The X-Men From Merchandising?

I Live, I Die, I Live Again. Goodbye, io9

A Direct Image Of Another Solar System’s Kuiper Belt

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Serial Will Return For Two More Seasons With “Distinct New Stories”

A Predator Hunts Medieval Knights In This Action-Packed Fan Film

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