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Lucifer TV Series Is Happening, Will Still Be A Police Procedural

Lucifer, based on the character spun off from DC’s Sandman comics, got news of its series order last night. And it also has a new showrunner: Joe Henderson, who previously worked on the con-artist-turned-FBI-informant drama White Collar. As Deadline reports, the Fox drama’s writer, Californication creator Tom Kapinos, will stay on as an executive producer,…

Television Cheryl Eddy

A Humble Hero’s Journey Begins In This Lantern City #1 Comic Preview

Times are tough in the dark depths of Lantern City, where Sander Jorve struggles to provide for his family while the elite live in soaring skyscrapers and party on floating airships above. Desperate, he links up with an activist group and goes undercover in “the Guard,” determined to even the playing field at any cost.…

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The Writer Behind the Weirdest Tech Erotica You’ve Ever Read

Have you wondered what it’s like to get fucked by the Apple Watch? Canadian erotica master Leonard Delaney did. Delaney is the author of “Invaded By the iWatch,” a 4000-word yarn about a young woman, Christie Aackerlund, who walks out her door one day to find a new “iWatch” sitting on her stoop. She puts…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

Shooting a Laser at a Planet, But Not To Blow it Up

This breathtaking photo shows the intense orange beam of a new 22-watt laser pointed at the planet Saturn. Wait, isn’t this like the shocking scene in Star Wars where the Death Star’s superlaser completely annihilated planet Alderaan? Thankfully humankind has not evolved (yet) to the level where we can destroy entire planets with the help…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Running Old Mac II Software on a Smartwatch Is a Great and Terrible Idea

When Macintosh II debuted in 1987, it was the first color display for Apple computers. It was a software leap forward to be sure, and now it fits on your wrist—if that’s something you want. YouTube user Corbin Davenport is like a retro-computer-to-smartwatch porting expert. He’s brought Windows 95 to smartwatches and now Macintosh is…

Tech News Darren Orf

If You’re Going To Play Professor X, You’ve Gotta Have The Right ‘Do

Last night, director Bryan Singer Instagrammed this photo of a somber James McAvoy getting into chrome-dome character as Charles Xavier for next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Somewhere, the naturally bald Patrick Stewart is probably chuckling over this sight. [Via Cinemablend]

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Scientists Are Racing Across Nepal to Gather Fleeting Quake Data

It sounds like a plot to a fast-paced popcorn flick, but right now, U.S. scientists are on a mad dash in Nepal, collecting as much quake data as possible from the country’s scattered ground movement sensors, before the info is completely wiped. These numbers could help seismologists predict when the next big one could strike.…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

TGIF, Gizmodo citizens. Against all odds, we’ve made it to another Friday. Unless we’re stuck in some kind of time loop and we never left last Friday. Either way, it’s nearly the weekend. Pull up a chair and your beverage of choice. How the hell are you? As you read this, I’m on a train…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

A Goofy Webcomic About Everything The T-Rex Regrets

Yes, we’re all familiar with the jokes about the Tyrannosaurus Rex having big heads and itty bitty arms, but they’re funny when you apply the right amount of slapstick. And it’s endlessly fun to watch the dinosaur of Jerry Teo’s Rex Regrets try — and regret — all sorts of modern activities. Teo has kindly…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Scientists X-Rayed Chocolate To Figure Out How It Gets That White Film

Fat blooms, the white stuff you sometimes get on chocolate, have long been the bane of chocolate makers and chocolate lovers. It’s harmless but decidedly unappetizing. Now scientists at Nestle have X-rayed chocolate to figure out exactly what’s going on at a microscopic level. For a ubiquitous sweet, chocolate actually involves some pretty finicky chemistry.…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

NYC Produces Twice As Much Garbage As Any Other City On Earth

New York City is great at a lot of things. Walking! Skyscrapers! Pizza! And according to a new study on the world’s megacities, NYC can add one more thing to its list of things it excels at: Trash! Over at Motherboard, Brian Merchant has declared New York the world’s most wasteful city. This is based…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This super realistic glass of water is actually a drawing

I love occasionally blowing my brain up and nothing does it quite like when I see something that looks real but is actually a perfect photorealistic drawing. Take this glass of water, it’s drawn with such skill and shading and angling and plays on your perspective so well that I feel like I can reach…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Coming Decade Could See An Unprecedented Political Transformation

Huffington Post asked 10 science fiction writers to predict what will happen in the next 10 years, and the most striking answer came from Robert Charles Wilson, author of the new book The Affinities. Wilson predicts a huge change in our understanding of human nature, which in turn will transform our politics. Top image: Cover…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Moto X Just Got a Fun New Gesture That Turns on the Flashlight

An Android 5.1 update is rolling out to the 2014 Moto X. It adds a new gesture that turns the the flashlight on and off. To do it, simply “chop twice.” That sounds weird, but makes more sense when you look at this GIF: Motorola’s software gestures are probably the coolest features on one of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Shade Of Purple Can Ruin Your Life

This is Ruhemann’s purple, and you can probably figure out, from the picture, the legal reasons it will ruin your life. Now let’s talk about the chemistry behind that. It’s easy to see a fingerprint on the side of a glass of water, or in blood on a wall. But what if a killer is…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Is An Agricultural Tool

You already know that vibrators are great for erotic release. It turns out they can do something similar for plants. In an article at Wired, Gwen Pearson discusses how vibrators found a home on the farm by mimicking the intense thrum of bumblebees. From the article: Tomatoes grown in greenhouses are walled off from their…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Listen To The Most Astonishing Musical Style Ever: Throat Singing

There is no question that the human voice is a remarkable musical instrument, but few singing styles hit that point home as well as overtone singing — commonly known as throat singing —does. And it’s incredible to hear and watch multiple pitches coming out of a single mouth. Throat singing from Mongolia, where the style…

io9 Vincze Miklós

These Infographics Use Objects on City Streets to Show Urban Statistics

There’s been no shortage of street art trying to make a point about the inequality of cities. But here’s a clever idea that not only illustrates some horrifying facts, it also gives some real-world context that’s impossible to ignore: These infographics have been wheatpasted onto actual urban infrastructure right out on the streets. Street Graphs…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This Eerie French Horror Film Was Made By A 14-Year-Old Director

Things we were doing when we were 14: crushing on Axl Rose, getting really bad perms. Things Nathan Ambrosioni was doing: directing a horror film, Hostile, and screening it at the Cannes film market (which happens later this month). Read the synopsis and check out the trailer, below. Meredith Langston always longed to have children.…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

The Curious Plan To Make Detroit’s Roads Extend From A Single Point

Detroit is known for many things: its once-bustling auto industry, its repurposing of empty factories, its musical history. But public transport wonks know it for something else, an unusual historical fact about its road system. Commenter Mister shared this interesting note about the history of Detroit’s roads with us — and the mark left behind…

io9 Ria Misra

Lucifer TV Series Is Happening, Will Still Be A Police Procedural

A Humble Hero’s Journey Begins In This Lantern City #1 Comic Preview

The Writer Behind the Weirdest Tech Erotica You’ve Ever Read

Shooting a Laser at a Planet, But Not To Blow it Up

Running Old Mac II Software on a Smartwatch Is a Great and Terrible Idea

If You’re Going To Play Professor X, You’ve Gotta Have The Right ‘Do

Scientists Are Racing Across Nepal to Gather Fleeting Quake Data

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

A Goofy Webcomic About Everything The T-Rex Regrets

Scientists X-Rayed Chocolate To Figure Out How It Gets That White Film

NYC Produces Twice As Much Garbage As Any Other City On Earth

This super realistic glass of water is actually a drawing

The Coming Decade Could See An Unprecedented Political Transformation

The Moto X Just Got a Fun New Gesture That Turns on the Flashlight

This Shade Of Purple Can Ruin Your Life

This Is An Agricultural Tool

Listen To The Most Astonishing Musical Style Ever: Throat Singing

These Infographics Use Objects on City Streets to Show Urban Statistics

This Eerie French Horror Film Was Made By A 14-Year-Old Director

The Curious Plan To Make Detroit’s Roads Extend From A Single Point

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