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9 Dumbest Ways To Reboot The Marvel Movie Universe

Avengers: Age of Ultron launches Phase 3 of Marvel’s movie universe. Which means even more interconnected stories, and brings us closer to the inevitable time when the universe is crushed under its own weight and has to restart from scratch. Here are the nine absolute worst ways that Marvel could reboot its movies. And yes,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds don’t even look like planes in this photo

I never get sick of photos of the USAF Thunderbirds doing their thing because they make real life look way cooler than any sort of movie or video game or fake effects. This picture of four Thunderbirds doing the “Diamond Bottom Up Pass maneuver” is taken at such an angle that they don’t even look…

Sploid Casey Chan

Over 1,400 Terracotta Soldiers Could Be Uncovered In New Dig

Archaeologists excavating a burial pit in the ancient capital of Xi’an are hopeful that a trove of ancient artifacts will be unearthed at a site that once guarded the mausoleum of China’s first emperor. Above: A figurine discovered at Pit No. 2 — an excavation site called “the essence of the terracotta warriors” The dig,…

io9 George Dvorsky

“In The Shower Eating Cherries” and More Tales of Nightmare IT Calls

We asked for your worst stories of working IT phone support — and boy, did you ever answer our call. You have the patience of saints and the fortitude of soldiers. We’ll never look at a phone the same way again. W writes: I wanted to share one of my most favorite IT Support calls…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Bio-Inspired Gel Could Create “Graceful” Robots That Move Like Humans

We’ve put efficient robots to work in industries from factories to emergency situations, yet machines’ bulky, blocky bodies seriously limit their range of motion. But what if the soft androids of the future could move like humans? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have created a polymer gel that mimics euglena mutabilis, a single-cell organism…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

A chilling look at close-up shots in films by Jonathan Demme

Director of movies like The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and others, Jonathan Demme has mastered the use of the close-up shots. Pretty much every director of every film has put their camera right in front of their actors but Demme is able to bring out more emotion in the shot by creating his own…

Sploid Casey Chan

What Does It Take To Become A Professional Faerie Princess?

After seven years working in the tech industry, Jenny Richman decided that she needed more magic in her life. So she traded her keyboard for a pair of shimmery wings, taking a job as a professional faerie at children’s parties. There, she found the job fulfillment she had been hoping for. Illustration by Tara Jacoby.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Torchwood Will Return… As A Series Of Audio Plays

Long have fans waited for Torchwood to make a return, after the end of the (deeply disappointing) Miracle Day. Captain Jack may not return to TV any time soon, but Torchwood will continue in another form: as a series of new audio plays from Doctor Who audio producer Big Finish. The six-part series will see…

io9 James Whitbrook

Jaguar Plans to Let You Control Windshield Wipers With Just Your Eyes

In the not-too-distant future, eye-tracking technology will be a run-of-the-mill feature in many high-end vehicles, helping keep drivers’ eyes on the road. But Jaguar Land Rover has patented another use for the tech that allowscars to automatically trigger the rear window’s wiper so it’s always clean and clear when needed. The patent, as discovered by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Amazon Prime Instant Video Is Coming to Your JetBlue Flight For Free

The skies are boring. JetBlue’s about to make your cross-country flight a little more tolerablewith free accessto Amazon Prime Instant Video—for Prime subscribers only. JetBlue’s planes alreadyhave some of the best in-flight Wi-Fiin the skies, zipping at up to 15Mbs, assuming it’s available on your plane—only 80 percent of the fleet is currently up to…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

How All The Spacecraft Circling Mars Keep From Crashing Into Each Other

Two moons and five spacecraft: it’s getting pretty crowded up there. So how do all those Martian satellites manage to keep missing each other? NASA put together this map of what all is drifting around up there, and it has us wondering just how they all manage to keep missing each other. Essentially, there are…

io9 Ria Misra

How to Fix Most Any Computer Glitch By Yourself

Knowing the difference between HDMI and USB qualifies me as the local tech “expert,” so folks often invite me around to fix their computer problems. I’ll let you into a little secret, though: Most of the time, I’m not doing anything all that impressive or magical. Troubleshooting basic computer problems is actually pretty straightforward. That’s…

Gadgets David Nield

Turn Your Apple Watch Gold For Half the Price

Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors, real and fabricated. It gives us a look at might be and will be. BitStream gathers these rumors all in one place to divine what the future has in store. As is tradition, Apple did a lot of things to screw up its first Apple Watch, battery…

Tech News Darren Orf

Stunningly restored color footage of Germany in 1945 right after WWII

It’s hard to imagine what the world was like during World War II. Of course, we’ve read it all in history books and and we’ve seen movies and TV shows showing what life was like, but it’s just far enough back in time and just painful and shocking enough that it’s hard to fully understand…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Batman Toy Has Articulated Eyeballs, Because He Can’t Turn His Head

I am usually a stickler for articulation in action figures — the more the merrier, except in one case: Michael Keaton’s Batman must never turn his head. Thankfully Hot Toy’s latest figure sticks to this rule, by replacing the usual neck articulation with… poseable eyeballs? Man, figures are weird. Based on the character’s appearance in…

Tech News James Whitbrook

36 Questions About Last Night’s Completely Ridiculous Gotham Finale

Sorry, guys, but there’s really no other way to convey the complete WTFery of Gotham’s terrible but entertainingly insane season one finale than to list the many, many questions it left me with. Seriously, if anybody knows what the hell was up with the chicken, please let me know. 1. What the hell happened to…

Television Rob Bricken

The First Observation Of Atmospheric Changes On A Rocky Exoplanet

It may be a terrestrial planet, but the changing atmospheric conditions on the so-called “Diamond Planet” are absolutely nothing like what we experience here on Earth. 55 Cancri e is a super-Earth located about 40 light-years away. It has a radius about twice the size of Earth and a mass that’s nearly eight times larger.…

io9 George Dvorsky

Singapore’s Prime Minister Has Published His Own C++ Sudoku Solver

Everyone needs a hobby. For Lee Hsien Loon, that happens to be writing C++ Sudoku solvers and publishing them on the Internet. Lee Hsien Loong also happens to be the Prime Minister of Singapore. His pastime came to light during a speech he gave last month to a group of technology industry leaders. Then, he…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Deadliest Ways To Try To Put Out A Fire

When you have a fire, you add water. Problem solved. Sometimes, though, adding water isn’t an option, which is why some fire systems involve adding materials that can decompose into poisons or smother everything in the building. The Deadly Choice Not all buildings use water to put out a fire. If you drench a museum,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Second Stand-Alone Star Wars Movie May Be A Boba Fett Origin Film

The Wrap is reporting that the second Star Wars anthology film — i.e., the second film not part of the sequel trilogy, and the one that was going to be directed by Josh Trank until he exited last week — will reveal the origin of the fan-favorite bounty hunter Boba Fett. My question is this:…

io9 Rob Bricken

9 Dumbest Ways To Reboot The Marvel Movie Universe

US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds don’t even look like planes in this photo

Over 1,400 Terracotta Soldiers Could Be Uncovered In New Dig

“In The Shower Eating Cherries” and More Tales of Nightmare IT Calls

Bio-Inspired Gel Could Create “Graceful” Robots That Move Like Humans

A chilling look at close-up shots in films by Jonathan Demme

What Does It Take To Become A Professional Faerie Princess?

Torchwood Will Return… As A Series Of Audio Plays

Jaguar Plans to Let You Control Windshield Wipers With Just Your Eyes

Amazon Prime Instant Video Is Coming to Your JetBlue Flight For Free

How All The Spacecraft Circling Mars Keep From Crashing Into Each Other

How to Fix Most Any Computer Glitch By Yourself

Turn Your Apple Watch Gold For Half the Price

Stunningly restored color footage of Germany in 1945 right after WWII

This Batman Toy Has Articulated Eyeballs, Because He Can’t Turn His Head

36 Questions About Last Night’s Completely Ridiculous Gotham Finale

The First Observation Of Atmospheric Changes On A Rocky Exoplanet

Singapore’s Prime Minister Has Published His Own C++ Sudoku Solver

The Deadliest Ways To Try To Put Out A Fire

The Second Stand-Alone Star Wars Movie May Be A Boba Fett Origin Film

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