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Why Do Big Comic Crossovers Always Have To Be About Alternate Universes?

Everybody loves alternate universes — TV’s Fringe proved that meeting different versions of the same character is always fascinating. But when it comes to superhero comics, though, every big storyline is about universes colliding. Here’s why the superhero publishers are running the multiverse into the ground. Right now, DC’s Convergence is in full swing. Marvel’s…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Google Calendar Master

Google’s lightweight, versatile Calendar app runs across the web and multiple mobile platforms to keep our lives organized—but just how deep have you delved into the more advanced features that it offers? Read on to go beyond the basics of appointment scheduling and calendar colors to get more out of this powerful agenda-setting tool. 1.…

Gadgets David Nield

Seeing a trick from a magician’s point of view makes it more impressive

This video of a magician’s card trick flips the perspective around so that we can see everything from the point of the view of the magician. Somehow with the reverse angle, it adds more ‘magic’ to the trick and makes what the magician does seem even more impressive. I got lost just watching him shuffle.…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Skateboard Cutting Board Is Only Good For Carving Food, Not Streets

The only thing that could make these Skate Chop Boards a better addition to your kitchen would be a layer of grip tape on top to prevent fruit and vegetables from sliding all over the place while being chopped. But at just $18 in pink or blue that’s something you could easily add afterwards—even if…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How Do Black Holes Evaporate?

Nothing lasts forever, not even black holes. According to Stephen Hawking, black holes will evaporate over vast periods of time. But how, exactly, does this happen? The actor Stephen Hawking is best known for his cameo appearances in Futurama and Star Trek, you might surprised to learn that he’s also a theoretical astrophysicist. Is there…

io9 Fraser Cain – Universe Today

Jennicam: Why the First Lifecaster Disappeared from the Internet

Exactly 19 years ago today, a 19-year-old woman name Jennifer Ringley started streaming photos taken from her dorm room and inadvertently invented lifecasting. Then she disappeared from the internet. As an experiment, the college student rigged her webcam to broadcast a snapshot of whatever she was doing at the moment every 15 minutes: browsing the…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Apple’s WWDC Will Kick Off June 8, Here’s What to Expect

Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference will run June 8-12 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Apple is always vague about what it’ll cover at its largest developers conference, but this year it’s teasing “the future of iOS and iOS 8.” We don’t know much for sure about WWDC 2015, but here’s one…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

When Freshwater Hits The Ocean, It Creates A Murky Submarine River

When denser river water flows into the ocean, it creeps along the bottom churning up sediments to create a turbidity current. For the first time, researchers caught a flood-triggered hyperpycnal flow in a murky, cloudy mess surging into the Gulf of Aqaba on video. When a flashflood surged across the desert and poured into the…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

No One Knows What to Do With This 76-Foot-Deep Hole in Chicago

If you didn’t know what to look for, you might miss it completely. But from the air—or from Google Earth—it’s impossible to overlook: A gaping, 76-foot-deep hole that has sat abandoned since the 2008 financial crisis. Lead image: Forgemind ArchiMedia/CC. This was the spot where, as the real estate bubble peaked in 2007, a developer…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Surface Of Ceres Explodes Into View With This First Color Map

After months of anticipation, NASA scientists have finally produced a detailed color map of Ceres. Our first detailed look at the dwarf planet’s pitted surface reveals it is a geologically complex place. This image was constructed from images pulled in by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft as it was still approaching Ceres and prior to it settling…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Best (Possible) Features of Google’s Upcoming Wireless Service

Google has a wireless service coming . We don’t know when, or who can get in on it, but thanks to a new leak we now know a lot more of the (possible) details. And some of these (potential) features sound (hopefully) pretty great. The new info comes by way of an app file that…

Tech News Eric Limer

Gotham’s Back! Oh, Wait, That’s Not A Good Thing.

Was my enjoyment of the last few episodes of Gotham genuine, or some kind of Stockholm syndrome? Was it easier to find the goofy fun in this show because I had made peace with it, or was I lying to myself? I don’t know. All I know is that last night’s episode, “Beasts of Prey,”…

Television Rob Bricken

Guitar Hero Is Back This Fall, And You’ll Only Need Three Fingers

“This is stupid,” I try to tell myself. “Weren’t music games just a fad?” For one long minute, I struggle to hit a single note on my plastic axe, as game developers and PR people fire eye-daggers into the back of my head. But then, all of a sudden, it clicks. I’m strumming up a…

Tech News Sean Hollister

How to Make Sure Your Torrent Client Isn’t Secretly Mining Bitcoin

If you use uTorrent for your torrenting needs, there’s a good chance your client is also mining Bitcoin without you even realizing it, and gobbling up your computer’s processing power. The good news is, roughly a month after quietly rolling out the feature, uTorrent has finally stopped bundling bitcoin-mining software into its torrenting client. But…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Homescreen Voyeurs Rejoice, This App Lets You Gawk at Other iPhones

Admit it, whenever you see someone using their iPhone you’re always trying to sneak a peek of what apps they’ve deemed important enough to put on their homescreen, and what kind of wallpaper they’re using. Now thanks to an iOS app called #Homescreen that allows users the world over to share and stare at screenshots…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Dry Ice and LEDs Make Drifting RC Cars Look Even More Realistic

It’s almost impossible to get tired of watching tiny RC cars being skillfully drifted around a scale-model track, but Falken Tires ups the ante with the addition of extensive LED lighting kits on these racers, and some dry ice to help create the illusion there’s actual rubber being burned. And if you’re curious, the cars…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Tell Us The Strangest Story Hidden In The Map Of Your Local Area

Maps are more than just instructions on how to get someplace, they’re also historical snapshots of what was going on when they were drawn — and they’re often very, very weird. Today, we want to know a few of the stories hidden behind the latitude and longitude of where you are. Maybe it’s the story…

io9 Ria Misra

How the Quest for a Perfectly Rational Calendar Created a 13th Month

A month is hardly a unit of measurement. It can start on any day of the week and last anywhere from 28 to 31 days. Sometimes a month is four weeks long, sometimes five, sometimes six. You have to buy a new calendar with new dates every single year. It’s a strange design. The calendar…

Tech News Roman Mars - 99% Invisible

This 19th Century Art Is Made Entirely Out Of Butterfly Wings

Henry Dalton was a 19th-century micographer who created “micromosaics.” Born in 1829, he had to work hard to get just the right materials for his artwork. Mainly because his medium of choice was butterfly wings. While butterflies may disagree, Henry Dalton was by all accounts a very nice man. Not only was he a micographer…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Cute penguins get angry too

If you thought penguins were just cute and adorable, this amazing photo—featured in National Geographic’s Your Shot—of an Adélie penguin angrily confronting the camera may make you think otherwise. It was captured by Gordon Tait near Casey Station, Antarctica, while shooting a series of time-lapses. He told National Geographic: “We often get groups of Adélie…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Why Do Big Comic Crossovers Always Have To Be About Alternate Universes?

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Google Calendar Master

Seeing a trick from a magician’s point of view makes it more impressive

A Skateboard Cutting Board Is Only Good For Carving Food, Not Streets

How Do Black Holes Evaporate?

Jennicam: Why the First Lifecaster Disappeared from the Internet

Apple’s WWDC Will Kick Off June 8, Here’s What to Expect

When Freshwater Hits The Ocean, It Creates A Murky Submarine River

No One Knows What to Do With This 76-Foot-Deep Hole in Chicago

The Surface Of Ceres Explodes Into View With This First Color Map

The Best (Possible) Features of Google’s Upcoming Wireless Service

Gotham’s Back! Oh, Wait, That’s Not A Good Thing.

Guitar Hero Is Back This Fall, And You’ll Only Need Three Fingers

How to Make Sure Your Torrent Client Isn’t Secretly Mining Bitcoin

Homescreen Voyeurs Rejoice, This App Lets You Gawk at Other iPhones

Dry Ice and LEDs Make Drifting RC Cars Look Even More Realistic

Tell Us The Strangest Story Hidden In The Map Of Your Local Area

How the Quest for a Perfectly Rational Calendar Created a 13th Month

This 19th Century Art Is Made Entirely Out Of Butterfly Wings

Cute penguins get angry too

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