Latest

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 May 8 '15

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 May 8 '15

Drones Could Airdrop Relief Supplies to Combat Zones in Syria

Drones—like sharks and William Shatner—are often misunderstood by the public. Many associate the autonomous fliers with warfare and creepy government spies. But drones can be heroic, dropping life-saving supplies to civilians in combat zones. That’s what U.S. Air Force member/Stanford PhD student Mark Jacobsen wants to do with his crowdfunding effort, the Syria Airlift Project.…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin May 8 '15

X-ray photos reveal child being smuggled was hidden inside a suitcase

This is crazy. An eight-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast was being smuggled into Spain while being hidden inside a suitcase. Apparently, the boy’s father had paid a 19-year-old girl to carry the boy in the luggage from Morocco to neighboring Ceuta, a Spanish city in Africa. This was a bad plan that could have…

Sploid Casey Chan May 8 '15

I Want This LED Light Strip That Blinks When Your Train Is Late

At this point, there are tons of apps that let us know when our trains are running late. But apps aren’t nearly as pretty as an LED light strip set up to blink when something’s wrong with your commute. London-based developer James Singleton used a Raspberry Pi B+ and the London Underground’s API to turn…

Tech News Kate Knibbs May 8 '15

The Panels In This Quilt Combine To Form A Famous Horse Animation

In 1878, photographer Eadweard Muybridge solved an enduring mystery: Do galloping horses ever lift all four of their hooves off the ground at the same time? Animator Nina Paley pays tribute to Muybridge with a quilt whose panels are based on his galloping horse photos. Muybridge used multiple cameras and a clever shutter system to…

io9 Lauren Davis May 8 '15

Let’s Find Out What Apple’s Doing With These Self-Driving Cars

This Dodge Caravan snapped in Orlando this morning certainly looks like one of Apple’s supposedly pre-autonomous minivansthat are currently swarming the country. Have you seen one of these things? Help us figure out what’s happening here. According to Gizmodo reader R. Holt, this van was parked in front of an East Orlando Publix grocery store…

Tech News Alissa Walker May 8 '15

What Cliffhanger Did You Predict The Best (But Wrong) Resolution For?

The best cliffhangers leave you guessing how they’re going to be resolved — waiting a week, or sometimes months, to find out what’s going to happen next. And sometimes… you guess wrong. Which cliffhanger did you come up with a really neat way of resolving, that didn’t actually turn out to be correct? Please include…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders May 8 '15

19th Century Schooner Uncovered At Toronto’s Historic Waterfront

In preparation for construction work, a routine archaeological dig at the site of Toronto’s former waterfront has resulted in the discovery of a 200-year-old schooner. It’s one of the oldest ships ever found in the city. The remains of the schooner, which may date back to the 1830s, were found at a Concord Adex construction…

io9 George Dvorsky May 8 '15

Slay Enemies with a Cell Phone Stun Gun and Tactical Defense Pen

If you can’t destroy your opponents with sarcasm or a deftly-executed line of code, you can at least stun them with a million volts of electricity from your cell phone, or stab them with the pen in your pocket. That’s what these actual, real-life products from True Swords promise. Here are the product details on…

Tech News Annalee Newitz May 8 '15

Mattel’s Last Ghostbusters Figure Is A Lovely Tribute To Harold Ramis

After many years, Mattel no longer has the rights to make Ghostbusters toys. Diamond Select are picking up where they left off with a new line of toys, but before the era of Mattel is over, there’s one parting gift: and perfectly, it’s the dearly missed Harold Ramis. The 6” figure has been dubbed the…

Tech News James Whitbrook May 8 '15

This Funny Face is Actually Essential to Mammals’ Sex Lives

That dopey face your cat makes—its mouth half-open, its lips curled awkwardly away from its teeth—has a name. It’s called the flehmen response, and yes, it looks ridiculous. But for many mammals, it’s a critical part of their sex life. Photo Credit: tambako via flickr | CC BY-ND 2.0 Although the expression practically invites you…

Biology Diane Kelly May 8 '15

Starbucks No Longer Sucking California Dry To Make Its Bottled Water

It’s refreshing when justice is served. About as refreshing as the water that Starbucks will now have to source elsewhere to fill the plastic bottles of its “humanitarian” brand. Yesterday, they announced they will no longer bottle water from California’s cracked soil. After a blistering report by Mother Jones last week, Starbucks finally realized the…

Tech News Alissa Walker May 8 '15

Video: The history of the PG-13 rating and why the MPAA sucks

The Dissolve put together this neat animation that briefly looks at the history of the PG-13 rating, a rating that was invented after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins was released. And in discussion of the rating, it reveals how backwards the MPAA can be when it comes to violence vs sex,…

Sploid Casey Chan May 8 '15

Cybersecurity Firm May Have Hacked Its Own Clients To Extort Them

When you hire a firm to take care of your cybersecurity, you’re hiring a team of experts whom you assume you can trust. But one such firm allegedly used the trust of its clients to straight-up extort them with made-up “data breaches.” CNN Money gives us a rundown on Tiversa, a still-operating cybersecurity company that…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 8 '15

Osgood Returns To Doctor Who, And She’s Bringing The Zygons With Her

I guess when you’re from a TV show where the lead character has the uncanny ability to turn into a popular British actor in the face of death, disintegration is merely a setback rather than permanent. Yes, lovable UNIT scientist/Doctor fangirl Osgood will be in Doctor Who’s next season, along with some familiar foes. Many…

Television James Whitbrook May 8 '15

Hawkgirl And DC’s Other New TV Heroes Will Debut On The Flash Finale

With the title, summary and line-up of The CW’s newest TV installment of the DC universe just announced, the heroes (and villains) of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will actually arrive sooner than you think! Hawkgirl, Rip Hunter and more will make their team debut on May 19th during The Flash season one finale. For those…

Television Rob Bricken May 8 '15

Tesla’s Gigafactory Isn’t Big Enough to Make Its Preordered Batteries

As Elon Musk revealed in an earnings call earlier this week, people preordered a shit-ton of Tesla’s new batteries: Over 50,000 Powerwall units were reserved. Now some interesting math, courtesy of Bloomberg: The five million square-foot Gigafactory planned outside of Reno probably isn’t big enough to make them all. Take a look at the numbers,…

Tech News Alissa Walker May 8 '15

The Craziest Stories About The Making Of Mad Max And The Road Warrior

One week from today, Mad Max returns to our screens in Mad Max: Fury Road. But that post-apocalyptic road-rage survivor wouldn’t be around today if he hadn’t starred in two incredible movies, decades ago. Here are all the weirdest facts you never knew about the making of Mad Max and The Road Warrior. Plus an…

Movies Abhimanyu Das May 8 '15

Are We Ever Going To Develop Faster-Than-Light Travel?

There’s a cosmic speed limit that unfortunately means you aren’t going to be firing up a warp drive anytime soon. Top image: Mark Rademaker Long before the Empire struck back, before the United Federation of Planets federated, Isaac Asimov created Foundation, the epic tale of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire. Asimov’s Empire…

io9 Robert Scherrer — The Conversation May 8 '15

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

Drones Could Airdrop Relief Supplies to Combat Zones in Syria

X-ray photos reveal child being smuggled was hidden inside a suitcase

I Want This LED Light Strip That Blinks When Your Train Is Late

The Panels In This Quilt Combine To Form A Famous Horse Animation

Let’s Find Out What Apple’s Doing With These Self-Driving Cars

What Cliffhanger Did You Predict The Best (But Wrong) Resolution For?

19th Century Schooner Uncovered At Toronto’s Historic Waterfront

Slay Enemies with a Cell Phone Stun Gun and Tactical Defense Pen

Mattel’s Last Ghostbusters Figure Is A Lovely Tribute To Harold Ramis

This Funny Face is Actually Essential to Mammals’ Sex Lives

Starbucks No Longer Sucking California Dry To Make Its Bottled Water

Video: The history of the PG-13 rating and why the MPAA sucks

Cybersecurity Firm May Have Hacked Its Own Clients To Extort Them

Osgood Returns To Doctor Who, And She’s Bringing The Zygons With Her

Hawkgirl And DC’s Other New TV Heroes Will Debut On The Flash Finale

Tesla’s Gigafactory Isn’t Big Enough to Make Its Preordered Batteries

The Craziest Stories About The Making Of Mad Max And The Road Warrior

Are We Ever Going To Develop Faster-Than-Light Travel?

Latest news

Meta Reportedly Got Too Addicted to Google AI Tokens and Had to Be Cut Off

How to Watch Jordan vs Argentina Livestream Free from Anywhere

How to Watch Algeria vs Austria Livestream Free from Anywhere

New Report Says Car Market Will Have to Shrink Significantly by 2040

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is All About the Comics

Here’s Why ‘Supergirl’ Ends and Sounds Like That

Federal Agents Reportedly Tracked Down an Anti-ICE Dad in a New York Hotel. It’s Not Clear How

How to Watch South Africa vs Canada Livestream Free from Anywhere

Latest Reviews

Google Home Speaker Review: A Faster Way of Being Frustrated

The Best Tech to Level Up Summer 2026

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: A Private Screen Only Goes So Far

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ Review: The Best Handheld PC, but You’ll Have to Pay for It

HP OmniBook Ultra Review: Perfect, if Not for the Little Things

Fender Elie 6 Review: So Close to Being Great

Govee Outdoor Chromatic String Lights Review: A Colorful Way to (Kind of) Light Your Patio

Logitech’s Folding Travel Mouse Fails at the One Thing That Matters Most

Let us help you find what you’re looking for...