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Aliens Send Retro Videogame Characters To Attack Earth In Pixels Trailer

Here it is, the first trailer for Chris Columbus’ latest film Pixels. When aliens misinterpret footage of video games as an act of war, they send giant versions of Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and other video game characters to attack the Earth. Naturally, our only hope is a crew of former arcade game champions. UPDATE: Longer…

io9 Lauren Davis

This Bizarre Animal Communicates Like No Other Mammal On Earth

Yes, this is a mammal, and yes, it does have bright yellow stripes. Yes, it is also covered with spines. And just to top things off, yes it communicates in a way no other mammal on Earth does. Do you want to know what a lowland streaked tenrec is? Too bad. It’s from Madagascar, and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Historical Snub Hidden In Canada’s Map

Maps seem like the most utilitarian of objects, but hidden in between all that functional information there are some strange stories. Here’s how a 19th-century postal service bureaucrat hid a snub against France that’s still in Canada’s modern map. In a Kinja-discussion on underexposed local historical figures, commenter MS38 shared this history of how Agincourt,…

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This Catfish Was Just Named After A Star Wars Character

Can you guess which one? I bet you can guess which one. Photo via Auburn University Jonathan Armbruster, biological sciences professor and curator of fishes for the Auburn University Museum of Natural History, named the previously unknown species of catfish Peckoltia greedoi, after, well, you know who. UNCANNY, THE RESEMBLANCE. H/t Meredith

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Games Could Help Google’s 3D-Sensing Tango Tablet Become a Reality

Google’s Project Tango lets pocket-sized computers see the world in 3D, which could lead to amazing things. Augmented reality shopping. Indoor navigation. Drones that don’t crash into foreign objects. But Google project lead Johnny Lee admits that Tango hasn’t seen much interest from phonemakers yet. What might change that? Games, he says. At Nvidia’s 2015…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Why Breeding Pedigree Dogs Is Just Eugenics By Another Name

Eugenics is the now-defunct (and creepy!) practice of breeding supposedly superior humans to achieve genetic improvements while sterilizing undesirables. Sound familiar? It’s the exact same thing we now do to dogs and it’s responsible for a range of health and behavioral issues in them. — Ed. This chapter is excerpted from “A Matter of Breeding:…

Books & Comics Michael Brandow

Video: The beauty and hard work of making handmade boots

Listening to George Ziermann talk about his life and how he got to making boots while watching him work at his craft is a true treat. Ziermann has been hand making boots for over 40 years and seeing the care that goes into each pair makes me think that his boots will last a lifetime.…

Sploid Casey Chan

How Richard Powers Made Science Fiction Book Covers Strange

You’ve probably seen some of the colorful, abstract book cover art of Richard Powers before, and marveled at how far it pushes the envelope of representational art. How alien it looks. Over at The Daily Beast, there’s a terrific article about how Powers became such a dominant SF cover artist. In The Daily Beast, Mark…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What Are Your Earliest Web Browser Memories?

Microsoft has rung the death knell for Internet Explorer — and it’s likely that few of us will mourn. IE has been sort of a joke for years, but there was a time when it was mighty. How far back into browser history do you go? Tell us what you remember. Certainly there are reasons…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

The First Trailer For Red Vs. Blue Creators’ Scifi Comedy Lazer Team

What happens when the Internet gives the Rooster Teeth team $2.4 million to make a feature film? You get Lazer Team, a goofy-looking film about four friends who each get a piece of an alien suit and will have to work together to fend off an invasion. This first trailer gives us a basic outline…

Trailers Lauren Davis

Illuminate Your Room With These Beautiful Kinetic Light Sculptures

Why would anybody want a regular lamp or other light source, when you can have these incredible neon sculptures instead? They’re constantly in motion, and they use lights and patterns to transfix the eye. Here are the greatest kinetic sculptures made of dancing lights. Shylight, designed by Studio DRIFT, which opens during a 30 ft…

io9 Vincze Miklós

How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln

It’s easy to think of data journalism as a modern invention. With all the hype, a casual reader might assume that it was invented sometime during the 2012 presidential campaign. Better-informed observers can push the start date back a few decades, noting with self-satisfaction that Philip Meyer did his pioneering work during the Detroit riots…

Tech News Scott Klein - ProPublica

A Robotic Arm So Advanced It Helps To Build Copies Of Itself

Behold the new UR3 robotic arm. Smaller, lighter, and more nimble than its predecessors, the Universal Robot-built arm can be programmed for a wide variety of tasks — including the construction of its own parts. Photo: Universal Robots Based out of Odense, Denmark, Universal Robots has added UR3 to its impressive line of industrial robotic…

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A&E Turning Let The Right One In Into A TV Series

Now this is an interesting/terrifying/potentially exciting idea. A&E wants to turn the beloved vampire drama Let The Right One In into a TV series, with the help of the Teen Wolf writers. THR is reporting that the Teen Wolf writers (and showrunner) Jeff Davis and Brandon Boyce are currently writing a script. Based on the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Is How Easily Our Cities Could Become High-Density Solar Power Plants

Solar energy has a dark side. Those gargantuan plants that sprawl out like deconstructed disco balls sacrifice valuable open space and put wildlife, and possibly human lives, at risk. A new study by Stanford researchers says that focusing our solar energy efforts in already-developed urban areas could yield more power—by collecting energy where we actually…

Tech News Alissa Walker

What’s The Best Alliance That Both Sides Already Know Will End Badly?

You know things are desperate when old enemies have to team up in a last-ditch effort to save the day. And sometimes, war makes strange bedfellows. But the best alliances of convenience are the ones where both sides can tell it’ll end in horrible betrayal. What’s your favorite alliance that’s doomed from the start? Please…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Hear Bucky Fuller Talk About Life, Airplanes, and the Future

There’s something jarring about hearing old interviews of legendary futurist Buckminster Fuller. He speaks at a rapid pace, like each word is racing to get out before the next. But both Fuller’s style and his self-assuredness make it hard not to get swept up in his unbridled optimism about the future of technology — especially…

Tech News Matt Novak

Map Shows How Quickly A Zombie Outbreak Would Spread From Your Town

If Patient Zero for a zombie outbreak were to turn up somewhere in the United States, how long would it take the hordes of undead to take over the country? With the interactive Zombietown, USA map, you can click on a town and watch the zombies eat their way across the nation. Zombietown, USA is…

io9 Lauren Davis

Mike Mignola Returns With A Gorgeous Comic About Frankenstein’s Monster

The legendary Mike Mignola returns to pen a new miniseries, but that’s not all this week’s latest comics have to offer. There’s time travelling shenanigans from Mark Millar, an intriguing new Image series about the fall of a space empire, and a graphic novel about the crew behind a Super Sentai robot. Comics! Dark Horse…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

A 3D View Inside the Earth’s Liquid Core, Based On Earthquakes

Every so often, earthquakes remind us that the solid ground beneath our feet can tremble and shake like rock jello. But there’s an upside to all this shaking: Seismic waves are how we peer deep inside the Earth to map what’s under the crust. The Titan computer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Aliens Send Retro Videogame Characters To Attack Earth In Pixels Trailer

This Bizarre Animal Communicates Like No Other Mammal On Earth

The Historical Snub Hidden In Canada’s Map

This Catfish Was Just Named After A Star Wars Character

Games Could Help Google’s 3D-Sensing Tango Tablet Become a Reality

Why Breeding Pedigree Dogs Is Just Eugenics By Another Name

Video: The beauty and hard work of making handmade boots

How Richard Powers Made Science Fiction Book Covers Strange

What Are Your Earliest Web Browser Memories?

The First Trailer For Red Vs. Blue Creators’ Scifi Comedy Lazer Team

Illuminate Your Room With These Beautiful Kinetic Light Sculptures

How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln

A Robotic Arm So Advanced It Helps To Build Copies Of Itself

A&E Turning Let The Right One In Into A TV Series

This Is How Easily Our Cities Could Become High-Density Solar Power Plants

What’s The Best Alliance That Both Sides Already Know Will End Badly?

Hear Bucky Fuller Talk About Life, Airplanes, and the Future

Map Shows How Quickly A Zombie Outbreak Would Spread From Your Town

Mike Mignola Returns With A Gorgeous Comic About Frankenstein’s Monster

A 3D View Inside the Earth’s Liquid Core, Based On Earthquakes

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