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Chess Is Even More Challenging Played On a Tiny Board With All Queens

There’s nothing more devastating to your morale than losing your queen while playing a game of chess. She’s like Mario after he’s found himself one of those invincible stars—except she can still be wiped out by a pawn. But here’s an interesting take on the classic game that sees every piece replaced with nothing but…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Your Precious Wet Wipes Are Destroying Your City’s Sewers

Are you happy, wet wipe users? Your “dank clusters,” as theNew York Times calls them, are threatening to destroy the infrastructure your city depends on. The NYT blows the story wide open this morning with an investigation of NYC’s sewer treatment plants that are “under siege”, having spent $18 million in five years on “wipe-related…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

What If You Found Out That Everyone Dreamed About You Last Night?

Here’s a short film that plays like an ultra-violent Twilight Zone episode. Billy wakes up one morning to learn that his girlfriend had a really messed-up dream about him the night before — and she’s not the only one. Strangely, that’s not the weirdest thing that happens to Billy over the course of his day.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Ukraine Is Just The Beginning: Welcome To The Age Of Shadow Wars

Confused about what’s been going on between Russia and Ukraine? You’re not alone. And that’s sort of the point — this conflict serves as a case study in the effectiveness of shadowy, “hybrid” warfare, which is hard to understand from the outside. And the effectiveness of this strategy means it could be the future of…

io9 George Dvorsky

Use Google Now to Let Your Family Know When You Get Home

Google Now has more than one trick up its sleeve, and if you’re prepared to take a few minutes to set it up: You can have a card display whenever a family member arrives at home (or work). Here’s how to get the feature activated on your device. From the Google app menu tap Settings…

Gadgets David Nield

Seth Rogen Wants Iron Man’s Dad To Star In The Preacher TV Series

From cosmopolitan billionaire to small-town Texas preacher? It’s not generally considered a positive move, but it may be for actor Dominic Cooper. Word is the man who plays Tony Stark’s father in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Agent Carter is the top choice to star as Jesse Custer in the Preacher adaptation. This comes from…

Television Rob Bricken

This Jedi Holocron Quiz Toy Knows More About Star Wars Than You Do

In the Star Wars universe the Holocrons are kind of like a Jedi’s version of a flash drive, storing vast amounts of knowledge and data. And in the case of Uncle Milton’s new Jedi Holocron toy, all of that knowledge happens to be about Star Wars itself, and by asking just 20 yes or no…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Sadly This 10TB Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies—aka HGST, aka a subsidiary of Western Digital—was recently showing off its gigantic new 10TB hard drive at the Linux Foundation Vault tradeshow in Boston. But unfortunately you won’t be packing 10,000 gigabytes into your laptop anytime soon because the drive is designed for use in servers, and mostly because it requires…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Author Robert Repino Is Here To Talk To You About Mort(e)

In March, the io9 book club read Robert Repino’sMort(e). Today, from 11:00 am – noon (Pacific time) he’ll be here to answer your questions about post-apocalyptic tales, animals in fiction, and anything else you want to know. Start asking Repino your questions in the comments section right now and he’ll answer as many as he…

Books & Comics Ria Misra

Cinderella Is An Insane Guilty Pleasure (But You Shouldn’t Feel Guilty)

Has there ever been a movie as sugary as the live-action Cinderella? It’s like stuffing your face with cake, until cake is all up inside your nostrils and you have a frosting-beard. And yet, this movie also has moments of actual emotion and believable characterization here and there, which make it surprisingly great. Spoilers for…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Pancake-Making 3D Printers, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

3D-printed pancakes, all-electric SUVs, third-party mac chargers! Ok, maybe that last one isn’t so exciting, but all the news and rumors you missed yesterday can be found right here on BitStream. 3D printing is getting to the point where you can almost make anything, including our food. And this—is PancakeBot. We reported on early iterations…

Tech News Darren Orf

Living on an Extinct Volcano Looks Amazing From Space

This image was taken from high above the Azores island of São Miguel. Look closer, and you can see the 5 km wide volcanic complex called the Sete Cidades Massif within it. The interior is home to two large lakes, and several volcanic cones, lava domes and maars – or shallow, flooded craters. ESA explains…

Tech News Attila Nagy

This Chemical Reaction Made People Think Satan Was Attacking

Here we see a sped-up video of tin undergoing a normal reaction known as “tin pest.” But in the 1800s, tin pest filled cathedrals with screeching cries as it made church organs rip themselves apart, right in front of the parishioners. No wonder they thought it was the work of the devil. In the video,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Microsoft’s Digital Assistant Cortana Is Likely Headed to Android, iOS

Microsoft’s answer to Siri is powerful and increasingly pervasive. Now, reports Reuters, the compnay is working on an advanced version “using research from an artificial intelligence project called ‘Einstein’,” and it’s set to appear on Android and iOS. Exact details of project Einstein remain unclear. But the new version of Cortana will, according to “people…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Egyptian Tombs With Stunning Murals

An American team of archaeologists have discovered two ancient Egyptian tombs near Luxor. Incredibly, its beautifully adorned walls, though 3,500 years old, have retained their vivid colors, allowing us to see these amazing murals in what is practically their original glory. The tombs were unearthed by archaeologists from the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)…

io9 George Dvorsky

Hunting for Random: The Quest to Find Numbers That Keep Your Data Safe

You indirectly use random numbers online every day—to establish secure connections, to encrypt data, perhaps even to satisfy your gambling problem. But their ubiquity belies the fact that they’re actually incredibly difficult to find. This is the story of where they come from. Random numbers crop up entirely un-randomly around us all the time. They’re…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Not To Be Left Out, The Flash And Green Arrow Are Getting Redesigns Too

It’s redesign-apalooza over at DC comics ahead of their soft reboot this summer. We’ve been treated to Wonder Woman’s badass new look and the Iron Batman already, but here’s our first look at the all-new threads of The Flash and Green Arrow. Let’s get this out of the way: Only one of these guys got…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The world’s most popular beers in one neat map

Booze lovers’ magazine Vinepair put together this neat map showing the most popular beer brands around the world. Yeah, it’s hard to believe that a tasteless concoction like Bud Light is the top selling beer in the US. Unfortunately, as it’s often the case, most popular doesn’t mean better. Click on the picture below to…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Now HBO Wants 10 Seasons Of Game Of Thrones

This might be a problem. Because showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have been pretty adamant about the hit fantasy TV show based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series ending in seven. This news comes from Entertainment Weekly’s big GoT feature (which also revealed Arya Stark’s snazzy new duds), where…

Television Rob Bricken

Video: How to cook delicious bacon using a M16 rifle

Competitive shooter Dustin Ellermann cooks bacon using his M16 rifle in a video that is a perfect example of what MURICA, FUCK YEAH means. To do that, he wrapped the bacon around the suppressor of his gun, covered it in aluminum foil, and fired the M16 until the heat made it nice and crispy. SPLOID…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Chess Is Even More Challenging Played On a Tiny Board With All Queens

Your Precious Wet Wipes Are Destroying Your City’s Sewers

What If You Found Out That Everyone Dreamed About You Last Night?

Ukraine Is Just The Beginning: Welcome To The Age Of Shadow Wars

Use Google Now to Let Your Family Know When You Get Home

Seth Rogen Wants Iron Man’s Dad To Star In The Preacher TV Series

This Jedi Holocron Quiz Toy Knows More About Star Wars Than You Do

Sadly This 10TB Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop

Author Robert Repino Is Here To Talk To You About Mort(e)

Cinderella Is An Insane Guilty Pleasure (But You Shouldn’t Feel Guilty)

Pancake-Making 3D Printers, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Living on an Extinct Volcano Looks Amazing From Space

This Chemical Reaction Made People Think Satan Was Attacking

Microsoft’s Digital Assistant Cortana Is Likely Headed to Android, iOS

Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Egyptian Tombs With Stunning Murals

Hunting for Random: The Quest to Find Numbers That Keep Your Data Safe

Not To Be Left Out, The Flash And Green Arrow Are Getting Redesigns Too

The world’s most popular beers in one neat map

Now HBO Wants 10 Seasons Of Game Of Thrones

Video: How to cook delicious bacon using a M16 rifle

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