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Julian Assange To Be Questioned By Swedish Prosecutors in the UK

Since his arrest in 2010, Julian Assange has been dutifully avoiding sexual assault allegations brought against him in Sweden. Now, Swedish prosecutors have decided to question Wikileaks in London instead. The BBC reportsthat prosecutors have given up on attempts to question Assange in Sweden. The U-turn has occurred because potential charges against him are set…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The GIF Party Doesn’t Start Until You Get Here

GIFs, assemble! It’s party time. Skip the party mingling, and let’s get right down to it: Tell us all about your week — what you did, what you saw, what you loved, what you hated — all through the underappreciated, but never underutilized, art of the GIF. This party begins now! Gif via commenter Brandon…

io9 Ria Misra

Google Now Tells You If Your Flight Will Have WI-Fi

Snagging in-flight Wi-Fi can be somewhat of a lottery. Now, Google will let you find out before you fly if your airplane will provide you with data as you cruise through the skies. In a collaboration with flight-rating service Routehappy, Google will now display airplane amenities on offer when you search for details about your…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Snake Has Tentacles! It Has Tentacles!

The tentacled snake, Erpeton tentaculatum, has tentacles coming out of its nose. It lives in the water, using its tentacles to hunt fish. And it kills them by using their hard-wired survival instincts against them. With their tentacles. That picture above is a scanning electron microscope image of the head of a tentacled snake, the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Even More Death Is Coming To The Walking Dead!

Rinko Kikuchi talks about Mako Mori’s role in Pacific Rim 2. Fantastic Four gives us a better look at the team’s new outfits. Suicide Squad may have found its Deathstroke, and Joss Whedon talks Age of Ultron. Plus set pictures of Krysten Ritter in action on AKA Jessica Jones, and Supergirl’s secret identity. Hot spoilers!…

Television James Whitbrook

This Machine Builds Obscure Molecules From Scratch in Hours

This tangle of tubes, bottles and electronics may look a mess—but its appearance belies its impressive abilities. This is a small-molecule synthesizer, a kind of chemical 3D printer, and it can be used to construct the most obscure of molecules from scratch. Created by a team of chemists from the University of Illinois, led by…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

See iZombie‘s Opening Credits, Done By the Original Comic Artist

In advance of iZombie’s premiere next week, Comic Book.com has the opening credits, which provide a motion comic-style synopsis of the characters and the main plot. The art comes from Michael Allred, the artist on the original iZombie comic. It’s always nice when comic book adaptations pay credit to their source material in some way.…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

NASA Successfully Launched Its Mission Into the Magnetosphere

At 10:44 PM ET last night, NASA successfully launched the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket into space. It carries with it four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft that will spend two years studying the magnetic fields between the Earth and the Sun. The four spacecraft will construct the first-ever 3D view of the magnetosphere. In particular,…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Defends NASA’s Mission. All of It.

On Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden testified in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, chaired by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Pushed hard by Cruz on the core mission of NASA, Bolden delivered an eloquent defense of everything NASA does. In the hearing (which, if you so inclined, you can watchhere), Cruz…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Today’s Net Neutrality Order is a Win, With a Few Blemishes

Today, the FCC published its new order [PDF] on net neutrality. As promised, the rules start by putting net neutrality on the right legal footing, which means they have a much stronger chance of surviving the inevitable legal challenge. This is the culmination of years of work by public interest advocates and a massive outpouring…

Tech News Kit Walsh - EFF

New Satellites Will Track The Explosive Secret Of Magnetic Reconnection

A quartet of satellites launched tonight, the Magnetospheric Multiscale observatories. The four identical satellites will observe and measure magnetic reconnection, the explosive moment when mismatched magnetic fields connect, realign, and reconnect in a new configuration. Top image: Artist’s concept of the Earth’s protective magnetosphere with the tetrahedral constellation of MMS observatories. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Conceptual Image Lab…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Here’s a Real Photo Of the Mars Location of Andy Weir’s The Martian

In The Martian, the stranded astronaut protagonist spends a lot of the story stuck in a site located in the southern Acidalia Planitia. This is an actual image of that area on Mars, based on the map in the book. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona The book follows Mark Watney, stranded on Mars when the…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

This Virtual Reality Snorkel Sounds Like A Great Way To Drown

I’ve used a lot of VR headsets, but the tagline of Nautilus VR’s new Kickstarter project scares the hell out of me: “Virtual Reality Underwater.” Call me crazy, but that sounds dangerous. And yes, also a little awesome. The idea has its merits: one of the biggest problems with VR is creating the tactile sensations…

Tech News Sean Buckley

Staring straight into the center of a blooming flower is so hypnotizing

Seeing flowers bloom in a time lapse is always worth your eyeballs’ time but this time lapse is especially cool because it gives you a direct view straight inside the center of a blooming flower. It looks a lot like looking through a dreamy world filled with different rules and different colors and different life.…

Sploid Casey Chan

The UK Is Hosting Cyber War Games In A Decommissioned Warship

Wargames used to — and still often does — mean legions of tanks roaming across battlefields, and a bunch of soldiers playing make-believe with really big guns. These days, it’s all about corralling a bunch of nerds into an old tin can, and giving them a doomsday scenario straight out of 24. Recently, our friends…

Privacy & Security Chris Mills

Video explainer: How banks took a good simple idea and turned it evil

Kurz Gesagt’s latest video explainer points his easily understood animation gun towards the evilness of banks and how they’ve transformed over time from a simple idea (helping people trade goods) into what they are now (big behemoth bullies who make money for themselves). It’s not all bad though, Gesagt also shows how things have changed…

Sploid Casey Chan

Geckos Hate Water So Much It Explodes Off Them

Look, I don’t like rain as much as the next person. I’m sure my mom wasn’t a big fan either, and the rest of my ancestors probably weren’t wild about water falling from the sky. But nowhere along the line did any of them develop skin that forces water droplets to explosively launch off. A…

Tech News Chris Mills

Count Dracula Learns To Be a Grandfather in Hotel Transylvania 2 Trailer

The teaser trailer for Hotel Transylvania 2, the sequel to thesurprisingly cuteHotel Transylvania, has Adam Sandler’s Dracula taking on the role of grandpa to his half-human grandchild. Instead of throwing the kid into the deep end to teach him to swim — as is traditional — Dracula throws his kid off of a very tall…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta

Read an Excerpt from Bruce Schneier’s New Book, Data and Goliath

Bruce Schneier is a world-famous computer security expert whose new book is about where all your personal data is going — and who can see it. It’s called Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. We’ve got an excerpt. And tomorrow, Schneier will join us for a Q/A,…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

This bike rider riding along the side of the mountain is defying gravity

Here is Michal Kollbek harnessing his inner mountain goat and riding the White Line in Sedona, Arizona. It looks like a flat surface—that is, the wrong kind of flat surface that’s next to you like a wall and not under you like the road— he’s riding on and him not slipping down the steep slide…

Sploid Casey Chan

Julian Assange To Be Questioned By Swedish Prosecutors in the UK

The GIF Party Doesn’t Start Until You Get Here

Google Now Tells You If Your Flight Will Have WI-Fi

This Snake Has Tentacles! It Has Tentacles!

Even More Death Is Coming To The Walking Dead!

This Machine Builds Obscure Molecules From Scratch in Hours

See iZombie‘s Opening Credits, Done By the Original Comic Artist

NASA Successfully Launched Its Mission Into the Magnetosphere

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Defends NASA’s Mission. All of It.

Today’s Net Neutrality Order is a Win, With a Few Blemishes

New Satellites Will Track The Explosive Secret Of Magnetic Reconnection

Here’s a Real Photo Of the Mars Location of Andy Weir’s The Martian

This Virtual Reality Snorkel Sounds Like A Great Way To Drown

Staring straight into the center of a blooming flower is so hypnotizing

The UK Is Hosting Cyber War Games In A Decommissioned Warship

Video explainer: How banks took a good simple idea and turned it evil

Geckos Hate Water So Much It Explodes Off Them

Count Dracula Learns To Be a Grandfather in Hotel Transylvania 2 Trailer

Read an Excerpt from Bruce Schneier’s New Book, Data and Goliath

This bike rider riding along the side of the mountain is defying gravity

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Julian Assange To Be Questioned By Swedish Prosecutors in the UK

The GIF Party Doesn’t Start Until You Get Here

Google Now Tells You If Your Flight Will Have WI-Fi

This Snake Has Tentacles! It Has Tentacles!

Even More Death Is Coming To The Walking Dead!

This Machine Builds Obscure Molecules From Scratch in Hours

See iZombie‘s Opening Credits, Done By the Original Comic Artist

NASA Successfully Launched Its Mission Into the Magnetosphere

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Defends NASA’s Mission. All of It.

Today’s Net Neutrality Order is a Win, With a Few Blemishes

New Satellites Will Track The Explosive Secret Of Magnetic Reconnection

Here’s a Real Photo Of the Mars Location of Andy Weir’s The Martian

​This Virtual Reality Snorkel Sounds Like A Great Way To Drown

Staring straight into the center of a blooming flower is so hypnotizing

The UK Is Hosting Cyber War Games In A Decommissioned Warship

Video explainer: How banks took a good simple idea and turned it evil

Geckos Hate Water So Much It Explodes Off Them

Count Dracula Learns To Be a Grandfather in Hotel Transylvania 2 Trailer

Read an Excerpt from Bruce Schneier’s New Book, Data and Goliath

This bike rider riding along the side of the mountain is defying gravity

Apple M4 MacBook Air Is Still at Its Spring Sale Low as Amazon Moves Into Clearance Mode, No Need to Wait for Prime Day

They’re Already Trying to Baby Yoda Rocky From ‘Project Hail Mary’

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This Virtual Reality Snorkel Sounds Like A Great Way To Drown