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First Look At Mark Hamill In The Flash, Along With More New Villains!

When new episodes of The Flash return on March 17th, they’ll be introducing a plethora of villains, including a new Weather Wizard, the Golden Glider, and even the first appearance of the Trickster. But nothing beats finally seeing the debut/return of Mark Hamill as the original Trickster! In case you don’t know, Hamill played the…

Emily Mandel’s Station Eleven Is A Finalist For The PEN/Faulkner Award!

Emily St. John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven was already a finalist for the National Book Award, but now it’s racked up another encomium. It’s one of the finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award. And separately, George R.R. Martin pimped it pretty hard for the Hugo. Here’s what the judges had to say about this year’s…

Netflix on an NES Is the Best Worst Way to Watch Netflix

There’s no reason you would ever need to rig up an NES to run Netflix. Which is why it’s so great that these two delightfully insane Netflix engineers did it for us. Because at long last, we can finally see the House of Cards intro in all the horrific, 8-bit glory absolutely no one ever…

An Exclusive Clip From Tonight’s Person Of Interest, Still The Best Show

Here’s your weekly reminder that Person of Interest is the best science fiction show on network TV, and one of the best science fiction shows, period. And there’s a new episode tonight! Here’s an exclusive clip, where Finch and Reese investigate a weird scheme.

The One Ebook You Have to Read If You Love Digital Books

You have not read a truly digital book until you’ve read The New World. The novella is about a woman trying to reclaim her dead husband’s head from a cult-like cryogenics company. But more than that, it is the most ambitious attempt I’ve seen at exploring a future where books lack physical form and are…

Powers Is A Flawed But Fascinating Look At Messed-Up Superheroes

This week, Sony released the first three episodes of Powers, the live-action adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s comic about police officers who deal with superpowered crime. And while it’s slow getting going, Powers takes some intriguing looks at a world where superheroes brush up against reality. If you’re familiar with the…

30 Gorgeous Photos Of Timepieces

We survived Daylight Savings Time and the Apple Watch news cycle. As a reward, here are the gorgeous watches and clocks that all of you own. Winner: Time Distortion I thought this would be a great challenge the second I read it. I work in a jewelry store and have access to so many different…

This Air Traffic Control Plan Is Trying to Make Delivery Drones Legal

NASA has been working on a plan for months to create an air traffic control system for drones to make sure the flying machines don’t crash into things like people and planes. Now that plan includes trying to develop a reliable system so people can fly drones remotely. It’s a response to the massive wet…

Google’s Great New Calendar App Just Came to iOS

The fantastic Google Calendar revamp that Android users have been enjoying for a while now has finally hit iOS. If you’ve got an iPhone/iPad and use Google Calendar at all (or even if you just have a Gmail account), it’s definitely worth checking out—if not for the neat auto-fill-in feature alone. You can read more…

Is The “Fix-Up” The Best Kind Of Science Fiction Novel There Is?

Everybody knows that short stories are where science fiction writers really get to experiment, and the most perfect pieces of narrative often happen at shorter lengths. But we also love to explore a world at the length of a whole book. So that makes the “fix-up” the best of both worlds, right? Top image: Voyage…

Jean-Claude Van Damme Finally Gets the Action Figure He Deserves

He may not have a successful film franchise like Terminator or Die Hard behind him, but Jean-Claude Van Damme is still one of the most memorable action movie stars from the past few decades. And while there have been lots of action figures made based on characters he’s played, here’s our first official JVCD figure…

Documentary reveals the fascinating ocean life of Sea Gypsies (NSFW)

The Moken people in Southeast Asia are known as “Sea Gypsies” because they’re a nomadic group of people whose life revolves completely around the ocean. This documentary gives you a glimpse of their life, like how a man can’t propose to a woman unless he can make a boat or how love is found in…

Wikileaks founder and current Ecuadorian Embassy mole-man Julian Assange is getting an appeals hearing in Sweden about his 2010 arrest. Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint: FF8F 0D7A AB19 6D71 C967 9576 8C12 9478 EE07 10C

Nine, Rose And Captain Jack Return In Our Doctor Who #1 Comic Preview

Chris Eccleston may never return to Doctor Who, but at least the Ninth Doctor lives on in this new five-part comic miniseries from Titan. Titled Weapons of Past Destruction, it chronicles an all-new adventure with fan favorites Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness — one you can get a peek at right here! Doctor Who:…

More Americans Get Food Poisoning From Fruits And Veggies Than From Meat

Are you doing the environmentally responsible thing and trying to eat more produce and less meat? Hey, good on you! Pat yourself on the back. Now brace yourself for some bad news. Vox reports: …a new CDC report from the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration looked at data on US outbreaks between 2008 and 2012.…

How Apple’s ResearchKit Could Actually Help Improve Health Care

Our sister site Lifehacker does a deep dive into how Apple’s new ResearchKit project—leveraging user data for medical research—will help the broken health care system. Despite the security concerns. Read on:

Tuesday Game Room: The Blind Forest Edition

A calm before the storm of next week rolls in sees the release of some dazzling indie titles this week, alongside some remasters, collections and a game featuring steampunk Abe Lincoln. Wait, what? Come talk about all things gaming in this week’s Tuesday Game Room! What have you been playing this week? Most of my…

There’s Going To Be 20 Star Wars Book Prequels To The Force Awakens

No, that’s not a typo. Lucasfilm and Del Rey have announced that between now and the premiere of Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens, there will be 20 new Star Wars books published, all set in the time between Return of the Jedi and the new, upcoming movie. On the plus side, these aren’t…

How It Follows Uses Dread And Beauty To Create The Perfect Monster Movie

It Follows is a gorgeous movie. And scary. It’s your new must-see monster movie. We interviewed writer/director David Robert Mitchell, on why dread and anxiety are way worse than just getting startled. Some minor spoilers for It Follows ahead… We’re not going to give away too much about It Follows — because you should just…

Race the Clock To Rebuild This Puzzle Cube After You Shatter It

Sometimes the challenge of just completing a puzzle isn’t enough. When you’re trying to prove you’re better than your friends you need a specific metric to validate your superiority. So this puzzle, made of randomly-shaped pieces that assemble into a perfect cube, has a built-in timer that starts when the cube breaks apart, and stops…