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These Breathtaking Aerial Photos of Senegal Were Taken From a Kite

Get ready to have your mind blown. Photographer Jeff Attaway suspended a bridge camera from a kite line, and managed to capture a series of breathtaking photos of Dakar, Senegal from the air. Here’s a view of this beautiful city from a vantage point that few have seen. All photos via Jeff Attaway/Flickr The African…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Community Enters The “Age Of Yahoo” In New Avengers 2-Inspired Trailer

I didn’t think I could be more excited about the sixth season of Community, debuting on Yahoo Screen on March 17th. And yet somehow this new Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer parody trailer, with Paget Brewster, Keith David, a frisbee avalanche and whatever the hell has caused Jeff to put on a white wig, has…

io9 Rob Bricken

Humans Unconsciously Sniff Their Hands After Handshaking

Unlike dogs and other animals, humans — for the most part — don’t sniff each other. Well, at least that’s what we thought. A rather unsettling new study from the Weizmann Institute shows that practically all of us sniff our hands after handshaking — a possible sign of social chemosignaling behavior. The new study, published…

io9 George Dvorsky

This Week, Read The Comic That Sony Already Wants To Turn Into A Movie

Image Comic’s Descender hits this week — a comic about outlawed androids so intriguing,Sony already wants to turn it into a film. But that’s not all: Princess Leia begins her series, a new Boom! series sees regular convention guests turn convention robbers, and Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver’s MCU origins are revealed. Dark Horse Neverboy #1…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

This Jean-Claude Van Damme/My Little Pony Team Up Is Pure Magic

Screw friendship. Sure, it may be magic in the My Little Pony cartoon, but it can’t possibly compare to the majesty and insanity of watching Jean-Claude Van Damme pay a visit to Equestria in this incredible mash-up. Seriously, stop everything you are doing and watch it — you will not be disappointed. [Via Geeks Are…

io9 Rob Bricken

12 Bubblicious Photos Of Bubbles

Bubbles are micro-thin orbs of liquid suspended around gas. That’s nuts. And yet they’re never more than a squirt of dish soap away. These 12 photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge are a small reminder that the little things around us are pretty amazing. Winner: Magic Pop Honestly my goal was to capture a bubble…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Ex Machina Trailer Is A Love Triangle Between Two Men And A Robot

28 Days Later and Sunshine writer Alex Garland’s directorial debut attempts to sex up the Turing Test. And it’s creepy. Really creepy. Check out the latest trailer for Ex Machina, which sets up the story a bit better than the previous trailers. Ex Machina stars three very exciting actors that we love, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall…

io9 Meredith Woerner

That Crazy Android Phone With an E-Paper Back Is Coming to the US

YotaPhone 2, the weird Android smartphone that’s all AMOLED on the front and e-paper on the back, is finally coming to the US, says Phone Scoop. However, the launch will be more of a baby step into the US market; the phone launches this spring on Indiegogo for $600 (with backer incentives). I spent some…

Tech News Darren Orf

Disable Flash

You know Flash? Haven’t thought about it in a while, have you. For good reason! It’s less useful and less relevant than ever. It’s worth thinking about it one last time though—as you go to disable it in your web browser. Here’s how and why you should. Even if you’ve never heard of Flash (which…

Tech News Eric Limer

A Brain Injury Could Make Your World Look Like This

This is how someone with hemianopsia sees the world. The sight is not due to eye damage. It’s due to a brain injury that literally blanks out one half of everything they look at. The complicating factor is that sometimes, the patients don’t even realize that they can’t see. A stroke does damage to the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

7 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake

Hundreds of images flash in front of our eyes each week as we navigate this strange machine we call the internet. But sometimes those images are lying to us. The following lies are culled from the bits and bytes that came through the tubes over the past few weeks. 1) Are these school lunches from…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Clearest Aerial Shots Of The Himalayas, Ever

Equipped with the most-advanced gyro stabilized camera in the world, the team at Teton Gravity Research flew from Kathmandu to Mount Everest, capturing the first ultra HD footage ever shot above 20,000 feet. I’ve never seen these mountains look so beautiful. The video was shot using a GSS C520 camera system mounted to a helicopter,…

Tech News Wes Siler

The Perfect Potholder For Crossword-Loving Chefs

If you’re up to the challenge of trying to cook for others, there’s a good chance you welcome all kinds of challenges. And for chefs who love to tackle words and riddles as much as they do a demi-glace, this $19 crossword puzzle Subtext trivet is a perfect addition to their kitchen. It’s made of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Tuesday Game Room: Scream If You Want To Go Faster Edition

It’s another quiet week for big releases – perhps most notably Screamride, Microsoft’s new rollercoaster game, but that’s not stopping a veritable cavalcade of smaller titles coming out this week. Trying something new? Digging into your backlog? Tell us all about it in Tuesday Game Room! What have you been playing this week? I got…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Can You Guess The Subject Of This Photo?

Your instinct might be to guess something microscopic in size – but the subject of this photograph is actually quite large. All photos featured by kind permission of Alan Friedman The answer? You’re looking at a photo of the Sun – a closeup of active region 2177, to be exact, captured in October 2014. “The…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

HBO GO Arrives on the PS4 Later Today

HBO Go has been slowly trickling out to to all our current generation set-top boxes and game consoles over the past several months. Finally, Sony’s PS4 will be outfitted with an app for Games of Thrones/True Detective/Girls creation machine later today. If you’ve ever piloted the HBO Go app on the PS3, you’ll be in…

Tech News Darren Orf

The Antiviral Guide to the Worst Hoaxers and Liars on Facebook

Our friends over at Gawker’s Antiviral are calling bullshit on the flood of lies and fakery on Facebook. Part one: “satire” news sites. Check it:

Social Media Meg Neal

The Way This Animated Short Film Plays With Perspective Is Hilarious

This short film is incredibly short and deceptive simple, but what it does in under two minutes is great fun to watch. An alien arrives on Earth and changes the perspectives of a man and his dog — not just metaphorically, but visually. Chris O’Hara made A Different Perspective, and I find myself watching it…

io9 Lauren Davis

Rosetta Spots Its Shadow On Comet 67P

The Rosetta spacecraft spotted its shadow. Does that mean Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko is in for 6 more weeks of winter?

Tech News Mika McKinnon

You Can Customize the Level of Gore Detail On This Jaws Shark Bust

It wasn’t until Star Wars stormed through theaters in 1977 that blockbuster movies came with toys and collectibles in tow. And since Jaws was released two years earlier, there has never really been a decent amount of shark-themed collectibles available for the film. At least until Shark City Ozark created this wonderfully detailed 1:6-scale Bruce…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

These Breathtaking Aerial Photos of Senegal Were Taken From a Kite

Community Enters The “Age Of Yahoo” In New Avengers 2-Inspired Trailer

Humans Unconsciously Sniff Their Hands After Handshaking

This Week, Read The Comic That Sony Already Wants To Turn Into A Movie

This Jean-Claude Van Damme/My Little Pony Team Up Is Pure Magic

12 Bubblicious Photos Of Bubbles

Ex Machina Trailer Is A Love Triangle Between Two Men And A Robot

That Crazy Android Phone With an E-Paper Back Is Coming to the US

Disable Flash

A Brain Injury Could Make Your World Look Like This

7 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake

The Clearest Aerial Shots Of The Himalayas, Ever

The Perfect Potholder For Crossword-Loving Chefs

Tuesday Game Room: Scream If You Want To Go Faster Edition

Can You Guess The Subject Of This Photo?

HBO GO Arrives on the PS4 Later Today

The Antiviral Guide to the Worst Hoaxers and Liars on Facebook

The Way This Animated Short Film Plays With Perspective Is Hilarious

Rosetta Spots Its Shadow On Comet 67P

You Can Customize the Level of Gore Detail On This Jaws Shark Bust

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