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Batman gets horny in 50 Shades of Wayne mash-up trailer

I’ve seen Batman fighting criminals, driving awesome vehicles, or even deeply depressed but I’ve never seen him as sexually aroused as in this neat mash-up trailer by Josh Meeter called Fifty Shades of Wayne. Watching this made me think about the weird sexual toys Bruce Wayne would have if he were Grey. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Sex, Lives and Disability: What Disabled Bodies Can Teach Us About Sex

Millie Dollar sashays onto the stage in a green, feathered dress to conclude the evening’s entertainment with a sultry burlesque routine. The capacity audience at the ornate Epstein Theatre in Liverpool is enraptured by her sensual beauty. Burlesque, she says in an interview, gives her a way of communicating through costume, routine and dance –…

Tech News Katharine Quarmby - Mosaic

The First Detailed Image of the World’s Smallest Known Life-form

This picture might look a little grainy, but you’re actually looking at the first detailed image of the ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be “about as small as life can get.” The image was acquired by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. The…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Android 5.0 Devices Aren’t Encrypted By Default—Despite Google Promises

When Android 5.0 Lollipop launched, Google proudly claimed that full-disk encryption was a standard feature, enabled by default. But now phones with the OS are starting to appear in the wild, that appears not to be the case. Google spoke about the feature at launch. As Ars Technica points out, it told The Washington Post…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

What Marvel Characters End Up Being Called In Other Languages

Along with the actual text and words of superhero tales getting translated abroad, the names of these characters also gets changed. Some are pretty literal and others, like Loki above, are a bit more descriptive. We’ve seen this kind of work from James Chapman, who tackled the translated titles of TV shows. Now, he does…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Northern Light Sky Meets Sea In This Stunning Photo

Taken on March 1, this shows the always-gorgeous aurora casting its spell over the crashing waves of the Reykjanes Peninsula Sea Stacks in Iceland. Image credit:Northern Lights over Reykjanes Peninsula Sea Stacks, Iceland by Diana Robinson/flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Jane Lynch Will Play A Guardian Angel on CBS’ Angel From Hell

Now that Glee has wrapped its final season, Jane Lynch has officially signed on for her next project: She’ll play a maybe-guardian angel on CBS’ new half-hour comedy Angel From Hell. The showsounds a bit like a mash up of Touched By an Angel and Cupid: Lynch will play Amy, a “brassy and flamboyant” woman…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Stratos Card Is Another Smart Payment Card That Wants To Rule Them All

They way we buy things is changing. A lot of the focus lately has revolved around the smartphone with services like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, but a new company Stratos still thinks the credit card has its place…you just shouldn’t have to juggle a whole wallet full of them. That’s where the Stratos Card…

Tech News Darren Orf

Batman Is Way Kinkier Than You Remember In Fifty Shades of Wayne

Combining the Fifty Shades of Grey trailer and the Dark Knight trilogy is way funnier than it has any right to be. I’ll admit that “cave diving” and “potent hallucinogens” made me laugh against my will. This is somehow much more entertaining than expected. However, let’s be clear: this is an internet mashup video of…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Hillary Clinton Exclusively Used Personal Email While Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton’s burgeoning presidential campaign is off to a rocky good start. Just a day after papers reported that the former Secretary of State would make a bid for the nation’s highest office in April, The New York Times reports that Hillary Clinton used only her personal email address while serving as Secretary of State.…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Fragile Humans Spacewalk To Upgrade Space Station Communications

A pair of tiny, squishy astronauts braved the harsh vacuum of space to rig a new communications system on to the International Space Station. The new system is part of reconfiguring the station in preparation for the arrival of space taxis from the commercial crew program. Top image: Astronaut Butch Wimore is dwarfed by the…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

First Ever Image to Show Light as a Wave and Particle at the Same Time

What you’re looking at here is a major breakthrough. The image reveals a property of light that has never been witnessed before by human eyes, though we’ve long known about it. But at last, thanks in an ingenious imaging experiment, we can now see how light behaves as a wave and a particle at the…

Physics & Chemistry Annalee Newitz

Everything You Need To Know About The Ring Cycle In One Hilarious Talk

Our favorite fantasy stories owe a huge debt to Norse mythology — especially Norse mythology as filtered through Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle of operas. But how can you make sense of all the craziness? Here is Anna Russell, a professional opera comedian, to help you sort it out. “Opera comedian” is one of those job…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Massive Spacecraft Transport Vehicles Are Still Going After 50 Years

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has two of the largest vehicles ever built on treads. Crawler-transporter No. 1 and crawler-transporter No. 2 (CT-1 and CT-2) have carried rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad for the last 50 years. Plus, they’re still being modified and upgraded by the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Ordering $500 of Random Crap by Text Message with Magic

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so I’ll take it as a compliment that Brent Rose—occasionally of Gizmodo dot com—saw fit to explore the wondrous and alarming world of Magic in this video short for Wired. Giz got a fish, but Brent got a much larger collection of impressively random things. Between…

Tech News Eric Limer

What’s the Most Convincing Phishing Scam You’ve Ever Seen?

Phishing scams are often obvious. For example, a hacker bot just emailed some Gizmodo writers with the subject line: “Send your full contact informations for a do na ti on claims.” LOL not a chance. But dangerously convincing phishing scams definitely exist. Last year, a pair of shockingly convincing phishing scam targeted Google and Apple…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Ello’s Death Rattle: WILL YOU STAY IF WE GIVE YOU PORN?!?!

Ello, that super exclusive, stripped down social networkyou vaguely remember hearing someone you kinda knew talking about last year is now a super exclusive, stripped down ghost town. So in a desperate plea to re-attract the masses it once swore were coming, Ello has announced that March is officially NSFW month. Because if it’s getting…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Yes, This Is A Photo Of A Weasel ‘Riding’ A Woodpecker In Flight

Pretty much what it says on the tin, folks. Although, the weasel is not so much riding the bird as it is, probably, trying to kill and eat it. In any case, the photo is amazing. And while we’re no photo-manipulation experts, we’re inclined to say it’s real. Photographer Martin Le-May told ITV News he…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Science Fiction And Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford To Miss In March

What do March’s science fiction and fantasy books have in store for you? Mermaids! Winged women! Interplanetary politics! Plus Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, which is already garnering comparisons to Game of Thrones. Here are the March books you cannot afford to miss. Top image: A Quantum Mythology by Gavin Smith, cover artwork by Spyroteknik Note:…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

This House in Nazareth Offers Hints About Jesus’ Childhood Town

Archaeologists have excavated a house in Nazareth, Jesus’ home town, that dates back to the first century. Local Christians have long believed it was Jesus’ childhood home, but scientists say that’s impossible to know for sure. What the house reveals about life during Jesus’ childhood, however, is fascinating. University of Reading archaeologist Ken Dark and…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Batman gets horny in 50 Shades of Wayne mash-up trailer

Sex, Lives and Disability: What Disabled Bodies Can Teach Us About Sex

The First Detailed Image of the World’s Smallest Known Life-form

Android 5.0 Devices Aren’t Encrypted By Default—Despite Google Promises

What Marvel Characters End Up Being Called In Other Languages

Northern Light Sky Meets Sea In This Stunning Photo

Jane Lynch Will Play A Guardian Angel on CBS’ Angel From Hell

Stratos Card Is Another Smart Payment Card That Wants To Rule Them All

Batman Is Way Kinkier Than You Remember In Fifty Shades of Wayne

Hillary Clinton Exclusively Used Personal Email While Secretary of State

Fragile Humans Spacewalk To Upgrade Space Station Communications

First Ever Image to Show Light as a Wave and Particle at the Same Time

Everything You Need To Know About The Ring Cycle In One Hilarious Talk

Massive Spacecraft Transport Vehicles Are Still Going After 50 Years

Ordering $500 of Random Crap by Text Message with Magic

What’s the Most Convincing Phishing Scam You’ve Ever Seen?

Ello’s Death Rattle: WILL YOU STAY IF WE GIVE YOU PORN?!?!

Yes, This Is A Photo Of A Weasel ‘Riding’ A Woodpecker In Flight

The Science Fiction And Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford To Miss In March

This House in Nazareth Offers Hints About Jesus’ Childhood Town

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