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Is It Really Legal To Publish Your Own James Bond Book In Canada Now?

As of 2015, James Bond is entering the public domain in Canada. But he’s still copyrighted in the United States and Europe — so what does that mean? Can Canadians create their own adventures of 007 and sell them as long as they stay North of the Border? We talked to some law experts, to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

If You Threw Cookie Dough at the Sun, How Long Would It Take to Bake?

First, let’s assume you are in orbit around the Earth’s atmosphere, and you threw the cookie sunward at 25 mph. The most delicious of speeds. We can approach this problem by first asking a more general question: What is the temperature vs. time for a lump of cookie dough in orbit around the sun? Then…

Space & Spaceflight Jesse Berezovsky - Quora

This Space Detective Short Captures The Feel Of Alien As Few Films Do

Now here is a short film that we’re dying to see more of. Atropa wears its 1970s and 1980s scifi influences on its sleeve, capturing the feel of films like Blade Runner and Alien in a tale about a space detective who discovers a research ship that has gone missing — and the bizarre phenomenon…

io9 Lauren Davis

Why Don’t Star Trek’s Spaceships Have Seat Belts?

It would seem like a simple enough idea: If you’re cruising along at warp speed through an unknown quadrant of space, it might not be such a bad idea to buckle up. So why didn’t Starfleet equip their ships with seat belts? Did they simply not need them, or is the actual explanation much more…

io9 Ria Misra

NASA’S First Glimpse Inside Eta Carinae Uncovers Surprising Features

The Eta Carinae binary star system erupted twice in the 19th century, creating a stunning and rapidly expanding debris cloud. Now, for the first time ever, NASA has peered past the dusty clouds to catch a glimpse of its interior. The system is located about 7,500 light-years from Earth, and it comprises two massive stars…

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How the First Lump of Plutonium Made on Earth Was Forgotten and Found Again

A few years ago, the first lump of plutonium scientists ever made on Earth was removed from display in Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science and then forgotten about. Berkeley physicists think they’ve finally found it again–thankfully before it got thrown out as radioactive waste. This precious lump of plutonium dates back to 1941. Plutonium doesn’t…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Interview: RZA Wants to Buoy the Music Industry—With a Speaker?

Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA started working with speaker manufacturer Boombotix in mid-2014, and he says he wanted make more than just another branded product. “I just had a bigger idea than sticking my logo on something,” he told me at CES in Las Vegas. “I thought we could make this great product a little greater.”…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Amazing StarTalk Is Getting Its Own TV Series

If you haven’t seen (or listened to) Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk, what are you doing with your life? But seriously this podcast/webseries is amazing and we’re delighted to tell you that it’s about to become a TV show! StarTalk is getting its own late-night slot on the National Geographic Channel. The series centers around forcing…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Is The First Video Ever Taken Of Rare “Type D” Orcas

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, while monitoring the activities of a poaching vessel in the South Indian Ocean, has captured unprecedented footage of an entire pod of rare “Ecotype D” orca whales. As reported in Discovery News, the 13-whale pod swam alongside the ship, named the Bob Barker, for more than an hour. The conservation…

io9 George Dvorsky

Edward Snowden Should Talk About Cyberwar More Often

We’re all sick of used to hearing Edward Snowden talk about NSA surveillance by now. We get it: The government’s watching us, and there’s basically nothing we can do about it. But PBS just published the transcript of an interview with Snowden that doesn’t really talk about surveillance much at all. It’s all about cyberwar,…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

We Wish These Retrofuturistic Versions Of American Cities Had Come True

In the first half of the 20th century, artists came up with gorgeous designs for New York City, Columbus, Houston, and other American cities, imagining them as havens of efficient transportation, dense urban living, and space age architecture. Manhattan, New York, by Richard Rummell, 1910-1911 (via Library of Congress) Houston’s skyline in 1980, imagined by…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Did The Next Batman Game Just Get Spoiled By Its Own Special Edition?

You know how it is with big video games these days, every one comes with it’s own fancy ‘collector’s edition’ filled with related paraphernalia. Batman: Arkham Knight is no exception – but it might be one of the few to potentially have a major plot point about it spoiled by said collectors edition. Potential Spoilers…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Classic Paintings, With All The Humans Replaced With Playmobil Toys

I always used Playmobil figurines to reenact my favorite movies, but artist Pierre-Adrien Sollier recreates famous works of art with Playmobil shapes, painting images of the plastic toys in the place of people and animals. Sollier’s paintings are, as you might expect, rather playful, taking familiar paintings and substituting in those ever-smiling figurines. Even though…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Man With the Worst Job at CES

I found this poor, poor over-sized oompa loompa of a man being led down a hallway by his minder in the Las Vegas Convention Center because the tablet attached to his face—which reads “Take a picture with me!”—has rendered him effectively blind. I don’t know who he is, where he’s going, or who is doing…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Most Comfortable Outdoors Sleep System I’ve Found

By integrating the sleeping bag and sleeping pad into a single, cohesive unit, Big Agnes is able to offer a more spacious, more stable, more comfortable sleep in a smaller, lighter package. We tested it on a five-day backpacking trip to the Lost Coast over Christmas. The system pictured here is composed of the Big…

Reviews Wes Siler

Report: Microsoft’s New Browser Will Have Cortana and Stylus Annotation

If you use Internet Explorer you are a damn fool, but according to The Verge’s Microsoft scoop factory Tom Warren, the forthcoming Windows 10 replacement for Microsoft’s beleaguered browser will be loaded with features that no other software currently offers. The new browser, which we already heard was codenamed “Spartan,” will reportedly have a couple…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How The LEGO Movie Was Built Brick By Virtual Brick

The LEGO Movie certainly looks like it was created entirely with LEGO bricks in real life. In reality it wasnt, but the lengths the creators went to import finger smudges, cracked pieces and more still has us really impressed. Watch how The LEGO Movie was really built. In other LEGO news the Will Artnett Batman…

Movies Meredith Woerner

What Do Bhopal And Chernobyl Have To Do With Artificial Intelligence?

Everything, actually. Artificial intelligence is poised to accompany humanity for the rest of its existence. We have a responsibility to make it safe. While we still can. About a month ago Artificial Intelligence made headlines when Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk said they feared it. Then Google CEO Eric Schmidt and iRobot founder Rodney Brooks…

io9 James Barrat

The Plan to Build a Mega-Manhattan That Failed, Thank God

A Really Greater New York. That was the title of the 1911 proposal by an engineer and planner who imagined paving over massive amounts of New York Harbor to make room to build the New York of the future. Oh, you like the East River and would miss it? Too damn bad! YesterdayJen Carlson brought…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

We’re Dying To Visit This Weird New Museum of Curiosities

Seriously, any museum with a “Cabinet of Death” display is something you don’t want to sleep on. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in London displays the entire collection of the proudly eccentric Mr. Wynd, and it’s full of weird and wonderful things (mostly weird though). Co.Design offers just a taste of what’s in store…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Is It Really Legal To Publish Your Own James Bond Book In Canada Now?

If You Threw Cookie Dough at the Sun, How Long Would It Take to Bake?

This Space Detective Short Captures The Feel Of Alien As Few Films Do

Why Don’t Star Trek’s Spaceships Have Seat Belts?

NASA’S First Glimpse Inside Eta Carinae Uncovers Surprising Features

How the First Lump of Plutonium Made on Earth Was Forgotten and Found Again

Interview: RZA Wants to Buoy the Music Industry—With a Speaker?

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Amazing StarTalk Is Getting Its Own TV Series

This Is The First Video Ever Taken Of Rare “Type D” Orcas

Edward Snowden Should Talk About Cyberwar More Often

We Wish These Retrofuturistic Versions Of American Cities Had Come True

Did The Next Batman Game Just Get Spoiled By Its Own Special Edition?

Classic Paintings, With All The Humans Replaced With Playmobil Toys

The Man With the Worst Job at CES

The Most Comfortable Outdoors Sleep System I’ve Found

Report: Microsoft’s New Browser Will Have Cortana and Stylus Annotation

How The LEGO Movie Was Built Brick By Virtual Brick

What Do Bhopal And Chernobyl Have To Do With Artificial Intelligence?

The Plan to Build a Mega-Manhattan That Failed, Thank God

We’re Dying To Visit This Weird New Museum of Curiosities

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