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The FCC Just Released 2,444,672 Public Comments About Net Neutrality

The FCC’s proposed “Open Internet” rule is the single most commented-on rulemaking in the history of the agency, with nearly 4 million submissions to date. The FCC just dumped all of the words from the second commenting period, which ran from July 19th-September 15. The dump of 2,444,672 comments dwarfs the already massive heap of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

These ‘sexy’ Lord of the Rings costume designs aren’t what you’d expect

It’s less than 10 days to go till Halloween, and that means there’s weird, wonderful and just plain awful ‘sexy’ costumes out on shelves everywhere – but this trio of lovely Lord of the Rings-themed designs by MJ Alexander are for characters who don’t usually get the Sexy treatment. https://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-and-sexiest-store-bought-halloween-costu-1644205377 Alexander’s designs aren’t your typical…

Tech News James Whitbrook

UFO Soap Pumps: Take Me To Your Lever

If you’ve seen War of the Worlds, then it only makes sense that if an alien race were to visit our planet, they’d be pretty strict about personal hygiene before making contact with humans. Those tiny bacterial organisms all over our hands pose a real threat to extraterrestrials, so what better way to scrub up…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Google Can’t Fix What’s Really Wrong With Email: Us

Today Google announced an ambitious project called Inbox, a new way to manage your Gmail that looks like an absolute godsend. There is, however, one thing that Google’s clever engineering won’t fix, and might actually make worse: The humans sending the emails. “We get more email now than ever,” say the Inbox team in their…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Scare Your Neighbors With These DIY Halloween Decorations

Still worrying over Halloween decorations? We’ve got you covered. We scoured the Internet for the best of the best Halloween goodies and brought you a list of the greatest gags and boos. Some are simple, DIY, cheapy-cheap creations; others may take a bit of finesse. But they are all sensational. Head in a Jar! This…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Read Our Exclusive Excerpt from Gail Carriger’s Waistcoats & Weaponry

Gail Carriger has been burning up the bestseller lists with her Finishing School series, and now you can read an exciting excerpt from book three, Waistcoats & Weaponry. Warning: Bladed fans ahead! Here’s a plot summary of the book, from the publisher: Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style—with a steel-bladed fan…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

We could have had AC 50 years earlier but the ice lobby killed it

With another sweltering summer over you might have already forgotten the glory of your AC unit, the 100-year-old modern convenience which truly changed the way we live. But the U.S. might have felt the cool breeze of relief a half-century sooner, if an entire industry built on keeping things frozen hadn’t stopped the first air…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Cybercriminals Are Using Cloud Storage to Hoard Stolen Files

Cybercriminals: They’re just like us! At least, their choice of cloud storage isn’t so far off from your average non-despicable data thief. Instead of using dedicated servers to hoard stolen data, hackers have taken to using popular consumer products like Google Drive and Dropbox. “What it comes down to is, the criminals are using the…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

This Tale Of An Owl Starts As A Nature Film—And Ends As A Revenge Flick

At first, The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl seems to be an animated nature film, explaining the life and ecology of its subject. But after the cartoon turns tragic, it becomes clear that you don’t want to mess with this burrowing owl. Animator Mike Roush wrote and directed this mix of animation and photography,…

io9 Lauren Davis

How Much Data Does Your Streaming Music App Eat Up?

A reader, Chris, wrote us yesterday with a very good question about streaming music services: “…what I want to know is, how do they compare when it comes to data usage? How does Google’s compression compare to Pandora, or Spotify, or the Amazon player? Funky playlists and mood music is all well and good, but…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Hoverboard Is Real, and I Rode It

I’m tired of being lied to. Tired of companies exploiting my childhood dreams of riding a hoverboard just like Back to the Future Part II. When Doc Brown let me down, I was ready to write off the whole idea. But this week, my dream finally came true. I stepped onto a glorified piece of…

Tech News Sean Hollister

The Coldest Object In The Universe Has Been Created In An Italian Lab

For a period of 15 days, a cooled copper mass enclosed in a cryostat container may very well have been the coldest object in the Universe. At -273.144 degrees Celsius, it nearly achieved absolute zero. The technique, which resulted a world record, could produce important new insights into exotic particle physics. Prior to this, no…

io9 George Dvorsky

Shooting Challenge: Fall Leaves 2014

It’s a Gizmodo tradition. Every year, we ask you to photograph the beautiful colors of fall. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want you to share your best fall photos, taken any time this year. The Challenge Take a photo of fall’s amazing leaves. Or share one you’ve taken it any time in 2014.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Morena Baccarin Joins Gotham As One Of Batman’s Future Allies

The former star of Firefly has joined Gotham as Leslie Thompkins, a doctor who cares for Gotham’s neediest, a friend of the deceased elder Waynes, and a surrogate mom-to-be of young Bruce Wayne. Thompkins will be a recurring character in season 1, but Baccarin will officially join the cast full-time in season 2. According to…

Television Rob Bricken

Why Superhero Movie Fans Need To See Birdman

Even in a year with some pretty notable superhero films, Birdman is a pretty significant movie about superheroes. This darkly surreal satire about an aging actor struggling with his superhero past is full of magical-realist touches and tugs at our national obsession with big heroic narratives. And here’s why superhero fans really ought to see…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

In Just 5 Panels, This Comic About Life And Death Will Melt Your Heart

This comic by Construction Paper and Tears is short and simple, but no less affecting. It serves as a miniature picture book, recasting the dance of life and death as a romance. Go read it and have a good sigh. [Construction Paper and Tears via Kitt Walker]

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

This Sleek Carbon Fiber Wheelchair Is What Professor X Would Use

Design options for wheelchairs seem stuck on a spectrum from boring to next-level boring. That’s what Andrew Slorance wants to change. The UK-based entrepreneur is in the process of getting his Carbon Black chairs FDA approved to bring the distinctly stylish chairs to the U.S. Made with lightweight, streamlined carbon fiber, the Carbon Black wheelchair…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Why Adaptations changing things up can be a good thing

Game of Thrones’ book reading fans were given a bit of a shock yesterday when set pictures from the TV show’s upcoming season revealed another huge change from the source material – but amid the concern, there was some hope. Sometimes, change can do us all some good when it comes to adapting our favourite…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Meet Halo 5‘s New Hero In Trailer For Ridley Scott-Produced Miniseries

Halo: Nightfall is a live-action, five-part digital series that leads up to Halo 5: Guardians. This trailer introduces the backstory of Halo 5’s new playable character Jameson Locke as he and his team are caught up in a horrific terrorist attack. Halo: Nightfall will debut November 11 in Halo: The Master Chief Collection and on…

io9 Lauren Davis

We’ll Take One Of Every Iron Man Figure In This Hot Toys Poster

If Hot Toys really wanted to suck our wallets dry, they’d turn this amazing The Armors of Iron Man poster into a single comprehensive set of all of Tony Stark’s creations. But instead, the poster was given away to anyone pre-ordering Hot Toys’ sixth-scale Iron Man Peacemaker figure from Sideshow Collectibles. So holster those credit…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The FCC Just Released 2,444,672 Public Comments About Net Neutrality

These ‘sexy’ Lord of the Rings costume designs aren’t what you’d expect

UFO Soap Pumps: Take Me To Your Lever

Google Can’t Fix What’s Really Wrong With Email: Us

Scare Your Neighbors With These DIY Halloween Decorations

Read Our Exclusive Excerpt from Gail Carriger’s Waistcoats & Weaponry

We could have had AC 50 years earlier but the ice lobby killed it

Cybercriminals Are Using Cloud Storage to Hoard Stolen Files

This Tale Of An Owl Starts As A Nature Film—And Ends As A Revenge Flick

How Much Data Does Your Streaming Music App Eat Up?

The Hoverboard Is Real, and I Rode It

The Coldest Object In The Universe Has Been Created In An Italian Lab

Shooting Challenge: Fall Leaves 2014

Morena Baccarin Joins Gotham As One Of Batman’s Future Allies

Why Superhero Movie Fans Need To See Birdman

In Just 5 Panels, This Comic About Life And Death Will Melt Your Heart

This Sleek Carbon Fiber Wheelchair Is What Professor X Would Use

Why Adaptations changing things up can be a good thing

Meet Halo 5‘s New Hero In Trailer For Ridley Scott-Produced Miniseries

We’ll Take One Of Every Iron Man Figure In This Hot Toys Poster

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