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This Badass DIY Tank Is Ready To Be Used In The Fight Against ISIL

Desperate for weaponry, the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo has thrown together a homemade war wagon comprised of a pickup truck patched with scrap metal, a .50 cal machine gun, and a camera. And incredibly, the gun is controlled with a PlayStation controller. The Jaish al-Mujahideen brigade of the FSA recently demo’d their improvised vehicle…

io9 George Dvorsky

5 Essential Apps for Google Drive

A big fan of Google’s cloud-based storage system? Maybe you’re getting some free space from your school? An impressive number of Web apps plug right into Google Drive and let you get more out of the platform—here’s our pick of the best five tools that you should know about. To be clear, these are Web…

Gadgets David Nield

Why Does Your Voice Sound So Different In Recordings?

If you’ve ever heard a recording of your voice – in a video, for example, or on somebody’s voicemail – you know that the sound you hear in your head when you speak is different from the one heard by everyone else. Why is that, and why do we tend to prefer the voice we…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Short film: You shouldn’t fear death (just kidding—actually, you should)

The end of your own existence is actually a blessing in disguise, says this short animation by Dice Productions selected for the Encounters Film animation festival. Wait no, actually, what is saying is that death really sucks because it doesn’t make sense. And they are right. As my favorite cook says: “Comer y follar, que…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

What U.S. Religious Groups Really Think About One Another

If you’re Jewish, Catholic or Evangelical, you’re one of the three most highly regarded religions in the U.S., according to a Pew survey. Atheists and Muslims score considerably lower, while agnostics and atheists rank Buddhists higher than any other group. It’s hard to keep track, so here’s a scorecard. The Pew survey used a “feeling…

io9 Mark Strauss

Holy Shit This New Interstellar Trailer

This is the final trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. If you’re not already dying to see this movie, you will be now. In this trailer, you watch post-True Detective Matthew McConaughey choose between saving the world, and never seeing his family again. And he’s gotta go to space to do it. I am on the…

Space & Spaceflight Leslie Horn

What It’s Like Using iOS 8 GIF Keyboard, in iOS 8 GIF Keyboard GIFs

The purpose of iOS 8’s third-party keyboard capabilities have now been realized now that PopKey, the GIF keyboard is finally available. You can get it here. Download and install the keyboard as an app as you do with other iOS 8 keyboards, and then enable it in settings. When you open the app, you’ll be…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Why Fantasy Still Needs To Make Sense, Dammit

Hello, my little envoys of envelopes! The mailbag is jam-packed with great letters this week… it’s heavy. Like, really heavy. In related news, there may or may not be large piles of letters scattered randomly on my most recent mail route. Just leave ’em, I’ll get them later. Uh, probably. Believe It or Not DM:…

io9 Rob Bricken

You Can Download the Windows 10 Preview Right Now

Windows 10 is here! The new, unified operating system for PCs, phones, and tablets alike (with beloved Start Menu intact) is out in preview form. If you’re feeling first-adopterish, go download it now. We got to play around a bit with Windows 10 yesterday, and we came away pretty impressed. It packs enough changes that…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

The UK’s Sending a Fleet of Supersonic Tornadoes to Take on ISIS

The US has already conducted more 150 airstrikes against ISIS since September 10th and governments from around the world are gearing up to join in. The UK’s Royal Air Force is just brought their contribution to the table with a fleet of low-flying penetrators. The RAF’s Tornado GR4 is a multi-role two-seater combat jet designed…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Watch People Try To Act Cool In A Room Filling With Smoke

This video is a recreation of an experiment first done in 1968. Subjects were observed reacting to the room they were sitting in slowly filling with smoke. Surprisingly few of them left. Take a guess as to why they stayed. Bibb Latane and John Darley called up male Columbia students, and asked them to come…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Office Tower Is Being Demolished, But Not Before a Giant Art Party

Buildings get old—most office towers aren’t designed to stand for centuries, as they once were. In Tokyo, a team of artists and curators got permission to interrupt this a near-perpetual cycle of construction and demolition by throwing one last party inside a tower destined for the scrap heap. The project was called Bction, and it…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Google Is Giving Students and Teachers Unlimited Free Storage

Google just got students and educators a pretty sweet back-to-school gift: “Drive for Education” offers unlimited free cloud storage to the school crowd. Drive for Education is similar to Drive for Work, which launched in June, except Drive for Education is free. And Drive for Education has a tool called Classroom to help teachers organize…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Amazing aerial photo of Hong Kong streets flooded with people

The good fight for freedom and democracy against Beijing’s dictatorial regime continues in Hong Kong, where protesters keep flooding the streets in massive demonstrations. This photo published by Hong Kong Democracy Now is an impressive look into one. Here are some more from the ground. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Forget Exercise; This Fitness Tracker Just Wants You To See the Sun

It only took a few decades for us to realize that spending all our time in front of computers wasn’t the most healthiest way to live. That’s why the market is now flooded with fitness tracking wearables encouraging us to exercise. The Brite R450 sets its sights a little lower, though. It encourages more achievable…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Holy crap, someone made an Iron Man gauntlet that fires an actual rocket

Like, not even a fake foam one or anything. An actual incendiary device. That’s a tad extreme. The costuming madness comes from Patrick Priebe, aka Youtuber Anselmofanzero, who’s infamous for building custom props from games and movies and adding powerful lasers and other assorted bits of tech to them. You can check out the full…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Life On The Space Station Is A Surreal Astronaut Buddy-Movie

Astronauts Reid Wiseman and Alex Gerst continue enacting the real-life space buddy-movie we never knew we always wanted. From sticking a video camera inside a water bubble in microgravity to carefully measuring out their living quarters, they supply a steady stream of surreal reality from the space station. SpaceX seems to be a source of…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

A Webcomic About A Girl Who Mediates Disputes Between Kids And Monsters

When Charles moves with his parents to a spooky old building in Echo City, he’s not exactly thrilled to learn the place has a monster problem. But when he meets a mediator who deals with turf beefs between monsters and kids, he’s not sure which is more intimidating: the monsters or Margo Maloo. Drew Weing’s…

io9 Lauren Davis

You Don’t Need To Be a Bridezilla To Want an Animated Wedding Cake

It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Disney has a whole division at its theme parks dedicated to making fairy tale weddings a reality. But what is surprising is the awesome technology those wedding planners have at their disposal, like wonderful projection-mapped cakes that make it look as if the frosting is magically…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Why We Still Don’t Have an Ebola Vaccine

Yesterday, the CDC confirmed the first Ebola case diagnosed in the US. The patient, who recently traveled to Liberia, is now isolated in a Dallas hospital. With containment efforts challenging West Africa, and US officials searching for anyone who came in contact with the Dallas patient, where is the Ebola vaccine? The good news is,…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

This Badass DIY Tank Is Ready To Be Used In The Fight Against ISIL

5 Essential Apps for Google Drive

Why Does Your Voice Sound So Different In Recordings?

Short film: You shouldn’t fear death (just kidding—actually, you should)

What U.S. Religious Groups Really Think About One Another

Holy Shit This New Interstellar Trailer

What It’s Like Using iOS 8 GIF Keyboard, in iOS 8 GIF Keyboard GIFs

Why Fantasy Still Needs To Make Sense, Dammit

You Can Download the Windows 10 Preview Right Now

The UK’s Sending a Fleet of Supersonic Tornadoes to Take on ISIS

Watch People Try To Act Cool In A Room Filling With Smoke

This Office Tower Is Being Demolished, But Not Before a Giant Art Party

Google Is Giving Students and Teachers Unlimited Free Storage

Amazing aerial photo of Hong Kong streets flooded with people

Forget Exercise; This Fitness Tracker Just Wants You To See the Sun

Holy crap, someone made an Iron Man gauntlet that fires an actual rocket

Life On The Space Station Is A Surreal Astronaut Buddy-Movie

A Webcomic About A Girl Who Mediates Disputes Between Kids And Monsters

You Don’t Need To Be a Bridezilla To Want an Animated Wedding Cake

Why We Still Don’t Have an Ebola Vaccine

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