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Four New, Unfinished Clone Wars Episodes Have Been Released Online!

Star Wars: The Clone Wars ended before its time—and with many of its story lines unfinished. The show’s team has revealed four unfinished, previously unaired episodes, and discussed how some Clone Wars stories and characters are being revisited in other media. In the video above, the team talks about the leacy of Clone Wars and…

Television Lauren Davis

The Inherent Problem In Telling A Story About Gotham City Before Batman

Today we poked a bit of fun at the often silly way that the Gotham pilot introduced familiar Batman heroes and villains. But it led some of you to ask: If Jim Gordon succeeds in dealing with Gotham’s criminals, why does the city need Batman? https://gizmodo.com/15-other-ridiculous-ways-we-could-meet-new-batman-chara-1639555355 Commenter JackRabbitSlim323 lays out the issue: And so we…

Television Lauren Davis

Ello My Baby

Everyone gets songs lodged in their heads. Sometimes you hear something and it just gets stuck, like when I spent an entire bus ride with “Tubthumping” on mental replay after hearing it in 7-11. Other times you don’t hear anything at all, but the unexpected popularity of a new social network triggers an unavoidable mental…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

The new Jupiter Ascending trailer is an eye candy orgy

I don’t know if Jupiter Ascending—the new movie from the creators of The Matrix—is going to be incredibly good or impossibly bad, but one thing is sure: The amount of sci-fi visual porn in this trailer alone has sent my brain into overdrive. The design seems phenomenal. I’m really hoping for the movie to be…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Why Twisted Fairy Tales Are The Kind We Deserve

Fairy tales are more popular ever, inspiring hit movies, huge TV shows, and a flood of books. But aren’t fairy tales also kind of… regressive? They always feature princesses in trouble, and the dashing princess who rescue them, right? Wrong. Poison author Sarah Pinborough argues that fairy tales should be subversive. Top image: Annie Leibovitz…

io9 Sarah Pinborough

This time collapse of a skater is so freaking cool

Professional pool skater Cory Juneau did more than 60 takes around this skate park to create this time collapse: A video in which every version of himself across time is put into the same space thanks to the magic of video editing. This is how they did it: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Classic Science Fiction Book Covers from Hungary Are Mind-Blowing

We love these incredible Hungarian interpretations of classic science fiction novel covers. Jules Verne: From Earth to the Moon, 1956/1961 H. G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon, 1957 Isaac Asimov: Foundation, Second Foundation, and Foundation and Empire, 1971/1973 Stanislav Lem: Solaris, 1977 Aldoux Huxley: Brave New World, 1982 Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles,…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Google and Microsoft Are Mapping Favelas So They Can Sell Things There

The twisting sidewalks and dizzying density of Brazil’s favelas might deter most outsiders from navigating these crowded inner-city neighborhoods, which informally house about 1.5 million of the country’s residents. Yet in the last few months, both Google and Microsoft have both been seen mapping their narrow streets and dirt paths. According to the Wall Street…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Why Is Gadget Fashion Still So Bad?

You wanted a bigger phone, you got a bigger phone. Lots of bigger phones. Phones that are now bigger than the biggest pocket of your biggest pants. So where are you going to keep your big phone now? The evolution of gadgets in a few short years has been impressive. The evolution of gadget-ready fashion…

Gadgets Alissa Walker

First Babadook Trailer Makes This Horror Movie Look Almost Too Intense

Seriously, most horror movies just look amusing or kind of thrilling… but The Babadook, the movie everybody’s been buzzing about since Sundance, actually looks like it might freak me out a little too much. Something about really powerful scares, and a really intense personal story. We showed you a teaser trailer and a brief clip…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

FCC Papers Show LG May Be Building a Smartwatch With Cell Service

Newly-surfaced FCC papers seem to indicate that LG’s upcoming smartwatch will boast a 3G cellular connection. Soon you could be wearing your LG cellphone on your wrist! Yes, the device, known only as the LG-VC100, will pack a 3G CDMA cellular connection, judging by the papers filed with the FCC. That means, hypothetically at least,…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Study the Science of Shots With a Chemistry Set For Your Bar

When you think about it, is there really much difference between someone with their PhD in chemistry and a bartender? Both are probably dealing with a crippling mountain of debt, both concoct solutions and mixtures, and both are hoping for a positive reaction. So why wouldn’t a mixologist feel right at home serving hooch in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Daniel Radcliffe Looks Like Hell In These New Horns Stills

No pun intended. But let me assure you you’ve never seen the former Harry Potter looking quite like this. For those who haven’t read Joe Hill’s novel of the same name, some of these pictures may be spoilers, so check them out on your own recognizance, okay? Okay, so that last one isn’t from Horns.…

io9 Rob Bricken

Meet Warcraft‘s Lords of War in this animated webseries

World of Warcraft’s fifth expansion pack, Warlords of Draenor, is out in a couple of months – and Blizzard have been counting down the weeks to release with a lavish, gorgeously drawn web series looking at some of the big characters players will fight alongside and against. Come meet the Warlords of Draenor! The five…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Which Movie Or TV Show Had Such Bad VFX, It Threw You Out Of The Story?

It’s amazing what technical wizardry (and millions of dollars) can bring to life on screen these days. CG and practical effects can show stuff that would have been impossible even a few years ago. But when it fails… it fails hard. Which movie or TV show distracted you fatally with its lackluster effects? Please include…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Drink Boxed Wine

Any possible objection you have to boxed wine is wrong, and I am here to tell you why. It’s better than you remember. Let’s get this out of the way first, because I’m assuming it’ll address the largest objection for most of you. You’ve had wine out of a box before, and it was terrible.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

What Big Finish Doctor Who Audios Should Absolutely Everyone Listen To?

During the long era when Doctor Who was off the air, the show was kept alive partly by books — and partly by audio adventures, most of them released by Big Finish. At this point, though, there are hundreds of them out there. So which ones are absolutely essential? I’ll be honest — I’ve listened…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

If This Razor-Thin Dining Table Won’t Bend, Why Should Your Phone?

Why the iPhone 6 Plus is mysteriously bending for a handful of users may never be fully known, but for the next version maybe Apple should talk to Alexander Purcell Rodrigues who has designed a stunning super-thin aluminum dining table that looks like a giant razor blade, and is promised not to bend or warp—even…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The world would be a much better place if God were this little girl

If the entity known as “God” is not a figment of our collective imagination—product of our desire to find solace from the nonsense that is life—he actually did a pretty horrible job. Maybe things would have been a lot different if he left everything to the little girl in this short animated film. SPLOID is…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Marvel And The Jack Kirby Estate Have Reached A Settlement

Days before the Supreme Court went into conference to discuss the rights of Jack “The King of Comics” Kirby’s estate over a significant portion of Marvel Comics most popular superheroes, Marvel and Kirby’s heirs have announced they’ve reached a settlement. This, my friends, is unequivocally good news. The terms of the deal are unknown, but…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Four New, Unfinished Clone Wars Episodes Have Been Released Online!