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Which Character Was Better When They Were The Only One Of Their Kind?

Sometimes you have a character who’s really cool and unique… and then someone comes along and decides that if one of those characters is good, then a whole bunch of them would be even better. Who’s the best example of a character who was way better when he or she was the only one around?…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Christopher Walken Looks Like A Wax Dummy As Peter Pan Live‘s Hook

Christopher Walken doesn’t quite look like himself all dolled up as Captain Hook for the upcoming live televised performance of the musical Peter Pan. In fact, he doesn’t look quite like a real human being. That said, Walken does look wonderfully theatrical with his rouged cheeks and dramatic eyebrows, though they did go very Disney…

io9 Lauren Davis

This Modified Moped Engine Powers a Boat, Concrete Mixer, and Woodsaw

We live in a world of vehicles and machinery made up of a million different moving parts and hyper-specialized tech guts. Using nothing more than a modified moped motor, Gaspard Tiné-Berès and Tristan Kopp of Re-Do Studio imagined a future where a single modular Engine Block can be used to power everything from a small…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

Report: Apple Knew of Security Problems Long Before iCloud Breach

A software developer is accusing Apple of brushing off a serious iCloud security flaw that he alerted the company to six months before the recent iCloud celebrity nude photo stealing scandal. The Daily Dot says Ibrahim Balic informed Apple that he found a way to breach individual iCloud accounts back in March of this year,…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

How Algorithms Can Become as Prejudiced as People

We’re in an era when major decisions are being made by algorithms poring over large datasets. They regulate everything from the stocks we trade, to where we put police officers in cities — and sometimes these algorithms suffer from the exact same prejudices that people do. https://gizmodo.com/the-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-1580110464 In a fascinating essay for Next City, Alexis…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Tiny Orbiting Planets Tell the Time On This Solar System Clock

We usually measure the time it takes for a planet in our solar system to orbit the sun in months and years. But given the compact scale of this desktop solar system, the anodized aluminium balls can instead be used to measure seconds, minutes, and hours. The balls appear to magically circle the central gold…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

NECA’s Deluxe Master Chief figure is one fabulous looking Spartan

NECA have finally got their hands on the Halo franchise – and the first product born of that line is this gorgeous, 18″ scaled figure of the Master Chief. Be still, my beating heart. The figure is directly sculpted off the digital model 343 Industries made for Halo 4, which gave Master Chief an updated…

Tech News James Whitbrook

University of Baltimore Has A Class On The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Are you a student at the University of Baltimore looking for a fun, completely useless class that will likely offer you no true academic benefit whatsoever? Then make sure you look for “Media Genres: Media Marvels” during next spring’s registration, the class that will examine Marvel’s modern movie legacy. It will be taught by UB’s…

io9 Rob Bricken

A Walk On the High Line With Canon’s Latest Super-Wide Zoom Lens

Canon recently released its 16-35mm f/4 IS lens for full-frame bodies. When I got the chance to document the last leg of NYC’s High Line park, I thought it would be a great chance to bring along this newbie piece of glass and see how she did. The 16-35m f/4 is supremely designed and fun…

Tech News Michael Hession

Heating Elements Inside this Suitcase Kill Stowaway Bed Bugs

If there’s one souvenir you don’t want to return from a trip with, it’s bed bugs. Those little pests are a nightmare to eradicate, so someone has created the perfect luggage for travelers who frequent seedy hotels. The ThermalStrike suitcase heats up inside once you get home, ensuring your clothes are bed bug-free when you…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

How Female DNA Came To Dominate The Human Gene Pool

German geneticists have shown that mothers have consistently outnumbered fathers, suggesting that more females have contributed their DNA to the human gene pool than men. Now, at first blush this conclusion might seem a bit counter-intuitive. Logic would dictate that the proportion of male and female DNA should be about equal. But the new analysis,…

io9 George Dvorsky

A Bittersweet Walk On the High Line’s Latest (and Last) Leg

For the past five years, New Yorkers have enjoyed that linear green thoroughfare known as the High Line, which has been slowly extending up the West Side of Manhattan since 2009. Yesterday, the third and final phase of the park was completed, and it’s both happy and sad—that a great project was seen to completion,…

Tech News Michael Hession

The shrinking of the Arctic ice in one simple graphic

NASA’s Greg Shirah made this great grid graphic using images of the north pole sea ice extent from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. From left to right you go from 1979 to 2014. From top to bottom you can see the months. You can see how the spots are smaller every year. Zoom…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The Question Nobody Dares To Ask: How Do The Turtles Get Their Pizza?

Seriously, this is one of those questions that requires a lot of worldbuilding and thought to answer — the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can’t exactly show their faces in public, plus they’re ninjas. So how on Earth do they obtain the pizza on which they mostly subsist? Over at Stack Exchange, someone has asked this…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

These burgers are made of dragon hearts and unicorn blood*

*OK, not really, but that’s what they look like to me. In reality, PornBurger’s Fugazim is not made of dragon or unicorn parts. Not even meat, it’s just “crispy brussel sprouts, shallot confit, and black garlic aioli.” But they seem delicious, even if they are a vegan burger sacrilege. SPLOID is a new blog about…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Planes Will Start Running on Biofuels From Fallen Trees in Two Years

Now here’s some welcome innovation in the airline industry. Southwest Airlines announced today that it will be using biofuel on several of its flights by 2016, purchasing the blended fuel from a Colorado company that salvages “140,000 dry tons of woody biomass feedstock” per year—fallen timber from local forests that might otherwise serve as fuel…

Tech News Alissa Walker

A Sea Lion Joins Divers In A Shark Cage — And Has To Be Helped Out

Shark cages are meant to keep you in and wildlife out. But it seems as if one sea lion didn’t quite get that message. All it took was a little nudge from a diver to help the wayward pinniped find its way out of the cage and back into the sea. Despite the video’s title,…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

How to Go Back to iOS 8 and Get Your Cell Service Working Again

If you just updated your new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, you’ve probably noticed your cell service and TouchID have died a swift death. But fear not! There is a way to downgrade back to iOS 8 and restore full functionality while Apple patches the update. Here’s how to do it. Of course, doing this…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Here’s Where the Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory Actually Came From

Look at the sky above you. Are those long, glittering clouds actually part of a government experiment to poison you? If you believe in chemtrails — a conspiracy theory that’s spawned a political movement — then yes. If you believe in science, not so much. Photo by Gabriele Maltinti via Shutterstock A Conspiracy Is Born…

io9 Annalee Newitz and Adam Steiner

Create Whatever Furniture You Need With This Cardboard Building Set

If you’re not going to be living too long in a place, decking out your temporary abode in recyclable cardboard furniture actually makes a lot of sense. It’s cheaper than real furniture, you don’t have to bring it next time you move, and with these modular TapeFlips sets you can actually build exactly the pieces…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Which Character Was Better When They Were The Only One Of Their Kind?

Christopher Walken Looks Like A Wax Dummy As Peter Pan Live‘s Hook

This Modified Moped Engine Powers a Boat, Concrete Mixer, and Woodsaw

Report: Apple Knew of Security Problems Long Before iCloud Breach

How Algorithms Can Become as Prejudiced as People

Tiny Orbiting Planets Tell the Time On This Solar System Clock

NECA’s Deluxe Master Chief figure is one fabulous looking Spartan

University of Baltimore Has A Class On The Marvel Cinematic Universe

A Walk On the High Line With Canon’s Latest Super-Wide Zoom Lens

Heating Elements Inside this Suitcase Kill Stowaway Bed Bugs

How Female DNA Came To Dominate The Human Gene Pool

A Bittersweet Walk On the High Line’s Latest (and Last) Leg

The shrinking of the Arctic ice in one simple graphic

The Question Nobody Dares To Ask: How Do The Turtles Get Their Pizza?

These burgers are made of dragon hearts and unicorn blood*

Planes Will Start Running on Biofuels From Fallen Trees in Two Years

A Sea Lion Joins Divers In A Shark Cage — And Has To Be Helped Out

How to Go Back to iOS 8 and Get Your Cell Service Working Again

Here’s Where the Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory Actually Came From

Create Whatever Furniture You Need With This Cardboard Building Set

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