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You Can Finally Download DRM-Free Comic Book Backups From Comixology

The biggest digital comic book distributor in all of digital comics land, Comixology, just took a relatively unprecedented move for a platform its size. Customers will now be able to download DRM-free backups—meaning when you buy a book, you’ll finally get to own it, too. Digital comic books have made huge strides in recent years,…

Books & Comics Ashley Feinberg

An Argument for More Biologically Accurate Emoji

Over at Beatrice the Biologist, cartoonist-cum-science blogger Katie McKissick has thrown down the gauntlet to “I

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

We Only Just Discovered This Super Common Virus That’s Likely Inside You

Today, scientists report the discovery of an incredibly common new virus that lives inside human gut bacteria. It’s called crAssphage (more on the name later!), and it’s about six times more abundant than all other known bacterial viruses put together. How did we miss it for so long? The oversight might seem especially strange considering…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Skip the Gnome and Put a Fallen AT-AT On Your Lawn

The exact reason why people feel the need to adorn their lawns and gardens with ceramic gnomes may never be known, but maybe it’s a not-so-secret way to show their allegiance towards a race of tiny human-like fantasy creatures? If that’s the case, why not instead display your loyalties for something a little more based…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A High Intensity Video Light Lets Your GoPro See In the Dark

Just because the sun has set doesn’t mean your action-packed antics are over for the day. So an Aussie company called Knog has created the Qudos, a high-intensity camera light that sits next to your GoPro, and other popular action cams, pumping out up to 400 lumens of brightness so you don’t miss a single…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Check Out Mark Hamill’s Real Jedi Beard For Star Wars: Episode VII

We’ve heard the rumors. We’ve seen the fan art. But now we can confirm that Mark Hamill will be sporting a fantastic, Jedi Master-appropriate beard when he reprises his role as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode VII, and he looks completely awesome with it. Note the beard is bigger, bushier and — well, Obi-Wan-ier…

io9 Rob Bricken

Why Is This Zoo Giving Acupuncture to a Lion?

An 11-year-old, 418 pound Asiatic lion named Lucifer who lives at a UK zoo has a sore foot. He’s been given acupuncture, despite the complete inefficacy of the procedure. According to The Independent, Lucifer had a tumor removed from his foot. One of the wounds from his surgery was having trouble healing. The zoo’s apparent…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

10 Clever Bets You’ll (Almost) Never Lose

Quirkology’s Richard Wiseman is back with another roundup of devious little pub tricks. As with previous installments in this series (see here, here, and here), some of these “bets” are liable to get you clobbered (looking at you, #10), but most of them are actually pretty clever. The jumping rubber band trick is a topological…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Here’s the Trailer For the First Halo Show

Remember when Microsoft said it was doing a Halo TV series? Nuts, right? Well now, even though Xbox Entertainment has been shuttered, live-action Halo lives on, and this is the first look. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-is-already-quitting-the-movie-and-tv-business-1606728584 This is Nightfall, a series produced by Ridley Scott and not the one with Spielberg and Xbox Entertainment involvement, though that one…

Tech News Eric Limer

How To Live Out Of Your Truck In The Woods

For much of the year, I live out of my pickup truck in Northern Alberta. I do it for work, but you could live in a truck as a way to explore the world or just save money on rent. Here’s how. Think of your truck as the ultimate mobile home. Giving you the ability…

Tech News Curtis Visser

Someone At Congress Got Banned From Wikipedia for Trolling

Trolling is fun, until you get caught. And that’s exactly what just happened to someone in Washington, who got a Congressional IP address banned for trolling Wikipedia. It all started when the Twitter account @CongressEdits started tracking (and tweeting) the anonymous edits Congressional IPs were making to Wikipedia. It seems that someone (a staffer no…

Tech News Eric Limer

Your Sperm Velocity Has Been Measured and Found Wanting

Human sperm can swim pretty fast, most of the time, but they’ve got nothing on the sperm of deer mice. What is the deer mouse’s secret? Recently, a Harvard professor created a mathematical model of sperm behaviors to figure it out. Deer mouse sperm image via Heidi Fisher Over at Not Exactly Rocket Science, Ed…

io9 Annalee Newitz

We’ve Seen Jack Black as R.L. Stine in the Goosebumps Movie!

We finally got a peek at the Goosebumps movie. Jack Black came to Comic-Con to talk about playing Goosebumps author R.L. Stine, and we saw his Stine battle his own monstrous creations after they had escaped from his books. Black and Goosebumps director Rob Letterman came to the Sony panel at San Diego Comic-Con to…

Movies Lauren Davis

New Evidence Suggests Tyrannosaurs Hunted In Packs

One of the most frightening creatures to ever terrorize this Earth just got scarier. The fossilized remains of tyrannosaur tracks found in British Columbia are providing the strongest evidence yet that these predators travelled and hunted in family groups — a conglomeration the researchers are calling ‘a terror of tyrannosaurs.’ Though skeletal records are common,…

io9 George Dvorsky

Report: Facebook and Uber Want You to Call a Ride From Messenger

According to a report from Recode, Mark Zuckerberg met with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to discuss putting an Uber integration within Facebook’s Messenger app. Someday soon we could order a car in between sending our Facebook friends weird cat stickers. Facebook has recently been making a push towards mobile payments and expanding to e-commerce, and…

Social Media Kate Knibbs

The fastest cruise missile in the world launching underwater

This is the first underwater launch of the BrahMos, the world’s fastest cruise missile in operation capable of flying at Mach 3.0. I just like to see it pausing and changing direction in mid-air, like a scene from Robotech. The BrahMos is one of the reasons why aircraft carriers are obsolete. The Indo-Russian supersonic aircraft…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Final Fantasy-Style, Redesigned Action Figure Of Batman Is Madness

Tetsuya Nomura, best known as the director and character designer of videogames like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy, and decided to take a crack at redesigning the World’s Greatest Detective. Then Square Enix USA decided to make an action figure of the results. The result? Shut up and take my goddamn money. It’s like Batman…

io9 Rob Bricken

Syfy App Turns Your Entire Living Room Into Sharknado Central

Got the Syfy Sync app for iPhone/iPad and some Hue bulbs? Faboo! Tune into Syfy next Wednesday to watch Sharknado and Sharknado 2: The Sharkening The Second One as never before. The broadcasts will include a special audio cue track that translates on-screen action into ambient lighting effects for more immersive chainsaw-on-shark carnage. “With a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Drought Is Parching The United States From Underground, Too

It’s been a tough summer for drought in the United States and the latest news isn’t going to make it it any better. Because it turns out that it’s not just the surface that’s drying up. There’s a drought happening underneath us too. https://gizmodo.com/half-of-the-u-s-is-in-now-in-a-drought-1576252758 The map above, which was put together by NASA’s Earth Observatory,…

io9 Ria Misra

Researchers Test A Prototype Of An Alien-Hunting Robotic Ice Drill

Recent discoveries of active under-ice oceans on Europa and Enceladus have kindled speculation that life may exist at the outer reaches of our solar system. But to prove it, we’re going to have to employ devices like the one recently tested by Stone Aerospace researchers in Alaska. https://gizmodo.com/massive-plumes-of-water-are-erupting-from-europas-icy-1481376874 https://gizmodo.com/weve-found-a-hidden-ocean-on-enceladus-that-may-harbor-1557622077 Called VALKYRIE, the Stone Aeorospace cryobot…

io9 George Dvorsky

You Can Finally Download DRM-Free Comic Book Backups From Comixology

An Argument for More Biologically Accurate Emoji

We Only Just Discovered This Super Common Virus That’s Likely Inside You

Skip the Gnome and Put a Fallen AT-AT On Your Lawn

A High Intensity Video Light Lets Your GoPro See In the Dark

Check Out Mark Hamill’s Real Jedi Beard For Star Wars: Episode VII

Why Is This Zoo Giving Acupuncture to a Lion?

10 Clever Bets You’ll (Almost) Never Lose

Here’s the Trailer For the First Halo Show

How To Live Out Of Your Truck In The Woods

Someone At Congress Got Banned From Wikipedia for Trolling

Your Sperm Velocity Has Been Measured and Found Wanting

We’ve Seen Jack Black as R.L. Stine in the Goosebumps Movie!

New Evidence Suggests Tyrannosaurs Hunted In Packs

Report: Facebook and Uber Want You to Call a Ride From Messenger

The fastest cruise missile in the world launching underwater

This Final Fantasy-Style, Redesigned Action Figure Of Batman Is Madness

Syfy App Turns Your Entire Living Room Into Sharknado Central

Drought Is Parching The United States From Underground, Too

Researchers Test A Prototype Of An Alien-Hunting Robotic Ice Drill

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