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Spiders Are Adorable And You Know It

Here for spreading far and wide is entomologist-cum-photographer Alex Wild‘s answer to all those arachnophobic “nopenopenopenopenope” spider memes. Because let’s face it, spiders can be pretty adorable (even when you least expect them to be). https://gizmodo.com/dear-science-please-please-name-this-dancing-spider-a-5942321 https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-this-molting-tarantula-video-is-completely-b-1548190386 [Alex Wild]

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Baby Got Back + Super Mario Mashup Is a Speedrun of 90s Nostalgia

If you were a kid in the 90s, you probably remember two things: Super Mario, and that song about big butts. Well, here they are, together at last. It was a mashup two decades in the making. [Digg]

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

NASA Engineers Offered Sally Ride 100 Tampons for a 7 Day Space Mission

Welcome to Reading List, our Saturday afternoon collection of tech, design, urbanism, and landscape reads from around the web. This week, we’ve got great pieces from The American Prospect, Modern Farmer, Ars Technica, Pacific Standard, and more. It’s like crossfit for your brain. American hero Sally Ride fought gender stereotypes and outright lack of understanding…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Here’s Why You Should Be Excited About The James Webb Space Telescope

Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime, recently lent his legendary voice to a slick animated introduction to the successor of the ridiculously prolific Hubble Telescope, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. But Cullen’s velvety voice is far from the only reason to be excited about JWST. https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-have-discovered-a-blue-planet-beyond-our-so-742682770 https://gizmodo.com/here-are-10-000-reasons-to-be-excited-about-deep-space-5865535 Above: Six of JWST’s beryllium mirror segments undergo…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Might Be Volantis, HTC’s 9-Inch Nexus Tablet

Android Police just published renders and specs on a rumored 9-inch HTC Nexus tablet. With an 8.9-inch, 2048×1440 display, Tegra K1 processor, and zero-gap aluminum body, Android Police’s intel says the device, named Volantis, will launch later this year at $400 for 16GB. Though it might not look exactly like the render above. [Android Police]

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Scientist Ejected From Classical Music Concert For Trying To Crowd Surf

A recent attempt to provide an “accessible and informal” alternative to traditional classical music performances by encouraging audience members to “clap and whoop” to the music misfired this week, when an overly enthusiastic audience member attempted to crowd surf on his fellow concertgoers. Above: The Bristol Old Vic, site of the incident | Some rights…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The 1983 Punk Rock Record With a Digital Music Video For a B-Side

The B-side of Chris Sievey’s 1983 single “Camouflage” sounds like an unlistenable malestrom of noise. It’s not an avant-garde song; it’s a program for the ZX-81 computer, and if you could load it correctly, it gave you a (very rudimentary) computer-animated music video, coded in the grooves of a vinyl record. This neat little tidbit…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Grab Pre-apocalyptic Anthology The End is Nigh Today For Just $1.99!

The End Is Nigh – a pre-apocalyptic anthology of never-before-published short stories by some seriously awesome authors (including io9’s own Charlie Jane Anders) – is Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal for Science Fiction and Fantasy! Edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howley, The End is Nigh is the first installment in the Apocalypse Tryptich, a…

Books & Comics Robbie Gonzalez

Is Continuum Preparing To Hit Another Reset Button?

Towards the end of last season, Continuum started rolling out lots of crazy plot twists — Carlos joins the Freelancers! Travis and Sonia die! — only to undo them when Alec went back in time. After last night’s frenetic episode, I’m wondering if we’re in store for the same trick a second time. Spoilers ahead……

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s What Earth Looks Like From Space On The Summer Solstice

It’s the summer solstice! Today the Northern Hemisphere experiences its longest period of daylight of the year, marking the beginning of summer and an extreme point in Earth’s seasonality. The photo above, captured from Earth orbit by EUMETSTAT’s Meteosat-9, gives us a clue as to why this, but Ron Miller has the full details after…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Amazon Phone, Ikea Hacks, Electric Harley-Davidson, and More. Yo.

Happy solstice, friends! The longest day of the year is a fitting end to a week with Amazon’s new Fire Phone, the first electric Harley-Davidson, a scuffle between Ikea and its most popular unofficial fan site, and of course, Yo. Missed something? Here’s the best stuff we wrote this week. Don’t rush, you’ve got all…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Intruders Gets A Release Date And A Creep-tastic New Trailer

Our first couple glimpses of Intruders, BBC America’s new series about a secret society that seeks to attain immortality by possessing other people’s bodies, were seriously spooky. This new, extended trailer continues the trend. Oh – and the show now has an official release date! The show, which is based on Michael Marshall Smith’s novel…

Television Robbie Gonzalez

It’s iPhone 6 Rumor Season: Here’s an Alleged Shot of a 5.5-Inch Screen

iPhone rumor time comes as predictably as moose mating season, and like pheromone-crazy moose, leak-hungry tech bloggers will mount just about anything that looks like it could possibly be iPhone related. Here’s the latest: a purported 5.5-inch (14cm) display, published by 9to5Mac earlier today. The images, provided to 9to5Mac by the generally reliable Sonny Dickson,…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Train Strikes, Airbnb, Homogeneity: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

A train strike has paralyzed France, Airbnb has screwed San Francisco’s housing market, a lack of diversity has wrecked Austin, and two Southern California mayors fucked up, in two very different ways. It’s our joyously optimistic look at What’s Ruining Our Cities! A train strike is ruining France Called the worst strike in 13 years,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

A Massive Crop Circle Appeared Overnight In Italy

An intricate crop circle, pictured here, materialized last night in Poirino, Italy. This aerial view gives you a good sense of scale. See those cars in the upper left hand corner? Yeah. This thing’s a biggie. Created by crop circle artists Francesco Grassi and colleagues, the piece is called the “LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions)…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How to Print From Anywhere

Americans just aren’t printing as much as we used to. Where once we’d churn out driving directions, movie tickets, or school reports, these documents almost always stay in the digital domain. But for those occasions that you do need to print something, here’s how to make sure you can do it from anywhere, without a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

We’ll Miss The Excellent Young-Adult Imprint, Strange Chemistry

Angry Robot Books, which is owned by Osprey Publishing Group, has just announced that their YA imprint, Strange Chemistry is closing. Here’s why that’s terrible news. The closure of Strange Chemistry is effective immediately and all books on contract have been cancelled. Angry Robot will continue to publish books and will even increase their schedule…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs

Staring At A Computer All Day (Or Night) Totally Does Affect Your Eyes

Do you spend more than seven hours a day parked in front of a computer monitor? Results from a newly published study suggest you could be stripping your “tear film” of a component that helps keep your eyes clean, lubricated and healthy. Photo Credit: Carlos Martz via flickr | CC BY 2.0 Tears lubricate the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Before and After the Southern California Fires

Last month, a drought, heat wave, and dry Santa Ana winds combined together to exacerbate fires in southern California. Here’s a pair of satellite images of the San Diego region in May, separated by just eight days and far too much fire. Southern California on May 9 and May 17, 2014. Image credit: NASA Up…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

This Could Be Our First Look at Mozilla’s Chromecast Competitor

Ever since Chromecast and Roku hit the market, rumor has said that Mozilla was working on a more open, tinkerer-friendly type of streaming dongle. This week, Mozilla developer Christian Heilmann tweeted a photo that sure looks like a nearly-finalized product, and GigaOM got to play with a prototype. Casting’s about to get open-sourcey. GigaOM’s Janko…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Spiders Are Adorable And You Know It

Baby Got Back + Super Mario Mashup Is a Speedrun of 90s Nostalgia

NASA Engineers Offered Sally Ride 100 Tampons for a 7 Day Space Mission

Here’s Why You Should Be Excited About The James Webb Space Telescope

This Might Be Volantis, HTC’s 9-Inch Nexus Tablet

Scientist Ejected From Classical Music Concert For Trying To Crowd Surf

The 1983 Punk Rock Record With a Digital Music Video For a B-Side

Grab Pre-apocalyptic Anthology The End is Nigh Today For Just $1.99!

Is Continuum Preparing To Hit Another Reset Button?

Here’s What Earth Looks Like From Space On The Summer Solstice

Amazon Phone, Ikea Hacks, Electric Harley-Davidson, and More. Yo.

Intruders Gets A Release Date And A Creep-tastic New Trailer

It’s iPhone 6 Rumor Season: Here’s an Alleged Shot of a 5.5-Inch Screen

Train Strikes, Airbnb, Homogeneity: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

A Massive Crop Circle Appeared Overnight In Italy

How to Print From Anywhere

We’ll Miss The Excellent Young-Adult Imprint, Strange Chemistry

Staring At A Computer All Day (Or Night) Totally Does Affect Your Eyes

Before and After the Southern California Fires

This Could Be Our First Look at Mozilla’s Chromecast Competitor

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