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Don’t Watch The Hemlock Grove Season Two Trailer If You’re Eating

The trailer for Season Two of Netflix and Eli Roth’s horror soap opera Hemlock Grove is out and it is overflowing with blood. Watch it only if you’re prepared to see self-flagellation, leech eating, eyeball piercing, flesh rendering—and, oh right, a little bit of nudity. It’s Not Safe for Work. Well, it looks like we’re…

io9 Lauren Davis

All The Best Larger-Than-Life Moments In Last Night’s Game Of Thrones

This was Game Of Thrones’ big battle episode, and it featured huge set pieces. HUGE. But you know what was really huge? The characters, and their incredible defining moments. There was sex, love, heroism, cowardice… and lots of killing. We’ve rounded up all of the defining moments in last night’s insane showcase. Spoilers ahead… “The…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Apes Fight A Bear In This New Dawn Of The Planet Of Apes Trailer

This new Dawn of the Planet of the Apes TV spot features the apes hunting down a bear. That is all.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Tap and Slide For Easy Keyboard Switching In iOS

Apple is adding some new functionality to the keyboard in iOS 8, but while you’re waiting for it to arrive here’s a handy trick you can use now: tapping and sliding on the keyboard lets you switch between modes and change letter case more easily. Instead of tapping the .?123 button to bring up the…

Gadgets David Nield

What Europe Will Look Like In 2035 If Russian Tabloids Have Their Way

Two years ago, the Russian tabloid Express Gazeta published a series of maps depicting its vision of Europe 23 years hence. Given the recent tensions in Ukraine and elsewhere, the maps are proving disturbingly prescient a mere two years later — which hasn’t gone unnoticed by Russian nationalists. According to Express Gazeta, the maps were…

io9 George Dvorsky

All you didn’t want to know about the ridiculous recycled suitcase bike

Last month we saw how a farmer turned inventor has invented a way to turn old suitcases into motorcycles. Many questions arose from the pictures: Why a suitcase? Can you still use it as a suitcase? What’s the price? This new video answers them all. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

A Size Chart Of The Cold Worlds That Orbit Our Sun Beyond Neptune

As many as 1,400 icy objects inhabit a region of our solar system some 2.9 to 4.7 billion miles from the sun. The European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory has studied 132 of them, revealing a striking diversity of shapes, sizes and colors. These trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs )— which include worlds such as Pluto, Eris,…

io9 Mark Strauss

New Constantine Trailer Reveals A Surprising DC Superhero Cameo

First of all, let me say that I’m still shocked at how good NBC’s Constantine series looks. Matt Ryan as the title character is just perfect. But this new trailer has me even more excited for the show, now that I know someone is stopping by… or at least his helmet is. Yes, that’s the…

io9 Rob Bricken

What’s Batman v. Superman‘s New LexCorp Like? And More Star Wars Rumors

Orphan Black’s creators talk abo0ut what’s next for Cosima. Two very familiar names are in contention for the title role in Doctor Strange. The Terminator’s looking damaged on the Terminator: Genesis set. And Once Upon a Time’s casting its versions of Frozen characters. Spoilers now! Top image: Orphan Black Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Scientists: 100 million worlds may have complex alien life in our galaxy

A group of international astronomers and astrobiologists have publishednew researchthat assesses the possibility of complex life on other worlds. Their calculation in the Milky Way alone is staggering: 100 million worlds in our home galaxy may harbor complex alien life. One. Hundred. Million. It is a lot—although maybe a bit disappointing when you consider that…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Video Game Hedgehog is Faster than Real-Life Hedgehog

Video Game Theorists played with numbers to determine the top speed of the iconic blue hedgehog from the Sega video game series. Sonic the Hedgehog can achieve sprints 10 to 15 times faster than the maximum sprinting pace of a domesticated pet hedgehog. Is anyone surprised? From a community of hedgehog-enthusiasts reporting the results of…

Biology Mika McKinnon

Bobby Womack and Shirley Brown: Ain’t Nothin’ Like The Lovin’ We Got

I am ashamed to say that I knew nothing about Bobby Womack or Shirley Brown till last week. I now know that both are old-timey singers who primarily sang soul. Also, I now own their entire discographies. It was a single duet they did that played on Pandora that did it for me. This is…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Orange Is the New Black Season 2: The Best Thing on TV This Month

I binge-watched season one of Orange Is The New Black in 24 hours when it released on Netflix last year. Actually, make that 13 hours. I was hooked from pilot and literally didn’t stop watching till the end of the final episode. Season 2 is now out, so I know how I’m going to spend…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Almost Half The U.S. Subscribes To Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus

It’s a good time to be a cord-cutter in the U.S. A new study says that 47% of all American households subscribe to Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime or a combination of these. And almost half the country has at least one internet-connected TV set. The survey about emerging video services, published by the Leichtman…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Tesla Might Just Open Up Its Electric Car Patents

This is kind of unprecedented, but Tesla might just open up its electric car patents to other manufacturers. On June 3, at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, said that to drive the adoption of electric cars, Tesla was “playing with doing something…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Your New Desktop Background: Supersonic Wind Tunnel Edition

Three men (look closely) stand inside Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s 16-foot supersonic wind tunnel facility. The tunnel, seen here in 1960, is housed at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, but is now inactive. Photo Credit: Phil Tarver Via FYFD: The wind tunnel was capable of Mach numbers between 1.60 and 4.75 through a test section…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Teen Invents Footwear That Will Charge Your Phone As You Walk

Angelo Casimiro is only 15, but he just invented electricity-generating footwear—as you walk or run about, your shoes will generate power that can be used to charge your phone or any small battery-powered device. The footwear was Casimiro’s entry to Google’s Science Fair this year. “Electricity is generated using a an insole generator that is…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Artificial intelligence outsmarts humans for the first time in history

For the first time ever, a computer program has been able to fool a human into thinking it was another human, passing the Turing Test—the benchmark for artificial intelligence.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Would You Resell Your Ebooks and MP3s Even If You Could?

The MPAA doesn’t want you to resell the movies you buy on iTunes and other services. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee Intellectual Properly and the Internet hearing is now discussing if they are right or wrong in a—but does it matter? Would you resell your digital goods online if you…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

First-person point of view video recorded by a wild polar bear

US Geological Survey’s biologists attached cameras and radio collars to four free-ranging female Alaskan polar bears last April. One of the resulting videos shows one of the bears in action in the Beaufort Sea, checking out a potential mate, swimming below ice, and trying to eat a frozen seal (which is kind of gross.) Female…

Sploid James Baker

Don’t Watch The Hemlock Grove Season Two Trailer If You’re Eating

All The Best Larger-Than-Life Moments In Last Night’s Game Of Thrones

The Apes Fight A Bear In This New Dawn Of The Planet Of Apes Trailer

Tap and Slide For Easy Keyboard Switching In iOS

What Europe Will Look Like In 2035 If Russian Tabloids Have Their Way

All you didn’t want to know about the ridiculous recycled suitcase bike

A Size Chart Of The Cold Worlds That Orbit Our Sun Beyond Neptune

New Constantine Trailer Reveals A Surprising DC Superhero Cameo

What’s Batman v. Superman‘s New LexCorp Like? And More Star Wars Rumors

Scientists: 100 million worlds may have complex alien life in our galaxy

Video Game Hedgehog is Faster than Real-Life Hedgehog

Bobby Womack and Shirley Brown: Ain’t Nothin’ Like The Lovin’ We Got

Orange Is the New Black Season 2: The Best Thing on TV This Month

Almost Half The U.S. Subscribes To Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus

Tesla Might Just Open Up Its Electric Car Patents

Your New Desktop Background: Supersonic Wind Tunnel Edition

Teen Invents Footwear That Will Charge Your Phone As You Walk

Artificial intelligence outsmarts humans for the first time in history

Would You Resell Your Ebooks and MP3s Even If You Could?

First-person point of view video recorded by a wild polar bear

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