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Always Clear the Porn From Your Browser Before Going on TV

Someone over in the production department at Chicago’s WGN news station is apparently learning about internet best practices the hard way today. This very unlucky employee managed to get their little Pornhub Mobile habit splashed all over the local news—and, naturally, the internet took notice. First spotted by eagle-eyed Redditor GIANTclouds, the glance into this…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

The Gotham TV series casts Alfred, the Penguin and more

Hot on the heels of the announcement that The O.C.’s Ben McKenzie would play rookie cop Jim Gordon, Fox’s pre-Batman series Gotham has cast four more roles, including (from left to right) Erin Richards as Gordon’s fiancée, Sean Pertwee as Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred, Zabryna Guevara as Gordon’s boss at the GCPD and Robin Taylor…

Television Rob Bricken

See liquid oxygen form a boiling bridge between two magnets

Another day, another cool-looking chemistry experiment. This time around, the chemists involved are using a little-known property of oxygen to build an oxygen bridge between two magnets. If you are stuck in a room full of people and the oxygen is running out, what should you do? Well, if there are any magnets around, try…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

China’s New Research Station and the Quiet Rush to Claim Antarctica

In 2048, a very important international event will occur: The Antarctic Treaty, which stops countries from mining the continent’s abundant resources, will come up for review. China—along with the US, the UK, and other countries—intends to be ready. This weekend, Chinaunveiled its fourth polar research station: Taishan, a 3,000-square-foot lab that can house up to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about The n-Body Problem

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In January, we read Tony Burgess’ The n-Body Problem. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when the…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Insane pilot makes an insane low pass over an insane drunk person

Clearly, you don’t have to be a military or airliner pilot to make crazy low passes. And you don’t have to be a pilot to be crazy. Just look at that guy with the beer, jumping in front of this prop plane making a pass so low that one of the wings almost touches the…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

10 Forgotten Secrets of Great Movie-making From The 80s

Everybody wants to recapture the glory days of 80s movies these days. Everywhere you look, they’re remaking 80s classics or paying homage to the motifs of the Reagan era. But there’s still something about the 80s that remains unique and special. Here are 10 things movies were good at in the 80s that they struggle…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Ugly Behind-the-Scenes History of Video Game Movies

Few Hollywood announcements are treated with such fierce-yet-wounded anticipation as video game adaptations. Full of incredible artistry, instantly-recognizable characters and an increasingly-mature approach to storytelling, you’d be forgiven for thinking gaming is a medium particularly well suited for making the jump to the silver screen. But history tells another story. This piece was originally conceived…

Movies Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

I really hope Flappy Bird II includes Mario as a new surprise enemy

It makes sense. After all, the pipes are all there, right? Can you imagine if this happened at random in that already infernal game? People would probably smash their phones against the wall. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz

All Olympic skiing should be broadcasted like this awesome clip

Someone sent me a link to this awesome GIF of an stabilized GoPro skiing clip in the mail and now I’m just thinking that every single skiing event should be filmed and broadcasted like it, just like they should do ski jumping like this. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

No medieval bedroom is complete without a castle drawbridge Murphy bed

A medieval drawbridge that lowers into a Murphy bed is such a perfect design pairing that it’s surprising we don’t see it more often. Playhouse maker TinyTownStudios built this particular drawbridge Murphy bed. You can find a few others if you hunt around online, but none with same detailed faux stonework, moss, and vines for…

io9 Lauren Davis

Sochi’s Giant Pinscreen Wall Is Hypnotic in Action

British architect Asif Khan’s MegaFace art installation was teased well before the athletes had even arrived in Sochi. But now that the Winter Olympics are well under way, we’ve finally got footage of the giant automated pinscreen in action—and it’s even more awesome than we’d hoped. Over 10,000 colored pistons move in and out by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How does Big Data help us understand the vastness of space? Ask us now!

Members of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab’s Data Science community — including Rob Witoff, Tomas Soderstrom, and Andrew Hart — are here to answer our questions about using data, visualization, modeling, and just what we might be able to do with it all in space. Top image: A visualization from the IT data science team analyzing…

io9 Ria Misra

7 Simple Improvements That Perfected Everyday Products

It’s really hard to improve on a good thing. But every once in a while, a product you have known and loved for a very long time gets a redesign or a tweak that’s genius in is simplicity. Here are seven examples of products that we took for granted, recently perfected by a tiny twist:…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Researchers control nanomotors inside living cells for the first time

Scientists from Penn State University have just taken us a major step closer to a Fantastic Voyage future. For the first time ever, researchers have controlled the movements of living cells by inserting tiny synthetic motors directly inside them. Top gif: A spinning assembly chain of rotating HeLa cells shown at 500X magnification. Credit: Mallouk…

io9 George Dvorsky

The internet’s new cat obsession: Werewolf Cats

Werewolf cats are so hot right now. The Lykoi breed of cat is blowing up for fans of both cats and werewolves. A group of breeders who originally worked with hairless cats started breeding a mix of hairless and haired kitties, thus creating a half-haired cat that kind of looks like a werewolf. And they…

io9 Meredith Woerner

EONS: A game where you create the universe and then destroy it

In EONS, stars form and planets give rise to life within a few turns. A few turns later, your opponent might make your star go supernova or obliterate your planet with a cosmic collision. EONS is a card game at its core, although there is a game board used to track turns and the current…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

These 1966 Batman valentines are romantically insane

Batman’s never been particularly lucky in love, so normally he doesn’t even mess with it. But when he does, like in these amazing 1966 valentines that Mark Anderson dug up, it reveals that the world of Bat-romance is a very strange place. Suffice it to say, Batman screaming “VA-ROOOM!” is the least creepy of the…

io9 Rob Bricken

Humans go through moult and grow new pelts

People who live with pets notice that some animals moult in the spring and fall. Losing feathers or fur is unattractive, but it leads to a beautiful new coat in which to survive the winter or to attract a mate. It turns out humans also moult and grow attractive new coats of hair. Hair grows…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Science of Kissing

Kissing is great! Everyone loves kissing. But when you stop and think about it, the idea of rubbing your face and tongue up against those of another human being is actually a little… weird. This video tries to get to the bottom of the science of kissing. In truth, our love of kissing is a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Always Clear the Porn From Your Browser Before Going on TV

The Gotham TV series casts Alfred, the Penguin and more

See liquid oxygen form a boiling bridge between two magnets

China’s New Research Station and the Quiet Rush to Claim Antarctica

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about The n-Body Problem

Insane pilot makes an insane low pass over an insane drunk person

10 Forgotten Secrets of Great Movie-making From The 80s

The Ugly Behind-the-Scenes History of Video Game Movies

I really hope Flappy Bird II includes Mario as a new surprise enemy

All Olympic skiing should be broadcasted like this awesome clip

No medieval bedroom is complete without a castle drawbridge Murphy bed

Sochi’s Giant Pinscreen Wall Is Hypnotic in Action

How does Big Data help us understand the vastness of space? Ask us now!

7 Simple Improvements That Perfected Everyday Products

Researchers control nanomotors inside living cells for the first time

The internet’s new cat obsession: Werewolf Cats

EONS: A game where you create the universe and then destroy it

These 1966 Batman valentines are romantically insane

Humans go through moult and grow new pelts

The Science of Kissing

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