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The animated Marvel film Big Hero 6 gets a new director

Big Hero 6, the manga-inspired animated movie set in the Marvel universe, is due to come out this November — but they’re still tinkering with it, apparently. Chris Williams, co-director of Bolt, has come on board as co-director, and they’ve added a new producer, Ray Conli (Tangled). This is probably nothing to freak out about…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

It’s Been a Full Decade Since We Landed the Spirit Rover on Mars

On January 4, 2004, the first of two identical robotic exploratory rovers, NASA’s Spirit, snapped this stunning 360 degree image of its surroundings, moments after setting down on Mars. In the years to follow, both Spirit and its sister Opportunity helped revolutionize our understanding of the Red Planet. Spirit beat its sister to the surface…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Everyone You Should Unfollow and Unfriend for 2014

There’s no better time than the new year to start afresh, and today, we ask you to turn your attention not within but without. More specifically, it’s your Twitter and Facebook friends we need to talk about. That’s right—it’s time to trim the fat. You’ve been racking up social media accounts for years now, and…

Social Media Ashley Feinberg

Celebrating Ten Years on Mars with NASA’s Spirit Rover

Friday, Jan. 3, marked the 10th anniversary since the safe landing of NASA’s renowned Spirit rover on the plains of Mars on Jan. 3, 2004. Above: A bird’s-eye view from August 2005 combines a self-portrait of the spacecraft deck and a panoramic mosaic of the Martian surface as viewed by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.…

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Dracula tangles with dancing lunatics and diabolical lesbians

Sure, “dancing lunatics and diabolical lesbians” sounds exciting, but if you’ve been watching NBC’s Dracula, you know that this is a pretty chill Friday night for the titular vampire. So Van Helsing has got his “let Dracula stay in the sun” machine working pretty well — so well, in fact, that Dracula declares he’s not…

Television Rob Bricken

How to Trade Bitcoin (And If You Should)

There’s a digital gold rush sweeping the globe as investors try to cash in on Bitcoin, the notoriously volatile cryptocurrency. Getting involved yourself is easier—and riskier—than you think. As with any exchange or speculative market, trading in Bitcoin is a risky venture that could cost you real money—and lots of it. So the most important…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Watch what happens when you use a SuperSoaker on a -42°F day

What do you get when you load a SuperSoaker with boiling water and fire it into the beyond-frigid air of Northern Ontario? Cloudhappy funtime, that’s what. Writes YouTuber chrisgsauce: Woke up to a balmy -41C [Ed. note: that’s -41.8°F, for reference] this morning in South Porcupine, ON. Thought I’d share what happens when you mix…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Disquiet: 15, 10 & 5 Years Ago This Week (2014.01)

This would be roughly the week of December 30 through January 5. 5 Years Ago (2008): My top-of-2008 list included commercial albums (among them Unitxt by Alva Noto and The Elephant in the Room: 3 Commissions by Mira Calix), free downloads (among them Wobbly’s massive birdsong megamix and computer-addled metal by Drumcorps), and “key processes”…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Grimm breaks all its own rules and is so much better for it

My biggest problem with Grimm has always been how formulaic it is. But the excellent “Red Menace” managed to shake things up without actually shaking things up, and is my new vote for best episode of the season. Let me explain. In another world, this could have been an easy Wesen-o’-the-Week installment. Wesen shows up…

Television Rob Bricken

Witness the Real Life Apollo 13 Disaster As It Actually Happened

YouTube’s lunarmodule5, a treasure trove of jaw-dropping space videos, takes us onboard Apollo 13 to relive the harrowing hour when the doomed moon mission turned into a quest for survival. No Hollywood movie could ever muster the real-life drama and tension of this moment. You’ve got to put on headphones to fully appreciate this. In…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Bug-eating is a great idea and we should all be doing more of it

Entomophagy – the practice of consuming bugs – is one of the greatest ideas humans ever stole from other animals. Insects, after all, are an abundant, nutrient rich resource. We used to eat them all the time (close to 30% of the world’s population still does*) – so why do so many of us regard…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Labelmaking Enthusiasts, This Is Your Apollo 11

Unless you’re obsessively organized, or love the iconic aesthetics of the old-school manual models, it’s really hard to muster much excitement for a labelmaker. But somehow Epson has managed to create the perfect tiny printer for the smartphone age. For the casual user it’s finally an easy way to bring a little bit of order…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Standalone Camera is Dying

Time’s inexorable march has pushed another piece of tech to the brink of obsolescence. The dedicated camera is on the outs – or so claims designer Craig Mod in a contentious article for The New Yorker. Top photo by jeyp via flickr Mod’s piece recounts his prolonged love-affair with photography and photographic equipment, including his…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Space Dandy, lovechild of Cowboy Bebop & Boba Fett, debuts on Toonami

We are in the post-month-and-a-half-of-holidays slump in North America, leaving a number of shows on hiatus, but we have a couple of new ones to bring you. Space Dandy, a new anime with a superstar pedigree, starts this weekend, while My Little Pony takes a trip to NYC. As always – minor spoilers ahead! Space…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Symmetry

This film written and directed by Yann Pineill is a palindromic investigation of memory and emotion. That is, the second verse is same as the first—but backwards. It’s not going to make any sense to start, but stick with it. Once you hit the flip, everything up to that point starts making sense.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

What all the fancy code in movie computer sequences actually mean

Hey look, it’s an actor looking at some computer code in a movie. He must be really smart! He must be a computer hacker! He must be able to take over the world with just his keyboard! Not quite. The code used in movies is usually nothing but some mumbo jumbo on WordPress or Wikipedia.…

Sploid Casey Chan

That Time Mr Magoo Saved the Earth Using Incandescent Light Bulbs

Conventional incandescent bulbs are increasingly illuminati non-grata in the US, but there was once a time when they played a vital role in not just lighting American homes, but also protecting the country itself from alien invasion. Thank goodness Mr. Magoo was there to act as spokesman for the human race because if there’s anyone…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Blizzard-Fighting Monster Machine We Deserve But Never Got

The Eastern seaboard is getting some serious snow, and even though we live here in 2014—the future—we’re still reduced to shoveling. Ugh. This wasn’t how it was supposed to be.

Tech News Eric Limer

You’ll Need a Doctor’s Prescription to Download This App

BlueStar is a smartphone app that helps diabetics track their glucose readings, analyzing patients’ blood glucose readings and coaching them on medical and behavioral changes they can make to minimize the disease’s impact. But good luck finding a download link on BlueStar’s site—it’s the world’s first prescription-only smartphone app. That may sound strange, but it…

Health Bob Sorokanich

Mmmm, Beer: Watch 12,400 Gallons of Barleywine Wort Ferment, Get Wild

What you are about to watch is beer getting weird. Before California-based brewery Sierra Nevada bottles Bigfoot, its classic barleywine-style ale, the wort goes through a six-day fermentation process that sees a whopping 24,000 gallons of liquid appear to bake like bread, roil like a contaminated foam party in Ibiza, and overflow like a sentient…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

The animated Marvel film Big Hero 6 gets a new director

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Watch what happens when you use a SuperSoaker on a -42°F day

Disquiet: 15, 10 & 5 Years Ago This Week (2014.01)

Grimm breaks all its own rules and is so much better for it

Witness the Real Life Apollo 13 Disaster As It Actually Happened

Bug-eating is a great idea and we should all be doing more of it

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The Standalone Camera is Dying

Space Dandy, lovechild of Cowboy Bebop & Boba Fett, debuts on Toonami

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Symmetry

What all the fancy code in movie computer sequences actually mean

That Time Mr Magoo Saved the Earth Using Incandescent Light Bulbs

The Blizzard-Fighting Monster Machine We Deserve But Never Got

You’ll Need a Doctor’s Prescription to Download This App

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The animated Marvel film Big Hero 6 gets a new director

It’s Been a Full Decade Since We Landed the Spirit Rover on Mars

Everyone You Should Unfollow and Unfriend for 2014

Celebrating Ten Years on Mars with NASA’s Spirit Rover

​Dracula tangles with dancing lunatics and diabolical lesbians

How to Trade Bitcoin (And If You Should)

Watch what happens when you use a SuperSoaker on a -42°F day

Disquiet: 15, 10 & 5 Years Ago This Week (2014.01)

​Grimm breaks all its own rules and is so much better for it

Witness the Real Life Apollo 13 Disaster As It Actually Happened

Bug-eating is a great idea and we should all be doing more of it

Labelmaking Enthusiasts, This Is Your Apollo 11

The Standalone Camera is Dying

Space Dandy, lovechild of Cowboy Bebop & Boba Fett, debuts on Toonami

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Symmetry

What all the fancy code in movie computer sequences actually mean

That Time Mr Magoo Saved the Earth Using Incandescent Light Bulbs

The Blizzard-Fighting Monster Machine We Deserve But Never Got

You’ll Need a Doctor’s Prescription to Download This App

Mmmm, Beer: Watch 12,400 Gallons of Barleywine Wort Ferment, Get Wild

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

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Dracula tangles with dancing lunatics and diabolical lesbians

Grimm breaks all its own rules and is so much better for it