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More Than 4 Million Spotify Songs Have Never Been Played

Last week, Spotify turned five years old, and to celebrate, the company released a batch of impressive data. But buried within the fun facts is a tidbit that’s just as depressing as it is surprising: 20-percent of Spotify tracks have never been streamed. Of course, Spotify cast a positive light on the information: 80-percent of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Fantastic Timelapse Takes You on the Space Shuttle’s Final Flight

It may be hard to believe, but it’s already been a full two years since the Space Shuttle Program completed its final mission and put its magnificent fleet of ships into retirement. The last of these to settle into its final resting place was Endeavor, and professional launch photographer Scott Andrews caught it all in…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

The Backfire Effect shows why you can’t use facts to win an argument

“Never let the facts get in the way of a good story” isn’t just a maxim for shady politicians and journalists. It’s also the way people often live their lives. One study indicates that there may even be a “backfire effect,” which happens when you show people facts that contradict their opinions. The study tested…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The New Deadliest Substance Known to Man Is Top Secret (For Now)

Scientists recently discovered a new type of botulinum toxin (a.k.a. botox) that they believe is the deadliest substance known to man. Because they’ve yet to discover an antitoxin, researchers won’t publish the details of gene sequence due to security concerns—a first for the scientific community. Thank God. When scientists say this stuff is deadly, they…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

These Designers Make Boring Old Video Cameras Do Impossible Tricks

Video cameras have traditionally been used to document the world in a pretty straightforward manner. But they’ve become so small, and so versatile, that you can do some incredible things with them. Like the crazy world The production is a result of a workshop at ECAL, an art and design school in Switzerland. The students…

Tech News Michael Hession

This Week: Pixar comes to TV. Plus The CW’s answer to Game of Thrones!

Check out our spoiler-free review of Toy Story of Terror, the first ever Pixar special, below. Also, The CW tries to capture some Game of Thrones magic. Mythbusters looks at The Walking Dead. PBS explains the history of superheroes, plus there’s a brand new superhero show. Check out tons of clips and details for this…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why It Takes Ikea Five Years to Design One Kitchen

I’ve always daydreamed about what working at IKEA must be like: Creating whimsical reindeer-shaped furniture, testing new meatball recipes, and dreaming up adorable product names. But as the Wall Street Journal reveals today, the process of developing products at the world’s largest furniture retailer is an epic, efficiency-driven numbers game. The WSJ got an in-depth…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Mulder and Scully returned for an awkward conversation at Comic-Con

At The X-Files panel at this past weekend’s New York Comic-Con, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were asked to do a little improv as Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, respectively. Duchovny took immediate charge, making it a phone call and making it weird. [Via Topless Robot]

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The Rosetta Spacecraft Is Humanity’s First Asteroid Lander

While NASA’s asteroid-capturing mission remains grounded from a lack of Congressional funding, a similar and equally ambitious ESA program is nearing fruition. In the coming months, the Rosetta spacecraft and its integrated Philae probe will become the first manmade objects to not only orbit an asteroid but land on it as well. Here’s how they’ll…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

US could be first major country to default after Nazi Germany

If an agreement between the White House and Republicans doesn’t happen soon, the Congressional Budget Office says that the country would have to stop paying its debts sometime after October 22. That will make the United States of America the first major power to default after Nazi Germany, says Bloomberg: Reneging on its debt obligations…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The World’s Fastest Wi-Fi Makes Google Fiber Look Like Dial-Up

Everybody hates wires, but if you want crazy speed, they’re the way to go. But maybe not anymore. A team of German scientists have developed record-setting Wi-Fi that cooks right along at 100 Gigabits per second. You know, like Google Fiber but times 100. The tech was developed by a joint team from the Fraunhofer…

Tech News Eric Limer

It’s literally raining zombies in an excellent Walking Dead premiere

I’m not ready to say that new showrunner Scott Gimple has finally made The Walking Dead the great show we always knew it could be, but man, the season 4 premiere of TWD was most auspicious. It wasn’t flashy, and it wasn’t mind-blowing, but it was so fundamentally good I can’t help but have high…

Television Rob Bricken

Yahoo’s Redesigned Email Is Seriously Broken (Updated)

Yahoo Mail got a pretty extensive (and familiar looking) redesign last week, but it seems there are some serious problems under that freshly-painted hood. And folks on Yahoo’s bug reporting board sure aren’t happy about it. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-yahoo-mail-could-not-look-more-like-gmail-1442430816 As ZDNet reports, some users are seeing addresses disappear from contacts lists or sent messages being erased from…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

What Are You Wearing? It’s Time for io9’s Halloween Costume Show!

It’s that time of year again. The leaves have begun to turn, the air has gone crisp, and one question is being bandied about across the nation: Who amongst us can pull off the Miley Cyrus teddy bear onesie? (Spoiler: No one can.) It’s time for io9’s annual Halloween Costume Show! You may recall the…

io9 Ria Misra

Banksy Sold $225,000 Worth of Art at a Central Park Stall for $420

You missed it. On Saturday, Banksy set up a nondescript stall on the edge of Central Park, where he sold stencilled prints for $60 a pop. The monkey with a sign, the guy with the flowers, the rat with the smirk—all the classics were there. Too bad nobody wanted them. Over the course of the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The average bodies of men from around the world

“Todd,” the digitally rendered man pictured at far left, is a physiologically average American male, his paunchy proportions based on averages from CDC anthropometric data. Beside him stand average men from Japan, the Netherlands and France. How do you stack up? Originally created by digital artist Nickolay Lamm for his Body Measurement Project, the renderings…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Sonos Play:1 Review: A Fun-Size Box of Wireless Audio Awesome

Sonos makes some of our favorite wireless music products of all time. The problem has always been the price of entry—and that’s where Play:1 comes in. Meet your entry-level Sonos. https://gizmodo.com/sonos-playbar-review-everything-wireless-should-be-thi-5988306 What Is It A $200 powered two-way speaker with a built-in Wi-Fi connectivity. Why Does It Matter Sonos is the long-time leader in wireless…

Reviews Mario Aguilar

Report: These Are Sony’s New 24- and 36-Megapixel Alpha Cameras

DigitalCameraInfo has reportedly gotten ahold of the specs and images of two of Sony’s new Alpha digital cameras, the A7 and the A7R. We don’t know how they shoot yet, but they sure look nice. The A7, pictured above, will supposedly have 24 megapixels, and cost around $1700 for just the body. In the top…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Marvel expands their multimedia domination with Marvel Universe Live

Besides movies, a hit TV show, cartoons, a Broadway musical, toys, comics, and some other stuff, Marvel has decided that it’s just not quite enough. Thus Marvel Universe Live, a touring arena show that will star the Avengers, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, and goodness knows who else, will begin next summer. There aren’t really any details…

io9 Rob Bricken

NYC pedestrians ignore art worth millions being sold for $60 a piece

These black on white canvasses are signed Banksy originals, each of them worth tens of thousands of dollars. Yesterday, the British artist tried to sell them for $60 each in Central Park and failed. Only three people actually bought something, for a grand total of $420. The actual cost: an estimated $224,000. Banksy has said…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

More Than 4 Million Spotify Songs Have Never Been Played

This Fantastic Timelapse Takes You on the Space Shuttle’s Final Flight

The Backfire Effect shows why you can’t use facts to win an argument

The New Deadliest Substance Known to Man Is Top Secret (For Now)

These Designers Make Boring Old Video Cameras Do Impossible Tricks

This Week: Pixar comes to TV. Plus The CW’s answer to Game of Thrones!

Why It Takes Ikea Five Years to Design One Kitchen

Mulder and Scully returned for an awkward conversation at Comic-Con

The Rosetta Spacecraft Is Humanity’s First Asteroid Lander

US could be first major country to default after Nazi Germany

The World’s Fastest Wi-Fi Makes Google Fiber Look Like Dial-Up

It’s literally raining zombies in an excellent Walking Dead premiere

Yahoo’s Redesigned Email Is Seriously Broken (Updated)

What Are You Wearing? It’s Time for io9’s Halloween Costume Show!

Banksy Sold $225,000 Worth of Art at a Central Park Stall for $420

The average bodies of men from around the world

Sonos Play:1 Review: A Fun-Size Box of Wireless Audio Awesome

Report: These Are Sony’s New 24- and 36-Megapixel Alpha Cameras

Marvel expands their multimedia domination with Marvel Universe Live

NYC pedestrians ignore art worth millions being sold for $60 a piece

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