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Architects envision an underground colony on Mars

When humans finally travel to Mars, what will their first buildings look like? ZA Architects envision an underground colony with spiderweb floors spun from basalt fibers. ZA’s proposal involves sending robots ahead of a human expedition to drill into the basalt-rich soil of Mars, creating caverns for underground human settlement. Human astronauts would then complete…

io9 Lauren Davis

Antelope: Game Over

Every so often internet radio will just up and hand you a real gift, a little obscure sonic candy you never would have known about otherwise. And I have to thank ~2009 Pandora for handing me “Game Over” by Antelope. According to a deleted Wikipedia page, Antelope is an “alternative rock” band that was active…

Tech News Eric Limer

Watch this mouthwatering definitive guide to delicious Dim Sum

Dim sums are one of the most delicious bites known to humankind. There are infinite variations, but these mouthwatering guide will tell you what to expect from your dim sum no matter what you order. I want them all right now. https://lifehacker.com/navigate-dim-sum-like-a-pro-with-this-video-guide-1260786169

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How to help the fight against illegal government spying

“The NSA is attacking our secure communications on many fronts and we must oppose them using every method we have at our disposal,” says Dan Auerbach and Eva Galperin form the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-fight-back-in-the-nsas-war-on-encryption-1270158751

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This Remote Control Pizza Box Plane Practically Delivers Itself

There’s only so much you can do with an empty pizza box besides throw it away, or let it clutter up the floor of your filthy hovel. There is on other option though: you can turn it into a remote controlled plane. Granted, unless you just happen to have a remote control setup just lying…

Tech News Eric Limer

What if Charlie Brown was chosen to be a Green Lantern?

Nick Perks delivers the hard truth on this one for The Line It Is Drawn. Peppermint Patty, on the other hand, would make a hilarious Green Lantern. The theme of this week’s The Line It Is Drawn art challenge is “What If…?” Readers were asked to come up with their dream, it-ain’t-never-gonna-happen comic ideas and…

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The trailer for BBC’s Atlantis is a Greek mythology mashup

Misfits creator Howard Overman turns his talents toward swords and sandals in BBC One’s upcoming series Atlantis. A guy named Jason teams up two fellows named Pythogoras and Hercules, and we can only assume legendary deeds ensue. It’s hard to get a sense of the tone of the series from this first trailer, which feels…

Trailers Lauren Davis

Look beneath the surface of these incredible underground homes

Some of these remarkable homes look like little more than a grassy hill—until you get inside. Plumb the depths of houses that sit largely underground. Earth House Estate Lättenstrasse, Dietikon, Switzerland The entryways and windows are up top. You can see more Hobbit-influenced houses here. https://gizmodo.com/real-life-houses-that-look-like-they-belong-in-the-shir-475830122 (via Vetsch Architektur, Architizer and Eclectitude) The Dune House…

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Do You Ever Listen to the Radio Anymore?

It wasn’t that long ago that the radio was kind of a big deal. Even a young’un like me is old enough to remember inexpertly dodging commercials for local car dealerships while recording embarrassing mix-tapes. But the times have changed. A lot. Do you ever listen to the radio anymore? Is there any reason to,…

Tech News Eric Limer

How to Fight Back in the NSA’s War on Encryption

In one of the most significant leaks to date regarding National Security Agency (NSA) spying, the New York Times, the Guardian, and ProPublica reported Thursday that the NSA has gone to extraordinary lengths to secretly undermine our secure communications infrastructure, collaborating with GCHQ (Britain’s NSA equivalent) and a select few intelligence organizations worldwide. These frightening…

Tech News Dan Auerbach an Eva Galperin - Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Beginning of “Thriller” Animated Entirely in LEGO Bricks

We’ve seen Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video reenacted by LEGO minifigs before, but Annette Jung takes a different approach, creating a stop-motion animation using LEGO bricks as pixels. Jung makes nice use of the medium by showing the bottom side of the bricks to suggest slightly darker colors and occasionally layering her bricks to create depth.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler

You’ve gotten your hands on a shiny new time machine, and you decide that your first order of business is to travel back in time and kill Hitler. But killing Hitler and preventing the Holocaust isn’t quite as simple as it sounds. Here’s why. His Life is a Fixed Event in Time “No Time Like…

Movies Lauren Davis

All Gadget Teardowns Should End In an Explosion

We’ve seen your typical, sterile, tiny-screwdriver-filled teardown of Nvidia’s Shield that showed there’s actually a lot crammed in there. But Nvidia decided to do a teardown of its own that’s just a little…rougher. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-shield-teardown-a-lots-crammed-into-this-stran-987565085 Admittedly this is pure marketing, what with that exhaustive spec rundown mid-explosion, but that doesn’t take away from the good (clean?)…

Tech News Eric Limer

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Tales from the Octopus Train

Chugging along the fish-filled tracks, the octopus train pulls into the station, aided by its mighty tentacles. What stories does it bring with it? This moody piece by Alex Andreyev is titled “Fade to Black,” via this isn’t happiness. As always, we invite you to write a story inspired by this image and post it…

io9 Lauren Davis

Did This Random Craigslist Phone Just Spill the Beans on a WP8 Update?

Want the latest software updates for your phone? You can just wait like a pleb, or you can go buy handsets on Craigslist and hope to get lucky. Apparently Windows Phone Central user xs2k did the latter when he just happened to buy a phone with the latest, unreleased Windows Phone 8 OS on it.…

Tech News Eric Limer

A scout sent to explore a planet finds his doppelgänger instead

In Malachi Ward’s short comic The Scout, a scout is sent to an alien world to determine whether it is suitable for colonization. But when he encounters another version of himself, he ends up exploring his own identity instead. The premise of The Scout is simple: an explorer’s information has been sent to the caves…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Internet Speed Across the US, Incoming iPhones, Android KitKat, And More

September is finally here and the summer doldrums have transformed into NEWS! iPhone day is next week, but in the meantime we got ourselves the start of the smartwatch wars, the name of the next version of Android, Microsoft buying Nokia. Oh and a map of internet speeds across the US. Check it out! Watch…

Tech News Eric Limer

Carl and Beth discuss the afterlife in Walking Dead deleted scene

It’s actually a shame that this scene from Season 3 of The Walking Dead didn’t make it onto television. It’s a great moment between Carl and Beth in which they discuss grief and how the afterlife works with zombies. We saw earlier this week that another rather emotional sequence was trimmed from Season 3: Morgan’s…

Television Lauren Davis

Even without skin, the Chestburster mechanism test is nightmarish

Some horror creatures become less frightening when you see the special effects that brought them to life. Not so with the Alien chestburster, which is still pretty damn creepy even during its mechanism test. Stan Winston School posted this video of the mechanism test. Stephen Norrington’s description of the chestburster mechanism as “serpentine” is perfect.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Yes! This Is Exactly Why Writing Emails Is So Horrible

I have to write a lot of emails. A lot of emails. And each and every one is like a vacation to hell. If you’re anything like me, you know exactly why that is, but this video from Domics sums it up so perfectly it makes want to die and never write another email again.…

Tech News Eric Limer

Architects envision an underground colony on Mars

Antelope: Game Over

Watch this mouthwatering definitive guide to delicious Dim Sum

How to help the fight against illegal government spying

This Remote Control Pizza Box Plane Practically Delivers Itself

What if Charlie Brown was chosen to be a Green Lantern?

The trailer for BBC’s Atlantis is a Greek mythology mashup

Look beneath the surface of these incredible underground homes

Do You Ever Listen to the Radio Anymore?

How to Fight Back in the NSA’s War on Encryption

The Beginning of “Thriller” Animated Entirely in LEGO Bricks

Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler

All Gadget Teardowns Should End In an Explosion

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Tales from the Octopus Train

Did This Random Craigslist Phone Just Spill the Beans on a WP8 Update?

A scout sent to explore a planet finds his doppelgänger instead

Internet Speed Across the US, Incoming iPhones, Android KitKat, And More

Carl and Beth discuss the afterlife in Walking Dead deleted scene

Even without skin, the Chestburster mechanism test is nightmarish

Yes! This Is Exactly Why Writing Emails Is So Horrible

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