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If DC and Marvel traded places, what movies would DC be making now?

Imagine that DC had started building a cinematic universe in 2008, culminating with a mega-successful Justice League in 2012. In this alternate universe, where Marvel and DC changed places, what movies would DC be planning for 2014 and 2015? Reading the interview with Kevin Feige earlier today, along with Wired’s Adam Rogers’ speculations about DC’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Reel In the Perfect Toasted Marshmallow Without Burning Your Limbs

Getting that perfect golden brown outer layer on a marshmallow is a fine art that occasionally comes at the expense of singed fingers or scalded limbs. And among the countless gadgets that promise to make it easier to access a campfire’s hot coals, this clever fishing rod appears to be particularly effective at keeping you…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Meryl Streep could be joining Jeff Bridges in The Giver

We’ve been hoping for a while that Jeff Bridges will really get his movie of Lois Lowry’s classic novel The Giver off the ground. And that it’ll be as good as it deserves to be. Now, there’s a strong piece of evidence in favor of both notions: Meryl Streep could be joining the cast. According…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Behold the Glowing Glory of a Sunspot In Unprecedented Detail

When you stare at the sun it just looks like pain. But when the New Solar Telescope (NST) does, it can catch glimpses of truly mesmerizing solar activity, and all without going blind. Here, for example, is the most precise picture of a sunspot ever taken, in all its flaming glory. It’s like a solar…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer

The Insidious Trick That Helps Spiders Surprise Their Prey

Wow, it looks like Spider-Man really has been studying the battle tactics of a certain arachnid. By using high-speed film, scientists have learned that jumping spiders use silk draglines to balance themselves mid-air and make soft landings, in preparation for an attack. Previously, scientists assumed that the silk lines merely provided jumping spiders with a…

io9 George Dvorsky

iOS 7 Tracks Your Every Move and Displays Your Favorite Places

Creepy new feature alert! Creepy new feature alert! Buried in the Settings menu of the latest beta version of iOS 7 is the somewhat unsettling ability to see everywhere you’ve been since upgrading the operating system. It makes you wonder: Who else can see these maps? The new feature was pointed out on Wednesday morning…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Best Craigslist Missed Connection Ad of All Time

OK maybe that’s overselling it a tad, but we couldn’t help but fall in love with this beautifully written Missed Connection. There’s so much truth in this little piece, even when it takes a turn towards the absurd. Missed Connection – m4w I saw you on the Manhattan-bound Brooklyn Q train. I was wearing a…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Shooting Challenge: Lens Reflections

Your city has a beautiful skyline, and with a couple of cameras you can capture a truly unique perspective of the office towers and skyscrapers that give it its distinctive silhouette. But why stop there? For this week’s Shooting Challenge we want you to capture an image—anything you can think of—as reflected in your camera’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Speeding Ticket Camera Company Is Doctoring Evidence Photos

Nothing feels worse than getting a speeding ticket in the mail. What. The. Truck. As if they weren’t bad enough as-is, a report from the Washington DC metropolitan area suggests that the cameras used to catch you might not be playing by the rules. In fact, the camera contractors might be fudging the evidence to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Dolphins can remember their friends better than most humans

In case you still doubted that dolphins have an awareness rivaling our own, new research shows that these cetaceans can remember the whistles of their old tank-mates after being separated for more than 20 years! No species other than humans has demonstrated such a long-term social memory. In bottlenose dolphin communication, there are normal whistles,…

io9 Joseph Bennington-Castro

I pretty much guarantee you’ve never read a superhero story like this

My story “Victimless Crimes” is up at Apex Magazine (and also a featured story over at The Mary Sue.) And I’m pretty sure it’s a superhero story you’ve never seen before. Here’s how it begins: Teri Lewis was obsessing about her sister’s bad marriage and the president’s latest compromise, so she barely listened to Flo’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Increase Your Knowledge of Noodles with this Encyclopedic Pasta Poster

When it comes to pasta, you better know your rotini from your rotelle, cuz if you just go around calling everything “spaghetti” until you’re like 21, people are going to make fun of you. Believe me; I know. Fortunately this perfect pasta poster can pump up your proficiency. Dreamt up by the doubtlessly hungry minds…

Tech News Eric Limer

China’s Replica of Paris Is Now an Eerily Depressing Ghost Town

There’s no denying China’s place among the topmost world powers—that being said, there’s also a steadily growing property bubble that’s just about ready to burst. There’s no greater testament to this over-supply and over-valuation than the intricately detailed, horrifically sad ghost towns modelled after Europe’s greatest metropolises. Case in point? The Paris clone captured by…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Holy Shit I Just Spent $236 on Candy Crush, Help

I don’t understand. It’s just Bejeweled. With candy. What’s the big deal? Innocent words from a better time. A better place. Before I’d ever made that deplorable journey to the App Store and downloaded… it. Candy Crush Saga. Now, about a month later, I’ve lost a little over $230, hours of battery life, and any…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

What Happens When China’s Copycat Masters Are Hired to Paint Themselves

We’ve heard a lot about the evils of China’s booming art copying industry, which hocks inexpensive replicas of everything from Expressionist paintings to priceless Chinese porcelain. But the people who make these perfectly-crafted copies are also artists in their own right—which is perhaps never more clear than when they’re painting themselves. “The relationship between imitation…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Microscopic View of Bloodsucking Mosquito Will Basically Ruin Your Day

Me, after watching this video: Hello, fire-store? I’d like to place an order for some of your very best hot, glowing, ignited gas. All of it, please. Yes, your entire stock. I need it for killing. Things I learned while reading this horrifying piece from Ed Yong, which looks at recent research into what really…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How Flickr’s New Head Plans to Rebuild a Photo Brand Fallen From Grace

In its quest to rebuild Flickr into the premier photo service it once was, Yahoo has swiped Google’s ex-global director of product marketing, Bernardo Hernandez, and given him the ultimate task—taking down Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and a whole host of other services so Flickr can reign supreme. https://gizmodo.com/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet-5910223 Our spanish-speaking counterpart, Gizmodo en Español, talked…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

LED lighting is already revolutionizing Earth’s fanciest cities

Do you like your cities when they’re even more like graphics-intensive video games? Then you’ll love the trophy cities of the very near future, because LED lighting is already changing the iconic skylines of New York, San Francisco and the shiny new towers of China and the oil emirates. Slums will stay the same. https://architizer.kinja.com/how-leds-will-make-or-break-the-skylines-of-global-citi-975205633

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Riddick director explains how the Necromonger King gets dethroned

How the hell does Riddick manage to screw up his sweet gig as Lord Marshall King Necromonger? How does Riddick fall so far, so fast, to end up on a deserted planet, alone? We asked director David Twohy everything we wanted to know about the new Riddick movie, and he told us a ton. Massive…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Flying High: Jetman Talks Flight, Fear, and What’s Next

Yves “Jetman” Rossy’s exploits have been well-documented over the years. He’s crossed the English Channel, the Grand Canyon, and flown alongside a B-17 bomber with a jet-powered wing strapped to his back and nothing else. He’s crazy in the best way possible. We caught up with Yves yesterday to chat about what’s coming next for…

Tech News Peter ha

If DC and Marvel traded places, what movies would DC be making now?

Reel In the Perfect Toasted Marshmallow Without Burning Your Limbs

Meryl Streep could be joining Jeff Bridges in The Giver

Behold the Glowing Glory of a Sunspot In Unprecedented Detail

The Insidious Trick That Helps Spiders Surprise Their Prey

iOS 7 Tracks Your Every Move and Displays Your Favorite Places

The Best Craigslist Missed Connection Ad of All Time

Shooting Challenge: Lens Reflections

A Speeding Ticket Camera Company Is Doctoring Evidence Photos

Dolphins can remember their friends better than most humans

I pretty much guarantee you’ve never read a superhero story like this

Increase Your Knowledge of Noodles with this Encyclopedic Pasta Poster

China’s Replica of Paris Is Now an Eerily Depressing Ghost Town

Holy Shit I Just Spent $236 on Candy Crush, Help

What Happens When China’s Copycat Masters Are Hired to Paint Themselves

Microscopic View of Bloodsucking Mosquito Will Basically Ruin Your Day

How Flickr’s New Head Plans to Rebuild a Photo Brand Fallen From Grace

LED lighting is already revolutionizing Earth’s fanciest cities

Riddick director explains how the Necromonger King gets dethroned

Flying High: Jetman Talks Flight, Fear, and What’s Next

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