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Kick-Ass 2 promises supervillain sex toys and Hit-Girl’s daddy issues

The foul-mouthed, four-minute trailer for Kick-Ass 2 debuted at the movie’s Comic-Con panel this weekend, and the cast and crew were on hand with plenty more dirty jokes and teases for the film. Learn the origin of Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s gimp suit and why Nicolas Cage’s Big Daddy looms large over the sequel. During the Friday…

Movies Lauren Davis

How Often Do You Use Ethernet These Days?

I recently helped a friend pick out a USB-ethernet dongle for her MacBook Air. The Wi-Fi at her office goes in and out and she wanted to make sure she had a consistent connection when she brought her laptop in. That got me thinking that I haven’t used ethernet on my laptop in a long…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Joss Whedon: No, You Don’t Need Hank Pym to Have Ultron

Yesterday director Joss Whedon unveiled the new big bad for the Avengers movie series: Ultron, the terrifying, polymorphous robot created in the comics by Avenger Hank Pym, AKA Ant Man. And today, Whedon told io9 that this will be an Ultron whose origin story doesn’t include Pym. In an exclusive interview with io9, Whedon said…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Here is a baby rhino playing in the mud for the first time

Not all the important news comes out of San Diego; this is an endangered Southern White Rhino baby learning about the importance of a good mud wallow at the Lion County Safari in West Palm Beach, FL. You’re welcome. [Via Neatorama]

io9 Rob Bricken

The Navy Accidentally Bombed The Great Barrier Reef . . . Sort Of

Okay so this whole thing isn’t ideal, but it’s also not as bad as it sounds. Basically on Tuesday there were two Navy AV-8B Harrier fighter jets that had launched from the USS Bonhomme Richard aircraft carrier and were doing a training exercise. They planned to drop bombs on Townshend Island bombing range, but were…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Trailer is an Amazing Thrill Ride

We just saw the first footage from Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary here at Comic-Con. We expected hilarious banter between stars Matt Smith and David Tennant, and a haunting look at the forgotten Doctor John Hurt. But we got much, much more. The trailer starts out on a haunting, dark note — Matt Smith is walking…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Community’s Abed bemoans life without Troy in Greendale

Just when things were looking up for Community (showrunner Dan Harmon returned!) things to a surprising dip (Donald Glover announced Troy would only be in five episodes!). We don’t know how to process all these ups and downs! Thankfully we have Troy’s best friend and castmate Danny Pudi to help us through it. io9: Where…

Television Meredith Woerner

10 Of The Strangest Theme Bars And Restaurants On Earth

If you love world-building with your food, then you’ve probably visited a theme restaurant once in a while. But have you ever seen anything as weird as these ten theme restaurants? The bathroom-themed Modern Toilet restaurant chain, Taiwan (via riNux, Andrea Hale and Jerry Wong) The hospital-themed Clinic Bar, Clarke Quay, Singapore, designed by the…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Make Tricky And Beautiful Geometric Patterns In Isometric

iOS has filters and drawing apps up the wazoo, so it can be hard to see the point of new ones. But Isometric allows you to create and manipulate designs and optical illusions that are weirdly compelling. It’s something about starting from a blank screen and building such a dimensional pattern. To make geometric art…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Who makes it out of Vamp Camp alive in this new True Blood trailer?

True Blood debuted a brand new teaser trailer from the last six episodes of this season, and it looks like shit is going down. Watch the Comic-Con footage right now! Here are my questions: Whose funeral is Sookie at (my guess is Andy’s kids)? Is Jessica the new subject of a vampire hump-hump study? Who…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Holy crap, Oz the Great and Powerful was a remake of Army of Darkness

Don’t believe me? Watch this video and you’ll be completely convinced that Sam Raimi remade his 1992 classic too (spoilers for Oz, by the way — and Army of Darkness too, I guess, if you were still waiting to see it or something). I tell you, Oz would have been a lot better if James…

Movies Rob Bricken

Bryan Singer has a special word for what the new X-Men movie will be

Yesterday at Comic-Con, everybody was buzzing about X-Men: Days of Future Past. The whole cast came to the Con for a photo-op, and director Bryan Singer told us how this awesome new adventure could change everything in the previous movies’ continuity. During the press conference about the film, Singer used a term for the movie…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The first line Kristen Bell uttered on the Veronica Mars film set

Veronica Mars might not be science fiction, but we still have a lot of love in our hearts for this geeky girl detective. Here’s the first line Kristen Bell delivered when she returned to her quippy character. Veronica may not be a detective at the star of the film, but she’s still Veronica. If you…

Movies Lauren Davis

Alien Probes Could Already Be In Our Solar System According To Math

If you’ve been trying to recall what makes theoretical math super fun, here’s a reminder. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh published a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology that examines how long it would take Voyager-sized probes to bop around the Milky Way and eventually encounter our solar system. The answer is not…

Space & Spaceflight Lily Hay Newman

Walder Frey’s Next Game of Thrones Adventure: a Dating Show?

We were talking to David Bradley about his role as William Hartnell in the docudrama Doctor Who: An Adventure in Time and Space, and we couldn’t resist asking him about Walder Frey, the character he plays on Game of Thrones. Will we see Walder going on dates, now that his wife is dead? Here’s what…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The first periodic table that got laughed out of science

Dmitri Mendeleev is known as the father of the periodic table of elements, and rightly so. He ordered the elements correctly based on their properties, which helped predict the discovery of new elements. But he wasn’t the first to come up with the idea of periodicity of elements, or the first to try to make…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The World’s Tallest Building Looks Badass From A Helicopter

There’s a lot to know about Dubai’s towering Burj Khalifa. Every creak and every inch is constantly monitored and explored. But sometimes you just want to see something lit up in all its glory. And that’s the point where you get in a helicopter and go take some awesome night shots. You have access to…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Just how god-like will Electro’s powers get in Amazing Spider-Man 2?

While the trailers for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have shown us tons of villains, Electro is the bad guy who takes center stage — and he has powers that go beyond what we’ve seen in the trailers so far. He’ll go from the saddest of sad sacks to the man whose powers are far beyond…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch Comic-Con’s Marvel Cinematic Universe panel in all its glory

Are you interested in Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, Tom Hiddleston in character and costume as Loki, Karen Gillan removing her wig, or any of the other insanity that happened at last night’s Marvel movie panel? Then you probably want to actually…

Movies Rob Bricken

Oh Right, Doctoring Photos Actually Still Takes A Long Time

At this point doctored and enhanced photos are so ubiquitous that we tend to assume any photo we’re looking at has gone through some type of processing. And programs like Photoshop are always releasing new tools and features to make these changes easier. But revising a photo for positive or nefarious reasons still takes time…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Kick-Ass 2 promises supervillain sex toys and Hit-Girl’s daddy issues

How Often Do You Use Ethernet These Days?

Joss Whedon: No, You Don’t Need Hank Pym to Have Ultron

Here is a baby rhino playing in the mud for the first time

The Navy Accidentally Bombed The Great Barrier Reef . . . Sort Of

The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Trailer is an Amazing Thrill Ride

Community’s Abed bemoans life without Troy in Greendale

10 Of The Strangest Theme Bars And Restaurants On Earth

Make Tricky And Beautiful Geometric Patterns In Isometric

Who makes it out of Vamp Camp alive in this new True Blood trailer?

Holy crap, Oz the Great and Powerful was a remake of Army of Darkness

Bryan Singer has a special word for what the new X-Men movie will be

The first line Kristen Bell uttered on the Veronica Mars film set

Alien Probes Could Already Be In Our Solar System According To Math

Walder Frey’s Next Game of Thrones Adventure: a Dating Show?

The first periodic table that got laughed out of science

The World’s Tallest Building Looks Badass From A Helicopter

Just how god-like will Electro’s powers get in Amazing Spider-Man 2?

Watch Comic-Con’s Marvel Cinematic Universe panel in all its glory

Oh Right, Doctoring Photos Actually Still Takes A Long Time

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