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The Purge could be this year’s most hamfisted political movie

In The Purge, a suburban family is put through hell because right wingers came up with a plan to eliminate the poor and the sick. And we all come face to face with how broken the American dream really is. Yadda yadda. Basically, it’s like this year’s Atlas Shrugged or Now: a clunky and implausible…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dangerous San Onofre Nuclear Plant Finally Shutting Down

The long troubled oceanfront nuclear plant in Southern California will be shut down for good, Southern California Edison announced today. The doomed domes have been closed for multiple, outrageous safety and operating violations since January 2012. More than 7 million people live within a 50-mile radius of the dangerously mismanaged and unsafe nuclear plant. Sitting…

Sploid Ken Layne

Pics of actors laughing between takes are instant smiles

“I feel a draft, do you feel a draft?” Redditor Join_You_In_The_Sun set up an amazing behind-the-scenes photo gallery of actors “Laughing Between Takes,” and this Kill Bill shot is just perfect for a caption this moment. The others will just warm your heart into the weekend. Lots more images over at Reddit.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Today in ruined childhoods: No Country for Old Muppets

California-based artist Dan LuVisi has a knack for turning treasured childhood memories into high-octane nightmare fuel. Case in point: “No Country For Old Muppets,” the latest in his ghoulish Popped Culture series. https://gizmodo.com/your-favorite-cartoons-and-puppets-redrawn-as-horrifyi-508901212 Here, Fozzie Bear has been reimagined as Javier Bardem’s hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), and Gonzo as a rather unfortunate local deputy.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The British Army’s New Tank-Bulldozer Hybrid Is Freakin’ Amazing

It’s the realization of every 7-year-old boy’s dream—a bulldozer on a tank chassis with a machine gun. Known as the Terrier, this ditch-digging combat engineer vehicle is as adaptable as its canine namesake. The Terrier is a remotely-operable armored combat engineer vehicle built for the British Army’s Royal Engineer corps by BAE Systems as a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Lego Adapter Turns Your iPhone Into a Touchscreen Brick

There are already a few case options that will turn your iPhone into a platform for your Lego creations. But we much prefer this simpler and more elegant solution: a tiny adapter that plugs into your iPhone’s Lightning port, making it compatible with your mountains of plastic bricks. https://gizmodo.com/lego-iphone-cases-re-define-brick-phone-5984384 So you can either use your…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Using quantum mechanics to detect bombs

How do you harmlessly reveal bombs that can be triggered by a single photon? With the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester. It’s a hypothetical tester meant to test some highly hypothetical bombs. In theory, it makes a point about quantum mechanics. In practice, it actually works. Imagine a group of bombs that blow up with the detection…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What Is PRISM (aka the NSA Mega Spying Network)?

Gizmodo dissects PRISM, “the secret government program that gives the NSA unprecedented access to the servers of major tech companies [with their cooperation]. With it the agency can spy on unwitting US citizens with terrifying granularity. Shockingly enough, it’s totally legal.” https://gizmodo.com/what-is-prism-511875267

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Report: AT&T and Sprint Are Working With the NSA, Too (Duh)

The Wall Street Journal reports unnamed sources, which claim that Verizon isn’t the only telecom turning over extensive phone records to the NSA. The agency’s logging includes “call data” from AT&T and Sprint as well as information from ISPs and credit card records. If you’ve been following this week’s disclosures about the NSA’s expansive spying…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

Slo-Mo Lightning Footage Is Why High Speed Cameras Were Invented

The odds of capturing a lightning bolt on a high-speed camera in the wild are probably pretty similar to getting hit yourself—slim to nil. So to vastly improve their chances, the slo-mo team at BBC Earth Productions visited the Morgan-Botti Lightning Lab in England where the electrifying bolts are produced every day. The lightning they…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The first Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel trailer is delightfully fun

When Spider-Man, Thor, Hulk and Iron Man all lose their superpowers, there’s only one thing to do: Exercise a bit of corporate synergy and guest star in the Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel summer special. This trailer is unsurprisingly fun, but it surprisingly fat-packed with other Marvelites, including Venom, Red Skull, Whiplash and even MODOK,…

Trailers Rob Bricken

The experiment that first hinted at the existence of DNA

In the early 1900s, scientists were puzzled by the behavior of bacteria. They seemed to pick up the traits of their fallen comrades, but that wasn’t possible, right? In a simple experiment, Frederick Griffith showed that it was, through something he dubbed the “transforming principle.” To prove that bacteria could change themselves if exposed to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What Is PRISM?

Last night, the Washington Post and Guardian dropped concurrent bombshell reports. Their subject was PRISM, a covert collaboration between the NSA, FBI, and nearly every tech company you rely on daily. PRISM has allowed the government unprecedented access to your personal information for at least the last six years. But what is it, exactly? PRISM…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Hacker Group Retaliates By Leaking Secret NSA Documents

In response to PRISM—the NSA and top tech companies’ spy network to capture all your calls, photos, videos and files—hacker group Anonymous has published 13 secret US government’s secret documents. These include documents about PRISM and the Department of Defense’s Strategic Vision for controlling the internet. https://gizmodo.com/nsa-surveillance-scandal-feds-shut-down-snowdens-secu-511588927

Sploid Jesus Diaz

These Mesmerizing Landscape Photos Turn Infrastructure into Art

The term “landscape photography” usually conjures up visions of green vistas and sublime natural landscapes. But photographer Toshio Shibita takes a different approach in his series, Constructed Landscapes. Rather than focusing on what’s natural about the landscape, he focuses on how humans have changed it. Bridges and waterfalls and things that resemble abandoned public works…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Facebook Is Finally Getting Rid of Obnoxious “Sponsored Stories”

It seems Facebook isn’t totally deaf to the cries of its unwashed masses. After a lot of complaining and some unfortunate lube endorsing, Facebook users are finally seeing the death of the dreaded “Sponsored Stories.” https://gizmodo.com/facebook-ads-turn-unsuspecting-man-into-spokesperson-fo-5888669 In fact, Facebook is getting rid of quite a few of its many ad formats. The current 27 flavors…

Social Media Ashley Feinberg

Slut Shaming and Concern Trolling in Geek Culture

Last month, science geek and costumer Emily Finke attended a sci fi convention dressed in a screen-accurate uniform from Star Trek: TOS, where she was met with microaggression, mock-concern and men intent on outing her as a Fake Geek Girl. So she decided to write something, “because I haven’t caused enough flame wars on the…

io9 Emily Finke – This View of Life

The Most Terrifying Anti Drunk Driving Stunt You’ll Ever See

Sometimes the best way to drive a point home is pure, abject terror. And that’s the approach Leo Burnett London used in this ad that shows a rather extreme way to discourage drinking and driving. Unsuspecting bathroom patrons at a British pub were shocked to see the face of a woman come smashing through the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Report: Sony Signs On for Apple iRadio In Advance of WWDC

AllThingsD reports that Apple has signed Sony Music on for iRadio, the long-rumored, ad-supported music service Apple has supposedly been working on for eons. Last month, reports circulated that Sony was the lone hold out amongst the major record companies stalling iRadio; Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group had reportedly already signed on. If…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Sorry, but these pot heads did not send marijuana into space

Late last week, a group of marijuana enthusiasts claimed that they had used a balloon to send a capsule of pot seeds, a plant, and a joint into space. Yeah, dream on, guys — and lay off the Pineapple kush. TheSeedHub claims that their balloon reached a final altitude of 95,000 feet (19 miles) before…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Purge could be this year’s most hamfisted political movie

Dangerous San Onofre Nuclear Plant Finally Shutting Down

Pics of actors laughing between takes are instant smiles

Today in ruined childhoods: No Country for Old Muppets

The British Army’s New Tank-Bulldozer Hybrid Is Freakin’ Amazing

Lego Adapter Turns Your iPhone Into a Touchscreen Brick

Using quantum mechanics to detect bombs

What Is PRISM (aka the NSA Mega Spying Network)?

Report: AT&T and Sprint Are Working With the NSA, Too (Duh)

Slo-Mo Lightning Footage Is Why High Speed Cameras Were Invented

The first Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel trailer is delightfully fun

The experiment that first hinted at the existence of DNA

What Is PRISM?

Hacker Group Retaliates By Leaking Secret NSA Documents

These Mesmerizing Landscape Photos Turn Infrastructure into Art

Facebook Is Finally Getting Rid of Obnoxious “Sponsored Stories”

Slut Shaming and Concern Trolling in Geek Culture

The Most Terrifying Anti Drunk Driving Stunt You’ll Ever See

Report: Sony Signs On for Apple iRadio In Advance of WWDC

Sorry, but these pot heads did not send marijuana into space

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