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Shanzhai Biennial: Dark Optimism

This song, like the dress and the woman wearing it, is the sincerest form of flattery. In that they’re all shameless knockoffs. Everything about this music video from Shanzhai Biennial, a trio of artists—Cyril Duval, Babak Radboy and Avena Gallagher—posing as a “multinational brand posing as an art-project posing as an multinational brand posing as…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

New Flickr Walkthrough: So Pretty, So Much, So Free

After languishing for years as a neglected acquisition, Flickr has finally been given the jumpstart it so desperately needed and deserved. As of right now, not only to you get a free terabyte of storage and extremely high res photo uploads, you get it in pretty stellar package. Here’s what you’re dealing with. https://gizmodo.com/flashback-how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-interne-508852335 While…

Tech News Michael Hession

Watch Chris Hadfield MacGyver Up a Game of Space Darts

You thought Chris Hadfield turned his back on us when he left the ISS earlier this month, didn’t you? For shame, internet patron, for shame. Hadfield may be safely back on Earth, but the otherworldly videos continue to surface. And in this one, you get to see him make himself a game of darts MacGyver…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg

Teen Wolf trailer unleashes the Alpha Werewolf Pack

Here it is — the very first Teen Wolf trailer with footage from the new season, and it’s stuffed with hairy man-candy. Teen Wolf, the show that started off bad but then surprised us all when it turned into an interesting drama with sexy menfolk, returns for a third season. And now there’s a new…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Read This Week’s DVDs or this catbus will eat these children

He’ll do it, too! This catbus is a monster! A giant, furry, adorable monster who stars in the greatest kids’ movie of all time! Plus sexy vampires, underage werewolves, badass bike messengers and more, all in this week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases! • My Neighbor Totoro Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved anime masterpiece is, without question, the…

io9 Rob Bricken

Limelight: Share Your Carefully Crafted Movie Collection With the World

Nearly everyone and their grandmother has at least some sort of streaming service at their fingertips—or at the very least, they have a streaming service that someone is letting them mooch off of. But despite the prominence of Netflix, Hulu, and the like, there’s still a good number of cinephiles out there who still love…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

If Earth Had a Ring Like Saturn

Our planet is lucky enough to have a large moon orbiting not too far away, which makes for very pretty moonlit nights. But for spectacular skies it might almost be worth trading in our moon for a ring like Saturn’s. In fact, the earth did once have a ring—as part of the formation of our…

io9 Ron Miller

Tokyo Has Never Sounded This Incredible

What do you get when you combine a 1:1000-scale model of Tokyo, 3D video projection mapping and catchy techno riffs? Three minutes of awesome, that’s what. To celebrate the ten year anniversary of its opening, the Roppongi Hills complex (part high-rise residences, part shopping district, part entertainment venue) created this wicked cool short, Tokyo City…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Holy crap the inside of this meteorite is gorgeous

Most people know perfectly well that rocks minerals can look incredible on the inside – but this cross-sectional view of a meteorite still caught us by surprise. The space rock pictured above is a chunk of the Alvord Meteorite, discovered in Iowa in 1976. The criss-crossing, internal structure seen here is known as the Widmanstätten…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Watch Leap Motion Turn a Windows 8 Rig Into a Futuristic Dream Machine

We’ve already seen what the Leap Motion can do in apps that support it, but it stands to make your everyday OS-level boredom into a futuristic gesture-controlled wonderland too. This new video shows exactly what kind of applications you can look forward to on your Windows 8 machine, at it seems at least as cool…

Tech News Eric Limer

Could you stop tornados before they start?

Oklahoma has been ravaged by a massive, mile-wide tornado, with more predicted to come. We talked about the megastorms with atmospheric scientist Karen Kosiba, whose work is showcased in documentary Tornado Alley. Kosiba is a researcher at the Center for Severe Weather Research in Colorado, where she studies ground-level conditions during tornadoes. She has also…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Flickr’s Massive Redesign: Full-Res Photos, a Terabyte of Free Storage

Sure, Yahoo just about killed Flickr, but today it’s trying to restore its former glory. Just after the company this morning announced its $1.1 billion dollar acquisition of Tumblr, it showed off a completely redesigned version of Flickr with giant photos and more storage than you probably even need. https://gizmodo.com/flashback-how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-interne-508852335 Here’s what’s up: Flickr’s web…

Tech News Leslie Horn

That Time American School Kids Were Given Dog Tags Because of Nukes

In the early 1950s cities across the U.S. spent hundreds of thousands of dollars outfitting their children with military-style dog tags. Why were we giving kids something that’s usually reserved for people at risk of dying horrifically in the line of duty? Because in the era of duck and cover, kids were on the front…

Tech News Matt Novak

Charts reveal what Americans consider the most immoral acts

Polling organization Gallup has just released some fascinating statistics on how Americans ideas about immorality have changed over the past twelve years. Those who consider homosexuality immoral are now in the minority. But other kinds of moral outrage never change. Below, you can see a chart tracking the percent that moral opinions change over time.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Which science fiction TV show do you wish you could personally reboot?

The history of science fiction television is full of shows that have a lot of wonderful stuff… but you just know they could be even more awesome if someone seized their raw potential with both hands. Which classic TV show do you wish you could personally make a new version of? As always, please include…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

This Kingdom Come fan-film > DC’s non-existent Justice League movie

Sure, this fan-made trailer for a Kingdom Come movie doesn’t have the best effects, the actors aren’t pros, and perhaps Superman has a hilarious country accent. But the guys behind it actually managed to put multiple DC heroes on screen at the same time, which is better than DC or WB has ever done. Advantage:…

io9 Rob Bricken

The Favorite Boozy Beverage of Classic Movie Characters, In One Chart

The Big Lebowski’s The Dude? White Russians. Silence of the Lambs’ Hannibal Lecter? Chianti. This awesome cocktail chart maps the drinks of choice for characters in classic books and movies. On an 18-inch by 24-inch print you’ll see a catalog of 49 different drinks from classic literature and film—everything from The Great Gatsby and Casablanca…

Tech News Leslie Horn

First Footage of an F-35B Taking Off Straight Into the Air

Finding a suitable runway to launch your multibillion dollar fighter jet from isn’t always as easy as it sounds. That’s why the F-35B Lightning II is designed to with the ability to both take off and land without ever needing to taxi. Here’s the first look at its vertical launch. Earlier this month at the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Jennifer Lawrence slips back into her Mystique skin on the X-Men set

Here’s your very first look at Mystique from X-Men: Days of Future Past! On the last movie it took Lawrence 7 hours in the makeup chair to transform into Mystique. Even though it’s only been a few years, Mystique does look a little older (even under all of that makeup). Can’t wait to see how…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Star Trek Into Darkness: The Spoiler FAQ

After making a mere $84 million at the U.S. box office, Star Trek Into Darkness is considered by some to be a disappointment. Perhaps the problem is that it was a touch confusing. To help our readers better understand it, we’ve complied and answered these Frequently Asked Questions about the movie. Maximum spoilers ahead… How…

Movies Rob Bricken

Shanzhai Biennial: Dark Optimism

New Flickr Walkthrough: So Pretty, So Much, So Free

Watch Chris Hadfield MacGyver Up a Game of Space Darts

Teen Wolf trailer unleashes the Alpha Werewolf Pack

Read This Week’s DVDs or this catbus will eat these children

Limelight: Share Your Carefully Crafted Movie Collection With the World

If Earth Had a Ring Like Saturn

Tokyo Has Never Sounded This Incredible

Holy crap the inside of this meteorite is gorgeous

Watch Leap Motion Turn a Windows 8 Rig Into a Futuristic Dream Machine

Could you stop tornados before they start?

Flickr’s Massive Redesign: Full-Res Photos, a Terabyte of Free Storage

That Time American School Kids Were Given Dog Tags Because of Nukes

Charts reveal what Americans consider the most immoral acts

Which science fiction TV show do you wish you could personally reboot?

This Kingdom Come fan-film > DC’s non-existent Justice League movie

The Favorite Boozy Beverage of Classic Movie Characters, In One Chart

First Footage of an F-35B Taking Off Straight Into the Air

Jennifer Lawrence slips back into her Mystique skin on the X-Men set

Star Trek Into Darkness: The Spoiler FAQ

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