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Batman: The Brave and The Bold gives us total Superman meme insanity

Last Friday, Batman: The Brave and The Bold delivered a zany episode that was chock full of references to baffling Silver Age Superman stories. Yes, Jimmy Olsen married a gorilla, and Superman wore his evil pope hat. Friday’s episode — “Battle of the Superheroes!” — marked the beginning of the end for The Brave and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

io9’s March Movie Madness Reaches The Elite Eight: 2001 Vs. The Empire Strikes Back – Polls Open Now!

It’s time to choose the sci-fi movie Final Four, and the choices have never been tougher. Star Wars has crushed everyone so far, but has it met its match in Arnold Schwarzenegger and Terminator 2? And can anything stop Serenity? We’re down to just eight films vying for a spot in our Final Four. And…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins and Meredith Woerner Mar 28

SugarSync 2.2 for iOS Lets You Remotely Manage Your Home Computer

SugarSync is the feature-laden cloud sharing iOS app, and now with version 2.2, you can manage files on your home computer, grab public links for sharing files, and stream music in the background. [SugarSync]

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 28

Nokia’s Iconic Phone Typeface Sent to the Grave

There’s a good chance you owned a Nokia phone at some point in your past—but even if not, the Nokia Sans typeface has become synonymous with the ubiquitous brand. Not anymore. Hoping to distance itself from itself, Nokia’s got a brand new bag—Nokia Pure, which looks sort of like the old Sans injected with Helvetica…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 28

10 Moments from Game of Thrones That We Hope the TV Version Includes

It’s the little moments of character-building and insight that make George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones such a spellbinding book. And there’s no way that HBO can make every incident fit into a ten-episode miniseries. But here’s hoping. With its huge cast of characters and its tangle of complicated intrigues, the first book of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 28

Fighting Fires With Zaps of Electricity

The fireman of the future won’t be a burly man holding a big hose, if Harvard scientists succeed with their research in this field. Instead, it’ll be a burly man with an electrified stick. Their work has focused on the 200 year old idea that sending pulses of electrically-charged air at the fire can actually…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 28

Neil Marshall’s working on a World War 2 alien invasion picture

Are you ready for Battle: Los Angeles meets Saving Private Ryan? The Descent director, Neil Marshall, has been enchanted by the rash of alien invasion flicks. His next project might be an extraterrestrial invasion flick set in World War II. Live for Films nabbed the director and him to reveal the general plot to the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 28

The Next Mars Rover Won’t Have a 3D Camera

It was pretty cool to hear that James Cameron got NASA to put 3D cameras in Curiosity, the next Mars Rover. If 3D is good for anything, it’s exploring space and worlds we’ve never actually seen before (see: Avatar). But alas, NASA decided against it. https://gizmodo.com/next-mars-rover-to-include-3d-camera-thanks-to-james-ca-5527969 Why? Basically, NASA didn’t have enough time to go…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan Mar 28

Plutonium Found Outside Fukushima’s Reactors for the First Time

Plutonium has been discovered for the first time outside Fukushima’s reactor buildings. The radioactive material was found in the soil at five points of the nuclear plant. Most probably, the plutonium comes from reactor 3, which is powered by a mix of plutonium and uranium. This finding may confirm the breach on the primary containment…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 28

Sign Up for Dish Network, Get a Free Gun

In a deal that the southern part of our country would find irresistible, a Radio Shack in Hamilton, Montana is offering a free gun to every customer who signs up with Dish Network. Now I’ve been offered many things when signing my life away for cable—LCD TV’s, phones, iPads—but really? A gun?! Apparently, the offer…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 28

This is the week of Chewbacca!

Let the Wookiee win the battle for your TV remote this week. Chewbacca comes to Star Wars: The Clone Wars for its one-hour season finale. Also: Superjail! is back on Cartoon Network. Camelot makes King Arthur gritty. Plus there are new episodes of The Event, Adventure Time, Sym-Bionic Titan, Big Bang Theory, Batman: The Brave…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 28

Zombie Anatomy 101

A crack medical team has been sent to a remote island to explore a radical theory that could uncover a cure for the zombie epidemic. Based on the team’s research and the observations of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, The Zombie Autopsies documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms. Detailed…

io9 Sponsored post Mar 28

Richard Simmons Will Terrorize You into Safe Flying

Air New Zealand’s debuted a spiffy in-flight safety video, and it’s exactly what I’d want to watch right before takeoff—because nothing inspires calm and connotes stability like the spastic antics of glittery reanimated dance-corpse Richard Simmons. [via BuzzFeed]

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 28

At Last, A Superheroine Who Fights Against Herpes

This blonde woman is just a mild-mannered lady, until herpes strikes… and then she becomes the superheroine you see here. This new advertising campaign for cold-sore medication Herpotherm was filming in a German parking garage over the weekend. So yes, this is a treatment for cold sores inside the mouth, rather than other types of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 28

Fruit Ninja 3D: Virtual Reality Watermelon Murder

Your Fruit Ninja high score is irrelevant. In fact, no game of Fruit Ninja that you’ve played in your life so far matters anymore, not now that a motion tracking system, 5.1 surround sound, and a Wiimote have given the popular mobile game this insane virtual reality iteration. The only thing the CAVE—the Cave Automatic…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 28

Brain-computer implant has passed 1000-day milestone

A paralysed woman was still able to control a computer cursor with her thoughts 1000 days after having a tiny electronic device implanted in her brain, say researchers who devised the system. The achievement demonstrates the longevity of brain-machine implants. The woman, for whom the researchers use the pseudonym S3, had a brainstem stroke in…

io9 Helen Thomson - New Scientist Mar 28

Watch Jim Henson’s pre-Muppet Show pilot for the Wizard of Id

In 1969, Jim Henson created a test pilot for the medieval-themed comic strip The Wizard of Id. Check out a clip of this Muppet show that never was. Henson was a fan of the comic strip and actively sought to collaborate with the cartoon’s creator. Says The Henson Blog: In the summer of 1968, Jim…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 28

American Express Fashions New Android and iOS App Payment System

An American Express Serve app for both Android and iOS has been created for online purchases, paying bills and even person-to-person payments. The master account holder can create sub-accounts with spending limits—good for children, for example. There’ll also be an actual debit card issued for the main user too, so it’s not all done digitally.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 28

Launch the Alert Vipers: An exact replica of Starbuck’s Viper, signed by Katee Sackhoff!

You can’t own a real-life Viper from Battlestar Galactica — but this replica may be the next best thing. With hand-crafted details including a working DRADIS and pulsating engines. And they’re endorsed (and signed) by two of the show’s stars. Check out our exclusive first look at this gorgeous bird from Quantum Mechanix, the same…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 28

Chinese Blogger Arrested amid Online Revolutionary Suppression

In a country with iron-fisted speech policies like China, when bloggers start calling for a full-blown popular uprising, it’s a pretty dangerous time to be a blogger. That’s exactly what writer Ran Yunfei has found, arrested for his anti-government views. After Middle East revolts sparked some Hey, why not here, too commentary between China’s digital…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 28

Batman: The Brave and The Bold gives us total Superman meme insanity

io9’s March Movie Madness Reaches The Elite Eight: 2001 Vs. The Empire Strikes Back – Polls Open Now!

SugarSync 2.2 for iOS Lets You Remotely Manage Your Home Computer

Nokia’s Iconic Phone Typeface Sent to the Grave

10 Moments from Game of Thrones That We Hope the TV Version Includes

Fighting Fires With Zaps of Electricity

Neil Marshall’s working on a World War 2 alien invasion picture

The Next Mars Rover Won’t Have a 3D Camera

Plutonium Found Outside Fukushima’s Reactors for the First Time

Sign Up for Dish Network, Get a Free Gun

This is the week of Chewbacca!

Zombie Anatomy 101

Richard Simmons Will Terrorize You into Safe Flying

At Last, A Superheroine Who Fights Against Herpes

Fruit Ninja 3D: Virtual Reality Watermelon Murder

Brain-computer implant has passed 1000-day milestone

Watch Jim Henson’s pre-Muppet Show pilot for the Wizard of Id

American Express Fashions New Android and iOS App Payment System

Launch the Alert Vipers: An exact replica of Starbuck’s Viper, signed by Katee Sackhoff!

Chinese Blogger Arrested amid Online Revolutionary Suppression

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