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The Laughing He-Man Meme Is Finally Getting the Action Figure It Rightly Deserves

We can cancel San Diego Comic-Con 2018 now. I’m not sure anything at the con can top this. Today, Super7 announced its bushel of Masters of the Universe retro exclusives for Comic-Con 2018, and there’s some fun stuff—ReAction styled She-Ra, Princess of Power figures, little collectible She-Ra miniatures, and then… oh, and then. Then there’s…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 26

Well This Is the Weirdest iPhone Rumor We’ve Heard in a While

With the massive success of Apple’s AirPods, reports about a new pair of premium, wireless earbuds and over-the-ear headphones arriving in 2019 already seem like a forgone conclusion. However, if a report from the Nikkei is true, the future of Apple’s AirPods might not be as obvious as we thought. That’s because, according to Nikkei’s…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Jun 26

Canadian Music Festival on Hold Due to a Single Nesting Bird

Birds couldn’t care less about your human entertainment, and a killdeer certainly isn’t going to change its breeding plans to accommodate Ottawa’s annual Bluesfest music festival. CNN reports: This year, preparations for the festival are on hold to protect one very special attendee: a mother bird and her nest. Workers discovered the bird, a killdeer,…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jun 26

Judge Hands Oil Companies a Win in High Profile Climate Lawsuit

Some cities think oil companies should foot the bill for their climate change impacts. At least one judge begs to differ. District Court Judge William Alsup in San Francisco dismissed a major climate lawsuit Monday that the cities of San Francisco and Oakland filed against Big Oil bros like ExxonMobil, BP, and Chevron last year. The…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jun 26

A Single Cable Promises to Charge Your iOS and Android Devices

Back in 2014, we were duly impressed with the inCharge, which made it easy to keep a tiny emergency USB charging cable on your keyring. Four years later, its creators have found a way to improve the inCharge with a new version featuring a connector that works with both Lightning and microUSB ports so you…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 26

The Alien Ain’t Messing Around in the New Trailer for The Predator

The newest promo clip for Shane Black’s upcoming film The Predator shows us the extraterrestrial hunter in all his bloody, click-noise-making glory. The tone of the original Predator movie is strong in these sequences, with a crew of military badasses who give each other shit and the creepy inevitability of death by a creature from beyond…

io9 Evan Narcisse Jun 26

Arrow‘s Next Season Could Borrow Some Ideas From the Canceled Green Arrow Movie

It: Chapter 2 keeps casting its adult heroes. Gemma Chan gives us a sneak peek of her Captain Marvel character. Kevin Feige hints at the possibility of the Young Avengers coming to the MCU. Plus, what’s to come on The 100, and more casting for Amazon’s adaptation of The Boys. To me, my Spoilers! It:…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 26

Poncho the Spanish Police Dog Goes Viral For Showing Off His CPR Skills

It’s rough out there for humans right now. But at least we have dogs to cheer us up. This police dog in Spain, a very good boy named Poncho, has gone viral after demonstrating his CPR skills. The video, which was originally posted to Twitter by Madrid Police, has been viewed over 2.3 million times…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 26

Scott Pruitt Was So Sloppy Telling Oil Execs and Cronies He Could Get Them Hired, It’s Embarrassing

Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s scandal-mired EPA chief and a man so committed to destroying his own agency that he’s willing to have dinner with accused child predators that also don’t believe in climate change, somehow managed to be even dumber and lazier about stacking the EPA with cronies and energy industry shills than one might…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 26

Performance Artist Separates Money From Dupes With $38 Bottles of Miracle ‘Hot Dog Water’

Here’s something to give even Goop’s “bio-frequency healing” stickers a run for the money of various rubes: A Canadian man successfully sold slickly marketed bottles of water with hot dogs in them as a miraculous cure-all for whatever ails customers at exorbitant prices. Per Yahoo News and Insider, at Vancouver’s Car-Free Day festival earlier this…

Health Tom McKay Jun 25

‘Machine Learning President’ Designers Have No Idea How the Mercers Got Their Game

When a group of about 40 players first tested out a live game called the Machine Learning President at a private event in San Francisco this February, they were unaware that the game would end up memorialized in the pages of The New Yorker. But during a ski vacation in March, the Republican mega-donor Rebekah…

Games Kate Conger Jun 25

These Preacher Statues Are Alarmingly Realistic

Preacher is back for a third season, but if you just can’t wait from week to week to have Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy hanging around, now you can have them around permanently. Mondo has teamed with AMC and artist Rory Kurtz to make two stunning statues from Preacher. The first is of Jesse, played by…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 25

Witness the First Time Thrawn Encounters a Familiar Star Wars Hero in This New Novel Excerpt

Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn—one of the best new novels to come out of Disney’s rebooted Star Wars canon—gave us some wonderful insight as to how the mysterious Chiss tactician encountered the Empire, rising through Imperial ranks to become the Grand Admiral we saw in Rebels. Now, the follow up is showing us an even earlier part…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 25

Salesforce Workers Urge CEO to ‘Re-Examine’ Work With Customs and Border Protection

Protests from within the technology industry continue as hundreds of employees at Salesforce have requested that the company’s leadership reassess its work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) following reports that authorities have separated thousands of children from their parents at the U.S–Mexico border. In a letter addressed to Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s co-founder and…

Tech News Andrew Couts Jun 25

Kevin Feige Teases Why Certain Characters Survived Avengers: Infinity War

The instant fans walked out of Avengers: Infinity War, we all started speculating. How did that happen? Is that character really gone? Can these events be reversed? Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, of course, wasn’t answering those questions when he spoke to io9 this week. But he did offer an interesting tease about the people…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 25

These Samsung Galaxy S10 Rumors Actually Sound Pretty Great

According to some under-the-radar news outlets, there’s a lot to look forward to when it comes to Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S10 smartphone. The rumored device is expected to ship next year with a number of new features that would help it stand out in a world filled with iPhone X offspring and decent, low-cost phones.…

Gadgets Patrick Lucas Austin Jun 25

Dude Talked So Much Shit Online About This Company, He’s Going to Jail—Again

A man in Texas has really shown up the legion of shitposters online. He’s gone to prison not once, but twice for writing a number of damaging posts online about a financial firm. In 2016, William Stanley was sentenced to 37 months in prison after he threatened to post negative reviews online about Generational Equity…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jun 25

The Debut Teaser For A Discovery of Witches Mixes Magic and Melodrama

It’s the sexy story of forbidden love between a vampire and… anything that’s not a vampire. Man, the undead really are a bigoted bunch, aren’t they? The first look at Sky One’s new series A Discovery of Witches is here, promising sexual tension, dramatic head turns, and Ser Alliser Thorne from Game of Thrones getting…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jun 25

This Woman’s Horrifying Selfies Helped Track the Parasitic Worm Crawling in Her Face

A woman’s selfies helped her monitor the movements of an unwelcome guest: a roving parasitic worm living in her face. Thankfully, doctors were able to get the pesky pest—which she likely caught overseas from a mosquito—out of her body without any problems. The woman’s unsettling story was detailed in a case report published by her…

Health Ed Cara Jun 25

Changing NOAA’s Vision to Exclude Climate Has Been a Long Time Coming

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) appears to be on its way to being Trumpified. No, it’s not getting encased in gold. Instead, climate and conservation are out, the economy and national security are in. The Commerce Department recently held a “Vision Setting Summit” where Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, NOAA’s acting administrator talked about…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jun 25

The Laughing He-Man Meme Is Finally Getting the Action Figure It Rightly Deserves

Well This Is the Weirdest iPhone Rumor We’ve Heard in a While

Canadian Music Festival on Hold Due to a Single Nesting Bird

Judge Hands Oil Companies a Win in High Profile Climate Lawsuit

A Single Cable Promises to Charge Your iOS and Android Devices

The Alien Ain’t Messing Around in the New Trailer for The Predator

Arrow‘s Next Season Could Borrow Some Ideas From the Canceled Green Arrow Movie

Poncho the Spanish Police Dog Goes Viral For Showing Off His CPR Skills

Scott Pruitt Was So Sloppy Telling Oil Execs and Cronies He Could Get Them Hired, It’s Embarrassing

Performance Artist Separates Money From Dupes With $38 Bottles of Miracle ‘Hot Dog Water’

‘Machine Learning President’ Designers Have No Idea How the Mercers Got Their Game

These Preacher Statues Are Alarmingly Realistic

Witness the First Time Thrawn Encounters a Familiar Star Wars Hero in This New Novel Excerpt

Salesforce Workers Urge CEO to ‘Re-Examine’ Work With Customs and Border Protection

Kevin Feige Teases Why Certain Characters Survived Avengers: Infinity War

These Samsung Galaxy S10 Rumors Actually Sound Pretty Great

Dude Talked So Much Shit Online About This Company, He’s Going to Jail—Again

The Debut Teaser For A Discovery of Witches Mixes Magic and Melodrama

This Woman’s Horrifying Selfies Helped Track the Parasitic Worm Crawling in Her Face

Changing NOAA’s Vision to Exclude Climate Has Been a Long Time Coming

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