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Star Wars Resistance Is the Next Lucasfilm Animated Series and the Details Are Absolutely Incredible

After Star Wars Rebels came to an end earlier this year, we knew the next chapter of Star Wars animation was close, and now we know exactly what it is. And it’s extremely exciting. The new chapter in Lucasfilm’s world is leaving behind the age of the Rebellion to tell a new saga set in…

Television James Whitbrook Apr 26

Riding Along With a Log Through a Saw Mill Is Absolutely Terrifying

It’s not uncommon for cartoon characters to find themselves unwittingly dragged through all the chaos of a saw mill. From the audience’s perspective, it’s usually hilarious. But when you send a small camera on a log through a saw mill, scary doesn’t even begin to describe the experience of being pulled through all that machinery.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Apr 26

Mysterious New Star Trek, Cloverfield, and A Quiet Place Sequels Are in Development

Jim Gianopulos, the head of Paramount Pictures, took the occasion of CinemaCon 2018 to announce some major sequels in development at the studio. We’ll be seeing more of Star Trek, Cloverfield, and the recent horror hit A Quiet Place. First up, Gianopulos mentioned that development on a sequel to A Quiet Place has begun but…

io9 Germain Lussier Apr 26

Snapchat Offers Precisely Zero Good Reasons Why You Should Buy Its New Spectacles

Just in time for spring, Snap has released a new version of its original Spectacles, after FCC filings unveiled a bit more about the upcoming pair of camera sunglasses. You’ll also be happy to know, if you wrote them off entirely due to their garish appearance, that you made the right choice. These Spectacles look…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Apr 26

This Cassette Tape Simulator Makes Your MP3s Sound Like You’re Listening to a Retro Walkman

Released in 1979, the original Sony Walkman completely changed how people listened to music. Your tunes were free to go anywhere—and sound like complete garbage. The quality of music on cassette tapes can’t compete to today’s digital formats, but if people still like the sound of crackly records, surely there are people who miss the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 26

Hurricanes Bring Invasive Species, and These Maps Preview Where

Pollution isn’t the only thing the 2017 hurricane season spread far and wide. Plants and animals were sloshed around by the storms too, and some wound up far from home, setting the stage for new ecological invasions. That’s why the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has spent the past six months putting together a series of…

Conservation Maddie Stone Apr 26

Another Stephen King Classic Is Being Turned Into a Movie

Meet the stars of the new Kim Possible movie. George Lucas talks about the politics of scifi in a new clip from James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction. Plus, teeny new snippets of Avengers: Infinity War and Solo: A Star Wars Story footage, and what’s to come on Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Gotham. To…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 26

German Leader Angela Merkel Still Way Too Friendly With Robots

It’s still weird, isn’t it? German Chancellor Angela Merkel is palling around with robots at every opportunity, with her most recent robo-encounter happening just yesterday on ‘Girl’s Day’ at the chancellery in Berlin. Does Merkel know something that we don’t about the impending robot uprising? Probably. Will she finally tell us what’s going on? Almost…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 26

Air Force Launches First ICBM Test of the Year in Lead Up to Talks Between US and North Korea

The US Air Force conducted America’s first successful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test of the year, firing an unarmed Minuteman III from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California yesterday morning. The missile landed in the Pacific Ocean at an undisclosed location. The test comes in the wake of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un proclaiming…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 26

Google Maps Has Launched a Feature to Flag Prescription Drug Disposal Sites

Google has partnered with the Drug Enforcement Administration to mark locations where people can safely dispose of excess prescription drugs on its Maps platform, the company announced in a blog post on Wednesday. The search giant wrote that prescription drugs are a driver of opioid addiction and that the “majority of abused prescription drugs are…

Tech News Tom McKay Apr 25

Twitter: Kanye Allegedly Losing 9 Million Followers Was an ‘Inconsistency,’ Not That Other Thing

The voracious hell mouth of Twitter opened up on Wednesday and promptly swallowed whole hip hop artist, mogul, and level one RPG character Kanye West, who spent much of the day in an increasingly ill-advised tweetstorm praising and declaring his “dragon energy” brotherhood with President Donald Trump. While this was all going on, Twitter users…

Tech News Tom McKay Apr 25

Disney’s Extremely Weird Force Jacket Simulates the Feeling of Turning Into the Hulk

Are you cool with hugs? What about the most all-encompassing hug you’ve ever had? That just about sums up how Disney Research’s new force feedback jacket works. Using inflatable airbags, it can simulate physical experiences when you’re lost in VR, like getting hit by a snowball, or turning into a muscular beefcake in just a…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Apr 25

Nickelodeon’s Double Dare Is Getting a Reboot and Reminds Us It Was a Slime Dunk From the Start

Get ready to pick so many giant noses. Nickelodeon has announced it’s rebooting the classic game show Double Dare, set to return this summer. According to Deadline, the network has ordered 40 episodes of a new Double Dare game show, which will reprise the gameplay and challenges from the original series (hopefully with the same…

io9 Beth Elderkin Apr 25

Flayed Corpse Is Full of Horror Stories You’ll Feel Guilty for Laughing at

The stories inside horror anthology Flayed Corpse and Other Stories feature unseen terrors killing people in horrifying ways, and lifelong cape comics enemies farting in each other’s presence. It may gross you out at times, but the weird mix of humor, gore, and psychological exploration is also hard to walk away from. Written by Josh…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse Apr 25

Searching for ‘Cat Meat’ on Yelp Brought Up Chinese Restaurants Until Today

Yelp’s algorithms are being criticized after search results implied Korean and Chinese restaurants were serving diners dogs and cats. In cities across the US, Yelp suggested Korean and Chinese restaurants when “dog meat” or “cat meat” was entered into the search bar, alluding to a longstanding stereotype about East Asian restaurants in America. The Tampa…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Apr 25

Wonderful, Digg Is Now Owned by an Advertising Company

Digg has been sold by its former owner, Betaworks, to ad-tech company BuySellAds for an undisclosed amount. The story, first reported by FastCompany, comes nearly a month after the news aggregation site shut down its RSS client Digg Reader. You could call this sale the death of an internet icon, but that happened when the…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Apr 25

Asteroids Really Could Have Brought Water to Earth, Experiment With Giant Rock Blaster Shows

You may have heard the theory that asteroids are responsible for Earth’s water. You may also have thought, hah, there’s no way that asteroids could have brought all that water to Earth. But fake asteroid impacts are now demonstrating that, yeah, maybe they did. Scientists from Brown University have found that the melted rocks from…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 25

The Organization That Has Run America’s Organ Transplants for 32 Years Finally Has Competition

For more than three decades, the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing has run America’s organ transplant system, matching organs with those who need them thanks to a contract with the United States government. But critics have contended the UNOS, which raked in nearly $58 million in revenue in 2015, is inefficient and resistant to…

Health Kristen V. Brown Apr 25

Marvel’s Kevin Feige Thought Only Comic Book Nerds Would Stay for Post-Credits Scenes

Whenever the credits roll on a movie showing these days, you’ve probably noticed that while some people get up and leave, a lot—perhaps even yourself among them—stay put. Whether it’s Marvel, DC, or any other big franchise, audiences have been trained to wait for a little snippet at the very end. Marvel Studios head Kevin…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 25

What Happened When a Portland Hospital Started Treating Addiction Like Any Other Illness

Over the past few years, a hospital in Portland, Oregon has dramatically shifted its approach to treating patients with substance use disorders, including opioid addiction. And since then, the hospital has undergone a “sea change” in the way its medical staff think about and address addiction, according to a study published Wednesday in Journal of…

Health Ed Cara Apr 25

Star Wars Resistance Is the Next Lucasfilm Animated Series and the Details Are Absolutely Incredible

Riding Along With a Log Through a Saw Mill Is Absolutely Terrifying

Mysterious New Star Trek, Cloverfield, and A Quiet Place Sequels Are in Development

Snapchat Offers Precisely Zero Good Reasons Why You Should Buy Its New Spectacles

This Cassette Tape Simulator Makes Your MP3s Sound Like You’re Listening to a Retro Walkman

Hurricanes Bring Invasive Species, and These Maps Preview Where

Another Stephen King Classic Is Being Turned Into a Movie

German Leader Angela Merkel Still Way Too Friendly With Robots

Air Force Launches First ICBM Test of the Year in Lead Up to Talks Between US and North Korea

Google Maps Has Launched a Feature to Flag Prescription Drug Disposal Sites

Twitter: Kanye Allegedly Losing 9 Million Followers Was an ‘Inconsistency,’ Not That Other Thing

Disney’s Extremely Weird Force Jacket Simulates the Feeling of Turning Into the Hulk

Nickelodeon’s Double Dare Is Getting a Reboot and Reminds Us It Was a Slime Dunk From the Start

Flayed Corpse Is Full of Horror Stories You’ll Feel Guilty for Laughing at

Searching for ‘Cat Meat’ on Yelp Brought Up Chinese Restaurants Until Today

Wonderful, Digg Is Now Owned by an Advertising Company

Asteroids Really Could Have Brought Water to Earth, Experiment With Giant Rock Blaster Shows

The Organization That Has Run America’s Organ Transplants for 32 Years Finally Has Competition

Marvel’s Kevin Feige Thought Only Comic Book Nerds Would Stay for Post-Credits Scenes

What Happened When a Portland Hospital Started Treating Addiction Like Any Other Illness

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