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Suicide Squad 2 Has Lost Yet Another Director

Suicide Squad, a bad movie, made quite a bit of money—meaning that regardless of how little most people cared for it, Warner Bros. never doubted the possibility of making a sequel. According to a new report from Deadline, though, the studio continues to have trouble finding a director. Jaume Collet-Serra, the most recent name to…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 31

io9’s Winter Forecast Takes on Game of Thrones‘ Stark-Targaryen Get-Together

io9’s Winter Forecast is back! This week, hosts Beth Elderkin and Katharine Trendacosta break down whether the first meeting between Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen lived up to the hype, why the latest Stark reunion was awkward as hell, and that Casterly Rock reveal no one saw coming. Check in for io9’s live breakdown of…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 31

Every Voting Machine at This Hacking Conference Got Totally Pwned

A noisy cheer went up from the crowd of hackers clustered around the voting machine tucked into the back corner of a casino conference room—they’d just managed to load Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” onto the WinVote, effectively rickrolling democracy. The hack was easy to execute. Two of the hackers working on the…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Jul 31

Someone Hacked Into HBO and Is Now Releasing Game of Thrones Info

It’s cyber deja vu time in Hollywood. HBO just confirmed that hackers broke into their servers and stole an unknown quantity of data. Now, unreleased episodes of Ballers and Room 104 have appeared online as well a script that looks an awful lot like next week’s Game of Thrones episode. This is not a drill.…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes Jul 31

Zazie Beetz Came Dressed to Kill as Domino for Deadpool 2

We don’t know all that much about Deadpool 2 right now other than the fact that it’s happening, Josh Brolin has been working out like a madman to become Cable, and that it’s probably going to be just as bloody as the first. Today, though, Ryan Reynolds took to Twitter to give us our first…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 31

There’s an Easter Egg Hidden in the Ready Player One Movie Logo

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One looks like it’s going to be one of those movies we keep finding secrets and Easter eggs in years after its release. But it turns out one of the first has been hiding in the film’s official logo since it was released a few weeks ago. Do you…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Jul 31

Bummer News For Future Humans Hoping to Escape to Europa

Humans hoping to launch themselves to another planet or even into the Sun are sadly out of luck—for now. But in a few billion years, when the Sun becomes a red giant and destroys our terrestrial oceans, future folk will hypothetically be able to make their homes elsewhere. Saturn and Jupiter’s icy moons—Enceladus and Europa,…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta Jul 31

New Technique Creates Stunning 3D Images of Live Insects

When taking high-resolution 3D scans of insects, scientists typically have to kill their test subjects, which isn’t always ideal. By taking advantage of an insect’s ability to survive oxygen-poor conditions, scientists have now used carbon dioxide to keep bugs in a state of suspended animation for upwards of seven hours at a time—and with no…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jul 31

Looks Like Apple Leaked Details of the New iPhone in the HomePod Firmware [Updated]

If you had any doubts about Apple releasing a bezel-free iPhone in September, you can probably throw those out the window. The company just pushed out a version of the HomePod firmware, and not only does the code tell us more about how Apple’s smart speaker will work, it also offers a few clues about…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 31

Your Kitchen Sponge Contains More Bacteria Than Any Other Object in Your House

By this point, it shouldn’t surprise you to know that the world is full of bacteria. But the numbers can still be baffling. Take your body: it probably has 37 trillion cells or so, and maybe the same number of bacterial cells. Now think about your kitchen sponge. I don’t care if you want to…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 31

Last Night’s Game of Thrones and the Impossible Expectations of Ice Meeting Fire

About a million things happened on “The Queen’s Justice” last night, but there’s only thing that really matters—the long, long, long-awaited moment where the King in the North met the Mother of Dragons, and the series’ two main characters finally came face-to-face. The scene could not have been more anticipated… and maybe that was the…

Television Rob Bricken Jul 31

We’re Not Totally Sure How Much the Planet Will Warm This Century—But We Still Need to Act

It’s a well-worn fact that our round Earth is warming, and that human carbon emissions are the cause. What’s less well-known is how much warming we’ve already committed our planet to in the future. A new study crunched some numbers and came to an alarming answer—but other experts are already criticizing its approach, reminding us…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Jul 31

Watch 5,000 Jedi Completely Wipe Out 25,000 Soldiers and the Horses They’re Riding

Jedi were supposed to be the peaceful protectors of the galaxy, only resorting to fighting when needed, or whenever a conversation at a bar got too heated. But thanks to a PC game called Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator, we can finally watch the Jedi become the galaxy’s biggest bullies. We last saw the Jedi wipe…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Jul 31

The 5 Tasks You Should Automate As Soon As You Get a New Phone

You’ve probably got enough on your plate without wasting time on phone chores that could be running automatically—like clearing out old photos, muting and unmuting your handset, posting to all of your social media accounts at once, and so on. Here are five automations you can set up quickly and for free as soon as…

Gadgets David Nield Jul 31

Starz’s Hopes for American Gods‘ Future Requires Them to Get Extra Creative

During his presentation at this year’s Television Critics Association press junket, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht was open about the network’s desire to keep the success it saw with the first season of American Gods moving forward as it looks to the future. Ideally, Albrecht said, American Gods would go on indefinitely. After being stuck in…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 31

Neil Armstrong’s Solid Gold Moon Lander Replica Stolen From Museum

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for priceless artifacts from NASA history. First, a moon-dusted sample bag from Apollo 11 was privately auctioned, and now a solid gold moon lander replica that was gifted to Neil Armstrong in 1969 has been stolen from his museum. On Sunday, a NASA investigator worried that the thieves…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jul 31

Star Trek: Discovery Will Include Tribbles Because, At This Point, Sure, Why Not?

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Star Trek: Discovery, a weird conglomeration of good impulses and bad choices. What is it about Tribbles that everyone feels the need to include them in their prequels? At a press conference, executive producer Alex Kurtzman teased the return of the furry balls with “Yes, Tribbles, yes.” Which…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jul 31

Watch This Heroic Captain Use His Boat’s Powerful Jet Stream to Put Out a Massive Fire

It doesn’t take long for a grass fire to turn into a raging inferno that sweeps through entire forests, so a pair of quick-thinking boaters in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, used their jet boat to create a massive rooster tail that helped douse the flames before firefighters arrived on scene. Tasha Hunt and Koyne Watson’s…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 31

This $590,000 iPhone Robbery Sounds Like the Craziest Heist Movie

A year-long manhunt ended last weekend, when police arrested a gang of five Romanian stunt thieves near a large collection of Van Gogh paintings in the Netherlands. In their hideout, the cops found $590,000 worth of iPhones that the suspects allegedly lifted off the back of a truck—while it was barreling down a highway. Dutch…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 31

Blade Runner 2049 Will Be Missing One Much-Hated Element From the Original

Joe Mangianello is very close-lipped about The Batman. Some Marvel concept has been revealed to the world at large. And news about when Misha Collins will return to Supernatural. Spoilers ahead! Blade Runner 2049 In an interview with Collider, Denis Villeneuve confirmed there will be no narration in the film. That’s a joke I made…

Television James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson Jul 31

Suicide Squad 2 Has Lost Yet Another Director

io9’s Winter Forecast Takes on Game of Thrones‘ Stark-Targaryen Get-Together

Every Voting Machine at This Hacking Conference Got Totally Pwned

Someone Hacked Into HBO and Is Now Releasing Game of Thrones Info

Zazie Beetz Came Dressed to Kill as Domino for Deadpool 2

There’s an Easter Egg Hidden in the Ready Player One Movie Logo

Bummer News For Future Humans Hoping to Escape to Europa

New Technique Creates Stunning 3D Images of Live Insects

Looks Like Apple Leaked Details of the New iPhone in the HomePod Firmware [Updated]

Your Kitchen Sponge Contains More Bacteria Than Any Other Object in Your House

Last Night’s Game of Thrones and the Impossible Expectations of Ice Meeting Fire

We’re Not Totally Sure How Much the Planet Will Warm This Century—But We Still Need to Act

Watch 5,000 Jedi Completely Wipe Out 25,000 Soldiers and the Horses They’re Riding

The 5 Tasks You Should Automate As Soon As You Get a New Phone

Starz’s Hopes for American Gods‘ Future Requires Them to Get Extra Creative

Neil Armstrong’s Solid Gold Moon Lander Replica Stolen From Museum

Star Trek: Discovery Will Include Tribbles Because, At This Point, Sure, Why Not?

Watch This Heroic Captain Use His Boat’s Powerful Jet Stream to Put Out a Massive Fire

This $590,000 iPhone Robbery Sounds Like the Craziest Heist Movie

Blade Runner 2049 Will Be Missing One Much-Hated Element From the Original

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