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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

William Shatner Attacks Snowflakes, Social Justice Warriors, and Misandrists

William Shatner, perhaps best known as the narrator of the 1963 film Operation Bikini, is at it again. This time he’s taken aim at the snowflakes, misandrists, and social justice warriors (SJWs) that have annoyed him so much on Twitter. Despite his notable work on Operation Bikini, Shatner is also known to a small, cult…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 31

That Viral Photo of Theresa May With The Scream Painting is Totally Fake

Have you seen that photo of Theresa May and her fellow Tories in front of the Edvard Munch painting, The Scream? It’s going viral on Twitter at the moment. But sadly, it’s completely fake. The photo actually dates back to September 2016 and shows British Prime Minister Theresa May with 27 cabinet members. The photo…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 31

Game of Thrones Finally Gave Us the Moment We’ve All Been Waiting For

Man, I wish I hadn’t used the word “satisfying” to describe last week’s episode, because good lord, tonight—tonight was the night Game of Thrones fans (to say nothing of A Song of Ice and Fire fans!) have been looking forward to since the series began. Ice and Fire finally met in Dragonstone, and it was…

io9 Rob Bricken Jul 30

Travis Kalanick Is Already Plotting His Return to Power at Uber

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is down, but he somehow does not yet consider himself out, according to a Sunday report in the New York Times. Kalanick, who resigned in June amid widespread reports he let a culture of sexual harassment run rampant at the company and lawsuits by angry drivers, has apparently injected himself…

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 30

Watch Your Childhood Crumble as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Reenact Seinfeld‘s ‘Contest’

You’ll never think of teenage turtles the same way again. On the latest episode of Nerdist’s Talkin’ Toons, host and voice actor Rob Paulsen reunited with his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles buddies to voice the infamous “The Contest” scene from Seinfeld, where the four characters bet money to see who could go the longest without…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 30

Yeah, Maybe Don’t Use This App That Supposedly Identifies Poison Mushrooms

While Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are busy debating whether a malevolent, future AI could dispatch machine-gun toting drones to kill us all, a current-day “revolutionary AI” could get you killed right now. Truffle, previously Mushroom, is an app that claim it can “identify any mushroom instantly with just a pic.” Mushrooms are famously hard…

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 30

Open Channel: What Black Mirror Episodes Should Get a Sequel?

Black Mirror may be an anthology containing isolated episodes about our rising dependence on technology, but that doesn’t mean the stories we’ve already seen are over. In fact, co-creator Charlie Booker is open to continuing some of Black Mirror’s most iconic stories with sequels. The question is: Which episodes should they be, and how would…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 30

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

William Shatner Attacks Snowflakes, Social Justice Warriors, and Misandrists

That Viral Photo of Theresa May With The Scream Painting is Totally Fake

Game of Thrones Finally Gave Us the Moment We’ve All Been Waiting For

Travis Kalanick Is Already Plotting His Return to Power at Uber

Watch Your Childhood Crumble as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Reenact Seinfeld‘s ‘Contest’

Yeah, Maybe Don’t Use This App That Supposedly Identifies Poison Mushrooms

Open Channel: What Black Mirror Episodes Should Get a Sequel?

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