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Police Shoot Unarmed Batman Cosplayers at Australian Sex Party

Australian police shot a man dressed as the Joker and a woman dressed as Harley Quinn late Saturday night after being called to the nightclub Inflation where a costumed sex party was taking place. While the Harley Quinn cosplayer merely sustained a non-lethal flesh wound in her leg, her partner was rushed to the Royal…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 10

Amazon’s Newest Product Is Human Workers It Sends to Your House

Remember when Bill Clinton was president, and Amazon was just a website where you could buy books? Those were the halcyon days. Now, the world’s biggest store runs brick-and-mortar shops, builds affordable hardware, operates artificial intelligence, and soon, it will hire out humans to help you set up your gadgets. Why? Because if it’s possible…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes Jul 10

Nightmarish Sea Spiders Pump Their Blood Using Their Guts

Earth’s oceans are well-stocked with otherworldly inhabitants, but few of these critters are quite as strange as sea spiders, which look like something that would lurk in the crawlspace under Slender Man’s house. With their impossibly spindly legs, sea spiders—which aren’t even actual spiders—stride across the ocean floor with eerily slow, deliberate steps. They eat…

Biology Jake Buehler Jul 10

Plants Turn Caterpillars Into Cannibals to Save Themselves

In the caterpillar-versus-plant fight, the winner might seem obvious. One side sits motionless in the sun, while the other feasts on it. But the tomato plant has a nefarious defense strategy. In some encounters with herbivores, it winds up relatively unscathed, while the caterpillars wind up eating each other. Researchers have long known that plants…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 10

Classic Video Game Themes Sound Even Better Played Backwards

Video games like Super Mario Bros. and Tetris included some of the most catchy background music ever put on a cartridge. But would you recognize those same classic video game themes played backwards? An artist created an album featuring four memorable game themes performed in reverse, and we can’t stop listening to them. “Sorb Oiram…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 10

Delightful Fan Video Sets Spider-Man: Homecoming to the Japanese Spider-Man Show’s Opening

Ladies and Gentlemen, I think we have definitive proof that Spider-Man: Homecoming would be even better if one of the zillion new things Peter Parker’s teched-up Spidey suit could do was summon a giant transforming mecha. Mike Dent’s recreation of the opening titles from Toei’s 1978 Spider-Man show does so much more than just splice…

io9 James Whitbrook Jul 10

What Would Happen If We Blew Up the Moon?

The Moon is the Tango to Earth’s Cash, the Hall to our Oates, the Lennon to our McCartney before they hated each other. Simply put, our planet and the Moon are soul mates: except, of course, if something were to happen to one of them. Like, I don’t know, what if we just blew up…

Tech News Rae Paoletta Jul 10

With Less Than a Month to Go, Why Have We Seen So Little of The Dark Tower?

In just 25 days, Sony’s long-in-the-making Dark Tower film hits theaters. Yet, you wouldn’t know it, given that we’ve seen and heard so little about the film that it seems like either the Stephen King adaptation is impossible to market, or it’s being kept under so tight a wrap that we’re starting to get a…

Movies James Whitbrook Jul 10

Playing Darts off a 150-Foot Tower Is Even More Dangerous Than in a Bar

One of humanity’s worst decisions has to be the pairing of darts with bars full of drunk patrons making terrible decisions. Throwing tiny pointed spears when you can barely stand once seemed like a dangerous way to have fun, until the lads at How Ridiculous decided to play darts off a 150-foot-tall observation tower. From…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 10

Basic Assumptions of Physics Might Require the Future to Influence the Past

One of the most well-accepted physical theories makes no logical sense. Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the smallest possible spaces, forces our human brains to accept some really wacky, uncomfortable realities. Maybe we live in a world where certain observations can force our universe to branch into multiple ones. Or maybe actions in the…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 10

Han Solo Set Pictures Reveal Woody Harrelson’s New Star Wars Character

A familiar face will return for Arrow’s sixth season. Ant-Man and the Wasp adds a classic SHIELD agent. David Mazouz teases the arrival of Batman on Gotham. Plus, new footage from the set of Aquaman, Supergirl recasts a villain, and the latest in the long saga of Daniel Craig’s James Bond future. Spoilers, ho! Han…

Television James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson Jul 10

That Viral Photo of Putin and Trump is Totally Fake

Have you seen this viral photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin? It shows the authoritarian leader in the middle of an intense discussion between other world leaders at the G-20. But it’s completely fake. And the fakery has even inspired a meme. Putin supporters have been circulating the image to make it look like the…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 10

Animated Game of Thrones Prequel Tackles the Mystery of the Doom of Valyria

Game of Thrones will be over in two seasons, but HBO is already peering around the corner for what’s next. The network is working on at least four spinoffs, with George R.R. Martin pitching in on a couple of them. We have no clue what they’ll be about yet (although Dunk & Egg seems like…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 9

Short Film Depicts the Haunting Guilt of Ignoring Sexual Assault

Blame, a short horror film from writer and director Kellee Terrell, is a harrowing meditation on sexual assault and its aftermath, using the supernatural to show how ignoring assault has real consequences. Plotted in a manner that deliberately mimics real-life stories of assault like the Steubenville, Ohio rape case, Blame is about a young man…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 9

An Amazon Bot Is Making the Greatest Smartphone Cases

In what’s either the best art project, the best business move, or both, someone has made what I presume is a bot that’s churning out thousands of unique iPhone cases for sale on Amazon. Pretty much all of them are masterpieces. Bots mocking up one-off products in the hope that just the right person comes…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jul 9

Smart Device Breaks Up Domestic Dispute By Calling the Police [Correction]

We’re gradually learning that smart home devices can be quite valuable for police. Following a recent case in which Amazon handed over data from its Echo device to police investigating a murder, a smart device called the police when a couple was allegedly involved in a violent domestic dispute. [See correction below] According to ABC…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jul 9

Three Star Wars Fans Made a Shot-for-Shot Remake of Revenge of the Sith

If your problem with the Star Wars prequels was that they took themselves too seriously, then you’re in luck. One Star Wars fan has released a full-length, homemade recreation of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and it’s absolutely absurd. The work of a couple of guys with some toy lightsabers and a lot of…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 9

Donald Trump Solved the Cyber

The morning after the Washington Post published a story claiming that Russians were responsible for cyber-intrusions into the business systems of American energy companies, Donald Trump addressed the cyber. He has a plan. https://gizmodo.com/obama-authorized-cyberstrikes-against-russia-through-se-1796367710 “Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded,”…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jul 9

Next DC Animated Movie Looks to Be Batman’s Gotham By Gaslight

Batman’s next animated flick could be going full Victorian. An image being shared on Reddit suggests the next movie in the DC Animated slate is Gotham by Gaslight, an adaptation of a 1989 one-shot graphic novel. The image, which is purportedly of the back of the box art for the upcoming direct-to-video release of Batman…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 9

Sports Site Dives Into Scifi with Series About the Future of Football

Sports and science fiction, much like jocks and nerds, don’t always get along. However, one sports news site is bringing football into the future with a series that’s weird, complex, and pretty spectacular. 17776, from SB Nation creative director Jon Bois, is an ongoing scifi series using text and YouTube videos to examine what football…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 9

Police Shoot Unarmed Batman Cosplayers at Australian Sex Party

Amazon’s Newest Product Is Human Workers It Sends to Your House

Nightmarish Sea Spiders Pump Their Blood Using Their Guts

Plants Turn Caterpillars Into Cannibals to Save Themselves

Classic Video Game Themes Sound Even Better Played Backwards

Delightful Fan Video Sets Spider-Man: Homecoming to the Japanese Spider-Man Show’s Opening

What Would Happen If We Blew Up the Moon?

With Less Than a Month to Go, Why Have We Seen So Little of The Dark Tower?

Playing Darts off a 150-Foot Tower Is Even More Dangerous Than in a Bar

Basic Assumptions of Physics Might Require the Future to Influence the Past

Han Solo Set Pictures Reveal Woody Harrelson’s New Star Wars Character

That Viral Photo of Putin and Trump is Totally Fake

Animated Game of Thrones Prequel Tackles the Mystery of the Doom of Valyria

Short Film Depicts the Haunting Guilt of Ignoring Sexual Assault

An Amazon Bot Is Making the Greatest Smartphone Cases

Smart Device Breaks Up Domestic Dispute By Calling the Police [Correction]

Three Star Wars Fans Made a Shot-for-Shot Remake of Revenge of the Sith

Donald Trump Solved the Cyber

Next DC Animated Movie Looks to Be Batman’s Gotham By Gaslight

Sports Site Dives Into Scifi with Series About the Future of Football

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