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In Worrisome Move, Kaspersky Agrees to Turn Over Source Code to US Government

Over the last couple of weeks, there’s been a disturbing trend of governments demanding that private tech companies share their source code if they want to do business. Now, the US government is giving the same ultimatum and it’s getting what it wants. https://gizmodo.com/ransomware-victims-are-unable-to-decrypt-files-after-em-1796458895 On Sunday, the CEO of security firm Kaspersky Labs, Eugene Kaspersky,…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jul 2

Trailer Released for Automata, a Sexy Robot Noir Based on a Webcomic

Penny Arcade has released the debut teaser trailer for Automata, a robot detective series based on their popular webcomic, with Hellboy’s Doug Jones as the investigative automaton. The series, which got over $500,000 on Kickstarter, takes place in an alternate Prohibition-era America where robots (called automatons) are the new liquor. Hated, feared, and regulated. No…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 2

Image Comics Pulls Comic Book Cover That Showed Violent Lynching

Image Comics has pulled the cover for Issue 4 of The Divided States of Hysteria, after readers were upset at how it showed a man of color hanged to death after being castrated. The cover, which can be viewed at the bottom of the article, was for the upcoming September issue of Divided States of…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 2

The Casual Gamer’s Guide to Video Gaming in 2017

The new consoles have finally been announced, the dust is beginning to settle, and now there are a lot of choices for anyone wanting to make their way back into gaming or starting from scratch. Maybe you don’t know one PS4 SKU from another or have any idea who Nathan Drake is—and that’s okay. Not…

Gadgets David Nield Jul 2

Take a Stand and Come Discuss Doctor Who‘s Season Finale With Us

Tonight’s Doctor Who sounded the cloister bells, as the Doctor stood for one last time against the Cybermen to save his closest friends, his oldest foe, and people he’d never even met before. There were shocks, there were tears, and we can discuss them all in our final weekly thread of the season! “The Doctor…

Television James Whitbrook Jul 1

FAA Is Working on a Remote Identification System For Consumer Drones

Year after year, drones are becoming more popular with the public and the industry is expected to grow for the foreseeable future. This, coupled with an antsy commercial drone industry, has created a lot of regulatory headaches for the FAA. The latest proposal on the table is to create a remote identification system in order…

Commerce Rhett Jones Jul 1

Game of Thrones Fan Saves Woman From Assault with a Medieval Times Sword

When Chicago software consultant Mac Dolan heard the screams of a friend being attacked, he knew he had to step in. So he grabbed his most fearsome weapon: a $100 sword he’d bought from Medieval Times. A strange man had somehow broken into the apartment Dolan shared with his roommate John Zuercher and started physically…

io9 Kelly Kanayama Jul 1

R2-D2 Auctioned Off For $2.76 Million, Likely Not to a Kid Whining About Power Converters

R2-D2 is a hero of the Rebellion. He’s survived several generations of Skywalkers. He’s the galaxy’s sassiest astromech droid (say that three times fast). And now, an auction house has sold him to an anonymous buyer for $2.76 million. That’s a lot of credits. This isn’t an original R2-D2; that little guy would have probably…

io9 Kelly Kanayama Jul 1

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Ride Will Stop Selling Women, and It’s Long Overdue

Pirates of the Caribbean, the Disney Parks ride that later became Johnny Depp’s regular paycheck, is finally getting rid of the intensely creepy moment that is the Wench Auction, and the only real issue is why it didn’t happen sooner. Kathy Mangum, a Walt Disney Imagineering executive, announced that the Pirates of the Caribbean rides…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 1

The White House Science Division Officially Has Zero Staff Members

The purge of government employees that have scientific expertise continues. On Friday, the last three members of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) closed the door to their office for the final time. “Science division out. Mic drop,” one of the employees tweeted. https://gizmodo.com/epa-set-to-eliminate-over-1-200-employees-by-september-1796282174 All three staff members were holdovers from…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jul 1

Animaniacs‘ ‘Yakko’s World’ Sounds Even Zanier When Sung by 168 Movies

For those who were kids in the 90s, and just about everybody else, The Animaniacs was more than just a cartoon show. It was an education in adult jokes (the “fingerprints” gag in particular is a modern classic), what it meant to be zany to the max, and, of course, world geography. The “Yakko’s World”…

io9 Kelly Kanayama Jul 1

The Bro Behind Fyre Festival Faces 20 Years for Wire Fraud

“Let’s just do it and be legends, man,” a marketing exec for the doomed Fyre Festival reportedly said when it became clear the event was going to be a disaster. And now the lead organizer of that legendarily terrible music festival might be a legend in the clink. Billy McFarland has been charged with wire…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jul 1

Game of Thrones Inspired Star Trek: Discovery to Kill More Main Characters

The final frontier is a scary place. Sure, it might be full of adventure, but as we know from previous Star Trek shows, it’s also where you get mind-controlled or forced to fight your buddies to the death. Star Trek: Discovery is taking this one step further by not restricting death sentences to Red Shirts.…

io9 Kelly Kanayama Jul 1

Buzz Aldrin’s Toy Story Joke Hilariously Soars Over Trump’s Head

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to revive the National Space Council, signifying a renewed (yet vague) focus on space exploration. Colonel Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, was there to witness the event. He tried to liven the room with a Buzz Lightyear quip, only to have Trump…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 1

How to Make Your Own Smart Speaker

If you like the idea of the Amazon Echo, the Google Home, or the Apple HomePod, but you’d rather not spend any money on any of them, would prefer to control as many of the variables as possible, or just want something fun to do over the weekend you can build one at home for…

Gadgets David Nield Jul 1

Women Open Up To The New York Times About Silicon Valley’s Sexual Harassment Problem

The New York Times just dropped a lengthy and detailed report on Silicon Valley’s oft-rumored, rarely spoken about sexual harassment problem. More than two dozen women working in the technology industry spoke to the Times, following a report about a week ago in The Information about how venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck routinely preyed upon female…

Tech News Patrick Redford Jun 30

A Look Inside the Art Behind the Earliest Days of Steven Universe

Steven Universe has become one of Cartoon Network’s most beloved shows—for everything from its nuanced characters to its toe-tapping music, to its gorgeous and vivid aesthetic. The great news is a new art book promises to reveal boatloads of work that went into making Steven Universe so good, and we’ve got a first look. Published…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 30

Let This Video Remind You How PG Movies Messed You Up as a Kid

The first time I saw faces melt in Raiders of the Lost Ark, I thought it was cool. The nightmares that came after? Not so much. Take a gander at some PG/PG-13 scenes from yesteryear and marvel at what filmmakers got away with in work that was designated suitable for young audiences. In terms of…

Movies Evan Narcisse Jun 30

One of Supergirl’s Best Stories Just Flubbed the Finish

Supergirl: Being Super—a four-issue miniseries about a teenage Kara Danvers living in rural America with zero Kryptonian memories and confusing fluctuations in her powers—concluded this week. It’s been a really wonderful ride and, if it hadn’t taken such a misstep in the final pages of the last issue, it would have been not just one…

Books & Comics Alex Cranz Jun 30

Ant-Man and the Wasp Is NOT Taking a Page From Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (CORRECTED)

Correction: Peyton Reed got me. No, the below photo is NOT from the set of his film. It’s in fact, according to commenter Robotstorm, from the set of The Incredible Shrinking-Man and taken from Life Magazine. So, I am an idiot. Apologies. -CE (news editor) Ant-Man and the Wasp is coming out in July 2018—two months…

Movies Germain Lussier Jun 30

In Worrisome Move, Kaspersky Agrees to Turn Over Source Code to US Government

Trailer Released for Automata, a Sexy Robot Noir Based on a Webcomic

Image Comics Pulls Comic Book Cover That Showed Violent Lynching

The Casual Gamer’s Guide to Video Gaming in 2017

Take a Stand and Come Discuss Doctor Who‘s Season Finale With Us

FAA Is Working on a Remote Identification System For Consumer Drones

Game of Thrones Fan Saves Woman From Assault with a Medieval Times Sword

R2-D2 Auctioned Off For $2.76 Million, Likely Not to a Kid Whining About Power Converters

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Ride Will Stop Selling Women, and It’s Long Overdue

The White House Science Division Officially Has Zero Staff Members

Animaniacs‘ ‘Yakko’s World’ Sounds Even Zanier When Sung by 168 Movies

The Bro Behind Fyre Festival Faces 20 Years for Wire Fraud

Game of Thrones Inspired Star Trek: Discovery to Kill More Main Characters

Buzz Aldrin’s Toy Story Joke Hilariously Soars Over Trump’s Head

How to Make Your Own Smart Speaker

Women Open Up To The New York Times About Silicon Valley’s Sexual Harassment Problem

A Look Inside the Art Behind the Earliest Days of Steven Universe

Let This Video Remind You How PG Movies Messed You Up as a Kid

One of Supergirl’s Best Stories Just Flubbed the Finish

Ant-Man and the Wasp Is NOT Taking a Page From Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (CORRECTED)

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