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If Someone Tries to Steal Your Car, Don’t Jump On the Hood

On Tuesday, 27-year-old Melissa Smith was filling up at a gas station in Milwaukee when a man jumped into the driver’s seat of her car, trying to steal it. Smith immediately jumped on the hood, and held tight long enough that the thief eventually ran off. The media are hailing her as a hero. But,…

Tech News Matt Novak May 26

Trump Team’s Go-To Vetting Process Was ‘A Quick Google Search’

After Michael Flynn set a record for the shortest tenure as the national security advisor, many people were asking what kind of vetting process the Trump administration had used for hiring its people. According to a new report from the Washington Post, the campaign preferred to just Google people and go for it. https://gizmodo.com/this-old-fbi-file-is-a-great-reminder-of-just-how-screw-1794663795 According…

Tech News Rhett Jones May 25

Injustice 2 Almost Had a Version of Static, Milestone Media’s Awesome Electric Superhero

Damn it, we were so close to getting one of Milestone Media’s best characters in the new superhero fighting game. Heroes and villains from all over the DC Comics multiverse are part of the roster in Injustice 2 but, for the most part, they come from the well-known core of characters clustered around the Justice…

io9 Evan Narcisse May 25

Cordcutting Hits an All-Time High as Cable TV Reaches New Lows in Popularity

According to pretty much everyone, we’re in the “golden age” of television. But new data shows a huge jump in people who are ready to ditch cable as well as disastrous satisfaction ratings for the industry. Despite investing $300 million in fixing its customer service problems, Comcast managed to sink another six percent in popularity…

Tech News Rhett Jones May 25

A Sanitation Worker Learns Why You Should Never Cross a Raccoon in This Surreal Comedy Short

In Alan Miller’s Garbage Man, a grouchy sanitation worker makes the grave mistake of pissing off the wrong “trash panda.” He’s soon afflicted with a peculiar curse that turns him into the literal personification of the film’s title—and his crummy day on the job gets way stinkier before taking a surreal, weirdly uplifting final turn.…

io9 Cheryl Eddy May 25

io9 Is Proud to Present the Poe Dameron Scale, the Ultimate Star Wars Name-Ranking System

It is well documented that we—we being James and Katharine—are obsessed with the names in Star Wars. We even have our own not-at all-scientific rating system to judge our favorite, comical names from the galaxy far, far away: the Poe Dameron Scale™. And we are proud now to introduce the PDS to the world. The…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta and James Whitbrook May 25

Scenes From Mark Zuckerberg’s First Big Stump Speech

Facebook founder and domestic travel enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg pretended to be a politician at his Harvard commencement address on Thursday afternoon. Not many people showed up, probably because it was cold and rainy and generally miserable outside. Not even Facebook can control the weather. The speech sounded like a political one, because it was. The…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes May 25

Florida Republican Who Teamed Up With Guccifer 2.0 Says Secretly Working With Russia Is NBD

The WSJ revealed today that a GOP operative named Aaron Nevins requested and received confidential files stolen from the Democrats by hacker Guccifer 2.0 last year. Nevins, a former aide to Florida State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, confessed to the Journal that not only did he receive files stolen from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the…

Tech News Dell Cameron May 25

Mexican Politician Says He Meant to Use #Campaignhashtag as His Campaign Hashtag

We’ll never know for sure if Mexican politician Javier Zapata intended to use “#hashtagcampaña”—“#campaignhashtag” in English—as an official hashtag for his run for governor, or if it was just dummy text that made it through the printers. But if he wanted to raise his profile, it’s definitely working. Recently, at least one billboard supporting the…

Tech News Rhett Jones May 25

Valiant High Is Exactly How Publishers Should Get New Readers Into Their Books

I have a confession to make. Two years ago at New York Comic-Con, I picked up a bunch of Valiant trade volumes with the intention of getting caught up with the publisher’s rapidly expanding universe of heroes and villains. Immediately, I blew through and loved both The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage and Harbinger Volume 1: Omega…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore May 25

Watch Every Non-Eleven Stranger Things Kid Rock Out on Lip Sync Battle

The latest episode of Spike’s Lip Sync Battle is getting a visit from the Upside Down. The stars of the hit Netflix show, with one Eleven-sized exclusion, all show up to move their mouths and dance around in time with some of their favorite songs. And god help me, it’s the cutest thing I’ve seen…

io9 Beth Elderkin May 25

NOAA Predicts More Hurricanes Than Usual This Year

Stock up on your canned beans and galoshes, folks: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook dropped this morning, and for the first time in years, the weather monitoring agency is predicting more hurricanes than average. Hurricane season, which kicks off next week and runs through the end of November, will…

Tech News Maddie Stone May 25

Sony’s Black Cat/Silver Sable Movie Might Have a New Name and a New Director

Sony’s Marvel Universe—yeah, that’s still a terrible name, right?—is making some big moves lately. While the Venom movie recently found its host, the studio’s other planned film, starring Spidey supporting characters Black Cat and Silver Sable, might have just landed itself a director in the form of Gina Prince-Bythewood. The Hollywood Reporter also notes that…

Movies James Whitbrook May 25

What’s the Best Order to Watch All the Star Wars Movies Now?!

Bonjour, my bonny mailboxes. Thanks to your abundance of excellent letters, I have an extra big mailbag for you today! So let’s get right to it: What’s the best Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack? Who could save the Transformers movie franchise? Why did WB decide to make the DCEU’s Batman so damn old? And more…

Movies Rob Bricken May 25

Good Deal Alert: RadioShack Is Selling Its Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents

Who doesn’t love a good deal? If you do, it’s time to head on over to your local RadioShack. The iconic retailer is now selling the last of its remaining office supplies as part of a liquidation process brought by a bankruptcy filed in March, and everything must go. RadioShack is peddling pretty much everything…

Tech News Michael Nunez May 25

Geoffrey Rush Reflects on More Than a Decade of Piracy on the Caribbean

After five movies playing a ruthless pirate, you might think an Oscar-winning actor like Geoffrey Rush would be tired of it. He is not. He relishes playing Captain Barbossa, the longtime nemesis of Jack Sparrow, because he believes Pirates of the Caribbean is the rare franchise that stands out in a world dominated by franchises.…

Movies Germain Lussier May 25

Harvard’s Student Paper Is Drunk and Taking Potshots at Mark Zuckerberg [Updated]

The Harvard Crimson has either become the victim of an incredibly funny prank, or Facebook is beta-testing its silent speech brain interface on college students. Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to the venerable Ivy League institution he famously dropped out of, revisiting his old dorm room and giving a commencement speech to the graduating…

Social Media Avery Ellis May 25

American Gods Teaser Shows Gillian Anderson as David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust

The first time we saw Gillian Anderson as Media—in episode two—she appeared in the form of Lucille Ball and offered to go topless for American Gods’ main character Shadow Moon. Next week, she’ll be showing up as an homage to rock legend David Bowie and giving another latter-day deity some grief. Gillian Anderson must be…

io9 Evan Narcisse May 25

NASA’s Juno Mission Just Dropped Its First Huge Pile of Results

There’s no drama quite like space drama. And Juno’s flight to Jupiter has been about as dramatic as a sci-fi thriller can get. Last October, Juno’s engine system malfunctioned, causing NASA to delay the orbiter’s planned approach into a 14-day “science orbit.” This February, NASA decided to forego the science orbit engine burn entirely, keeping…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum May 25

Republican Senators Reportedly Using a Bogus Argument to Convince Trump to Exit the Paris Agreement

Republican senators are reportedly planning to send President Trump a legally dubious letter asking him to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement, a historic accord to combat climate change. Although EPA head Scott Pruitt and others have said they want the US to withdraw, Trump faces intense pressure to stay in, from China’s President Xi,…

Tech News Sidney Fussell May 25

If Someone Tries to Steal Your Car, Don’t Jump On the Hood

Trump Team’s Go-To Vetting Process Was ‘A Quick Google Search’

Injustice 2 Almost Had a Version of Static, Milestone Media’s Awesome Electric Superhero

Cordcutting Hits an All-Time High as Cable TV Reaches New Lows in Popularity

A Sanitation Worker Learns Why You Should Never Cross a Raccoon in This Surreal Comedy Short

io9 Is Proud to Present the Poe Dameron Scale, the Ultimate Star Wars Name-Ranking System

Scenes From Mark Zuckerberg’s First Big Stump Speech

Florida Republican Who Teamed Up With Guccifer 2.0 Says Secretly Working With Russia Is NBD

Mexican Politician Says He Meant to Use #Campaignhashtag as His Campaign Hashtag

Valiant High Is Exactly How Publishers Should Get New Readers Into Their Books

Watch Every Non-Eleven Stranger Things Kid Rock Out on Lip Sync Battle

NOAA Predicts More Hurricanes Than Usual This Year

Sony’s Black Cat/Silver Sable Movie Might Have a New Name and a New Director

What’s the Best Order to Watch All the Star Wars Movies Now?!

Good Deal Alert: RadioShack Is Selling Its Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents

Geoffrey Rush Reflects on More Than a Decade of Piracy on the Caribbean

Harvard’s Student Paper Is Drunk and Taking Potshots at Mark Zuckerberg [Updated]

American Gods Teaser Shows Gillian Anderson as David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust

NASA’s Juno Mission Just Dropped Its First Huge Pile of Results

Republican Senators Reportedly Using a Bogus Argument to Convince Trump to Exit the Paris Agreement

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