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Peter Thiel Won’t Say If He’s Still Supporting Trump

Is Peter Thiel having second thoughts about Donald Trump? Over the past six months, the Silicon Valley billionaire and Facebook board member served as an official delegate for the G.O.P.’s presidential nominee, gave an impassioned speech at the Republican National Convention (“I urge all of my fellow Americans to stand up and vote for Donald…

Tech News J.K. Trotter Oct 12

Diver Catches Once in a Lifetime Closeup Footage of a Whale Breach

The ocean’s already fraught with danger, the last thing you need while swimming is a massive humpback whale deciding it wants to leap out of the water a few feet from where you’re treading water. But that’s exactly what happened to Australian photographer Beau Pilgrim, who fortunately got the whole thing on video. To put…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Oct 12

Lego’s New Yellow Submarine Comes With Four Perfect Beatles Minifigs

You’re going to want to set aside $60 for the first of November, because that’s when the next fan-designed Lego Ideas set will be available for sale featuring not only The Beatle’s iconic Yellow Submarine, but also amazing Minifig versions of Ringo, Paul, John, and George. The original version of Lego’s new 550+-piece Yellow Submarine…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Oct 12

Amazon Comes for Spotify With Cheaper Music Subscriptions

Amazon has just launched its long-awaited Spotify competitor, Amazon Music Unlimited. Like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, and Deezer, Amazon Music Unlimited offers on-demand access to tens of millions of songs. And like those services, it also offers “thousands” of “hand curated playlists” and personalized stations. So why would anyone want Amazon Music Unlimited?…

Commerce Christina Warren Oct 12

Explosion-Proof 93-Year-Old Bridge Refuses to Die

Old bridges never die, they just cross over to the other side. After almost a century of service, the Broadway Bridge in Little Rock, Arkansas, was deemed “structurally deficient” and condemned to death by explosion on Tuesday. As the video below demonstrates, however, the bridge itself clearly had other ideas: According to CBS News, it…

Sploid Hudson Hongo Oct 11

Wi-Fi Kettle Takes 11 Hours to Make Cup of Tea

Data specialist Mark Rittman wanted to make tea around 9:00AM, but found himself in an eleven hour saga trying to get his wi-fi tea kettle to work. He documented his struggle on a website that’s also struggling, a social network called Twitter.com. While Rittman did acquiesce to boiling his water the old-fashioned way—in a “saucepan”—his…

Tech News Eve Peyser Oct 11

This Former Nuclear Bunker Is Now Used to Preserve All of America’s Film Reels

There’s a fascinating backstory about the building that is now the National Audiovisual Conservation Center, which is where the Library of Congress stores all 6.3 million pieces of the library’s movie, television, and sound collection. It used to be a nuclear bunker that stored $4 billion during the Cold War. Now, it’s a one-stop shop…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 11

ISIS Is Now Using Hobby Drones to Kill People

Drone warfare has long been one of the United States’ key weapons in the War on Terror, but the Islamic State recently managed to carry out a drone strike of their own. Last week, an aerial vehicle “the size of a model airplane” reportedly exploded after getting shot down by Kurdish forces in Iraq, killing…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Oct 11

Batman’s Bat-Themed Equipment Fetish Has Finally Gone Too Far

We all know Batman loves Bat-things. But his latest Bat-thing is just so absurd, even in comparison to Batarangs, the Batmobile, and arguably even Shark Repellant Bat-Spray. DC has released a new preview for tomorrow’s issue of All-Star Batman #3—by Scott Snyder, John Romita Jr., Declan Shalvey, Danny Miki, Dean White, Jordie Bellaire, and Steve…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Oct 11

Watch the New York Public Library’s Beautiful Reading Room Get Reshelved with Books

The New York Public Library’s Rose Main Reading Room is one of the most majestic spaces in the city. Unfortunately it’s been closed for repairs for two years after an ornamental plaster rosette fell from the ceiling. But after fixing that, reinforcing the other 900 rosettes with steel cables, and restoring the ceiling, the beautiful…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 11

Last Girl Standing Explores What Happens to the Lone Survivor After the Horror Movie Ends

Writer-director Benjamin R. Moody makes his feature debut with Last Girl Standing, set in the aftermath of the classic slasher-movie scenario. As every horror fan knows, there’s always one girl who lives to tell the tale. But what happens after she scrubs off the blood, and attempts to face the world again? Here’s the official…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Oct 11

Note 7 Superfan Tells Samsung: ‘Take It From My Cold Dead Hands’

Sometimes love conquers all, obliterating your rationality into tiny shards of melted nothingness. That probably explains why some Note 7 superfans are holding onto their devices, even after Samsung issued a recall after many, many reports of the phone—and replacement devices—exploding. CNET reports that hours after Samsung announced the recall, some loyal fans dared the…

Gadgets Eve Peyser Oct 11

Is This Horrifying YouTube Video Linked to the Disappearance of a Teenage Girl? [Updated]

In October 2009, a user named Hi Walter! Its me Patrick! uploaded a video to YouTube called “Hi Walter! I got a new gf today!” In it, a man with glasses faces the camera and talks about meeting a girl at the mall. In the video’s last few seconds, the man promises to introduce the…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Oct 11

Supergirl‘s CW Debut Broke an Eight-Year-Old Ratings Record

Supergirl rocked the CW’s airwaves last night with its (excellent) sophomore season premiere, apparently delivering the CW’s most-watched episode of TV in the show’s 8pm slot since a 2008 episode of Gossip Girl with just over three million viewers. You could even say the result was… super. https://gizmodo.com/the-supergirl-season-two-premiere-is-why-superhero-show-1787640259 An impressive stat, but one that makes…

Television James Whitbrook Oct 11

AMC’s Biggest FearFest Ever Features a Head-Spinning Array of Horror Programming

AMC’s FearFest turns 20 this year, and to celebrate, the network appears to have pulled every horror-themed entertainment from its vaults—to the tune of 85 movies and an 88-hour marathon of The Walking Dead ahead of the show’s October 23 return, which comes packaged with a two-hour retrospective special. Not that we’re complaining. Just look…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Oct 11

What Is the Strange Man Doing and Why Must He Scream?

In pursuit of the ancient quest for ultimate power, men of legend have bent rivers, slain dragons, even challenged the gods themselves. More recently, similar heroes have thrown on a jockstrap and made videos like this: According to its description, the video shows “anabolic acrobat” Jon Call “web pressing” 225 pounds. According to me, that’s…

Sploid Hudson Hongo Oct 11

Security Company Uses Tasteless Hurricane Matthew Pitch to Sell Software

FireEye is a huge security company with high profile clients like Sony Pictures. But the company’s success hasn’t stopped it from doing dumb things to grab attention. For instance, sending out a sales pitch that likens the deady Hurricane Matthew with a cyber attack is a dumb thing to do. Security analyst Jerry Gamblin recently…

Privacy & Security Michael Nunez Oct 11

All the Cool Creators We Talked to at NYCC 2016

That’s Chris Claremont. Yes, that Chris Claremont, the legendary writer of some of the best X-Men comics ever made. He’s a decent fellow, that one. This year’s edition of New York Comic-Con is fading from view, leaving hangovers, expensive purchases and an incredible amount of nerd goodwill in its wake. The io9 team spent the…

io9 Evan Narcisse Oct 11

Trippy Video Uses 3D Printing and Stop-Motion Animation to Make a Statue Sing

Here’s a really cool music video that uses 3D printing, stop-motion animation, and projection mapping to make a model come alive to sing a song. It’s a especially trippy, because it’s like seeing a statue start talking out of nowhere. The whole video for the song Magnetic by Dan Sultan took two months to get…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 11

Luke Cage Gets a Creepy Family Matters Mash-Up That Works Disturbingly Well

The title character, his barbershop-owning mentor, Misty Knight and crimelord Cottonmouth all act like absolutely nothing’s wrong with their lives in this ‘80s-sitcom-style intro sequence. It’s pretty damn weird to see how… perfect this Luke Cage footage is for the conceit. Try to forget what happens to some of these characters in Netflix’s newest Marvel…

io9 Evan Narcisse Oct 11

Peter Thiel Won’t Say If He’s Still Supporting Trump

Diver Catches Once in a Lifetime Closeup Footage of a Whale Breach

Lego’s New Yellow Submarine Comes With Four Perfect Beatles Minifigs

Amazon Comes for Spotify With Cheaper Music Subscriptions

Explosion-Proof 93-Year-Old Bridge Refuses to Die

Wi-Fi Kettle Takes 11 Hours to Make Cup of Tea

This Former Nuclear Bunker Is Now Used to Preserve All of America’s Film Reels

ISIS Is Now Using Hobby Drones to Kill People

Batman’s Bat-Themed Equipment Fetish Has Finally Gone Too Far

Watch the New York Public Library’s Beautiful Reading Room Get Reshelved with Books

Last Girl Standing Explores What Happens to the Lone Survivor After the Horror Movie Ends

Note 7 Superfan Tells Samsung: ‘Take It From My Cold Dead Hands’

Is This Horrifying YouTube Video Linked to the Disappearance of a Teenage Girl? [Updated]

Supergirl‘s CW Debut Broke an Eight-Year-Old Ratings Record

AMC’s Biggest FearFest Ever Features a Head-Spinning Array of Horror Programming

What Is the Strange Man Doing and Why Must He Scream?

Security Company Uses Tasteless Hurricane Matthew Pitch to Sell Software

All the Cool Creators We Talked to at NYCC 2016

Trippy Video Uses 3D Printing and Stop-Motion Animation to Make a Statue Sing

Luke Cage Gets a Creepy Family Matters Mash-Up That Works Disturbingly Well

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