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These Simple Kits Let You Build Flying Drones From Lego

Most toy drones come with a couple of spare propellers to get you flying again after a crash. But with Flybrix, even after a catastrophic collision with the ground, you can rebuild and get airborne again within minutes since the drone is mostly made from Lego. Flybrix aren’t officially affiliated with Lego, but they are…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 22

Tilt-Shift Effect Makes Entire Galaxies Look Adorably Tiny

Tilt-shift lenses can make whole cities look like desktop miniatures through some amazing optical trickery. Unfortunately, we don’t have any of them up in space, but it hasn’t stopped some cosmic creatives from trying to mimic the effect on photos taken by NASA, ESO, and other space research groups. A collection of these excellently doctored…

Sploid Avery Ellis Sep 22

This Allegedly Leaked Michelle Obama Passport Looks Fake As Hell

The conservative website DCLeaks, which just leaked former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s hilarious and embarrassing emails, claims it’s gotten ahold of an image of Michelle Obama’s passport. But there’s one small problem: It looks super fake. Why is her picture outside of the border? And why is it so close-up? The State Department’s requirements…

Tech News William Turton Sep 22

This Star Wars Fan Film Will Actually Make You Feel Sorry for Stormtroopers

Stormtroopers are helmeted for a reason—not being able to see their faces makes us feel okay about our heroes mowing down tons of them as they go about saving the day. This short but sharp fan film puts the focus on the people behind the masks, and in the process, makes you feel a little…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 22

Report: Vegan Mayo Startup Is Actually Totally Full of It

A familiar tale has emerged from the bowels of Silicon Valley of late. A startup—usually based on some fancy, technology-heavy concept—woos investors and customers, raises a ton of money, and seems poised to take over the world. But then someone does some digging and uncovers a bunch of crooked numbers and shoddy business practices, and…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Sep 22

Marvel’s Civil War II Is Another Damn Mess

Marvel Comics loves throwing its superheroes against each other in flashy crossovers that shake up its fiction. But its latest tentpole event—this year’s Civil War II—is struggling to keep us entertained or interested. There’s a history of superheroes fighting each other that stretches back decades, all the way back to the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner’s…

io9 Evan Narcisse Sep 22

The Recent String of Listeria Contaminations Is Unnerving

If you have any Blue Bell cookie dough ice cream in your freezer, put down the spoon. The ice cream company just issued a recall for possible Listeria contamination—the ice cream company’s second Listeria scare in as many years. Last year, Blue Bell had a huge recall of its ice cream (across flavors) for a…

Tech News Ria Misra Sep 22

Superman Writer Gene Luen Yang Receives MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant

Gene Luen Yang’s comics output has ranged a wide gamut, from intensely personal explorations of Asian-American identity in American Born Chinese to straight-ahead superhero comics like Superman. The skill in his work has garnered him one of the highest accolades that a creator can get, the prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant. The 2016 MacArthur Fellows were…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse Sep 22

Generation Cryo: Fighting Death in the Frozen Unknown

In a vat of liquid nitrogen on storage platform 17, the youngest person ever to be put into cryogenic storage has been waiting for the future for one year and eight months. Matheryn “Einz” Naovaratpong was two when she was diagnosed with a rare form of terminal brain cancer. “She showed fighting spirit since she…

Tech News George Dvorsky Sep 22

Verizon Very Publicly Hates Unlimited Data Plans

Refreshingly, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile are all inching back towards “unlimited data plans” (restrictions most certainly apply). But Verizon? Verizon insists that its customers don’t need that shit. At the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York on Thursday, Verizon CFO Fred Shammo was asked about unlimited plans and according to CNET, nixed the idea,…

Tech News Christina Warren Sep 22

The ‘Batgirl of Burnside’ Team Reunites for a New Comic About Badass Racers and Bike Warriors

Cameron Stewart, Babs Tarr, and Brenden Fletcher were fundamental to the meteoric rise of Batgirl’s popularity at DC comics with the “Batgirl of Burnside” shakeup a few years ago. They might have moved on from Barbara Gordon, but their first creator-owned comic together sounds just as fun. Announced this morning by Image Comics, Motor Crush,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Sep 22

Aboriginal Australians Are Humanity’s Oldest Civilization

New research shows that all present-day non-Africans can trace their origins to a single wave of migrants who left Africa 72,000 years ago, and that indigenous Australians and Papuans are descended directly from the first people to inhabit the continent some 50,000 years ago. That makes them world’s longest running civilization. A genetic and cultural…

Tech News George Dvorsky Sep 22

The Mr. Robot Finale Was a Pile of Pretentious Bullshit

My friend profoundly hates “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams. She’s a wonderfully pragmatic person and something about the poem, endlessly interpreted in high schools across the country, rankles her. “I also hate his poem about plums and the refrigerator,” she told me when I texted her to reconfirm her hatred. She can quote…

io9 Alex Cranz Sep 22

Siberia Has Been Burning All Summer

As enormous wildfires in Canada and the United States make headlines on the daily, Siberia has been burning ferociously all summer, and nobody seems to be noticing. Large wildfires are not unusual in Siberia’s boreal forests, but in the past few years, this sparsely-populated region has seen some of the most intense summertime conflagrations in…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 22

Disney Pulls Offensive Moana Costume Off the Shelves

Just a few days after people noticed that a costume of the demigod Maui being manufactured and sold by Disney included a bodysuit of tattoos and darker skin, Disney has removed the costume from stores, both physical and online. If you don’t recall the costume (or missed it), here you go: And looking at it…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Sep 22

How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City

In 2006, then-New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg issued an executive order establishing the Office of Special Enforcement, a citywide agency responsible for enforcing “quality of life” regulations—a nebulous, ideologically charged concept that refers to anything from music venues with too many noise complaints to nightclubs that facilitate prostitution to decrepit structures that pose a…

Tech News Brendan O'Connor Sep 22

One Major Star Wars Star Is Getting Their Role Expanded in Episode VIII

Bob Iger teases the future of Marvel’s movie-verse. There’s more casting for Alita: Battle Angel and Pacific Rim 2. Get a big new look at Supernatural’s next season. Plus, tons of new pictures from Luke Cage, and more footage of Thrawn in Star Wars: Rebels. Spoilers Get! Star Wars: Episode VIII It looks like there’s…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 22

The Quickest Way to Find Out if You’ve Been Hacked

It’s easy to become desensitized to the never-ending procession of data hacks in news headlines, but once someone starts stealing your identity or taking control of your social media accounts, you’ll probably give it your full attention. If you ever want to find out if one of your accounts has been compromised, there are some…

Gadgets David Nield Sep 22

Report: Yahoo To Confirm Massive Hack Affecting 200 Million Users

A report by veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher at Recode says that Yahoo is preparing to confirm a massive data breach that has impacted over 200 million users. The extent of the breach, or whether hackers were able to gain access to users accounts, is unknown. From Recode: Earlier this summer, Yahoo said it was…

Tech News William Turton Sep 22

Simulation Becomes Reality in the First Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Teasers

During Wednesday night’s broadcast of the Mr. Robot season finale, viewers got their first peek at the upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell movie with five new teaser trailers. As you might expect, the trailers don’t tell a whole lot about the movie, other than it will definitely feature stylish sets, Takeshi Kitano firing a…

io9 Hudson Hongo Sep 21

These Simple Kits Let You Build Flying Drones From Lego

Tilt-Shift Effect Makes Entire Galaxies Look Adorably Tiny

This Allegedly Leaked Michelle Obama Passport Looks Fake As Hell

This Star Wars Fan Film Will Actually Make You Feel Sorry for Stormtroopers

Report: Vegan Mayo Startup Is Actually Totally Full of It

Marvel’s Civil War II Is Another Damn Mess

The Recent String of Listeria Contaminations Is Unnerving

Superman Writer Gene Luen Yang Receives MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant

Generation Cryo: Fighting Death in the Frozen Unknown

Verizon Very Publicly Hates Unlimited Data Plans

The ‘Batgirl of Burnside’ Team Reunites for a New Comic About Badass Racers and Bike Warriors

Aboriginal Australians Are Humanity’s Oldest Civilization

The Mr. Robot Finale Was a Pile of Pretentious Bullshit

Siberia Has Been Burning All Summer

Disney Pulls Offensive Moana Costume Off the Shelves

How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City

One Major Star Wars Star Is Getting Their Role Expanded in Episode VIII

The Quickest Way to Find Out if You’ve Been Hacked

Report: Yahoo To Confirm Massive Hack Affecting 200 Million Users

Simulation Becomes Reality in the First Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Teasers

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