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A Bunch of Narcs Just Made It Illegal For Minors to Vape in the US

Cool teens of America, hit your vapes now because I have some really, really bad news for you: Some narc who goes by the name of “Mitch Zeller” and works at the “FDA” just officially made it illegal for people under 18 to buy e-cigarettes, cigars, and hookah tobacco. Some teens, predictably, are taking this…

Tech News Eve Peyser Aug 8

Why Can’t We All Have Mark Hamill’s Joker Delivering Our Voicemail Message?

We all can’t be as lucky as Jim Lee, apparently—who, aside from being a famous and extremely talented comics artist, also got Mark Hamill to do his finest Joker bit for Lee’s voicemail inbox. It’s amazing. Lee shared the brilliant recording Hamill did for his phone on Instagram recently, and it’s well worth a listen…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 8

Oh, Come On Fox, Do Not Defend the X-Files Revival Season

Look, the X-Files revival season was incredibly rocky. It had one high, a couple of lows, and mostly some mediocre middles. It was a cash grab based on nostalgia and, yeah, we watched it. But don’t try to defend it. Fox entertainment president David Madden said this: I actually think that the season, the six…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Aug 8

Welcome to the Bone Zone

Here’s a remote-controlled robot skull with a bunch of spooky legs. It’s cool. A guy who goes by Y Nakajima built it. His website is here. It’s inspired by those strandbeest things that everyone loves. No, I can’t tell you how to build one. [Boing Boing]

Sploid Avery Ellis Aug 8

This, Um, Unfortunate Supergirl Ad Is Totally Fake

Do you notice anything weird about this ad for the new season of Supergirl that’s coming out in October on the CW network? Look closer… Yeah, that’s unfortunate. Too bad the dozens of people at CW didn’t catch that, right? Well, as Buzzfeed points out, the ad is completely fake. The original ad simply reads…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 8

Looks Like a Russian Cybergang Hacked Into One of the World’s Largest Payment Systems

According to a report by security blogger Brian Krebs, Oracle’s popular MICROS point-of-sale terminals support website was commandeered by a Russian cybergang. This is bad since MICROS is in the top three most popular payment systems in the world. In a statement to Gizmodo, Oracle said it had “detected and addressed malicious code in certain…

Privacy & Security William Turton Aug 8

A Giant Robot and the 1986 Transformers Movie Taught Me About the Cold Inevitability of Death

Optimus Prime passed away on August 8, 1986. It was 30 full years ago today, when Transformers: The Movie debuted, that the heroic robot sacrificed his own life to defeat the evil Megatron. But an event that was tragic for Prime’s fellow Autobots turned out to be completely traumatic for me and god knows how…

io9 Rob Bricken Aug 8

What Makes a Movie Scary?

Not all scary movies are actually all that scary so what is it about the best scary movies that make them so much more terrifying than the rest? It’s in the editing. Now You See It shows us how great horror filmmakers can make a scary scene stand out by slowly building out the suspense…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 8

A Fact Check of the Department of Energy’s Fact Check of Stranger Things

The Department of Energy plays a dark role in Netflix’s new series, Stranger Things, but the real DoE wants you to know it’s nothing like its sinister fictional counterpoint. If we’ve learned anything from the show, though, it’s to be wary. Which is why we fact-checked the DoE’s Stranger Things fact-check for you. 1) “HAWKINS…

Movies Ria Misra Aug 8

National Reconnaissance Office Redacts Paper That Was Public Four Years Ago

If you’re one of the country’s most important spy agencies, you’d probably have a pretty strict list of what documents to keep secret, right? Well, judging from my latest FOIA request, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) might just be winging it. Back in April, I filed a Freedom of Information request for a list of…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 8

Stargirl Is the Latest Member of the Justice Society to Join Legends of Tomorrow

Legends of Tomorrow has added another new hero to its time-traveling team: Courtney Whitmore, a.k.a. Stargirl. She’ll be played by Sarah Gray, whose TV resume includes Wayward Pines, Lucifer, and Bates Motel. She also has a supporting role in the upcoming Power Rangers movie. Stargirl—a character who previously turned up on Smallville—isn’t the first new…

Television Cheryl Eddy Aug 8

Ancient Stone Tools Hint at the Real Paleo Diet

Archaeologists have discovered a treasure trove of ancient stone tools at a dig near Azraq, Jordan, some of which still contain traces of animal residue. A number of food items on this bona fide paleolithic menu will be familiar to the modern eater, while others, well, not so much. A new study published in the…

Tech News George Dvorsky Aug 8

What It Takes to Be a Championship Drone Racer

If you thought drone racers simply rolled up to an event, grabbed an RC toy out of their trunk, and lined up to race, you’ve got a lot to learn. We popped by the US National Drone Racing Championships, recently held in New York, and asked one of the competing teams to show us what…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 8

A Brief Compilation of io9’s Greatest Slack Chats

I have a crippling addiction, and it’s hoarding screenshots of conversations and announcements made by my coworkers in our chatroom. Not incriminating ones, just the ones I find particularly funny. And now I am going to share some of them with you now. Slack is the internal chat system that we at Gawker Media—and many…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 8

Here Are Some Olympians Who Have Probably Eaten Poop

According to various reports, the water at multiple Olympic venues is pretty much full of shit. Unfortunately for three different rowers, they’ve now probably eaten that shit. On Saturday, Serbian rowers Milos Vasic and Nenad Bedik capsized after battling what The Guardian described as “vicious crosswinds” and choppy water. Here they are: And here they…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Aug 8

The Third Season of Star Wars Rebels Premieres September 24

The next chapter in the Star Wars universe will be here before Rogue One. It’s the return of Star Wars Rebels, and Disney XD just announced we can expect season three to finally premiere on September 24. Along with the announcement, here’s a brief teaser: For more on what to expect in season three, here’s…

Television Germain Lussier Aug 8

Mossberg: Why Am I So Cranky?

Walt Mossberg is a legend. I mean it—he’s someone I’ve tried to emulate for most of my professional career. He’s made a great living testing gadgets, hanging out with influential technologists, and giving everyday people advice on how to better use their consumer electronics. But lately, it seems like Mossberg’s love affair with tech is…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 8

The Self-Published Scifi Sensation Zenith Is the Latest eBook to Make the Jump to Physical Media

As a self-published ebook Zenith, the first chapter in an ongoing scifi series called The Androma Saga, is already a New York Times best-seller. Now, io9 can exclusively reveal that Harlequin, a division of HarperCollins, has acquired the rights to release the full series as three-dimensional products. Written by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings, the…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Aug 8

FACT: New Zealand Is Better Than Australia

The Gizmodo office is rife with Australians. I mean. There are only two. But that is a lot, statistically speaking. According to Wikipedia there are only about 60 well-known Australians in America. Also according to Wikipedia, in the year 2000, there were only about 61,000 Aussies horfing down Vegemite while telling us that what we…

Tech News Alex Cranz Aug 8

Gareth Edwards Talks Jedha, Rogue One‘s Jedi Mecca

When Gareth Edwards and the cast of Rogue One descended upon Star Wars Celebration last month, we learned a tiny bit about some of the locations we’d see in the movie—including Jedha, a spiritual home for Force users all over the galaxy. But now we have a little more about why the Imperials are so…

Movies James Whitbrook Aug 8

A Bunch of Narcs Just Made It Illegal For Minors to Vape in the US

Why Can’t We All Have Mark Hamill’s Joker Delivering Our Voicemail Message?

Oh, Come On Fox, Do Not Defend the X-Files Revival Season

Welcome to the Bone Zone

This, Um, Unfortunate Supergirl Ad Is Totally Fake

Looks Like a Russian Cybergang Hacked Into One of the World’s Largest Payment Systems

A Giant Robot and the 1986 Transformers Movie Taught Me About the Cold Inevitability of Death

What Makes a Movie Scary?

A Fact Check of the Department of Energy’s Fact Check of Stranger Things

National Reconnaissance Office Redacts Paper That Was Public Four Years Ago

Stargirl Is the Latest Member of the Justice Society to Join Legends of Tomorrow

Ancient Stone Tools Hint at the Real Paleo Diet

What It Takes to Be a Championship Drone Racer

A Brief Compilation of io9’s Greatest Slack Chats

Here Are Some Olympians Who Have Probably Eaten Poop

The Third Season of Star Wars Rebels Premieres September 24

Mossberg: Why Am I So Cranky?

The Self-Published Scifi Sensation Zenith Is the Latest eBook to Make the Jump to Physical Media

FACT: New Zealand Is Better Than Australia

Gareth Edwards Talks Jedha, Rogue One‘s Jedi Mecca

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