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Daisy Ridley May Raid Some Tombs as the New Lara Croft

When your debut movie makes over $2 billion, your career is sure to get a bit of a boost. That’s certainly the case for Daisy Ridley, who is not only currently shooting Star Wars Episode 8 but also being considered to play Lara Croft in a new version of Tomb Raider. Deadline reports that Ridley…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 10 '16

Obama Enlists Canadian Prime Minister to Help Fight Climate Change

As tiny-handed man-children command the lion’s share of our nation’s attention, the still-acting leader of the United States—President Obama—is quietly doubling down on climate change. The latest part of Captain Planet’s scheme? Getting Canada on board. After years of taking a backseat on climate change, the US and Canada are trying to position themselves as…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Mar 10 '16

Customize Your Phone’s Lock Screen With These Easy Hacks

We all spend more time than we’d like looking at our phone’s lock screen. But luckily, you don’t have to settle for the default look that your phone came with. You can tweak notification alerts, add emergency information, and fully customize the look of your lock screen with these simple hacks. Android Let’s start with…

Gadgets David Nield Mar 10 '16

Every Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Photo Is Terrifying Beyond Measure

It could be that combining Tim Burton’s sensibility with weird children is just yielding the creepiest possible results, but the images we’re getting from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children are honestly terrifying. Like, the one above really feels like a group of kids has put together a party to go hunt the Most Dangerous…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Mar 10 '16

Hyperloop’s Unlikely Next Destination Might Be Slovakia

Hyperloop technology is still unproven, and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies doesn’t even have a working prototype yet. But that hasn’t stopped the company signing a deal to explore Hyperloop options in Europe. HTT has reached an unspecified deal with Slovakia to build a route through the country, which is meant to later connect into Austria and…

Tech News Chris Mills Mar 10 '16

Xerox Photocopiers Can Now Translate Whatever You’re Copying

Thanks to the paperless office that will never arrive, you can still find photocopiers in almost any corporate setting. They’re a necessary hassle, but Xerox is making its machines slightly less of a burden to have around with new functionality that automatically translates a document as it’s being copied. Xerox’s Easy Translator Service isn’t free,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 10 '16

Watch Adam Savage Recreate a Demon-Slaying Sword From Hellboy

Mythbusters may have finally called it a day, but that seems to have freed up time for Adam Savage to get back to what he does best: build props. Recreating the Hellboy sword is deceptively simple, but Adam throws in a few clever tricks to make the sword look like weathered metal despite weighing practically…

Sploid Avery Ellis Mar 10 '16

A 30-Mile-Long Ice Shelf Is About to Break Away From Antarctica

Two years ago, a crack appeared on an ice shelf along a stretch of Antarctic coast. The fissure has grown substantially since then, raising concerns that it will break free and form an iceberg over twice the size of Manhattan. Ice shelves are thick plates of coastline ice that float over the ocean. This particular…

Climate Change George Dvorsky Mar 10 '16

A Basic Spelling Error Cost These Hackers Nearly $1 Billion

Most spelling mistakes are innocent, fleeting, and only mildly embarrassing. Then there are the ones that result in a loss of over $800 million during a bank heist. Those ones suck. Reuters reports that a basic spelling error prevented an almost billion-dollar theft from Bangladesh’s central bank last month. Hackers managed to break through the…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Mar 10 '16

I Wish There Were More Avengers Fridge Jokes in Mockingbird’s New Comic

This isn’t necessarily a knock on Bobbi Morse’s first ever solo series, which began this week. It’s just that once you have jokes about touching Tony Stark’s sausage in the background of a comic panel, I kind of need to have more. Incredibly minor sausage-related spoilers ahead for Mockingbird #1, by Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Mar 10 '16

A Brief History of Zack Snyder Defending the End of Man of Steel

We’re only weeks away from the premiere of Batman v Superman. And it remains to be seen if that movie will retroactively justify some of the most widely-hated choices in Man of Steel. Based on Zack Snyder’s comments over the last three years, we can guess that it won’t. It’s been almost three years since…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Mar 10 '16

This Funky Looking Hearing Aid Is the Future

I have hearing problems. It’s been a fact of life for as long as I can remember. When I heard about EarGo, I had to wonder how they’d work for me.

Reviews Adam Clark Estes Mar 10 '16

The First Realistically Proportioned Male Doll Embraces the Dadbod

Mattel has finally started making Barbie dolls with more realistic body types, but what about Ken? Not every male has six-pack abs and chiseled muscles. So Lammily, the same people who created the first realistically-proportioned female doll, have now created a male equivalent. The Boy Lammily, as the doll is called, wasn’t directly modeled after…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 10 '16

The Next Country to Sign Up for Hyperloop Is… Slovakia?

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), one of two major efforts to make Elon Musk’s pipe dream (no seriously, it looks like a giant pipe) a reality, just scored a deal with Slovakia to look into building a three-country Hyperloop system. That’s right. Hyperloop is going global. This series of tubes would connect three major cities in…

Tech News Darren Orf Mar 10 '16

Here’s How You Can Help Hunt For Gravitational Waves

Last month, the world celebrated as physicists confirmed the existence of gravitational waves, proving Einstein right for the umpteenth time. But if you were looking to get in on the glory that comes with catching a spacetime ripple, now’s your chance. This week, scientists began enlisting ordinary plebs like us to help make the next…

Physics & Chemistry Maddie Stone Mar 10 '16

Ahmed Best Is a Darth Jar Jar Truther

Jamie Stangroom—he of the fascinatingly tragic interview with actor Ahmed Best earlier this year—sat down with the man behind Jar Jar Binks again. This time the two discussed the infamous, ludicrous “Darth Jar Jar” theory that Jar Jar was a Sith Lord working with Palpatine in the prequels. Best’s surprising response: “There’s a lot about…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 10 '16

Watching a Solar Eclipse From a Plane Is Wonderfully Apocalyptic

Alaska Airlines changed a flight plan Tuesday just so passengers could see the only solar eclipse of 2016. Now, video of the bonkers in-flight entertainment at 35,000 feet is up on YouTube. The airline switched up the flight path of Honolulu-bound flight 870 from Anchorage ahead of time at the request of the many astronomers…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Mar 10 '16

Everything You Can Say to Your Amazon Echo

Voice control is one of the core capabilities of the Amazon Echo: the tall, black cylinder comes with a basic remote and some on-board buttons, but speaking commands and questions is the most intuitive way of interacting with it. If you’re wondering just what your Echo can do and which commands it responds to, here’s…

Gadgets David Nield Mar 10 '16

Sylvester Stallone May Have a Role to Play in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

You’ll have to wait a little longer for the new Star Trek show. Ben Affleck talks Batman v Superman and his solo Batman movie. Don’t expect to see Black Panther’s homeland in Civil War. Plus, what’s to come on Lucifer, Gotham, and Sleepy Hollow, and even more Iron Fist casting rumors. Spoilers Now! Guardians of…

Television James Whitbrook Mar 10 '16

Spotting This Flying RC Goth Overhead Would Be Even Creepier at Night

Weighing in at just four-and-a-half pounds, Otto Dieffenbach’s latest flying creation is a remarkably lifelike replica of Bjørn Alexander Brem, the lead singer of an Osl0-based band called Gothminister. The easiest way to tell the two apart is to remember that the real Bjørn can’t fly. Watching it gracefully hover is even creepier than when…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 10 '16

Daisy Ridley May Raid Some Tombs as the New Lara Croft

Obama Enlists Canadian Prime Minister to Help Fight Climate Change

Customize Your Phone’s Lock Screen With These Easy Hacks

Every Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Photo Is Terrifying Beyond Measure

Hyperloop’s Unlikely Next Destination Might Be Slovakia

Xerox Photocopiers Can Now Translate Whatever You’re Copying

Watch Adam Savage Recreate a Demon-Slaying Sword From Hellboy

A 30-Mile-Long Ice Shelf Is About to Break Away From Antarctica

A Basic Spelling Error Cost These Hackers Nearly $1 Billion

I Wish There Were More Avengers Fridge Jokes in Mockingbird’s New Comic

A Brief History of Zack Snyder Defending the End of Man of Steel

This Funky Looking Hearing Aid Is the Future

The First Realistically Proportioned Male Doll Embraces the Dadbod

The Next Country to Sign Up for Hyperloop Is… Slovakia?

Here’s How You Can Help Hunt For Gravitational Waves

Ahmed Best Is a Darth Jar Jar Truther

Watching a Solar Eclipse From a Plane Is Wonderfully Apocalyptic

Everything You Can Say to Your Amazon Echo

Sylvester Stallone May Have a Role to Play in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Spotting This Flying RC Goth Overhead Would Be Even Creepier at Night

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