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This Is How Fast a Little Landslide Turns Into a Full-On Shitstorm

Londa and Bret Edwards were clearing debris from Idaho’s Highway 14 when things took a serious turn. Within the span of a few minutes, all hell breaks loose, with huge boulders and trees tumbling down onto the only road in or out of Elk City, Idaho, leaving the town’s residents stranded and without power. The…

Sploid Avery Ellis Feb 25 '16

The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do To Make Your Writing More Awesome

There’s no magic bullet for being a decent writer, or making people bond with your characters or fall in love with your story. Writing is a million different skills and challenges, and each story is different. But the more I struggle to make this work, the more I think there’s one key thing that makes…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 25 '16

Dropping a GoPro In a Lava Lamp Is Like Peering Inside a Beating Human Heart

As relaxing as a lava lamp is to watch from the outside, from the inside it’s a whole other level of mesmerizing. You’d assume that dropping a GoPro in a working lava lamp would be like diving into an active volcano, but the footage is more akin to peering inside a beating human heart as…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Feb 25 '16

Your Next Phone Might Have 256GB of Storage Thanks to Samsung’s New Chip

I love high capacity things. So when Samsung announced it’s producing 256 GB flash storage that can be used in mobile devices, I swooned. The memory is two times faster than the previous generation of Universal Flash Storage (UFS) memory, meaning that phones will not only have greater storage capacities, but also breeze reading and…

Tech News Michael Nunez Feb 25 '16

Camerman Is Super Casual About These Huge Chunks of Falling Ice

Winter can be a dangerous time to be outside. This video was filmed by a cameraman outside the WJET-TV tower in northwest Pennsylvania. Although we hear the huge ice spears crashing into the roof above him, he seems pretty casual about the whole thing. He ends his injury-free ordeal with a particularly polite, “aw jeez…

Sploid Avery Ellis Feb 25 '16

There Are Already Casting Rumors for That New Star Trek TV Show

Chadwick Boseman talks Black Panther. Get a look at Laura Vandervoort’s Supergirl villain. The Flash promises answers to the identity of the mysterious Iron-masked man. Plus new Game of Thrones posters, and what is most definitely not your first look at the new Spider-Man. So many Spoilers! Captain America: Civil War Chadwick Boseman discusses Black…

Television James Whitbrook Feb 25 '16

The Box Art Alone Makes These Retro Masters of the Universe Figures Worthy of Your Lust

Mattel has its own line of Masters of the Universe figures available over on MattyCollector.com, but do they come packaged on cards featuring the brilliant artwork of Jason Edmiston? They do not, but these retro MOTU figures from Super7 sure do. Revealed about a week ago, the line features four of the more popular Masters…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 25 '16

The New Daredevil Trailer Is All About Elektra

Last week’s first big look at Daredevil season two introduced us to Matt Murdock’s next big rival, the Punisher. But in its last few seconds, we got to see Matt re-encounter a familiar face from his past, Elektra Natchios—and this giant new trailer explores her connection to the Man without Fear. https://gizmodo.com/say-hello-to-the-punisher-in-the-new-daredevil-season-2-1759174994 We got a…

Trailers James Whitbrook Feb 25 '16

New Video Series Explains Why Woodpeckers Are Built To Peck

Fans of woodpeckers and materials science will be thrilled to hear that MIT has just released a series of eight short-form videos explaining how woodpeckers can bang their heads against trees all day without suffering major brain trauma — or even getting so much as a headache. Called “Built To Peck: How Woodpeckers Avoid Brain…

Biology Jennifer Ouellette Feb 25 '16

Judge Confirms Carnegie Mellon Hacked Tor and Provided Info to FBI

A rumor has been circulating for a while that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) provided information to the FBI, which led to the feds identifying Tor users linked to crimes. Details of any arrangements have been unclear, but evidence from a criminal case has confirmed a few facts. It’s now abundantly clear that researchers…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 25 '16

Report: Major Apple Manufacturer Foxconn Has Bought Sharp For $6.2 Billion

Foxconn is best known as the sometimes-controversial Taiwanese manufacturer used by Apple to assemble iPhones. Sharp is an ailing Japanese company that used to make plasma TVs, and now makes iPhone displays. The Nikkei Asian Review reports that Sharp’s board has accepted a $6.2 billion buyout from Foxconn. Normally, component manufacturers changing hands isn’t a…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 24 '16

Apple Is Fixing That 1970 Bug In the Next iOS

The 1970 bug is a slightly annoying and mostly entertaining software glitch that bricks any iPhone by setting the date back before May 1970. Unsurprisingly, Apple’s correcting that glitch in the next version of iOS. The most recent beta of iOS 9.3 fixes the bug by limiting the system time—you now can’t set it back…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 24 '16

Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Have Steering Wheels

The head of Google’s self-driving car division made headlines recently for asking federal regulators to allow a vehicle without human-facing features like a steering wheel. Now he’s made a very good case for why no autonomous vehicle on the road should have these things at all. In an interview with NPR that aired today, Google’s…

Tech News Alissa Walker Feb 24 '16

At Last, You Can Get All of Leigh Brackett’s Stark Stories in One Volume

Leigh Brackett was known as the Queen of Space Opera long before she co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back. And now, you can find out why. Haffner Press has collected all of the novels and stories she wrote about space adventurer Eric John Stark into one amazing volume. Featuring cover art from Raymond Swanland (see roughs…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24 '16

Clary Is No Longer the Most Annoying Character on Shadowhunters

After ending last week’s episode by announcing she knew how to find the Mortal Cup, Clary gets her mitts on it in “Major Arcana.” Now that the hunt for the cup is over, the Shadowhunters gang can spend the rest of the season trying to rescue Clary’s mom and take down Valentine forever. Truly, if…

Television Cheryl Eddy Feb 24 '16

We Finally Know Who’s Starring in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One just found its biggest piece. Tye Sheridan—whom we’ll see playing Cyclops in this summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse—is set to play the lead character of Wade, aka Parzival. Deadline reported the news of the casting. Sheridan joins Olivia Cooke, who’ll play Art3mis, and Ben Mendelsohn, who’ll play the…

Movies Germain Lussier Feb 24 '16

How Dungeons & Dragons Helped Shape David Mitchell’s Epic Storytelling

Slade House David Mitchell is a literary darling, who’s won acclaim and award nominations. But when he talks about the things that shaped him as an author, he namechecks genre stalwarts like Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip Jose Farmer… and Dungeons & Dragons. Mitchell gave a long, long interview to the Geeks Guide to the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24 '16

Tim Cook: An iPhone Master Key Would Be the ‘Software Equivalent of Cancer’

Apple CEO Tim Cook told ABC World News Tonight’s David Muir that he remains opposed to giving the FBI a skeleton key that would allow it to break into one of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhones. Tonight in an exclusive with ABC, Cook said it’s “a very uncomfortable position to oppose your government at something,”…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Feb 24 '16

Here’s the Moment From Last Night’s Agent Carter That Gave Me Goosebumps

Last night’s two episodes of Agent Carter had their ups and downs—but their emotional spine came from Edwin Jarvis, whose wife Ana has narrowly survived a gunshot wound. But the most magical moment comes here, when Edwin finally pushes Peggy Carter too far. Spoilers ahead… The little moment of collecting herself, the hair flip, and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24 '16

Google’s New AI Can Tell Where Your Photo Was Taken Without Using Geotags

In case you didn’t already feel like Google was a creepy stalker, its artificial intelligence tools are rapidly crossing over into uncanny. The latest one is PlaNet, a new deep-learning machine that specializes in figuring out where a photo was taken—using nothing but the image’s pixels. Today, MIT Tech Review reports on a new effort…

Tech News Maddie Stone Feb 24 '16

This Is How Fast a Little Landslide Turns Into a Full-On Shitstorm

The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do To Make Your Writing More Awesome

Dropping a GoPro In a Lava Lamp Is Like Peering Inside a Beating Human Heart

Your Next Phone Might Have 256GB of Storage Thanks to Samsung’s New Chip

Camerman Is Super Casual About These Huge Chunks of Falling Ice

There Are Already Casting Rumors for That New Star Trek TV Show

The Box Art Alone Makes These Retro Masters of the Universe Figures Worthy of Your Lust

The New Daredevil Trailer Is All About Elektra

New Video Series Explains Why Woodpeckers Are Built To Peck

Judge Confirms Carnegie Mellon Hacked Tor and Provided Info to FBI

Report: Major Apple Manufacturer Foxconn Has Bought Sharp For $6.2 Billion

Apple Is Fixing That 1970 Bug In the Next iOS

Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Have Steering Wheels

At Last, You Can Get All of Leigh Brackett’s Stark Stories in One Volume

Clary Is No Longer the Most Annoying Character on Shadowhunters

We Finally Know Who’s Starring in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

How Dungeons & Dragons Helped Shape David Mitchell’s Epic Storytelling

Tim Cook: An iPhone Master Key Would Be the ‘Software Equivalent of Cancer’

Here’s the Moment From Last Night’s Agent Carter That Gave Me Goosebumps

Google’s New AI Can Tell Where Your Photo Was Taken Without Using Geotags

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