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On The 100, Mount Weather Pulls Out The Big Gun—Which Is A Missile

On this week’s The 100, we’ve got two children making big decisions without their formerly powerful parents — and there are bound to be grave consequences. As Mount Weather points a missile at the alliance leadership, Clarke must decide whether to protect them and risk exposing her spy. Things are getting chaotic beneath Mount Weather.…

Television Lauren Davis Feb 12 '15

Go Set Up Two-Factor Authentication For iMessage and FaceTime Right Now

Two-Factor Authentication, though sometimes annoying, is one the best defenses against nefarious individuals trying to break into your private accounts. You should really have it set up on everything, but not every company has unanimously embraced the security measure on all their apps, including Apple. The company has enabled two-factor authentication for both iMessage and…

Tech News Darren Orf Feb 12 '15

Some Guy Figured Out How to Delete Every Photo on Facebook

A security researcher recently made a seriously startling discovery. With just four lines of code, he says he could delete any photo album on Facebook. Zuck’s wedding photos? Zap. Your high school graduation album? Lost forever. Lucky for you, he decided to report the bug to Facebook, which promptly cut him a check. Let’s back…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes Feb 12 '15

Rockets of the world

I’m a sucker for rockets and technical illustrations, which is why I love this poster of rockets of the world drawn to scale by Tyler Skrabek—a clean, updated version of a 1995 classic by professor Peter Alway, published in the book Rockets of the World. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Feb 12 '15

Sick Bricks Has Everything Kids Love: Building, Gaming, and Fart Jokes

If the remarkable popularity of figurines like Disney’s Infinity or Nintendo’s amiibo have proved anything, it’s that kids still love to collect things, and today’s kids love being rewarded for those collections. So is there room for yet another collectible series of figures in kids’ hearts? Of course there is. Especially when Spin Master has…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 12 '15

10 Cold War-Era Board Games About Spies and Secret Agents

Americans were obsessed with spy culture during the Cold War. I mean, who didn’t love James Bond? Communists, that’s who. The gosh darn Communits. Spying seeped into every aspect of pop culture in the 1960s and 70s—from TV and movies to comic books and even board games. Below we have a collection of ten board…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 12 '15

Drool Over This Two-Foot Long Version of the Best Batmobile Ever

We’ve all got a soft spot for the Tumbler that Batman drove in the Christopher Nolan films, even the Batmobile from Tim Burton’s take on the caped crusader was memorable. But nothing will ever top the sleek, art deco-inspired Batmobile from Batman: The Animated Series that many of us remember from our childhoods. So we’re…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 12 '15

The Greatest Spies In Pop Culture, Ranked

If you believe fiction, spies are everywhere. You cannot turn around without bumping into someone in a wig, armed with a gun masquerading as a tasteful pair of earrings, and carrying secret plans in microdot form. There are so many, we decided to rank them. We have fifty entries on this list, and we are…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta and Meredith Woerner Feb 12 '15

Watch Bolivians Protest A Change In The Simpsons‘ Broadcast Time Slot

Protests aren’t always symbolic. Sometimes they bring about real change … like the recent outcry in Bolivia over network Unitel’s decision to change the time slot for its daily Simpsons broadcast. Nearly 2,000 protestors (mostly youthful, some in costume) convinced the channel to re-think its decision. The below video (from Unitel, as it happens) is…

Television Cheryl Eddy Feb 12 '15

Suunto Ambit2 (HR) Review: The Smartwatch For Badasses

The Suunto Ambit2 (HR) won’t read you your email and doesn’t know Will.i.am’s phone number. But, it will tell you your precise location anywhere on earth and powerfully monitors your physical exertion. How many beers did that climb burn? https://gizmodo.com/achieving-himalayan-ecstasy-at-20-000-1664180012 What’s It Supposed To Do? The Ambit2 is designed to be the only device you…

Reviews Chris Brinlee Jr. Feb 12 '15

How You Can Track Every Spy Satellite In Orbit

Nobody should be surprised that spy satellites are kept secret. But it’s actually more complicated. The launches are aired, but with scheduled media blackouts. We get mission patches, but no details on the nature of the payload. But the weirdest thing is how easy it is to track these satellites. https://gizmodo.com/decoding-hidden-messages-in-those-geeky-spy-satellite-m-1671164600 Top image: The National…

io9 Mika McKinnon Feb 12 '15

A Complete Primer On Every Kind Of Seal In The World

From the Antarctic Fur Seal all the way to the Weddell Seal, Kinja-user mythbri, so it goes has been exhaustively cataloguing the world’s species of currently living seals. The Observation Deck has the full rundown on everything you’ve ever wanted to know about pinnipeds after the jump. Image: Crabeater seal / Jerzystrzelecki https://observationdeck.kinja.com/pinnipednesday-the-complete-series-1685337016

io9 Ria Misra Feb 12 '15

Supercut Of Knight Rider‘s Sexytime Scenes Will Make You Uncomfortable

You probably don’t remember quite how skeevy David Hasselhoff could get on Knight Rider. So here’s a refresher course, compiled for you by the peeps at NBC.com and premiered exclusively at io9. As we mentioned before, NBC.com is posting full episodes of classic shows for free on their website and their app. And to promote…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 12 '15

You Can Finally Build Your Own Crazy Multi-Blade Lightsaber

The internet is still trying to figure out what the deal is with that crazy three-bladed lightsaber revealed in the first teaser for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But with Hasbro’s upcoming Star Wars Bladebuilders kits, you can outdo both George Lucas and J. J. Abrams with a Jedi or Sith weapon that defies all…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 12 '15

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Welcome to another week and another roundup of apps. We’ve got software that’s going to make your trips around town quicker, spice up your emoticon-laden texting conversations, keep track of your favorite eSports team, track all your quirky habits (smartphone or otherwise), and seriously step up your Instagram game. Get that download finger ready. Multi-Platform…

Tech News Darren Orf Feb 12 '15

The Closest View Yet Of Charon Orbiting Pluto

The New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back a time-lapse “movie” showing an entire day in the Pluto-Charon system. Captured from a distance of just 126 million miles (203-million km), the footage clearly depicts the “wobble” imposed on the dwarf planet by its large moon. The time-lapse is composed of shots taken from January 25–31. The…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 12 '15

We’re Dumping Way More Plastic Into the Ocean Than We Thought

Garbage in the ocean is a big problem, but until now we didn’t know how big. A study published today in Science drops a rough but still astounding estimate: 8 million metric tons per year. That’s 20 to 2000 times more than what experts had estimated. Until now, a lot of our information about how…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Feb 12 '15

Fix Your iMac By Adding Four USB Ports To the Front Where They Should Be

For every ten steps forward that Apple’s designers make in terms of improved usability for the company’s products, they still always manage to take a couple steps back. The world may never fully know why the USB ports are hidden away out-of-reach on the back of an iMac, but companies like Satechi are working hard…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 12 '15

Matthew Vaughn Explains The Problem With Modern-Day Spy Movies

This weekend Kingsman, the movie director Matthew Vaughn left the “800 million dollar gorilla” Days of Future Past to make, hits theaters. And with it come back the glory days of actually fun spy movies — something Vaughn thinks is sorely lacking in today’s culture. A few months back, after a very early screening of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 12 '15

This Wallpaper-Like Pattern Isn’t Flowers, It’s The Smallpox Vaccine

This print sure looks like petals (it’s even called Flowers). But nope: the pattern is liver cells that have been treated with the smallpox vaccine. Artist Vik Muniz created the work with bioengineer Tal Danino and MIT professor Sangeeta Bhatia as part of The Art of Saving a Life, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Feb 12 '15

On The 100, Mount Weather Pulls Out The Big Gun—Which Is A Missile

Go Set Up Two-Factor Authentication For iMessage and FaceTime Right Now

Some Guy Figured Out How to Delete Every Photo on Facebook

Rockets of the world

Sick Bricks Has Everything Kids Love: Building, Gaming, and Fart Jokes

10 Cold War-Era Board Games About Spies and Secret Agents

Drool Over This Two-Foot Long Version of the Best Batmobile Ever

The Greatest Spies In Pop Culture, Ranked

Watch Bolivians Protest A Change In The Simpsons‘ Broadcast Time Slot

Suunto Ambit2 (HR) Review: The Smartwatch For Badasses

How You Can Track Every Spy Satellite In Orbit

A Complete Primer On Every Kind Of Seal In The World

Supercut Of Knight Rider‘s Sexytime Scenes Will Make You Uncomfortable

You Can Finally Build Your Own Crazy Multi-Blade Lightsaber

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

The Closest View Yet Of Charon Orbiting Pluto

We’re Dumping Way More Plastic Into the Ocean Than We Thought

Fix Your iMac By Adding Four USB Ports To the Front Where They Should Be

Matthew Vaughn Explains The Problem With Modern-Day Spy Movies

This Wallpaper-Like Pattern Isn’t Flowers, It’s The Smallpox Vaccine

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