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Who Wins This Fan-Made Batman V. Superman Battle? Wait Until The End

With Batman V. Superman on its way, BrickFlix did its own LEGO take on the classic battle from The Dark Knight Returns — with a somewhat different ending. [via Comic Book Movie]

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 3

A Bad Bing Update Took Out Yahoo Search Yesterday

News from the land of unloved search engines: yesterday, both Bing and Yahoo had an outage (don’t worry, I didn’t notice either), caused by a coding booboo from Microsoft. According to a Reuters report, Microsoft pushed out a Bing update on Friday afternoon without bug-testing it properly first. Because Bing’s search mojo actually powers Yahoo…

Tech News Chris Mills Jan 3

Why Ms Marvel Is One Of Comics’ Most Interesting Discourses On Violence

Superheroes fight. They punch. They zap supervillains and toss them around. Sometimes they kill people and sometimes they die. But, as a recent essay points out, the current Ms. Marvel does an excellent job of asking the question: does a superhero really have to hurt other people? Over at Comic Book Resources, Noah Berlatsky (who…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 3

Polar’s A300 Is a Solid Fitness Tracker You Shouldn’t Buy

Polar has come a long way since its first fitness tracker, the Polar Loop, launched in 2013. Just months ago the Finnish company released the Polar M400, a lovely and capable GPS running watch with 24/7 fitness tracking capabilities. It was sweet enough to earn a coveted spot on our Best Fitness Trackers list. Today,…

Health Brent Rose Jan 3

Acer’s Chromebook 15 Is Honkin’ Huge

Chromebooks just got big. Acer’s new gargantuan 15.6-inch Chromebook 15 is leading off its suite of releases for this year’s CES, and it’s sweeping up the award for Biggest, Cheapest Chromebook right off the bat. The new Chromebook 15’s big ol’ display comes in two resolution flavors: Full HD 1920×1080 or 1366×768, the latter of…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 3

Watch The Space Station Go Flying Past The Moon

Thanks to the internet (and just a tiny little bit of math), Israeli photographer Gadi Eidelheit managed to get himself in position to see something quite unique: the International Space Station flying in front of the moon. Even better, he caught the whole thing on video. In order to capture the video, Eidelheit used HeavensAbove,…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills Jan 3

Sony Is Giving PSN Users Gifts To Make Up For The Hacking

Over Christmas, the self-styled group of lulz-seeking lowlifes known as the Lizard Squad DDoSed the shit out of PSN and Xbox Live, ruining Christmas for untold numbers of 8-year-olds, and by extension their parents. Law enforcement is slowly but surely bringing them to justice, but now Sony is also trying to make amends to users.…

Tech News Chris Mills Jan 3

This Week On Sailor Moon Crystal: Two Thirds Of An Arc Finale!

It’s time to end the first story arc of Sailor Moon Crystal! Kind of. Sailor Moon stands before Queen Metalia and her plans to consume the Earth, but not without pacing problems getting in the way of the show once more. Let’s get one thing out of the way first – after the dire animation…

Tech News James Whitbrook Jan 3

A Mind-Bending Short Film About A Man Who Just Can’t Escape His Office

You may feel like you’re trapped in your work routine, but you’ve got nothing on Cubert, who spends his days in endless monotony at his desk. It’s only when he is plucked out of his regular workflow that he begins to understand the horror of his situation. Lost Cubert was written and directed by Felix…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 3

These Adorable Doodles Could Help You Learn The Sign Language Alphabet

Artist Alex Solis adds cartoon mnemonic devices to the American Sign Language alphabet with his Signs & Doodles series. Little cartoon characters interact with each sign in the alphabet to help you remember the correct position of your fingers. You can check out the rest of Solis’ series on Instagram, and he also has a…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 3

The fine line that separates normality from disaster in one single photo

It seems that, every time the heavy rain season comes, some Austrians live in a permanent situation of impending disaster. Just look at these homes right next to a flood protection wall that seems about to burst and destroy everything. I completely missed this when it happened back in 2013. It looks terrifying but, if…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 3

What it’s like being inside an artist’s sketch book

I’m imagining this animation by Minhyuk Jang called Rocketboy as a glimpse into the note book from the kid in the back of the classroom. It’s a little dark mixed with a lot of imagination and is sketched in a way that reminds me of those outside of the margins doodles that we all made.…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 2

Clever animation shows how we hide our true feelings to the world

Elena Rogova’s Appearance and Reality is a clever short story that tackles something we can all relate to: the difference between the feelings we show to the world and our hidden true feelings. It’s like as we grow up, we put on a mask to suppress our feelings to look cool or appear strong or…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 2

Video: The life of an ant is just like a fun video game

I really enjoyed this video from Shiva Kumar and Siddharth Manugula about tracking the life of ants. It turns them into a video game of sorts, with battery life meters and Wi-Fi signaling and objectives and goals. It’s also fun to see ‘human’ things get digitally imposed into their world like street lamps and mini…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 2

Long Before Batman Vs. Superman, We Had The Great Amazons Vs. Supermen

We still have high hopes for the collision of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman on the big screen — but we’ve already gotten a totally insane superhero team-up involving Amazons. Back in 1975, Hong Kong’s Shaw Bros. and Italy’s Cinematografica teamed up to give us the movie Amazons Vs. Supermen. In Amazons Vs. Supermen, a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 2

Once Upon A Time In The West Is the Best Western and You Should Watch It

The opening is iconic. In eerie silence three outlaws take over a rail station somewhere in the west to set up a trap for the soon to arrive hero. After locking up the ticket clerk the three outlaws each take a position at different ends of the station. Suffocating closeups of each outlaw is intercut…

Tech News Nicholas Stango Jan 2

The Funniest Words That Sound Dirty In Other Languages

Earlier today, we asked for help coming up with a wordfor that thing where a word is innocent in its native language, but sounds like a dirty word to foreign speakers. And not only did we come up with a word — “sordophone” — but also, a pretty impressive list of words that travelers should…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 2

Giant Gummy Bear + Liquid Nitrogen + Shotgun = Magic

Because sometimes you have a World’s Largest Gummy Bear, some liquid nitrogen, and a 12-gauge all in the same place at the same time, and you’re just crazy enough to see what happens when you combine the three. And you’re also clever enough to film it for YouTube viewers ’round the world. What more is…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jan 2

This Is Not A Crater, So What Is It?

Circular landforms are intriguing. This is a naturally occurring feature, but was formed neither by a volcano nor a meteor. What is it? Top image: Satellite image draped over a topographic model of Kondyor Massif, Russia. Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team This landform is just about as perfectly circular as a naturally-occurring landform…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Jan 2

Which Dwarf Is Which In The Hobbit Movies? This Cheat Sheet Can Help

The Hobbit movies expanded the personalities of the Dwarven characters from J.R.R. Tolkien’s original book, but sometimes it feels like you need a chart to keep track of who is who under all that beard hair. Fortunately, the Lord of the Rings Project has made just such a chart. Emil Johansson, who has been obsessively…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 2

Who Wins This Fan-Made Batman V. Superman Battle? Wait Until The End

A Bad Bing Update Took Out Yahoo Search Yesterday

Why Ms Marvel Is One Of Comics’ Most Interesting Discourses On Violence

Polar’s A300 Is a Solid Fitness Tracker You Shouldn’t Buy

Acer’s Chromebook 15 Is Honkin’ Huge

Watch The Space Station Go Flying Past The Moon

Sony Is Giving PSN Users Gifts To Make Up For The Hacking

This Week On Sailor Moon Crystal: Two Thirds Of An Arc Finale!

A Mind-Bending Short Film About A Man Who Just Can’t Escape His Office

These Adorable Doodles Could Help You Learn The Sign Language Alphabet

The fine line that separates normality from disaster in one single photo

What it’s like being inside an artist’s sketch book

Clever animation shows how we hide our true feelings to the world

Video: The life of an ant is just like a fun video game

Long Before Batman Vs. Superman, We Had The Great Amazons Vs. Supermen

Once Upon A Time In The West Is the Best Western and You Should Watch It

The Funniest Words That Sound Dirty In Other Languages

Giant Gummy Bear + Liquid Nitrogen + Shotgun = Magic

This Is Not A Crater, So What Is It?

Which Dwarf Is Which In The Hobbit Movies? This Cheat Sheet Can Help

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