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Holy @#$%, Joel Schumacher Is Making A Comic Sequel To Batman & Robin

I… I have no words. I can barely process the rumor that Joel Schumacher, director of the infamously bad ’90s movie Batman & Robin, will return to the bat-nippled universe to continue the saga to make a 12-issue comic, that DC will apparently publish. On purpose! Here’s everything you need to know. The comic will…

​The Dark Archer Wants You To Support NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

John Barrowman is the latest actor recruited by NASA for its PSA video series, “Orion: I’m on Board.” (And yes, there is an obligatory Arrow reference.) Previous PSAs have featured Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols and Buck Rogers’ Erin Gray.

Fire TV Stick vs Chromecast vs Roku Stick: Streaming Dongle Showdown

Amazon just announced the Fire TV stick, a cheap streaming media dongle, which looks a lot like Google’s Chromecast, and the Roku streaming stick. But there some important differences that might make each device slightly better suited to different people. We’ll have a full review of the Fire TV stick soon; you can check out…

Amazon’s New Streaming Stick For Just $19, and Your New Telescope

Preorder to save on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and check out some concept art to hold you over. [Dawn of the Planet of the Apes] https://gizmodo.com/check-out-some-exclusive-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-1598228145 Amazon has two pages of Criterion Blu-rays on sale, and we want to hear what you’re treating yourself to. [Criterion] Watching Guardians Of The Galaxy is…

Prime-Exclusive Home Theater Discounts and Xbox One Price Cuts

Amazon has experimented with Prime-exclusive deals in the past, but things are getting kicked into high gear now. Here’s a whole page of Prime-exclusive discounts on Vizio TVs and sound bars, all the way up to 70 inches. If you aren’t a member, you can sign up for a free trial. [Vizio] If that wasn’t…

​The 7 Most Affable Versions Of Satan Ever

Sometimes, the Devil gets a bad rap. Oh, sure, not all of the time — a lot of the time he’s evil incarnate — but sometimes he’s just a nice guy with a job to do, a job that just happens to be damning people’s souls. Here are seven portrayals of the Prince of Darkness…

Dumb Wi-Fi Network Name Delays Flight for Four Hours

Some asshat at Los Angeles International Airport ruined a plane-full of people’s days on Sunday night. He named a Wi-Fi network “Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork,” and a passenger about to take off on a 9am flight to London noticed it. The plane didn’t take off until 1pm as a result. The plane was taxiing to…

Cookie Monster Is A Wizard In Sesame Street‘s Harry Potter Spoof

In its latest pop culture parody, Sesame Street has cast Cookie Monster as Furry Potter, a young student wizard. But in order to get the Goblet of Cookies, Furry Potter will have to do something Harry Potter sometimes had trouble with: following his teacher’s instructions. More schools should employ giant spiders to make sure that…

Office 365 Subscribers Now Get Unlimited OneDrive Storage

In mid-July, Microsoft announced that’d it be rolling at a 1 TB storage increase for all its Office 365 Home, Personal, and University subscribers. But the team decided continue its push for cloud supremacy by upping its storage capacity into infinity. Office 365 users now have access to unlimited storage via OneDrive for free. OneDrive…

Lost In The Train Station short animation should be turned into a game

I imagine some kind of Monkey Island-style adventure game—but side-scrolling, set in huge train/subway stations that would take you through shops and weird fantastic places, with some platformer elements thrown in for extra fun. The stations, from all over the world would be connected through the trains. I would totally play this. SPLOID is a…

This Remarkable Scrap Of Paper Can Detect Ebola

Though it may not look like it, this tiny piece of paper is actually a biological machine. It’s a paper-based synthetic gene network that, in a very litmus-like way, can be used to sense disease-causing microbes, including certain strains of Ebola, or medically important molecules, such as glucose. It could be a while before we…

How Corporate Greed Is Trying to Kill Apple Pay

When Apple Pay launched last week, it was a huge step towards the pay-with-your-phone future that’s been in the works for years. But a few big retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, and CVS want to blow the whole thing up and replace it with something shittier, because they don’t care about you at all. This…

A Giant Version Of Jenga Makes For More Spectacular Collapses

Like with any kind of motorsport racing, the only reason people play Jenga is the anticipation of the inevitable, and often spectacular crashes as the tower they’ve assembled finally collapses. And short of making the Jenga blocks out of shattering glass, the only way to make those collapses even more spectacular is to make the…

​Among Millennials, Support For Obama Is Divided By Race

Several polls show that support for President Obama among the millennial generation has plummeted. Analysts have offered several reasons, including disenchantment with his healthcare initiative and declining trust in government. But one study says the actual fault-line among millennials is a familiar one: race. Depending upon which poll you read, Obama’s most recent overall approval…

T-Rex Skull Shower Heads Justify the Existence of 3D Printers

The next time someone asks you to explain 3D printers, and why anyone would want one in their home, you can simply bring up this article and show them that without 3D printing technology we may never have had a T-Rex shower head. Available for download for free from MakerBot’s Thingiverse, the T-Rex shower head…

Google Drive is down, and it’s taken all of your docs with it. Users have been reporting outages since 11:20, which is very annoying if you use Google Docs for work—like all my coworkers and I do. Fingers crossed they fix it soon! (Update 3:15 PM: It’s back!)

This Week’s TV: All The Spooky Movies And TV Shows To Watch This Week!

It’s Halloween week, and in addition to the spooky episodes of the usual TV shows, we’ve picked out some horror-themed movies you can catch on TV. Plus, LEGO Batman has a new adventure, Jake and Finn return for a haunted Adventure Time, and a Walking Dead clip hints at a major mystery. And be sure…

Krypton TV Series In The Works, We Blame Gotham

Man of Steel writer David Goyer is allegedly working on a Krypton show. But will the alien-set series have Russell Crowe’s weird bird/bug dragon? It doesn’t matter, since everyone dies anyway. Because we are living in a comic book Renaissance (or glut), the television world has decided that they want even more prequel-like comic book…

7 Tips to Unlock the Potential of Google Inbox

Google is busy sending out invites for Google Inbox, so if you haven’t yet been granted access then you should be let in soon. Inbox takes a whole new approach to email, so you might find yourself disoriented to begin with—here are seven key features that show off the potential of Google’s new email messaging…

Own this super expensive Hobbit brick and contribute to a good cause

TT Games, the maker of several of the most popular Lego themed video games, gives launch bricks to significant contributors of their game titles. With the help of one of our favorite builders, Carl Greatrix, who is a designer for TT, a launch brick from The Hobbit has found its way to the eBay marketplace.…