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Without any apparent way to make it actually happen, a new company claims to be developing giant hologram people for your living room entertainment. Naturally, the company would also like you to pay for the development of this technology, using an existing technology that separates you from your money.
We wished the new superhero movie The Wolverine—full of ninjas and samurais—to be an outstanding movie but alas, it’s a bad one. As Charlie Jane Anders tells in her io9 review, it’s not much better than the first Wolverine, which was really bad. Mr. Jackman, life needs more cheerful musicals, less raging fury.
It’s wedding season. Female guests shouldn’t wear white, male guests should respect the dress code—and nobody should try to make out with the bride’s dad. To avoid the latter, follow this useful guide on how to drink without making an ass of yourself.
Why do people insist on killing themselves being ridiculously reckless and uploading their stupid failed stunts to YouTube? It’s a modern mystery! We like it. Here are some idiots filming a skimboarder’s attempt to high five his bros in a speeding boat. There are still five days left in the month. If you think you…
Can you imagine the idea of freezing light, stopping its photons in space as if time itself seemingly stood still? You are looking at it. German scientists have actually frozen the fastest thing in the universe for an entire minute. It’s a major physics breakthrough.
It’s not enough these days to have a mistress—everybody on Wall Street has at least one. What’s important is to give your new girlfriend the kind of fake name that will impress your bros and help the tabloids while instantly arousing suspicion from your wife and friends.
With cream or without cream, the classic Oreo Hamlet question—no more. The Moreo, a new Oreo cookie variation invented at some insane person’s kitchen—Bear Silber—brings a new dilemma: without cream or with enough cream to die of a sugar overdose?
Best Buy is offering the new MacBook Pro Retina at a $200 discount, $300 if you have a valid .edu email address and $325 if you pay with American Express.
An especially hot summer has melted the snow atop the North Pole, leaving a green, watery lake around the pole’s marker. Almost half the North Pole’s snow cover has melted since May. Santa Claus could use a kayak this year as an early Christmas present.
Is Anthony Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin suffering from some kind of psychological disorder? Is she just an ambitious woman that can stand any humiliation for the promise of power? Or is she just hopelessly in love with this disgraceful individual? Jezebel’s Erin Gloria Ryan has some theories.
The collapsing realities and eternal nightmare of false memories is now reality for laboratory mice forced to undergo memory implants. MIT researchers have now implanted false memories in these lab animals, so that they “remember” things they’ve never experienced. When will doctors do this to you?
A disgraced wrestler led cops on a dangerous car chase until he crashed and was taken to the hospital, where he awaits charges of first degree murder for stabbing his girlfriend. Known as Donovan “The Future” Ruddick, the ex-wrestler allegedly took a knife to 25-year-old Bianca McGaughey, who was killed last night.
io9’s wrap up of San Diego Comic-Con 2013—the yearly Big Bang of sci-fi and fantasy news—has a selection of the best and shiniest movies, TV shows and comic books that will keep you entertained this year, the next and beyond. It’s packed with really good stuff.
A pet turtle in China has developed an addiction to cigarettes so severe that it needs up to 10 smokes day. The tragic animal began its nicotine habit when its owner “pacified” the beast with a single cigarette. Now the shelled addict can’t live without its beloved tobacco.
Domestic cats, unlike other pets and most humans, generally have a strong sense of personal dignity. They do not want ribbons or party hats placed upon their heads. They do not want clothing of any kind. And they certainly don’t want neckties, even though crazy people are making these cat-ties for crazy cat owners.
You know you’re broke when even a lunch at the lousy chain restaurant at the mall is out of your financial reach. But there is a way out of this no-money nightmare, and you can begin your escape from crushing debt right now.
Scientists have developed a small sticker that emits non-toxic chemical compounds to confuse mosquitos’ CO2 detection mechanisms, making humans invisible as potential bloodsucking targets for 48 hours. The company wants to test it in Uganda, where about 100,000 die every year because of mosquito-transmitted malaria.
People love to eat the perfect combination of fried chicken and waffles. But sometimes it’s hard to make the time to go to a chicken-and-waffles diner for this treat. Why not just drive through Popeye’s and get “chicken fried in waffle batter” and eat it in your car?
Yesterday at 8:42pm, a high speed train crashed in Galicia, Spain, killing 78 and injuring 140, 30 of them in critical condition. As the CCTV video capture shows, the train was traveling way too fast—according to the train engineer, as fast as 118mph (190km/h) more than two times the speed allowed in that track segment.…
For more than a century after Europeans first encountered the mysterious aye-aye of Madagascar in the 1780s, scientists and biologists just could not figure out if the weird beast was a rodent or a kangaroo or some bizarre type of primate. Guess what it really is ….
