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io9TelevisionIs Continuum Preparing To Hit Another Reset Button?
Towards the end of last season, Continuum started rolling out lots of crazy plot twists — Carlos joins the Freelancers! Travis and Sonia die! — only to undo them when Alec went back in time. After last night’s frenetic episode, I’m wondering if we’re in store for the same trick a second time. Spoilers ahead… … Continued
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Here’s What Earth Looks Like From Space On The Summer Solstice
It’s the summer solstice! Today the Northern Hemisphere experiences its longest period of daylight of the year, marking the beginning of summer and an extreme point in Earth’s seasonality. The photo above, captured from Earth orbit by EUMETSTAT’s Meteosat-9, gives us a clue as to why this, but Ron Miller has the full details after … Continued
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Amazon Phone, Ikea Hacks, Electric Harley-Davidson, and More. Yo.
Happy solstice, friends! The longest day of the year is a fitting end to a week with Amazon’s new Fire Phone, the first electric Harley-Davidson, a scuffle between Ikea and its most popular unofficial fan site, and of course, Yo. Missed something? Here’s the best stuff we wrote this week. Don’t rush, you’ve got all … Continued
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io9TelevisionIntruders Gets A Release Date And A Creep-tastic New Trailer
Our first couple glimpses of Intruders, BBC America’s new series about a secret society that seeks to attain immortality by possessing other people’s bodies, were seriously spooky. This new, extended trailer continues the trend. Oh – and the show now has an official release date! The show, which is based on Michael Marshall Smith’s novel … Continued
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It’s iPhone 6 Rumor Season: Here’s an Alleged Shot of a 5.5-Inch Screen
iPhone rumor time comes as predictably as moose mating season, and like pheromone-crazy moose, leak-hungry tech bloggers will mount just about anything that looks like it could possibly be iPhone related. Here’s the latest: a purported 5.5-inch (14cm) display, published by 9to5Mac earlier today. The images, provided to 9to5Mac by the generally reliable Sonny Dickson, … Continued
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Train Strikes, Airbnb, Homogeneity: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week
A train strike has paralyzed France, Airbnb has screwed San Francisco’s housing market, a lack of diversity has wrecked Austin, and two Southern California mayors fucked up, in two very different ways. It’s our joyously optimistic look at What’s Ruining Our Cities! A train strike is ruining France Called the worst strike in 13 years, … Continued
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A Massive Crop Circle Appeared Overnight In Italy
An intricate crop circle, pictured here, materialized last night in Poirino, Italy. This aerial view gives you a good sense of scale. See those cars in the upper left hand corner? Yeah. This thing’s a biggie. Created by crop circle artists Francesco Grassi and colleagues, the piece is called the “LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) … Continued
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How to Print From Anywhere
Americans just aren’t printing as much as we used to. Where once we’d churn out driving directions, movie tickets, or school reports, these documents almost always stay in the digital domain. But for those occasions that you do need to print something, here’s how to make sure you can do it from anywhere, without a … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
We’ll Miss The Excellent Young-Adult Imprint, Strange Chemistry
Angry Robot Books, which is owned by Osprey Publishing Group, has just announced that their YA imprint, Strange Chemistry is closing. Here’s why that’s terrible news. The closure of Strange Chemistry is effective immediately and all books on contract have been cancelled. Angry Robot will continue to publish books and will even increase their schedule … Continued
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Staring At A Computer All Day (Or Night) Totally Does Affect Your Eyes
Do you spend more than seven hours a day parked in front of a computer monitor? Results from a newly published study suggest you could be stripping your “tear film” of a component that helps keep your eyes clean, lubricated and healthy. Photo Credit: Carlos Martz via flickr | CC BY 2.0 Tears lubricate the … Continued
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Before and After the Southern California Fires
Last month, a drought, heat wave, and dry Santa Ana winds combined together to exacerbate fires in southern California. Here’s a pair of satellite images of the San Diego region in May, separated by just eight days and far too much fire. Southern California on May 9 and May 17, 2014. Image credit: NASA Up … Continued
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This Could Be Our First Look at Mozilla’s Chromecast Competitor
Ever since Chromecast and Roku hit the market, rumor has said that Mozilla was working on a more open, tinkerer-friendly type of streaming dongle. This week, Mozilla developer Christian Heilmann tweeted a photo that sure looks like a nearly-finalized product, and GigaOM got to play with a prototype. Casting’s about to get open-sourcey. GigaOM’s Janko … Continued
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Tech NewsWristbands That Translate Sign Language Into Speech Would Be Awesome
A student team working with Google has come up with an ingenious way to translate signing into spoken word: electronic wristbands that measure the wearer’s muscle activity, recognizing sign language symbols and speaking them through an Android device. It could quite literally give signers a voice. Update: As it turns out, this concept is completely … Continued
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Tech NewsThese DIY Office Supply Weapons Definitely Won’t Get You Fired, Nope
You graduated from middle school and found your way to a desk job, but that doesn’t mean you have to leave rubber-band-powered projectile launchers behind. YouTube’s mist8k is here to show us how to build three weapons of mass distraction, using stuff you’ve already got at your desk. Now (goofing off at) work can be … Continued
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Finally, Details From J. Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis’ Sense8
We finally have a cast for the show, which is expected to be on Netflix next year. And there are a lot of familiar names on the list. Here’s the cast: People who’ve done science fiction before include Naveen Andrews, Daryl Hannah, Brian J. Smith (Stargate: Universe), Tuppence Middleton (Jupiter Ascending), Aml Ameen (The Maze … Continued
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Fandom Academia: Gender Influences Filk Far Less Than You’d Think
I love the highly-specific title of this academic paper by Melissa Tatum, Robert Spoo, and Banjamin Pope: “Does Gender Influence Attitudes Toward Copyright in the Filk Community?” It combines three hot-button issues: copyright, gender, and fandom. It’s a like a powder keg of things people have very strong opinions on. Tatum et. al.’s paper was … Continued
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io9Sesame Street‘s Parody of True Blood Treats Vampires As Grouches
If there’s one thing we know, it’s that True Blood is a show for adults. So we 100% hope that no child has ever seen the show that this Sesame Street parody is based on. But if you were wondering if it was possible to nail this show without using any sex or violence, the … Continued
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io9A Biologist Debunks the “Bee Saves Its Friend From a Spider” Video
This video of a bumblebee “helping” a friend out of a spider web has been making the Internet rounds recently. The narrator asks for “experts” to tell us what’s happening. And Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex answered the call. In a post at the Conversation, Goulson explains what his expert … Continued