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The New Nancy Drew Show Finds Its Lead Detective on Person of Interest
Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/APCBS has finally selected the lead of its Nancy Drew reboot, titled Drew: Sarah Shahi. She has an extensive TV resume that includes roles on Person of Interest, Chicago...
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Sure, we’ve had multiple teases for Game of Thrones’ sixth season, but none of them have given us actual, honest to god footage from the season. However, this new featurette focusing on the camera work...
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Today's Best Deals: PC Upgrades, Tiny Jump Starter, Discounted Treadmill, and...
PC upgrades, a tiny car jump starter, and a deeply discounted treadmill kick off the week’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is...
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Graphene Patterned After Moth Eyes Could Give Us 'Smart Wallpaper'
Moth eyes are highly antireflective due to their surface nanostructure. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory.Tweaking the structure of graphene so that it matches patterns found in the eyes of moths...
View ArticleThe final Divergent movie will be directed by Lee Toland Krieger (Age of...
The final Divergent movie will be directed by Lee Toland Krieger (Age of Adaline). Krieger replaces Robert Schwentke, who directed—yawn—sorry, it’s just Divergent is so boring. Anyway, Schwentke...
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Robots Don't Need to Be Evil, Just Stupid, to Lead Us to Our Doom
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia TechHuman beings will put too much trust in robots even when those machines are broken or make obvious mistakes. All we need to do is slap the words “emergency” on the robot’s...
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Giant Viruses Feature Their Own Built-In Antivirus Software
Computer illustration of the mimivirus particle. Credit Jose Antonio Penas.Mimiviruses are viruses so big they can actually be seen with a simple light microscope. European scientists have now learned...
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The Goofy Reason DC Comics Says Today Is Superman’s Birthday
Over the decades, DC Comics has given the Man of Steel several different dates of birth. But the weirdest one is February 29, because it’s supposed to explain why a 78-year-old character only looks...
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What's Your Favorite USB Battery Pack?
Kinja Deals readers have bought tens of thousands of USB battery packs over the last few years, and yet, we’ve never done a Kinja Co-Op on the subject. Lifehacker held a Hive Five vote several years...
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The Walking Dead Just Completely Changed the Game
You don’t need a thousand zombies to have a tense-as-hell episode of The Walking Dead. As last night’s episode proved, all you need to do is upend everything we thought we knew about the...
View ArticleStephen Colbert and Sesame Street's Grover Star in Spike Jonze' Bizarre Late...
If it didn’t mean we’d miss amazing films like Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Her, Spike Jonze could have a great career in late night. Earlier this week, the director helmed directed a surreal...
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We Visited the Set of The Conjuring 2 and Saw a Master Horror Filmmaker at Work
Patrick Wilson is Ed Warren in The Conjuring 2. All images: Matt Kennedy.Watery footprints are scattered around the floor of the humid soundstage. Men in creepy makeup pop out from behind doors. A...
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Bored With BB-8? Sphero’s SPRK App Lets You Reprogram Your Droid to Be...
You played with it for hours on end after it was first released, but by the time The Force Awakens hit theaters months later, you had probably lost interest in your Sphero BB-8. But don’t bury the...
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Hyperloop Is the Perfect Way to Move Goods—Not People
One vision of the Hyperloop traversing the desert, by Suprastudio/UCLAThe Hyperloop may prove to be a wondrous and radical technology that will change everything we know about travel. But there are...
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The Bizarre Facebook Hoax That Escalated Into a Real-Life Double Murder
Jenelle Potter (in yellow) and Barbara Potter (with The media scrambled to make sense of this strange, baffling double homicide—the angle that most outlets came up with was “unfriending on Facebook...
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Just a reminder: We are always looking for futuristic concept art to feature on io9. Please email tips@io9.com if you’d like us to showcase your art! You can also send news and info to that address....
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Watch SpaceX Try—for the Fourth Time—to Launch Its Falcon 9 Rocket
An earlier Falcon 9 launch in 2014 / SpaceXSpaceX is making its fourth attempt in less than a week at getting its new Falcon 9 rocket launched. Will it finally make it up? Let’s see! (UPDATE: No, it...
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I'm Terrified by the New Star Trek Series
I love Star Trek above all other franchises. But it’s a twisted, painful sort of love. A love that, with a new TV series on the way, may actually kill me.When it comes to many other things that I love,...
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Let Gary Wolfe teach you “How Great Science Fiction Works.”
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, one of the books covered in Gary Wolfe’s courseLet Gary Wolfe teach you “How Great Science Fiction Works.” Gary K. Wolfe is one of the most prolific and...
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This 1994 Star Wars Style Guide Proves Hindsight Is a Wonderful Thing
In the mid-‘90s, the Star Wars galaxy grew rapidly, thanks to the rise of the then-fledgling Expanded Universe, In fact, there were special writer’s bibles to help people pitch material that felt like...
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