Today's Best Deals: Holiday Lasers, Fallout 4, Magnetic Knife Strip, and More
Fallout 4, a holiday laser projector, and a magnetic knife strip kick off Thursday’s best deals.Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of...
View ArticleNew 'Time Slice' Theory Suggests You're Not as Conscious as You Think You Are
Our conscious perception of the world feels like a continuous and uninterrupted flow, but a new study suggests that it’s actually more like the frames of a movie reel running through a projector....
View ArticleTry to stay strong, but “Postal Apocalypse” is on a brief hiatus this week.
Try to stay strong, but “Postal Apocalypse” is on a brief hiatus this week. It will return next Thursday, April 21, so go ahead and send your pop culture questions, life problems, and seemingly...
View ArticleWe Could Have Seen The Hulk in Civil War After All (and We Still Might)
The saga of whether or not Mark Ruffalo would be joining almost the entirety of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Civil War has been long and tumultuous. First, Robert Downey Jr. apparently asked...
View ArticleThis Superman Poster Encompasses Everything Great About The 1978 Movie
The most recent Superman movies have been darker, meaner, more cynical than the old flicks. Some people love it, but others yearn for the Superman of old that was wondrous and optimistic. Here’s a...
View ArticleThis New Movie About a CIA Reality Show Is So Ridiculous It Will Probably...
What if the CIA created a reality show? That’s the premise of the upcoming movie For All Eyes Always. And it’s a ridiculous fucking premise. But it’s just ridiculous enough to be plausible in some...
View ArticleStephen King's The Mist Series Is Officially a Go at Spike TV
A scene from the 2007 big-screen adaptation of THE MIST.A TV series adaptation of Stephen King’s science fiction-horror novella The Mist has been in the works since at least September, and now there’s...
View ArticleIt's About to Get Even Harder to Track Food Poisoning Outbreaks
Tracking food poisoning cases is laborious detective work, and sometimes the culprit is never revealed. Now the task of identifying sources of contamination could be even harder—and, paradoxically,...
View ArticleWait, What? Obi-Wan Kenobi Wasn't Going to Die in A New Hope
Obi-Wan Kenobi being struck down—and becoming more powerful than we could possibly imagine—is a defining moment in the Star Wars saga. It informs so much of Luke’s journey from farmhand to Jedi Knight....
View ArticleThe Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet
Bill Landreth, former teen hacker of the early 1980s, now homeless in Santa Monica on March 18, 2016 (Photo by Matt Novak)On October 12th, 1983, Bill Landreth called his friend Chris in Detroit to...
View ArticleHere's Your First Official Look at Civil War's Big Villain, Baron Zemo
Considering we’ve seen or heard of absolutely nothing since Daniel Brühl was cast in Captain America: Civil War as the long-time Cap foe Baron Helmut Zemo, it’s kind of surprising how incredibly...
View ArticleThis Is Why the Great Barrier Reef Is Dying
Bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef, photographed during a survey in March 2016. Image: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most celebrated ecosystems...
View ArticleJames Cameron Just Announced a Fifth Avatar Movie
Well, now we have an idea why James Cameron has continued to delay his Avatar sequels. The director came to CinemaCon 2016 to announce that his vision for the world has expanded beyond the previously...
View ArticleJason Statham Versus a Giant Shark Sounds Like a Goddamn Great Time at the...
Jason Statham photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/APForget that movie where Blake Lively hides from a shark on a rock. Give us, instead, Jason Fuckin’ Statham going up against a bloodthirsty, 60-foot-long...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Could Be Coming to an End a Lot Sooner Than You Think
Game of Thrones season six starts soon, and it’s becoming obvious that we’re heading towards the show’s endgame. But even then, it’s a bit surprising to hear just how close the end could be—and how it...
View ArticleWe’re big fans of The Vision’s fashion sense here on io9, but what were his...
We’re big fans of The Vision’s fashion sense here on io9, but what were his best comic book outfits? For the dedicated follower of synthezoid fashion, Brian Cronin over at Comic Book Resources has...
View ArticleVideo Shot From Fighter Jets Will Melt Your Face
To help Saab Defence and Security capture some spectacular footage of its Gripen fighter jet, a Swedish-based company called Blue Sky built a custom gyro-stabilized camera system that can ride along at...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman Is Writing a Six-Part Good Omens Miniseries
Image: Illustration of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett for BBC Radio 4's Good OmensNeil Gaiman’s latest project was recently announced along with two other brand new Pratchett-based adaptations. When...
View ArticleAMC Backs Down on Its Nightmarish Vision of Texting In Movie Theaters
No talking into Bananas, either. (Image: AMC Theaters PSA about Movie Theater Etiquette, starring the Muppets. Screenshot via Youtube.)Earlier this week, America was up in arms against the latest...
View ArticleGet Rid of All Your Gifs at the Gif Party
Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb. But if it’s Friday, you can get rid of your gifs right here at the gif party.
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