The Internet Really Isn't A Permanent Archive
Welcome to this week’s Reading List, our weekly collection of interesting science and technology stories from around the internet. This week, we’ll delve into the seedy world of online gambling,...
View ArticleStar Wars: Battlefront Trailer Is Strangely...Emotional
Get out of my head/fantasies/emotions, you relentless holiday season marketing machine.
View ArticleThe Glorious Poster For Star Wars: The Force Awakens Has A Giant Planet...
The official one-sheet poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens just dropped, and it’s glorious. It’s also loaded with new details, including our first glimpse of the rumored planet-killer superweapon....
View ArticleFatal Shooting Erupts At Zombie-Themed Art and Music Festival in Florida
A 20-year-old man was killed and five other people were injured just before midnight on Saturday at “ZombiCon,” an undead-themed art and music festival in Fort Myers, Florida. As of Sunday night, the...
View ArticleE-Ink Kindles Are On Sale Today, Including the New, Sharper Paperwhite
For a limited time, Amazon’s taking $20 off the sticker price of several e-Ink Kindle models, including the first deal we’ve seen on the new, 300ppi Kindle...
View ArticleAnother Long-Absent Game Of Thrones Actor Has Been Spotted on Set!
Rachel McAdams may be playing a version of Night Nurse in Doctor Strange—but not the one you expected. Rosario Dawson joins Lego Batman. Will the new X-Men show Legion tie into the films? Plus, sneak...
View ArticleGawker Aer Lingus Passenger Flips Out, Bites Fellow Passenger, Dies |...
Gawker Aer Lingus Passenger Flips Out, Bites Fellow Passenger, Dies | Jalopnik Driver Who Swerved And Hit A Motorcycle: ‘I Don’t Care’ | Kotaku Star Wars: Battlefront Trailer Is Strangely...Emotional |...
View ArticleYou Will Not Believe What This Ordinary-Looking Bird Does
This headline sounds like click-bait. I can’t help that. Sometimes the world is click-bait, and the headlines have to follow its lead. What this bird does is unbelievable... in that researchers had to...
View ArticleWe've Had Some Amazing Trips to Venus and It's Time to Go Back
After decades of neglect, Venus might just be making a comeback. Late last month, NASA announced five finalists for the next low-cost space probes; two of them are missions to Venus.Venus has...
View ArticleHere's What the Climax of Terminator: Genisys Looks Like Without Any VFX
It looks goofy as hell, that’s what it looks like. Whenever a movie relies as heavily on CGI and visual effects as Terminator: Genysis does, seeing the “real” footage is always weird. Needless to say,...
View ArticleToday's Best Media Deals: Cowboy Bebop, Studio Ghibli, and More
Cowboy Bebop has one of the most popular anime in the western hemisphere over the last couple of decades, and if you haven’t seen the movie, it’s only $7 on Amazon today. Be sure to check out Kotaku’s...
View ArticlePeople Are Very Mad That the New Captain America Is Acting Like Captain America
Ever since he punched Hitler in the face 75 years ago, Captain America has been a political character. Many times he’s walked away from the government, and reminded people that he works for America as...
View ArticleSpaceX Gears Up to Resume Rocket Launches After Summer Explosion
SpaceX is getting back on the launchpad after their rocket explosion in June. The first payload is a constellation of eleven miniature relay satellites that will launch in late 2015.The new order...
View ArticleThat Was the Most Brutal Episode of The Walking Dead Ever, and It Was...
The DirecTV summary for last night’s episode of The Walking Dead ran as follows: “A new problem arises.” This is technically accurate, although I don’t think it really does “JSS” justice, seeing as it...
View ArticleHeroine Chic Is Basically Edna Mode: The Comic Book Series
David Tischman has a long career in comics writing that spans both Vertigo and work at IDW—but his latest venture is a familiar idea on a platform you’ve basically never heard of before.For a decade,...
View ArticleNeat film shows that even dystopian nightmares can have happy endings
Dystopian visions of the future always portray scenarios where humans have destroyed Earth and turned it into a desolated and almost uninhabitable place. But our planet probably doesn’t really care. It...
View Article50 Brilliant Science Fiction Movies That Everyone Should See At Least Once
Science fiction has rocked cinemas for a century, and the genre has produced many undisputed classics during that time. But which movies are essential viewing for anyone interested in the genre? We...
View ArticleSeriously, These Opera Costumes Are The Most Insane Thing We've Seen in Ages
The San Francisco Opera is doing a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute starting tomorrow, and the costumes are this astonishing late-1980s fantasia that just makes me want to watch classic MTV for...
View ArticleYour Best Star Wars Luke Skywalker Theories
We gave you what we thought were pretty good guesses as to what twist J.J. Abrams has in store for Luke Skywalker. But some of you exceeded even our imagination.angusm brought us all down with this...
View ArticleAutoblow2 Creator Brian Sloan Is Now Crowdfunding an Awkward 4-Pound...
The designer of the somewhat terrifying robotic masturbator, the Autoblow, is running a new Indiegogo crowdfunding project to make a 3-orifice-in-one masturbation toy for men. It looks like it will...
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