This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin
A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling and perplexing new evidence in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. According to a cache of documents...
View ArticleBenedict Cumberbatch Will Play a Nazi-Fighting Illusionist in The War Magician
You thought every war story had already been told? Apparently not. In the new thriller The War Magician, Benedict Cumberbatch will play Jasper Maskelyne, a real-life British magician who used his...
View ArticleLA's Revamped Automotive Museum Is The Ideal Place for Cars to Go to Die
Perhaps in your daily internet wanderings you’ve stumbled across photos of this building and wondered, what the hell is that thing? Well, it’s a museum for cars, and I assure you: It’s perfect.The...
View ArticleConfirmed: Akatsuki is in Orbit Around Venus!
After a year-long hiatus, we have a robotic explorer around our angry, overheated twin of a planet again! Early this morning the Japanese Space Agency confirmed their audacious plan to use manoeuvring...
View ArticleA New Toy May Have Just Revealed the Fate of a Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
Plus J.J. Abrams reveals why Leia didn’t choose to become a Jedi before the movie. Anthony Russo teases the levity Spider-Man brings to Civil War. Plus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan talks being faithful to the...
View ArticleEverything Is Delightful in the First Clip From Agent Carter Season 2
We’ve got a little while longer to wait for Agent Carter‘s return, thanks to President Obama’s State of the Union address. But we can hold on a little while longer thanks to this delightful snippet...
View ArticleGizmodo This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin | Gawker...
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View ArticleFirst Footage From Spielberg's The BFG Gives Us the Barest Glimpse of the Big...
We also see our protagonist, Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), be afraid of him. Which is all well and god, but “BFG” stands for “Big Friendly Giant,” so we know the hand reaching to grab Sophie probably isn’t...
View ArticleOn The Flash, Barry Is an Oblivious Christmas Turkey (Seriously)
How do you follow last week’s epic, ridiculous, wonderfully fun Flash/Arrow crossover? You don’t even try to match it. You just make a Christmas episode, throw in a couple of major emotional...
View ArticleToday's Best Media Deals: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and More
Today only, Breaking Bad, the best show ever created, is cheaper than ever on Blu-ray. Once you’ve gotten your fix, its surprisingly great spinoff, Better Call Saul, is also on sale.Breaking Bad: The...
View ArticleThe io9 Guide to The X-Files
You may have heard that The X-Files is coming back in January. If you were a fan when the show was originally on in the ‘90s—or caught it later in syndication or streaming—this is potentially great...
View ArticleComic Con is headed to Tokyo, courtesy of Steve Wozniak.
Comic Con is headed to Tokyo, courtesy of Steve Wozniak. It’s the first time the convention will ever be held in Japan, and it’s planned for December 2016. It’s going to be a sister event to the Apple...
View ArticleSyfy Takes Some Liberties With Childhood's End, But Its Powerful Message...
A fleet of alien ships suddenly appears overhead, carrying a mysterious race of visitors with weirdly benevolent intentions: They’re here to fix all of the world’s problems. Great! So what’s the catch?...
View ArticleIt's Holiday Time, Celebrate With Your Gifs!
It’s the time of year where many of us are forced to endure awkward holiday party. Instead of one of those, have a non-awkward gif party!Or 11th.Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
View Article10 TV Series Where Santa Claus Is Real
At a certain point, as we grow up, we all learn the hard truth that Santa Claus isn’t real. And then, as we grow up some more, we discover that’s a lie, and Santa is totally real. We know this because...
View ArticleDynamite's New Tarzan Comic Reunites Him With Sheena, Comics' First-Ever...
It’s been a good week for Tarzan in general—first a look at his latest cinematic incarnation (played by Alexander Skarsgård’s abs), and then a ridiculously wild trailer—but also good news for fans...
View ArticleBadass Historical Chemists: Eugene Houdry Solved the World's First Fuel Crisis
Do you like being able to drive in cars? Do you like the way World War I turned out? Do you not like Nazi collaboration? If your answer to all three questions is “yes,” then Eugene Houdry is your kind...
View ArticleIf You're a Star Wars Fan, the Novel Lost Stars Is an Essential Companion to...
Here’s the pitch: A Rebel and an Imperial fall in love against the backdrop of the entire Star Wars trilogy. Sounds like a winner, right? It is. It’s the plot of Lost Stars by Claudia Gray, one of the...
View ArticleOh, So Lupita Nyong'o Is Playing This Tiny, 1000-Year-Old Alien Named 'Maz'...
Perhaps it’s common knowledge among rabid fans of Star Wars and its ever-expanding universe, but we at Jezebel only recently found out that Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o would be playing a tiny,...
View ArticleThese Elegant New Harry Potter Book Covers Tell Their Own Stories
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books have become such an integral part of the way we all live our lives, sometimes we take aspects of them for granted. Like, for example, the amazing original cover art by...
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