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io9Everything is Not Awesome: The Lego Movie Sequel Has Been Moved to 2019
We’re going to have to wait a bit longer to see The Lego Movie 2. Warner Brothers has shuffled their upcoming film slate, pushing the movie back a year to 2019. The Lego Movie 2, which was originally set to arrive May 18, 2018, will now arrive in theaters on February 8th, 2019. According to … Continued
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Here Are the Finalists for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Each year, the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction awards one worthy science fiction novel the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, one of the genre’s major awards for novels. The finalist list this year is particularly strong, with some truly excellent novels represented: The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit/Knopf) Europe at Midnight, Dave … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch a Cruise Ship Get Built
Cruise ships are basically giant floating cities. How do you build a giant floating city? Well, it’s pretty much like playing with Lego bricks. This time lapse shows the construction process of building AIDA Cruises’ new flagship in Nagasaki: the AIDAprima. The AIDAprima can hold up to 3,300 passengers with 900 crew members and is … Continued
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A Massive Heat Dome Will Smash Records Across the US This Weekend
It’s not even summer yet, but it’s damn hot. A very large portion of the country is currently simmering in heat of 100 degrees or higher, and it could get even hotter. Many cities in the Southwest and Midwest are preparing to break records this weekend and through Monday, including the US’s all-time June record … Continued
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SciencePhysics & ChemistryPhysicists Turn the Cheerios Effect Inside Out
We’ve all noticed how those last few Cheerios in the cereal bowl seem to cluster together in the center and along the edges. It’s called the “Cheerios effect.” Now an international team of physicists has discovered a reverse Cheerios effect. They described their results in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy … Continued
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A Girl Meets a Monster in the Woods in This Not-So-Typical Fairy Tale
In Il Lupo, a blind girl who has no sense of fear gets lost in a deep, dark forest—the kind of place where one might expect to encounter a monster, which she does. But then things take a turn in this short horror comic drawn by Victoria Ying, and written by her brother Jonathan Ying. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidTotally Trippy Video Blends Two Different Views of a Dancer
You might get a seizure if you watch Ian Eastwood dance too much in this video, but it’s so damn cool that it might even be worth it. It’s neat because he blends the view of him dancing while he’s facing us with another view of him dancing with his back turned. The two opposing … Continued
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No One Told the Stars of The X-Files That They Want to Make More Episodes
So, uh, I guess this is awkward. Remember when the Chairman and CEO of Fox said, “I believe everyone is on board to do another installment of the show”? Yeah, this belief was incorrect. In a new interview with Deadline, Gillian Anderson said of the possibility of doing more X-Files episodes, “I’m open to the … Continued
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io9Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive the Millennium Falcon Drunk
Even if those friends are half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herders. Maybe especially then. This mash-up, from the talented and tasteful OneMinuteGalactica, reveals Han Solo’s secret, shameful life as one of the galaxy’s biggest lushes for an absolutely chilling (and very ’70s) drunk driving PSA. Sure, you may think it’s just a gag, but this makes far … Continued
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Bud Light Ritas, Ranked
What’s the best flavor of Bud Light Ritas? This is a trick question. Every flavor of Bud Light Rita is awful and wonderful. Often found in hulking 25-ounce cans near the back of your local corner store, these Four Loco clones pack a respectable eight percent alcohol by volume. It’s perhaps the best booze-to-dollar ratio … Continued
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Spy Thriller The Saint May Be Getting a Modern Reboot
Classic espionage property The Saint, last seen as a 1997 feature film starring Val Kilmer and a variety of laughable disguises, may be making a comeback. Paramount has nabbed the rights to the Leslie Charteris book series, and Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is hoping a new franchise will result. The books—about do-gooding super-spy/thief Simon … Continued
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Something Strange and Terrible Is Happening to Mussels
Do you enjoy eating mussels? Cool, same. Something, however, is happening to mussels as we know them. And it’s changing them in a pretty horrifying way. A team of researchers from the University of Chicago has been comparing the shells of live mussels pulled from the Pacific coast today with historical shells, some of them … Continued
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J.J. Abrams Kinda Made Up the News That the Star Trek Fan Film Lawsuit Was Ending
Well. Now we might know why, despite director J.J. Abrams recently claiming that we’d hear about a settlement, CBS and Paramount’s lawsuit against Axanar Productions is still going on. Axanar is a fan film that’s been in limbo since CBS and Paramount filed a lawsuit against them last year, you can read up on all … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleWho Made the Rifle Emoji Disappear?
Unicode 9.0, which will be out June 21, is one of the most highly anticipated releases in emoji history. Finally you will avail yourself of the need to type out the letters for avocado, bacon, selfie, face palm, and pregnant. But last month, one controversial emoji was removed from the lineup: Rifle. Surely the debut … Continued
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io9TelevisionDay 5 Is an Apocalypse Where Falling Asleep Means Instant Death
Dead people that shamble on mindlessly. Getting the blood sucked out of you. Creatures that live just beyond human perception. The best horror concepts tap into something primal. As a man in constant need of a nap, the premise of Day 5 terrifies me: If you fall asleep, you die. Using one of the most … Continued
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2‘s Merchandise Will Finally Give Gamora Her Due
The ongoing debate over a lack of movie merchandise depicting female characters—whether it’s Marvel, or Star Wars, or anything—seems like it’s finally having an effect. The Guardians of the Galaxy sequel wants to right the wrongs of its original toyline, and director James Gunn himself is leading the charge. Guardians of the Galaxy’s merchandise line … Continued
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A Celebration of Fiction’s Unintentionally Horrible Fathers
Fiction loves a good bad dad. Not a father with nuance, but a father that inadvertently makes their child’s life miserable by giving them a very specific plot purpose, whether that be literal (he’s been kidnapped!) or psychological (he’s never going to approve of you!). These dads love their children, but they’re also terrible people. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow Do Checked Bags Actually Get on the Airplane?
A tag, a plastic bin, a metal chassis, and a six mile trek from the moment you check your bag at the counter until it gets on the plane. That’s pretty much all there is too it. Well, of course there are a lot of scanners shooting off to match up your luggage tag to … Continued
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Common Loses Sense, Set to Slash Fools in the Black Samurai TV Series
The Black Samurai TV series—based on the 1970s book series by Marc Olden, which inspired the Jim Kelly-starring 1977 film—just got a huge boost by finding its leading man: musician-turned-actor Common (Suicide Squad, Hell on Wheels). It sounds highly promising, according to the Variety description: “Black Samurai” follows the story of Robert Sand (played by … Continued
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iOS 10’s Coolest New Features in Gifs
Apple introduced iOS 10 this week during WWDC. While Apple suggested most people wait for the public beta when it is available in July, we decided to ignore that entirely and downloaded the developer preview. As you might expect, iOS 10 is currently full of glitches and lagginess, and some features just straight up don’t … Continued
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