You’d think with the advent of online ticketing and assigned seating, the idea of waiting in line to see a movie would be obsolete. You’d be wrong, especially when it comes to Star Wars. Read more… Source: io9
When we last left The 100, an AI had informed Clarke that a number of power plants are leaking radiation and will destroy most of the planet. In the trailer for season four, we’re seeing hints that the AI might…
Over the last few months, development studio Telltale Games have been radically re-configuring key parts of the Batman mythos to give players a shockingly different take on the Dark Knight. It all comes to a head in the final chapter…
This story is almost too crazy to be true. We all know Lin-Manuel Miranda. He’s multiple award-winning genius behind Hamilton who helped write songs for Moana and now has several projects in the works with Disney. Well, it turns out…
You can spend days standing in line for the Rogue One premiere, make a flawless Obi-Wan Kenobi costume, or even claim you’re OK with Jar-Jar, but to unquestionably prove you’re a die-hard Star Wars fan you’ll need this towering AT-ACT…
The films the io9 team has picked as the best science fiction and genre films of 2016 are a very motley crew. This year we loved superheroes, animation, farting corpses, live action, talking animals, and more. These are films spanning…
Image: NASA If an enormous asteroid struck the Earth, humanity would be, in a word, screwed. To prevent that from happening, and hopefully inspire a sweet Armageddon reboot in the process, a team of scientists is exploring the possibility of…
Many of us rely on SMS every day — to make plans, confirm an appointment, or stay in touch with friends. But even as smartphones have become more powerful and the apps we use on them more vibrant, SMS hasn’t…
Say you’re just a small town girl living in a lonely world and you took the midnight train going anywhere. How would you reconnect to your Raspberry Pi while on the road? You would go into a smoky room, fire…
Velodyne has a new LiDAR sensor design that could help bring an autonomous driving future closer than ever; it’s a small, solid-sate design that has a cost of less than $50 per system, when purchased at the kind of high…