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Scientists Create Wi-Fi That Can Transmit Seven Blu-ray Movies Per Second

If you think your home Wi-Fi connection is fast, think again. Scientists have been working on a new way to transmit data wirelessly, and they can now transfer a scorching 2.5 terabits of information per second. https://gizmodo.com/verizons-insane-300mbps-home-internet-is-also-insanely-5919152 Let us put that another way: that’s over 8,000 times faster than Verizon’s fastest wired home internet connection,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Week’s TV: Sherilyn Fenn, Alice Cooper and Andre Royo team up with Dr. Johnny Fever to hunt Bigfoot!

This week on television, one of the longest will-they-won’t-they couples ties the knot. There are tense hostage crises on Adventure Time and one other show. Futurama helps you figure out how to vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Tron: Uprising has the most thought-provoking storyline yet. Oh, and Syfy’s latest Saturday night movie has possibly…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Lonely Kids Can Battle This RC Helicopter’s Autonomous Robot Turret

The only thing better than one RC toy, is two RC toys pitted against each other in battle. But if you’re a kid lacking in the friends department, Air Hogs new Battle Tracker lets you go toe-to-toe with a robot turret that tracks your chopper and fires back. The RC helicopter fires 7 small foam…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

More Tips for Office Summer Survival

Being stuck in the office in the summer can be rough. However, there are a few things you can do to make your office-bound summer more tolerable—like reading the Summer Office Survival Guide, brought to you in celebration of the ultimate summer treat, the Starbucks Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino. Read on for tips on how…

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Australians find a vampire-like mosquito that breeds and lurks beneath cities

As if blood-sucking insects weren’t nasty enough, Australian researchers have discovered an offshoot of the Culex molestus mosquito that has adapted to urban environments, breeding and lurking about in dark crevices and pipes found beneath cities. And unlike other mosquitoes, this one can lay its eggs before requiring its first blood feast. Most species of…

io9 George Dvorsky

Trulia Maps Show You the Fastest Way to Get Anywhere, Now

Google Maps can tell you how long it’s going to take you to get from a specific point A to point B. But Trulia’s new commuter maps tell you how long it will take to get anywhere at all—not just to and from a specific destination. The area maps let you drop a pin on…

Tech News Leslie Horn

52 Tons and Ten Guns: This Tank Killer Killer Makes it Rain Hell

Chechen fighters utterly pwned the Russian Federation’s tanks during the Battle of Grozny, targeting the vehicles’ thinly-armored roofs with RPGs from rooftop sniper nests. Russia’s go-to anti-personnel armor at the time, the BMP-2, couldn’t raise its turrets high enough to return fire. So, Russia began do develop an armored support vehicle designed for a dense,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Classic science fiction moments, recreated as minimalist LEGO dioramas

For a recent contest, LEGO hobbyist site The Living Brick challenged builders to transform famous scenes from science fiction cinema and television into sculptures that require the bare minimum of LEGO pieces. Here’s a round-up of the resulting dioramas — behold such films as Tron, Planet of the Apes, and Return of the Jedi in…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Steve Wozniak Slams US Government On Megaupload Case

Kim Dotcom may be the king of bad taste, but the Feds’ handling of his criminal case is pretty bad, according to Apple co-founder—and Gizmodo hero/friend—Steve Wozniak: https://gizmodo.com/the-best-worst-photos-of-megauploads-kim-dotcom-5877987 When crimes occur through the mail, you don’t shut the post office down. When governments dream up charges of ‘racketeering’ for a typical IT guy who is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Voice Recognition Software Can Diagnose Parkinson’s

“Siri, do I have Parkinson’s?” That might sound flippant, but actually new research shows that it’s possible to detect Parkinson’s symptoms simply by using algorithms to detect changes in voice recordings. Parkinson’s, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, is usually diagnosed through analysis of symptoms along with expensive medical imaging to rule out…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Bloomberg: Apple Chooses Lamest Partner for iOS 6 Maps

Bloomberg says Apple will include locational checkins with its new homemade Maps app, no extra app download needed. That’s actually very cool! Except it will allegedly use Yelp, and it’s hard to imagine a dumber choice. There’s a decent chance you didn’t know Yelp even offers Foursquare-style checkins, and that’s okay—nobody uses it. Yelp is…

Tech News Sam Biddle

High-speed video reveals the bizarre physics of Slinkys

And now, for your Monday morning moment of zen, Slinkys in slow motion. Whether it’s dropped from eye level, or from the roof of a building, the bottom of a fully extended slinky will appear to hover in midair when released. What lets the Slinky’s bottom hover like that? It all boils down to the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Cheap Light Pen Lets You Create Sweet Light Drawings—No Skill Required

With its new multi-colored LED penlight, Tomy’s created a neat little app and hardware combo that lets anyone easily create those cool long-exposure light drawings. You don’t need an expensive DSLR or even photography skills beyond pressing a shutter button. On the hardware side the penlight can cycle through 27 different colors letting users fully…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Few Ways to Reboot the Batman Movies After The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises is almost sure to be Christopher Nolan’s last Batman film. But one thing’s for sure: Warner Bros. won’t let the Dark Knight die — another Batman film series is inevitable. And Will “Dr. Batman” Brooker, author of the new book Hunting the Dark Knight, has four ideas for rebooting the Batman…

Books & Comics Will Brooker

LTE Is Coming to T-Mobile Via Verizon

T-Mobile’s HSPA+ data network is, y’know, okay. But it doesn’t compare to LTE. Now, when T-Mo will finally arrives at the LTE party next year, it’ll get a big boost with spectrum from Verizon. The agreement, announced this morning, will include a bunch of spectrum swaps. Both companies will have a larger footprint, which should…

Tech News Brent Rose

Beautiful superhero silhouettes show comic book characters at recess

Check out this lovely collection of baby superhero silhouettes, each one more adorable than the next. Each unique little shadow shows a super-creative dress up bent to each lil’ hero or villain, such as Iron Man bounding on a trampoline, Batman using a kite as his bat-signal, and Thor wielding an actual hammer. Created by…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Is This War in Afghanistan or on the Moon?

Another day, another drone—but this RQ-7 Shadow looks like it’s being launched in the vacuum of space against some lunar insurgency. Through a combination of a serious photo flash and Afghanistan’s already moonlike surface, we get one killer view of Forward Operating Base Pasab in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, where American paratroopers are looking to do…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Canadian newspaper accidentally rewrites the entire history of astronomy

On June 21, the Ottawa Citizen issued the following correction, which — if left unamended — would’ve violently upended the last 500 years of heliocentric thinking. In related news, Nicolaus Copernicus’ tomb has spontaneously combusted in Frombork, Poland. Tiny mushroom clouds were similarly reported over Johannes Kepler’s and Galileo Galilei’s graves in Regensburg, Germany and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

7,000 Dominos Make Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night Even More Mesmerizing

Flippycat, our favorite remarkably patient domino stacker, is back with another masterpiece—literally. This time around he’s recreated Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night masterpiece from over 7,000 dominos that took 11 hours to painstaking arrange. https://gizmodo.com/watching-these-60-000-dominos-fall-is-an-intensely-sati-5909890 Twice, actually, since the first layout was toppled by a screw that fell from the overhead camera mount. Ouch. Like…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

First Ever Dead Heat Photo Finish Stumps Finish-Line Cameras

The US sprinters Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh are equally fast. How do we know? Well, yesterday, during the women’s 100 meter Olympics qualifier, they both finished the sprint in 11.068 seconds—and not even a camera running at 3,000 frames per second could tell their performance apart. Usually a high-speed camera, which takes three pictures…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Create Wi-Fi That Can Transmit Seven Blu-ray Movies Per Second

This Week’s TV: Sherilyn Fenn, Alice Cooper and Andre Royo team up with Dr. Johnny Fever to hunt Bigfoot!

Lonely Kids Can Battle This RC Helicopter’s Autonomous Robot Turret

More Tips for Office Summer Survival

Australians find a vampire-like mosquito that breeds and lurks beneath cities

Trulia Maps Show You the Fastest Way to Get Anywhere, Now

52 Tons and Ten Guns: This Tank Killer Killer Makes it Rain Hell

Classic science fiction moments, recreated as minimalist LEGO dioramas

Steve Wozniak Slams US Government On Megaupload Case

Voice Recognition Software Can Diagnose Parkinson’s

Bloomberg: Apple Chooses Lamest Partner for iOS 6 Maps

High-speed video reveals the bizarre physics of Slinkys

Cheap Light Pen Lets You Create Sweet Light Drawings—No Skill Required

A Few Ways to Reboot the Batman Movies After The Dark Knight Rises

LTE Is Coming to T-Mobile Via Verizon

Beautiful superhero silhouettes show comic book characters at recess

Is This War in Afghanistan or on the Moon?

Canadian newspaper accidentally rewrites the entire history of astronomy

7,000 Dominos Make Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night Even More Mesmerizing

First Ever Dead Heat Photo Finish Stumps Finish-Line Cameras

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