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SSDs Cost Half as Much as They Did in 2011, So It’s Time to Upgrade

While last years Thailand floods saw the cost of HDDs skyrocket, the price of solid state drives has been slowly dropping. In fact, since early 2011 prices have dropped on average by 46 percent. https://gizmodo.com/nimec-hit-hard-by-thailand-floods-here-comes-the-great-5852480 Tech Report has taken a long and thorough look at the changing prices of SSDs, and the news is good:…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Bloomberg: Microsoft Surface Will Be Wi-Fi Only

Microsoft’s new Surface tablet looks like it could give the iPad stiff competition—but according to Bloomberg it won’t be matching Apple’s offering on every front. Their sources suggest that, initially at least, the Surface will only feature Wi-Fi, and no option for a mobile data connection. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-surface-just-made-the-macbook-air-and-the-ipa-5919521 According to sources “familiar with the matter”, Microsoft…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watch This: Robots Dancing With Light Sabers

At times, these robots look like tiny, technically-skilled children. Don’t they? [Reddit]

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The New Nike+ GPS Running App Is Smarter, More Social, and Now Available for Android

The new and improved Nike+ GPS Running app was released today, and it has some pretty impressive improvements to be aware of. Firstly, the app is now available for Android. And the already-available iOS version has been redesigned with new features, like “Next Move,” which shows “how your last run stacked up against your average…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: Uruguay Legalizes It, a DEA Admins Loses It, and Cypress Hill Does Scheeßel

Uruguay Sells Weed to Combat Drug Trafficking Uruguay has announced a plan to kill two birds with one nug. The South American nation that prides itself on safety and community (people still leave their doors unlocked there, seriously) intends to regulate and sell marijuana on a national level. “It’s a fight on both fronts: against…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Are These the Eggs That Technology Hath Wrought? [Updated]

As anyone who knows me well will tell you, I make some mean deviled eggs. It would be pretty hard to improve upon my deviled eggs. Or, at least that’s what I’d believed up until just a few minutes ago. Coming as a blessing that feels more like a curse, every single egg in this…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Facebook Is About to Start Letting You Edit Your Boneheaded Comments

Attention hasty commenters and people who are friends with them: the benevolent decision-makers at Facebook are doing you a solid; over the next few days, Facebook will be rolling out the ability for users to edit their own comments. This is great news. It means no more duplicate notifications each time someone flubs a comment…

Social Media Molly Oswaks

100 sharks eating a dead whale close to shore = worst beach day ever?

When you go surfing off the coast of Australia, there’s always the chance you may bump into a shark. But 100 hungry sharks all going bonkers at the same time…right next to the beach? That’s grounds to take up extreme bocce. Last week, surfer Rachel Campbell encountered this amazing scene on a beach near Warroora…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Picture of the Day: June 21, 2012

THE ROBOT IN THE LAKE | Stunning robot concept art by Maciej Kuciara. See more of Maciej’s work over at Concept Robots. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck, our general discussion forum.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Between-the-Sheets Fan May Be the Best Thing You Sleep With All Summer

It is hot hot hot right now. So hot, in fact, while I was hanging out on the roof this afternoon, my iPad overheated and flashed the “Temperature!” warning screen. The temperature may drop in the evenings, but not by much. So, short of stuffing your sheets in the freezer every evening, the best way…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Descriptions of the first picture of mating humpback whales are priceless

An Australian photographer claims to have snapped the world’s first photograph of humpback whales making love. We can call it that now — love making, that is — based on the detailed description provided by Jason Edwards, who captured the moment off the coast of Tonga. We can’t show you the image here for copyright…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Pentax K-30 Hands-On: The Fastest, Toughest Inexpensive DSLR We’ve Ever Used

The promise of the new Pentax K-30: The toughest, fastest DSLR that won’t break your bank. We just tried it out for the first time, and so far we’re impressed. An $850 DSLR body shouldn’t feel this good. Lower-end DSLRs can take great photos, but the build quality’s usually pretty cheap, and their performance on…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

At least Hotel Transylvania has an adorable Goth vampire girl protagonist. That’s something, right?

We were not impressed with the first trailer for Adam Sandler’s gag-laden Hotel Transylvania. However, the next trailer looks quite a bit better. https://gizmodo.com/what-bright-shiny-hell-is-this-the-trailer-for-adam-sa-5896924 Mostly, that’s because the focus has shifted to Dracula’s adorable little Goth vampire daughter, Mavis. Who just happens to look and dress like most of us in Jr. High. Hopefully the…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Sneakers That Teach Are the Ultimate Dancin’ Shoes

Industrial designer Tom Sykes, of the Loughborough Design School at England’s Loughborough University, is the recipient of the 2012 James Dyson Foundation Bursary for his “GroundWave Shadow Trainer.” A sneaker prototype that teach you how to dance, GroundWave Shadow Trainer is fitted with accelerometer senses that interact with a specially designed GroundWave app on your…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Poetic Physics: Measuring Stars By Their Internal Music

Asteroseismology is letting us measure distant planetary systems with sunlike stars. How? By measuring the way a star “breathes” in response to its on internal music. Find out how physics takes another run at getting its master’s degree in poetry. A mysterious star system was recently discovered. Usually, solar systems consist of rocky planets hugging…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Your preference for beer shows that you’re into casual sex — and other fun facts pulled from dating sites

Online dating sites are not only a boon for people looking to start relationships — they’re also proving to be extremely beneficial for people who like to crunch lots of data. Some psychologists and mathematicians are taking the copious amounts of information that you’re putting into these sites to get a better sense of our…

io9 George Dvorsky

Love activates the same region in the brain as drug addiction

Cynics of the world have long complained that love is an abstract concept, something conjured by poets and the hopelessly romantic. But the suggestion that love is a cultural invention is out of synch with the latest research. Neuroscientists working out of Concordia University in Canada appear to have shown that love and sexual desire…

io9 George Dvorsky

David Lowery Might Be Right About Some Things, But He’s Wrong About Streaming, Money, and Artists

Emily White, a summer intern at NPR’s All Songs Considered, didn’t know what she was getting into when she wrote her now-infamous screed about how, despite being a hardcore music fan and college radio station manager with 11,000 songs on her computer, she has only ever paid for 15 CDs-worth of recorded music with actual…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Essential Bookmarks For Surviving the Next Apocalyptic Twitter Outage Emergency

The Internet just endured the longest Twitter outage in eight months. And it’s still kind of busted. WTH Twitter? YRU being such a shithead? What are we supposed to do? Work? TECHNOLOGY RED ALERT: Twitter is down! What do you do next? You need to be prepared. You can’t count on the National Guard to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Why Timur Bekmambetov had to throw a horse at Abraham Lincoln

You can instantly tell the batshit insane Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is the work of Timur Bekmambetov, who also directed Wanted, Night Watch and Day Watch. We were lucky enough to speak with Bekmambetov — and he told us what weapon he can’t wait to shoot in super-slow-motion next, plus why he got in trouble…

Movies Meredith Woerner

SSDs Cost Half as Much as They Did in 2011, So It’s Time to Upgrade

Bloomberg: Microsoft Surface Will Be Wi-Fi Only

Watch This: Robots Dancing With Light Sabers

The New Nike+ GPS Running App Is Smarter, More Social, and Now Available for Android

The Stoner Channel: Uruguay Legalizes It, a DEA Admins Loses It, and Cypress Hill Does Scheeßel

Are These the Eggs That Technology Hath Wrought? [Updated]

Facebook Is About to Start Letting You Edit Your Boneheaded Comments

100 sharks eating a dead whale close to shore = worst beach day ever?

Picture of the Day: June 21, 2012

This Between-the-Sheets Fan May Be the Best Thing You Sleep With All Summer

Descriptions of the first picture of mating humpback whales are priceless

Pentax K-30 Hands-On: The Fastest, Toughest Inexpensive DSLR We’ve Ever Used

At least Hotel Transylvania has an adorable Goth vampire girl protagonist. That’s something, right?

Sneakers That Teach Are the Ultimate Dancin’ Shoes

Poetic Physics: Measuring Stars By Their Internal Music

Your preference for beer shows that you’re into casual sex — and other fun facts pulled from dating sites

Love activates the same region in the brain as drug addiction

David Lowery Might Be Right About Some Things, But He’s Wrong About Streaming, Money, and Artists

Essential Bookmarks For Surviving the Next Apocalyptic Twitter Outage Emergency

Why Timur Bekmambetov had to throw a horse at Abraham Lincoln

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