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Newly discovered Chinese mushroom turns out to be an abandoned sex toy (semi-NSFW)

Residents of the Chinese town of Liucunbu recently unearthed an unknown rubbery “fungus” deep underground while drilling a well. Perplexed by this mycological mystery, the workers consulted the investigative journalism program Xi’an Up Close, who sent reporter Ye Yunfeng on the scene. Once there, she soon identified the find as a mushroom of the region.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The History of the World’s Sentiment According to Wikipedia

What happens if you take a supercomputer and the entire contents of Wikipedia, then analyze every single article to see how the world’s sentiment has changed over time and space? This wonderful video is what. Put together by Kalev H. Leetaru, this visualization shows how opinions on situations across the world have changed—at least, based…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Rumor Control on Amazing Spider-Man 2, the Daredevil Reboot and Indiana Jones 5!

David Slade debunks some Daredevil rumors. Writer-director Lorene Scafaria discusses the apocalypse in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Genre television’s most awesomely creepy character actor is coming to Grimm. Plus new Total Recall and Frankenweenie images! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Total Recall. The Amazing Spider-Man Here’s a…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Why Nigerian Scammers Say They’re From Nigeria

We all get them: scam emails that claim to be able to make us millionaires overnight. But why are they so terribly unconvincing? And why do they even admit to being based in places like Nigeria? A Microsoft researcher claims to have the answer. In particular, we’re talking about the offers to cut you into…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Hey look everybody, it’s the first trailer to the last Twilight movie

Children of the night, feast your eyes on the first trailer for Twilight – Breaking Dawn Part 2! I gleaned most of my knowledge about Twilight from Burger King containers, so I’m going to guess this is just the unofficial sequel to the 1979 coming-of-age bicycling flick Breaking Away. Does everybody ride vampires in this…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

Watch the first trailer(s) for the Monsters Inc. prequel, Monsters University

Monsters University — Pixar’s upcoming school days prequel to Monster Inc. — isn’t out until June 21, 2013, but that hasn’t stopped the studio from releasing four slightly different cuts of the first trailer. In order, here are the YouTube, Yahoo, Huffington Post, and iTunes versions of the teaser trailer. John Goodman and Billy Crystal…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

The Photographic Tricks That Make McDonald’s Burgers Look Good

If you’ve ever wondered how McDonalds manages to make its burgers look so much more appetizing in the pictures than they do in real life, wonder no more. This video takes a peek behind the scenes at a McDonald’s photo shoot to explain some of the tricks that are used to make you crave a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Next Release of Firefox Will Look Just Like Chrome

A Mozilla developer working on the next release of Firefox has created a test build of the next-generation browser that anyone can download—and the new styling, knows as Australis, features curved tabs which make it look just like Chrome. In fact, in Mozilla’s new browser it’s only the active tab which is rendered as a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

1-in-4 Moms Now Pacifies Her Baby With a Cold, Hard Gadget

The Daily Mail (my favorite Paper of Record, if you hadn’t guessed by now) is reporting that more than 1 in 4 mothers—27% to be precise—will hand her cranky or bored baby a cellphone—rather than, you know, something whose name literally means to pacify. But, while such a statistic to some may seem like an…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Reading Rainbow Might Stop the iPad From Ruining the Brains of All Children

For a generation now creating advanced things and placed in corridors of power, LeVar Burton was a god-king: both Star Trek’s Geordi La Forge, and the guy who taught us to like books on Reading Rainbow. Now, the two Burtons are fused—and it’s pretty incredible. LeVar Burton has an app—it’s available starting today. Sure. Lots…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Samsung Galaxy S III Review: A Great Phone That Tries Too Hard

Samsung’s Galaxy S II was the king of Android in 2011. But now HTC is on top with the new One X. The Galaxy S III is the most anticipated spec-beast of the year (so far), but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best. Why It Matters The Galaxy S II was the best selling…

Reviews Brent Rose

The Stoner Channel: Moon Weed, Buying Herb Like Snickers, and the DEA Is Winning the Wrong War

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High While slightly dated (produced in 2007), The Union is still a marquee documentary on the continuing MMJ controversy in North America. This is the movie in its entirety—if you haven’t seen it yet, you really need to. NASA Discovers Moon Soil Is Super Fertile—the Atmosphere, Not So Much…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Picture of the Day: June 19, 2012

BRACE FOR IMPACT! | A Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun heads towards Earth in a still from Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth’s Climate Engine, a four-minute NASA short showing at planetariums around the world. See more beautiful Dynamic Earth stills here. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

All the Windows Phone 8 Rumors Fit to Print

Unwilling to give up the spotlight just yet, Microsoft has planned another Big Announcement for tomorrow, June 20. The Redmond, Washington-based company is flying out to San Francisco, for what will be a two-day developers summit full of surprises. One such surprise, which is generating a lot of eleventh-hour excitement, is the anticipated Windows Phone…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

These Pixelated Glasses are the Definition of Computer-Geek Chic

Paris-based eyewear designer Dzmitry Samal gives a whole new meaning to the idea of so-called hipster glasses, with his pixel-inspired “5DPI” frames. These futuristic glasses have been designed with a pixelated effect, deliberately reflecting society’s fascination with an “informational aesthetic”. The design clearly refers for late 1980s computerized graphics and video games such as Tetris.…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Computer Program Uses Avatar Role Play to Help Children Combat Social Anxiety

Computer programs have long been used to help teach children important life skills: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing a shining early example of a virtual world in which kids could learn. And as the technology has improved, so too has its application. The University of Central Florida Anxiety Disorders Clinic in partnership with the Atlanta-based company…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Wedding Planker

I thought the planking meme was dead, dead, dead. DEAD. But this pastor—most probably a friend of the couple—thought it needed a wedding planker to be truly dead. OK, Mr. Pastor sir, you win. We now can officially declare planking dead. Like, Mr. Trololo (RIP) dead. [Funnyur]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

An HTML 5 App That Tracks NYC Subways in Real Time? Yes, Please!

Millions of New Yorkers will be floored to know that a new HTML5 webapp called Seetra.in will soon track subways in real time, meaning your subway escapades just got a whole lot simpler. Shown off over the weekend at PDF: Applied, Seetra.in is just a prototype web app for now. Though it works on both…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Intervention: Skyler, Addicted to Bath Salts

In keeping with our ongoing coverage of #bathsaltsummer, today’s movie night is actually a single episode of the A&E documentary television series Intervention. We know this isn’t a movie, but we hope you’ll let it slide. Season 11, Episode 8 of Intervention brings us Jessa and Skyler. Jessa is an alcoholic and meth addict recently…

Television Molly Oswaks

Watch This Tiny Aerogel Boat Run For Almost an Hour On a Minuscule Drop of Ethanol

It doesn’t exactly herald a new era of fossil-fuel free transportation, but this experiment showing a tiny aerogel boat zipping along for almost an hour on a drop of ethanol could lead to new ways of thinking about boat propulsion. The craft doesn’t have an equally tiny motor pushing it through the water. Instead, as…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Newly discovered Chinese mushroom turns out to be an abandoned sex toy (semi-NSFW)

The History of the World’s Sentiment According to Wikipedia

Rumor Control on Amazing Spider-Man 2, the Daredevil Reboot and Indiana Jones 5!

Why Nigerian Scammers Say They’re From Nigeria

Hey look everybody, it’s the first trailer to the last Twilight movie

Watch the first trailer(s) for the Monsters Inc. prequel, Monsters University

The Photographic Tricks That Make McDonald’s Burgers Look Good

The Next Release of Firefox Will Look Just Like Chrome

1-in-4 Moms Now Pacifies Her Baby With a Cold, Hard Gadget

Reading Rainbow Might Stop the iPad From Ruining the Brains of All Children

Samsung Galaxy S III Review: A Great Phone That Tries Too Hard

The Stoner Channel: Moon Weed, Buying Herb Like Snickers, and the DEA Is Winning the Wrong War

Picture of the Day: June 19, 2012

All the Windows Phone 8 Rumors Fit to Print

These Pixelated Glasses are the Definition of Computer-Geek Chic

Computer Program Uses Avatar Role Play to Help Children Combat Social Anxiety

The Wedding Planker

An HTML 5 App That Tracks NYC Subways in Real Time? Yes, Please!

Intervention: Skyler, Addicted to Bath Salts

Watch This Tiny Aerogel Boat Run For Almost an Hour On a Minuscule Drop of Ethanol

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