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Test footage from Alien was way creepy, even with the xenomorph out of costume

You may remember that the titular xenomorph in Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien was sometimes depicted by a man in a suit. Here’s test footage of 6’10” Nigerian actor Bolaji Badejo practicing his extraterrestrial motions. Even with a mock-up of the xenomorph’s head alone — and Badejo running around in his underwear — these reels…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Verizon’s Insane 300Mbps Home Internet Is Also Insanely Expensive

We knew it was on its way, but Verizon has now officially announced the new speeds and pricing for its updated FiOS home interent provision. If you can afford to stump up a frankly insane $205 a month, you can now enjoy a blisteringly quick 300Mbps home internet connection. Verizon’s existing top-of-the-line FiOS was already…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why does magic need so many rules?

We often hear people criticize fantasy books for not having clearly enough defined “systems” of magic. Rules, formulas, strongly defined sets of cause and effect. But why does magic need to be treated like physics? Why does magic need to have rules? asks N.K. Jemisin, author of The Killing Moon and its new sequel, The…

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This Story Proves Apple Stores in the UK Are Incredibly Dumb

Apple is a pretty slick operation—in the US, at least. Because, following the launch of the new Retina MacBook Pros, the UK’s flagship Apple Store managed to sell eight of the new laptops that were only ever intended to be used for display purposes. According to New Statesman, Apple’s flagship UK store on Regent Street…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

It will never die! Lionsgate dreaming up ways to reboot Twilight?

This November, the Twilight franchise will end once and for all with Breaking Dawn: Part 2. Unhappy about losing their cash cow, Lionsgate is allegedly furiously looking for a way to keep the $2-billion franchise afloat, even if that means redoing the entire thing with a whole new cast. Bloody Disgusting reports that the studio…

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Gruesome injuries recreated with candy and ice cream are pure nightmare fuel

What you’re currently squirming at is Faces 5, a cloyingly morbid series of portraits by Utrecht photographer Ashkan Honarvar, whose work deals with the malleability of the human body. In these unnerving photographic manipulations, men’s mutilated faces weep sprinkles, frosting, and candy vines. The ensuing pictures resemble artifacts of a three-way war between Candyland, The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Your Brain Scan Looks Different on Mac and PC

Science and medicine are supposedly based on rigor—a rigor where theories are only correct if you can replicate results. It turns out, though, that the software used to analyze medical images of your brain gives wildly different answers if it’s run on Mac or PC. The finding is completely crazy, and casts doubt over the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Star Trek sequel is like a modern myth…and it’s all about villain Benedict Cumberbatch!

Star Chris Pine explains how J.J. Abrams’s second Star Trek movie finds time to tell the small human stories in its big blockbuster setting. Co-writer Alex Kurtzman says Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch is the perfect villain to challenge the fully promoted Captain Kirk! All that plus new TV spots for The Dark Knight Rises and The…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Is American Again

A computer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration by IBM has just been crowned the world’s fastest supercomputer, according to the Top 500 Supercomputer list—stealing the lead back from Japan’s Fujitsu-designed K computer. The NNSA computer, called Sequoia, is based on IBM’s Blue Gene/Q architecture and manages to reach 16.32 sustained petaflops— that’s 16.32…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Depressed People Use the Internet

The internet is different things to different people: a social hub, gigantic reference library or, for some, a place to seek solace. In fact, research shows that the way depressed individuals use the internet is dramatically different to the norm—and the findings could help diagnose depression earlier. Writing in the New York Times, a team…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Why Facebook Investors Ignored The Signs of Its Doomed IPO

During the build up to Facebook’s initial public offering last month, there were plenty of clues to suggest that it wouldn’t make small investors any money. But that didn’t stop them flocking to the deal, in turn wasting their money. Why is that? Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Rebecca Waber explains that it was…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

A Mozilla Browser Is Coming to iPad, but It’s Not Firefox

Because Apple won’t allow any browser technology besides Webkit on iOS, Mozilla can’t bring Firefox to Apple’s mobile devices. But instead of ignoring the platform completely, they’re working on Junior: a Webkit-based browser that eschews tabs and the standard URL bar in favor of a new UI. That’s not to say that you can’t have…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Will the Rumored Microsoft Tablet Feature Xbox Streaming?

Microsoft has something big planned for tomorrow, but it won’t say what. All signs point to a Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet. Now, TechCrunch claims it will be co-branded as a Nook device will feature some of the Xbox’s streaming features. What this entails exactly is uncertain, but presumably, the rumored tablet would be able to…

Tech News Adrian Covert

HP Builds a Supercharged Video Editing Machine Worthy of RED Cameras

RED makes some of the most advanced and powerful video cameras in existence, which also means it needs a damn powerful computer to handle the massive video files. So it teamed up with HP to build the RED Z820 workstation, complete with 16 liquid-cooled CPU cores, custom RED Mag card readers and RED Rocket acceleration…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Best of the Week: June 9-June 15, 2012

IF YOU CAN MAKE IT HERE… | “Alien World” by Johnson Ting on Deviant Art. Could aliens have created life on Earth? We know a lot about the history of life on Earth, but how it began is still one of our greatest scientific mysteries. One hypothesis is that life actually originated on another planet,…

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Someone Installed Mac OS on a Nook Simple Touch eReader

Technology today is all Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion and Tablets and Retina Displays. So it’s always fun to see someone paying tribute to the technology of old, just because. In this case, it’s a brave soul who installed a 16-year-old verson of Mac OS 7 on a Nook Simple Touch, answering the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Life on Earth might never have happened without some well-placed rocks

Biologically speaking, it isn’t that hard to create very simple, one-celled organisms. But the leap to multicellular life requires many factors to line up just perfectly. Now a new hypothesis suggests we wouldn’t even be here without some well-timed erosion. Certain proteins seem to be essential for the rise of multicellular organisms, and those proteins…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Futuristic A-Frame Glasses Will Adjust to Fit Any Face

For some, the task of finding a pair of glasses or sunglasses is an epic task. Not only do you have to find a pair that compliments the shape of your face, but they also have to fit your face. With that in mind, designer Ron Arad designed the A-Frame line of glasses that can…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Are neutrons traveling between parallel worlds?

Recent experiments at ultra-cold temperatures have shown a phenomenon known as “neutron loss,” in which we somehow lose track of these subatomic particles for short periods. This probably has a mundane explanation…but just for fun, here’s an awesomely insane explanation. The idea put forward by Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti, a pair of theoretical physicists…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Here’s What the Creator of Linux Thinks of NVIDIA

Why is Linus Torvalds, father of the open source Linux operating system, so angry? It’s the years of neglect that his baby has suffered at the hands of NVIDIA, apparently. Speaking at Aalto University in Finland, Torvalds called NVIDIA “the single worst company [the Linux Foundation] ever dealt with (watch his response here). As Ubergizmo…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Test footage from Alien was way creepy, even with the xenomorph out of costume

Verizon’s Insane 300Mbps Home Internet Is Also Insanely Expensive

Why does magic need so many rules?

This Story Proves Apple Stores in the UK Are Incredibly Dumb

It will never die! Lionsgate dreaming up ways to reboot Twilight?

Gruesome injuries recreated with candy and ice cream are pure nightmare fuel

Your Brain Scan Looks Different on Mac and PC

The Star Trek sequel is like a modern myth…and it’s all about villain Benedict Cumberbatch!

The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Is American Again

How Depressed People Use the Internet

Why Facebook Investors Ignored The Signs of Its Doomed IPO

A Mozilla Browser Is Coming to iPad, but It’s Not Firefox

Will the Rumored Microsoft Tablet Feature Xbox Streaming?

HP Builds a Supercharged Video Editing Machine Worthy of RED Cameras

Best of the Week: June 9-June 15, 2012

Someone Installed Mac OS on a Nook Simple Touch eReader

Life on Earth might never have happened without some well-placed rocks

Futuristic A-Frame Glasses Will Adjust to Fit Any Face

Are neutrons traveling between parallel worlds?

Here’s What the Creator of Linux Thinks of NVIDIA

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