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10 Weirdest Urban Ecosystems On Earth

Cities are havens for weirdness. From communities built around garbage to dogs that ride the subway, urban environments have fostered all manner of weird patterns. Here are the 10 freakiest urban ecosystems on the planet. The other day, we showed you the Kowloon Walled City — a bizarre, super-dense development that arose as an accident…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Kelly Faircloth

You Can Shoot Up-Close Artsy or Far-Away Stalker With This 16.7x Zoom Lens

Nikon’s new 18-300mm super zoom DX lens is the perfect piece of kit for photographers trying to lighten their load by only bringing along a single lens for their DSLRs. It’s great for artsy shots of flowers in bloom, or stalking your favorite celeb from afar. The lens offers the highest zoom ratio you’ll find…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Shroud Your iPod Nano In This Adorable Little Black Book

If you’re bored of wearing your iPod Nano on your wrist, or on your head, or wherever else you can manage to secrete it, why not wrap it up in its own little handcrafted book that you can tuck away in the miniature library that is your pocket? This adorable little iPod nano case is…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

It’s No Longer Ridiculously Annoying to Get Sports Illustrated on Your iPad

It’s been a minor quibble, but a persistant one; Time Inc. magazines—including Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly—have been available on the iPad for some time, but as individually siloed apps. You couldn’t group them in Newsstand, but more importantly you couldn’t subscribe through iTunes. Basically: The most efficient way to get an iPad subscription…

Tech News Brian Barrett

This 20-Button Mouse Puts Your Everything to Shame

Some might think that Logitech has gone off the UI deep-end with its latest gaming mouse. It tops the company’s previous efforts, and those of its competitors, with a total of twenty—count ’em twenty—programmable buttons. Twelve of the buttons have found a home on a curved keypad on the side of the mouse, and with…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Testing female athletes to make sure they’re feminine enough is not cool, scientists say

South African sprinter Caster Semenya created a stir a few years back on account of her “intersexed” characteristics — prompting some to demand that sporting authorities screen for these sorts of biological anomalies in the name of fairness. But a Stanford University School of Medicine bioethicist and her colleagues now say that it’s unacceptable to…

io9 George Dvorsky

This transcendent time-lapse of New Zealand is a journey to Middle-earth

For his short film Aotearoa — a.k.a. the Māori name for New Zealand — photographer Nathan Kaso captured the Tolkienesque views of South Island. He explains of this video, “Locations include Queenstown, Arrowtown, Wanaka, Kinloch, Glenorchy, Fox Glacier, Mount Cook National Park, Twizel, Lindis Pass and Haast Pass.” We’re assuming the Nazgûl extended the momentary…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A first look at the Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover comic!

The comic book miniseries Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation² sees two venerable science fiction television shows meet up for the first time ever. So far in the series, Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor, Amy, and Rory are on a crash course to meet up with Jean-Luc Picard’s Enterprise crew. Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here’s…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Zombie movie World War Z is an undead disaster

Brad Pitt’s feature film based off the amazing “zombie war oral history” book World War Z is allegedly in shambles. With a budget raising up to $170 million and five weeks of possible reshoots, what went wrong with this movie? The Hollywood Reporter has a behind-the-scenes look at what went awry. Apparently Quantum of Solace…

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After nine months, authorities still don’t know the true identity of Germany’s “Forest Boy” (UPDATED)

Do you know or recognize Ray? The teenage boy turned up in Berlin nine months ago claiming to know little about himself beyond his name and birthday (June 20, 1994). When pressed to divulge more about himself and his history, he claims he is unable to remember. Now, after close to a year of investigation,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Scientists Have Found a Possible Cure for Ebola

Ebola is an incredibly aggressive virus that kills 90 percent of people it infects, and it is often feared that its use as a biological weapon could wipe out millions of people—because it has no known cure. Now, though, scientists are one step closer to finding a solution, because they can now successfully cure monkeys…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Calvin Coolidge: Mummy Slayer, the no-budget sequel to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

To demonstrate that the “President + Monster” formula can be exploited to no end, sketch comedy group The Sketchersons have created a trailer for Calvin Coolidge: Mummy Slayer. This film sees the alliterative (and largely uncelebrated) Chief Executive of 1923-1929 battle hordes of meticulously preserved Egyptian corpses. If this trend continues, we should see Millard…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

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, and many scientists today take the idea quite seriously. Though it sounds like the plot from recent scifi movie Prometheus, it’s an…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Nokia Cuts 10,000 More Jobs, Sells Vertu, and Buys Swedish Imaging Specialists

Nokia is definitely not out of the woods yet. Yes, it is making a bit of headway with its pretty decent Lumia Windows Phone line, but an additional 10,000 job cuts, taking the total to 40,000, doesn’t scream “winning” just yet. 10,000 people will be put out of a job before the end of 2013,…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk

Windows 8 Has Deep Integration With Facebook, Twitter, Google

As part of its Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft has been releasing a small selection of apps for testing. One, called People, seems particularly interesting, acting as an OS-wide social and contact tool that integrates with Facebook, Twitter and Google, amongst others. The cloud-based app is designed to keep contacts in order, sure, by syncing…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watch the latest Amazing Spider-Man videos! Plus an Arrested Development star joins the Munsters remake!

Total Recall director Len Wiseman explains why his reboot isn’t just copying the original. Tim Burton discusses the weird kids of Frankenweenie. Tom Cruise starts filming Oblivion. A Next Generation legend joins Warehouse 13. Plus a new Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter clip! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Total Recall. The Amazing Spider-Man…

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Girl Gets New Veins Made From Her Own Stem Cells

A team of scientists from the University of Gothenburg has managed to grow new veins for a 10-year-old girl using her own stem cells—and then, in a medical first, successfully implant them into her body. The team explain in the Lancet that the girl had a blocked hepatic portal vein—the blood vessel which takes blood…

Health Jamie Condliffe

How Facebook Uses You as Part of a Giant Sociological Experiment

Facebook, with its 900 million users, is a social scientist’s wet dream: a huge number of participants, all offering up rich streams of personal information. Obviously that hasn’t escaped Facebook’s attention, which is why it has its own team of social scientists analyzing all of our data—and, on occasion, experimenting with us too. Technology Review…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Reddit Bans Links to Big-Name Sites Over Spamming Violations

Reddit has announced, in a new subreddit called r/BannedDomains, that it is banning a swathe of big-name websites—including The Atlantic and Businessweek—in a bid to limit spam and abuse. Reddit explains that the bans are being issued to sites which are “spammy, malicious, or involved in cheating shenanigans”, and users that submit links to any…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al

What’s not to love about this? Simon without the Garfunkel (seriously, without him “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” would have been 160 bpm). Chevy Chase doing the Chevy Chase. Plus, THE MOST ROCKIN’ HORN SECTION OF ALL TIME. It is, in the parlance of the times, Teh Shit.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

10 Weirdest Urban Ecosystems On Earth

You Can Shoot Up-Close Artsy or Far-Away Stalker With This 16.7x Zoom Lens

Shroud Your iPod Nano In This Adorable Little Black Book

It’s No Longer Ridiculously Annoying to Get Sports Illustrated on Your iPad

This 20-Button Mouse Puts Your Everything to Shame

Testing female athletes to make sure they’re feminine enough is not cool, scientists say

This transcendent time-lapse of New Zealand is a journey to Middle-earth

A first look at the Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover comic!

Zombie movie World War Z is an undead disaster

After nine months, authorities still don’t know the true identity of Germany’s “Forest Boy” (UPDATED)

Scientists Have Found a Possible Cure for Ebola

Calvin Coolidge: Mummy Slayer, the no-budget sequel to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Could aliens have created life on Earth?

Nokia Cuts 10,000 More Jobs, Sells Vertu, and Buys Swedish Imaging Specialists

Windows 8 Has Deep Integration With Facebook, Twitter, Google

Watch the latest Amazing Spider-Man videos! Plus an Arrested Development star joins the Munsters remake!

Girl Gets New Veins Made From Her Own Stem Cells

How Facebook Uses You as Part of a Giant Sociological Experiment

Reddit Bans Links to Big-Name Sites Over Spamming Violations

Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al

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