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What the New Yorker and Tin House science fiction issues tell us about the state of SF

People who enjoy seeing the collision of literary and genre fiction have an unusual bounty right now: The New Yorker just turned its summer fiction edition over to science fiction. And last month the literary magazine Tin House produced its first “Science Fair” edition. The two magazines took somewhat different tacks, as would be expected…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs

Earth’s Sky Will Look Mindblowingly Crazy 3.75 Billion Years From Now

Check out this video made with images created by NASA. It shows Earth’s night sky during the next four billion years, with the Milky Way on a head-on collision with Andromeda. The destruction of our galaxy as we know it will be so beautiful. We knew that Andromeda and the Milky Way were going to…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

How Hackers Nearly Took Down Google’s reCaptcha System

Last weekend a group of hackers unveiled Stiltwalker, a hack that subverts the reCaptcha system Google uses to protect its services from bots with 99 percent accuracy. But just hours before the group was set to present their hack at the LayerOne conference Google patched it up so it wouldn’t work anymore. Stiltwalker is an…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Branded trailer proves that advertisements are eating your brain

Check out the new trailer for Branded the trippy They Live-channeling horror flick in which one man wakes up and realizes creepy monsters are controlling the world through advertisements. It’s pretty wild and kind of beautiful — we only wish these advertising monsters would sit still for a second so we can get a better…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Kickass Astronaut Plays the International Space Station Vacuum Like a Didgeridoo

Our favorite space station resident, Don Pettit, is back with a follow-up video to his demonstration of how sound waves behave in water droplets in zero gravity. https://gizmodo.com/a-water-droplet-and-a-space-station-are-the-ultimate-wa-5910031 This time around, though, instead of playing boring sine wave sound files, he plays the station’s vacuum cleaner (surprisingly not a Dyson) like a didgeridoo. He even…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski

Could SpaceX land the first humans on Mars?

Today, SpaceX recovered its Dragon spacecraft after a successful journey to the International Space Station — thus proving that a private company can transport supplies, or maybe even crew, to the ISS. Everybody’s saying this is the real beginning of the era of private space travel. But how much further could private companies like SpaceX…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

When You Swallow 35MM Film, Beautiful Things Happen

As part of a final project for a photography class, two students at Kingston University in the UK swallowed 35mm film and let their internal organs do the heavy lifiting for them. After “collecting” the slides in a dark room, they fixed the silver and scanned the film with an electron microscope. The result is…

Tech News Adrian Covert

App Icon Sticky Notes Turn Your Whole World Into iOS

You can write a mile long list of reminders on your phone, but you’ll still forget them all if it’s tucked away in your pocket. That’s why sticky notes have yet to be replaced by deviced like the iPhone, and these app icon-themed pads seem like they’re rubbing that fact in. There are six different…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What It’s Like Inside the Bullshit of a Tech Conference

TechCrunch Disrupt is a tech conference that makes a lot of money for TechCrunch and gives a little bit of attention to tech startups. It’s a place where people are overly optimistic, eye-buggingly enthusiastic and entirely removed from reality. A conference for buzzwords that don’t mean anything, hollow phrases that sound nice together and proponents…

Tech News Casey Chan

Does This Video Show the iPhone 5 Front Panel?

We’re in the hot thick summer of New iPhone rumors, now: Japanese bloggers have shot video of an alleged piece of Apple’s next handset. If it’s true—a big if—you’re looking at the iPhone 5’s face. It’s bigger. As you can see in Macotakara’s physical comparison, the new front plate sticks out appreciably above a current…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Windows 8 Release Preview Hands On: Wonderful (And Kind Of Boring)

Windows 8 Release Preview is among us and, boy, is it lovely. It’s so much dreamier than the Consumer Preview, and makes the Developer Preview look like something cobbled together out of two-by-fours, electrical tape, and rebar. It also is quite boring. https://gizmodo.com/windows-8-consumer-preview-hands-on-no-going-back-5889001 Windows 8 is Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, due to ship this fall.…

Tech News Mat Honan

This 4D Puzzle of Washington DC Is Your Politickin’ Deal of the Day

When I was a baby boy who thought the Earth was flat, I wrongly assumed the Redskins and Bullets were from the state of Washington and not DC. When the truth was revealed to me, I felt horrible for the state. They were bigger! They were on the best coast! How could they get punked?…

Tech News J.D. Levite

The bad guy of Piranha 3DD tells us about his aquatic swingers’ club

In Piranha 3DD — the sequel to 2010’s “nubile swimmers getting eaten underwater” flick Piranha 3D — a sleazy water park monitored by stripper lifeguards and an unapologetically ineffectual David Hasselhoff is invaded by hungry fish. io9 had a quick chat with comedian David Koechner about playing P3DD’s villainous water slide magnate and the public’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Marine Robot Helicopters Can Now Snatch Cargo Without Landing

With a skilled pilot at the controls, a helicopter can easily pick up cargo while remaining hovering in the air. It’s a time-saving maneuver that the Marine Corps’ K-MAX autonomous helicopter has just learned to perform itself. The military has been testing the K-MAX for just over half a year now, and with a million…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

In 1901, you could pay 50 cents to ride an airship to the Moon

The passengers wait eagerly in the ornate lobby of the enormous spaceport. Soon, a signal indicates that their spaceship is ready for boarding. As they wait, special displays instruct them about how their spaceship functions and what to expect once they leave Earth’s atmosphere. Aboard the giant spacecraft — as luxuriously appointed as any yacht…

io9 Ron Miller

Shooting Challenge: Reflections Without Mirrors

Anyone can use a mirror to snag a reflection. But every day, there are reflections going on around us, totally unnoticed. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, capture one—without a mirror or glass globe, and no self-portraits! The Challenge Capture a naturally occurring reflection in your environment (urban or wild)—that means puddles, store windows and shiny…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Will Vizio’s Hot New Computers Be Available Next Month at Walmart?

An anonymous tipster sent us apparent photos of Walmart’s inventory supply system, complete with listings for two upcoming Vizio computers. (Presumably this tipster is a Walmart employee.) It looks like the gorgeous machines we first saw at CES could hit the big box giant’s stores in mid-June. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-vizio-pcs-and-notebooks-are-worthy-of-apple-5874294 There are references to a “27 All-In-One…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Best Way to Get Fit: Leave the Gym

I’m just going to come out and say it: screw the gym. Screw it right in the face. There is a better way to get the body you want, one that’s actually fun and that uses your brain’s reward system. Really. Welcome to Fitmodo, Gizmodo’s gym for your brain and backbone. Don’t suffer through life…

Tech News Brent Rose

The First 4K Movie You Can Download Is 160GB and Absolutely Breathtaking

I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time and, at last, it’s here: Tom Lowe has released his stunning documentary TimeScapes, a silent portrait of our planet captured with exquisite 4K cinematography. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-most-delicious-eye-candy-ive-seen-all-week-5683126 It’s available in iTunes up to 1080p and also from his site at 1440p. That’s 2560 x 1440 pixels, the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Here’s What Happens When You Apply Every Instagram Filter to Your Photo

Yep, you get a big, abstract splotch of light on a reddish-brown background. Or that’s what you get if you’re taking a picture of trees, at least. And it’s actually pretty interesting. Appleogen documented the entire progression in 18 steps, which is as cool, if not cooler than the end result itself. The question is,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

What the New Yorker and Tin House science fiction issues tell us about the state of SF

Earth’s Sky Will Look Mindblowingly Crazy 3.75 Billion Years From Now

How Hackers Nearly Took Down Google’s reCaptcha System

Branded trailer proves that advertisements are eating your brain

Kickass Astronaut Plays the International Space Station Vacuum Like a Didgeridoo

Could SpaceX land the first humans on Mars?

When You Swallow 35MM Film, Beautiful Things Happen

App Icon Sticky Notes Turn Your Whole World Into iOS

What It’s Like Inside the Bullshit of a Tech Conference

Does This Video Show the iPhone 5 Front Panel?

Windows 8 Release Preview Hands On: Wonderful (And Kind Of Boring)

This 4D Puzzle of Washington DC Is Your Politickin’ Deal of the Day

The bad guy of Piranha 3DD tells us about his aquatic swingers’ club

Marine Robot Helicopters Can Now Snatch Cargo Without Landing

In 1901, you could pay 50 cents to ride an airship to the Moon

Shooting Challenge: Reflections Without Mirrors

Will Vizio’s Hot New Computers Be Available Next Month at Walmart?

The Best Way to Get Fit: Leave the Gym

The First 4K Movie You Can Download Is 160GB and Absolutely Breathtaking

Here’s What Happens When You Apply Every Instagram Filter to Your Photo

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