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Hackers No Longer Work Weekends

Hacking is a tiring occupation: all that time at a keyboard, staring at a screen, makes for a tired cyber criminal. Now, analysis of the frequency of malicious emails suggests that, over the last year, hackers have been taking more and more time off at weekends. Slackers. In fact, hacking appears to be turning into…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Welcome to the Future, Where Our Apples Never Brown

Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a Canadian biotech company, has brought us the future… and it tastes like very fresh apples. Neal Carter, Okanagan’s founder and grower, claims two have to varieties of apple—an “arctic granny” and “arctic golds”—that can be cut clean in half and yet have their flesh stay white and fresh for weeks on…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

This Cadillac Is Powered by Linux

The brand once known as the “Standard of the World” has fully embraced the Standard of Geeks for it’s latest play for the hearts, minds and cash of the upwardly mobile. This is the all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS, and while it certainly isn’t your great-great (great) grandfather’s Cadillac, it’s designed to appeal to everyone from…

Tech News Damon Lavrinc - WIRED

Oracle v. Google Juror: ‘Wanted Steak. Got Parsley’

Jury duty! The worst. Civic duty? Oh please. And since we can’t avoid serving, it better be good. One unnamed juror from the high-profile Oracle v. Google case was described by Jury Foreman Greg Thompson, 52, as dissatisfied with Oracle uber-lawyer David Boies’s attempts to prove Google had infringed on both its patents and its…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Picture of the Day: May 24, 2012

WE’RE ON OUR WAY | A ship glides over a shining lake in this art by Yun Ling. See tons more art at the link. 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

For Those Who Fear Needles, an Air-Jet Alternative

Needle-less technology for injecting medicine is nothing new. But, until now, it’s relied on compressed air or gas cartridges to breach the skin and deliver the dosage. A team of medical and mechanical engineering researchers from MIT has developed a new technology for needle-less injection that relies on not compressed molecules but magnetic energy. The…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Michael Jackson Does Munich, Old White Guys on Drugs, and Will Ferrell’s Best Bloopers

Michael Jackson – HIstory World Tour (Munich, Germany 1997) Yup, he’s still got it even after all these years. Wait, whaddya mean it’s already 2012? This isn’t a live feed? Oh. Oh! Ohhhhhhh. Piotr Kamler – Une Mission Ephémère (1993) Ephemeral Mission is right. I’ve smoked three bong rips and still can’t understand what this…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Hack Politician and Son Arrested for Political Hack

55-year-old Mayor of West New York, NJ, Felix Roque and his son Joseph, 22, were arrested today for allegedly hacking the website www.recallroque.com that was set up to rally support to recall the politician. Mayor Roque, a Cuban-American doctor and Army colonel, and a Democrat who has a close relationship to the large-gutted Republican Governor…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

What Is Growing from this Working Computer?

Turning an old iMac into an aquarium is easy; the monitor is already hollow and lifeless, so there’s really no risk of ruining it. Mike Schropp over at TotalGeekdom has taken the flora/fauna desktop mod a step further, actually modifying his own working PC to grow wheatgrass from atop its tower. Stuck on the idea…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

A brief history of four letter words

“Scumbag,” sounds like the kind of hokey insult that would get you laughed at if you used it. When it was used in a New York Times, it got protests from some older readers, because once upon a time it meant “a used condom.” Think about every time you’ve seen Batman refer, in children’s cartoon,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

By-the-Hour Lodging Service Offers Discreet Deals at Upscale Hotels

Hotel rooms with an hourly rate—the kind where you go to cheat on your boyfriend or girlfriend or to meet for a session with your dom—are typically grungy no-tell motels of last resort. A sad fact, but a true one nonetheless. Fortunately, the people behind Dayuse.com have realized that this doesn’t necessarily have to always…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Everything You Need to Look Like a Fool Protecting Yourself From the Sun

Here comes Memorial Day, the unofficial kickoff of summer. Woohoo! Before you go and do something silly like spend money on fancy sunglasses that will make you look cool (who wants to do that?!?) here are some goods that will help protect you from the sun’s harmful rays while also making you look like a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Can you grow a beard with consistent applications of Rogaine?

If you lack a lovely beard and are well past puberty, could you use a hair growth treatment to create one? Tales of people using Rogaine to paint on a beard sound believable, but is there any scientific validity to them? Let’s investigate how minoxidil, the active ingredient in Rogaine, works in the human body…

io9 Keith Veronese

8-Bit Games Videomapped Over Classic Consoles Is the 3D We Really Want

It would be even cooler if the games were playable, but Tonner Vi’s retro gaming-themed videomapping installation called Visuatari is still pretty fantastic to just sit back and enjoy. Particularly since it features Mario wandering into other classic titles like Pac-Man and Duck Hunt. Forget the Virtual Boy and the 3DS, this is the only…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Best Way to Recycle a Propane Tank Is to Make It a Lamp

Step outside—the most gorgeous overhead lamp you have ever seen might be sitting in your very own backyard. Felix Guyon of La Firme sure has an eye for re-purposing objects into eye-catching design, because his propane tank lamp entitled L’Tease just oozes industrial goodness. No word on availability, but why not try your hand at…

Tech News Michael Hession

Listen to The National’s new Lannister-happy song from The Game of Thrones soundtrack

The indie rock band The National has been making some serious guest spots on some geeky soundtracks. After contributing a song to Portal 2 way back when, the band has now performed the Lannister-praising tune “The Rains of Castamere” for the upcoming Game of Thrones second season soundtrack. This song — which is about Tywin…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Google Purges 1.2 Million Links a Month from Its Searches

Google just released a report today showing just how many links the search giant rips down from its searches a month because of copyright complaints and it’s a doozy: 1.2 million a month. That comes from over a 1,000 copyright owners who’ve targeted 25,000 web sites. What’s especially interesting is that, according to Google, “these…

Tech News Casey Chan

Apple Arbitrarily Removes Airfoil’s Streaming Audio App From iOS App Store

Apple just removed Airfoil Speakers Touch 3 from the iOS app store, despite claims from developer Rogue Amoeba that the app complies with all of Apple’s rules and developer agreements. What gives, Apple? Airfoil Speakers Touch is rad, which is why this bothers us. Since 2009 the app has allowed you to stream audio from…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

When the Apocalypse Throws You Back in Time

When we try to imagine the world after an apocalypse, we often end up thinking of a particular era from history. It’s not surprising — because the end of the world as we know it often means we’ll lose a lot of the fruits of progress. People often talk about bombing someone “back to the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and MaryKate Jasper

Sidecar.me: Seamlessly Share Photos and Videos While Talking on the Phone

Multitasking while talking on a smartphone is clunky, if not limited. But Sidecar.me comes in to supplement a regular phone call with pictures, videos, and other data so the person on the other end can see what you’re up to. What does it do? Sidecar is a calling app that lets you pass along things…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Hackers No Longer Work Weekends

Welcome to the Future, Where Our Apples Never Brown

This Cadillac Is Powered by Linux

Oracle v. Google Juror: ‘Wanted Steak. Got Parsley’

Picture of the Day: May 24, 2012

For Those Who Fear Needles, an Air-Jet Alternative

Michael Jackson Does Munich, Old White Guys on Drugs, and Will Ferrell’s Best Bloopers

Hack Politician and Son Arrested for Political Hack

What Is Growing from this Working Computer?

A brief history of four letter words

By-the-Hour Lodging Service Offers Discreet Deals at Upscale Hotels

Everything You Need to Look Like a Fool Protecting Yourself From the Sun

Can you grow a beard with consistent applications of Rogaine?

8-Bit Games Videomapped Over Classic Consoles Is the 3D We Really Want

The Best Way to Recycle a Propane Tank Is to Make It a Lamp

Listen to The National’s new Lannister-happy song from The Game of Thrones soundtrack

Google Purges 1.2 Million Links a Month from Its Searches

Apple Arbitrarily Removes Airfoil’s Streaming Audio App From iOS App Store

When the Apocalypse Throws You Back in Time

Sidecar.me: Seamlessly Share Photos and Videos While Talking on the Phone

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