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A Day in the Life of a Booth Babe

The concept of the Booth Babe is a strange one. In the eyes of many tech companies, littering trade shows with semi-naked women helps sell their products, but to most people living in the modern world it seems incredibly sexist and outdated. Now, IT World has taken a look behind the scenes at this week’s…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 7 '12

Could new Iron Man 3 set photos point to a most unexpected supervillain?

We now know the fate of at least one Dark Knight Rises character. The cast of the Robocop reboot just got even more awesome. Is Wonder Woman coming back? Plus tons of hints for True Blood, Alphas, and Tron Uprising! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jun 7 '12

Richard Feynman’s FBI Files Make Fascinating Reading

Following a Freedom of Information request, the FBI has just released its records on Richard Feynman. Celebrated as an incredible intellectual, the Nobel prize-wining physicist was also a wonderful speaker, writer and, according to the files, a target which the FBI wanted to out as a communist sympathizer. In all, there are 361 pages pf…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 7 '12

We Now Send Over 400 Million Tweets a Day

According to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, we now send over 400 million tweets every day. That’s over a quarter of a million every minute, or more than 4,500 every single second. That is an awful lot of people sharing their eating habits. Perhaps even more interesting, Costolo has also explained that the majority of Twitter…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 7 '12

Report: Facebook App Center Opening This Week?

Business Insider is reporting that Facebook’s App Center—the social network’s take on the App Store—is launching as soon as this week, in a bid to encourage developers to continue working on software specifically for the Big Blue. Citing a source “briefed by Facebook on the service”, Business Insider explains that the App Center is “launching…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe Jun 7 '12

Watch This Gigantic Weather Balloon Burst Gloriously, Again and Again

As the 1200 gram weather balloon inflates with more and more air, so too will you fill with tension. Tension fueled by anxious, jaw-gritting, knuckle-cracking anticipation. We know the balloon is bound to burst, but when? What are the limits of its rubbery skin? Will it split into thin sheets that flutter down like ash?…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 7 '12

Should Online Dating Sites Prevent Users From Naming Abusers?

Earlier this week, Tracy Clark-Flory published an article on Salon about allegations of assault in the BDSM community, specifically on FetLife, a Facebook-like social network for men and women in the kink scene. The Salon article explains that FetLife administrators have begun removing message board posts that name names, and that a group of members…

Social Media Molly Oswaks Jun 7 '12

There’s a New Foursquare, and You Should Care

Foursquare needed a significant new version. It’s trying to do too much at once, and it showed: clutter. But the newest release is not only more ambitious—it wants Facebook turf—it’s elegant, thoughtful, and clean. And hugely useful. When it was first birthed, Foursquare was mostly a novelty—a list of where your friends were that hooked…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 7 '12

The Stoner Channel: Connecticut Goes Green, Woody Harrelson on Weed, and How to Spot a Meth Lab

Connecticut Legalizes Medical Marijuana You can now obtain medical marijuana in Connecticut. HB 5389 passed the state senate 21-13 last month and was signed in to law by Governor Dannel Malloy last Friday. “We are encouraged that state officials are standing up to federal intimidation and moving ahead with the passage of important public health…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 7 '12

Bettye LaVette: Your Turn to Cry

You haven’t experienced real Soul until you’ve heard Bettye LaVette testify. Warning: you will cry. Guaranteed. LaVette’s been recording since she was sixteen—way back in 1962—laid tracks for nine separate labels, including Epic, Motown, and Atlantic, and appeared on 22 separate albums but only gained notoriety with her 2005 album I’ve Got My Own Hell…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 6 '12

Hey, Guess What: Your eHarmony Passwords Were Leaked, Too

You may still be dealing with the embarrassment of having your asinine LinkedIn password posted online—I’m talking to you, BigPenis—but, honey, it gets worse. The popular dating site eHarmony has confirmed that an unspecified number of their 1.5 million users’ passwords have also been leaked onto the internet today. This is probably an actual hassle—unlike…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 6 '12

You Could Be Eating Genetically Engineered Frankenfish Without Even Knowing It

In 2008, after what has been referred to as an “unusually severe storm,” a Panama facility for genetically engineered AquAdvantage® Salmon lost its first commercial-size batch of fish. The entire batch—poof!—vanished. The salmon were created at a facility on Canada’s Prince Edward island by fertilizing the eggs of non-GE Atlantic salmon with milt from GE…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 6 '12

Will Someone Please Teach Chuck Grassley How to Put His iPhone on Silent? (Updated)

Official Worst Tweeter Chuck Grassley today further proved his technological ineptitude, when in the middle of his own speech on the senate floor, the senator’s iPhone began to ring, interrupting his discussion of some unspecified “standards.” Grassley looks plainly irritated as he roots around his pants pocket for the offending device. After three rings, much…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 6 '12

Someone’s making a Community video game based on the one from the TV show

In the recent Community episode “Digital Estate Planning,” Chevy Chase’s character Pierce Hawthorne must win his inheritance by playing an unapologetically racist 8-bit video game invented by his dead father. Redditor Derferman was so inspired by the show that he’s in the process of making a playable version of the game — Journey to the…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jun 6 '12

There Is a House Sprouting From Atop This 7-Story Building

Fallen Star, a cottage built from scratch and permanently joined to an existing building on the campus of UC San Diego, is the latest piece of work from South Korean installation artist Do Ho Suh. Seven years after the artist’s initial sketch, Fallen Star is ready for visitors; the 70,000-pound house opens to the public…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 6 '12

This LEGO Star Wars M.C. Escher diorama defines awesome

Here’s an impressive Star Wars sculpture that gives that insanely detailed organ a run for its money. Check out Paul Vermeesch’s take on M.C. Escher’s “Relativity” made out of Star Wars LEGO bricks. This project includes the Emperor at the center of the scene (for thematic purposes), Luke’s runaway hand, and a slot to slide…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 6 '12

How Streaming Music Will Change Culture for the Better

Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists. Focus instead on the nature of those payouts. In the olden days (i.e. 20 years ago), recording artists had to convince you to fall for their music once – just long enough to buy a CD. Since the inception of pop music as…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Jun 6 '12

Here’s the Gruesome Method of Killing, Bleeding, De-feathering and Processing a Chicken for Us to Eat

Killing animals ain’t pretty but if we eat them, we should face the reality of how it happens. Michael Ruhlman did just that, he went inside Schmidt Family Farms and was shown how the chickens you eat are killed, bled, de-feathered and processed before they hit the market. Schmidt Family Farms actually specializes in honey…

Biology Casey Chan Jun 6 '12

Loopcam: Make GIFs, Spread ‘Em Everywhere

GIFs are wonderfully fun. But they’re even better when you can pass them around to your friends. Loopcam is an app that lets you create these little animated snippets and make sure everyone you know on Tumblr gets to see them too. What does it do? It lets you create and share gifs in a…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 6 '12

The Desk You’re Actually Encouraged to Scribble All Over

If you’re a brainstormer, or are prone to compulsive list making, then Miguel Mestre’s My Desk is probably your type of design object. Centered around a giant 100×70 centimeter sketchpad, the desk will let you go back to the drawing board again, and again, and again, and again. Just don’t put anything on it. Or…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 6 '12

A Day in the Life of a Booth Babe

Could new Iron Man 3 set photos point to a most unexpected supervillain?

Richard Feynman’s FBI Files Make Fascinating Reading

We Now Send Over 400 Million Tweets a Day

Report: Facebook App Center Opening This Week?

Watch This Gigantic Weather Balloon Burst Gloriously, Again and Again

Should Online Dating Sites Prevent Users From Naming Abusers?

There’s a New Foursquare, and You Should Care

The Stoner Channel: Connecticut Goes Green, Woody Harrelson on Weed, and How to Spot a Meth Lab

Bettye LaVette: Your Turn to Cry

Hey, Guess What: Your eHarmony Passwords Were Leaked, Too

You Could Be Eating Genetically Engineered Frankenfish Without Even Knowing It

Will Someone Please Teach Chuck Grassley How to Put His iPhone on Silent? (Updated)

Someone’s making a Community video game based on the one from the TV show

There Is a House Sprouting From Atop This 7-Story Building

This LEGO Star Wars M.C. Escher diorama defines awesome

How Streaming Music Will Change Culture for the Better

Here’s the Gruesome Method of Killing, Bleeding, De-feathering and Processing a Chicken for Us to Eat

Loopcam: Make GIFs, Spread ‘Em Everywhere

The Desk You’re Actually Encouraged to Scribble All Over

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