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Magnetic Super-Paper Can Shrug Off Water and Bacteria

Without changing its physical or functional properties, researchers at Italy’s Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia have created the superhero of papers that’s waterproof, antibacterial, and magnetic. Which will completely revolutionize how your kids can stick their artwork to the fridge. The secret lies with a special mixture of individual molecules, or monomers, in paper fiber and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Here’s What Future Ultrabooks Will Look Like

Intel has released a chart detailing what the next wave of ultrabooks can include, giving a pretty good hint as to what the next round of machines might look like. For example, a VGA connector won’t fit into the 15mm (0.60-inch) super-slender laptop, and as far as memory goes, it has room for a 2.5-inch…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The most beautiful toxins in the world

Seen from above, these tailing ponds look like shimmering, blue jewels. They flow cross the barren Utah landscape, full of byproducts from industrial processes and mining. A tailing pond is basically an outdoor toxic liquid holding tank, and environmentalists have argued that they are destroying ecosystems. Over at Environmental Graffiti, Simone Pruess has put together…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Facebook Doesn’t Have to Trample On Our Privacy Rights in the Name of Cybersecurity

Numerous commentators have noted the sore thumb in the group of supporters for The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA): Facebook. Why would a social network be endorsing a bill that would allow companies to pass personal information about Internet users to the government without any form of judicial oversight? A number of recent…

Social Media Rainey Reitman - Electronic Frontier Foundation

Could book publishing suffer the same fate as the comic book industry?

As Amazon.com’s dominance grows, we’re only just starting to see the shape of how different the publishing industry is going to look in another five or ten years. And web developer Baldur Bjarnason has a scary thought: if the e-book revolution and the rise of Amazon succeed in chipping away at the web of bookstores…

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Your IQ Depends on a Single Gene

If you thank your parents for your intelligence or blame them for your stupidity, you might be right—but not because of the way they raised you. In fact, a new study provides the most compelling evidence yet that intelligence is affected by a single gene. The research, carried out at UCLA and published in Nature…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

You’ll Need a Microscope To Read the Fine Print on These Business Cards

Italian ad agency Enfants Terribles specializes in viral advertising. And to practice what they preach, the company’s business cards are printed on lab slides and feature a fake company name—Ebolaindustries—and pseudonyms for all its staff, like Mrs. Grey. If you want to know Mrs. Grey’s real identity, you’ll have to place the business card under…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Batman and Darth Vader invade art history, in these absolutely deranged paintings

Painter Hillary White takes classic works of art and throws in familiar characters like Boba Fett, xenomorphs, and Skeletor. The ensuing pieces delight, induce fright, and resemble yard sale kitsch sold in the seventh circle of the underworld. For example, that’s a Sith Lord guest-starring in Italian Baroque painter Domenico Zampieri’s famed 17th-century fresco “Virgin…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Amazon Is Overrun With a Plague of Bestseller Knockoffs

If you search for popular books on Amazon, it turns out you’ll turn up intentionally misleading knockoffs. Publishers obviously aren’t happy about about it, but some of these titles are hilarious. I Am The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, anybody? Seriously, who falls for that? Apparently, a lot of people. Fortune found a slew of…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

One-Armed Afghan War Vet to Climb Everest with Badass Prosthetic Ice-Pick

Losing an arm in Afghanistan isn’t stopping Private Jaco Van Gass from climbing the highest mountain in the world. The 25-year-old South African soldier is testing a prosthetic ice axe of his own design, which he’ll use to climb Mt. Everest next month. Van Gass had the idea to attach a pick to a false…

Tech News Leslie Horn

A list of unused titles for Dr. Strangelove, lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s notebooks

From the notebooks of Stanley Kubrick comes this most excellent list of movie titles that never saw the light of day, but were evidently considered for the film that Kubrick would eventually name Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. There are plenty of mentions of Dr. Strangelove, bombs,…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

Search Ends for Sailors Devastated by Giant Wave

One sailor is dead and four more are missing (presumably dead too) after a rogue wave struck their yacht off the coast of San Francisco, the Coast Guard says. The search and rescue attempt is over. The 38-foot Low Speed Chase was forced onto perilous rocks after a large wave overwhelmed the crew, already on…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Tupac Shakur came back from the dead as a hologram at Coachella

Given that we live in an era when Japanese pop groups build synthetic singers using preexisting members’ facial features, this shouldn’t be all that surprising. At the Coachella Music Festival last night, Tupac Shakur — who has been dead for almost 15 years — was resurrected by means of an unnervingly realistic hologram. The rapper…

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Watch a Dead Tupac Perform As a Hologram at Coachella

If you were curious as to how a dead Tupac and Nate Dogg were going to “perform” at Coachella, well, here it is. Not looking a day over 25, the digitally created Tupac Shakur hologram acknowledged the Coachella crowd and rapped two of his songs. https://gizmodo.com/dead-nate-dogg-performing-at-coachella-as-a-hologram-5901535 If you squint really hard (or get really high),…

Tech News Casey Chan

Malaysia Is the World Leader In Theater Comfort Technology

The movie theaters in my neighborhood offer sticky floors, the over-powering smell of stale popcorn, and overpriced snacks. But in Malaysia, they offer uber-comfortable beanbag seating—a moviegoing innovation greater than talkies, air conditioning, and cup holders. This photo was taken at Malaysia’s TGV Cinemas which includes the Beanieplex theater where all of the traditional folding…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

The Motherlode of Spoilers for Avengers, Robocop and Prometheus!

There are tons of rumors about the mysterious extra scene that The Avengers allegedly filmed after its world premiere. Plus there are massive Robocop casting rumors! Noomi Rapace tells you everything you need to know about her Prometheus hero. Check out new photos for Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Shadows, Total Recall, and more.…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Scientist Uses Physics to Escape a $400 Traffic Ticket

When encountering a tricky problem, it always pays to play to your strengths. Like a scientist from UCSD who was issued with a traffic ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. His response? A four-page paper describing how the ticket defied the laws of physics. Using his understanding of angular and linear…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Is There Really a Fourth Dimension? Yes and No

It’s time to spend another lethargic Monday morning wrapping your head around Minute Physics’ latest crash course in science. This time around they explain why trying to name or number the multiple dimensions in our universe is a pointless endeavour. For example, in the emptiness of space there is no reference point to delineate which…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Is This a Peek at Spotify’s iPad App?

Looking like a cross between the Twitter iPad app and the iPad’s new-but-not-so-great Music app, this pic might just show Spotify’s first iPad app. Like the Panasonic GF5 camera, it was leaked on Instragram – the latest rumour-mill, evidently. It looks pretty fancy that’s for sure, with what appears to be side-sliding panes just like…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk

There’s Another Mac Trojan Spreading Via Microsoft Office

More bad news for Apple users: hot on the heels of Flashback, reports are circulating of another Mac-specific trojan—called Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a—that is spreading because of a Microsoft Office vulnerability. https://gizmodo.com/mac-flashback-trojan-find-out-if-youre-one-of-the-600-5899352 On Securelist, Kaspersky’s Costin Raiu explains that the trojan, which is already a month old, uses a Java exploit to get past malware detection products, before…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Magnetic Super-Paper Can Shrug Off Water and Bacteria

Here’s What Future Ultrabooks Will Look Like

The most beautiful toxins in the world

Facebook Doesn’t Have to Trample On Our Privacy Rights in the Name of Cybersecurity

Could book publishing suffer the same fate as the comic book industry?

Your IQ Depends on a Single Gene

You’ll Need a Microscope To Read the Fine Print on These Business Cards

Batman and Darth Vader invade art history, in these absolutely deranged paintings

Amazon Is Overrun With a Plague of Bestseller Knockoffs

One-Armed Afghan War Vet to Climb Everest with Badass Prosthetic Ice-Pick

A list of unused titles for Dr. Strangelove, lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s notebooks

Search Ends for Sailors Devastated by Giant Wave

Tupac Shakur came back from the dead as a hologram at Coachella

Watch a Dead Tupac Perform As a Hologram at Coachella

Malaysia Is the World Leader In Theater Comfort Technology

The Motherlode of Spoilers for Avengers, Robocop and Prometheus!

Scientist Uses Physics to Escape a $400 Traffic Ticket

Is There Really a Fourth Dimension? Yes and No

Is This a Peek at Spotify’s iPad App?

There’s Another Mac Trojan Spreading Via Microsoft Office

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