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The Secret History of Bluetooth

Bluetooth. Think about Bluetooth. Are you thinking about 10th-century bloodshed and Danish warmongering? You should be. The same tech you use to make dorky phone calls is named after a man responsible for uniting the modern nation of Denmark. Violently. The firm itself has no qualms about its militant Viking past: Bluetooth technology was named…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Does HTC’s Face Unlock Patent Mean Android In-Fighting?

HTC has been awarded a patent for a technology that would let you unlock your smartphone or tablet with your face. However, Face Unlock is already a feature on Android that first appeared on Ice Cream Sandwich. Does this mean a war is brewing among the Android crowd? The patent covers the use of “biometric…

Tech News Leslie Horn

How To Make a Book Into an Incognito Stash Box

What’s the one thing you never hear from people who have just been burgled? “Those rotten sons of bitches stole all my books.” Nobody’s going to lift your Encyclopaedia Britannicas when there are OLEDs to be had. That’s why you should hide your precious valuables in the last place thieves think to look—the bookshelf. You…

Books & Comics Andrew Tarantola

Now you can read the entire 1940 U.S. Census online

The National Archives in the United States have, for the first time, made all the results of a U.S. Census available online. After 72 years, confidentiality rules protecting personal information given in the U.S. Census expire. So now you can read every answer given to census takers in the 1940 census, including names of family…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch a real-life “Vatican approved” exorcist expel demons from his flock

Norwegian filmmaker Fredrik Horn Akselsen followed honest-to-goodness, Vatican-approved exorcist José Antonio Fortea with a pack of cameras for the documentary The Exorcist of the 21st Century. Is this the real deal? You be the judge — either way the fervor on display here is pretty chilling. And will it be more interesting than the recent…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The Concorde Story—The Documentary

Lunch break? Like planes? Watch this old documentary on the story of the Concorde, the first and only turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner in history. It was created by the French and the British. The 20 planes flew for 27 years, mainly between London Heathrow and Paris-Charles de Gaulle to New York JFK. It was an…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

io9 Book Club Reminder: Meeting on 4/24 to discuss Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon

The io9 Book Club meets every month to discuss a book, and then the author usually joins us for a chat. We’re going to do something a little unorthodox for our April. You see, Naomi Novik’s latest novel in the Temeraire series, Crucible of Gold, just came out. But it wouldn’t really be fair to…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Is Apple’s Android-Hate Just for Show? Google Thinks So

Larry Page has been running the show at Google for exactly one year. Things have been, let’s say, eventful. There was Google+, and socialized search, and maybe even an identity crisis. Here’s how Page summed up his first year at the helm in a recent interview with BusinessWeek. https://gizmodo.com/larry-takes-over-google-today-heres-what-it-means-for-5788576 The interview is laden with bits…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

There Are Tons of Emoji on Windows Phone!

Gizmodo loooooves emoji. They are so cute! And apparently, they’re on Windows Phone in droves, which somehow totally slipped under our radar. But luckily, WP Central’s already compiled all of the adorable little icons and their input codes. Wink! Turtle! Stormcloud! Something called Right hug! We cropped some of them above, but click over to…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Simpsons are having a great time in Chernobyl

The Simpsons are everywhere these days — including Chernobyl, the site of one of history’s worst nuclear disasters and an upcoming horror film. Homer and the gang actually don’t look too unhappy to be surrounded by rubble and gas masks, in this new mural painted by French street artist Combo. https://gizmodo.com/oren-pelis-next-movie-kids-trapped-in-chernobyl-and-5894019 Here’s a cool video…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

When stress makes you healthier

Diabetes. Cardiovascular disease. Depression. These are the effects you typically see associated with stress. While it can cause disease, stress is also good for you. It’s part of important cognitive and physiological functions that extend far beyond keeping us alive in “fight or flight” scenarios. The question, then, is how we can use stress to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

We’ve Been Treating the Deadliest Form of Breast Cancer All Wrong

One of the worst things you can hear from you doctor is that you, or a loved one, has “triple negative” breast cancer. It stubbornly refuses to respond to the best treatments available, so doctors have to resort to chemotherapy. It strikes 16 percent of breast cancer patients, most of them younger than 40. But…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Phonedeck Lets You Control Your Android Phone from Your Computer

One of the benefits of using Android is the options and flexibility you get. Like Phonedeck, an app that essentially lets you control your phone from a web browser. That’s right, you can send texts, make calls and reject calls on your phone all through your computer. Along with notifying you of phone calls and…

Tech News Casey Chan

What’s the Point of a Dagger Clearly Designed for Killing?

If you aren’t Wesley Snipes, why the hell would you like this Jagdkommando Tri-Dagger Fixed Blade Knife, a 7-inch weapon with a hollow handle? This thing is clearly designed to kill people. And since vampires don’t exist, what other uses can you think for a knife with three twisted blades? Just tell me one single…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Google Glasses First Look: Would You Wear These Augmented Reality Specs?

We first heard rumors about Google’s augmented reality glasses a few months ago, and now in a post on Google Plus, the company revealed “Project Glass” along with some early concepts and prototype designs. These specs look like the freaky science fiction concept they are. Would you wear them, though? https://gizmodo.com/googles-mystery-hud-glasses-could-be-on-sale-by-the-hol-5887152 Watch this video of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Please Stop Hauling Out Steve Jobs’ Ghost

It is easy to speak for the dead—after all, they can’t correct you. You can safely put words in the mouths of the deceased and trot their lifeless bodies out in public to wag a finger or nod in approval, with no fear that they’ll complain. This is especially true of Steve Jobs. It’s tempting…

Tech News Mat Honan

Snapdragon Processors Take You All Around the World

Armed with a phone featuring a Snapdragon Processor, a group of adventurers set out across Shanghai, Moscow, Dubai, Mumbai, Rio, LA, New York, London and Paris, racking up 36,000 miles across 4 continents in 20 days. The video was shot exclusively with the Snapdragon-enabled phone, requiring it to record and playback hours of full HD…

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Len Wiseman breaks down the new Total Recall trailer shot-for-shot

This weekend, Sony unveiled their trailer for the reboot of Total Recall starring Colin Farrell, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsale, and Jessica Biel. Now Underworld director Len Wiseman is breaking down each clip and cut, expanding on perma-confused protagonist Douglas Quaid’s new futuristic world. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-first-full-length-trailer-for-the-total-recal-5898188

Movies Meredith Woerner

10,000 Year Old Frozen Mammoth Found Perfectly Preserved in Siberia

The BBC is reporting on the discovery of a mammoth carcass found preserved in Siberian ice for at least 10,000 years. The carcass is that of a juvenile mammoth, about 2 1/2 years old, that researchers have dubbed “Yuka.” Its flesh, and even hair, have endured astonishingly well over millennia buried in ice. Video of…

Tech News Michael Hession

18 new Prometheus stills show life off Ridley Scott’s spaceship

We’ve got a big batch of Prometheus stills to analyze! First up, it looks like this is the very first picture of life outside of the good ship Prometheus. Check out Charlize Theron with a big old stick up her rear while hanging out in some sort of 1970s-channeling futuristic waiting room. Note that stiff…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Secret History of Bluetooth

Does HTC’s Face Unlock Patent Mean Android In-Fighting?

How To Make a Book Into an Incognito Stash Box

Now you can read the entire 1940 U.S. Census online

Watch a real-life “Vatican approved” exorcist expel demons from his flock

The Concorde Story—The Documentary

io9 Book Club Reminder: Meeting on 4/24 to discuss Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon

Is Apple’s Android-Hate Just for Show? Google Thinks So

There Are Tons of Emoji on Windows Phone!

The Simpsons are having a great time in Chernobyl

When stress makes you healthier

We’ve Been Treating the Deadliest Form of Breast Cancer All Wrong

Phonedeck Lets You Control Your Android Phone from Your Computer

What’s the Point of a Dagger Clearly Designed for Killing?

Google Glasses First Look: Would You Wear These Augmented Reality Specs?

Please Stop Hauling Out Steve Jobs’ Ghost

Snapdragon Processors Take You All Around the World

Len Wiseman breaks down the new Total Recall trailer shot-for-shot

10,000 Year Old Frozen Mammoth Found Perfectly Preserved in Siberia

18 new Prometheus stills show life off Ridley Scott’s spaceship

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