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What the Hell Is Under This TV Reporter’s Dress?

In the heat of discussing the super hot Facebook IPO, these Bloomberg TV reporters suffer some technical difficulties. What the hell is that thing under reporter Sara Eisen’s dress? Skip 22 seconds in and help us solve the mystery. The segment had already started off disastrously before the wardrobe malfunction exposed a weird black object…

Social Media Mario Aguilar May 14 '12

An algorithm to help you play the perfect game of Battleship

Though most of us play Battleship by randomly targeting spots on the board with our little plastic nubs, data geek Nick Berry (president of DataGenetics in Seattle) has done an intensive analysis of the game and come up with what he thinks might be the best possible strategy to win. He begins by acknowledging most…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 14 '12

Cops Found a Ridiculous Amount of Drugs Up Some Guy’s Butt

Eighty-four bags of crack. Two hundred-eighteen Oxycodone pills. Eleven grams of weed. If that sounds like enough drugs to fill a small warehouse, you’re right. Assuming that warehouse was Alex Boulet’s butt. Vermont state troopers were simply pulling Boulet over for a traffic violation. But during a search, the officer felt something odd in “groin…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 14 '12

What will Joss Whedon’s next project really be?

Now that Joss Whedon has joined the tiny club of directors whose films have made over a billion dollars, there’s tons of speculation about what’s next for the no-longer-a-cult icon. People are dragging lists of Whedon’s unfinished projects out of mothballs — the Guardian suggests maybe he’ll decide to make a Buffy movie after all,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 14 '12

The Nine Weirdest Coffins You Can Actually Buy

When you die and you’re lowered into your grave, you might as well do it in style. If you were a brewer, why wouldn’t you be buried in a beer bottle? Crazy Coffins lets the deceased and their families do just that, with some of the wildest eternal resting places you’ve ever seen. These caskets…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 14 '12

Man Killed With Poisonous Umbrella

This is really bad: a man hit with a poisonous umbrella in a street of Hannover, Germany, has died after a long struggle in the hospital. It sounds like a James Bond movie, except that it’s real and it sucks. This is what happened: The 40-year-old man was walking peacefully through Hannover when he crossed…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 14 '12

Facebook’s New Mobile News Feed Has Instagram’s Fingerprints All Over It

When Facebook dropped $1 billion on Instagram we knew the company was very serious about photos on your mobile phone. We’ve already seen some Instagram-like photo filters, and starting today, Facebook’s news feed is getting a nice cosmetic overhaul. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-buying-instagram-for-a-billion-dollars-5900352 Nothing radically different, here, but photos are much larger as you scroll through the updates…

Social Media Mario Aguilar May 14 '12

Modern Man Tries to Build a 3,500 Year Old Boat from the Bronze Age and Fails

A team of people from 2012 tried to re-create and build a boat from 1550 BC, the Bronze Age, but failed spectacularly. When the ship was lowered into the ocean, it immediately filled with water and started sinking. Yikes, we suck. The team was made up of British archaeologists and craftsmen who have been hammering…

Tech News Casey Chan May 14 '12

Two dolphins dead after ingesting synthetic heroin

Forensics experts say that two Swiss dolphins died of an overdose, presumably after some idiots fed them a synthetic opiate during a two-day rave (there is some dispute as to whether the dolphins’ death had anything to do with the rave, as the deaths occurred weeks after the event. See the update at the bottom…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez May 14 '12

Your Emo Kid Haircut Will Give You a Lazy Eye

Hey you angsty little jerk, listen up! If you can stop rolling your eyes and cut the whole brooding thing for like 10 seconds, I have something very important to tell you: CUT YOUR HAIR. I don’t say this as some out-of-touch baby boomer threatened by the slightest tinge of change, but rather someone concerned…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 14 '12

Korean Toddlers Build Tallest Lego Tower in the World

What did you do last week? Did you build a a 104-foot tall Lego tower, made of 50,000 bricks, with a team of kids who can pretty much not even talk? Didn’t think so! South Korea’s world record breaking monolith took five days to complete, and based on this footage, was erected upon the backs…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 14 '12

This Might Explain Why Your iMessages Are F*cked Up

Are your special blue iMessages acting up? Do they arrive late, or maybe not at all? It looks like there’s a solution—and Apple is to blame. Brian X. Chen over at the NYT found a solution after his iMessages were vanishing into a void: A few weeks ago, I was using Apple’s iMessage messaging service…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 14 '12

Twitter Will Now Email You a Best-Of Daily Digest

Twitter will now deliver you the best, most-shared 140-character messages in a daily email digest. Though there are already third-parties that offer this kind of newsletter service, this is the first time it will come straight from Twitter. The message will include the top stories of the day, as well as the top posts from…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 14 '12

Everything you need to know about the scientific controversy that could change Triceratops forever

If you cried over the sick Triceratops in Jurassic Park, or just loved this horned dinosaur as a kid, there’s one scientific controversy you need to understand right now — it may wind up demonstrating that Triceratops isn’t who we thought it was. Recently unearthed evidence has sparked a new debate over the identity of…

io9 Ed Grabianowski May 14 '12

This Iron Man Action Figure Is Your Catchphrase-And-Missile-Spewing Deal of the Day

Iron Man has to be the coolest of The Avengers clan. He’s got the attitude, the weaponry, and the murky history that he overcame to bring him to his current position. Ok, that last one may have more to do with Robert Downey Jr. than the super hero, but still. That’s what makes this 10-inch…

Tech News Andrew James May 14 '12

Amazon’s Next Kindle Will Be Front-Lit and Its Next Kindle Fire Will Be Bigger

Reuters is reporting that the next Kindle will be front-lit and will be coming out in July. It’s a smart move because it’ll let users read their Kindles in the dark and an obvious one for Amazon to make as Barnes and Noble already has a front-lit Nook. The Kindle will still be using an…

Commerce Casey Chan May 14 '12

We Built This City on Movable Type

Rock and roll unfortunately does not lend well to proper building code, what with all the shaking, rattling and so on. Instead, Type City (2012) by artist Hong Seon Jang constructs a miniature city-scape from blocks of movable type. [David B Smith Gallery via quipsologies via Collossal]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 14 '12

HTC EVO 4G LTE Lightning Review: The Phone That Would Be King (But Isn’t)

HTC’s new line of phones is kinda, like, the best. The One S (on T-Mobile) is good. The One X (on AT&T) is very, very good. The latest addition is the EVO 4G LTE. Can it hang with its brothers? What Is It? Remember the One X we liked so much? It’s basically almost exactly…

Tech News Brent Rose May 14 '12

Building Block Coffee Table: Bored Kids and Hip Decors Unite!

Was there anything worse when you were a kid than visiting someone whose home was completely devoid of toys? An hour of conversation felt like a lifetime of boredom, but this building block coffee table ensures you never put kids through that same torture in your own home. Composed of 210 wooden birch cubes, Jessica…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 14 '12

The Most Interesting Fairy-Tale Adaptation of the Year

This is the year of the fairy-tale adaptation, from dueling Snow White movies to Grimm and Once Upon a Time. But quite possibly the most memorable take on fairy-tale archetypes isn’t on any screen yet — it’s Cinder, the cyborg Cinderella story by new author Marissa Meyer. Spoilers ahead… There’s a reason we’re not seeing…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs May 14 '12

What the Hell Is Under This TV Reporter’s Dress?

An algorithm to help you play the perfect game of Battleship

Cops Found a Ridiculous Amount of Drugs Up Some Guy’s Butt

What will Joss Whedon’s next project really be?

The Nine Weirdest Coffins You Can Actually Buy

Man Killed With Poisonous Umbrella

Facebook’s New Mobile News Feed Has Instagram’s Fingerprints All Over It

Modern Man Tries to Build a 3,500 Year Old Boat from the Bronze Age and Fails

Two dolphins dead after ingesting synthetic heroin

Your Emo Kid Haircut Will Give You a Lazy Eye

Korean Toddlers Build Tallest Lego Tower in the World

This Might Explain Why Your iMessages Are F*cked Up

Twitter Will Now Email You a Best-Of Daily Digest

Everything you need to know about the scientific controversy that could change Triceratops forever

This Iron Man Action Figure Is Your Catchphrase-And-Missile-Spewing Deal of the Day

Amazon’s Next Kindle Will Be Front-Lit and Its Next Kindle Fire Will Be Bigger

We Built This City on Movable Type

HTC EVO 4G LTE Lightning Review: The Phone That Would Be King (But Isn’t)

Building Block Coffee Table: Bored Kids and Hip Decors Unite!

The Most Interesting Fairy-Tale Adaptation of the Year

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