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Obama Administration Plans to Drop $200 Million on “Big Data” Research

The White House announced today plans to better utilize the torrent of data produced by agencies like the departments of Energy and Defense. The administration intends to invest $200 million in developing systems to better share and dissect large bodies of information. The Big Data Research and Development Initiative encompasses six federal agencies including DARPA,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

These Seven Tablets Just Became Hulu-Capable

Up until now, unless you owned an HTC Flyer or a Vizio 8-inch tablet (and who doesn’t, right?) the only place your android-based Hulu viewing was happening was on your phone. Today, however, the streaming service has announced support for seven new tablets. Hulu now plays on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, Asus Eee…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Something Is Broken If Internet Radio Has to Charge Bands to Make Money

Pandora and other webcasters who fought for lower royalty rates a few years ago rejoiced when they achieved rates they thought would allow them to achieve profitability, back in 2009. Yet questions still surround the ability of webcasters such as the now-public Pandora to turn a profit, given that their payments to copyright holders increase…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Welcome Back, Game of Thrones

Our Spoiler-Free Verdict on Game of Thrones Season 2 https://gizmodo.com/our-spoiler-free-verdict-on-game-of-thrones-season-2-5897548 Game of Thrones returns to HBO this Sunday, and at last our burning questions will be answered. For some of us, those questions include, “What happens next to Arya and Sansa in the wake of their father’s death?” For others of us, they’re more like,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Genderqueer Science Fiction Anthology You’ve Been Waiting For

Back in the 1990s, there were a few queer science fiction anthologies that made waves, notably the Bending The Landscape books from Meisha Merlin. And since then, there’s been a bit of a void in terms of print anthologies that really succeed in combining cutting-edge science fiction and fantasy with queer themes — at least,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

A Motor That Can Get to the Moon on a Few Drops of Fuel

One of the biggest challenges of space travel is the immense fuel cost of traveling even to our own planet’s satellite, let alone one of our neighboring planets. But what if you could build a lightweight space craft that could get around the solar system on barely any fuel? A special motor, and a special…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Planes Flying Over Bystanders’ Head Make for Wonderful Vintage Photos

The bystanders in these amazing photographs by Josef Hoflehner aren’t screaming like Wayne and Garth, but I’m sure their hearts are sinking fast as passenger jets pass overhead. The photos were taken near the Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten, a lavish Caribbean getaway. If you go to Hoflehner’s website, each photo is captioned…

Tech News Michael Hession

October 8, 1871: The Night America Burned

The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous inferno in American history. But it wasn’t even the worst fire that night. This is the story of America’s most fiery night, and the crackpot theory about a lost comet that’s meant to explain what really happened. The Reasonably Great Chicago Fire Citywide fires are now largely…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Tooth Tattoo Diagnoses Illness and Alerts Doctors

Scientists at Princeton University have developed a sensor that could be tattooed onto your tooth, diagnose an infection, and transmit that information to medical professionals. It could come in handy for military personnel in the field to determine whether a wound has become infected, or in hospitals where patients with weakened immune systems are extra…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

The ships of Battlestar Galactica, immortalized in thousands of LEGO bricks

LEGO enthusiasts Garry King has a simple mission — to build the spacecraft of Battlestar Galactica out of thousands upon thousands of tiny plastic bricks. So far, he’s constructed a sizable fleet of Colonial and Cylon craft. King’s built vessels from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica (he didn’t forget the Cylons), but many of his builds…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Minimalist A-Frame Cabin Is a Temple To Serenity and Relaxation

The whole point of a cabin in the woods is to get away from it all. And somehow the architect behind the Allandale House, William O’Brien Jr., has managed to design a structure that looks less complicated than even a tent. The cabin’s exaggerated A-frame design might result in ridiculously high ceilings and what looks…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Google Might Be Getting into the Tablet Business Later This Year

Normally an unmitigated disaster on the scale of the Nexus One would normally give a company pause, but not Google. The search giant is jumping back into competition with Apple and Amazon with potential plans to hock Android tablets on its website. https://gizmodo.com/the-nexus-one-is-a-total-sales-flop-5494406 According to unnamed WSJ sources within Google, the company is currently constructing…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Non-iPad Speaker Dock Says the Kindle Fire’s Finally Arrived

It’s a rarer occurrence that spotting bigfoot riding the Loch Ness monster, but Grace Digital Audio has just announced a speaker dock designed specifically for the Kindle Fire. You read that right, the FireDock won’t even acknowledge the iPad’s existence. Instead of the Apple dock connector included on 99.99 percent of the speaker docks available…

Commerce Andrew Liszewski

What is the correct pluralization of octopus?

The short answer is that “octopuses,” “octopi,” and “octopodes” are all fine (or so says Kory Stamper, an Associate Editor at Merriam-Webster). But there’s a longer answer, as well. One that involves a flow chart. And douche-canoes. Dear readers, I present to you The Darwin Eats Cake Guide to Pluralizing “Octopus,” courtesy of my new…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Make your own potato cannon with a pipe, hairspray, and knowledge!

With a trip to the drug store, the grocery store, and the hardware store, you can make a cannon that shoots potatoes over a hundred yards. All you need to do is know a little about gas laws. And promise you won’t use this for evil. Top image: RodimusPower on Flickr. Here’s a simple way…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Fitocracy: Turns Getting In Shape From Chore To Game

Fitocracy came out of private beta today, opening up to the public, and in doing so launched a great little iPhone app that lets you track your workouts and take part in an addictive game where you score points by getting healthier. What does it do? The app tracks your workouts and activity, letting you…

Tech News Mat Honan

Stunning Demo Reels by the VFX Masterminds of Tomorrow

The Gnomon School of Visual Effects trains some of the coolest VFX and design creators in movies and other media — and they just released 10 new demo reels from their recent graduates. Including the stunning one above from Daniele Volpe, in which a pair of mechs stalk the countryside, a girl causes huge turbulence…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Your Guide to Instagrammin’

Blackberry users, please avert your eye-holes and leave, thanks (I bet they’re still here, robot weirdos) Q: WHY DO WE WANT INSTAGRAM, JULIA? A: Uh, probably because the filters make your photos look AH-MA-ZING you stupid idiot! Also, it’s another outlet where you can receive acknowledgement and constant praise. Q: OK, I’VE DOWNLOADED IT AND…

Tech News Julia Davidovich - The Impersonals

Jennifer Lawrence is wearing weird makeup and time is going backwards in her new horror movie trailer

What do you think is going on in this trailer for Jennifer Lawrence’s new horror movie The House at the End of the Street? (Which, everybody keeps carefully reminding us, was filmed before she did Hunger Games.) Lawrence and her mom (Elizabeth Shue) move in near a house where a double murder happened, and there’s…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

What It’s Like To Be Twitter Famous For A Day

Do you know about Fame? No, not the movie or the TV show, but the Twitter lottery? Fame is a Twitter app that works a little bit like a Ponzi scheme, but more sustainable. We talked to yesterday’s winner. It goes like this. You sign up to play Fame and give it access to your…

Tech News Mat Honan

Obama Administration Plans to Drop $200 Million on “Big Data” Research

These Seven Tablets Just Became Hulu-Capable

Something Is Broken If Internet Radio Has to Charge Bands to Make Money

Welcome Back, Game of Thrones

The Genderqueer Science Fiction Anthology You’ve Been Waiting For

A Motor That Can Get to the Moon on a Few Drops of Fuel

Planes Flying Over Bystanders’ Head Make for Wonderful Vintage Photos

October 8, 1871: The Night America Burned

Tooth Tattoo Diagnoses Illness and Alerts Doctors

The ships of Battlestar Galactica, immortalized in thousands of LEGO bricks

Minimalist A-Frame Cabin Is a Temple To Serenity and Relaxation

Google Might Be Getting into the Tablet Business Later This Year

Non-iPad Speaker Dock Says the Kindle Fire’s Finally Arrived

What is the correct pluralization of octopus?

Make your own potato cannon with a pipe, hairspray, and knowledge!

Fitocracy: Turns Getting In Shape From Chore To Game

Stunning Demo Reels by the VFX Masterminds of Tomorrow

Your Guide to Instagrammin’

Jennifer Lawrence is wearing weird makeup and time is going backwards in her new horror movie trailer

What It’s Like To Be Twitter Famous For A Day

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