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Spike Lee Accidentally Tweeted the Address of an Elderly Couple Thinking It Was Trayvon Martin’s Shooter

Spike Lee, sometimes movie maker and recent Jeremy Lin jersey wearer, made a pretty big boo boo recently. He thought he had retweeted an address of George Zimmerman, the guy who shot Trayvon Martin, but actually retweeted an address of an elderly couple in their 70s to his 250,000 followers. According to The Smoking Gun,…

Tech News Casey Chan

More Evidence that Life First Came from Comets

Many people believe the seeds of life on Earth came from someplace else — but there’s always been a huge stumbling block for this theory. Any amino acids carried on a meteor would have needed to survive the intense journey through the Earth’s atmosphere, in order to be the origin of life on our planet.…

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Is Your Online Dating Profile For Sale?

For $35 anyone can buy a bundle of 1000 American online dating profiles. If you think yours isn’t one of them, here’s a question: What service are you using and how carefully did you read those terms of service? Betabeat reports that businesses like SaleDatingProfiles.com are unloading the details of unwitting users wholesale. The facts…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Could the Amazon Kindle Revitalize Science Fiction?

Have you heard of Alien Assassin: The Human Chronicles Book Two by T.R. Harris? Or The Galactic Mage by John Daulton? Maybe not. But they’re among the top 10 bestselling science fiction books on the Amazon Kindle right now. The list of the 100 bestselling Kindle science fiction books is full of authors who’ve never…

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Our Oceans’ Coral Is Dying of… Herpes??

Coral around the world is in decline, destroying the natural habitat of thousands of different species. But scientists might have revealed a dirty truth behind the problem: coral could have a bad case of herpes. In fact, it’s not just herpes. Coral seems to be harboring a bunch of viral diseases, that could be slowly…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Staggeringly Efficient Bathroom Fan Sucks Out Steam and Stink

The exhaust fan—that rattling, dusty vent hanging about 8 feet above the toilet—is the single most important gadget for the health of a bathroom. It eliminates the steam from a hot shower, helping battle the mold and mildew constantly threatening a bathroom’s finishes. The device also helps fix more immediate air quality issues—they’d never say…

Tech News Harry Sawyers

Over a Year Later, Fukushima’s Radiation Is Still Fatal

What a difference a year makes: none. Reactor #2 at Fukushima Daichi is still leaking enough radiation to kill you. Al Jazeera reports “One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and much less water to cool it than officials had estimated, according to an internal examination that renews doubts about…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Giant Tube Stopper Will Plug Flooded Subways and Choke Off Gas Attacks

Numerous metropolitan subway systems around the country include spans that pass under bodies of water. If one of those lines were to spring a leak, the resulting flooding could be catastrophic. The Department of Homeland Security might have developed the answer—a giant, inflatable tube plug. Earlier this year, the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, led…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin

There was a time when mothers gave their babies opium, people bought hallucinogens at the local bar, and anxious patriots sent hypodermic needles and cocaine to soldiers as a present. It was called The Great Binge, and it’s probably wrong to feel sad that it’s over. Today we have Bayer Aspirin. It relieves headaches. In…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Nikon D800 vs. Canon 5D Mark III: Which Shoots Better Video?

Canon and Nikon both have brand new professional DLSR cameras fighting for the wallets of photographers and videographers the world over. We recently reviewed the Canon 5D Mark III, and are whipping up a review of the Nikon D800. In the meantime, we put together a comparison of the video capabilities of these two foes.…

Reviews Michael Hession

Occupy Wall Street and the War to Free All Internet

The “Occupy Movement” might be nebulous, but it’s at least a stirring cross-section of ideas. One of them, as followed by Motherboard’s latest doc, “Free the Network,” was the idea to create an internet owned by the people. It kinda worked. The movie is a long watch (by thin internet standards), but well worth it,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Boston Dynamics’ latest robot can jump over thirty feet high

Say hello to Sand Flea — the latest, greatest incarnation in Boston Dynamics’ line of military-funded jumping-bots. Like the Precision Urban Hopper before it, Sand Flea is an incredibly resilient, remote-controlled reconnaissance vehicle, designed for gathering enemy intel for the U.S. Military. The eleven-pound robot was borne out of a collaboration between Boston Dynamics (the…

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The Milkman’s Robot Helper

Remember milkmen? Yeah, neither do I. In 2007, I moved into an apartment building in St. Paul that was built during the early 1920s. I remember asking the building manager what the small, two-foot tall doors attached to the outside of each apartment were for. The doors had long been painted shut and no longer…

Tech News Matt Novak

Why Making a Male Contraceptive Pill Is So Damn Difficult

John Amory, a doctor at the University of Washington, has been developing a male contraceptive for 15 years. Turns out, it’s harder than it sounds. We spoke with him to find out why. PopSci: Why is it taking so long to produce a birth-control pill for men? John Amory: Women make one egg a month,…

Tech News Jennifer Abbasi-Popular Science

Why Snow White and the Huntsman wasn’t instead titled Bad-Ass Evil Queen

If you’ve seen the spooky dark magic trailers for Snow White and the Huntsman, then you too might think that Snow White will be eclipsed by the awesome Evil Queen’s (Charlize Theron) kick-ass soul-sucking and milk-bathing. We asked this dirty fairy tale’s director, Rupert Sanders, why this movie wasn’t called Evil Queen: Unhinged, and just…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Finger Camera Lets You Frame a Shot Like a Pompous Director

As if everyone walking around with a DSLR pretending to be Ansel Adams wasn’t bad enough, a research group in Japan has developed the Ubi-Camera which lets you compose a photo by looking through your fingers. Just like an old-timey director. OK, that’s actually dope. The underlying technology is pretty neat. When held up in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Local politician promises that his 9-foot-tall alien mother will not affect his civic duties

When Simon Parkes was elected to the town council in Whitby, England last month, nobody was aware of his lifelong conviction that his real mother is actually a nine-foot-tall, eight-fingered space alien with a kite-shaped face. Which is rather odd, given that he’s incredibly forthcoming about his extraterrestrial parentage. It was just last year that…

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This Remote Controlled Car Can Jump 30 Feet Up In the Air

There is a new version of Sand Flea, the amazing 11-pound radio-controlled car beast that can race and jump over buildings. https://gizmodo.com/military-car-robot-jumping-25-feet-in-the-air-is-every-5359793 Developed by Boston Dynamics—the same guys who created the freaky freaky Big Dog—Sand Flea is being developed for the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651 Soldiers would be able to use these little…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The rise of the machines, as told by workplace safety signs

Come the robot uprising, one of the first orders of business on the insurgents’ agenda will be to breathe life into the world’s most dangerous pre-existing mechanical equipment. Fortunately for those who like to plan ahead, the vast majority of today’s hazardous machines feature warning labels that clearly illustrate all the ways that they can…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Forget the Pharmacy: Thyme Might Be Your Best Pimple Cure

Growing up, you always assume you’ll reach an age where you’re pimple-free. Never happens. Don’t fret! New research suggests that you can hit up your herb garden instead of shelling out bucks at the pharmacy. A little bit of thyme could clear your skin up better than any cream. Researchers from Leeds Metropolitan University in…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Spike Lee Accidentally Tweeted the Address of an Elderly Couple Thinking It Was Trayvon Martin’s Shooter

More Evidence that Life First Came from Comets

Is Your Online Dating Profile For Sale?

Could the Amazon Kindle Revitalize Science Fiction?

Our Oceans’ Coral Is Dying of… Herpes??

Staggeringly Efficient Bathroom Fan Sucks Out Steam and Stink

Over a Year Later, Fukushima’s Radiation Is Still Fatal

This Giant Tube Stopper Will Plug Flooded Subways and Choke Off Gas Attacks

When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin

Nikon D800 vs. Canon 5D Mark III: Which Shoots Better Video?

Occupy Wall Street and the War to Free All Internet

Boston Dynamics’ latest robot can jump over thirty feet high

The Milkman’s Robot Helper

Why Making a Male Contraceptive Pill Is So Damn Difficult

Why Snow White and the Huntsman wasn’t instead titled Bad-Ass Evil Queen

Finger Camera Lets You Frame a Shot Like a Pompous Director

Local politician promises that his 9-foot-tall alien mother will not affect his civic duties

This Remote Controlled Car Can Jump 30 Feet Up In the Air

The rise of the machines, as told by workplace safety signs

Forget the Pharmacy: Thyme Might Be Your Best Pimple Cure

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