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Squirrel-Tracking Water Cannon Is a Triumph Of the Nerds

Despite their adorably puffy tails, squirrels are a genuine nuisance. So it warms our hearts to see the nerds of the world banding together to battle these furry invaders with what they do best: engineering over-the-top solutions like this water cannon sentry system. This is war people, and you need to defend your bird feeders…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Harry Potter eBooks Are Finally Available Today

Since its launch, Pottermore has failed to do the obvious and sell Harry Potter ebooks. For crazed Hogwarts fans everywhere, though, the wait is finally over; now you can read about wizards on your Kindle. https://gizmodo.com/pottermore-is-the-ebooks-beatles-on-itunes-moment-5814906 Pottermore’s ebook store launched today, offering up English-language version of all the novels. Editions in French, Italian, German and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

HTC Is Deleting All Its Users’ Backups

HTC has announced that it is going to shut down its half-assed backup service, HTCsense.com, to replace it with “new and improved services”. But if you have any data stored there, download it real quick—after April 30th, it’ll be deleted for good. Until now, HTCsense.com has allowed HTC users to backup contacts, messages, call history…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Chocolate Keeps You Slim

It sounds whack, but a new scientific study suggests that people who eat chocolate regularly tend to be thinner. Sadly, that doesn’t quite mean that you can run out and stuff your face full of candy all day to keep your weight down—but it does mean you probably should be eating some chocolate regularly. The…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Microsoft Is Blocking Pirate Bay Links in Instant Messages

The Pirate Bay goes to great lengths to keep itself widely available , but here’s something it can’t stop: Microsoft is now blocking links to the site in instant messages across all its systems. https://gizmodo.com/the-pirate-bay-wants-to-use-drones-to-put-its-servers-i-5894598 “We block instant messages if they contain malicious or spam URLs based on intelligence algorithms, third-party sources, and/or user complaints.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Craziest New Cutting-Edge Musical Tech Instruments

Musikmesse is Europe’s premier annual music trade show, and tech companies were there in force last week to debut their latest kit. Today we separate the great from the good to show what your favourite bands will be using in the future – are we looking at Bjork’s next musical plaything in the AlphaSphere, above?…

Gadgets Tom Davenport-Gizmodo UK

The Miracle Drug That Could Kill All Cancers

It sounds like science fiction, but researchers have discovered a single drug that they think can shrink, or even completely cure, all human tumors. But how does a drug like that work, and when will it be available? An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science explains that a new treatment—based on…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Rupert Murdoch Employed Hackers to Destroy a Pay-TV Rival

Everybody’s favorite octogenarian media tycoon is at it again. This time, Rupert Murdoch is accused of hiring hackers to crack a pay-TV rival’s encryption system and then post the hack on the internet in order to financially cripple them. It worked: they’re now bust. https://gizmodo.com/rupert-murdoch-is-now-on-twitter-5872381 The BBC reports that Murdoch enlisted Lee Gibling to hack…

Television Jamie Condliffe

Logitech UE Air Speaker: AirPlay Speakers Go Mainstream

The Logitech UE Air Speaker is an AirPlay-enabled, tabletop number that hopes to set itself apart from the recent deluge of AirPlay speakers out there with an app that automagically sets the speaker up on your home network. Specs are a bit thin on this thing other than the fact that it has AirPlay, a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Living on a Stream: The Rise of Real-Time Video

A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a friend about streaming. I was marveling how easy it’s becoming to beam a live video feed, anywhere, not only to a friend or a group, but, essentially, the entire world. The province of the network news team with satellite truck has now extended to anyone…

Tech News Steven Levy-Wired

Future Batteries Could Run on Brown Liquor

The cathode is often one of the most expensive components of a battery-especially if it’s made of cobalt or precious metal. A Swedish scientist may have discovered a way to replace pricey metal cathodes with a goopy byproduct of paper processing known as “brown liquor.” Brown liquor is the result of the Sulfite process for…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

100,000-Scoville Vodka Will Put Hair on Your Chest, Then Set It on Fire

Culinary masochists rejoice! This hyper-hot vodka doesn’t just burn on the way down, it ionizes. The 100,000 Scovilles Naga Chilli Vodka is reputed to be the world’s hottest. It’s 80 proof and contains the same level of heat as a Habanero chili. Not enough capsaicin to make you freak out and hallucinate but certainly enough…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Harrods Will Sell a Million-Dollar TV—Surprisingly Not Covered in Diamonds

If you suffer from the most-enviable predicament of having both too much money and too much wall space, the UK’s premiere high-end retail outlet would like to speak with you—something about a 152-inch plasma TV. The 152-inch Panasonic TH-152UX1W—the world’s largest commercially available flat-screen—is typically used in airports and theme parks for mega-sized displays. It…

Television Andrew Tarantola

Watermelons Are Nature’s Kegs

Still pumping your watermelons full of vodka? What is this, summer camp? You’re in the real world now, it’s time for an adult solution to your fruit-based adult beverage storage needs. Maybe one that even involves a spigot. The instructions for the Watermelon Keg come from none other than the National Watermelon Promotion Board—which is…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Forbidden Jumping, Making Bubble Hash, Incredibowls, and Hunting Wabbits (NSFW)

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for tonight’s Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo. Tonight’s Green Candy x Goo hybrid comes to us from…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Hands-Free Sling Carries the Wounded Like a Sack of Potatoes

The traditional means of rapidly extracting an injured person if you’re on your own is the highly-uncomfortable fireman’s carry—sling the guy over your shoulders and hold on. However, a new emergency sling designed by the Israeli Army holds the wounded like a “human backpack.” Known as the Injured Personnel Carrier (IPC) and designed by Agilite…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Picture of the Day: March 26, 2012

SCHOOLED IN MANY TYPES OF COMMUNICATION | Burlesque performer dressed as C-3PO from the Australian show Star Wars Burlesque: The Empire Strips Back. Via The Herald. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck, our general discussion forum.

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This necrophiliac ant gang bang is just about the worst thing in the animal kingdom

Holy hell, is this unpleasant. We recently saw how improperly used ant pheromones can cause some pretty dunderheaded behaviors, such as the spiral of death. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-create-an-ant-spiral-of-death-5895435 Now — courtesy of photographer Adrián Skippy Purkart — here is a crab spider eating the head of a queen Prenolepis nitens ant while her horny drones go to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Man Saws Off Own Foot to Avoid Going to Work

Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays. Reuters reports that an unemployed Austrian man was so dead-set against returning to work he lopped off his left foot. The unidentified 56-year-old was set to meet with a labor board to evaluate his fitness to return to the Austrian workforce on Monday when the mutilation…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Sarah Donner and The Oatmeal: The Motherf***ing Pterodactyl

The Oatmeal is a delightful web comic that I love and read regularly. But it’s so still and silent like a, um, comic. So I’m in love with this sing-along animated short. The Oatmeal teamed up with the delightful Sarah Donner to release a kinda-NSFW but utterly delightful animated short that follows the adventures of…

Tech News Mat Honan

Squirrel-Tracking Water Cannon Is a Triumph Of the Nerds

Harry Potter eBooks Are Finally Available Today

HTC Is Deleting All Its Users’ Backups

Chocolate Keeps You Slim

Microsoft Is Blocking Pirate Bay Links in Instant Messages

The Craziest New Cutting-Edge Musical Tech Instruments

The Miracle Drug That Could Kill All Cancers

Rupert Murdoch Employed Hackers to Destroy a Pay-TV Rival

Logitech UE Air Speaker: AirPlay Speakers Go Mainstream

Living on a Stream: The Rise of Real-Time Video

Future Batteries Could Run on Brown Liquor

100,000-Scoville Vodka Will Put Hair on Your Chest, Then Set It on Fire

Harrods Will Sell a Million-Dollar TV—Surprisingly Not Covered in Diamonds

Watermelons Are Nature’s Kegs

Forbidden Jumping, Making Bubble Hash, Incredibowls, and Hunting Wabbits (NSFW)

Hands-Free Sling Carries the Wounded Like a Sack of Potatoes

Picture of the Day: March 26, 2012

This necrophiliac ant gang bang is just about the worst thing in the animal kingdom

Man Saws Off Own Foot to Avoid Going to Work

Sarah Donner and The Oatmeal: The Motherf***ing Pterodactyl

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