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HTC Titan II Colliding With Our Planet on April 8th for $200

Get ready for the Battle of the Giant LTE Windows Phones: AT&T’s confirmed the luscious, big screen Titan II, successor to perhaps the best Windows Phone ever, will arrive on the exact same day as the Lumia 900. Let’s rumble. https://gizmodo.com/htc-titan-ii-hands-on-the-giantest-windows-phone-now-h-5874439 The Titan II has a .4-inch advantage over the Lumia 900, as well as…

Tech News Sam Biddle

China Demands Physical Perfection from She-Astronauts

You thought being an astronaut in America was tough? Forget advanced degrees and 1,000+ hours of flight time—in China, if you’re a woman with dreams of space, you need a perfect face and no BO. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-job-application-to-be-an-astronaut-5859749 China Military News reports two female “taikonauts” have made the next cut for the country’s Shenzhou-9 mission space mission,…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Time-Lapse of Ocean Currents Looks Like a Living Van Gogh Painting

The Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center created this beautiful animation called Perpetual Ocean which visualizes the ocean’s surface currents over a 30-month period between June 2005 and December 2007. The animation was created using NASA and JPL’s high-resolution model of the global oceans, which is normally used for running simulations and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Human Mutation Is What Makes the Flu Deadly

If you’ve ever wondered why some people shrug off a flu while others die from the same virus, you’re in good company—it’s puzzled scientists for decades. But a new study suggests that a mutant protein found in some humans is responsible for the difference. A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge has found…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

James Cameron’s X-Men movie could’ve starred Bob Hoskins as Wolverine

We know that James Cameron tried to get his hooks into a Spider-Man movie in the early 1990s. But he also gave the X-Men a brief whirl with a studio pitch written by his then-wife (and future Hurt Locker director) Kathryn Bigelow. In a talk at Columbia University last Saturday, pioneering X-Men scribe Chris Claremont…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Which members of The Avengers will be back in Iron Man 3?

We know Tony Stark survives The Avengers — but who else can we be reasonably sure survives the Joss Whedon Death Touch? A list of major characters in Iron Man 3 gives us a major hint. Plus Chris Hemsworth discusses the dress sense of the Avengers, and Thor’s journey. Director Jonathan Liebesman explains more about…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Holy Crap: Nokia’s Hot New Windows Phone Will Only Be $99

AT&T has confirmed that the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone will be available on April 8th. For $99. No, there is not a number missing. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-lumia-900-our-favorite-windows-phone-now-bigger-5874413 For a shit-hot LTE smartphone running the objectively beautiful Windows Phone OS, $100 with a two-year contract is an absolute steal. We first got our hands on the Lumia…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Doctor Who Season 7 trailer is here!

Sure, we saw a version this weekend that was filmed with a maraca, but here’s the real deal. Watch as the Doctor gets his Back To The Future: Part III moment. Actually, it looks a twinge more Westworld, what with the angry cyborg gunslinger. Also, Amy learns firearm safety. Here’s the official BBC synopsis for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

In the new Twilight trailer, Bella kills everyone in Forks

Step right up, it’s the grand finale of the grand finale of the Twilight saga! Watch the first teaser trailer for Breaking Dawn: Part 2. Bella has become a newborn vampire, which means she now wears red contacts and lipstick. Can Bella handle her mad thirst for blood? Or will her new vampire powers cause…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Will Next-Generation LTE Connections Sling Data at 30Gbps?

LTE data connections are blisteringly fast—at least, if you can get a signal—but that doesn’t mean researchers aren’t already developing next-generation systems. Now, apparently Huawei has developed a new version of LTE capable of data rates peaking at a jaw-dropping 30Gbps. According to IT Wire, Huawei has “recently introduced… Beyond LTE technology, which significantly increases…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

One Reddit User’s Meme Is a Facebook User’s Poison

It’s common knowledge that a story which is incredibly popular on Reddit won’t necessarily register a single Like on Facebook. But the same is true the other way round, too. Reddit users couldn’t give a flying crap about most of the nonsense that gets poured into Facebook. Zuckerberg? Puh-lease. And let’s not get started on…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple’s SIM Card Power Grab

Last week we reported that Nokia, Motorola and RIM were squaring up to Apple over a disagreement about the future of nano-SIM cards. Now, Apple is proposing that its patented design could be used for free, by anyone—dependent on one, rather large, condition. https://gizmodo.com/apples-nano-sim-comes-under-fire-from-nokia-motorola-a-5895118 Currently there are two competing nano-SIM card designs, and Motorola, Nokia…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Turn Your Favorite Google Map Into a Wooden Work of Art

Maps can be beautiful things, that bring back memories, remind you of journeys, or just make you glad you live where you do. A company called Woodcut Maps now lets you preserve a Google Maps image in solid wood—and the results look gorgeous. https://gizmodo.com/we-all-live-in-a-watercolor-with-these-new-openstreetma-5895457/ All you have to do is find the location you want…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Nokia and Microsoft Launch $24 Million App Development Center

Microsoft and Nokia are continuing their love-in, today announcing plans to invest a cool $24 million into a new app development center, to be based in Finland. Called AppCampus, the initiative will launch in May under the management of Finland’s Aalto University. The plan is to attract students, developers and entrepreneurs to Windows Phone and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Microsoft Raids Take Botnet Stings Into Its Own Hands

Over the weekend, Microsoft teams accompanied by United States marshals raided buildings and seized hundreds of web addresses to shut down a major botnet syndicate. The sting was part of a civil suit brought by Microsoft—because it was tired of waiting for law enforcement bodies to act. The New York Times reports that the raids…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Senators Ask Feds to Investigate Facebook Employment Snooping Problem

Last week Facebook responded to recent reports of employers asking prospective employees for their passwords. Now, US senators Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal have both requested Attorney General Eric Holder investigates the problem. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-tells-users-not-to-give-passwords-to-employers-5895846 Associated Press reports that the senators want to know if this practice violates the Stored Communications Act (SCA) or the Computer…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

James Cameron Successfully Reaches “the Deepest Spot on Earth” (UPDATED)

Director and science nerd James Cameron is making an attempt to travel to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. The last time someone tried this was in 1960, when Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Navy Lt. Don Walsh spent a weak 20 minutes at the bottom. Cameron plans on filming and exploring…

Tech News Louis Peitzman

io9 Roundup: March 25, 2012

VICTORY IN THE ARENA (AND AT THE BOX OFFICE) | The Hunger Games had a huge opening weekend, breaking box office records like a tribute’s delicate bones. Katniss and Peeta art by Mike Maihack of the webcomic Cleopatra in Spaaace!! [via The Uniblog] Secret door inside this wardrobe leads to a Narnia-themed playroom https://gizmodo.com/secret-door-inside-this-wardrobe-leads-to-a-narnia-them-5896087 Some…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Astoundingly gorgeous animation for My Family And The Wolf actually feels like summer

Never before have we seen a creation that so effortlessly bottles up that unfettered feeling of a child’s summer vacation. This short teaser for My Family And The Wolf is absolutely intoxicating; you can almost smell the summer breeze it’s channeling. This is an undertaking not to be missed. My Family And The Wolf Created…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Coolest Light-Painting Device Yet

Forget you Maglite, your glowstick, and definitely your cellphone, there’s a new, cooler brush for painting with light. It’s called the LightScythe. It’s a long wand of computer controlled LED lights, and with it you can create some amazing images. Light-painting, for those unfamiliar, is essentially drawing with a light-source while a camera takes a…

Tech News Brent Rose

HTC Titan II Colliding With Our Planet on April 8th for $200

China Demands Physical Perfection from She-Astronauts

Time-Lapse of Ocean Currents Looks Like a Living Van Gogh Painting

Human Mutation Is What Makes the Flu Deadly

James Cameron’s X-Men movie could’ve starred Bob Hoskins as Wolverine

Which members of The Avengers will be back in Iron Man 3?

Holy Crap: Nokia’s Hot New Windows Phone Will Only Be $99

The Doctor Who Season 7 trailer is here!

In the new Twilight trailer, Bella kills everyone in Forks

Will Next-Generation LTE Connections Sling Data at 30Gbps?

One Reddit User’s Meme Is a Facebook User’s Poison

Apple’s SIM Card Power Grab

Turn Your Favorite Google Map Into a Wooden Work of Art

Nokia and Microsoft Launch $24 Million App Development Center

Microsoft Raids Take Botnet Stings Into Its Own Hands

Senators Ask Feds to Investigate Facebook Employment Snooping Problem

James Cameron Successfully Reaches “the Deepest Spot on Earth” (UPDATED)

io9 Roundup: March 25, 2012

Astoundingly gorgeous animation for My Family And The Wolf actually feels like summer

The Coolest Light-Painting Device Yet

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