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Street Artist Shepard Fairey Convinces Hollywood to make another 1984 movie

Break out your overalls — there’s a new adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 on the horizon. The world’s most famous dystopian narrative is coming back to the big screen. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s production company (Imagine Entertainment) is teaming up with LBI Entertainment to bring back the Ministry of Truth. But the real mastermind…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Stunning Rivers of Lava Making an Ocean of Lava

I get transfixed watching rivers of lava flow, either fast and fluid, or growing in slow motion, like the living rocks at 1 minute and 53 seconds in this video. And that terrifying crackling. A surge of lava spews out of a rupture in the lava tube system and is heading down steep cliffs, or…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Netflix Updates iPad App for HD!—But Just the Buttons

Hooray! Netflix has updated their iPad app for HD. That’s what they say in the update… but it’s just the buttons! Boo! the video is still in low resolution, not Full HD, so there will be no difference in the new iPad. Which is weird, because Netflix streams in 1080p to Roku and Xbox 360.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech Our Government Hid

Sandia National Laboratories cooks up some of the craziest new technologies you’ll ever see—and some you’ll never see. That’s the fate of a secret method for driving drones with nuclear power, abandoned by its creators. https://gizmodo.com/this-bullet-from-the-future-flies-itself-5880537 The tech was uncovered in a document acquired by the Federation of American Scientists, which outlines a study Sandia…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

The wildest ride in the galaxy is found on hypervelocity planets. These worlds got too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and have been flung away at a twentieth of the speed of light. While rogue planets are common enough, these hypervelocity planets represent a much rarer case and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Safe, Smart, and… Fun? The Surprising Science of ATMs

Using an automated teller machine is inherently risky. You stand there, your back turned, signaling to everyone around that you’re about to have a wad of twenties in your pocket. If you’re lucky, there’s a security guard on duty. But usually it’s just you and whoever is lurking in that little convex mirror. ATMs themselves…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

Syfy still has no plans to make Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome into a TV show

You’ve seen the slick-as-hell trailer for Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon War prequel Blood and Chrome. But even though the trailer has revived the world’s fervor for frakking toasters, it didn’t change Syfy’s postion on demoting Blood And Chrome to the status of webseries. But there’s a silver lining! https://gizmodo.com/totally-badass-trailer-for-battlestar-galacticas-cylon-5895080 According to the President of Syfy’s original…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Five Reasons Why the Stupid 4.6-Inch iPhone Rumor Won’t Happen

No—stop it. Close that tab. Stop reading that. The Apple rumor de jour—a 4.6-inch iPhone 5—is the same reheated broth some filthy cook serves yearly. It wasn’t true last year, or the year before. Here’s why it’s still BS. Reuters, usually a staid, reliable entity when it comes to not spreading gleeful crap rumors, dove…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity

For the 2012 Maker Faire, five high-school students from the Bay Area have embarked upon an awesomely ambitious project: to construct a homemade flight simulator depicting the cockpit of a Viper from Battlestar Galactica. After launching a successful Kickstarter campaign, the team produced this video showing off their progress: The basic idea is to mount…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

How Gizmodo Decides Which Laptop to Buy

Earlier today, Gizmodo Brit Jamie Condliffe asked us for advice on his next laptop purchase. We had some opinions! Enough that we thought we’d share how we work through it with you, dear readers. So without any more ado, here’s Gizmodo talking laptops: From: Jamie Condliffe Subject: Laptop advice Date: March 22, 2012 12:00:29 PM…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The World’s Biggest Nuclear Submarine Is Also One of the Sneakiest

While the Red October may not have been an actual submarine, the Russian Typhoon class that it’s based on certainly is. Turns out, Hollywood didn’t have to embellish many details for the film—Typhoons really can sneak up on you. The Typhoon is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines developed by the USSR and deployed…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

10 of the Most Awesome Sword Fight Scenes Ever

Let’s face facts. No weapon is more badass than a sword. Fight scenes are often great in science fiction and fantasy movies, but fight scenes with swords? They’re the stuff of legend. Here are ten of the very best sword fights in cinematic history. Since we’re all about facing facts today, I’m just going to…

Movies Annalee Newitz

I Have a Magnet Implant In My Finger

Let’s talk about magnet implants. I don’t really bring it up much, but I have a small rare earth magnet implanted in the pinkie finger on my right hand. I’ve had it for around three years now. Whenever someone finds out that I have this implant, they’ve always got a ton of questions. Usually the…

Tech News Dann Berg

Facebook Photos Just Got Bigger and Prettier

Facebook’s photo viewer just got two overdue improvements. First of all, Facebook now supports high-resolution photos. When you click on an image in the photo viewer, it will display images at the highest resolution possible, which could be up to four times larger than the old size depending on the size of your display (the…

Social Media Mario Aguilar

CamOne Infinity Is the First Action Cam With Interchangeable Lenses

The CamOne Infinity is an action cam with a key difference that could help set it apart from the GoPro if it arrives to market: it has interchangeable lenses. In addition to the standard lens, which shoots at two fields of view: 170 degrees and 127 degrees, CamOne is reportedly going to release 142-degree and…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Why does falling asleep sometimes feel like falling down?

We’ve covered sleep twitches, the unconscious twitches that people make while they’re asleep. They’re the result of the unconscious and conscious brain both being online at the same time. Sometimes people twitch themselves awake. This is preferable to another strange sleep tic — the sudden sensation of falling that can cause the person to wake…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Case Against Google

For the last two months, you’ve seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google’s new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlining a rudimentary technique, but also evidence that the search titan has a serious trust problem on its hands. Our story on nuking your…

Tech News Mat Honan

These carefully crafted photo-sculptures look like portals to another world

Captivating photography will often convey a sense of depth. Raleigh-based artist Scott Hazard extends this concept to a literal conclusion, merging photography with sculpture to create 2D scenes with 3D elements. Hazard uses carefully torn, layered photographs to represent clouds, smoke, and portals — adding a weird, transdimensional element to his work that is at…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How does 1Q84 stack up to Haruki Murakami’s classic novels?

For the past few months, everywhere I go in San Francisco, I see young people in cool outfits all reading the same book: Haruki Murakami’s long-awaited 1Q84. Not long ago, I was in a café where three out of the dozen patrons all had identical hardcovers, with the same blank stare gazing upwards from their…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s How Windows 8 Will Create a Singular User Experience Across Different Screen Sizes

Microsoft has been adamant that design is central to the development of Windows 8, and early builds have proven that to be true. But so far, we’ve only really seen Windows 8 on a couple devices, and Microsoft promises the Metro experience will be uniform regardless of screen size or form factor. But how? In…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Street Artist Shepard Fairey Convinces Hollywood to make another 1984 movie

Stunning Rivers of Lava Making an Ocean of Lava

Netflix Updates iPad App for HD!—But Just the Buttons

The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech Our Government Hid

Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

Safe, Smart, and… Fun? The Surprising Science of ATMs

Syfy still has no plans to make Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome into a TV show

Five Reasons Why the Stupid 4.6-Inch iPhone Rumor Won’t Happen

Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity

How Gizmodo Decides Which Laptop to Buy

The World’s Biggest Nuclear Submarine Is Also One of the Sneakiest

10 of the Most Awesome Sword Fight Scenes Ever

I Have a Magnet Implant In My Finger

Facebook Photos Just Got Bigger and Prettier

CamOne Infinity Is the First Action Cam With Interchangeable Lenses

Why does falling asleep sometimes feel like falling down?

The Case Against Google

These carefully crafted photo-sculptures look like portals to another world

How does 1Q84 stack up to Haruki Murakami’s classic novels?

Here’s How Windows 8 Will Create a Singular User Experience Across Different Screen Sizes

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