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I’d Live in This Incredibly Detailed Hogwarts Castle Model

The films might be complete, but Warner Brothers will continue to milk the Harry Potter franchise for all it’s worth. Starting March 31st a new studio tour will give fans a behind-the-scenes peek at the movies, including this stunning model of Hogwarts. You’ll unfortunately have to be in London to partake in the Warner Bros…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous

According to the FBI, you’re looking at Sabu, the head of LulzSec, and the de facto King of Anonymous—easily the most notorious and influential hacker alive today. One thing: he just turned in his people to the police. The name Sabu should be familiar: as part of LulzSec, a potent offshoot of Anonymous, he masterminded…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Is the 25 Billionth App Downloaded From Apple

Just yesterday, Apple announced that App Store customers had officially downloaded more than 25 billion apps. Now we’ve got some new details about the person who actually pushed Apple over the edge to help put the hugeness of that number in perspective. The Next Web reports that the person who actually downloaded app number 25,000,000,000…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Michael Bay’s Ouija movie is back from the dead, with a 95% budget cut!

We thought all of Universal’s board game-inspired flicks were dead and buried (with the obvious exception of Battleship). But with shaved production values comes a renewed hope for one flick — the Ouija board movie! With a brand new budget of two nickels and a couple dusty Starbursts, the Hasbro-backed board game is ready to…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Neil deGrasse Tyson shares the most astounding fact about the universe

Back in 2008, TIME Magazine sat down with Neil deGrasse Tyson to ask him ten reader-submitted questions about science and the cosmos. Eventually, interviewer Gilbert Cruz came to the following question: What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe? Tyson’s response was incredibly moving, if not entirely original; the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

iPad 3: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

It’s that magical time of year again, when everyone expects a new iPad to be right around the corner. Which in turn means an amassment of iPad 3 rumors clogging up our lives. Here’s a quick guide to making sense of them. Take all of these with the usual large piles of salt grains. Oh,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Read Aldous Huxley’s review of 1984 he sent to George Orwell

Several months after George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 was published in 1949, Aldous Huxley sent a letter to his former French pupil. The Brave New World author had received a copy of 1984 from the publisher at Orwell’s behest, but his poor eyesight prevented him from finishing the book for several months. In his letter…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

A Chart That Explains How Long Ago Star Wars Actually Took Place

“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” Each one of Lucas’ Star Wars films starts with these lines, distancing the story from our setting. But, what if we could determine roughly how long ago is a long time ago? Using a couple of Star Wars Expanded Universe resources and a little math,…

io9 Keith Veronese

Google and Motorola Forced to Hand Over Android Development Secrets to Apple

Google and a Motorola Mobility unit have been ordered by a US judge to turn over details relating to the development of Android to Apple. Along with it, Google is to hand over information about Google’s pending $12.5 billion acquisition of Moto. According to Bloomberg, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner made the decision yesterday…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Sperm Eating: Controversial or Just Tasty?

You know you’ve wondered, at least once: What are the benefits of eating sperm? According to the authors of the (self-published) cookbook Natural Harvest, “sperm based recipes” can be delightful. Say the authors: Like fine wine and cheeses, the taste of semen is complex and dynamic. Semen is inexpensive to produce and is commonly available…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Behold 10 years’ worth of breathtaking images of Earth

The European Space Agency’s Envisat is the largest Earth Observation spacecraft ever built, and on March 1st, it celebrated its tenth anniversary in low Earth orbit. In the past decade, the massive, 8-ton satellite has coursed its way around our planet over 50,000 times, capturing tens of thousands of pictures of everything from hurricanes to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

HP’s Laser-Powered Chip of the Future

By 2017, HP hopes to build a computer chip that includes 256 microprocessors tied together with beams of light. Codenamed Corona, this laser-powered contraption would handle ten trillion floating points operations a second. In other words, if you put just five of them together, you’d approach the speed of today’s supercomputers. The chip’s 256 cores…

Tech News Eric Smalley-wired

Watch a new scene from Avatar: The Legend of Korra right now!

We saw the trailer recently, and now the latest scene from the upcoming Avatar: The Legend of Korra has hit the web. In this sequence, we see our heroine’s aptitude for elemental bending at an early age. The show should be out sometime this year. Hat tip to Syafiqjabar of Mars!

Television Cyriaque Lamar

The Meth King Who Spent His Drug Money on Comic Books

If you deal drugs, you make plenty of money. But fast cars, women and a playboy lifestyle can become unsatisfying. Which is perhaps why Aaron Castro, the leader of a 41-person methamphetamine ring, turned to comic books, using his earnings to buy 18,753 of the things. Based in Commerce City, Colorado, Castro was responsible for…

Books & Comics Jamie Condliffe

This two-headed, six-legged tortoise = two animals, one shell

This five-year-old conjoined Central Asian tortoise — which was on display yesterday at the National Museum of Natural History in Kiev, Ukraine — has two heads, six legs, two hearts, one intestine, and one big dilemma. Its heads are on the opposite sides of its shell, so each cannot see the other. The poor reptile…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How historically accurate is the new trailer for Ice Age: Continental Drift?

We sort of have a soft spot in our hearts for all the Ice Age animals. And the latest addition Ice Age: Continental Drift looks even more ridiculous than the last. Watch as the world breaks apart, separating the furry besties and creating our planet’s continents. Plus, giant prehistoric crabs! Ice Age: Continental Drift hits…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

All the Latest News on Iron Man 3, Bill & Ted 3, and Walking Dead!

Director Tarsem Singh explains why he hates the Mirror Mirror trailer. Iron Man 3 gears up for filming, and gets a curious codename. Keanu Reeves gives a Bill & Ted 3 update. Plus the latest batch of Earth-shattering Walking Dead spoilers! It’s nothing but spoilers from here on out! Top image from John Carter. Iron…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Adobe’s Lightroom 4 Is Here, and It’s Half the Price

Adobe’s latest version of Lightroom, the photo management and editing tool, was released as beta back in January. Now it’s been officially released as Lightroom 4, and brings with it a big drop in price; the full version now costs $149 instead of $299. In terms of features, Lightroom 4 brings with it the option…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A 512Gbps Fiber Optic Network? Yes Please

Fiber optics are the future of data transfer. But in Germany, the future’s already here: Deutsche Telekom has a working 512Gbps optical fiber that’s working in the real world. I want it. Yes, that’s a single optical fiber. It’s capable of hitting transmission speeds of 512Gbps in test conditions, but real life takes that down…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How to Make Your Own USB Password Generator Dongle

Ah, passwords. Regardless of what system you use, they’re a pain in the ass to manage, remember or access. But maybe there’s a solution. What about making a USB dongle that enters and creates new passwords every time you plug it in? Joonas Pihlajamaa decided to give it a try, and put together this little…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

I’d Live in This Incredibly Detailed Hogwarts Castle Model

LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous

This Is the 25 Billionth App Downloaded From Apple

Michael Bay’s Ouija movie is back from the dead, with a 95% budget cut!

Neil deGrasse Tyson shares the most astounding fact about the universe

iPad 3: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

Read Aldous Huxley’s review of 1984 he sent to George Orwell

A Chart That Explains How Long Ago Star Wars Actually Took Place

Google and Motorola Forced to Hand Over Android Development Secrets to Apple

Sperm Eating: Controversial or Just Tasty?

Behold 10 years’ worth of breathtaking images of Earth

HP’s Laser-Powered Chip of the Future

Watch a new scene from Avatar: The Legend of Korra right now!

The Meth King Who Spent His Drug Money on Comic Books

This two-headed, six-legged tortoise = two animals, one shell

How historically accurate is the new trailer for Ice Age: Continental Drift?

All the Latest News on Iron Man 3, Bill & Ted 3, and Walking Dead!

Adobe’s Lightroom 4 Is Here, and It’s Half the Price

A 512Gbps Fiber Optic Network? Yes Please

How to Make Your Own USB Password Generator Dongle

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