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These “Earthworms” Are Actually an Entirely New Family of Amphibian

It may have taken five years at nearly 250 sites but a research team’s persistent digging throughout northeastern India have paid off. Say hello to science’s newest family of caecilians—legless amphibians—the Chikilidae. The Amphibia class is made up of three orders: frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Caecilians are less well known as the other two in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How One Man Made a Double-Lens Camera Out of LEGO and Old Binoculars

With the breakneck speed at which new DSLRs are released, photography seems to have traded a bit of its soul for the pursuit of ever more megapixels. So, Carl-Frederic Salicath of Norway has taken a step back from the digital revolution and has built his own working retro 120mm-film camera. Here’s how. Dubbed the LEGOflex…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google’s Mystery HUD Glasses Could Be on Sale By the Holidays

Google Goggles could soon become a set of physical goggles if murmurings from within the company are true. Could this be the death knell for smart phones? According to a New York Times report, several unnamed Google employees have reiterated that these “Google glasses” will be hitting the market by the end of the year…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How No Amount of Cloud Computing Will Kill Off Local Music Storage

It’s true, what they say: Our digital lives are moving to the cloud. Whenever we fire up Facebook instead of a local email client, we’re taking part in the shift from locally-run software to the networked app world. However, some fairly major parts of those digital lives – our music, movies, and other activities –…

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Let’s all get blotto in Being Human’s blood sex pit!

After last’s weeks bump of an episode, we’re happy to report that Being Human is back — and zippy as ever. This week was stuffed to the ghost gills with sex, blood, and yet another wonderful “historical vampire” flashback. Hooray for sepia-toned blood suckers! So many nice surprises this episode. But most importantly King Golden…

Television Meredith Woerner

Why Journeyman Was a Much Better Show than Alcatraz

One thought kept popping into my head as I watched last night’s Alcatraz — God, I miss Journeyman. The two shows have a lot in common: time travel, a totally inaccurate portrayal of San Francisco, a case of the week… plus they both got off to a slow start. But the difference was, Journeyman had…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Flickr’s Getting a Facelift on February 28th

Flickr has been bleeding users like a hemophiliac since around the time Google+ launched. Now, Yahoo’s doing something about it. Flickr senior product lead Markus Spiering has hinted that big changes are in store for the photo-sharing site come month’s end. According to an interview conducted by BetaBeat, both the Photo Preview and Upload pages…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Nike’s New Flyknit Technology Makes Running Shoes Even More Impossibly Light

Nike is showing off its latest technology for the upcoming 2012 Olympics in London and the focus seems to be: lighter, lighter and more lighter. The highlight tech was Flyknit, a sort of yarn and fabric material that is engineered to be featherweight, formfitting and virtually seamless. https://gizmodo.com/team-usas-lightest-basketball-jerseys-ever-are-made-fro-5886975 Going by the trend that Nike has…

Tech News Casey Chan

There really could be a giant planet hidden far beyond Pluto

Pluto is about forty times the distance from the Sun as Earth. But the Solar System is over 50000 times that length across, meaning it could be hiding some huge secrets. That’s now looking like a small but real possibility. In recent years, astronomers have discovered a bunch of planets located at least 100 astronomical…

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A Pen’s Eye View From an Illustrator’s Hand Is Utterly Hypnotizing

Those of us who can barely sketch a stick figure family stare in awe when we see a talented artist at work. But this clip is even more engrossing since the camera has been locked to the artist’s tools. There are two things for certain in this video. 1) The first person perspective really does…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Twitter’s Latest Update Brings Back Swipe and Adds Tablet Support

The Swipe gesture was an indispensable function for power-Tweeters back in the day, so I never really understood why Twitter killed it off in the first place. Thankfully, Swipe’s been resurrected a just-released update for both iOS and Android apps. And those aren’t the only changes. iOS app users will see a variety of bug…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Should we have “reputation insurance” so we get payouts when Facebook screws us?

An ancient video of you just popped up on Facebook — one you thought you’d deleted years ago. You’re smearing your face with chocolate pudding, drinking shots, and yelling “Santorum!” Now you want a job as a White House aide. What can you do? Wealthy people pay SEO companies to fix their online reputations. But…

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Google rolling out the AR glasses from Vernor Vinge’s novel Rainbows End

In Vernor Vinge’s novel Rainbows End, the author imagines a near future where everybody wears computers knitted into their clothing, which are connected to augmented reality contact lenses or glasses. Everybody looks at the world through a layer of data, whether that’s just social information about the people they’re talking to, or a full-blown MMO…

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Cows Can Now Booty Call Their Farmers

Farming cows is a thankless task; keeping track of their fertility sounds funny, but it’s what keeps meat in your burger and milk on your cereal. Fortunately, mobile technology means that cows can now drop their farmers an SMS when they’re feeling frisky. That’s right. Bovine sexting has arrived. A new intelligent collar has been…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Megaupload Kingpin Released On Bail But Banned From the Internet

New Zealand news sources report that Megaupload co-founder Kim Dotcom was released on bail today almost exactly month after he was arrested. The only catch is that he can’t stray too far from his house or use the Internet. Ouch. After being repeatedly denied bail, Kim Dotcom is finally out of jail. CNET noticed that…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Paleontologists Are 3-D Printing Life-Sized Dinosaur Robots

Paleontologists are working on building building giant robot dinosaurs out of 3-D printed bones. For science. Short of finding a mosquito trapped in amber and opening an ill-fated velociraptor-laden theme park, that’s the coolest possible way to study dinosaurs. Forbes reports that Professor Kenneth Lacovara at Drexel University is heading up the new endeavor, which…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Transformers toy has balls. That is all.

Just as Saturn devoured his children, the Michael Bay’s Transformers are consuming our memories of an innocent, gentler time when the Decepticons ogled robot pin-ups. https://jalopnik.com/10-demented-moments-from-the-original-transformers-cart-5817708 To wit, Racer-Kun, a heroic Autobot from Playskool’s 1986 Japanese “My First Transformers” line, has taken a retroactive cue (or two!) from Devastator, the swinging star of Revenge of…

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Is this the year we finally wipe out polio once and for all?

In 1979, the World Health Organization successfully eradicated smallpox, removing one of history’s greatest killers from the face of the Earth. Now, 33 years later, we just might be on the verge of repeating that feat with polio. Polio, which once killed or paralyzed a half million people each year in the 1940s and 1950s,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

McDonald’s Miracle Flavored Rice Will Either Be the Most Delicious or Disgusting Thing You Eat in Your Life

The creativity that went in inventing McDonald’s miracle flavored rice is so beyond my little human brain that I’d have to be high as a kite to understand the magic. But oh the magic. The culinary geniuses at RocketNews24 cooked rice with a Big Mac, fries, chicken nuggets, sauce and coke to deliver what has…

Tech News Casey Chan

You’ve never seen a solar eclipse quite like this

This morning, at 9:47 am ET, the Moon passed in front of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, temporarily blocking the satellite’s view of the Sun. Fortunately for all of us, the Observatory’s cameras were rolling — and what it captured is an incredible sight to behold. NASA’s SDO zips around our planet at a distance of…

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These “Earthworms” Are Actually an Entirely New Family of Amphibian

How One Man Made a Double-Lens Camera Out of LEGO and Old Binoculars

Google’s Mystery HUD Glasses Could Be on Sale By the Holidays

How No Amount of Cloud Computing Will Kill Off Local Music Storage

Let’s all get blotto in Being Human’s blood sex pit!

Why Journeyman Was a Much Better Show than Alcatraz

Flickr’s Getting a Facelift on February 28th

Nike’s New Flyknit Technology Makes Running Shoes Even More Impossibly Light

There really could be a giant planet hidden far beyond Pluto

A Pen’s Eye View From an Illustrator’s Hand Is Utterly Hypnotizing

Twitter’s Latest Update Brings Back Swipe and Adds Tablet Support

Should we have “reputation insurance” so we get payouts when Facebook screws us?

Google rolling out the AR glasses from Vernor Vinge’s novel Rainbows End

Cows Can Now Booty Call Their Farmers

Megaupload Kingpin Released On Bail But Banned From the Internet

Paleontologists Are 3-D Printing Life-Sized Dinosaur Robots

This Transformers toy has balls. That is all.

Is this the year we finally wipe out polio once and for all?

McDonald’s Miracle Flavored Rice Will Either Be the Most Delicious or Disgusting Thing You Eat in Your Life

You’ve never seen a solar eclipse quite like this

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