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Own a Piece of Magic, and Help Author/Editor Terri Windling

Terri Windling has given a lot of happiness to fantasy readers, with novels like The Wood Wife and collections like the Bordertown series. Now here’s your chance to come to her rescue — Windling is facing health and legal issues that have caused her a lot of financial distress — and some of our greatest…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Ruler-Backscratcher Combo Is the Greatest Office Innovation Since the Sticky Note

I haven’t touched a wooden ruler since I was old enough to safely use a retractable tape measure, but I’ll be making room for one again in my office supplies drawer now that Mustard has added fingers for backscratching. It’s still listed as “Coming Soon” so for the time being you’re going to have to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Sustainability Science: How to Create a New Research Field

If the world needs a new field of science, can you simply create one from scratch? That’s the question of a group of researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The scientists recently chronicled the twenty-five year journey of sustainability science, a newly coined field with the goal of advancing society without destroying our planet.…

io9 Keith Veronese

Wikileaks Uncovers a Global Network of Surveillance Companies for Hire

If you’re a wealthy, militant despot of a nation and your sovereignty is slipping away, Wikileaks has discovered that you can attempt to prevent an uprising by hiring a network of spies who operate in the private sector and will keep tabs on citizens who threaten your reign. According to the AFP, the investigative site…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert

The “Amazing” Sixfinger: the Most Disturbing Toy that You Probably Never Owned

The 1960’s were a much simpler time — a time when cowering beneath your school desk was still considered a good way to protect yourself in the event of a nuclear air strike, and a child palming a decidedly phallic object could just as easily pass for having a sixth finger. Wait, what? Seriously, though.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Intel Working on AR Chip, as Makers of Terminator Apps Rejoice

Embedded augmented reality-chip technology means we’ll finally start using AR for good instead of filling all the app stores with Predator, Terminator and Robocop camera overlay apps. Nah, I’m just kidding, it’s probably going to get worse. Reuters reports that Total Immersion marketing chief, Antoine Brachet, says that they’ve been working with Intel to bring…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Google Wants to Create an Amazon Prime for the Entire Internet

According to the WSJ, Google is teaming with online retailers to cook up a standardized way to ship things to customers super fast (for a fee, of course). Sound familiar? Yeah, Google’s going after Amazon Prime. The WSJ’s sources say that Google has started this ‘Amazon Prime for other retailers’ initiative because people have began…

Tech News Casey Chan

Carrier IQ Gets Hit With Senate Investigation

Carrier IQ, the software that secretly records actions on many smartphones, is creepy and scary, and there’s nothing you can do about it. But the U.S. Senate can, and Senator Al Franken just sent the company a nastygram. https://gizmodo.com/your-android-phone-is-secretly-recording-everything-you-5863849 Earlier today Franken fired off a letter to Carrier IQ CEO Larry Lenhart raising questions about…

Tech News Mat Honan

Easily hypnotized people can hallucinate colors whenever they want to

There’s thirty-four years of Jedi mind tricks telling us that the highly suggestible are, well, weak-minded. But now new research suggests the easily hypnotized actually have some unusual mental powers. Specifically, they can hallucinate any color they want — whenever they want. That’s the finding from a new study at the University of Hull in…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Eat Some Babies, Save Some Homework, and Head on Down to Ninjatown

For today’s app deals, we find out that monsters will eat pretty much anything. No really, they are totally craving plump little babies and for some reason, your homework. Ninjas love climbing trees to defeat evil. And for our Android-loving penny pinchers out there, we remind you that samurais are all about vengeance. Deliciously cheap,…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

10 Bizarre Names and Strange Origins of Real Molecules

Everybody knows that scientists have an unconventional sense of humor — and paleontologists and astronomers are known for naming some of their discoveries in a whimsical fashion. But chemists and biochemists are required to stick to a strict set of naming conventions. Nevertheless, sometimes researchers get a little freedom and give a molecule a clever…

io9 Keith Veronese

The World’s Biggest Insect Is So Freaking Huge It Can Eat a Carrot

Say hello to the spine-tingling Giant Weta. What is a Giant Weta, you ask? Well, it’s a gigantic cricket-like insect that’s also the largest insect in the world. It’s as heavy as three mice and even bigger than some birds. BE AFRAID LITTLE HUMANS. The wingspan of this insect (I don’t feel like the word…

Tech News Casey Chan

A Gas Mask and Armor-Wearing Jogger Scared a Bomb Squad into Blowing Up His Mail

Hey man, how’s it going? Just getting some exercise in. You know, running, lifting, jamming packages into mailboxes while wearing a gas mask and body armor then hurrying away before the bomb squad shows up to explode my stuff. So here’s what happened: Yesterday morning, a post office customer saw a man in what appeared…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Breakthrough technique could give us molecule-thick circuit boards

Graphene is incredibly cool stuff: a sheet of interlocking carbon atoms, only one atom thick. It’s an extremely interesting material, and a newly pioneered technique has created a way of painting stripes on the graphene sheets to change its functionality. That representation of an owl you see above was created by adding hydrogen atoms to…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Thark Yeah! 30 John Carter screencaps reveal the secrets of Mars

You’ve seen the mayhem-filled new trailer for Disney’s John Carter — now let’s pick it apart and study all the awesome details — such as horrific piles of burning bodies, Martian puppies… and a wedding! https://gizmodo.com/full-john-carter-trailer-shows-off-the-screaming-hordes-5864068 And we’re off. Behold the giant Thark arena that appears to be carved right out of the landscape. Which…

io9 Meredith Woerner

AT&T Fires Back at the FCC Over T-Mobile Merger Bashing (Updated)

AT&T has issued an official response to the FCC’s report on their attempted merger with T-Mobile. And boy do they get feisty! AT&T spends much of the report crying foul against the FCC, accusing the agency of manipulating and ignoring facts, and providing faulty logic. But aside from saying the FCC is wrong, they only…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Bountiful Gifts for the Urban Farmer

Even in very small plots, few pastimes are as edibly rewarding as gardening. Whether it’s a back yard or a reclaimed city parcel, these gifts will help the green thumb on your list grow prize-winning produce. 1. Wolf-Garten Vegetable Garden Set Who says every tool needs its own handle? You don’t use two at once.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Santa’s Not Going to Save You From Holiday Shopping This Year

The holiday season is about to rear its snowy head, and despite your hope that some mythical old guy will take care of your shopping needs, it’s up to you to find the best gift deals out there. Fortunately, Best Buy has an amazing digital site that’s made finding each and every one of their…

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The Sheer Poetry of the Dragonfish in Space, its Mouth Full of Baby Stars

The biggest batch of young stars in our galaxy form inside the mouth of the Dragonfish. The ‘fish’ is a gas shell of material around the newly-forming stars. It was named by Doctor Mubdi Rahman, of the University of Toronto, who was inspired by Peter Shearer’s portrait, entitled Black Dragonfish. The shell was discovered when…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

People People Invisible Speaker Lets Your Room’s Decor Show Through

Worrying about choosing the right speakers to match the aesthetics of your room is certainly a first world problem, but that doesn’t make People People’s transparent speakers any less lustworthy. They need to get these into production ASAP. First and foremost it was created to be a stylish alternative to most home stereo eyesores, camouflaging…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Own a Piece of Magic, and Help Author/Editor Terri Windling

Ruler-Backscratcher Combo Is the Greatest Office Innovation Since the Sticky Note

Sustainability Science: How to Create a New Research Field

Wikileaks Uncovers a Global Network of Surveillance Companies for Hire

The “Amazing” Sixfinger: the Most Disturbing Toy that You Probably Never Owned

Intel Working on AR Chip, as Makers of Terminator Apps Rejoice

Google Wants to Create an Amazon Prime for the Entire Internet

Carrier IQ Gets Hit With Senate Investigation

Easily hypnotized people can hallucinate colors whenever they want to

Eat Some Babies, Save Some Homework, and Head on Down to Ninjatown

10 Bizarre Names and Strange Origins of Real Molecules

The World’s Biggest Insect Is So Freaking Huge It Can Eat a Carrot

A Gas Mask and Armor-Wearing Jogger Scared a Bomb Squad into Blowing Up His Mail

Breakthrough technique could give us molecule-thick circuit boards

Thark Yeah! 30 John Carter screencaps reveal the secrets of Mars

AT&T Fires Back at the FCC Over T-Mobile Merger Bashing (Updated)

Bountiful Gifts for the Urban Farmer

Santa’s Not Going to Save You From Holiday Shopping This Year

The Sheer Poetry of the Dragonfish in Space, its Mouth Full of Baby Stars

People People Invisible Speaker Lets Your Room’s Decor Show Through

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