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How to Get Your Free Cool Facebook Timeline Personal Cards Now

Good news for Facebook fans: now you can get a free set of cool color personal cards based on your timeline. They’re giving 200,000 sets of 50 cards for free, so you’ve to hurry up. Here’s how to get yours: 1. Go to your Facebook Timeline. 2. Click on About (it’s just below your profile…

Social Media Jesus Diaz Jan 6 '12

Single-Atom Wires Could Help Moore’s Law Live On

When you shrink wires down to nanometers in diameter, their resistivity normally grows exponentially—a trade-off which many have predicted will be Moore’s Law’s undoing soon. But a new, single-atom thick wire could change that. Over time the copper tracks on microchips have been shrinking, and the resulting massive increases in resistance are what have been…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6 '12

Will Polk’s Noise-Canceling Headphones Sound as Sweet as Polk Speakers?

Polk Audio’s speakers are hands down some of our favorites, so we’re pretty curious what the company’s new UltraFocus 8000 noise-canceling headphones will sound like. If they can cram some of that goodness into a portable package? Aural heaven. The UltraFocus 8000s will compete with the Beats by Dres and Boses of the world in…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 6 '12

A Chinese Chef Died After Serving the World’s Deadliest Mushroom by Accident

We’ve all been tempted to pick wild mushrooms, if only because they’re free. Sadly, when a Chinese chef did just that he made a mistake, and accidentally served himself and a colleague the world’s deadliest mushroom. Liu Jun, 38, a chef from China, found himself visiting Australia over the New Year with his female kitchen…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6 '12

USAF Military Shuttle Is Chasing China’s Space Station In Orbit

According to observations published in Spaceflight Magazine, the United States Air Force may be spying on Tiangong-1—China’s first space station—from orbit. Seems reasonable: China is steadily advancing towards their goal and the US may want to know what they’re doing. According to the magazine, the mini-space shuttle X-37B may be near the Chinese station, following…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jan 6 '12

Tron’s Derezzed Played On Floppy Drives Is a Retro Audiogasm

How do you make an incredibly cool piece of music even cooler? Play it back on ol’ fashioned tech, that’s how. It certainly works for this version of Derezzed. Made by YouTuber MrSolidSnake745 using software from Sammy1Am, it shows five old-school floppy drives spitting out the licks originally laid down by Daft Punk. If you…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6 '12

Darth Vader was tasered and pepper-sprayed in Florida

You may not know that Darth Vader lives a very questionable lifestyle off-camera. When not making Star Wars films, the Sith Lord has been known to rob banks and exploit ill-conceived Ukrainian property laws. The intergalactic ne’er-do-well’s latest imbroglio takes us Orlando, Florida, where an intoxicated Vader attempted to take a nap…in the middle of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 6 '12

How to Work for NASA, The Easy Way

OK, so you’ve always wanted to be an astronaut. But you looked at the application form and realised you weren’t quite what NASA needed. No problem! There’s an alternative. NASA just launched a new site to introduce programmers to open-source projects on which you can work with the space agency. Admittedly, for free, in your…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Jan 6 '12

Tons of new details for the Nicolas Cage insanity that is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance!

Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, and Ciaran Hinds take us inside the new Ghost Rider. Batman quotes existential philosophy in The Dark Knight Rises. Plus more on Game of Thrones, Once Upon a Time, Chuck, Being Human, and The Vampire Diaries. Nothing but spoilers from here on out! Top image from Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jan 6 '12

Grooveshark Is Being Sued By All Four Major Music Labels

That questionably legal music service Grooveshark is in hot water again. EMI, the one big music label it has a licensing deal with, is suing its ass. The New York Times reports that, on Wednesday, EMI Music Publishing filed a suit against Grooveshark’s parent company, the Escape Media Group. EMI claim that Escape Media has…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6 '12

Is HTC’s Winning Streak Over?

Since HTC properly burst on to the scene with its Android handsets a few years ago, the company has seen nothing but success, with its profits soaring year-on-year. It looks like those times are a’changing though. HTC released its unaudited revenue for Q4 2011, and it shows a 2.5 per cent fall on the same…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6 '12

Siri Doubles the Data Use of iPhone Owners

Maybe you love Siri. Maybe you don’t. Either way, you probably want to know that, if you rock an iPhone 4S, you’re probably using twice the data of someone with a humble iPhone 4. Bloomberg reports that the voice recognition software prompts users of the newer phone to use double the data of those stuck…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6 '12

The World’s Thinnest Tablet and Ultrabook Are Coming to CES

Toshiba’s no stranger to ultra-thin portable devices (see: the Excite tablet and Protege Z830 ultrabook). Now Toshiba claims to once again have developed the world’s thinnest 10.1-inch tablet and 13.3-inch ultrabook. In addition to these super-slim devices, Toshiba also has announced that it will also have a waterproof, OLED tablet prototype that charges wirelessly. It…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 6 '12

Surprisingly, Flying Drunk Doesn’t Result in Immediate Fiery Failure Explosions—Just Arrests

I’ve played both Microsoft Flight Simulator and Top Gun for the NES. If nothing else, both games taught me that flying an aircraft is freakin’ tough. So how did this guy do it drunk? The story began on Tuesday afternoon on Highway 37 in Sonoma County, California when two CHP officers spotted a blue and…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 6 '12

Pioneer’s New External Blu-Ray Burner Is Lighter and Thinner than a Cheeseburger

The Cloud may be a hot topic in storage but it’s not very convenient when you’ve got more than a couple of Gigs of data to backup. Pioneer’s new external Blu-Ray burner can handle up to 128GB with its half inch-tall frame—the World’s thinnest. The BDR-XD04 makes mobile disc-burning feasible again. Sure it only writes…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 6 '12

Kevin Mitnick Laughs in the Face of Your Puny Handcuffs

Famed (and Federally convicted) hacker Kevin Mitnick knows what it’s like to be clad in irons and he’ll be having no more of it, thank you very much. That’s why he now carries an ingeniously concealed spare on his wrist. As you can see from the image above, the black strap adorning his wrist looks…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola Jan 6 '12

So Is Gorilla Glass 2 Real or Not?

Short answer: yes. Corning announced today that it will be debuting the next iteration of Gorilla Glass at CES next week…though as cryptically as possible. It is reputedly designed with device manufacturers’ move towards thinner, lighter displays in mind. Take that, sharp corners. [Corning via Engadget]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 6 '12

Teens May Not Be as Tin-Eared as We Previously Thought

Conventional wisdom dictates that people, especially the younger ones, have ruined their appreciation for the deep, rich, crisp sound that previous generations of music fans saw as the holy grail. However, conventional wisdom isn’t always wise. A new study indicates that the kids’ ears are alright, in that they prefer the sound of lossless music…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Jan 6 '12

Worm Infects 45,000 Facebook Users, Then Goes After Their Friends

Most of the time when you click on a Facebook link that a friend has posted, you get something nice. An amusing photo of a man embarrassed by his decisions. A video of Maru jumping into a box. But, if your friend has been infected with the Ramnit worm, you’ll end up losing something. Security…

Social Media Roberto Baldwin Jan 5 '12

Nikon’s $6000 D4 DSLR Stalks Light Wherever It Hides

Nikon’s $6000 D4 might just be the new most deadly lightstalker around with a new 16.2-megapixel full-format CMOS sensor that has (relatively) gigantic 7.3-micron pixels (bigger than Canon’s new 1 DX). And it shoots at up to ISO 204,800. Did I mention it’s better than the D3s in almost every way? With an expanded ISO…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jan 5 '12

How to Get Your Free Cool Facebook Timeline Personal Cards Now

Single-Atom Wires Could Help Moore’s Law Live On

Will Polk’s Noise-Canceling Headphones Sound as Sweet as Polk Speakers?

A Chinese Chef Died After Serving the World’s Deadliest Mushroom by Accident

USAF Military Shuttle Is Chasing China’s Space Station In Orbit

Tron’s Derezzed Played On Floppy Drives Is a Retro Audiogasm

Darth Vader was tasered and pepper-sprayed in Florida

How to Work for NASA, The Easy Way

Tons of new details for the Nicolas Cage insanity that is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance!

Grooveshark Is Being Sued By All Four Major Music Labels

Is HTC’s Winning Streak Over?

Siri Doubles the Data Use of iPhone Owners

The World’s Thinnest Tablet and Ultrabook Are Coming to CES

Surprisingly, Flying Drunk Doesn’t Result in Immediate Fiery Failure Explosions—Just Arrests

Pioneer’s New External Blu-Ray Burner Is Lighter and Thinner than a Cheeseburger

Kevin Mitnick Laughs in the Face of Your Puny Handcuffs

So Is Gorilla Glass 2 Real or Not?

Teens May Not Be as Tin-Eared as We Previously Thought

Worm Infects 45,000 Facebook Users, Then Goes After Their Friends

Nikon’s $6000 D4 DSLR Stalks Light Wherever It Hides

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