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Grooveshark Will Soon Be Destroyed

Remember Grooveshark, the magical website that let you stream any song you wanted, in high quality, for free? Did you ever wonder how such a thing managed to avoid legal annihilation? Trick question! It hasn’t. Its lawsuit death is here. The Next Web’s Drew Olanoff reports Universal is suing Grooveshark for illegally uploading tracks—at $150,000…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Terra Nova finally gets a mission statement

Last night’s Terra Nova episode was a definite step forward in a few areas — but especially in the absolutely vital realm of giving us some stakes and a sense of just what the Sixers want to accomplish. The above moment, where Taylor finishes explaining to Jim Shannon just what happened with his son, and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Analog Animated GIF Player Just Secured a Place on My Wall

It looks like Santa got the letter I sent that asked for an animated GIF of a kitten nodding off that I can hang on my wall. Animated kittens and crafts, always a winning combination. At this year’s Animated GIF Exhibition (Yeah, I had no idea this was a real thing either), Peiterjan Grandy created…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

The weird, sad story of Egyptian animal mummies

Pharaohs were far from the only ancient Egyptians to be mummified. An entire ancient industry grew up around supplying people with mummified pets to accompany them into the afterlife. Business was even big enough to drive entire species extinct. According to Egyptologists, bringing a pet with you to the afterlife conferred all sorts of benefits.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Bird Pics, Microscope Phone Dreams, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. iPhone Saves Your Eyes from Microscope Strain I love Kickstarter and all—or, okay, I like it but…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Darkest Hour aliens go against the #1 rule of movie villains in a new clip

We’ve got new 14 stills and a new clip from the alien-invasion movie The Darkest Hour, coming this Christmas. When the aliens invade, we’re forced to follow a pack of Americans stuck in Russia during the big attack. Spoilers ahead… Apparently being in Russia means there is no movie code, because the dog is the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Only Toy Gift Guide You’ll Need This Holiday Season

What do you get the geek who has every awesome collectable? something extraordinary. That’s why we’ve gathered together a collection of all the best toys to give your friends and loved ones. And yes, that is the floating guard eyeball from Big Trouble Little China. Check out the ultimate guide to toys that make the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Shrimp-like species can create ultra-sticky silk that’s as strong as steel

The marine animal Crassicorophium bonellii looks like a shrimp, but it acts more like a spider. The creature uses its legs to spin silk that’s both incredibly hard and super sticky… and could be of great medical use to humans. Researchers from the Oxford Silk Group have studied the creature’s silk-making, which it uses to…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

UNICEF’s Future Relief Parcels Will Provide Food, Water and Shelter in One, Lego-Shaped, Brick

You’d think there isn’t much room for innovation when it comes to delivering emergency rations to refugees and disaster victims, but that’s not quite the case. UNICEF has tapped design firm Psychic Factory to develop an aid package that not only carries food and water, but also helps build a shelter. Each package is shaped…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Is the Best Lego X-Wing Model Ever

Brothers Brick say this is the best Lego X-Wing yet and I agree. Made by Mike Psiaki’s, it’s amazing that he has been able to reproduce the Rebel’s top star fighter with such exquisite detail, even topping Lego’s official models. It seems deceptively simple, but this was obviously extremely hard to make. The techniques used…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Tired of Coffee? This Tea has Cocaine!

Yesterday’s article got you down on coffee? Looking for another daily stimulant? Coca leaf tea, or mate de coca to the locals, has been used in many South American countries for millenia and is more prevalent in the region than coffee. https://gizmodo.com/10-reasons-coffee-is-both-the-best-and-the-worst-bevera-5861402 The tea provides an effect similar to coffee, but instead of caffeine, it…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Aussies Have Built One Bad Ass Flight Simulator

Your typical fake cockpit simulator has limited maneuverability, but this high speed robot arm can move in multiple axis at the same time, accurately recreating the feeling of flying including the extreme g-forces that come with it. Built by the Centre for Intelligent Systems Research at Australia’s Deakin University, the Universal Motion Simulator was partially…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What is the best way to locate the galaxy’s habitable planets?

We’ve officially found over 700 exoplanets, and with so many worlds to explore the big question is which, if any, could support life. But should we be looking for Earth-like planets — or is life hiding on far more alien worlds? Based on our current rate of discovery, it’s entirely probable that we will have…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

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Tech News Roberto Baldwin

R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, Creator of Pern and The Ship Who Sang

Anne McCaffrey wasn’t just the inventor of Pern, the world where a whole society is based on dragon-riding. She was also an incredibly influential author who helped transform the way science fiction and fantasy authors wrote about women, and the way all of us thought about bodies and selfhood. She was the first woman to…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Google Search: It’s Like Chrome on Your iPad

I like Chrome. In fact it’s my browser of choice. I like it so much I wish there was an iOS version. Well, Google has updated it’s Google Search app so that it looks and feels sort of like Chrome. What’s it do? The main purpose of the Google Search app is to search and…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

FCC Still Isn’t Sold on the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger

The FCC’s decided that AT&T’s arguments for why its merger with T-Mobile is necessary and obvious don’t quite wash, and has ordered the deal to undergo a hearing before an Administrative Law judge in February. AT&T’s claims that the T-Mobile merger would create jobs and provide more of the country with 4G coverage didn’t fly…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

In this bloody $2500 G.I. Joe fan film, Snake Eyes battles a surprise guest

We’ve seen fan films that are extremely grim takes on their source material and those that cast characters from entirely different franchises. Mark Cheng’s G.I. Joe fan film Operation Red Retrieval mixes these two elements with aplomb. https://gizmodo.com/the-saddest-voltron-fan-film-ever-made-starring-lassie-5849208 https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-dark-knight-returns-starring-a-french-batman-5807115 According to Cheng, this handsome-looking film took 20 months to complete but was dreamt up 25…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Fetuses can donate their stem cells to help heal their mothers’ hearts

Researchers have known for some time that women who experience weakened heart function in the months before and after childbirth (a condition known as peripartum cardiomyopathy) recover more quickly than any other group of heart failure patients. Now, a team of researchers from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine thinks it may know why. The researchers…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Math Suckage Doesn’t Care About Your Sex

You know who sucks at math? Almost everyone, that’s who. Newsflash: the majority of humans do not do math because they love and excel at it. We mostly dislike it and are bad at it to boot. That’s the gist of Teri Oda’s refreshingly succinct (and funny!) slideshow, which explains that gender does not predict…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Grooveshark Will Soon Be Destroyed

Terra Nova finally gets a mission statement

Analog Animated GIF Player Just Secured a Place on My Wall

The weird, sad story of Egyptian animal mummies

Bird Pics, Microscope Phone Dreams, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Darkest Hour aliens go against the #1 rule of movie villains in a new clip

The Only Toy Gift Guide You’ll Need This Holiday Season

Shrimp-like species can create ultra-sticky silk that’s as strong as steel

UNICEF’s Future Relief Parcels Will Provide Food, Water and Shelter in One, Lego-Shaped, Brick

This Is the Best Lego X-Wing Model Ever

Tired of Coffee? This Tea has Cocaine!

The Aussies Have Built One Bad Ass Flight Simulator

What is the best way to locate the galaxy’s habitable planets?

Price Check by Amazon Gallery

R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, Creator of Pern and The Ship Who Sang

Google Search: It’s Like Chrome on Your iPad

FCC Still Isn’t Sold on the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger

In this bloody $2500 G.I. Joe fan film, Snake Eyes battles a surprise guest

Fetuses can donate their stem cells to help heal their mothers’ hearts

Math Suckage Doesn’t Care About Your Sex

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