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Surveillance can save you from state corruption on Person of Interest

Last night’s episode of Person of Interest was a number-of-the-week episode that was fairly light, but did deliver a few interesting tidbits – including more Finch backstory. Unfortunately, the subplots with Carter and Fusco are starting to go clown car in their overstuffed complexity. Spoilers ahead! This week’s number You just knew that this week’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 20 '12

Why People Love Beats By Dre Headphones

Part of it is branding, to be sure. But in Pitchfork’s Resonant Frequency column, Mark Richardson rails not against the quality of the Beats line of headphones and its signature, overloaded bass, but rather argues that they’re a viable alternative for a new era of music. Richardson’s main issue with audiophile logic—and something that I…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 20 '12

Watch Ralph Fiennes recite smutty Harry Potter/Voldemort slash fiction

Talk show host Andy Cohen (the man who can make big name celebrities do anything) just made all the Harry Potter fetishists’ dreams come true. When Ralph Fiennes stopped by the Watch What Happens Live pajama party, Cohen made Voldemort read a little bit of Potter fanfic. It’s utterly glorious. [Via BuzzFeed]

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 20 '12

What Comes After 4G?

Wait wait wait, we’re talking about 5G mobile data now?! Ugh, but we just got 4G squared away. In any case, the ball is already rolling on the next generation of cellular technology, so we might as well figure out what in the hell IMT-Advanced is. IMT-Advanced is the prototype of what 5G mobile broadband…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 20 '12

The 300-Year-Old Mystery of Why Venus Causes the “Black Drop Effect”

We can see Venus pass in front of the sun once every one hundred and twenty years. Ever since it’s been observed, a strange thing has been happening. Instead of appearing as a dark circle moving across the sun, Venus formed a tear drop shape that slowly oozed onto the solar disc. It took three…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 20 '12

All Local News Teams Should Use Puppets Instead of Court Sketches

If you’re a local news outlet that’s been blocked from entering a courtroom to cover an event live, you have two options. The first is to send in a artist who can sketch the proceedings in a lumpy, boring, pastel blah kinda way. The second? Puppet reenactments. Okay, you’re right, I take it back. There’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 20 '12

Unfriend Everyone

You have too many Facebook friends. You’re following too many people on Twitter. You’re connected to too many people who don’t care too much about you. Get rid of them. Get rid of all of them. If you’re a standard internet citizen, you’ve been accumulating social detritus for about half a decade—or whenever you decided…

Social Media Sam Biddle Jan 20 '12

Amanda Hocking is still the exception to the rule: Most self-published authors don’t get huge book deals

There’s been a lot of talk lately about Amanda Hocking’s amazing journey from self-publishing to a multi-million dollar book deal with St. Martin’s Press. But Hocking’s success story — selling a million e-books on the Kindle, getting a major publisher — remains a rarity, cautions a story over at MediaShift. And Hocking didn’t get the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 20 '12

Europe’s First Stealth Drone Looks like an Angry Cyborg

Europe’s collaborative nEUROn drone may be late to the invisible death from above party, but it sure is compensating with some scary looks. Check out the Cylon mug on this puppy as it greets the world for the first time. David Cenciotti notes the nEUROn (clever name!) takes a lot of design cues from American…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 20 '12

The Best Worst Photos of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom

Kim Schmitz aka Kimble aka Kim Dotcom. He was born in Kiel, Germany. According to the feds, he has done many bad things. But who was Kim the man, really? Was he a monster? A gangster? A misunderstood genius perhaps? https://gizmodo.com/feds-kill-megaupload-updated-5877612 These images are better than any biography. So, without further ado, witness Kim Dot…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 20 '12

Watch the amazing fan-made Star Wars: Uncut online for free

Has crowd-sourcing ever created anything cooler than Star Wars: Uncut? If so, it’s hard to imagine. The entirety of the original Star Wars has been recreated in 15-second segments, filmed or animated by fans. The result is actually intensely trippy, especially when Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi burst into song randomly. Or turn into puppets.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 20 '12

Play a Mario Kart Ripoff, Scan Your Business Cards, and Defend Your Miners

There are games we really want on the iPhone but we know we’ll probably never get. Actually anything Nintendo makes would be great as an iPhone app. But there is one app in particular that would really make me happy: Mario Kart. Lucky for me, there’s a complete ripoff of the game in the App…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin Jan 20 '12

Microsoft Pushes Washington to Legalize Gay Marriage

Microsoft, along with Nike and RealNetworks, believe Washington’s failure to recognize gay marriage has gone on long enough. So they’ve called out the state government, pushing for legislators to pass the two gay marriage bills currently circulating through their chambers. According to the Atlantic, Microsoft, citing the need for equality in order to attract the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 20 '12

These gorgeous H.P. Lovecraft inspired monster rugs can be on your floors!

Who wouldn’t want a looming Cthulu guarding their living room? Artist Kirill Rozhkov illustrated a collection of Lovecraftian monsters for the Danish carpet company EGE. The line is called “Dark Water” — check out the monsters in both illustration and rug form! For more designs head over to Behance website.

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 20 '12

10 Awesome Apps for Your Jailbroken iPhone and iPad

You’ve taken the plunge. Your iOS device is jailbroken. And now it’s time to head straight to Cydia and download all those illicit apps that’ll supercharge your iPhone or iPad. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-4s-and-ipad-2-finally-get-an-untethered-jailbrea-5877909 Activator: Free A shortcut, gestures, and button management tool. A great way to enhance how you interact with your device. Use a gesture to…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Jan 20 '12

Scientists Will Halt Research on Avian Flu That Could Kill Half the World’s Humans—for Two Months

The scientists who created an airborne and extremely contagious strain of bird flu say they are temporarily halting their research for 60 days. Oh good! Looks like we don’t have to be cripplingly terrified until April. A two-month hiatus is perhaps not all that comforting, but it does buy time for scientists around the world…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Jan 20 '12

Gizmodo Night and Weekend Editors Wanted

The person we’re looking for knows and gets technology, gadgets, design and the internet crazy amazingly well. They’re smart, and snappy, like cybernetic whips. And they’ve got at least two years of tech journalism experience. To the requirements: • For the night position, based in Europe or Asia (fluency in written English required! Obviously!) or…

Tech News Gizmodo Jan 20 '12

NFL Team Logo Mats Are Your Cleanliness-Is-Next-to-NFL-iness Deal of the Day

I’m concerned about anti-bacterial soap. People slather that stuff on and think they’re doing everyone a solid, but they’re actually contributing to the evolution of resistant bacterial strains. Oh yeah? You’ve heard it all before? Then why are you taking a Z-Pack for a cold? IT’S THE SAME PROBLEM. Someday we’re going to have to…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Jan 20 '12

DOJ Says Apple, Google, Pixar and Intel Conspired to Not Poach Each Other’s Employees

In addition to shutting down Megaupload, the DOJ made another choice chunk of information public last night: evidence of multiple Silicon Valley companies conspiring to not poach each other’s employees. On the surface, it may sound like tepid HR industry fodder, but it’s something that affects all of us through the products we use. According…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 20 '12

LG’s New X3 Phone May Be Powerful Enough to Tear Your Face Off

We generally pass on random phone rumors, but PocketNow seems to have scooped something that sounds awfully tasty. The LG X3 (codename) will supposedly have a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 4.7-inch 720p screen, an 8MP camera, and NFC. Um, yum? It will supposedly launch in the first half of this year with Android 4.0…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 20 '12

Surveillance can save you from state corruption on Person of Interest

Why People Love Beats By Dre Headphones

Watch Ralph Fiennes recite smutty Harry Potter/Voldemort slash fiction

What Comes After 4G?

The 300-Year-Old Mystery of Why Venus Causes the “Black Drop Effect”

All Local News Teams Should Use Puppets Instead of Court Sketches

Unfriend Everyone

Amanda Hocking is still the exception to the rule: Most self-published authors don’t get huge book deals

Europe’s First Stealth Drone Looks like an Angry Cyborg

The Best Worst Photos of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom

Watch the amazing fan-made Star Wars: Uncut online for free

Play a Mario Kart Ripoff, Scan Your Business Cards, and Defend Your Miners

Microsoft Pushes Washington to Legalize Gay Marriage

These gorgeous H.P. Lovecraft inspired monster rugs can be on your floors!

10 Awesome Apps for Your Jailbroken iPhone and iPad

Scientists Will Halt Research on Avian Flu That Could Kill Half the World’s Humans—for Two Months

Gizmodo Night and Weekend Editors Wanted

NFL Team Logo Mats Are Your Cleanliness-Is-Next-to-NFL-iness Deal of the Day

DOJ Says Apple, Google, Pixar and Intel Conspired to Not Poach Each Other’s Employees

LG’s New X3 Phone May Be Powerful Enough to Tear Your Face Off

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