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Watch Apple Celebrate Steve Jobs’ Life

On October 19th, Apple held a special memorial for Steve Jobs to celebrate his life. In the video, you can watch Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Al Gore and others talk about Steve and see performances by Norah Jones and Coldplay. Jonathan Ive has an especially great speech, saying how Jobs always laughed at how Ive…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 24 '11

BlackBerry PlayBook’s Killer New Feature, Android, Demonstrated on Video

The long-awaited Android app player for BlackBerry has been demonstrated by a developer, giving PlayBook owners a future reason to stay loyal. It’s Android, in a little window, courtesy of RIM’s BBX 2.0 OS. [MacBerry via BGR via Gizmodo UK] Our newest offspring Gizmodo UK is gobbling up the news in a different timezone, so…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 24 '11

Read the Revelations in Full: Book of Jobs Now Available

Almost the entire book has leaked already, but now it’s time to read the whole thing cover to cover. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is available starting today in hardback with ebooks available since late yesterday. Kindle price is a steep $21.14, with the hardcover version at $17.88 [Amazon via TUAW via Gizmodo UK] Our…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 24 '11

Making Meat Should be a “Factory Process”

The slightly queasy quote above comes from Professor Mark Post of the department of vascular physiology at Maastricht University, which has been given $480,000 to help find a better way of making meat in a lab. The general idea is to use stem cell developments to grow tasty, authentic animal tissue in the laboratory, completely…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 24 '11

GoPro Hero 2 Lightning Review: Best Sports Cam Ever?

We loved our GoPro HD Hero. It was simply the sweetest wearable action camera we’d seen… until now. The brand spankin’ new Hero 2 isn’t dramatically different, they just made everything a lot better. I may never take it off. https://gizmodo.com/gopro-hero-hd-camera-review-5396576 Like Video shot with the HD Hero looked good. This looks way better. They…

Tech News Brent Rose Oct 24 '11

Joss Whedon found time to make a Shakespeare movie?

Nathan Fillion just tweeted a link to MuchAdotheMovie.com, which announces the conclusion of principal photography on Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, an adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Is this a prank? A short film? Or did Whedon really find time to film another movie in the midst of working on The Avengers? The cast…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 23 '11

Images from the Catastrophic Fall of Imperial Japan, 1945

With the war for Europe over and the U.S.’s Pacific “island hopping” strategy seeing long-range bombers within striking distance of Japan, all that stood between the Allies and and end to World War 2 was taking that tenacious island nation. In the months leading up to the Allies being on Japan’s doorstep however there was…

Tech News Jack Loftus Oct 23 '11

4WD Imperial Crawler Hack Makes the AT-AT Even More “Off-Roadier”

Called the Imperial Crawler by designer Christopher Aleria, this interesting take on the AT-AT would have surely been immune to Luke’s harpoon technique. The rig is remote controlled and about as off road as an AT-AT model with huge chunky wheels could hope to be. Word is Aleria’s been conscripted into the Imperial military and…

Tech News Jack Loftus Oct 23 '11

io9 Roundup: October 23, 2011

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: 6/22 – 6/23 | Concept art from The Thing by Robert Simons. Hat tip to Gadget Bot. Saturday Morning Cartoons bring you clips from this week’s episodes of Young Justice, Generator Rex, & more! https://gizmodo.com/saturday-morning-cartoons-bring-you-clips-from-this-wee-5852333 For some reason, good ‘ol cartoons like we grew up with in the 80s and 90s (and earlier)…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 23 '11

The Rotundus GroundBot Wheels Out 3D Video Surveillance on the Go

The Rotundus GroundBot is a dual-camera security bot that returns 3D video feeds to a security team located nearby. I think I’ll call him Wheelie from now on. Wheels? You tell me. Ideal for environments with plenty of flat spaces, like airports. The smooth rubber surface provides smooth sailing and speeds of up to 6mph…

Privacy & Security Jack Loftus Oct 23 '11

Not That the World’s Candy Corn Population Needs Bolstering, But Here’s How to Make Your Own

Louis Black had a joke once about candy corn that’s hilarious, and it went something like this: In 1911 they made tons of candy corn and most it is still around today. Yeah, it’s funnier when he tells it. Anyway, Having consumed quite a bit of candy corn myself (and not died) over the years…

Tech News Jack Loftus Oct 23 '11

Silent scenes from the airplane graveyards of the American Southwest

The dry climate of the southwest United States is a popular spot for airplane boneyards. When airlines need to stow away planes or lay them to rest, they will ship planes out to aviation boneyards in states like California and Arizona. And sometimes, photographers brave security patrols and barbed-wire fences to photograph these slumbering hulks.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 23 '11

Wacom Inkling Release Finally Dated for October 24?

T he Wacom Inkling was a magical, near-unbelievable device that we drooled all over in late August (Jesus especially). It was supposed to be out by late September. Now it’s late October. Luckily, we may finally have a release date. https://gizmodo.com/wacom-inkling-may-become-my-favorite-gadget-of-all-time-5835739 According to an unconfirmed news item at Japanese gadget blog Mycom, the alleged date…

Gadgets Jack Loftus Oct 23 '11

Dark star clusters are like regular star clusters…except full of black holes

Some star clusters have no business surviving. For instance, there’s a tiny cluster right next to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, which should be ripped apart by its intense gravity. But there’s more to this cluster than meets the eye. This particular cluster, IRS 13E, can barely even be called one, considering it’s made up…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 23 '11

20 Zero-Effort, High-Concept Halloween Costumes Guaranteed To Alienate Your Friends

Halloween! It’s the time of the year when some of us get dolled up in our finest regalia, and others have trouble remembering it’s October. If you’re the kind of overworked, absent-minded, or just unabashedly antisocial individual who has no time or patience for the holiday, here are twenty cosplaying ideas. They’ll get you into…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 23 '11

Confused Black Keys Fans Wondering Why Microsoft Windows Store Is Hanging Around Their Free Concert

So there was a wildly successful Black Keys concert in Seattle the other day featuring some Microsoft products. Or was it a Microsoft Windows store launch featuring the Black Keys? Did people even know Microsoft was involved? I kid Microsoft, really I do, but when people are camping outside your new store on launch day…

Tech News Jack Loftus Oct 23 '11

How over-the-counter painkillers could also help with social awkwardness

Imagine that the pain you feel from a physical injury and a bad social interaction aren’t just metaphorically linked…they’re actually two aspects of the exact same thing. So does that mean you could take aspirin to soothe your interpersonal pain? That’s the idea put forward in a 2010 study by psychologists at the University of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 23 '11

Meet the two-horned cousin of triceratops

Triceratops has captured the public imagination ever since the first fossils were discovered in 1887. But it’s hardly the only horned dinosaur that once roamed the Earth. Meet the two-horned zuniceratops, oldest of the American relatives of triceratops. Compared to its more famous cousin, zuniceratops was a tiny dinosaur. The fossil record indicates that triceratops…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 23 '11

Epic pi quest sets 10 trillion digit record

A pair of pi enthusiasts have calculated the largest chunk of the mathematical constant yet, reaching just over 10 trillion digits. Alexander Yee and Shigeru Kondo, respectively a computer scientist in the US and a systems engineer in Japan, fought hard-drive failures and narrowly missed widespread technical disruptions due to the Japan earthquake to break…

io9 Jacob Aron - New Scientist Oct 23 '11

Sound the All Clear: ROSAT Does Not Go Splat

ROSAT, the latest manmade object to fall from the heavens and threaten humanity’s safety, has apparently burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. The 1 in 2,000 chance of death from above we had all feared never materialized. The German Aerospace center estimates the 21-year-old, 5,348-pound satellite entered the atmosphere around 9:45 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday night…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus Oct 23 '11

Watch Apple Celebrate Steve Jobs’ Life

BlackBerry PlayBook’s Killer New Feature, Android, Demonstrated on Video

Read the Revelations in Full: Book of Jobs Now Available

Making Meat Should be a “Factory Process”

GoPro Hero 2 Lightning Review: Best Sports Cam Ever?

Joss Whedon found time to make a Shakespeare movie?

Images from the Catastrophic Fall of Imperial Japan, 1945

4WD Imperial Crawler Hack Makes the AT-AT Even More “Off-Roadier”

io9 Roundup: October 23, 2011

The Rotundus GroundBot Wheels Out 3D Video Surveillance on the Go

Not That the World’s Candy Corn Population Needs Bolstering, But Here’s How to Make Your Own

Silent scenes from the airplane graveyards of the American Southwest

Wacom Inkling Release Finally Dated for October 24?

Dark star clusters are like regular star clusters…except full of black holes

20 Zero-Effort, High-Concept Halloween Costumes Guaranteed To Alienate Your Friends

Confused Black Keys Fans Wondering Why Microsoft Windows Store Is Hanging Around Their Free Concert

How over-the-counter painkillers could also help with social awkwardness

Meet the two-horned cousin of triceratops

Epic pi quest sets 10 trillion digit record

Sound the All Clear: ROSAT Does Not Go Splat

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