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Live Every Week Like it’s Shark Week

Shark Week, the brainchild of a stoned Discovery Channel employee that became a national holiday, starts officially tonight at 9PM. But you don’t need no stinkin’ designated week. Live every week like it’s Shark Week with the help of Giz! How To Watch Shark Week Online It’s Shark Week. You know you wanna watch… because…

Tech News Michael Zhao Jul 31 '11

You tell us what Bane is reading on this piece of paper

Earlier today, we posted photos of Tom Hardy decked out in Bane attire on the set of The Dark Knight Rises. One of the stranger snapshots has Bane staring intently at a scrap of paper. https://gizmodo.com/tremble-before-banes-full-costume-from-the-dark-knight-5826294 In the comments of that post, professional everyman Garrison Dean — who you may know from his awesome Dark…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31 '11

Sometimes you just have to walk your mechanical fire-breathing pony

We’ve seen many a fiery automaton in our day, but this flame-belching robo-pony seen at this weekend’s Detroit Maker Faire deserves a some sort of prize most sinister. Are his mohawked companions walking him…or vice versa? https://gizmodo.com/10-flamethrowing-contraptions-thatll-keep-those-dang-ki-5735083 [Via Boing Boing]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31 '11

The Logitech Revue Is Now $99, and It Still Costs too Much

The Revue, Logitech’s Google TV black box, never really took off. Unsurprising, since Google TV never took off either. So a humbled Logitech just slashed the price down from the original $299 to just $99. That hurts. Logitech promises that, when the Android 3.1 update comes to Google TV later this summer, customers can expect…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 31 '11

Ancient Brits were carving reindeer art 15,000 years ago

This carving may not look like much, but it’s possibly the oldest art ever found in Britain. The rock art appears to depict a reindeer with a spear sticking out of it. Hunter-gathers did tend to carve what they knew. Although its precise location is currently being kept secret, we know that the carving was…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 31 '11

Getting Married By a Computer Is How Weddings Should Be Done

Sweethearts Miguel Hanson and Diana Wesley got married yesterday. By a computer program Hanson programmed himself. Honestly, I don’t even consider that a big deal. In fact, I want to get married this way. The newlyweds said their vows in front of a friends and family as Hanson’s parents’ home in Houston. The officiant was…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 31 '11

That’s not a Cup of Coffee Being Poured, It’s a Pair of Shoes

It’s still early enough in the day that I’d love a cup of coffee. And I don’t really drink coffee. Still… I feel weird about loving this shoe design by Kobi Levi. Like, it’s attractive and looks delicious. Is that wrong? Levi is already well known for his uber-quirky shoe designs. Gotta love him. So…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 31 '11

Chupacabra attacks on the rise in Siberia

Despite the absolutely Dullsville real-world explanations for chupacabras, it seems as if the dreaded goat-sucker has hopped continents. https://gizmodo.com/chupacabras-are-just-coyotes-with-scabies-says-biologi-5671700 https://gizmodo.com/actress-natasha-henstridge-is-the-chupacabra-for-real-5784498 According to The Moscow News, towns outside of the Russian city of Novosibirsk are abuzz with rumors of chupacabras, who are said to be sipping on some bovine and goaty hemoglobin. One local named Natalya…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31 '11

Awesome image gives you two night skies for the price of one

This breathtaking panorama combines the two hemispheres of the Milky Way galaxy into one. On top, we can see the northern stars from the Canary Islands, while on bottom we can see the southern sky from Chile’s Atacama desert. A NASA astronomer explains further: The photographers’ choice of locations offered locally dark skies enjoyed by…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 31 '11

Remix the President With the Obama Board Keyboard

For anyone who might have complained about the quality of our sitting president’s addresses, you can write your own with the Obama Board Keyboard. Featured at Maker Faire Detroit, you can remix choice lines from Obama’s 2009 inauguration speech to write your own. It was designed by Canadian Maker Ashley Lewis. If she follows Obama…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 31 '11

Saying swear words actually stresses your brain

While there’s nothing quite like reeling off a string of profanities to blow off some steam, our brains might not agree with that sentiment. Saying swear words out loud actually triggers reactions deep in the emotion centers of the brain. That’s the finding of Professor Jeffrey Bowers and Dr. Christopher Pleydell-Pearce, both of the University…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 31 '11

Art installation allows you to be a kaiju in the city of the mole people

For the upcoming MS Dockville music festival in Hamburg, Germany, designer EVOL transformed an empty field into a weird subterranean cityscape that visitors can tromp through. The hole will be refilled by the end of the festival, but for a brief time, you can be the titanic scourge of a Kobold apartment complex. And if…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31 '11

Intel Wants Your Phone to Play Nice With Your Car Alarm

The LoJacks and Clubs of the world would like you to think they have you covered should someone make off with your vehicle. But more security never hurts. So Intel is developing an app that’ll let you know if your car’s in trouble. Intel’s approach is to connect your smartphone to your car’s security system.…

Privacy & Security Kwame Opam Jul 31 '11

Alan Moore’s 1985 interview about Watchmen gave no inkling it’d be a smash hit

In January 1985 — well over a year and a half before the first issue of Watchmen would hit stands — Alan Moore had a short interview (click to enlarge) in Amazing Heroes #65 in which he gave a quick and dirty synopsis of the comic. I love how hilariously understated Moore’s description of the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31 '11

PayPal Fights Back By Giving 1,000 Anonymous IPs to the FBI

Looks like it’s PayPal’s turn in this volley. After Anonymous started an anti-PayPal campaign last week in response to all the recent arrests, PayPal has come back with what they believe are the IP addresses of those responsible for last year’s DDoS attacks on their servers. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-mounts-legal-protest-against-paypal-5825068 Now, this could be PayPal blowing a whole…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 31 '11

Mapping the most complex object in the known universe

It’s paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing the neural connections that make up the brain. Mapping out this intricate web previously depended on the human eye as no computer was powerful enough to handle the brain’s complex network of 70…

io9 Caitlin Stier - New Scientist Jul 31 '11

This Guy Can Play Drums On Thin Air

This is not some guitar hero hack. Maayan Migdal hacked together this cool drum kit that uses his sandals and a pair of freaking garden rakes to make his sound. How he did it was he modified the garden rakes to make use of a pair of accelerometers, the left for the hi-hats and the…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 31 '11

Tremble before Bane’s full costume from The Dark Knight Rises!

Yesterday in Pittsburgh, Tom Hardy braved the summer heat wearing his full Bane get-up to deliver a speech to some bad guys. Also, some new camouflage Batmobiles rolled down the street. Warning: spoilers and supervillain fashion galore! According to an on-set tipster who was in at the filming yesterday, Bane freed a bunch of inmates…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31 '11

Exercise Makes People Look Like Zombies

Or at least just really really ugly. Photographer Sacha Goldberger (remember Super Mamika) took these pictures of runners after they clearly ran through hell itself, and then again a week later in the same poses. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-coolest-grandma-is-a-91-year-old-superhero-5695153 Why do this to yourself?? [FastCo Design]

Health Kwame Opam Jul 31 '11

Even Prisons Can Be Hacked Now

Vulnerabilities in electronic systems that control prison doors could allow hackers or others to spring prisoners from their jail cells, according to researchers. Some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran exist in the country’s top high-security prisons, according to security consultant and engineer…

Tech News Kim Zetter - Wired Jul 31 '11

Live Every Week Like it’s Shark Week

You tell us what Bane is reading on this piece of paper

Sometimes you just have to walk your mechanical fire-breathing pony

The Logitech Revue Is Now $99, and It Still Costs too Much

Ancient Brits were carving reindeer art 15,000 years ago

Getting Married By a Computer Is How Weddings Should Be Done

That’s not a Cup of Coffee Being Poured, It’s a Pair of Shoes

Chupacabra attacks on the rise in Siberia

Awesome image gives you two night skies for the price of one

Remix the President With the Obama Board Keyboard

Saying swear words actually stresses your brain

Art installation allows you to be a kaiju in the city of the mole people

Intel Wants Your Phone to Play Nice With Your Car Alarm

Alan Moore’s 1985 interview about Watchmen gave no inkling it’d be a smash hit

PayPal Fights Back By Giving 1,000 Anonymous IPs to the FBI

Mapping the most complex object in the known universe

This Guy Can Play Drums On Thin Air

Tremble before Bane’s full costume from The Dark Knight Rises!

Exercise Makes People Look Like Zombies

Even Prisons Can Be Hacked Now

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