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Birds from the Cretaceous period went out the same way as the dinosaurs — with a bang

For years, paleontologists have disagreed over whether birds from the Cretaceous period went out with a whimper — dying out gradually over the course of millions of years — or with a bang — getting wiped out by the same mass extinction event that is believed to have killed off Earth’s most recent (and final)…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 19 '11

Could Star Wars happen today?

Chances are, you spent the weekend rediscovering the magic of Star Wars (with a few unwelcome tweaks.) The original Star Wars was a miracle of seat-of-the-pants film-making that captured the world’s imagination and boosted science fiction to new popularity. https://gizmodo.com/darth-vader-will-lose-a-little-more-of-his-dignity-in-s-5835951 But could something like Star Wars even get made today? There’s plenty of reason to…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Sep 19 '11

Can Bird Poop Really Crack Your Car’s Windshield?

It’s one of life’s great mysteries: how much damage can bird poop falling at terminal velocity really do? Rhett Allain, Wired’s resident physics guy, did us all a kindness and set his equations on this serious and pressing matter, originally raised by a Car Talk caller. The answer? Maaaaybe, if it was an especially large…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner Sep 19 '11

Google Wallet: The Future of Money Is Here, Sorta

“Whoa, how did you do that?” I didn’t say anything when the clerk at Duane Reade—or was it Walgreen’s?—asked me how to pay. I just smashed my phone into the PayPass terminal. Money poured out of my Nexus S, and into somebody’s corporate coffers. Magic! But then I still had to tell the dumb credit…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 19 '11

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown Joins MSNBC’s Tamron Hall On NewsNation

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown appeared on MSNBC’s NewsNation on September 19, 2011 to talk about Netflix. Watch the clip above. For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Tech News Scott Kidder Sep 19 '11

Is Christopher Nolan refusing to write down the ending of The Dark Knight Rises?

In an effort to stymie blabbermouths, director Christopher Nolan’s apparently only revealing the ending of The Dark Knight Rises to select cast members. And according to Gary “Commissioner Gordon” Oldman, Nolan’s directorial omertà is so thorough that he won’t commit the ending to paper. In an interview with Contact Music, Oldman elaborated on Nolan’s spoiler-proofing…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19 '11

Memory City Will Turn Your Mountain of Flash Drives into a Byte-Sized Burg

The flash drives are taking over. They live in your desk drawers, you laptop bag, between your couch cushions and in your pockets. They’re taking over. It’s out of control. They need a home. Behold, Memory City. Memory City is like the Land of Toys in Pinocchio. It’s a place where thumb drives are free…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 19 '11

The Big Bang Theory Is Now On 5 Nights a Week

This fall, television’s most lovable physicists and one hot, wacky neighbor are expanding their geektastic hilarity to five nights a week. In honor of this exciting news, let’s do a roll call of the brainiac/maniacs you’ll come to know and love. And click here to see when The Big Bang Theory is on in your…

Tech News Sponsored post Sep 19 '11

Beautician Enlarges Breasts and Makes Women Prettier By Beating the Crap Out of Them

This is so bizarre it reads like a Monty Python skit: A Bangkok beautician claims that she can make you beautiful, thinner and enlarge your breast by beating the crap out of you. Shockingly, Thailand’s government has approved her technique. Khemmikka Na Songkhla uses slapping to “re-shape” your body, claiming that she can make you…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 19 '11

Oldest known DNA fragment is over a billion years old

There’s one tiny fragment of DNA that pretty much all vertebrates and invertebrates share. It’s the only piece of DNA known to be a billion years old — and it still has a role to play in shaping our genes. Researchers at the University of Barcelona discovered the fragment, which is a noncoding sequence of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 19 '11

Finally! A Solar Tree That Can Charge Your iPhone

It only took few years and a few fascinating if controversial breakthroughs in solar power. Now, thanks to designer Vivien Muller, you can finally have a decorative-houseplant-cum-solar charger for your iPhone right on your desk. Just give it plenty of light. The Electree was originally a concept debuted by Muller a few years back, and…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19 '11

Tintin returns to the mind-melting worlds of H.P. Lovecraft

Remember Murray Groat’s Cthulhu versus Tintin book covers? Groat’s expanded this series and introduced the boy reporter to the Yithians, the Mi-Go, and Crawford Tillinghast. Something tells me this would have happened if Peter Jackson tapped Guillermo del Toro to help out on Secret of the Unicorn. https://gizmodo.com/tintin-meets-h-p-lovecraft-in-this-mind-bending-mash-u-5696372 And if these covers pique your interest,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19 '11

Mad Men on DVD Is Your Unflappably Cool Deal of the Day

I want to start a cult. In this cult, we would drink until we couldn’t see straight, smoke until our lungs turned black and eat until we suffered massive coronaries. We would dress impeccably and never appear affected by the trials and tribulations of the world. And that’s just the workday! Our sacred tome would…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Sep 19 '11

Absolutely Stunning Concept Art from Ralph Bakshi’s Animated Lord of the Rings

Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings movie was kind of a letdown, even back in the day — and it definitely doesn’t stand up to Peter Jackson’s masterpiece. But the movie did generate some fantastic concept art. Just check out this concept art from Barry Jackson. According to a post over at Meathaus, this art…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 19 '11

Sick Bastard Busted for Streaming Cartoon Porn in a McDonald’s PlayPlace

53-year old Ronnie Hobbs was arrested when police spotted him watching cartoon porn, on his laptop, in plain sight, while sitting inside a McDonald’s PlayPlace. According to Natchez Mississippi police, Hobbs was spotted “watching cartoon pornography pictures inside a public place the images of which could be viewed from the parking lot and drive thru…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Sep 19 '11

Gamers Crack Code That Could Lead to New AIDS Treatments

Scientists spent a decade trying—and failing—to map the structure of an enzyme that could help solve a crucial part of the AIDS puzzle. It took online gamers all of three weeks. The enzyme in question is the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus retroviral protease, and researchers have been seeking ways of deactivating it as a way of…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19 '11

What dreadful horror could compel Sherlock Holmes to seek the aid of Aleister Crowley?

While you’re waiting raptly for the second installment of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films and the second season of Steven Moffat’s Holmes TV show, you can fill your Holmes cravings with a new novel — in which Holmes teams up with Aleister Crowley. In The Breath of God by Guy Adams, published by Titan Books,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 19 '11

Laser Can Detect Roadside Bombs From a Distance

Scientists have a new laser sensor they say can detect roadside bombs, the cause of more than half the soldier deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. A team at Michigan State University published their research in the scientific journal Applied Physical Letters – but only in so much detail. Because of the laser’s sensitive nature, they…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Sep 19 '11

Canadian cryptid coins are the most bad-ass currency in the history of legal tender

Most of us are accustomed to money covered with dead historical figures and scenic historical monuments. In the Great White North, they are minting commemorative coins adorned with Québécois lake dragons and underwater panthers. If you live anywhere but Canada, your money officially sucks. These two coins were designed by illustrator Emily Samstra for the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19 '11

The ocean depths might be hiding the full extent of global climate change

The last decade was the hottest on record, and yet it wasn’t until 2010 that an individual year was hotter than the record-breaking 1998 heatwave. Somehow, global temperatures mysteriously flattened out. The explanation may lie thousands of feet underwater. Scientists have long been searching for the so-called “missing heat” to explain the disparity between expected…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 19 '11

Birds from the Cretaceous period went out the same way as the dinosaurs — with a bang

Could Star Wars happen today?

Can Bird Poop Really Crack Your Car’s Windshield?

Google Wallet: The Future of Money Is Here, Sorta

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown Joins MSNBC’s Tamron Hall On NewsNation

Is Christopher Nolan refusing to write down the ending of The Dark Knight Rises?

Memory City Will Turn Your Mountain of Flash Drives into a Byte-Sized Burg

The Big Bang Theory Is Now On 5 Nights a Week

Beautician Enlarges Breasts and Makes Women Prettier By Beating the Crap Out of Them

Oldest known DNA fragment is over a billion years old

Finally! A Solar Tree That Can Charge Your iPhone

Tintin returns to the mind-melting worlds of H.P. Lovecraft

Mad Men on DVD Is Your Unflappably Cool Deal of the Day

Absolutely Stunning Concept Art from Ralph Bakshi’s Animated Lord of the Rings

Sick Bastard Busted for Streaming Cartoon Porn in a McDonald’s PlayPlace

Gamers Crack Code That Could Lead to New AIDS Treatments

What dreadful horror could compel Sherlock Holmes to seek the aid of Aleister Crowley?

Laser Can Detect Roadside Bombs From a Distance

Canadian cryptid coins are the most bad-ass currency in the history of legal tender

The ocean depths might be hiding the full extent of global climate change

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