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How News of the World Hacked Everybody’s Phones

For a while, leaving your cell unattended seemed like the biggest threat to phone security. But this recent business is a reminder that there are savvier ways someone can violate your phone—without even touching it. Details are still emerging as to how, exactly, News of the World reporters got into everybody’s giblets. But here are…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Jul 19 '11

10 Fantasy Book Series That Could Replace Harry Potter at the Movies

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 had the biggest opening weekend of any movie in box office history. Which means that Hollywood is going to be twice as desperate to find a new Potter-style addictive fantasy series. Fantasy books are full of long, immersive series — it’s one of the things fantasy does…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 19 '11

Are You Jogging Drunk?

This teeny, wearable blood flow sensor claims to be able to measure circulation even while you’re moving. Most sensors require you to sit still, but with this, doctors can keep track of your condition while you run. Or have a beer. The sensor was developed by a research group at Kyushu and Tokyo Universities. According…

Health Kwame Opam Jul 19 '11

Procella Serves Up Big Subwoofer Sound in a Smaller Package

Procella’s P15 subwoofer isn’t the company’s behemoth compared to the bigger P18 model. But don’t mistake it for a runt: the P15 packs two 15″ drivers, each powered by a 350w amplifier. The P15 uses an active, long throw driver to produce up to 125db of sound and has a frequency response that goes as…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 19 '11

Time Magazine Is Cloaking Itself Behind a Paywall

Time Magazine has just joined the New York Times in its paywall-erecting ways. Subscribers will soon be offered “all-access” plans that cover the bases from print to mobile and web. Non-subscribers will be locked out for three months. https://gizmodo.com/a-chart-the-new-york-times-paywall-is-screwed-5784652 At least until someone finds a loophole. [AllThingsD]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 19 '11

Creating Captain America

With Captain America: The First Avenger out on July 22, here’s a look at how the hero – and his arch-nemesis – came about. Hint: it involves ice cream… As comic book origin stories go, Captain America’s is up there with the greatest. No, not the weedy Steve Rogers, pure of heart but puny of…

Books & Comics Joe Simon - Maxim Jul 19 '11

I Want Pencil Shavings In My Salad—Parmesan Pencil Shavings, That Is

I’ll get the bad news out with first: unfortunately only 500 sets of these parmesan pencils were made, and they’re all sold out. But perhaps if we petition The Deli Garage, they’ll magic new stock up out of thin air? Designed to look just like pencils, the parmesan cheese is wrapped around what looks like…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 19 '11

Google+ iOS App Is Now Available

That took a good few weeks, didn’t it? Google+ has just literally hit the App Store, with Circles, Stream and Huddle options for sharing, receiving, messaging and annoying. It’s a free download. [iTunes via @Claudineb]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 19 '11

A Homemade, Functional LEGO Computer and More from the Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, a badass PC made from Legos, a flatpack house built for $720, furniture for the minimalist geek, solar cells that can be printed on paper or fabric, and more! 1. Homemade Computer Crafted with Legos, Crunches Numbers for Medical Research It’s everything you imagine, and then some. 2. Minimalist Table and…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch Jul 19 '11

It may be Comic-Con, but Wednesday won’t con you out of new comics

Just because the entire comic industry will more or less relocate to San Diego tomorrow doesn’t mean there isn’t a ton of new stuff on the stands — Locke and Key and Daredevil return, and Grant Morrison pens his treatise on superheroes. First Issues Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s new Locke and Key series Clockworks…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 19 '11

Two Lenses Will Fix Compact Cameras’ Depth of Field, Proposes Samsung

Rather than be used for 3D photos and video, Samsung’s proposing that this dual-lens camera patent could actually help compact cameras capture a shallower depth of field, where focused objects stand out more, and backgrounds are blurred. It’d work like two cameras, with one lens taking a shot at a lower resolution, and the second…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 19 '11

Gizmodo’s Super Soaker BBQ Was a Hurricane of Beer, Ketchup, Water, and Thrills

This past Saturday, brave souls flocked to the roof of Gizmodo HQ with a singular mission in mind: to eat, drink, laugh, and fire enormous streams of water at one another at close range. It was a total blast. For many of us, it was probably the first time we’d run around shooting water guns…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 19 '11

Carabiner Keys Are the Perfect Spares

Keychains for single keys are a pain in the butt. Scott Amron’s new Carabiner Key lets you just latch a spare key onto whatever the hell you want to latch it onto without going through hassle of an extra link. The carabiner keys are functional blanks, so you can take them to a locksmith and…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 19 '11

Facial Recognition Screws With the Wrong Man

Technology may be a pivot for many of our lives, but it’s not exactly infallible. A Massachusetts man learnt that the hard way, after his driver’s license was flagged as a fake on the police system, due to a facial-recognition error. It seems John H. Gass looks rather similar to another Massachusetts driver, causing the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 19 '11

The Lithoman Can Span Arizona’s Meteor Crater with Print in One Minute

Print media is slowly becoming more like the trees they’re printed on: dead. Yet the Wall Street Journal alone commands a daily circulation of 2.1 million. That’s a lot of pulp and ink. Or about 5 hours of work for the Man Roland Lithoman. The Lithoman is a high-speed offset printing press. Offset printing exploits…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 19 '11

Why did the temperature of the Red Sea rise abruptly in 1995?

In 1995, the temperature of the Red Sea rose abruptly. It’s already-warm waters became 0.7°C hotter, which is a significant amount for a body of water whose reefs support life that’s adapted for a very specific temperature. Scientists studying the Red Sea recently published a study using satellite data to prove that the temperature spike…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 19 '11

Whoops: Alleged Anthrax Killer Might Not Have Been the Anthrax Killer

Bruce Ivins was suspected by the FBI and DOJ of sending powdered anthrax to government agencies and killing five people in 2001. In 2008 he committed suicide. Most assumed he was guilty. But maybe he wasn’t? In recently released court papers, court prosecutors admitted the possiblility that Ivins wasn’t the Anthrax Killer at all, though…

Health Adrian Covert Jul 19 '11

Don’t Saw Off Your Son’s Cast Cause You’ll Chop His Fingers Off

Sawing off a cast is totes normal…if you’re a doctor. Sawing off a cast when you’re not a doctor? Not at all recommended. So why oh why, Lawrence Roberts, did you saw off your son’s cast? He’s missing fingers now! Roberts, a 33-year-old man, used a 10-inch circular saw on his 15-year-old son’s arm cast.…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 19 '11

Celebrities Will Be Given Special Little Badges of Pride on Google+ Too

Like Twitter Verified accounts, celebrities are being lured to Google+ with a “celebrity acquisition plan,” which will help with promotion and cracking down on impersonations. One way Google may check celebrities’ identities? Asking them to fax their drivers licenses. Ouch. [CNN]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 19 '11

Rock patterns that make algorithms beautiful

These carefully-patterned rock arrangements look like something out of a meditation garden, or environmental art. But they are actually the product of simple computer algorithms expressed through a 3D program. Writes artist Giuseppe Randazzo: This project has started from a search for a 3d-objects optimal packing algorithm over a surface, but evolved in something rather…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 19 '11

How News of the World Hacked Everybody’s Phones

10 Fantasy Book Series That Could Replace Harry Potter at the Movies

Are You Jogging Drunk?

Procella Serves Up Big Subwoofer Sound in a Smaller Package

Time Magazine Is Cloaking Itself Behind a Paywall

Creating Captain America

I Want Pencil Shavings In My Salad—Parmesan Pencil Shavings, That Is

Google+ iOS App Is Now Available

A Homemade, Functional LEGO Computer and More from the Best of Treehugger

It may be Comic-Con, but Wednesday won’t con you out of new comics

Two Lenses Will Fix Compact Cameras’ Depth of Field, Proposes Samsung

Gizmodo’s Super Soaker BBQ Was a Hurricane of Beer, Ketchup, Water, and Thrills

Carabiner Keys Are the Perfect Spares

Facial Recognition Screws With the Wrong Man

The Lithoman Can Span Arizona’s Meteor Crater with Print in One Minute

Why did the temperature of the Red Sea rise abruptly in 1995?

Whoops: Alleged Anthrax Killer Might Not Have Been the Anthrax Killer

Don’t Saw Off Your Son’s Cast Cause You’ll Chop His Fingers Off

Celebrities Will Be Given Special Little Badges of Pride on Google+ Too

Rock patterns that make algorithms beautiful

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