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Shooting Challenge: Fireflies

What kid didn’t capture fireflies in a jar, hopelessly attempting to keep them alive by tossing in a few torn blades of grass? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll capture fireflies again, but this time, on camera. The Challenge Take a photo of a firefly. You may call them lightning bugs. (A hat tip to…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 27 '11

Freaky Algorithm Can Look at Your Twitter and Tell If You’re a Dude or a Lady

Though a bit odd, it’s not unheard of for a guy to pretend to be a girl—or vice versa—on the internet. But researchersdeveloped a new algorithm which analyzes the content of tweets and predicts a user’s gender. According to Fast Company, Researchers at the Mitre Corporation found a sample base of users whose gender they…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 27 '11

Possible iPhone 5 Case Suggests That the Next iPhone Will Have a Big Honking Screen, Big Honking Home Button and a Curved Back

It’s about damn time for some more iPhone 5 speculation! The latest? An iPhone case model that shows the next iPhone having an edge-to-edge screen, a wider home screen button (for possible gestures!) and an iPad 2-esque curved back. 9to5Mac says these case designs are being shopped around to Asian case manufacturers for production and…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 27 '11

10 Pixar theme songs, in 10 minutes, all performed by 1 man

The title says it all, one video compilation of all the Pixar theme songs played with out interruption. Wait until they hit Wall-E it will make your heart melt. Officially titled, “Chaz Dela Cruz’s Multi-Instrument Pixar Medley.”

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 27 '11

The Best Deal of the Day

Have you ever tried watching TV for 24 hours straight? And I’m not talking about sleeping with the TV on. I mean WATCHING for an entire day. Let me tell you, it’s not pretty. Sometime around the 12th hour, your attention span evaporates. Then when the 18th hour hits and you’re frantically drinking Red Bull…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jul 27 '11

Coastal And Mid-Atlantic States Have Way Faster Internet

Congratulations, Pocatello Idaho. You have American’s slowest Internet. That’s according to a new study by Pando Networks that tracked Internet download speeds and completion rates across the country for five months this year. Pando Networks found some pretty stunning differences nationwide. The coastal and Mid-Atlantic states had the fastest and most reliable Internet (with Rhode…

Tech News Mat Honan Jul 27 '11

Will The Secret Circle be your new guilty pleasure in fall?

Over the weekend, we had a chance to see the pilot for Secret Circle, a teen sorcery show coming this fall from Kevin Williamson, creator of Vampire Diaries and Dawson’s Creek. It’s hard to deny the lure of a show whose pilot features teenage girls magically lighting cars on fire. But is it just too…

Television Katharine Trendacosta and Annalee Newitz Jul 27 '11

Translating Ancient Egyptian Texts Just Went Social

You know you wanna be like Indiana Jones, unlocking the secrets of ancient manuscripts. Well, that shit is hard. But the Egypt Exploration Society and Oxford University are giving you the chance by uploading their ancient papyrus to the web. By visiting Oxford’s Ancient Lives website, you and your fellow archaeologists can sit down and…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 27 '11

10 scifi and fantasy characters who believe that two heads are better than one

Plenty of fictional folks have an extra sentient cranium lying around — just not all of them have said heads attached to their auxiliary necks. Here are 10 fellows who require multiple nacho hats at tailgating parties. 10.) Two Badd from Masters of the Universe Two Badd was one of Skeletor’s less lauded henchmen. I’m…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 27 '11

The Battleship Trailer is Ridiculous…ly Watchable

It doesn’t have Samuel L. Jackson, but it’s got Brooklyn Decker and explosions. Well played! And Liam Neeson is pretty much always bad ass, even in bad movies.

Movies Kwame Opam Jul 27 '11

The Biggest Lie the Internet Ever Told: Free Everything, All the Time

Since you clicked your first link, you were promised one thing about the internet: you may have to pay a cover charge, but once you’re in, everything’s free. Except that suddenly doesn’t seem as true anymore. You know what? Good. Hulu Plus. The NY Times paywall. Ditto Time magazine. Fox’s decision to delay new episodes…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 27 '11

Buck Flashpoint Knife: It’ll Do Way More Than Cut You

If you are one of the 11 percent of Americans with a dominant left hand, you can stop reading—this knife is of no use to you. For the other 89 percent, the Buck Flashpoint is surprisingly versatile. Like The aluminum handle and 2 7/8-inch 420HC stainless steel blade together weigh a scant 4oz. The integrated…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola Jul 27 '11

Bill Gates Spent the Best Money of His Life 30 Years Ago Today

Break out the beer, MS-DOS turns 30 today. On July 27, 1981, Microsoft purchased QDOS from Seattle Computer Products. It was kind of a good deal. When IBM came to Microsoft asking for a 16-bit operating system, the company had to scramble to get one together. Rather than writing a new one from the ground…

Tech News Mat Honan Jul 27 '11

Why do people in higher latitudes have bigger brains?

Though pundits have argued that the “bell curve” of human intelligence favors big-skulled northerners, a new study shows definitively that large heads have nothing to do with intelligence. People in higher latitudes evolved bigger brainpans, but not because they’re smarter than their equatorial counterparts. Instead, people living in the far north and far south evolved…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 27 '11

Oslo Killer Was a Microsoft Word Fanatic

In his 1500-page manifesto—spammed to one thousand people more than one hour before the massacre—Norewegian killer Anders Breivik devoted pages and pages about how to read his deadly boring tome, including why he chose Microsoft Word: https://gizmodo.com/oslo-killer-emailed-plan-to-more-than-1000-people-one-h-5825170 I chose to send the compendium as a Word file for the following reason: 1. MS Word is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 27 '11

These Beautiful Waterfalls Are Made Entirely of Ice

Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson—two veteran National Geographic photographers who have been married for 28 years—have captured this beautifully surreal image of waterfalls fully made of ice. I guess that those ice caps are really melting. Cotton and Sisse—also known as Keenpress—just came back from the Artic and gave us permission to reproduce these beautiful…

Climate Change Jesus Diaz Jul 27 '11

Robert Rodriguez shares concept art from his very naked Frank Frazetta-inspired flick

The next movie for Robert Rodriguez was inspired by an artist known for his sexy, wild fantasy art, Frank Frazetta. Here’s a collection Frazetta-esque concept art for Rodriguez’s new flick, titled Fire And Ice. Rodriguez admitted that he would be channeling the look and feel of Franzetta’s art for the entire film: “I want it…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 27 '11

New Digital Maps Let Historians See Through the Eyes of General Lee

Some of America’s biggest historical events, like Gettysburg or the Dust Bowl, are also some of the most complex—and rife with contradicting accounts. A new digital mapping system aims to apply Google Earth-like functionality to American History’s mysteries. Developed at Vermont’s Middlebury College by geographer Anne Kelly Knowles and her team, Geographic Information Systems (GIS),…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 27 '11

A Cable That’ll Let Your iPad Breathe New Life Into Older Machines

It’s easy to take an older technology and cast it aside as though it’s obsolete. But Redpark’s new serial cable for your iDevice is onto something. It can connect to your iPad to older but important machines and make them new. This cable will connect your iDevice to any hardware that still relies on an…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 27 '11

Reports of this elliptical galaxy’s death were greatly exaggerated

In the prevailing view, elliptical galaxies are long-dead places, full of stars that are all at least seven to ten billion years old and without the gas needed to form new stars. The truth may not be that simple. That a look at the photo up top, which shows galaxy NGC 474 in the foreground.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 27 '11

Shooting Challenge: Fireflies

Freaky Algorithm Can Look at Your Twitter and Tell If You’re a Dude or a Lady

Possible iPhone 5 Case Suggests That the Next iPhone Will Have a Big Honking Screen, Big Honking Home Button and a Curved Back

10 Pixar theme songs, in 10 minutes, all performed by 1 man

The Best Deal of the Day

Coastal And Mid-Atlantic States Have Way Faster Internet

Will The Secret Circle be your new guilty pleasure in fall?

Translating Ancient Egyptian Texts Just Went Social

10 scifi and fantasy characters who believe that two heads are better than one

The Battleship Trailer is Ridiculous…ly Watchable

The Biggest Lie the Internet Ever Told: Free Everything, All the Time

Buck Flashpoint Knife: It’ll Do Way More Than Cut You

Bill Gates Spent the Best Money of His Life 30 Years Ago Today

Why do people in higher latitudes have bigger brains?

Oslo Killer Was a Microsoft Word Fanatic

These Beautiful Waterfalls Are Made Entirely of Ice

Robert Rodriguez shares concept art from his very naked Frank Frazetta-inspired flick

New Digital Maps Let Historians See Through the Eyes of General Lee

A Cable That’ll Let Your iPad Breathe New Life Into Older Machines

Reports of this elliptical galaxy’s death were greatly exaggerated

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