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You Can Finally Share Photos Natively Using Twitter

Wow. Five years after it launched, Twitter has finally added native photo-sharing to its service. Starting now, all Twitter.com users have a camera icon that lets you add a photo to your tweet. Images that are 3MB or less in size can be uploaded and embedded into a tweet. If a user follows you they…

Tech News Kelly Aug 9 '11

io9 Roundup: August 9, 2011

WHATEVER HAPPENS IN VEGAS… | Sin City is a tough place to play, since everything fell apart. “In the Mists of Vegas” concept art by Robin Olausson. https://gizmodo.com/10-computer-animated-or-motion-captured-characters-who-5828990 10 Computer-Animated or Motion-Captured Characters Who Actually Look Cool Rise of the Planet of the Apes proved that a motion-capture performance can capture audiences’ attention. And a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 9 '11

Google Misplaced The Biggest Mountain in the Continental United States

Mt. Whitney is the tallest mountain in the “lower 48.” Naturally, it’s one of the most notable landmarks in both the state of California, and the United States itself. Google Maps has no idea where it is. Gelatobaby discovered the Google Maps mishap on a recent trip to Yosemite. Her iPhone showed the mountain smack…

Tech News Mat Honan Aug 9 '11

Don’t Let Cable TV Be the Monster in Your Living Room

There are plenty of people now who think the cable companies are nothing but a cabal of greedy assholes. But you know who hated the cable companies more? Movie theaters and broadcast networks in the 1970s. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-best-time-warner-cable-takedown-yet-5806001 Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza writes that the Film and TV power players were paranoid about cable eating away…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 9 '11

New Technique Could Rid Space of Junk in Just 4,000 Years

The earth’s orbit is littered with about 20,000 pieces of space junk measuring four inches or larger. Pieces smaller than that are in the tens of millions, according to NASA. To prevent the Earth’s atmosphere from becoming a full-on junkyard, Italian Space Agency scientists have proposed an elegant way to remove space debris: launch a…

Space & Spaceflight Kristen Philipkoski Aug 9 '11

Walter Cronkite Explores the Home of 2001

While visiting New York a few years ago I stopped in at the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio). They have quite an extensive collection of TV programs that anyone can view, two at a time, for an admission fee. One of the shows I watched was an episode of…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 9 '11

Chimps prove that human generosity is an ancient trait

Is selfless behavior in humans a unique evolutionary development? For years, studies designed to test prosociality, or altruism, in chimpanzees have presented them as “reluctant altruists” that are indifferent to the welfare of their fellow chimps. But now it seems that chimps care more for their fellow apes than we realized. A new study has…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 9 '11

10 of the Most Mind-Blowing Slow Motion Videos You’ve Ever Seen

When we heard about the new Phantom v1610, which shoots at a preposterous 1,000,000 fps and is probably the most powerful slow motion camera ever, we were pretty excited. Here are some of our favorite slo-mo videos ever. The Camera That Goes to ONE MILLION FPS Egg Meets Mousetrap Pretty much anything you’d want to…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 9 '11

California Booting Inmates off Facebook

If there’s anything worse than being in a California state penitentiary, it’s not being able to check if you’ve been tagged in any photos lately. This dual fate of horror is now a reality for CA inmates, NBC reports. The state’s apparently not thrilled with social media savvy criminals, and is “working with Facebook to…

Social Media Sam Biddle Aug 9 '11

Rats are awesome masters of all things poisonous

We recently learned that rats in Africa can use plant poison to kill lions, and their North American counterparts also have a few tricks up their sleeves. Woodrats eat so many different toxic plants, it’s impossible to poison them. https://gizmodo.com/this-rat-uses-plant-poison-to-make-weapons-that-kill-li-5827200 Many plants evolve toxins that will poison any animal that tries to eat it. Because…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 9 '11

Now we really want to see Warehouse 13‘s H.G. Wells spin-off!

You might recall that Syfy gave the green light to development of a Warehouse 13 spin-off starring H.G. Wells a while back. Back when this was announced, we were pretty excited — but that was before we saw last night’s episode, guest-starring Torchwood’s Gareth David-Lloyd. https://gizmodo.com/a-warehouse-13-spin-off-starring-h-g-wells-yes-please-5801409 Spoilers ahead… Last night, Warehouse 13 gave us a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 9 '11

Witness a massive solar flare burst off the Sun

Earlier today, the Sun fired the biggest solar flare we’ve seen thus far in our current solar cycle. With an X-ray magnitude of X6.9, this flare was three times larger than the previous titleholder, a X2.2 from mid-February. Today’s flare wasn’t aimed at Earth, so it shouldn’t affect our communications technologies. Just how powerful was…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 9 '11

Facebook for iPhone and Android: Will This Really Kill SMS?

As you may have heard, Facebook just released a standalone Messenger app. It’s their effort to invade your phone with a messaging platform that everyone has access to (because ‘everyone’ has a Facebook). And even if you don’t use Facebook, you can use it to SMS! https://gizmodo.com/facebook-s-new-messenger-app-aims-to-kill-sms-bbm-and-5829250 What’s it do? Well, theoretically it can become…

Social Media Casey Chan Aug 9 '11

Here is the world’s first microscopic action movie, shot by researchers in Japan

ATPase is one of biology’s most important biological motors, and now it’s starring in its very own molecule-scale action movie. According to sciencebase’s David Bradley: Researchers in Japan have used high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) to shoot an action movie of the biological molecular motor ATPase…The enzyme has two rotating components, but until now only…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 9 '11

This Is Your Chance to Fund a Phone Case That Will End in Certain Death

We’re idiots when we drive. We text, we watch movies, we careen into lakes blindly following GPS directions. So I’m having some trouble understanding how bolting your phone to the middle of your steering wheel is supposed to make us pay more attention to the road, not less. https://gizmodo.com/man-drowns-after-gps-guides-him-into-a-lake-5655527 Amazingly, that’s the claim of the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 9 '11

First Photos of Matt Damon as a Cyborg on the Edge in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is filming his next movie, set 100 years in the future on another planet. And it looks like Matt Damon is going to be a machine-man in trouble, judging from these new set pics. Do you think that’s an exoskeleton that Damon’s wearing? A harness? Or something more integrated into…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 9 '11

Chris Sarandon explains the insane reason why Fright Night‘s vampires crave fruit

The first bad ass Jerry the vampire from the 1985 original Fright Night dropped a piece of batshit insane knowledge on us during our exclusive interview. Find out why it was both he and the newest vampire, Colin Farrell, need fresh fruit to survive. Plus Sarandon lists his must-haves for a quality Fright Night remake.…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 9 '11

In the Hospital of the Future, babies were kept in plastic drawers

In the 1950s, Kaiser Permanente founders Henry Kaiser and Sidney Garfield unveiled their model for the Hospital of the Future. The most entertaining innovation was the baby cabinet, where new mothers could find their children stored like pairs of freshly folded socks. [Via Laughing Squid]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 9 '11

Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren’t the Same Thing

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Appeals recently ruled in favor of a company who claims their computer system was sabotaged by a labor union that told its members emails to their employer about a dispute. But the charge wasn’t spamming. It was for hacking. The claim, as lawyer Nick Akerman points out, says the purported crime…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 9 '11

Eureka lets its side characters battle for the future of super-science

Eureka may be no more, but there’s still a ton of stories left until we reach the end of the line. In last night’s episode, we got an entertaining cat-and-mouse chase between two seriously unlikely characters…and it was kinda awesome. The episode finds Allison completely under the remote control of the town’s recurring nemesis, Beverly…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 9 '11

You Can Finally Share Photos Natively Using Twitter

io9 Roundup: August 9, 2011

Google Misplaced The Biggest Mountain in the Continental United States

Don’t Let Cable TV Be the Monster in Your Living Room

New Technique Could Rid Space of Junk in Just 4,000 Years

Walter Cronkite Explores the Home of 2001

Chimps prove that human generosity is an ancient trait

10 of the Most Mind-Blowing Slow Motion Videos You’ve Ever Seen

California Booting Inmates off Facebook

Rats are awesome masters of all things poisonous

Now we really want to see Warehouse 13‘s H.G. Wells spin-off!

Witness a massive solar flare burst off the Sun

Facebook for iPhone and Android: Will This Really Kill SMS?

Here is the world’s first microscopic action movie, shot by researchers in Japan

This Is Your Chance to Fund a Phone Case That Will End in Certain Death

First Photos of Matt Damon as a Cyborg on the Edge in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

Chris Sarandon explains the insane reason why Fright Night‘s vampires crave fruit

In the Hospital of the Future, babies were kept in plastic drawers

Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren’t the Same Thing

Eureka lets its side characters battle for the future of super-science

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