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Rdio Has Discounted Family Plans Now

We don’t usually recommend emulating cell phone carrier behavior, but this is pretty cool: Rdio now lets you combine accounts into a family account for a ~20% discount. Combining two $10/mo accounts brings the total down to $18, and three accounts brings it to $23. You can add more than three, but the price per…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 22 '11

Miramax Launches Biggest Facebook Movie App Yet

Miramax just released an app named Miramax eXperience that will allow U.S. users to rent up to 20 different movies through Facebook. You’ll be able to watch films like No Country for Old Men and Pulp Fiction for $3 each through Facebook or Google TV, or on your iPad’s browser. Pretty cool, considering the former…

Social Media Alyssa Bereznak Aug 22 '11

This Swiss Lunatic Scaled a Mountain By Tightrope Walking Its Cable Car Wire

Amazing. 46-year-old Freddy Nock, a Swiss stuntman, successfully walked this 1,000 meter long cable car cable Saturday that runs up to the summit of Bavaria’s 9,000 foot tall Zugspitze mountain. Without a balancing pole or harness. That’s ballsy. He plans on going for the world record for highest tightrope walk ever. I think he got…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 22 '11

Prop Up Your iPad and Type Feverishly with a Wingstand

The iPhone and iPad are convenient for a lot of reasons, but the ability to type quickly or in great quantities is not one of them. Thus this Kickstarter campaign for the Wingstand. The Wingstand is very simple: just a few pieces of injection-molded plastic, which clip your iPad or iPhone to a Bluetooth keyboard…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Aug 22 '11

Fox’s 8-Day Hulu Delay on TV Shows Is a Boon to Piracy

You play with fire and you’ll get burned. Fox, which recently delayed new episodes of TV shows from streaming on Hulu until 8 days after they’ve aired, has already seen a spike in piracy for those shows. https://gizmodo.com/fox-just-tightened-the-noose-on-hulu-meet-the-8-day-co-5824982 Fox’s dumb system works like this: if you’re a Hulu Plus or Dish Network subscriber, you can…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 22 '11

This Week’s TV: Doctor Who‘s Moment of Truth, the Venture Bros. Musical Documentary, and Summer Glau With New Superpowers!

A Time Lord may be running out of time, as Doctor Who comes back this weekend. And meanwhile, see the Venture Bros. like you’ve never seen them before. And somebody finally had the bright idea of giving Summer Glau superpowers! But that’s not all. There’s alternate history, dinosaur regeneration, and Jedi hostage negotiation. And Battlestar…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 22 '11

You Need A New Profile Picture

That over-exposed, half-faced, self portrait is not even Top Eight-worthy. It’s time for you to get over 2005 and get a new damn photo of yourself. And what better way to go about it then by taking this short survey and possibly winning a Fuji Instax Mini camera. Now just try and avoid making the…

io9 Sponsored post Aug 22 '11

Hop on the Googarola Train for Less than $70

Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility can only be a sign of bigger and better things to come. To get you on the right track, RadioShack has the Sprint Samsung Conquer™ 4G, complete with Android’s Gingerbread OS, on sale right now for the ridiculously low price of $69.99.* Despite the astonishingly low price, the Conquer™ packs…

Tech News Sponsored post Aug 22 '11

How the World’s Oldest Fossils Could Give Clues About Life on Mars

Clusters of islands poked through hot oceans 3.4 billion years ago, when the world still had no oxygen and the seas churned under a pallid, overcast sky. But life thrived on Earth even then, scientists say – and now they have the world’s oldest fossils to prove it. There were no plants or algae to…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - PopSci Aug 22 '11

What Could Be Apple’s Next “Absolutely Different” Product?

In 2001 it was the iPod. In 2007, the iPhone. And three years later, it was the iPad. Now, the rumor is that Apple may be preparing an entire new product line. But what could that be? The rumor has been published by Makotakara, a Japanese site that has been right about a few things…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 22 '11

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossils on Earth in Australia

The Earth was a very different place 3.5 billion years ago. In the absence of oxygen, many scientists believe Earth’s earliest ecosystems survived on sulphur, but researchers have long been unable to find any proof of this hypothesis, in the form of fossilized microbial life. Now, an international team of geologists has discovered evidence of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 22 '11

World’s Most Advanced Crash Test Dummy Takes It In the Face So You Don’t Have to

In the 1940s, researchers would throw just about anything at a wall—anesthetized pigs, human cadavers—to gain an understanding of a high-speed collision’s effect on the body. Thankfully, the latest generation of crash test dummies use sophisticated sensor arrays to do that, not dead people. Detroit’s Wayne State University was actually the first to begin research…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 22 '11

The Five Stages of Grief, as explained by the Conan the Barbarian franchise

So this weekend’s freshly oiled Conan The Barbarian film failed to pillage moviegoers’ wallets and Jason Momoa’s gently undulating pectorals didn’t hypnotize critics. This shouldn’t have entirely come as a surprise, seeing as how the Conan moving-picture franchise has been in dire straits for decades now. https://gizmodo.com/a-few-rules-you-should-follow-before-watching-conan-the-5832738 Indeed, we can use the historical trajectory of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 22 '11

The $99 HP TouchPad Is an Amazing Deal, No Matter What Your Nerd Friends Tell You

The HP TouchPad for $99 seems too good to be true. “It is,” your nerd friend will tell you. “It’ll never get software updates. There won’t be new apps for it. It’s a dead platform. Don’t buy it.” Screw them. Here’s the thing about your nerd friends, and most of the people writing about tech:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 22 '11

Nikon’s Curious Crusade Against Physical User Manuals

Okay Nikon, so you don’t include a dead tree user manual with new cameras anymore. That’s fine; they just sit at the bottom of a drawer until we eventually throw them out. But to also DRM against printing it out? What the hell. Nikon does offer a fully printable version of its manuals if you…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 22 '11

Shooting Your Sleeping Kid with a Super Soaker While Singing the Doom Theme Song Is a Really Effective Alarm Clock

Filed in things I’m going to do when I’m a dad: when my lazy punk of a son refuses to get out of bed, he’s going to get shot with a super soaker. With no mom in sight, he’s dead meat. Looks like pops is using the automatic Super Soaker Thunderstorm. That’s all right but…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 22 '11

Which Hulu Bidder Should You Be Rooting For?

Hulu has been for sale for awhile now, but the WSJ says the initial bids are about to trickle in. Who’s interested? Google, Yahoo, Amazon and DirectTV (where’s Microsoft?). https://gizmodo.com/could-hulu-selling-itself-actually-be-good-for-content-5814230 Bids will be submitted on Wednesday and could range anywhere between $500 million and $2 billion dollars. Offers will not only include a dollar amount,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 22 '11

Lenovo CEO: We Can Take On Apple

With the release of their IdeaPad K1 behind them and two more on the way, Lenovos CEO Yang Yuanquing sat down with the Financial Times to give his take on how far Lenovo’s new tablet business can go. In short, this is divide and conquer. https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-ideapad-k1-tablet-review-cheaper-brighter-b-5826976 Yuanquing started out by essentially saying Apple remains a…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 22 '11

A Super-Optimistic History of the Near Future: It all works out okay, really

One of the biggest challenges in concocting an optimistic near-future setting is just figuring out how we’re going to solve the environmental and economic challenges we’re facing. Peak oil. Climate change. And so on. So reading Australian professor Peter C. Doherty’s optimistic history of the world, as of 2050, is like soaking your brain into…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 22 '11

Yeah, We’re in NY Mag’s Approval Matrix

Is it the exclusive province of media geeks to get excited over making it into New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix? I dunno, but we’re so amped that we almost capsized the Gizmodo Yacht while jumping for joy. The esteemed editors at NY Mag were stoked about our #fixcable series. So were we! Irony alert: I’m…

Tech News Joe Brown Aug 22 '11

Rdio Has Discounted Family Plans Now

Miramax Launches Biggest Facebook Movie App Yet

This Swiss Lunatic Scaled a Mountain By Tightrope Walking Its Cable Car Wire

Prop Up Your iPad and Type Feverishly with a Wingstand

Fox’s 8-Day Hulu Delay on TV Shows Is a Boon to Piracy

This Week’s TV: Doctor Who‘s Moment of Truth, the Venture Bros. Musical Documentary, and Summer Glau With New Superpowers!

You Need A New Profile Picture

Hop on the Googarola Train for Less than $70

How the World’s Oldest Fossils Could Give Clues About Life on Mars

What Could Be Apple’s Next “Absolutely Different” Product?

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossils on Earth in Australia

World’s Most Advanced Crash Test Dummy Takes It In the Face So You Don’t Have to

The Five Stages of Grief, as explained by the Conan the Barbarian franchise

The $99 HP TouchPad Is an Amazing Deal, No Matter What Your Nerd Friends Tell You

Nikon’s Curious Crusade Against Physical User Manuals

Shooting Your Sleeping Kid with a Super Soaker While Singing the Doom Theme Song Is a Really Effective Alarm Clock

Which Hulu Bidder Should You Be Rooting For?

Lenovo CEO: We Can Take On Apple

A Super-Optimistic History of the Near Future: It all works out okay, really

Yeah, We’re in NY Mag’s Approval Matrix

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