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CBS Faked Boston’s 4th of July Fireworks Show

Apparently giant rainbow explosions all across the sky weren’t entertaining for CBS producers, who digitally superimposed Boston landmarks across the screen in a strange, disingenuous attempt to augment the show. Why’s that okay? Because it’s entertainment, not news! How patriotic. CBS has admitted to and defended its firework forgery, The Boston Globe reports, despite the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 8 '11

One Reason to be Glad the Live-Action Akira Movie is Dead

It’s apparently official: The live-action Akira film is dead. Director Albert Hughes walked away from it a while back, and by all accounts nobody else is stepping up. https://gizmodo.com/what-does-the-future-hold-for-kick-ass-2-and-the-live-a-5806109 Top image: Petraleo on Deviantart But there’s at least one reason to be glad that we may never get our live-action Akira movie. Designer Chris Weston…

Anime Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program in Pictures

With today’s last Space Shuttle flight, we’ve reached the end of an era in American space exploration. In this gallery, we look back on 30 years of the Space Shuttle program: the beauty of our space outposts, the engineering marvels of the Shuttles, and the brave sacrifices many people made to leave this gravity well.…

io9 Annalee Newitz and Keith Veronese Jul 8 '11

Toshiba’s Tablet Camera Sensor May Be Small But Shoots Video at 1080p

Toshiba’s created an 8MP camera sensor for tablets and phones that they say has the smallest pixel size of all sensors, at 1.12 micrometers. Capable of shooting video in full 1080p at 30fps or 720p at 60fps, samples will be sent to manufacturers this month, so expect them in gadgets in the coming year. [Toshiba…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 8 '11

Comic-Con releases the full Friday schedule: Get ready for Spider-Man, Total Recall and Walking Dead!

The big surprise to come out of San Diego Comic-Con’s Friday schedule release: Sony’s decision to bring the Total Recall remake to San Diego. Let’s hope this means we’ll see some footage! View the whole schedule at SDCC’s website.

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 8 '11

3G iPod Touch Would Be My Dream Communications Device

A Dutch website is reporting that the next iPod Touch will support 3G, just like an iPad. I’m skeptical, but also would buy that in a heartbeat. What’s more, it would be the death knell for my voice plan. I use my iPod Touch as a communications device all the time. While it’s not very…

Tech News Mat Honan Jul 8 '11

Ten Ways to Keep a Long-Term Character From Being Hated

Sookie, Buffy, Clark — these are all well-known main characters whose series ran long after their store of audience goodwill ran out. A lot of series’ main characters end up being hated by the very audience they attracted in the first place. Of course, some portion of the audience will hate anything that’s done with…

Television Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 8 '11

Listen and Watch How the Sound Effects of Transformers 3 Were Made

Soundworks Collection has a great little feature on a very big movie called Transformers 3. Heard of it? Sure! In this video you get to see how the movie’s sound effects were made using dry ice, electric guitars and more. We already know the creative sound methods used in Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon…

Movies Casey Chan Jul 8 '11

“Let’s light this fire one more time”: The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off

The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off for its final flight, in spite of predictions that weather might have delayed this final shuttle mission. Click this image to make giant, or right-click and select “open link in new tab.” According to Associated Press: “Let’s light this fire one more time,” Commander Christopher Ferguson said just before…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

Have DVR and Hulu Made Sitcoms Funnier?

The wags over at Splitsider have a take on how streaming video and DVR have actually served to make TV shows funnier. Or maybe more accurately, to give funny sitcoms a better chance of survival: Dedicated viewers have a variety of ways to catch every episode of the shows they follow, and… newly inducted viewers…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 8 '11

First image of Sigourney Weaver as an evil vampire queen

You’ve already seen our massive gallery of images from Vamps by Amy Heckerling (of Clueless fame). Now get an eyeful of cult goddess Sigourney Weaver, vamping it out as the movie’s big bad. https://gizmodo.com/clueless-with-vampires-a-look-inside-amy-heckerlings-v-5808386 Sigourney Weaver plays the character Cisserus, who lords over the main vampire characters Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter. The short synopsis…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 8 '11

The Ten Best Episodes of Top Gear

Yesterday we asked Jalopnik readers to come up with the best episode to use to convert the uninitiated, unwashed and unknowing masses into the cult of Top Gear. Here’s their ten best choices. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/the-ten-best-top-gear-episodes-5819342/

Tech News Apisuper Jul 8 '11

Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal

Anonymous has just dumped files today about IRC Federal, a government contracted IT firm, in honor of their #FuckFBIFriday ‘holiday’. They’ve gotten access to contracts, internal documents, development schematics, logins and more. It doesn’t seem like anything particularly big was found, but they did take a peak at a proposal “for the FBI to develop…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 8 '11

Where did matter come from?

If you’re like the rest of us, you’re almost certainly made of matter. But where did all that delicious, gooey matter come from? In this In this week’s “Ask a Physicist” we’ll find out. I get a lot of questions pondering the general nature of existence, so for this week’s column, I decided to get…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg Jul 8 '11

Report: Masked Beings Hold “Strange Marches” Across US, Distribute Black Globes

How’s this for bizarre? Reports have come in from Denver to New York City to L.A. that “strange marches” are being held in public areas, its members silent and wearing white masks with a single teardrop falling from the left “eye.” They are carrying signs printed simply with “#miracleday” and “miracleday.com” and are distributing tiny…

Tech News Sponsored post Jul 8 '11

“Halp, I’m Stuck In My PC!” And Other Fun Transparent-Gadget Hacks

I know, I know—another weekend stretches before us, a weekend full of twiddling thumbs and watching paint dry before work begins yet again on Monday. So why not make your gadgets transparent? Seriously. Photojojo has a great tutorial, which works on computers, laptops, iPads, TVs…[Photojojo]

Gadgets Kat Hannaford Jul 8 '11

You Can Pay As You Go With AT&T’s New 4G Dongle

Mobile AT&T customers will be surfing at broadband speeds come mid-July. How much that privilege will cost, however, depends on how much you want another two-year contract. The USBConnect Force 4G grants AT&T subscribers access to both the carrier’s HSPA+ mobile broadband network and unlimited use of its Wi-Fi HotSpots. When it’s released on July…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 8 '11

This Solid-State Camera Fits on the Head of a Pin and Can Dive Into Your Skull

Image quality isn’t the only measure of a camera’s functionality. The PFCA, developed by a Cornell Postdoc, has only a 20-pixel resolution but its size and construction will allow it to go where few cameras have been before. The Planar Fourier Capture Array (PFCA) is constructed from a single piece of doped silicon and lack…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 8 '11

Zookeeper is a horror movie about evolutionary biology

Everybody knows that talking-animal movies are really about the human condition. Marmaduke, Cats & Dogs, Yogi Bear… they all reflect human personalities filtered through the lens of silly animal stereotypes. They’re like a kind of heightened reality. Or maybe they just celebrate our all-too-human masochism. Bored celebrities do silly voices and pick up a quick…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

How Architecture Influenced Chair Design

Click to view Whether you’re new to designer chairdom, or have been collecting Eames chairs for years, the WSJ’s video introduction to the relationship between architecture and chair design is worth a look. Oh, to have MoMa’s collection of chairs! [WSJ via FutureBlog]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 8 '11

CBS Faked Boston’s 4th of July Fireworks Show

One Reason to be Glad the Live-Action Akira Movie is Dead

30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program in Pictures

Toshiba’s Tablet Camera Sensor May Be Small But Shoots Video at 1080p

Comic-Con releases the full Friday schedule: Get ready for Spider-Man, Total Recall and Walking Dead!

3G iPod Touch Would Be My Dream Communications Device

Ten Ways to Keep a Long-Term Character From Being Hated

Listen and Watch How the Sound Effects of Transformers 3 Were Made

“Let’s light this fire one more time”: The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off

Have DVR and Hulu Made Sitcoms Funnier?

First image of Sigourney Weaver as an evil vampire queen

The Ten Best Episodes of Top Gear

Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal

Where did matter come from?

Report: Masked Beings Hold “Strange Marches” Across US, Distribute Black Globes

“Halp, I’m Stuck In My PC!” And Other Fun Transparent-Gadget Hacks

You Can Pay As You Go With AT&T’s New 4G Dongle

This Solid-State Camera Fits on the Head of a Pin and Can Dive Into Your Skull

Zookeeper is a horror movie about evolutionary biology

How Architecture Influenced Chair Design

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