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The CIA Watched bin Laden For Months From Right Down the Block

In a safehouse in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a small team of CIA spies lived and worked for months. Their mission: collect information on a nearby compound suspected of housing the world’s most notorious terrorist. The base of operations—abandoned once its mission was accomplished—had been established shortly after Osama bin Laden’s hideout (pictured above) had been identified…

Tech News Brian Barrett

First Look at 3D Book Covers for Call of Cthulhu and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

We told you a while ago that Vintage Books would be putting out special editions of science fiction classics with 3D covers — and now here’s your first look at some of the cover designs. BoingBoing has a great interview with the designer of the series, Suzanne Dean, in which she talks about the process…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Bin Laden Was Daydreaming about Train-Derailing Terror Plot

What do you do when you’re a terrorist pent up in a huge, rundown compound with no phone or internet? Write down “vague, aspirational” terror plots in your notebook, the NYT reports. Like derailing a train on Christmas. The semi-plot, seized in a cache of documents when Bin Laden’s house was raided, hadn’t been put…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Why so many people drown in the Dead Sea

The popular wisdom is that no one can drown in the Dead Sea because they’ll float on the super-salty waters. That’s wrong, but it’s true that drownings in the Dead Sea are different from drowning deaths in ordinary waters. The Dead Sea straddles the border of Israel and Jordan. Although the name ‘Dead Sea’ doesn’t…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Would you buy a science fiction novel published by Amazon.com?

Amazon.com has been redefining the way you buy books for ages now — and next up, they may be publishing the books you read, as well. Amazon Publishing just launched its fourth and biggest imprint, Montlake Romance. And the company has already said it plans to move beyond romance into other genres, including science fiction.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Wolverine could be back for the next X-Men: First Class movie. Plus the cast and crew of Fringe discuss the world-shattering finale!

Kenneth Branagh talks about both of Thor’s superheroes, while The Hunger Games finds its Head Gamemaker. The Highlander reboot is still happening, and Matt Smith discusses the future (and past) of River Song on Doctor Who. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Thor. X-Men: First Class Bryan Singer says there’s room for a…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Opulent’ New House

Mark Zuckerberg’s new mansion might be walled off from outsiders, but it looks like a pretty amazing party pad. Just check out these pictures from the real estate agent who sold the Palo Alto home. Click the gallery above to tour Zuckerberg’s bathroom, complete with heated floors and a romantic marble deep soaking tub; the…

Social Media Ryan Tate

Hand-Cranked Machine Plays Catch with Itself

There’s something that’s oddly hypnotic about watching this hand-cranked machine slice, drop and catch these small spherical rare earth magnets one at a time. The little 5mm ball magnets start out as a connected string, and are continuously fed through the contraption in a loop. As the video goes on, you get to see views…

Tech News Davey Alba

Search Globe Lets You See What the Rest of the World Is Searching For

When I say, “Google that,” you know exactly what I mean. And after you see Google’s new visualization, Search Globe, you’ll realize how many other countries (and people in them) think the same way. This new tool, created by the Google Data Arts Team, shows you one day’s worth of Google searches—on a global scale.…

Tech News Max Behrman

Someone Is Creating a Real Live Version of Farmville

A large real life farm in the UK is turning into a Farmville game. It’s called the MyFarm experiment and the 2,500 Wimpole Estate farm will be run by 10,000 people over the internet. How will it work? The online ‘farmers’ will have to pay around $50 to become a member and once they do,…

Tech News Casey Chan

Watch the Best Use of 600 Balloons Since Up

It may be the best thing to happen at MTV since Jesse Camp crawled back into whatever moldy hemp lair he came from: a video that tells a weird little tale about Slash and Ozzy Osbourne, by popping roughly 10 illustrated balloons per second. That flip book you made in third grade? Finally time to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The City Limits: An Awe-Inspiring Timelapse of Cityscapes at Night

For almost a year, from late 2010 to 2011, photographer Dominic Boudreault trekked through Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Manhattan, and Chicago, shooting these incredibly vivid images of cityscapes at night: highways, buildings lit up in the dark, streetlife, people, rivers—all with perfect exposure, and sure to stir up some emotion in your cynical, jaded soul.…

Tech News Davey Alba

How Is This One-Legged Chair Not Falling Over?

How is this chair, with only one of its leg on the floor, not falling over already? Hell, how can this guy stand on this thing! Is it a camera trick? Nope, just clever design. Peter Bristol, the guy who made it, explains: A plate concealed by a thick carpet allows a robust cantilevered seat.…

Tech News Casey Chan

This American Woman Woke Up From Surgery with an Irish Accent

Karen Butler, a 56-year-old woman, is American. She was born in Oregon, lives in Oregon but for some reason, after having oral surgery 18 months ago, she developed an Irish accent. I’m not even kidding. The accent is actually a blend of Irish with British, sometimes Scottish and a bit of everything else but American.…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Top Secret Cat Special Ops Program Has Been Revealed

Dogs have been getting a lot of credit for their all around bad ass-ness in Operation Kill bin Laden but what about cats!? They’re way smarter than dogs! And like super quick, crafty and lulz-bringing too! Couldn’t the US Military find some use for that sort of feline intelligence? https://gizmodo.com/the-navy-seal-team-6-dog-is-a-bigger-badass-than-you-5798745 Turns out, they did! Just…

Biology Casey Chan

God Took His Bike Chain and Made His Favorite Mortal a Coffee Table

Coffee tables. I’m going to SMASH your coffee table. It deserves to be smashed—it’s pitiful. It sits there, reflecting light, collecting dust, insulting me with its presence. Why? Why? Your coffee table is not a gigantic bicycle chain. Beware—should you get this Olympian magazine podium, the Flexible Elos—its very name sounds like something from Jupiter’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle and Kyle VanHemert

This Microscope Can Detect Skin Cancer

Based on innovations from the last year, everything in the future will detect cancer. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. The latest to promise this ability is a microscope developed by the ever-innovative Fraunhofer Institute, capable of imaging a suspcious area of skin for melanomas. https://gizmodo.com/a-sensor-that-smells-cancer-5796427 Like other high-res camera concepts, this particular design uses an array of tiny optical…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Defective Toilet Paper Flooded the University of Colorado for Two Years

There are certain things in my life that I really, really hope don’t turn out to be defective—seat belts, parachutes, the private browsing setting when I use my girlfriend’s computer—but toilet paper might just have made it to the top of that list. The University of Colorado is suing companies in San Diego and Phoenix…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

NASA Gravity Experiment Proves Einstein Was Right

Like a beach chair sagging under a sunbather’s weight, the fabric of spacetime does indeed warp around the mass of the Earth – just as Albert Einstein predicted. And like a swimmer moving through the water, the rotation of the Earth affects the movement of spacetime itself. A gravity probe whose origins date to the…

Space & Spaceflight Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Is This a Bluetooth Headset or a Water Faucet?

Nokia’s J headset is both beautiful and minimal, in a retro sort of way. But if you look at it from the side, it’s as though Kohler forgot they make kitchen/bath products and instead conjured this up. [Nokia via Geeky Gadgets]

Tech News Adrian Covert

The CIA Watched bin Laden For Months From Right Down the Block

First Look at 3D Book Covers for Call of Cthulhu and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Bin Laden Was Daydreaming about Train-Derailing Terror Plot

Why so many people drown in the Dead Sea

Would you buy a science fiction novel published by Amazon.com?

Wolverine could be back for the next X-Men: First Class movie. Plus the cast and crew of Fringe discuss the world-shattering finale!

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Opulent’ New House

Hand-Cranked Machine Plays Catch with Itself

Search Globe Lets You See What the Rest of the World Is Searching For

Someone Is Creating a Real Live Version of Farmville

Watch the Best Use of 600 Balloons Since Up

The City Limits: An Awe-Inspiring Timelapse of Cityscapes at Night

How Is This One-Legged Chair Not Falling Over?

This American Woman Woke Up From Surgery with an Irish Accent

The Top Secret Cat Special Ops Program Has Been Revealed

God Took His Bike Chain and Made His Favorite Mortal a Coffee Table

This Microscope Can Detect Skin Cancer

Defective Toilet Paper Flooded the University of Colorado for Two Years

NASA Gravity Experiment Proves Einstein Was Right

Is This a Bluetooth Headset or a Water Faucet?

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