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Teenage Girls Who Can Kill You Whenever They Feel Like It

Some teenage girls face bigger questions than whether to sit in the front or back seat — like whether to end you with their incredible superpowers. Hanna, opening tomorrow, is about a young girl who takes human life the way the rest of us go through potato chips. But there are lots of other lethal…

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Man Gives Wife World’s First Mosquito-Borne STD

In what is either a medical first or the best “sorry I gave you an STD, babe” defense of all time, an American biologist has passed the rare Zika virus—received via mosquito bite—to his wife through sex. Dr. Brian Foy was in Senegal collecting mosquito specimens, when one of them bit him. He returned with…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Mars Odyssey celebrates 10 years orbiting the Red Planet

Check out this gorgeous Martian vista. This view of the Western Candor Chasma on Mars was created with data from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. On this day in 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft launched, and now, 3,333 days later, the robotic spacecraft is still going strong. In orbit around the Red Planet, Mars Odyssey has…

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The 16 Worst Failed Computers of All Time

Greetings. And welcome to. The Old PC Yard. There are. Bzzzzt. Numerous. Failures in PC history. We’ve isolated the. Worst 16. Around. We are certain that a smart human such as yourself. Will. Have strong opinions on this list. If TRUE, then replay in. Comments. If FALSE, have a. Nice day. Initiating countdown module in…

Tech News George Jones - Maximum PC

How Japan’s Tsunami Massive Debris Plume Will Hit California and Hawaii

If you live in Hawaii, California, British Columbia, Alaska or Baja California, here is some bad news: According to computer models made by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, all the debris washed out by the Japan tsunami is coming your way. This is how the trash will spread…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Britain’s first recession was 2,500 years ago

In its simplest terms, European prehistory can be divided into three parts: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. But there’s a mysterious 300 year gap in prehistoric Britain, created by one of humanity’s first economic bubbles. Between 800 and 500 BCE, the archaeological evidence tells a strange story. Ancient Britons weren’t…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Xfinity Ups iPad Streaming Catalog by 50%

Good news for Xfinity customers—you’ve got double the stuff to watch! Assuming you like the 1,500 extra “hours of video entertainment” (new movies and TV shows). Notable additions? Seinfeld, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and True Blood. There’s a bunch more—check Comcast for a fuller rundown—and they vary pretty steeply in quality. But hey, more things…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Mastering The Lost Art Of Actually Talking On The Phone

Look, we all know the phone is scary. But sometimes you can’t avoid it. Herewith, a few tips for making calls without sounding like a weirdo.… [Jezebel]

Tech News Jezebel

Peel + iPhone = The Universal Remote For Regular People

The Peel remote adapter is supposed to be the normal human’s version of Logitech’s Harmony universal remotes. Harmony remotes, although incredibly competent in controlling everything in your AV system, practically begs for a community college class teaching people how to use it. https://gizmodo.com/now-your-iphone-can-be-the-universal-remote-it-always-w-5708909 Having a Peel means that you can control your TV, DVR and…

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Why futuristic assassin movie Hanna is the anti-Sucker Punch, according to director Joe Wright

In person, Saoirse Ronan is slight and delicate-looking, even more than on screen. When we interviewed her about her new film, Hanna (opening tomorrow), we were wondering how she becomes one of the world’s deadliest superhumans. Ronan explained to us how she became a killing machine, and what it’s like to play a character who…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

“Hand-Screened for Radioactivity” Is Going to Be the New “Grown Locally”

If you’re willing to throw down $140 for the tasting menu at Le Bernardin—perhaps the greatest seafood-oriented restaurant in the country, with three Michelin stars and four from the NYT—you can nom on the fluke sashimi without worrying about radioactive contamination. That’s because in addition to no longer sourcing seafood from Japan, chef Eric Ripert’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

All telescopic eyes turn to a mysterious explosion in a distant galaxy

Right now, three major telescopes are focused on a huge, sustained burst of energy coming from the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away. Astronomers are speculating on what it could be. On March 28th, Nasa’s Swift Telescope recorded a massive burst of X-ray and Gamma Ray enerty coming from the constellation Draco.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Why America Doesn’t Have A Respectable Solar Industry

Solar power in America is nothing new — Californians were heating water with it back in 1908 — we’ve just generally ignored it since WWII. Powering the Dream, by Alexis Madrigal explains how we managed to squander this energy for nearly 75 years. You could be excused for thinking that there is no history of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

First clip from the horrifying Mortal Kombat live action web series

Remember that Mortal Kombat short film that brought the hideous Reptile to life (via a disorder that caused him to grow scales and inside-out eyes)? That film spawn a nine-part webseries, starring Jeri Ryan. Watch the first clip now. We have to admit, we’re kind of looking forward to this ridiculously gruesome creation. And even…

Television Meredith Woerner

Watch the Ejector Seat of the New F-35 Stealth Fighter Get Tested

Tests were recently conducted for the ejector seat system of the F-35 Lightning II, a new fighter jet that will be used by air forces around the world. The trials, which included deployment at speeds of up to 600 miles per hour, went great! Which in this case means the seat successfully rocketed out of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Nobody Actually Likes Your Brand’s Stupid Facebook Page

What could be a more powerful marketing tool than Facebook, fostering meaningful engagement with customers and broadcasting their every purchase to friends and family? Actually, just about everything. Facebook sucks for marketing. A new study by Forrester Research found that maintaining a Facebook presence is less effective at drumming up business than plain old email…

Social Media Adrian Chen

The Best Deal of the Day

I love opening tabs. Tons of tabs. Shocking numbers of tabs. They used to call me “Tab King” in college. I had shirts made. Shit, I’ll open twenty blank tabs just for fun. Just to prove to you how much I love tabs. I hate Tab soda, ironically. My favorite Saturday night is to take…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Tying light into knots

Scientists can tie light into knots. And those knots can stabilize nuclear fusion. Because every day, physics gets crazier. Over the last few thousand years, light has moved from a mystical expression of divine power, to a comprehensible phenomenon, to another piece of lab equipment. ‘Optical tweezers’ or ‘optical traps’ are often used in laboratories…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

First look at vampire Colin Farrell in the Fright Night reboot

The Fright Night reboot has been getting a lot of love lately. We quite enjoyed David Tennant’s Criss Angel look revealed last year, but here’s your first look at the new Evil Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and vampire Colin Farrell. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-david-tennants-version-of-fright-night-5628197 From what we’ve heard, not a lot has changed in this reboot, except instead of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

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Top Stories: Thursday, April 7, 2011

Man Gives Wife World’s First Mosquito-Borne STD

Mars Odyssey celebrates 10 years orbiting the Red Planet

The 16 Worst Failed Computers of All Time

How Japan’s Tsunami Massive Debris Plume Will Hit California and Hawaii

Britain’s first recession was 2,500 years ago

Xfinity Ups iPad Streaming Catalog by 50%

Mastering The Lost Art Of Actually Talking On The Phone

Peel + iPhone = The Universal Remote For Regular People

Why futuristic assassin movie Hanna is the anti-Sucker Punch, according to director Joe Wright

“Hand-Screened for Radioactivity” Is Going to Be the New “Grown Locally”

All telescopic eyes turn to a mysterious explosion in a distant galaxy

Why America Doesn’t Have A Respectable Solar Industry

First clip from the horrifying Mortal Kombat live action web series

Watch the Ejector Seat of the New F-35 Stealth Fighter Get Tested

Nobody Actually Likes Your Brand’s Stupid Facebook Page

The Best Deal of the Day

Tying light into knots

First look at vampire Colin Farrell in the Fright Night reboot

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