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Found: The oldest flying insect fossil

This fossil was found in the sandstones of southern Massachusetts, and is the oldest known full-body impression of a flying bug. It’s there on the left, and you can see the distinct impressions made by its six legs, as it struggled to escape from the mud it got stuck in before being fossilized. Formed approximately…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Roaming Hunger App Helps You Find Delicious, Delicious Food Trucks

I don’t know why food truck food tastes so good—maybe it’s an expectations type of thing—but it does! If you live in a metropolis large enough to sustain several food trucks, the free iOS app Roaming Hunger will help you pinpoint where you can find ’em. [iTunes]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

How Does the Mona Lisa Look Without Mona Lisa?

Recognize this 77 x 54-centimeter oil on canvas painting? Believe it or not, it’s perhaps the best-known Leonardo da Vinci painting this side of The Last Supper. Yes, it’s the Mona Lisa without Mona Lisa, as interpreted by Adobe Photoshop CS5. Artist Mike Ruiz got a high resolution photograph of Leonardo’s art, scanned it in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The NEW Commodore 64 Can Finally Be Yours

Remember when Commodore tried to relaunch their brand with a sterile-looking keyboard PC? Remember when they decided against that, opting to cram modern guts into a retro Commodore 64 shell? Well the latter will be available later this month, featuring the NVIDIA Ion 2 chipset. Unlike the 29-year-old original, this new iteration will have a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Jon Favreau challenges “faith and fear” with Cowboys & Aliens

Earlier this week we saw the aliens from Cowboys & Aliens first hand at WonderCon. The one thing that stuck out wasn’t the spoilery alien reveal, but the religious banter between the cowboys. How much of Jon Favreau’s film is going to challenge people’s faith? https://gizmodo.com/weve-seen-the-aliens-from-jon-favreaus-cowboys-aliens-5788332 You showed the alien [in the WonderCon footage]! Favreau:…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Fermilab physicists about to announce the discovery of “a new force beyond what we know” – updated with video!

At 5:00 PM Eastern, Fermilab scientists will announce a major discovery. The early word is that this is not the Higgs boson, but instead something completely unexpected. Update: Here’s the link to the complete presentation by University of Illinois researcher Viviana Cavliere. We’ll warn you right now – it’s very technical and very cautious. We’ll…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

How a 75-Year Old Woman Killed the Internet In Two Countries

She didn’t mean anything by it. But while a 75-year old woman set out to collect scrap metal in the village of Ksani last week, by the time she got home she’d cut off internet service to both Georgia and Armenia. How’d the unnamed pensioner do it? When she came across a line of fiber…

Tech News Brian Barrett

YouTube Wants to Drop $100 Million on 20 Channels Worth of Original, Professional Content

Following the lead of the independently-minded Vimeo, and the studio aspirations of Hulu and Netflix, Google is apparently planning to revamp YouTube with up to 20 ‘channels’ that will produce 5-10 hours of original content a week. Here’s what the Wall Street Journal reports: The company is planning changes to the homepage that would highlight…

Television Adrian Covert

This Is the Next Mars Rover

I want to ride the Mars Rover Curiosity. Sure, at a maximum of 90 meters (300 feet) per hour it would be a glacial ride, but the bloody thing is going to Mars. Where have I been lately? To the dog park two blocks from my house, that’s where. Plus, there’s no dog poop on…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Nanoparticle Rubber Stamps Could Help Heal Wounds

You know the UV-ink rubber stamps that night clubs like to stick on your skin? Well, a novel silver nanotech variant of the idea could actually help heal your skin wounds more quickly. Silverware became popular centuries ago partly because it was a precious metal and thus a status symbol, but also because the health…

Tech News Kit Eaton - Fast Company

TweetDeck Sharing the Browser Client Love Everywhere

…everywhere except IE9 and Opera. But all the rest are invited to sign up for a closed beta of TweetDeck’s no-download-needed HTML5 client. The features and UI are the same as the Chrome plug-in (sans streaming). [TweetDeck via TechCrunch]

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Perfect 24 Hours of Netflix Streaming

This summer, Netflix will add every episode of Mad Men to its Instant Watch collection. That will be swell! But the service’s streaming library is already vast, and there’s plenty of great stuff to watch right now. Or, better yet, this weekend, from 8:00am Saturday to 8:00am Sunday. So here, if you’re up for a…

Movies Kyle VanHemert

No Ordinary Family goes out in one last gloriously insane blaze of glory

Last night was likely No Ordinary Family’s final episode. So the show gave us everything we ever wanted: an absolutely bonkers showdown between the Powells and Dr. King, a sidekick getting powers, and, at long last, an actually interesting premise. There are no words for just how batshit insane the Dr. King showdown really is.…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Enjoy Arcade Style Ghostbusting with Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime

The new Ghostbusters game available on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC is a fun arcade-style shooter that lets you bust plenty of ghosts with your friends. Don’t expect too much depth or variety for your $10 though. Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime involves an ancient, slumbering evil god named Dumazu the Destroyer and an insane…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

The first mind to split the atom could have changed world history

How would World War II have gone if the idea for the atom bomb had come five years earlier? It sounds like alternate history, but almost happened, thanks to Ida Noddack – the German chemist who first described nuclear fission. Otto Hahn was the man who won 1944 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Is Britney Spears’ post-apocalypse music video a sign of the apocalypse?

Pop princess Britney Spears has combined the end times with the group sweat shake dance from her “Slave” days into one, scary post-apocalypse video for “Till The World Ends.” Watch as Britney sings us into Armageddon. This isn’t the end of Spears’ fascination with all things post-apocalyptic. Her manager told MTV that the entire tour…

io9 Meredith Woerner

io9 March Movie Madness The Final Showdown: Empire Vs. Serenity

This is it, it’s the final showdown. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back versus Serenity. Only one film shall be the victor – who will it be? It’s been a long road to this moment. We’ve seen some amazing underdog performances (Galaxy Quest beating Avatar) and witnessed some brutal upsets (Back To The Future losing…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins and Meredith Woerner

George Takei auditions for Spider-Man: “Not only do I have great vocals, I have great insurance”

Oh my! You must watch George Takei’s video audition for the floundering Spider-Man musical. Yes! This is a great way to save this flop – geek stunt casting! Someone get Wil Wheaton on the phone.

io9 Meredith Woerner

The White iPhone 4 Might Be Gone Forever

Apple might have eradicated any hope of the white iPhone 4 when they took their store down today. According to Cult of Mac and Apple Rumors, all mention of the white iPhone has been wiped, and all the images that used to have the white iPhone in it have been switched to black. At this…

Tech News Jason Chen

Found: The oldest flying insect fossil

Roaming Hunger App Helps You Find Delicious, Delicious Food Trucks

How Does the Mona Lisa Look Without Mona Lisa?

The NEW Commodore 64 Can Finally Be Yours

Jon Favreau challenges “faith and fear” with Cowboys & Aliens

Top Stories: Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Fermilab physicists about to announce the discovery of “a new force beyond what we know” – updated with video!

How a 75-Year Old Woman Killed the Internet In Two Countries

YouTube Wants to Drop $100 Million on 20 Channels Worth of Original, Professional Content

This Is the Next Mars Rover

Nanoparticle Rubber Stamps Could Help Heal Wounds

TweetDeck Sharing the Browser Client Love Everywhere

The Perfect 24 Hours of Netflix Streaming

No Ordinary Family goes out in one last gloriously insane blaze of glory

Enjoy Arcade Style Ghostbusting with Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime

The first mind to split the atom could have changed world history

Is Britney Spears’ post-apocalypse music video a sign of the apocalypse?

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George Takei auditions for Spider-Man: “Not only do I have great vocals, I have great insurance”

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