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Your Mac Outlook Calendar Will Sync With iOS Soon

For those of you with enough of a schedule and social life to necessitate a calendar—you lucky jerks—good news ahead: Outlook for Mac will be able to sync calendars, notes, and tasks with iOS with the release of Office for Mac 2011 SP1 next week. Calendars and tasks won’t, though, sync with MobileMe because of…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Tour the Birthplace of the Internet (Obscura Day 2011)

Do you live in Los Angeles? Join me April 9th at UCLA for Obscura Day! I’ll be hosting an event with Brad Fidler and Leonard Kleinrock in the room where the first Internet message was sent in 1969! Reserve your tickets today! Come be one of the very first to rediscover the room where the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Apple’s New “iAd Gallery” App Violates Apple’s App Guidelines and Probably Should Have Been Rejected

Apple’s new “iAd Gallery” iPhone app, which shows off the iAds that its advertisers have purchased, is theoretically in violation of Apple’s own App Store guidelines, which the company published last year. Let us direct your attention to guideline 2.13: Apps that are primarily marketing materials or advertisements will be rejected. This was probably included…

Tech News Dan Frommer - Business Insider

10 of the most embarrassing racial and ethnic stereotypes in science fiction

Whether it’s an alien who might as well be called a “space Jew,” or an evil Asian ripping the hearts out of innocent victims in an exotic ritual, racial and ethnic stereotypes in SF often reach facepalm levels of fail. Today, let us contemplate 10 of the most embarrassingly awful stereotypes we’ve had to endure…

Movies Annalee Newitz

How Many Apps Is Too Many Apps?

Looking back on it now, the first time I truly felt the need for a note-taking app was when I started researching note-taking apps. I was just looking for a simple tool to save ideas about upcoming articles or jot down an occasional to-do list. Stop. Do not send me your pick for best note-taking…

Tech News David Pell

Take an online psychology test seemingly designed to drive you insane

io9 pal (and contributor) Phil Freeman points out that after taking this completely disturbing psychological test he’s worried that he’s been recruited to become some kind of sleeper assassin. You’ll be directed to answer twenty increasingly scary questions by picking between two weird, throbbing shapes. By the end, you’re having a bad trip. And then…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Ikea Is Designed Like a Maze So You’ll Buy More Stuff

If you’ve ever been inside an Ikea, you probably know how hard it can be to get back outside that Ikea. It doesn’t take much to end up feeling like a rat in a well-appointed but reasonably priced maze of furniture. Why? Because they want you to buy more stuff, of course. And now we…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Shooting Challenge: Black Card Photography

This lead photo isn’t HDR photography. Photoshop wasn’t implemented to mix multiple shots. It was captured in a single exposure, and for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll learn the technique. The Challenge Take a photo mixing various levels of luminescence with the black card technique. Don’t mix multiple exposures in Photoshop. In fact, don’t mess…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Who is the most popular choice to play a female Doctor in Doctor Who?

British science fiction mag SFX polled its readers on who they would like to see play the first female Doctor in Doctor Who. It an entirely unscientific study of one of the most crucial questions of our time. Here’s what the SFX editors report: The top 5 suggestions for the best female Doctor were: 1.…

Television Annalee Newitz

Leaked Photos of the Next BlackBerry Messenger Show Color-Coding and New Look

Sneaky leaked screengrabs of BBM 6.0 have arisen, showing a questionable user’s photo and “personal message,” but more importantly what we can expect in the next OS 6.1 update. Color-coding contacts and chats for easier reference seem to be one of the changes in the messaging app, but unfortunately there’s no reference to the service…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

In search of the world’s tallest human

The tallest person who ever lived stood nearly nine feet tall, making him nearly double the size of the average human. What creates such remarkable extremes, and what’s the absolute tallest a human being could possibly be? What causes gigantism? In humans, gigantism is caused by the overproduction of growth hormones in the pituitary gland.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

8 Tools to Help Jumpstart Your Spring Cleaning

Spring is here, and you know what that means?! It’s time to end that messy winter hibernating and get your home ready for a busy spring and summer. Here are eight handy, dandy cleaning gadgets that will help save you time: Dyson DC35 Digital Slim Vac: The first thing you should do is vacuum, and…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Workers Pumping Fukushima Full of Nitrogen to Prevent Explosion

The volatile mix of seawater and melting fuel rods is producing hydrogen and oxygen gas—the stuff that blew the lids off Fukushima twice last month. To avert another disastrous hydrogen explosion, workers are blowing inert nitorgen gas inside. https://gizmodo.com/second-explosion-at-the-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-plant-5781611 The effort is going on at this very moment, and the consequences are quite dire—documents obtained…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Is Your iPhone Taking Creepy Hidden Pics of You? (Updated)

Cameras that look back at us are becoming commonplace—and that’s a good thing! FaceTime is a lot of fun! Except if it’s glitchily taking secret pictures of us without us knowing, as some iPhone users are claiming. The reports come from the Apple Discussions forum, where some creeped-out people say their FaceTime calls are bringing…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How a Captain Got Sucked Out Of a Exploded Cockpit Window and Everyone Survived

There are times in which an airplane decompression may not be dangerous. But when your captain literally has half of his body out of one of the cockpit window, his face “banging against the window [from the outside] with blood coming out of his nose and the side of his head”, all while the plane—with…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Samsung Cutting Some of the Obnoxious Expense from 3DTV with $50 Shades

The notion of having to buy special (expensive) glasses to able to watch the TV you just shelled out for is a terrible idea that should die, and it looks like Samsung (sort of) agrees. The company’s 3DTV lineup will now come with two pairs of active shades included, and Samsung’s new 2011 SSG-3100GB 3D…

Gadgets Sam Biddle

Will we ever really discover Atlantis?

A recent National Geographic special on finding the lost city of Atlantis left people wondering whether this mythical place actually did exist. Could there really have been a city built on concentric rings of land and water? Many accounts say Atlantis ruled the ancient world 11,000 years ago with its amazing grasp of science, architecture,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch the Spooky New High-Tech Ghosts at Disney World’s Haunted Mansion

The imagineers at Disney World recently made the dangerous decision to fiddle with Haunted Mansion, one of the park’s finest attractions, reworking the holographic hitchhiking ghosts that appear to join you in your car as you leave the ride. But wait!, you say. Stop! It’s not broke! Don’t fix it! Normally I would agree. But…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Amazing video shows new Mars rover Curiosity leaving Earth and landing on Mars

Want to know what it will look like when the Mars rover Curiosity blasts off from Earth later this year, then lands on Mars in 2012? This incredible video from NASA makes the whole thing look so awesome that we’re willing to forgive the fact that it includes SWOOSH noises that you’d never hear in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Expect YouTube to be Full of 360-Degree Videos Shot on iPhones Soon

Judging by the amount of money invested in the GoPano Micro project on Kickstarter, a load of people have been biding their time, just WAITING for an opportunity to film panoramic videos using their iPhone 4s. As the video above shows, the viewpoint can be controlled just by swiping the screen—but that doesn’t mean the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Your Mac Outlook Calendar Will Sync With iOS Soon

Tour the Birthplace of the Internet (Obscura Day 2011)

Apple’s New “iAd Gallery” App Violates Apple’s App Guidelines and Probably Should Have Been Rejected

10 of the most embarrassing racial and ethnic stereotypes in science fiction

How Many Apps Is Too Many Apps?

Take an online psychology test seemingly designed to drive you insane

Ikea Is Designed Like a Maze So You’ll Buy More Stuff

Shooting Challenge: Black Card Photography

Who is the most popular choice to play a female Doctor in Doctor Who?

Leaked Photos of the Next BlackBerry Messenger Show Color-Coding and New Look

In search of the world’s tallest human

8 Tools to Help Jumpstart Your Spring Cleaning

Workers Pumping Fukushima Full of Nitrogen to Prevent Explosion

Is Your iPhone Taking Creepy Hidden Pics of You? (Updated)

How a Captain Got Sucked Out Of a Exploded Cockpit Window and Everyone Survived

Samsung Cutting Some of the Obnoxious Expense from 3DTV with $50 Shades

Will we ever really discover Atlantis?

Watch the Spooky New High-Tech Ghosts at Disney World’s Haunted Mansion

Amazing video shows new Mars rover Curiosity leaving Earth and landing on Mars

Expect YouTube to be Full of 360-Degree Videos Shot on iPhones Soon

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