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Senator Chuck Grassley Is the Worst Twitter User in the United States of America

Last year, 77 year-old Iowan senator Chuck Grassley vowed to do anything for reelection—including picking up Twitter. We almost wish he hadn’t. Grassley’s 1,147 tweets are possibly among the most incoherent, confounding, mind-boggling text on the internet. This is perhaps the quintessential Senator Grassley tweet. Was it an accident? Was he actually trying to convey…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 28 '11

The Klhip Ultimate Nail Clipper Is Ultimately Just Expensive

Little else personifies the invention spirit than trying to take a common object—in this case a nail clipper—and attempting to improve it. And even if the Klhip ultimately falls short of being a revolution in keratin grooming, I have to give it points for trying. Like The reverse orientation of the clipping lever means clipping…

Reviews Jason Chen Apr 28 '11

Our most traumatic memories could be erased, thanks to the marine snail

Although the idea of erasing your memories may sound horrific, there may be nothing better for those dealing with severe trauma. Now we’re one step closer to making it a reality, with a little help from the tiny marine snail. UCLA researcher David Glanzman led the study, which discovered that it’s possible to erase long-term…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Apr 28 '11

What if H.P. Lovecraft taught sex education?

The horrors of 7th Grade sex education retold — with an eldritch H.P. Lovecraft spin. Watch this amazing short film, “Late Bloomer” by Craig Macneill, and learn about the the monsters inside us all. [via TDW]

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 28 '11

Shazam for Android Is Better than Shazam for iPhone

Shazam is one of those already taken for granted lifechanger apps—never be ignorant of a song’s identity, ever again. It’s great, but it just got greater—on Android. The new app not only streams full songs your friends have tagged, but will let you ID unlimited songs on your own, free until 2012. You’ll have to…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 28 '11

10 Signs That Your Best Friend is Preparing to become Your Arch Nemesis

They always say: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” But how can you always tell the difference? It’s a well-known fact that most of the time, an epic hero’s arch-enemies is the hero’s former best friend. How do you know if your bestie is preparing to shove you into an (almost) inescapable death…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Katharine J. Trendacosta Apr 28 '11

Watch How the Police Raid a Cellphone

Everyone knows the cops have tools to get inside your phone. But what do they do? They suck your iPhone’s entire soul in 15 minutes. With one single click. This is what it looks like. Lantern 2 is an incredibly powerful piece of software. Plug your iPhone in. Click “Acquire.” Wait for a progress bar…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 28 '11

Three Foxconn Workers Arrested and Charged for Leaking iPad 2 Design

Three Foxconn workers were arrested in December and charged last month with leaking the iPad 2 design specs, proving yet again that nobody escapes the Apple Gestapo. [Digitimes via AppleInsider]

Tech News Adrian Covert Apr 28 '11

AirLocation Lets the Wi-Fi iPad Really Use the iPhone’s GPS Signal

AirLocation in an app that sends your iPhone’s GPS signal to your Wi-Fi iPad. All you need to do is tether your iPad to your iPhone and flip on the AirLocation app on both devices. We’ve previously reported that the Wi-Fi iPad 2 gained GPS powers when tethered to an iPhone but we were wrong.…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 28 '11

Hulu Plus on Xbox 360 This Friday—And the First Week’s Free

Hulu Plus for the Xbox 360 is aaaaalmost here. It launches tomorrow, with the main Xbox perk being integrated Kinect controls. It’s gonna be free for the first week for all Xbox Live members, but then the usual Hulu Plus subscription fee will kick in. Here’s what’s what with the features: Hulu Plus on Xbox…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 28 '11

Verizon LTE Back in Action

Watch out, trees! Those 4G lightning bolts are about to start striking again, as Verizon’s 4G network is back up after some downtime yesterday. Welcome back, buddy! Porn on the train! Hulu on my roof! Torrents on a boat! [Verizon] https://gizmodo.com/4g-reception-not-immune-to-outages-either-verizons-lte-5796158

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 28 '11

Hovering Drones Capture Video of Fukushima Destruction

Viewing the massive explosions inside the Fukushima plant was shocking enough—but up-close video, courtesy of robotic drones, give a more intimate view of the wreckage—and the perilous environment rescue workers have had to navigate. This newest footage was released just yesterday, making vivid the extent of the plant’s ruined condition. The video is both incredible…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 28 '11

Daniel Abraham Calculates the Economics of Fantasy in Episode 35 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Daniel Abraham, author of the new epic fantasy novel The Dragon’s Path, joins us to discuss the advantages of pseudonyms, the economics of fantasy kingdoms, and writing the graphic novel adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. Art by Mikko Anttonen. The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams…

Books & Comics Johnjosephadams Apr 28 '11

Alliances Forged in Hell’s Frozen Recesses: Nvidia and AMD

If you’ve ever built a computer, this will be jarring: Nvidia’s agreed to license its SLI tech for use on AMD motherboards. (AMD, of course, bought Nvidia arch-rival ATI a while ago and buried the ATI brand in favor of a unified AMD front a few months ago.) https://gizmodo.com/the-ati-brand-is-dead-5625268 The deal makes sense for a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 28 '11

The Worst Royal Wedding Merchandise

Every marketing manager and his dog has dreamt up a little royal wedding cash-cow in time for the nuptials tomorrow. But which gift should you buy—either to send to the newlyweds, or to sheath in plastic wrap and bury under your bed for the grandchildren, who’ll only wrinkle their noses and toss it in the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 28 '11

Humans can get leprosy through contact with armadillos

Researchers have proven through genetic testing that a certain strain of leprosy can be transmitted between humans and armadillos. These armadillos are thought to be the source of many of the cases of leprosy in the United States. Although most people in the developed world think of leprosy as a problem of the extreme past,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Apr 28 '11

TomTom Helped Cops Cheat by Selling Driver Data

Drivers in the Netherlands who noticed that speed traps were a little too perfectly placed lately weren’t just being paranoid; turns out local cops have had a wealth of TomTom driving data—including historical speed—at their disposal. Because TomTom sold it to them. Et tu, satnav? TomTom has since apologized for the privacy breach, saying their…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 28 '11

How masses of swimming fire ants capture oxygen bubbles to stay afloat

One ant sinks in water, but a bunch of them? It turns out they can link together and become an unsinkable life raft. New research shows that when fire-ants are dropped in water, they quickly form a pancake-shaped floating mass, which traps air beneath them. The results are incredibly buoyant (a process the researchers liken…

io9 Tim Barribeau Apr 28 '11

Pepsi’s Social Vending Machine Would Be Kinda Great—If Pepsi Weren’t a Terrible, Terrible Beverage

The clincher in Pepsi’s new “social” vending machine platform is the ability to gift Pepsi beverages—and retrieve your gifted beverages—which is kind of awesome, putting vending machines at the same level of 2000s-era commerce as other electronic stores, say, iTunes or Amazon. The only problem? Pepsi sucks. Yeah, I went there. Coca-Cola forever. [Pepsi via…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 28 '11

If Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five had come out a few years later, we might never have heard of it

Charles J. Shields has written the first real biography of Kurt Vonnegut, due out in November. And he’s been blogging about Vonnegut for a while over at his Writing Kurt Vonnegut blog, which is well worth adding to your RSS. Among other things, Shields has posted a story that didn’t make it into the biography,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Apr 28 '11

Senator Chuck Grassley Is the Worst Twitter User in the United States of America

The Klhip Ultimate Nail Clipper Is Ultimately Just Expensive

Our most traumatic memories could be erased, thanks to the marine snail

What if H.P. Lovecraft taught sex education?

Shazam for Android Is Better than Shazam for iPhone

10 Signs That Your Best Friend is Preparing to become Your Arch Nemesis

Watch How the Police Raid a Cellphone

Three Foxconn Workers Arrested and Charged for Leaking iPad 2 Design

AirLocation Lets the Wi-Fi iPad Really Use the iPhone’s GPS Signal

Hulu Plus on Xbox 360 This Friday—And the First Week’s Free

Verizon LTE Back in Action

Hovering Drones Capture Video of Fukushima Destruction

Daniel Abraham Calculates the Economics of Fantasy in Episode 35 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Alliances Forged in Hell’s Frozen Recesses: Nvidia and AMD

The Worst Royal Wedding Merchandise

Humans can get leprosy through contact with armadillos

TomTom Helped Cops Cheat by Selling Driver Data

How masses of swimming fire ants capture oxygen bubbles to stay afloat

Pepsi’s Social Vending Machine Would Be Kinda Great—If Pepsi Weren’t a Terrible, Terrible Beverage

If Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five had come out a few years later, we might never have heard of it

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