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Six Days in Libya Cost the US $400 Million

All those Tomahawk missiles and F-15 strikes don’t come cheap (especially when they crash)—says the Congressional Research Service’s report on Operation Odyssey Dawn. The CRS paper pegs the American price tag at $400 mil for just the first six days, rising to an estimated $1 billion soon. [via FAS] https://gizmodo.com/american-f-15-crashes-over-libya-5784359

Tech News Sam Biddle

Amy Adams talks playing Lois Lane in the Superman reboot. Plus James McAvoy teases X-Men: First Class 2 and 3!

Zack Snyder clarifies how his Superman movie will fit with the newly announced Justice League. Mark Ruffalo explains the Hulk’s role in The Avengers. The Powers TV adaptation is looking at a Friday Night Lights star for a main role. Spoilers from this point onward! Top image from X-Men: First Class. Thor Loki actor Tom…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Even Lego is Bowing Down to Silly Royal Wedding Nonsense

You’d hope Lego had more sense than this—though at least it’s not as bad as some of the crap that’s featured on the brilliant Royal Wedding Tat tumblr (seriously, Prince William and Kate Middleton Pez dispensers?!) Anyway, they’ve chosen to surround the Lego couple in Lego celebrities, including a pregnant Victoria Beckham, along with Sir…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

He’s a Cut Off the Ol’ Magnetic Knife Block

There’s nothing fancier than a magnetic strip to cling big kitchen knives to—except maybe a magnetic knife block, if your benchspace allows it. In a range of colors (though none are as smart as the white), it costs $110. [Etsy via Werd]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Asus Claims People Do Genuinely Want Windows 7 on Tablets

Despite Asus offering up a couple of Android tablets, they’re still finding that customers want nothing more than Windows 7—because that’s what they’re used to. While Asus may privately agree that Android—or iOS—provides a better tablet experience than Windows 7, the fact of the matter is they’re “making Windows 7 tablets because we still get…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Turn That iPhone Into a Game Boy Camera

Everyone had a friend whose parents bought him everything—including a Game Boy Camera, which could take photos in that lovely pixellated look, and even print them out instantly if they’d sprung for a printer too. Now you can throw two fingers your friend’s way, because for $1 you can shoot photos in the exact same…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Any Watch Can Tell the Time, But Few Can Actually Stop the Time

It appears that the latest must-have feature on luxury watches isn’t dozens of tectonic plates; dinosaur bone fragments or the kitchen sink—it’s the ability to stop the time. Imagine harried Russian oligarchs allowing their mistresses a few minutes of untimed sexytime. On the right, we have the Hermès Le Temps Suspendu watch, which promises to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Microsoft Accuses Google of Anti-Competition

How’s this for the pot calling the kettle black? Microsoft has made an official complaint to the European Commission, claiming that Google is behaving in an anti-competitive way when it comes to search. Namely, their acquisition of YouTube back in 2006 meant that competing search engines were restricted from “properly accessing it for their search…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Amazon is Now Trying to Get Licensing Deals With Record Labels

From thinking they don’t need licensing deals, to “aggressively courting” the big record labels, Amazon’s change of heart on the Cloud Player storing/streaming issue will likely cost them dear. After all, it’s not like the labels will be responding nicely to their calls, after effectively setting up a streaming service to rival their own (in…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

QR Codes: Goodbye and Good Riddance

With the great NFC race looming, Google is axing support for QR Codes in their Places service. QR codes made a noble play for the hearts and minds of nerds, but honestly, I hope this is the first step towards their complete and utter annihilation. When QR Codes were first introduced to the masses, they…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Admit It, You’d Do This If You Had a Virtual Reality System

What the hell are you supposed to do in a virtual world anyway—choose between red and blue pills? I can barely figure out what to do in some daydreams, so I can’t even imagine how quickly a virtual reality world would become dull enough for old hobbies to seem fun again in comparison. [Basketcase Comix]

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Memefy for iPad Puts the Power of Lulz at Your Fingertips

1. DOWNLOAD MEMEFY ON IPAD 2. PICK MEME TEMPLATE 3. ALTERNATELY, UPLOAD YOUR OWN PHOTO 4. ADD LULZ-WORTHY TEXT 5. UPLOAD 6. ????????????????? 7. PROFIT. [iTunes]

Tech News Adrian Covert

SciSpy App for iOS Lets You Practice Being a Real Ecologist

Do you believe, deep down, that it is your hidden calling to become a masterful ecologist? SciSpy, the Science Channel’s new app, lets you dabble in this field by allowing you to document the natural world around you—even if you don’t go any further than your own backyard. The app lets you snap pictures of…

Tech News Davey Alba

Summify Gives You 5 Articles to Read a Day Based on Your Internet Reading Habits

Reading is easy! But finding good stuff to read isn’t, you have to cut through all the webby fat to get an interesting article. Summify combs your your Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader habits (it peaks at data and analyzes your social networks) and sends an e-mail with 5 articles to read per day. I…

Tech News Casey Chan

Microsoft’s Chief Strategy Officer Questions the Longevity of Tablets

Speaking at an economic development event in Australia, Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Global Chief Research and Strategy Officer, more or less admitted Microsoft was late to the consumer smartphone and tablet game. But also voiced some hesitations towards tablets, saying “I don’t know whether the big screen tablet pad category is going to remain with us…

Tech News Adrian Covert

OS X Lion Dev Preview 2 Is Here

If you’re an Apple developer, you can now download the a second developer preview release of OS X 10.7 (Lion). TechCrunch believes it’s pretty close to the finished version of the operating system. Aside from sweeping bug and stability fixes, Developer Preview 2 will install on 2011 MacBook Pros and apparently has an updated version…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Fox Wants Its Channels Removed From Time Warner’s iPad App

In the latest turn of this IPTV drama, Fox has issued a cease-and-desist Time Warner remove any Fox-owned channels from its streaming iPad app, which pushes live TV to customers. In return, Time Warner has taken a populist approach, imploring the masses to show their support for the app. [Bloomberg and Time Warner via Engadget]…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Watch Explodes and Reconfigures Itself Every Hour Just to Tell You the Time

The Harry Winston Opus Eleven doesn’t need watch hands. It’s got main cylinders which disintegrate and re-assemble every hour to tell you the time. The three cylinders are meant to “deconstruct” time—with the biggest circle housing 24 placards that rotate and move every hour on a complex series of gears. The small top circle displays…

Tech News Husain Sumra

How Much Did the iPad Crush Everyone Else in 2010

There’s not much else to say about this chart. According to Gartner, the world spent $9.6 billion in tablets. According to Apple’s official numbers, the iPad got $9.566 billion. Of course, that’s 2010. The real battle will be this year: Gartner says that the market will grow to $29.4 billion in 2011, cannibalizing PCs and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The strange, sad history of the lobotomy

If you thought that scene in Sucker Punch where the doctor gave lobotomies with an ice pick was artistic exaggeration – well, it wasn’t. That’s exactly how Walter Freeman, a popularizer of lobotomies in the 1940s, performed thousands of operations. In the mid-twentieth century, the lobotomy was such a popular “cure” for mental illness that…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Six Days in Libya Cost the US $400 Million

Amy Adams talks playing Lois Lane in the Superman reboot. Plus James McAvoy teases X-Men: First Class 2 and 3!

Even Lego is Bowing Down to Silly Royal Wedding Nonsense

He’s a Cut Off the Ol’ Magnetic Knife Block

Asus Claims People Do Genuinely Want Windows 7 on Tablets

Turn That iPhone Into a Game Boy Camera

Any Watch Can Tell the Time, But Few Can Actually Stop the Time

Microsoft Accuses Google of Anti-Competition

Amazon is Now Trying to Get Licensing Deals With Record Labels

QR Codes: Goodbye and Good Riddance

Admit It, You’d Do This If You Had a Virtual Reality System

Memefy for iPad Puts the Power of Lulz at Your Fingertips

SciSpy App for iOS Lets You Practice Being a Real Ecologist

Summify Gives You 5 Articles to Read a Day Based on Your Internet Reading Habits

Microsoft’s Chief Strategy Officer Questions the Longevity of Tablets

OS X Lion Dev Preview 2 Is Here

Fox Wants Its Channels Removed From Time Warner’s iPad App

This Watch Explodes and Reconfigures Itself Every Hour Just to Tell You the Time

How Much Did the iPad Crush Everyone Else in 2010

The strange, sad history of the lobotomy

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