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Amy Pond meets her match: First footage from Doctor Who’s next charity sketch

Amy Pond finally meets the one person in the universe who can stand up to her — and it looks like they’re getting along quite well, in the first brief clip from the skit airing during Friday’s Comic Relief special. If this skit is anything like the “Time Crash” one featuring Peter Davison, and the…

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The Japan Quake’s Most Powerful Photos (Updated)

A car perched precariously on the roof of a small hut. Streets packed curb to rooftop with debris. An unnamed victim’s hand, reaching out from the mud. These are but a few of the harrowing pictures now streaming out of Japan some four days after the worst earthquake that nation has seen in recorded history.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Magic the Gathering: a coming-of-age story

For some readers, Magic: The Gathering is a carefree pastime. For me, it was a cruel mistress, a cardboard school of hard knocks, a game that taught me that dragons die in the cigarette-scented storage rooms of hobby stores. NOTE: For those of you unfamiliar with Magic: The Gathering nomenclature, I’ve tried to keep the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Northwestern Scientists Massage Qubits Into Working Better with the Internet

How about the qubit, huh? All quantum and two-faced and potentially paradigm-shifting the way we approach computing. It’s amazing! Also amazing: What Northwestern University researchers claimed to have done with it in a fiber-optic cable. Basically, the researchers have discovered a way to route a “photon qubit” through fiber-optics without any physical loss to the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Staples Lands Wifi-Only Xoom for $600. Arrives March 27, Claims Purported Print Ad

Office supply chain Staples is the latest big box store to land the Motorola Xoom. They’re only advertising the wifi version for now, but at $600 it’s one of the cheaper price points listed to date. The ad suggests a March 27 arrival date. [Droid Life via Engadget]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Sn0wbreeze 2.3 Jailbreaks iOS 4.3 iDevices on Windows

Where there’s an iOS update, there’s a jailbreak, and today that’s the case with Sn0breeze 2.3. This jailbreak, while not perfect, works with iPhone 4, iPad, iPod touch on Windows, but only with tethered devices. Meaning, reports Redmond Pie, users will have to boot into a jailbroken state every time they reboot the device. Not…

Tech News Jack Loftus

This iPad 2 Is Bleeding

Well, it’s bleeding, yes, but the “blood” is backlight poking through around the edges of the screen, as defective LCD screens are wont to do. Ultimately, we’re unsure whether or not this is a widespread issue. From an anecdotal perspective, I can attest that one of the two iPad 2’s I’ve handled since Friday had…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Why being a cowardly workaholic can actually make you live longer

Feel good about yourself, don’t work too hard, and don’t worrying too much…it’s all good advice, but they’re not actually going to help you live any longer. That’s the counterintuitive finding of a 20-year study examining how personality affects longevity. As it turns out, all these things that might help improve the quality of your…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Archaeologists Claim They’ve Discovered Atlantis in Southern Spain

Researchers at a site in southern Spain are just the latest to take up the cry: We’ve discovered the lost city of Atlantis! Location: Southern Spain. Wait, what? Yes, Spain! The site, a multi-ringed city, was discovered after two years of exploratory experiments and geological surveys, including deep-ground radar, digital mapping and “underwater technology” (most…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Privacy Could Headline Google Circles Social Network Reveal Later Today (Updated)

When the purported launch of your social network is co-hosted by the ACLU, there’s really no secret about what the cornerstone of said service might be. This is the case with Google Circles, rumored to launch at SXSW this evening. While the swirling rumors indicate this might not be a finished product, there is almost…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Amazing Wrongness of Rainn Wilson’s New Superhero Movie

If Quentin Tarantino directed a superhero movie on speed, you might end up with something like Super, starring Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page. We caught an early showing of this demented gem at South By Southwest. Here’s a spoiler-lite review. If you’ve seen the trailer for Super, then you already know much of what to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Pokémon Company Squashes Twitter Rumor of Creator’s Death [Update]

A spokesman for the Pokémon Company said all employees, including Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri, are alive and safe following Thursday’s tremendous earthquake in Japan, specifically rebutting a widespread rumor that Tajiri had died in the disaster.… [Kotaku]

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The coldest brown dwarf ever discovered is colder than boiling water

Just 63 light-years away, there’s a failed star known as a brown dwarf barely any bigger than Jupiter. It’s temperature is way less than 100 degrees Celsius, which blurs the line even more between the smallest stars and biggest planets. Brown dwarfs occupy an odd middle ground between planets and stars. They’re not quite massive…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors Designed to Survive 7.9 Earthquake

As the world watches what looks to be a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, the Wall Street Journal reports the site’s tested threshold for earthquakes was only 7.9—well below what transpired last week. It’s a development that’s eerily reminiscent of the New Orleans levies, which were not designed to handle the massive force…

Tech News Jack Loftus

What Is an E-Meter? (Updated)

Today would be L. Ron Hubbard 100th birthday. Who is L. Ron Hubbard? He’s the dude who invented Scientology. Yup, that same kooky scientology that turned Tom Cruise into a joke. Do you know how to start becoming a scientology member though? You have to pass an auditing process and go through this e-meter, a…

Tech News Casey Chan

Footage of Alpha the Robot, the would-be mechanical assassin of the 1930s

You may have heard of Alpha the (trigger-happy) Robot and that time he posed with a group of nudists (NSFW), but have you ever seen this mechanical man move? Matt Novak of the Paleofuture Blog shows us Alpha in motion. In 1932 American newspapers started publishing wildly exaggerated stories about a British robot named Alpha…

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Daylight Saving Time can be (mildly) hazardous to your health

Today, clocks throughout the United States jump forward an hour to mark the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. The economic and energy benefits of DST have been hotly debated for nearly a century, but does it pose a health risk? All our American readers (except those in Hawaii, Arizona, and various territories) skipped the hour…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Watch “Tron: The Next Day,” a short film about what happened between Tron and Tron Legacy

Tron: The Next Day (Flynn Lives Revealed) is a 10-minute short that fills in the backstory between the first and second films. It recently appeared on YouTube and contains unused footage from Tron Legacy. The short also bears a passing resemblance to the teaser short that was rumored to be on the Tron Legacy DVD…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Coming to America: Alpha the Robot Hops the Pond (1934)

February, 1934 Practical Mechanics (image: http://www.davidbuckley.net/) In 1932 American newspapers started publishing wildly exaggerated stories about a British robot named Alpha that allegedly blinked to life, rose to his feet, and shot his inventor. Some of the stories quoted the inventor, Harry May, as saying that he knew Alpha would turn against him one day.…

Tech News Matt Novak

Sexytime Soundtrack App Cracks Jokes While You Have Sex

Matt Berry’s Sexytime Soundtrack App uses the iPhone’s accelerometer and cracks jokes depending on your level of movement. All you do is place the iPhone on your bed, flip open the app and listen to Matt Berry say crazy things like “Refund” and “Stop thinking about your wife”. $1. Enjoy. [iTunes via Cult of Mac]

Tech News Casey Chan

Amy Pond meets her match: First footage from Doctor Who’s next charity sketch

The Japan Quake’s Most Powerful Photos (Updated)

Magic the Gathering: a coming-of-age story

Northwestern Scientists Massage Qubits Into Working Better with the Internet

Staples Lands Wifi-Only Xoom for $600. Arrives March 27, Claims Purported Print Ad

Sn0wbreeze 2.3 Jailbreaks iOS 4.3 iDevices on Windows

This iPad 2 Is Bleeding

Why being a cowardly workaholic can actually make you live longer

Archaeologists Claim They’ve Discovered Atlantis in Southern Spain

Privacy Could Headline Google Circles Social Network Reveal Later Today (Updated)

The Amazing Wrongness of Rainn Wilson’s New Superhero Movie

Pokémon Company Squashes Twitter Rumor of Creator’s Death [Update]

The coldest brown dwarf ever discovered is colder than boiling water

Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors Designed to Survive 7.9 Earthquake

What Is an E-Meter? (Updated)

Footage of Alpha the Robot, the would-be mechanical assassin of the 1930s

Daylight Saving Time can be (mildly) hazardous to your health

Watch “Tron: The Next Day,” a short film about what happened between Tron and Tron Legacy

Coming to America: Alpha the Robot Hops the Pond (1934)

Sexytime Soundtrack App Cracks Jokes While You Have Sex

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