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The sexbot who came between two best friends

Cat Rambo has just published a terrific story over on Lightspeed magazine, called “Long Enough and Just So Long.” It’s a spiky, bittersweet character study of two best friends, and how their relationship is changed when they meet a recently-liberated sexbot on the Moon. Rambo’s hardscrabble future, set in space colonies that are still developing,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New York Air Traffic Controllers Make Double the Average Errors

The national average of air traffic controller errors is 1 in 84,000 “flight operations.” New York City area folks make 1 in 40,000. If the worst that happens from these errors is that your plane goes for a swim in the Hudson, I’d say they’re not too severe. Also, that wasn’t an error (I don’t…

Tech News Jason Chen

Del Toro’s Mountains of Madness not happening after all?

Less than a day after we heard that Guillermo del Toro was set to start shooting At The Mountains of Madness as soon as June, it turns out the studio has balked at the $150 million price tag and R-rating. According to Deadline, del Toro may sign on to direct Pacific Rim as his next…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Beastly is a harbinger of Twilight knockoffs to come

This is how I imagine the pitch meeting. “It’s like Twilight meets She’s All That, but with a gritty, urban feel and a cameo by an Olsen twin!” Beastly is an odd new paint-by-numbers teen genre flick, a hodgepodge of contrived romance and gothic horror. Its lineage can be traced straight back to Twilight. It’s…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The Best Deal of the Day

Oh boy, a new MP3 player! Just wanted I wanted for my birthday. No more having to carry this Discman around, or hum tunes to myself, or enjoy the natural orchestra of bird life around me. Goodbye, little sparrow! What sweet music you used to make for me. But you’ve been replaced by this sleek…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

The Dark Knight, Too Triumphant?

Batman can’t fly. Not in the comics. Not in the movies. Not even in the upcoming video game Batman Arkham City, despite what you might infer from some of the game’s screenshots. The Dark Knight of Arkham City nevertheless seems like a more powerful Batman than the one we last played in Batman Arkham Asylum.…

io9 Stephen Totilo

So Does Samsung Think Its 10-Inch Galaxy Tab Is Adequate Now?

Last week, a Samsung executive was reported as saying that his company’s 10-inch Galaxy Tab was “inadequate” in the face of iPad 2. Not surprisingly, Samsung has walked that statement back, saying that the tablet will be released on schedule. What to think! Well, this, probably: that while the Galaxy Tab’s got guts that arguably…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

New Riddick movie will feature alien seduction

The director of The Chronicles of Riddick, who is also directing the new Riddick film, took to the internet to answer the fans questions. The good news: it’ll be more like Pitch Black, the first film. In a very short video post on his facbook page, Diesel asked Twohy to answers the fans questions and…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Google Music Sync Already Working for Rooted Android Phones

Even though Google hasn’t officially announced it, some users at XDA-developers have discovered that Google Music Sync, the much anticipated streaming music service from Google, is already working with rooted Android phones running Honeycomb’s music player. Most of the details are still unknown but users say it works just as advertised: once your music syncs…

Tech News Casey Chan

Rdio’s New Desktop App for Mac Frees Your Streaming Library from Browsers and Smartphones

If you have Rdio (and a Mac), you’ll wanna download their new desktop app, which takes all the browser-based features of the streaming music service and gives it an iTunes-style UI and a home on your dock. You can’t download tracks for offline listening or merge your local MP3 library with your streaming collection, but…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A startling new take on siege tactics, from Raymond E. Feist’s new novel

You might think you know what to expect from a siege — waiting, climbing, possibly some siege engines. But the invaders in Raymond E. Feist’s A Kingdom Besieged have a wily, alarming spin on the idea. Check out this exclusive excerpt from Feist’s new novel, in which a prince learns that he may be getting…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Our Favorite iPad 2 Parody Video

Conan’s iPad 2 parody video was good, and these guys’ video was okay, but this one above is our favorite. Because it’s the funniest. Why else?

Tech News Jason Chen

Marvel editor’s tweet inspires webcomic starring Deadpool and Charlie Sheen

You may have heard that beleaguered Hot Shots: Part Deux thespian Charlie Sheen has been having a bit of a strange time lately, what with his free verse interviews about tiger blood and warlocks and whatnot. Anyway, last week Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Axel Alonso asked fans if they’d like to see a meeting of Sheen…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Ahoy! Is This Not the Most Magical Pirate Bedroom You’ve Ever Seen?

I dare you to find a cooler father than Steve Kuhl, who built this pirate ship bedroom for his six year old son. If this doesn’t add value to their Minnesota house, nothing will. Not even a gold-plated Jacuzzi. With a rope bridge connecting the floating pirate ship with a jail cell, and a rope…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

New Police Helicopter Video from September 11 Attack Released

There’s not much else to be said about perhaps the worst terrorist attack in history. But this new video, taken from NYC police helicopters, shows a new perspective on that terrible day. It is terrifying and breathtaking at the same time, a reminder of what these criminals can still do.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

6 Limitless clips show you how your brain is better on drugs

Six clips from Neil Burger’s drug-centric thriller Limitless demonstrates why it might be better for some people to stay on drugs. Watch Bradley Cooper go from poor schmuck writer to slick, paranoid psycho! Limitless, which is about “a copywriter [who] discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him with super human abilities,” will be in theaters…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Seriously, there’s no such thing as a “Summer Glau Curse.”

It seems to be semi-official that The Cape has been dry-cleaned and folded for the last time. And we’ve heard people talking about a “Summer Glau Curse,” in which no power in the ‘verse can keep her on the air. Okay, seriously? First of all, does anybody really believe that The Cape would have been…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Flying Fire Fighters (And Other Inventions That Didn’t Come To Pass)

Flying firemen. Radium-heated homes. Robot-assisted architects, tailors, and barbers (eek!). These are the technologies of the year 2000, as envisioned by French illustrator Villemard in a series of beautiful drawings produced in 1910. They are pretty wacky…except when they aren’t. While Villemard may have given us more credit in the realm of aviation than we…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Google Maps Navigation Now Directs You Around Traffic

I’ll gladly drive out of my way to avoid the soul-crushing agony of bumper to bumper traffic, and that’s just what a new beta for the Google Maps Navigation Android app will show me how to do. From now on, the first set of directions it spits out will be the fastest in current conditions,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Stone tools shaped the evolution of our hands

Charles Darwin once speculated that the use of stone tools by our ancient ancestors had profoundly influenced the evolution of our hands. Now, 140 years later, we’ve discovered that, once again, Darwin knew exactly what he was talking about. Our hands are fundamentally different from those of our primate relatives. The bones and muscles in…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The sexbot who came between two best friends

New York Air Traffic Controllers Make Double the Average Errors

Del Toro’s Mountains of Madness not happening after all?

Beastly is a harbinger of Twilight knockoffs to come

The Best Deal of the Day

The Dark Knight, Too Triumphant?

So Does Samsung Think Its 10-Inch Galaxy Tab Is Adequate Now?

New Riddick movie will feature alien seduction

Google Music Sync Already Working for Rooted Android Phones

Rdio’s New Desktop App for Mac Frees Your Streaming Library from Browsers and Smartphones

A startling new take on siege tactics, from Raymond E. Feist’s new novel

Our Favorite iPad 2 Parody Video

Marvel editor’s tweet inspires webcomic starring Deadpool and Charlie Sheen

Ahoy! Is This Not the Most Magical Pirate Bedroom You’ve Ever Seen?

New Police Helicopter Video from September 11 Attack Released

6 Limitless clips show you how your brain is better on drugs

Seriously, there’s no such thing as a “Summer Glau Curse.”

Flying Fire Fighters (And Other Inventions That Didn’t Come To Pass)

Google Maps Navigation Now Directs You Around Traffic

Stone tools shaped the evolution of our hands

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