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Google Places for iPhone

Google’s library of data is immense, sometimes dauntingly so. The new Google Places iPhone app is an elegant entry point into one particularly dark and disorganized fold of Google’s mega-brain: their restaurant, bar, and venue listings. What is it? Google Places, iPhone, Free. Once upon a time, Google tried to buy the restaurant-rating site Yelp.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 12 '11

Get to Know and Stalk the Gizmodo Staff

We’ve told you how you can stalk Gizmodo staff members on Facebook before, but we’ve realized that some of you might actually want to get to know us. So here’s a little bit of info about our staff. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-stalk-the-gizmodo-staff-on-facebook-5688748 Brian Lam Click to view Once upon a time, Brian Lam lurked around boxing gyms and…

Social Media The Gizmodo Crew Jan 12 '11

Verizon Killing Upgrade Discount Program Just In Time For iPhone 4

Verizon’s finally bringing the iPhone on board! But what’s this? The carrier’s going to be closing its “New Every Two” upgrade discount program to new subscribers three weeks before the iPhone hits its shelves? But… but… aw, man. https://gizmodo.com/the-verizon-iphone-is-here-5730527 Just to be perfectly clear, this won’t affect current subscribers who’ve been holding on to their…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 12 '11

The Most Exciting Severed Hands Of All Time

Sometimes, to achieve true greatness, you have to give something up. Many of fantasy and science fiction’s greatest heroes have lost a hand along the way, but it just makes them more awesome. Here are the greatest severed hands, ever! Crawling hands. No matter how you slice them, they’re still spooky. Long after being separated…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 12 '11

Bill & Ted’s Exterminating Adventure

When time travelers collide! Maybe Doc Brown can save them? This fantastic art comes fromChristopher Jones, and prints are available for purchase at Etsy!

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 12 '11

Watch the iPad’s New Secret Tricks

We’ve discovered a little gem in the iOS 4.3 beta: Four and five finger multi-touch gesture support for the iPad. Here’s how it looks in action. https://gizmodo.com/ios-4-3-beta-and-pre-release-apple-tv-software-now-avai-5731997 Each of the new gestures can be done with either four or five fingers—your choice—and they all work smoothly. A pinch brings you to the Home Screen, a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 12 '11

Book Club Reminder: Read Connie Willis’ “Blackout” and “All Clear” for 1/25

We took a hiatus for the holidays, so we’re doing a mega-read for late January: We’ll be tackling Connie Willis’ Blackout and All Clear (her two-book time travel novel). What is this io9 book club, you ask? For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Jan 12 '11

Read the first three chapters from Paul McAuley’s new novel “Cowboy Angels”

We’re big fans of hard scifi author Paul McAuley – we even chose his novel The Quiet War to be io9’s first-ever book club choice. His new book, Cowboy Angels, looks amazing. Now you can read the first three chapters! Thanks to Pyr Books for giving io9 the chance to run these chapters from the…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Jan 12 '11

Batman Villain or Operating System?

Thanks to illustrator Fabian Glez, I now finally understand why my computer seems a bit shady at times. Of course, now I’ve also begun worrying that Batman will break down my door and force me to change operating systems. [Flickr via The High Definite]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 12 '11

Thank You For Fixing the iPad’s Side Switch, Apple

We weren’t happy when Apple changed the iPad’s side switch from an orientation lock into a mute switch, but thanks to iOS 4.3 we can calm down: Now there’s finally a setting allowing us to choose what the switch does. https://gizmodo.com/hey-apple-lets-get-the-screen-lock-back-to-the-ipad-sw-5696733 As minor of an option as this may seem, it actually makes life quite…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 12 '11

Anthony Hopkins reveals the dreadful weight of playing a god in Thor

While discussing his upcoming exorcism thriller The Rite, legendary actor Anthony Hopkins told us a little about the world of Thor, and the great weight that is placed upon you when you play the god Odin… both literally and metaphorically. Hopkins was mainly there to talk about The Rite (which we’ll have more to say…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins Jan 12 '11

Cowboy Angels excerpt, Chapter Three

Continued from here. CHAPTER THREE https://gizmodo.com/read-the-first-three-chapters-from-paul-mcauleys-new-no-5732034 “Welch put you up to this, didn’t he?” Stone said. “The slick son of a bitch brought you through the mirror because he thought you might ﬂush out your father.” “It isn’t like that at all,” Linda Waverly said, and started the taxi and pulled away from the curb.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 12 '11

You Could Run a Marathon On the World’s Longest Bridge

This is the world’s longest bridge. It links the Chinese cities Qingdao with Huangdao, could easily traverse the English Channel, and at 26.4 miles long extends far enough that you could run a marathon on it. With room to spare. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge took four years, 10,000 workers, and more than $8 billion to…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 12 '11

The Korean version of the X-Files takes place in the 17th century

Check out this footage from the Korean TV show Special Investigation Report, which is more commonly referred to as “Joseon X-Files.” What’s it about? A pair of UFO investigators sleuthing during Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. Matthew Bey of No Fear For the Future has seen half a season, and even though the production values aren’t always…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jan 12 '11

A single brain cell can predict whether you’ll spend or save

Deciding what to do with your money is a complex decision, requiring lots of different parts of the brain to work together. But just before you make your conscious decision, a single neuron can reveal what you’re going to choose. The brain assembles a complex network of different areas that can evaluate the various benefits…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 12 '11

iOS 4.3 Beta and Pre-Release Apple TV Software Now Available to Apple Developers

Looks like iOS 4.3 Beta is now available for download in the iOS Developer Center along with some pre-release Apple TV software. We’ll be taking a look and letting you know what’s new since the last beta shortly. [Apple]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 12 '11

Designers unveil plans to build a second city on top of Toronto

A group of artists and designers, including 50 Cyborgs project organizer Tim Maly, have proposed a radical idea to solve Toronto’s city planning problems. Scrap the old city, and just build a new one on top. Call it Upper Toronto. Image by Brett Lamb from the Torontoist. Maly and collaborator Jacob Zimmer, who runs performance…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 12 '11

The Military-Grade iPhone Windshield Mount

Using touchscreens in the car can be such a hassle, because even if you put them in a dash or windshield mount where they’re safely in your line of sight, they still wiggle around too much. Or they did. I drive my Land Cruiser all over creation. (Or at least I’m trying.) And while it’s…

Tech News Joel Johnson Jan 12 '11

How Can a Watch this Complex Be Bulletproof?

I have no idea how something so delicate looking can resist the force of a gunshot—or so watchmaker Devon claims—but I’m not asking any questions. This lithium polymer-powered, steel-built, computer-manufactured timepiece is tough as hell. It could even save your life. Well, at least if someone is an extremely poor shot. At any rate, the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 12 '11

Can a Single 21st Century Man Build a Toaster?

Click to view Remember Thomas Thwaites’s self-made toaster? In this TED talk, he overviews the incredibly laborious process of creating it. You’re gonna want your Eggos after the industrial capitalist system is overthrown, aren’t you? Sure you are. So pay attention! [TED] https://gizmodo.com/5-homemade-toaster-teaches-the-value-of-walmart-5538964

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 12 '11

Google Places for iPhone

Get to Know and Stalk the Gizmodo Staff

Verizon Killing Upgrade Discount Program Just In Time For iPhone 4

The Most Exciting Severed Hands Of All Time

Bill & Ted’s Exterminating Adventure

Watch the iPad’s New Secret Tricks

Book Club Reminder: Read Connie Willis’ “Blackout” and “All Clear” for 1/25

Read the first three chapters from Paul McAuley’s new novel “Cowboy Angels”

Batman Villain or Operating System?

Thank You For Fixing the iPad’s Side Switch, Apple

Anthony Hopkins reveals the dreadful weight of playing a god in Thor

Cowboy Angels excerpt, Chapter Three

You Could Run a Marathon On the World’s Longest Bridge

The Korean version of the X-Files takes place in the 17th century

A single brain cell can predict whether you’ll spend or save

iOS 4.3 Beta and Pre-Release Apple TV Software Now Available to Apple Developers

Designers unveil plans to build a second city on top of Toronto

The Military-Grade iPhone Windshield Mount

How Can a Watch this Complex Be Bulletproof?

Can a Single 21st Century Man Build a Toaster?

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