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Terraforming Earth, Pt. 3: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

We’ve seen how things can go awry when we tinker with our planet, but geology is fairly resistant to short-term change. When we screw with ecosystems, however, the chain of effects can be long and extremely unpredictable. Ecosystems are tenuous webs of interconnected species. From the algae at the bottom of the food chain to…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Android Apps October 1st

beejiveIM: Beejive, the best instant messaging app on those other smartphone platforms, has finally made its way to Android and though it costs 10 bucks, it’s as nice and feature packed as IM clients go (it has a conversation drawer!). Beejive supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and other clients while allowing file transfers between…

Tech News Casey Chan

Review Matrix: The Apple TV Dissected

Tech journalists are starting to receive their little black rental pucks, which means it’s review time! Most critics seem generally pleased, but rather than wade through their judgments, check our handy comparison chart below and consume in dainty bites. (Updated!) We’ve pulled the tastiest chunks from these reviews, so you don’t have to. (Just make…

Reviews Sam Biddle

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

io9 is home to the popular podcast, The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is an interview/talk show hosted by John Joseph Adams, the editor of Lightspeed Magazine and numerous anthologies such as Wastelands and The Living Dead, along with author David Barr Kirtley, who has published short stories in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Amazing Jell-O Shots: This Art Gets You Wasted

There are Jell-O shots. And then there are the shots from My Jello Americans: Cory Kete, Moe Sheehan, and Megan Booth have elevated the Jell-O shot into an art form. An art form that gets you wasted. I sat down with these titans of gelatin in our internet office. Okay. What possibly possessed you to…

Tech News Joel Johnson

Join Us On Facebook To Win A Portrait By Gizmodo Artist Sam Spratt

Gizmodo’s contributing illustrator Sam Spratt has created plenty of crazy photoshops and illustrations for our posts, but now he’s going to do something different: He’s going to draw one of you! Here’s how to be the lucky guy or girl: https://gizmodo.com/meet-our-contributing-illustrator-sam-spratt-5620127 All you have to do is head over and join our official Facebook page…

Social Media Rosa Golijan

iPad Apps October 1st

Coca Cola Heritage Timeline: I’m a Coke guy through and through. Every other soda can disappear for all I care. I also love to learn about the things I love and Coke has put out a snazzy iPad app that tells Coke drinkers the history of their bubbly cocoa syrup. It covers the 124-history of…

Tech News Casey Chan

iPhone Apps October 1st

Kenny Powers’ Home Run Fiesta: Deep Inside Mexico: I’m Kenny Powers and you’re fucking out. Yeah, fine. I’m not Kenny Powers but I think Eastbound & Down is awesome. So how’s Kenny Powers’ official iPhone game? Fucking awesome. It’s a 16-bit inspired, home run derby game that’s FREE on your iPhone. Owen, from Kotaku, says:…

Tech News Casey Chan

“Let Me In” is quietly disturbing and horrific

Let Me In, the unusual story of a child vampire and the human boy she comes to love, is moody and quiet. It’s a movie whose horror slowly creeps up on you, leaving a profound feeling of disturbance behind. Set in the early 1980s in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the movie is visually swaddled in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Wonder Woman TV series from the creator of Ally McBeal?

Warner Bros. wouldn’t go for Joss Whedon’s take on Wonder Woman, and the amazon princess’ movie has been stuck in development hell for a decade. But now Warners is developing Wonder Woman for television instead, with David E. Kelley. Yeah, the Ally McBeal guy. Kelley, of course, was also the creator of Chicago Hope, Picket…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

A Marble Game With a Point

Dark Nebula Episode 1 is a marble game, true, but it’s a marble game with objectives other than get the ball into the hole. The video explains what’s going on. To summarize, you pilot your marble ship around and through obstacles, trying not to die. A good deal at 99 cents. [iTunes]

Tech News Jason Chen

10 great science fiction novels that have been banned

In honor of Banned Books Week, Geekosystem’s Susana Polo looks at 10 great science fiction novels that have been banned, or at least threatened with removal from libraries and schools. Including some major classics of the genre! These titles are among the most popular and beloved science fiction works of the last century. They’ve told…

io9 Susana Polo -- Geekosystem

Why do people keep handing Walter Bishop the keys to the deathmobile?

Walter Bishop has already ruined one Earth and become one of the greatest destroyers in history — but is he doomed to do it again? Last night’s disturbing Fringe made us wonder. Spoilers ahead… The uneasy spirit of J. Robert Oppenheimer has hung over Fringe all along, symbolizing the abuse of science and the danger…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

In Twitter No One Can Hear You Scream

Nobody cares about most of the blahblahblah in Twitter. Almost three out of four tweets gets no reply whatsoever. 23% of all tweets get a reply, while a ridiculous 6% gets a retweet. And then there’s Justin Bieber. [Mashable]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Pot That Brews Coffee Like Tea

A porcelain pot with a perforated stainless steel cylinder that slides into the center, George Sowden’s SoftBrew immersion coffeemaker is a close cousin to the teapot. He says it’s less “violent” than a French press. It’s pretty, at least. [NYT]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Coolest Flight Attendants Ever Perform Safety Dance to Lady Gaga

Being a flight attendant isn’t always exciting. The crew at Cebu Pacific Airlines, however, found a way to spice up a normally mundane safety demonstration: by setting it to Lady Gaga and Katy Perry songs, and dancing their asses off. [Vulture]

Tech News Matt Cherette

Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android-Related Patents

Microsoft announced today that they’re going after Motorola for patent infringement. Specifically, nine patents that Microsoft says Motorola’s Android smartphones infringe on. Given that Microsoft’s already gotten HTC to roll over based on similar claims, this could get very interesting. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-licensing-mysterious-patented-tech-to-htcs-an-5526078 Of course, everybody’s always suing everybody in the mobile business, so in some ways…

Tech News Brian Barrett

“Let Me Show You Your New D Cup Breasts With My Business Card…”

This is an actual plastic surgeon’s business card. Now, someone create an American Psycho parody video where Patrick Bateman and Luis Carruthers exchange these booby and LEGO business cards, please. [Scary Ideas via @JackSchofield]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The astrophysicist who discovered Zarmina describes life on “second Earth”

Steve Vogt is the UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist who discovered Zarmina, the first recorded Earthlike planet outside our solar system. He told io9 what a human colony there would be like, and why he believes the planet already harbors life. https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-have-discovered-a-habitable-planet-20-light-5651589 Image by David Hardy I spoke to Vogt at his home in Santa Cruz…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Creepy full length trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 has been released — from Hell!

Get ready for the great motion-sickness scarefest that is Paranormal Activity 2! The horror sequel’s full length trailer has finally been released. How’s this one different? Mo’ evil babies, mo’ problems. There is no synopsis for this film yet, but the trailer is pretty self explanatory. The baby is evil, and must be stopped. But…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Terraforming Earth, Pt. 3: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Android Apps October 1st

Review Matrix: The Apple TV Dissected

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Amazing Jell-O Shots: This Art Gets You Wasted

Join Us On Facebook To Win A Portrait By Gizmodo Artist Sam Spratt

iPad Apps October 1st

iPhone Apps October 1st

“Let Me In” is quietly disturbing and horrific

A Wonder Woman TV series from the creator of Ally McBeal?

A Marble Game With a Point

10 great science fiction novels that have been banned

Why do people keep handing Walter Bishop the keys to the deathmobile?

In Twitter No One Can Hear You Scream

A Pot That Brews Coffee Like Tea

Coolest Flight Attendants Ever Perform Safety Dance to Lady Gaga

Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android-Related Patents

“Let Me Show You Your New D Cup Breasts With My Business Card…”

The astrophysicist who discovered Zarmina describes life on “second Earth”

Creepy full length trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 has been released — from Hell!

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