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The Mansions of Modern Tech Giants

My goodness, Steve Jobs’ new house looks like it’ll be a doozy. And it’ll have to be, if he wants to keep up with the ivory castles his tech mogul cohorts have built for themselves. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-the-plans-for-steve-jobs-new-house-5649909 Larry Ellison The Oracle CEO put this $25 million manse up for sale back in 2005, though it’s hard…

Tech News Brian Barrett

A map of all the dumped munitions from World Wars I and II off the coast of Europe

Mines and munitions dumped in the oceans during twentieth century wars could still kill you today. Atlantic inter-governmental organisation OSPAR helped put together this map of dumped munitions in coastal Atlantic waters. It’s not pretty. According to OSPAR’s Quality Status Report: Vast amounts of munitions were dumped at designated sites or randomly jettisoned into the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Syfy’s next hybrid monster should be Bearantula!

How can Syfy possibly top the awesomeness of Sharktopus? Should they even try? Maybe the answer is to abandon the water, and head onto land, with the unstoppable half-bear, half-spider: BEARANTULA! No, really. Hear us out. Our first thought after watching the rampage of the half-shark, half octopus menace was, “Western civilization has peaked.” With…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Captain America’s futuristic submarine shames Bruce Wayne’s Bat-Sub

New pics from Captain America: The First Avenger show an awesomely futuristic submarine, built especially for our hero. The boat was docked on a closed UK set that had been dressed to resemble 1940s New York. [The Echo]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Every TV Should Sound This Great

TVs all look decent enough these days. In fact, picture quality is such an easy target that manufacturers have moved on to compete with widgets and 3D. Screw that. I’d like to remind everyone that TVs need better sound. We got hands-on (and eyes-on and ears-on) time today with Bose’s first ever TV, the VideoWave,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim

A group of retired Air Force officers say they’ve encountered UFOs, and surmise that the space creatures are trying to tell an obstinate human race to abandon its nuclear weapons. That’s right: Earth is being monitored by intergalactic hippies. Seven elderly retired Air Force officers called a news conference at the National Press Club in…

Space & Spaceflight Spencer Ackerman - Wired

Why do we keep falling in love with cyborgs?

The allure of the cyborg is so widely-accepted that it’s become a cliche in science fiction, but people rarely ask why. Doesn’t it seem a little strange that humans are so powerfully attracted to synthetic versions of themselves? It all depends on how you interpret human/cyborg love. Is it about romancing a version of ourselves,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin debate science fiction vs. “realism”

Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood are two of SF’s most famous living writers. Claire Evans was lucky enough to join 2,000 other people in listening to them discuss Star Wars, fantasy… and telling the truth in fiction. Earlier this year, when I went to an event to meet NASA astronaut Jim Dutton at…

Books & Comics Claire L. Evans -- Space Canon

How a Plastic Sandwich Bag Saved This Three-Month Premature Baby’s Life

Lexi Lacey was born 14 weeks premature. She weighed less than a pound. She was given a 10% chance to live. And a plastic sandwich bag from the hospital cafeteria saved her life. The main concern with a baby born that early is maintaining body temperature; they lack the necessary body fat to stay warm.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

This Logitech F540 Wireless Headset Can Handle Three Inputs At Once

>You’re an aural multitasker. You want to switch to streaming light classical music while you’re fragging away on your Xbox 360, maybe mixing in some evening news just for kicks. This Logitech F540 headset feeds your audio ADD. The F540 can connect to up to three audio devices, because it includes a wireless base station…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Avatar porn trailer reveals the Na’vi-human war over male sexual enhancement

The trailer for Axel Braun’s This Ain’t Avatar XXX 3D is out, and it looks like Avatar if the film had been filmed in the style of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but you know, with diddling. Trailer is nudity-free. Says makeup artist Lee Garland of the production: We used an alcohol-based paint so that it…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

What Is This?

No, it’s not the video capture of an endoscopy. This particular black vortex lies a bit farther than that. The Venus Express, the European Space Agency’s spacecraft dedicated to the exploration of our sister planet, has made this surprising discovery on its south pole: A massive vortex similar to the one found on Saturn’s south…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Giz Explains: Brightness

Your smartphone’s screen: 500 nits. Your laptop’s: 400. Your living room projector bulb: 1700 lumens. Your mini Maglite’s: 16. To gadget makers, brightness is a numerical marketing weapon, wielded often and without grace. To us, it’s just another spec. No more! The first thing to know about brightness is that, most of the time, it’s…

Tech News John Herrman

Asteroid-hunting super-camera has found its first dangerous space rock (and that’s great news)

A new telescope, equipped with a 1.8 billion pixel camera, has discovered its first potentially dangerous asteroid. The rock is a lot smaller than any other asteroid we’ve detected before, and that’s great news for our still-developing asteroid defense system. The actual chances of asteroid 2010 ST3 actually hitting Earth are very, very small –…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Half-Naked Ravers Served Drinks By Glow-in-the-Dark Robot at Gawker HQ

Saturday night, a bright round moon and Downtown Manhattan’s millions of lights were upstaged by two giant projection screens, an inflatable dance orb, and multitudes of glow bracelets, necklaces, neon body paint, fiberoptic wands and light-up swizzle sticks that were brandished by 400 rooftop revelers at the Diesel-sponsored Superglued/Gawker Media Silent Rave. As the festivities…

Tech News Gawkercreative

Read the first chapter of Iain M. Banks’ new Culture novel, “Surface Detail”

Can’t wait to get your hands on Iain M. Banks’ new novel Surface Detail, coming out early next month? Well, you’ll be in a frenzy after reading the first chapter of the book, available on the Orbit Books website. In typical Banks fashion, the book starts with a spectacular chase scene, and a doomed character…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Reminder: io9 Book Club meeting next week to discuss “Zero History”

A reminder that the io9 Book Club is meeting next week, October 5, to discuss William Gibson’s new novel Zero History. What is this crazy io9 Book Club, you ask? Let me tell you about it. For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Total awesomeness: Thundarr The Barbarian vs. the Robo-Snake!

This may well be the coolest video you see today. In a post-apocalyptic far future, Thundarr the Barbarian slices open a giant robot serpent bus with his Sunsword. It’s your exclusive sneak peek at the new Thundarr DVD set. My new catchphrase is, “Ookla, no!” If you missed out on Thundarr the Barbarian, you’re probably…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

iArm: It Just Makes Your Life Better

Do you know those inventions that are so fantastically awesome that they feel like magic? That’s not what the iArm is, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting…no…demanding that someone makes this miraculous accessory for the good of all mankind. I mean, imagine to be able to use your iPad while you watch a sunset…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Birds Of Prey sing about Aquaman’s tiny penis

Last week on Batman: The Brave and The Bold, the Birds of Prey ranked the sexual prowess of DC’s superheroes, in song. Batman landed on top, but Aquaman and the Flash didn’t fare so well. You’re going to enjoy this. All of the credit has to go to Gail Simone, who penned this spectacular episode…

Television Meredith Woerner

The Mansions of Modern Tech Giants

A map of all the dumped munitions from World Wars I and II off the coast of Europe

Syfy’s next hybrid monster should be Bearantula!

Captain America’s futuristic submarine shames Bruce Wayne’s Bat-Sub

Every TV Should Sound This Great

UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim

Why do we keep falling in love with cyborgs?

Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin debate science fiction vs. “realism”

How a Plastic Sandwich Bag Saved This Three-Month Premature Baby’s Life

This Logitech F540 Wireless Headset Can Handle Three Inputs At Once

Avatar porn trailer reveals the Na’vi-human war over male sexual enhancement

What Is This?

Giz Explains: Brightness

Asteroid-hunting super-camera has found its first dangerous space rock (and that’s great news)

Half-Naked Ravers Served Drinks By Glow-in-the-Dark Robot at Gawker HQ

Read the first chapter of Iain M. Banks’ new Culture novel, “Surface Detail”

Reminder: io9 Book Club meeting next week to discuss “Zero History”

Total awesomeness: Thundarr The Barbarian vs. the Robo-Snake!

iArm: It Just Makes Your Life Better

The Birds Of Prey sing about Aquaman’s tiny penis

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