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Are You Reading This During Sex?

Our undying love for the Internet has gone a bit too far, according to a recent study claiming that almost a quarter of US residents think it’s acceptable to be online during sex. Are you one of them? The study, conducted by computer security firm PC Tools, surveyed 1,012 U.S. adults in a random phone…

Tech News Ariel Schwartz - FastCompany

Chemicals Provoke Penises To Be Grown On Female Sea Snails’ Foreheads

Good news for homosexual male snails living off the coast of Western Australia, as the female sex of the Thais Orbita species have all grown rather large “members” on their heads. Sadly, the head-peni have formed due to chemical reactions. While you’re right in remembering from sordid science classes that snails are usually hermaphrodites, this…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Samsung Galaxy Tab Will Be on Every Major Carrier (There’s a Wi-Fi Version Too)

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab—which still sounds more like a horrendous soft drink with a movie tie-in than an Android tablet—is coming to every major carrier this year. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-galaxy-tab-runs-froyo-has-flash-and-measures-5627498 It’s “arriving in time for holiday shopping,” according to Samsung. What they’re not talking about is price: How much the Tab is going…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Is this really planet Earth?

The Moon, Venus, the clouds, and the birds dancing under the lights and shadows of a perfect sunset… So perfect, in fact, that it feels otherworldly, like an sci-fi illustration. But there aren’t Photoshop filters or HDR or airbrushing here. I thought it was artificial when I first saw it, perhaps High Dynamic Range photography.…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

With season 3, Fringe becomes the most daring show on television

Fringe has already proven that it’s willing to take its alternate-universe concept in shocking directions. But the first two episodes of season three have so many mind-blowing, thought-provoking, can’t-believe-they-went-there moments, you’ll have to watch them twice. Here’s our spoiler-free preview. We were lucky enough to watch the first two episodes of Fringe’s new season, premiering…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Smartphone Talk Time Claims Put to the Test

The good folks at Tested wanted to find out if smartphones really give you as much talk time as the manufacturers claim they do. Most held up admirably. But the biggest loser of the bunch was the iPhone 4. Indeed, in Tested’s testing some of the phones actually surpassed their promised talk time: the Samsung…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Would You Be Happy With a Phone That Just Calls and Texts?

Once upon a time, cellphones were used for making phone calls. Then text messaging became a thing. Cameras, maps, and multimedia playback followed, and eventually we got apps. But would you be satisfied going back to the bread and butter? It seems like a no brainer—more is always better, right? Well, not for everyone. We’ve…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The virus progenitor of HIV may be millions of years old, which could be a problem

Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, the non-lethal ape predecessor to HIV, might just be much older than current estimates, which peg it at only a few hundred years old. Research published in this week’s Science shows the virus is at least 32,000 years old, and may even have been around for a million years. By analyzing simians…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Form blazing sword! Awesome new Voltron concept art gives us hope for mega-feline mayhem

Voltron and RoBeast tear New York to shreds, in awesome new concept art from the apparently-not-dead Voltron movie. Check out another image below. This art comes via JoBlo.com, which reports that the Voltron movie is definitely still happening — and it’s been taken over by Atlas Entertainment, which appears to be going for a gritty,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

At last scientists finally understand what makes antidepressants work

Doctors have prescribed antidepressants for decades without fully understanding why they helped people. Yes, they increase serotonin levels in the brain, but a new study gives a clear picture of what else these drugs do to us. Prozac and other major antidepressant drugs have helped people deal with clinical depression for decades, but the underlying…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Juror’s iPhone Use Causes Mistrial In Manslaughter Case

A jury foreman in a manslaughter murder case in Florida has caused a mistrial with his iPhone. How? He looked up the word “prudence” during deliberations. On Encarta. The details of the case: a man in his 60s shot his 19-year old neighbor during a heated dog-walking argument. The older man argued that he feared…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Will the giant robotic King Kong save Broadway from U2’s Spider-Man?

Behold the beast that could save Broadway from horrible emo Peter Parkers. This 20-foot animatronic could be the star of his own Broadway musical, King Kong — Live On Stage. But does he sing and dance? Sadly no, King Kong will not be dancing and singing with his 40 cast mates. But we’re actually pretty…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Voltron of Computers Combines Phone, Tablet, and Keyboard Into One

Always Innovating’s Smart Book breaks the traditional netbook into pieces. A touchscreen VoIP phone, a tablet, and a keyboard. Use them apart, or combine them into a full-powered device when you have to. Buy one device, carry what you need. As if hardware transformation on the fly weren’t clever enough, the Smart Book includes a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Verizon Won’t Sell Windows Phone 7 This Year

A Verizon spokesperson tells Bloomberg that the carrier will not offer any Windows Phone 7 devices at launch, and won’t have one until sometime next year. Not great news, considering the uphill climb Microsoft’s already got ahead of them. [BusinessWeek]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

“Presence” is a head-exploding existentialist trip

Is the apocalypse in all your head? Bryan Kramer’s debut feature has exploding heads, which is excellent, but really it’s more about one man’s journey into paranoia and the lonely night, as he struggles to understand a deadly pandemic. Forget Scanners and fast pace; think existentialist head trip on the meaning of plague, set to…

io9 Hal MacDermot - Quiet Earth

Greenpeace Skewers Zuckerberg’s “So Coal” Network In Adorably Insulting Video

The edgy ecophiles at Greenpeace have placed Facebook in their crosshairs, bashing Mark Zuckerberg over what they allege is a reliance on coal to fuel his (substantial) data centers. A new video slams Zuck, and asks for a renewable alternative. The video, plucking emphatically at your heartstrings with the narration of what sounds like a…

Social Media Sam Biddle

What’s the big twist in M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil?

“Five strangers trapped [in an elevator.] One of them is not what they seem.” Let the guessing game begin! What is the big twist that came from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan? Who do you think is the Devil? Even though this thriller is directed by John Erick Dowdle, Shyamalan has left his stamp…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Pretend Your iPhone Is Just a Really Impressively Modded NES Controller

Instead of buying this $5 decal and pretending that your super-sophisticated 21st century smartphone is an old Nintendo controller, why not pretend that you just happen to have a magical NES controller that can run apps and make phone calls? Kinda make phone calls, anyway—and hey, it’s only an NES controller, after all! The decal,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

How crows mastered the art of tool use

Tool use is incredibly rare in the animal kingdom, so it’s a big deal when we discover crows going to considerable trouble to use sticks for hunting beetle larvae hiding inside branches. Using a tiny stick might not seem like much, but it’s the crow equivalent of piloting a 747 or running a particle accelerator…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

What The F*ck Is Yahoo Again?

I’ve to confess that I don’t have much clue about what exactly Yahoo does these days. They have news, they have blogs, they can tell you the weather, they search, there’s Flickr… that’s why I’m glad they explained it. [SAI]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Are You Reading This During Sex?

Chemicals Provoke Penises To Be Grown On Female Sea Snails’ Foreheads

Samsung Galaxy Tab Will Be on Every Major Carrier (There’s a Wi-Fi Version Too)

Is this really planet Earth?

With season 3, Fringe becomes the most daring show on television

Smartphone Talk Time Claims Put to the Test

Would You Be Happy With a Phone That Just Calls and Texts?

The virus progenitor of HIV may be millions of years old, which could be a problem

Form blazing sword! Awesome new Voltron concept art gives us hope for mega-feline mayhem

At last scientists finally understand what makes antidepressants work

Juror’s iPhone Use Causes Mistrial In Manslaughter Case

Will the giant robotic King Kong save Broadway from U2’s Spider-Man?

Voltron of Computers Combines Phone, Tablet, and Keyboard Into One

Verizon Won’t Sell Windows Phone 7 This Year

“Presence” is a head-exploding existentialist trip

Greenpeace Skewers Zuckerberg’s “So Coal” Network In Adorably Insulting Video

What’s the big twist in M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil?

Pretend Your iPhone Is Just a Really Impressively Modded NES Controller

How crows mastered the art of tool use

What The F*ck Is Yahoo Again?

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