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How she turned them all into ravens – every last one

I can’t stop staring at this image, possibly because the raven transformations are so elaborate and strange. I’m not sure if it’s the stages in one man’s transformation, or several men in the throes of metamorphosis. This illustration, along with the three others I’ve included here, are the work of UK artist Alice Duke. You…

io9 Annalee Newitz

These Students Purposely Crashed A NASA Satellite Into The Ocean

With NASA’s blessing, a group of Colorado University students were able to participate in what sounds like the coolest college test ever: crashing a real NASA satellite into the ocean. The satellite, known as the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation satellite (or ICESat), orbited the Earth for seven years gathering data on ice sheets and…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

When Warehouse 13 clicks, it’s amazing. When it doesn’t…

Last night’s Warehouse 13 pursued the same “throw together a bunch of ideas at high speed” approach that has worked so well for the show lately… and it didn’t quite gel this time around, for me at least. Spoilers ahead… So there were three different main plots in last night’s episode, and none of them…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Google Responds to Steve Jobs’ Thinly Veiled Insults

During today’s Apple event, Steve Jobs bragged about how many iOS devices are upgraded each day and remarked that he thinks “some of [Apple’s] friends are counting upgrades in their numbers.” Google caught this thinly-veiled accusation and retorted: https://gizmodo.com/all-the-cool-new-stuff-from-apple-5627368 The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Sonos Home Music Systems Getting Spotify Service

Sonos is getting Spotify. Too bad the US can’t get to the service. [Sonos]

Tech News Brian Lam

Boxee Will Cost $199 When It Releases In November

On the day the new Apple TV was announced, Boxee decided to give itself a price: $199. That’s a solid benjamin over the Apple TV but Boxee thinks giving users the freedom to watch whatever they want to watch is worth the extra cost. It might be. [Boxee via CrunchGear] https://gizmodo.com/the-new-apple-tv-5626657

Television Casey Chan

NASA History Captured In Strange and Beautiful Photograph Collection

That? That’s the Gossamer Penguin, an experimental solar-powered aircraft cruising above a dry lakebed at NASA Dryden’s Flight Research Center in July 1979. It’s just one of the many strange, spectacular images of NASA’s early days now available online. The images come from NASA Commons, a joint effort by NASA, Flickr, and Internet Archive to…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

The First Hands-On Impressions on All New Apple Gear

We have collected all the information you need to know about today’s Apple music event in a series of individual product articles. We just added the first hands-on impressions from the people who played with them in California. • Click here to read all about the new iPod touch, including the hands-on. • For the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse

Is touchy-feely environmentalism a new opiate of the people? Why are we paying rent to Bill Gates? Is reality incomplete? Marxist cultural commentator Slavoj Žižek, the most dangerous philosopher in the west, unravels it all for Liz Else. Your new book, Living in the End Times, is about the demise of global capitalism. What is…

io9 Liz Else - New Scientist

This Is How iOS 4.1 HDR Photos Look In Reality

Apple’s iOS 4.1 will give us the ability to take HDR photos with our iPhone devices, but how will those photos look? We spent some time with the iOS 4.1 Gold Master and found out. https://gizmodo.com/what-ios-4-1-does-for-you-5627602 The idea behind HDR photos is that they look more similar to what our eyes see than regular photos.…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

This Post Is Actually a Handgun

What’s cooler: Guns disguised as ordinary objects or everyday items that look like guns? In honor of The American, George Clooney’s new film in which he plays an assassin/undercover gunsmith (in theaters today!), here are some scary yet benign guns and their seemingly harmless but deadly counterparts. Guns come in all shapes and sizes. Just…

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Amazon’s Streaming TV Episodes From Fox and ABC For 99 Cents

Apple’s not the only place you can get TV episodes for a buck a pop; Amazon’s currently serving up a host of shows from ABC and FOX for only 99 cents. Grab a Roku and get watchin’. [Amazon via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/you-can-rent-itunes-tv-shows-for-1-and-movies-for-5-5627674

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The FCC Is Probably Bowing Down to Verizon and Google on Wireless Net Neutrality

The FCC says it’s now thinking about making proposed net neutrality rules different (read: nonexistent) for wireless devices. It’s an aboutface from what the FCC chairman originally talked up, and exactly what Verizon and Google wanted. Ah well. [NYT] https://gizmodo.com/why-the-fccs-got-at-t-and-verizon-scared-shitless-5377347

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Ron Moore’s new television project: a Harry Potter-inspired fantasy series

Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica juggled heavy duty space opera and fantastical, magic elements. But his next project will leave space behind, in favor of a world of pure magic, in the vein of Harry Potter for adults. According to Deadline, Moore’s new project is “described as an adult Harry Potter set in a world…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why Is Steve Jobs Living a Lot of His Life Upside Down?

Today, we’re lucky to get a peek into Steve Jobs’ magical brain: “I live a lot of my life upside down,” he said. Was it a life lesson? An admission of his favorite yoga position? What did he exactly mean? What did Steve Jobs mean with "I live a lot of my life upside down"?online…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

What happened when Oliver Sacks started to hallucinate

Over at NeuroTribes, a new blog in the just-born science blog network at PLoS (it’s one for your feed reader), Steve Silberman has an exclusive interview with celebrated neuroscientist Oliver Sacks. For the first time, Sacks is speaking out about the illness that nearly cost him his eyesight – a topic that he treats in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Rock-Slicing, Nanotechnology-Packing Super Steel Was Forgotten 250 Years Ago

If you were on a battlefield say, 700 years ago, Damascus steel mattered. The super-strong blades were fabled in their age, said to have sliced through the swords of foes and solid rock. Then we forgot how to make it. 6th century Metalworkers in India and Sri Lanka were the first to begin crafting the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A syllabus and book list for novice students of science fiction literature

Want to start reading some science fiction, but aren’t sure where to begin? We’ve put together an introductory scifi lit syllabus just for you. WHAT THIS LIST IS AND ISN’T There are a few things to keep in mind about this syllabus for SF 101: Introduction to Literature. It is not comprehensive. It is intended…

io9 Annalee Newitz

“Bubbling” Tricks Your Mind To See Anyone Naked

A legend born: A young Mormon, forbidden from looking at porn, discovers a way to Photoshop safe-for-work bikini shots in such a way to let his mind fill in the blanks. It’s not porn if it’s in your brain. Another! And one for the ladies. This young man is a national hero. [Forum.Bodybuilding.com]

Tech News Joel Johnson

Windows Phone 7 Is Done

Microsoft’s releasing Windows Phone 7 to manufacturing today—in other words, it’s done. Final. Complete. Microsoft managed to add a few new bits before shrink-wrapping it, too. What RTM means is hardware makers and carriers can start finalizing their own plans for Windows Phone 7—tweaking drivers, preparing carrier-specific services for integration, that kind of thing. Gettings…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

How she turned them all into ravens – every last one

These Students Purposely Crashed A NASA Satellite Into The Ocean

When Warehouse 13 clicks, it’s amazing. When it doesn’t…

Google Responds to Steve Jobs’ Thinly Veiled Insults

Sonos Home Music Systems Getting Spotify Service

Boxee Will Cost $199 When It Releases In November

NASA History Captured In Strange and Beautiful Photograph Collection

The First Hands-On Impressions on All New Apple Gear

Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse

This Is How iOS 4.1 HDR Photos Look In Reality

This Post Is Actually a Handgun

Amazon’s Streaming TV Episodes From Fox and ABC For 99 Cents

The FCC Is Probably Bowing Down to Verizon and Google on Wireless Net Neutrality

Ron Moore’s new television project: a Harry Potter-inspired fantasy series

Why Is Steve Jobs Living a Lot of His Life Upside Down?

What happened when Oliver Sacks started to hallucinate

This Rock-Slicing, Nanotechnology-Packing Super Steel Was Forgotten 250 Years Ago

A syllabus and book list for novice students of science fiction literature

“Bubbling” Tricks Your Mind To See Anyone Naked

Windows Phone 7 Is Done

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