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Everything we know about what’s coming next on Supernatural

Over the weekend, we had a chance to talk to writers, producers, and actors from Supernatural (yes, we met Sam and Dean), and now we know the monstery score. Season 6 will take the Winchesters on a new path. SPOILERS! It’s always a pleasure talking to the Supernatural cast and crew because they’re all obviously…

Television Annalee Newitz

Please, Somebody Make These Beautiful HTML5 Animations Into a Game

Maybe it is because I’m a sucker for old school 90s graphic adventures, but I love these just for what they are: Beautiful 8-bit cycling animations made using HTML5. They’re so good that someone should write a game around them. https://gizmodo.com/monkey-island-2-is-what-all-ipad-gaming-should-be-5584814 Swamp Cathedral, Mountain Stream, Haunted Castle at Night, Waterfall… all the 36 scenes—drawn masterfully…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Google Now “Fully Blocked” In China [UPDATE: It Was A Status Error]

Google, the brave search engine company who refused to censor search results in China, seems to be finding itself entirely unwelcome in the country: Apparently Google is now fully blocked in China. Update: False alarm due to a Google issue. https://gizmodo.com/google-refuses-to-continue-censoring-results-in-china-5446712 It is worth noting that “Google defines “fully blocked” as 67 percent to 100…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Comcast’s DVR App Is Coming to Android and BlackBerry

You can already manage your Comcast DVR from your iPhone, but soon you’ll be able to do the same with BlackBerry and Android as well. No date announced, but it’s coming. [Comcast] https://gizmodo.com/comcasts-latest-iphone-app-manages-your-dvr-from-anywhe-5488350

Tech News Jason Chen

Wear Your iPod Shuffle and Nothing Else

What to make of the diminutive iPod Shuffle? It’s handy for working out, but immediately less handy if you don’t have a sporty top to clip it to. That leaves you with two options: your earlobe or the Pod-à-porter neckband. The Pod à porter, designed by Michiel Cornelissen, is an elegant solution to a straightforward…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The dystopian novel that’s turning China upside down

It’s 2013, and China’s the only country to have survived an economic meltdown. The Chinese own Starbucks, which now serves longan dragon well lattes. So why can’t anybody remember an entire month? That’s the premise of a new dystopian novel. There are spoilers ahead, by the way… Chan Koon-Chung’s novel Shengshi Zhongguo 2013 (which roughly…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

What’s the Best Graphics Card for StarCraft II?

The gang over at TechSpot loaded up the newly-released StarCraft II on what seems like a hundred different PC setups to determine what the best hardware setup for the insanely popular real-time strategy game is. Here are the results: The good news is that basically any modern graphics card will be able to run the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Apple Patents Suggest You’ll Soon Rely On Apps To Get Dressed And Leave The House

As if some of us aren’t already too attached to our iOS devices, Apple seems to be working on ways to add to our addictions: Recent patent applications show that Apple may be creating virtual closet and travel apps. The virtual closet application sounds like a fashionista’s dream: The Virtual Closet could include a catalog…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

CIA and Google’s Joint Investment Raising Eyebrows

Cambridge startup Recorded Future trawls the internet for raw data that it uses in an attempt to predict world events—understandably interesting stuff. But what do both Google and the CIA both see in the company? Wired digs deeper. Pulling in data from over half a million websites, Twitter feeds, and blog posts, Recorded Future’s “spatial…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Amazon Tote Hand Delivers Your Orders Weekly, In a Bag, To Your Door

As an (greener) alternative to Amazon Prime’s free two-day shipping, there’s Amazon Tote, which gives you all your orders from the last week delivered once a week in a snazzy reusable tote bag. So far it’s only available for the Seattle area, but it can be used in combination with Amazon Prime. With that, you…

Commerce Jason Chen

The tenets of dieselpunk culture

The tenets of dieselpunk culture can be understood as follows. Dieselpunk is not a new and spurious trend. It grew legs and walked upright as soon as the Greatest Generation returned from the front. It merges our grandfathers’ dreams with the freedoms of the ages that came after it. Unrestricted by class, gender or prejudice,…

io9 Tome Wilson

Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent

Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn’t sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested. https://gizmodo.com/100-million-facebook-profile-pages-leaked-to-torrent-si-5598825 Reader Clint discovered that all you had to do is use something like Peer Block,…

Social Media Jason Chen

Steve Ballmer On iPad Sales: Not Happy

Asked by analysts about the 3 million magical iPads sold in 80 days, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasn’t very happy. I’m not surprised: They only sold 1.32 million Tablet PCs in 2008, with 1.25 million estimated for 2010. [Techflash] https://gizmodo.com/apple-3-million-magical-ipads-sold-5569779

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Motorola’s Sales Jump 600% Since Last Year

Selling 8.3 million mobile phones, 2.7 of which were smart phones, provided Motorola with earnings of $162 million this quarter, compared to $26 million this time last year. Motorola’s success is largely due to the Droid, which was dropped late last year and leads the market in Android phone sales. [TG Daily]

Tech News Christina Bonnington

We want to live in Freddie Prinze Jr.’s secret nerd lair on Psych

Not only did Last night’s Psych name-check Decepticons, Comic Con, BSG and Star Trek, but the entire episode wrapped around an alleged alien invasion. But the best part was easily this closeted nerd’s secret lair. This season of Psych has been seriously pulling out all the stops in terms of awesome genre references. Especially last…

Television Meredith Woerner

Ask China Miéville anything you want about “The City & The City”

China Miéville, author of io9 book club selection The City & The City, is joining us here to answer your questions. He’ll be here tomorrow (Friday, 7/30), from 11-12 Pacific Time. Pipe up in comments with your questions. We’ve already had a lively discussion about Miéville’s novel in our book club post. Now you can…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Hacker Develops Program To Make ATMs Spit Out Free Cash

ATMs use computers. Computers have weaknesses. Hackers exploit weaknesses. See where this is going? A hacker developed software that can force an ATM’s computer to give free cash. Luckily for banks, he showed off his technique at the Black Hat conference. How did hacker Barnaby Jack, director of security research for IOActive Inc, manage to…

Tech News Casey Chan

Giant Light-Up Snowflake iPhone Dock Will Really Tie the Room Together

Earlier this week we called on industrial designers to bring consumer electronics back to an age of handsome, dignified character. Designer Sylvain Gerber seems to disagree, unveiling an enormous wacky iPhone dock shaped like a snowflake and covered in lights. https://gizmodo.com/all-giz-wants-gadgets-with-character-5597037 The Snowflake Dock concept is based around a single JBL speaker, and will be…

Tech News Sam Biddle

X Prize Offers $1 Million For Oil Clean Up Solutions

The X Prize Foundation, which spurs scientific and technological innovation with the greatest of incentives, a big pile of money, hopes we’ll have a significantly improved method for cleaning oil by this time next year. The carrot: a cool million. The foundation, which organized an on-going, Google-sponsored $30 million competition for landing a robot on…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The massive star WR 22 is living fast and dying young

The very bright star at the center of this image is WR 22. It’s a rare example of a super massive star blasting its atmosphere apart and speeding towards death millions of times faster than our Sun. The star is about 70 times the mass of our Sun, and it’s bright enough that observers in…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Everything we know about what’s coming next on Supernatural

Please, Somebody Make These Beautiful HTML5 Animations Into a Game

Google Now “Fully Blocked” In China [UPDATE: It Was A Status Error]

Comcast’s DVR App Is Coming to Android and BlackBerry

Wear Your iPod Shuffle and Nothing Else

The dystopian novel that’s turning China upside down

What’s the Best Graphics Card for StarCraft II?

Apple Patents Suggest You’ll Soon Rely On Apps To Get Dressed And Leave The House

CIA and Google’s Joint Investment Raising Eyebrows

Amazon Tote Hand Delivers Your Orders Weekly, In a Bag, To Your Door

The tenets of dieselpunk culture

Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent

Steve Ballmer On iPad Sales: Not Happy

Motorola’s Sales Jump 600% Since Last Year

We want to live in Freddie Prinze Jr.’s secret nerd lair on Psych

Ask China Miéville anything you want about “The City & The City”

Hacker Develops Program To Make ATMs Spit Out Free Cash

Giant Light-Up Snowflake iPhone Dock Will Really Tie the Room Together

X Prize Offers $1 Million For Oil Clean Up Solutions

The massive star WR 22 is living fast and dying young

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