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Control4 Brings Low-Priced Touchscreen Home Automation For Your Walls

Control4, one of the lower-priced home automation solutions, already has apps for your iPhone, Android, iPad and laptops to control your house, so why do they need a touchscreen for the wall? Because it’s always on. Those cellphone and web-based solutions are fine, but you run into the issue of having to open up the…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 10 '10

How to Watch This Week’s Spectacular Meteor Shower

The peak of the famously visible Perseid meteor shower starts this week! This year’s show, coinciding with a new moon and excellent viewing conditions, should be especially spectacular—especially if you follow these tips for an excellent viewing experience: Update: Just to be clear on dates—meteors should be visible tonight, Tuesday 8/10 through the morning of…

Space & Spaceflight Max Read Aug 10 '10

Shouting Match at Google Over Stalkery Ads

Google’s co-founders ended up in a shouting match in front of subordinates during internal discussions over aggressive ad targeting, according to the Wall Street Journal. The pro-targeting side prevailed, and Google is now edging toward Facebook-level privacy standards. Ack. Google has overcome long-held reservations about tracking users to push into “uncharted privacy territory for the…

Tech News Ryan Tate Aug 10 '10

First Widespread Android Trojan Loose in the Wild (UPDATED)

Honeymoon’s over, everyone: antiviral watchdog Kaspersky has spotted Android’s first, SMS-based trojan making the rounds in Russia. The devious little MS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a masks itself as a media player before invisibly shooting out expensive texts to premium numbers, earning cash for fraudsters. Isolated instances of Android spyware were reported last year, but this infection marks the first…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 10 '10

P ≠ NP? It’s bad news for the power of computing

Has the biggest question in computer science been solved? On 6 August, Vinay Deolalikar, a mathematician at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California, sent out draft copies of a paper titled simply “P ≠ NP”. This terse assertion could have profound implications for the ability of computers to solve many kinds of problem. It also…

io9 Richard Elwes - New Scientist Aug 10 '10

This Is How You Trick a Chipmunk Into Posing With Darth Vader

People couldn’t believe that this photograph of Darth Vader riding a chipmunk was not a Photoshop*. To end the controversy, designer and photographer Chris McVeigh has decided to reveal his most precious secret. How Lord Vader rode Billy the chipmunk? The answer: Almonds and puppetry. Life is good, my friends, life is good. [Flickr] Click…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 10 '10

A Quantum Leap movie is getting made, says Scott Bakula

Oh Boy! We did not see this coming: Scott Bakula himself released some info about a Quantum Leap movie. Which is supposedly being handled by a big time Hollywood producer — but with a new Sam Beckett. Blastr picked up on this little tidbit that was announced at the “A Leap of Faith-A Quantum Leap…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 10 '10

Cranky Flight Attendant Was Banging His Boyfriend When the Cops Showed Up (Updated)

The tale of Steven Slater—the JetBlue flight attendant who became a folk hero by storming off the job on an inflatable slide—keeps getting better. Gay sex, happy bragging, family tragedy, HIV status, and a confused ex-wife ahead. [Updated] https://gizmodo.com/flight-attendant-uses-inflatable-slide-for-dramatic-job-5608503 Yesterday we heard how the disgruntled flight attendant’s altercation with a passenger (which was related to…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Aug 10 '10

Breakthrough: Scientists use electron spin to expand computer memory

We’ve long known that encoding data using electron spin could revolutionize computer performance – and now it’s been successfully demonstrated for the first time ever. Ohio State researchers built a simple device as a test case for the new field they call “spintronics.” They took a thin, organic-based magnet and layered it with iron-based magnets,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 10 '10

Google Graded On Its Own Principles

If you explore Google’s corporate website, you’ll encounter the company’s ten core principles. It’s a philosophy, sure, but it’s also a report card. Good news! Google’s passing its own test. Bad news: Big G’s getting a C. We took those ten founding principles—which Google itself professes to revisit to “see if it still holds true”—and…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 10 '10

Vintage Tokyo Subway Manner Poster Gallery

The three annoying train monsters poster from October 1982 pays homage to Transformers and shows Nesshii, the sleeping monster; Asshii, the leg-crossing monster; and Shinbunshii, the newspaper-reading monster. Don’t throw chewing gum on the platform poster from September 1976. You wouldn’t want this to happen to Superman, would you? Inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Aug 10 '10

Guy Gardner, Harry Potter knock-offs, and Stephen King’s son run comics this week

What’s on the stands this Wednesday? The strongarm police tactics of everyone’s favorite mushroom-coiffed space cop, urban fantasy starring a man-boy wizard, and a new installment of Joe Hill’s acclaimed supernatural thriller Locke & Key. First, let’s look at some notable issues that will soon be in the hands of your local comic purveyor… Locke…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Aug 10 '10

Madden 11 For iPad: The Cool Touch Football

As someone who never watched much football, I was never very interested nor very good at football video games. But the eminently touchable new iPad Madden makes it easy even for casual pigskin fans to jump into the action. For the tactically clueless like myself, wasting all that time picking plays I didn’t really understand…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 10 '10

iBuyPower Juices All Desktops With Free USB 3.0 Power

There’s no question that USB 3.0 is the future; it’s just a question of when it’ll arrive en masse. iBuyPower’s decided to be in the vanguard, putting USB 3.0 in all of its desktops for no added charge. iBuyPower ships notoriously rugged rigs, so while there’s still not a lot of USB 3.0 compatible devices…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 10 '10

Robots have needs too

Psychologist Abraham Maslow may have influenced generations of self-help gurus with his ideas about the hierarchy of human needs. But he forgot to explain robot needs. Luckily his omission has been corrected with this handy chart. Lunch Breath via Suicide Bots

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 10 '10

Check out concept art from the Neuromancer film that never was

Last year, the internet was abuzz over the idea that famed music video director Joseph Kahn was going to direct a Neuromancer movie. That didn’t happen, but this sick concept art gives us a hint of what might have been. Tweeted: Concept art for Neuromancer film I was designing that didn’t happen. This one by…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 10 '10

Samsung Breaks Sub-$1000 3D TV Barrier

Samsung is releasing a new 3D-capable Plasma TV at the sweet price of $989—a full $400 less than its current entry-level 3D set. The 50″ PN50C490 sports an odd 1365 x 768p resolution, but hey—cheap(er) 3D. The PN50C490, available for pre-order now, also offers 3 HDMI 1.4 inputs, a USB port, and ConnectShare for easy…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Aug 10 '10

Dryer Box Towels Off Soaked Phones

Good news for drunk dialers: the next time you drop your phone in the toilet, it might be able to survive the plunge—in Japan, at least. New “dryer boxes” in Tokyo camera shops could save your wet device. The service is 1000 yen a pop—around $12—and will only cost you if the box successfully revives…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 10 '10

What if the Avengers movie was made in 1952?

Ivan Guerrero, the videographer behind the 1950s version of The Empire Strikes Back, has created an old-timey preview of Joss Whedon’s upcoming Avengers film by splicing together 50+ clips from old scifi movies. Plus, the movie’s based on Secret Invasion! https://gizmodo.com/our-new-alien-overlords-just-want-to-help-5045730 Also, here’s the Easter egg-filled annotations reel. It’s definitely worth a watch — look…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Aug 10 '10

Hidden blueprints show the plans for Arkham City

Check out the blueprints hidden Warden Quincy Sharp’s secret room in the hit Arkham Asylum game. Are these the plans for the new video game Arkham City? And how come nobody knew this secret room even existed? We’ve been drooling over the hidden gems in Batman: Arkham Asylum for some time now. But thanks to…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 10 '10

Control4 Brings Low-Priced Touchscreen Home Automation For Your Walls

How to Watch This Week’s Spectacular Meteor Shower

Shouting Match at Google Over Stalkery Ads

First Widespread Android Trojan Loose in the Wild (UPDATED)

P ≠ NP? It’s bad news for the power of computing

This Is How You Trick a Chipmunk Into Posing With Darth Vader

A Quantum Leap movie is getting made, says Scott Bakula

Cranky Flight Attendant Was Banging His Boyfriend When the Cops Showed Up (Updated)

Breakthrough: Scientists use electron spin to expand computer memory

Google Graded On Its Own Principles

Vintage Tokyo Subway Manner Poster Gallery

Guy Gardner, Harry Potter knock-offs, and Stephen King’s son run comics this week

Madden 11 For iPad: The Cool Touch Football

iBuyPower Juices All Desktops With Free USB 3.0 Power

Robots have needs too

Check out concept art from the Neuromancer film that never was

Samsung Breaks Sub-$1000 3D TV Barrier

Dryer Box Towels Off Soaked Phones

What if the Avengers movie was made in 1952?

Hidden blueprints show the plans for Arkham City

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