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Is your novel set on an alternate Earth? You could win the Terry Pratchett Prize!

Do you have an unpublished novel set on Earth, but not this Earth? If you do, and it’s really awesome, you could win the Terry Pratchett Prize: Random House will pay you £20,000 to publish your novel next year. You must live in the UK, Ireland, or the Commonwealth to enter, and Pratchett has written…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Syfy’s Haven smothers the Stephen King influences in its own fog

Tonight, Syfy is rolling out two new premieres. And while we are excited to return to Eureka, we may cancel our next trip to Haven. While this little town’s mysterious supernatural backstory shows promise, the intrigue is lost at sea. Spoilers below! Haven, is loosely based on Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid, and loose is…

io9 Meredith Woerner

German fashion models done up to look like Yoda. Because why not?

They’re bald, green and bearded. These models in Patrick Mohr’s show at the Berlin Fashion Week today appear to be trying to channel a certain Jedi master. Judge them by their silly prosthetics, do you? Photo by AP. [Thanks Brian!]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Unemployed Astronauts

In 2012, when the space shuttle Endeavour launches for the last time, the United States’ manned space program will be over for the foreseeable future, killing the dreams of millions of kids nationwide. Hopefully, American astronauts won’t end like this: https://gizmodo.com/the-last-space-shuttle-tank-5582848 Great—and kind of depressing—photographies by [HunterFreeman]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

YouTube Adds Support for High-Quality 4K Videos

At 4096 x 3072 pixels, 4K videos are nearly four times the size of 1080p. Yes, that’s huge. And yes, YouTube now supports such videos. It’s a feature almost as awesome as the vuvuzela button. https://gizmodo.com/youtube-videos-now-have-a-vuvuzela-button-5571341 This is how the size of these videos is explained on the YouTube blog: To give some perspective on…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

VoxOx Is Another Way to Get Free Google Voice on Your Desktop

Lifehacker came up with a good way to get free Google Voice calls on your desktop with Sipgate, but Sipgate seems to have run out of free numbers, rending that method broken (for now). VoxOx can do something similar. https://lifehacker.com/make-free-voip-calls-from-google-voice-5349506 Here’s the deal: When you sign up for VoxOx you get 1 free number that…

Tech News Jason Chen

Kevin Bacon in talks to play X-Men villain, but which one?

Reports are swirling that Kevin Bacon, the affable center of the Hollywood universe, is in talks to play a baddie in X-Men: First Class. But which enemy of the X-Men will Bacon portray? We have some ideas. Deadline’s report says Kevin Bacon “has the offer and is negotiating to play the villain role in X-Men:…

Books & Comics Alasdair Wilkins

An Android Live Wallpaper That Shows You The Inside Of Your Phone

aCircuit Board is a live wallpaper for Android that shows you the beautiful circuit board—from the chips to the conductive traces—in all its geeky glory. If you love a good ol’ gadget teardown, this is your wallpaper. The superfluous effects like a pulsating Android robot, moving fans, added dust effect, and lighting the conductive paths…

Tech News Casey Chan

Lawsuit Accusing Apple and AT&T of an iPhone Monopoly Granted Class-Action Status

A complaint titled “Apple & ATTM Antitrust Litigation” has been granted class-action status by judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint accuses Apple and AT&T of forming an iPhone monopoly. The class-action status designation on this complaint signifies that “the plaintiffs now represent everybody who’s bought…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Is the U.S. remake of Let The Right One In doomed?

Just when we were starting to think the U.S. version of Let The Right One In might be worth watching, it turns out we may not get the chance. The culprit, once again, is studio turmoil. According to the Miami Herald, the controversial remake Let Me In may have its release scaled back massively: A…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This Week’s Best Apps

Week two of the all-new, all-inclusive weekly app roundup brings some truly excellent iPad games—Osmos, Monkey Island 2, and Samurai: Way of the Warrior—in addition to a whole host of other excellent apps for both iPhone and Android. iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-july-9-5583403/ iPad To view these on one page,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The 7 Most Miserable Heat Waves in Modern History

This has been a hot, wretched week in the Northeastern US. But as heat waves go, this one was pretty mild — especially compared to these seven examples. It’s easy to underestimate the danger of a severe heat wave, and more flamboyant weather events, like hurricanes, tend to draw more attention. But these slow-motion natural…

io9 Kelly Faircloth

Larry Page Calls Steve Jobs a “Little Bit” of a Liar

After Apple and Google’s romance ended, we knew that many fandroids disputed Steve Jobs’ story of Google stealing the idea of the iPhone for Android. Now, Larry Page accuses Jobs of rewriting history. However, maybe the history rewriter is Page. https://gizmodo.com/how-apple-and-googles-romance-turned-to-hate-5483662 Page said that Steve Jobs’ story—which said that Google created Android to compete with…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Ready your torches and pitchforks: John Noble snubbed for an Emmy

Remember when we threatened to BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND if John Noble was Emmy-snubbed? It’s time to rally people. When will Hollywood start recognizing people with genuine talent? Walter Bishop is the best character on prime time. [Emmys] http://io9.com/5557391/if-john-noble-doesnt-get-an-emmy-nomination-we-will-burn-this-place-to-the-ground

Television Meredith Woerner

Vapir NO2 Vaporizer Review: Cut the Cords and Get Portable

The Vapir is like many other small vaporizers, with one key difference: it’s powered by a rechargeable battery, allowing you to bring it with you anywhere. It’s a neat trick. Most vaporizers require you to keep the thing plugged in to power their electron-hungry coils. A monster machine like the Volcano could probably never go…

Reviews Adam Frucci

Nano-generators can harvest electricity from your blood

We are one very big step closer to sending robots into our body for long-term, complex missions. New nano-generators can turn mechanical energy – like that of flowing blood – into electricity needed to power nanobots. The tiny generators are the brainchild of Dr. Yong Shi, a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Future New York, The City of Skyscrapers (1925)

This postcard from 1925 imagines future New York City, “The City of Skyscrapers.” Utopian New York of the 1920s sure had a lot of levels, with a system of elevated trains, some beautiful flying contraptions, and towering skyscrapers reaching toward the heavens. I’m fascinated by New York futurism, as it generally had a more rugged…

Tech News Matt Novak

Despicable Me proves every father is a supervillain

In Despicable Me, opening today, Steve Carrell plays a supervillain named Gru who only cares for fame… or rather infamy. Until he adopts three little orphan girls and grows a heart. Yes, it’s totally sappy. But you know, it’s fun. Oh, and spoiler alert and stuff. Here’s what you really want to know about Despicable…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Predators just might be the best action movie of summer

It’s fast-paced, full of great fight scenes, and isn’t bloated with awful CGI padding. The unpretentious monster movie Predators is a rip-roaring tale of supersolidier aliens fighting supersoldier humans, and it’s damn good fun. Plus, it even has interesting characters! Predators is a welcome dose of escapism in this summer of effects-heavy stinkers. The movie…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Android Apps July 9

ESPN Radio: It’s ESPN Radio. On a phone. So you can listen to the talking heads of ESPN make sense of Lebron on live sports radio streams and over 40 different sports podcasts (including Bill Simmons). There’s Sportscenter updates too. Sports radio can be a screaming mess, but ESPN Radio has some good content. It’s…

Tech News Casey Chan

Is your novel set on an alternate Earth? You could win the Terry Pratchett Prize!

Syfy’s Haven smothers the Stephen King influences in its own fog

German fashion models done up to look like Yoda. Because why not?

Unemployed Astronauts

YouTube Adds Support for High-Quality 4K Videos

VoxOx Is Another Way to Get Free Google Voice on Your Desktop

Kevin Bacon in talks to play X-Men villain, but which one?

An Android Live Wallpaper That Shows You The Inside Of Your Phone

Lawsuit Accusing Apple and AT&T of an iPhone Monopoly Granted Class-Action Status

Is the U.S. remake of Let The Right One In doomed?

This Week’s Best Apps

The 7 Most Miserable Heat Waves in Modern History

Larry Page Calls Steve Jobs a “Little Bit” of a Liar

Ready your torches and pitchforks: John Noble snubbed for an Emmy

Vapir NO2 Vaporizer Review: Cut the Cords and Get Portable

Nano-generators can harvest electricity from your blood

Future New York, The City of Skyscrapers (1925)

Despicable Me proves every father is a supervillain

Predators just might be the best action movie of summer

Android Apps July 9

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