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Adam Carolla Explains What the Hell is Wrong With Batteries Today

Adam Carolla of The Adam Carolla Show fame deals with lousy batteries the same way we do: Angrily. What’s wrong with them? Why are we still having to charge stuff every day and deal with dead devices? Carolla explains. Well first off we got the double-A and the triple-A, but I feel like we should…

Tech News Jason Chen

New Proton Size Breaks Laws of Physics

A new measurement of the proton particle shows that it is 0.00000000000003 millimetres smaller than previously thought. It may seem irrelevant, but physicists are freaking out. I hope this doesn’t mean we are going to cease to exist anytime soon. Since the size of the proton is used in quantum electrodynamics, it means that a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

New Tron: Legacy Pics: Evil Flynn Looks Wicked Cool

It’s an encouraging sign that every time I see or hear something new about Tron: Legacy, it only gets me more excited. These five brand new stills are definitely no exception. The images are from this month’s Empire magazine, on newsstands today and featuring all sorts of Tron: Legacy goodness. Like how David Fincher gave…

Movies Brian Barrett

Apple iBooks Could Face Microsoft Patent Challenge

When Microsoft killed Courier dead, they promised that “it will be evaluated for use in future offerings.” One of those innovations appears to have been the iBooks-like “virtual page turn,” which Microsoft applied to patent in January of 2009. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-cancels-innovative-courier-tablet-project-5527442 Of course, “innovation” is here used loosely, since there are other very similar technologies out…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Thursday Comic-Con schedule is live!

Comic-Con is only two weeks away. Your entire io9 crew will be there, reporting live from the darkest heart of pop culture fandom. Now the schedule for day one of the madness, Thursday the 22nd, is on the SDCC website! You can check out the exciting Thursday schedule here, and tomorrow we’ll see what’s in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Backordered iPhone 4s Now Shipping

If your iPhone 4 was backordered to arrive July 14th, it’s quite possible that it’s now in transit (at least according to one multiple reader tips). And if it’s in transit already, it’s also quite possible that you’ll receive that iPhone a bit before the 14th. [Thanks Timothy!]

Tech News Mark Wilson

OK, This 3D Business Is Getting Out of Hand

This week’s issue of Time Out New York is all in 3D. No more, please! I beg of you! It’s bad enough that studios are cramming mediocre 3D and more expensive ticket prices down our throats, but do we really need a magazine to be in 3D? Zeke Turner at the Observer took it for…

Tech News Adam Frucci

If You Buy an iPad Mag, It Might As Well Be Popular Mechanics

The latest big magazine iPad app is here: Popular Mechanics. It’s very possibly the best. Though for now, it’s a glorified beta test. https://gizmodo.com/popular-mechanics-ipad-app-the-future-of-magazines-al-5552315 That is, Pop Mech’s Interactive Edition isn’t the first “issue” of monthly apps—those won’t arrive until later this year—it’s more of a tech demo that mixes up older and newer material…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Protons are smaller than we thought…could the entire universe be wrong?

Protons are 0.00000000000000003 meters smaller than we thought. That sounds like nothing, but it means one of these things must be true: Undiscovered particles are lurking, quantum mechanics needs recalculating…or the universe is impossible. (Here’s hoping it’s the first two.) The measurements find that the proton is actually about 4% smaller than what decades of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Pirate Bay Hacked, 4 Million Usernames, Email Addresses and IPs Compromised

Oops! It looks like Argentinian “researcher” Ch Russo hacked The Pirate Bay, acquiring a whopping four million usernames, email addresses and IP addresses. I didn’t even realize you could sign up for an account at The Pirate Bay! If you’ve just visited the site and downloaded some things, you should be fine, as you don’t…

Privacy & Security Adam Frucci

Samsung Captivate Launching July 18 on AT&T For $200

AT&T customers who’ve been pining for a legitimate Android experience won’t have much longer to wait: the Samsung Captivate, a promising Galaxy S phone with a 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, 1GHz Hummingbird processor, a 5MP camera that records 720p video, and up to 32GB of combined onboard and external storage, will hit stores July 18th…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Two new UFOs caught on tape – along with some seriously weird noises

My favorite new trend in UFO videos is when the vids have weird noises in the background – like in this video, where there is some sort of electronic squeaking that sounds like robot self-pleasuring. Or how about this vid, below, which sounds like somebody is typing on a computer keyboard while the weird ballpoint…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Social Gaming Network OpenFeint Coming to Android

Good news for Android users who are miserable due to the limited game selection on their devices: Social gaming network OpenFeint is coming to Android and it’ll hopefully encourage development of more games for the mobile operating system. OpenFeint To Bring World’s Largest Mobile Gaming Developer Community To Google’s Android Platform Mobile Social Games Network’s…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Government’s “Perfect Citizen” Program Will Protect Companies By Monitoring Them

In order to curb cyber attacks on companies that control critical infrastructure, the US federal government is launching a new surveillance program dubbed “Perfect Citizen.” The people behind it are already calling it “Big Brother.” The purpose of the “Perfect Citizen” program is to monitor critical infrastructure like electricity grids and nuclear-power plants and prevent…

Tech News Casey Chan

Lego Dune: If only these figures were for sale!

Don’t you wish you owned Lego figures of Paul Atreides, Emperor Shaddam VI, and a host of other Dune characters? A few stalwart souls have been posting their own custom Dune Lego figures and mock-ups on Flickr. We’ve already marveled at the Lego Dune phenomenon once, a while back. But these newly posted images are…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

There Has To Be a Logical Reason for the Carbon Fiber Toilet

Italian designer Alberto Del Biond has created a carbon fiber toilet. Why? That’s what I want to know. It’s part of his line of Nerocarbonio design, that go from Bimota bikes to basins and this toilet. He declares himself fascinated with carbon fiber because of it’s lightness and depth. Somebody should tell him that carbon…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

We’ll have to wait even longer to see Matt Damon’s Philip K. Dick movie

We loved the paranoid trailer for The Adjustment Bureau, the Matt Damon-starring film based on Philip K. Dick’s story. So it’s too bad that it’s delayed again. This time, it’s been pushed from this September to March 4, 2011. [Deadline] https://gizmodo.com/paranoid-new-trailer-for-philip-k-dick-adaptation-the-5537382 https://gizmodo.com/matt-damons-philip-k-dick-thriller-delayed-until-septe-5526705

Movies Meredith Woerner

What DirectX 11 Is, and What It Means To You

The new graphics API comes with new buzzwords. We’ll tell you what they mean and how they matter to your gaming experience. Just when you think you’ve grasped all the jargon surrounding 3D graphics, new terms and technologies flood onto the market. AMD has been aggressively shipping DirectX 11 GPUs in almost every price category,…

Tech News Loyd Case - MaximumPC

Solar-Powered Plane Flies Through the Night For the First Time

Every few months, the Solar Impulse aircraft embarks upon another test flight, working gradually toward the goal of circumnavigating the globe. Yesterday, it flew for 26 hours, powered through the night by sun it collected during the day. https://gizmodo.com/around-the-world-under-the-sun-5511934 The flight, according to the Solar Impulse team, was both the longest and the highest ever…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Smartass Phone

Clever use of icons, sure. But I can’t help but think that this displays a distinct lack of self-awareness. [Tweetphoto; Thanks, Habs!]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Adam Carolla Explains What the Hell is Wrong With Batteries Today

New Proton Size Breaks Laws of Physics

New Tron: Legacy Pics: Evil Flynn Looks Wicked Cool

Apple iBooks Could Face Microsoft Patent Challenge

The Thursday Comic-Con schedule is live!

Backordered iPhone 4s Now Shipping

OK, This 3D Business Is Getting Out of Hand

If You Buy an iPad Mag, It Might As Well Be Popular Mechanics

Protons are smaller than we thought…could the entire universe be wrong?

The Pirate Bay Hacked, 4 Million Usernames, Email Addresses and IPs Compromised

Samsung Captivate Launching July 18 on AT&T For $200

Two new UFOs caught on tape – along with some seriously weird noises

Social Gaming Network OpenFeint Coming to Android

The Government’s “Perfect Citizen” Program Will Protect Companies By Monitoring Them

Lego Dune: If only these figures were for sale!

There Has To Be a Logical Reason for the Carbon Fiber Toilet

We’ll have to wait even longer to see Matt Damon’s Philip K. Dick movie

What DirectX 11 Is, and What It Means To You

Solar-Powered Plane Flies Through the Night For the First Time

The Smartass Phone

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