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A Trip to the Money Factory

The ugly new $100 bill has a slew of advanced security features to keep people from counterfeiting it. CNET was granted access to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, AKA the Money Factory, to see how they’re made. https://gizmodo.com/why-you-dont-want-to-counterfeit-the-hideous-new-100-b-5521284 Over a week of rigorous printing goes into every dollar bill, and CNET’s Daniel Terdiman…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jul 1

Crucial insights about selling your short fiction, from an editor

Your short stories are little perfect jewels, but how can you get a magazine editor to fall for them? Fantasy Magazine’s Cat Rambo gives some invaluable advice in an interview with Redstone Science Fiction. Among the other great bits are Rambo’s description of her process of reading through the hundreds of short fiction submissions she…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 1

Disco Chair welcomes you to the future

Meet Disco Chair. It was created out of electroluminescent wire by Kiwi&Pom, and makes me think of a happy Tron future where everything is covered in glowing shapes. According to the designers, “the chair transforms into a neon rainbow when powered. A pulse setting enables the chair to flash on and off creating an instant…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 1

Apple Store iPhone Upgrade Gives Woman Access To Stranger’s Photos and Texts

The owner of this bedazzled iPhone is Stockton, CA resident Maria Avila. When she got her handset back from an iOS4 upgrade at her local Apple Store, she found it chock full of a complete stranger’s personal data. Curious! Setting aside the oddness of going to the Genius Bar for a firmware update, it’s hard…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 1

OnStar Users Can Beam Google Maps To Their Car Starting Today

The announcement came earlier this month, but today’s the first day that GM’s OnStar eNav feature is fully operational. If you’ve got an OnStar-enabled GM vehicle (model year 2006 or more recent), you can search for a destination on Google Maps and have it sent directly to your car. Just like Ford Sync! And hopefully…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 1

The Cybermen terrorize an isolated Arctic base. What could be better?

The second installment of Doctor Who’s downloadable game tie-in is out now, and according to blogger Adam Whitehead, it’s better than the first one, featuring the Daleks. And fans of the original series’ Cybermen will be very happy. Spoilers ahead. In the Arctic, a research team have stumbled across something buried under the ice. A…

io9 Adam Whitehead - the Wertzone Jul 1

Vuvuzela Mad Science

Take one (1) vuvuzela horn, one (1) air horn, and some small quantity of duct tape. Attach air horn nozzle to vuvuzela horn mouthpiece with said duct tape. Blow until ears bleed. Repeat. [ThereIFixedIt via Buzzfeed]

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 1

Updates on iPhone 4 Antenna Problem Articles

Two updates on late night and morning news regarding the Apple iPhone 4’s antenna problem: First, the “Relax, it’s just an iPhone” quote was erroneously attributed to Steve Jobs by Boy Genius Report. The rest of the email exchange stands, according to them. Second update: There are now five iPhone 4 Federal class action suits…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 1

Control Any PC Game With Multitouch Gestures

iBUYPOWER’s new MAGIC software (that’s Multi-touch Advanced Gaming Interface and Control, not my unbridled enthusiasm) lets you map keystrokes and mouse clicks to multitouch gestures, so you can control any game with your fingers. Supreme Commander 2? Not too shabby. MAGIC lets you assign typical mouse and keyboard functions to tap, double-tap, drag, and rotate…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jul 1

The Real Kin Culprit: Internal Microsoft Bickering

Theories abound as to the forces behind Kin’s speedy demise. And yes, ultimately the plug got pulled because it wasn’t selling well. But a theory over at ZDNet holds that spats between Microsoft’s internal fiefdoms doomed Kin from the start. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kills-kin-5576764 At first, Kin was slated to be a Windows Mobile 7 phone. Except Windows…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 1

A drug for pregnant women that prevents lesbian daughters

A New York doctor named Maria New has been advising pregnant women to take a steroid called dexamethasone to prevent homosexuality and “masculine behavior” in their daughters. How did she get away with this form of anti-gay genetic engineering? New is an endocrinologist who studies, among other things, a condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH).…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 1

Google Adding Pay to Cover Same-Sex Benefits Tax

In a move that will hopefully nudge other companies into following suit, Google is planning to increase the pay of gay and lesbian employees to cover a tax on their benefits that straight employees are exempt from. The tax, which stems from employer-provided health benefits for domestic partners being counted as taxable income, doesn’t apply…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 1

Falling Skies Gallery

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 1

Google’s Getting Into Flight Information

Soon you’ll be able to add “travel info” to the long list of things for which you depend on Google—they just bought ITA Software, a company that organizes airline flight information, for $700 million. In a separate but not unrelated note, everyone at Kayak and Expedia just canceled their summer vacation plans. [TechCrunch]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jul 1

Throwdown Bed: For When Going to Bed Is a Battle

I’m not sure what lessons you teach your kid by getting them a cage fighting bed, but I will say that I sort of wish they made it in adult sizes. [Wermma via BornRich]

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 1

23 new images from Steven Spielberg’s alien drama Falling Skies

Behold the devastation brought upon our planet by invading alien forces. All that’s left are Noah Wyle and his band of muted-tones-clad refugees. Check out a bunch of pictures from Spielberg’s alien drama Falling Skies, which is coming to SDCC. TNT announced that the Speilberg-produced alien resistance drama Falling Skies is coming to San Diego…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 1

The Sidekick Gets Kicked To The Curb

I come to bury Sidekick, not to praise him. Less than 24 hours after Microsoft killed Kin dead, T-Mobile has abandoned the granddaddy of messaging phones. Sidekick sales will cease tomorrow, July 2nd, and honestly? No one will care. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kills-kin-5576764 The Sidekick LX and Sidekick 2008 will no longer be supported by T-Mobile after tomorrow,…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 1

Global warming started 15,000 years ago with uncontrolled mammoth hunting

It turns out humans have been affecting the Earth’s climate for a long, long time. Overhunting the woolly mammoth 15,000 years ago kick-started a chain reaction that changed the surrounding ecosystem and heated up the Earth. How could humans have affected the prehistoric Earth’s climate at a time when their population only numbered in the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 1

Why Kinect Should Really Come With Sunglasses

They had me at, “Good morning, Batman.” So much so, in fact, that I didn’t bother reading the rest of this comic (which I assume is an earnest plug for the future of everything as we know it). [Reddit] https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-kinect-puts-play-back-in-gameplay-5565657

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 1

The BBC says there’s no Doctor Who movie in the works. Not even with Johnny Depp.

You can scratch that rumor about Johnny Depp starring in a big-screen Doctor Who extravaganza. We checked with the BBC, and a rep says there are “no plans” for a Who movie, and any talk is “pure speculation.”

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 1

A Trip to the Money Factory

Crucial insights about selling your short fiction, from an editor

Disco Chair welcomes you to the future

Apple Store iPhone Upgrade Gives Woman Access To Stranger’s Photos and Texts

OnStar Users Can Beam Google Maps To Their Car Starting Today

The Cybermen terrorize an isolated Arctic base. What could be better?

Vuvuzela Mad Science

Updates on iPhone 4 Antenna Problem Articles

Control Any PC Game With Multitouch Gestures

The Real Kin Culprit: Internal Microsoft Bickering

A drug for pregnant women that prevents lesbian daughters

Google Adding Pay to Cover Same-Sex Benefits Tax

Falling Skies Gallery

Google’s Getting Into Flight Information

Throwdown Bed: For When Going to Bed Is a Battle

23 new images from Steven Spielberg’s alien drama Falling Skies

The Sidekick Gets Kicked To The Curb

Global warming started 15,000 years ago with uncontrolled mammoth hunting

Why Kinect Should Really Come With Sunglasses

The BBC says there’s no Doctor Who movie in the works. Not even with Johnny Depp.

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