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Those Indians and Their Crazy Bollywood Robot Movie

Remember the movie I, Robot? It just got a lot worse. Actually, with all those craptabolous crazy singing-and-dancing Bollywood robots, maybe it just got a lot better. Note: While everyone outside India identify Bollywood with this particular style of singing-and-dancing movies, the movie itself is made in Kollywood, as reader Harin Patel explains: Cracked up…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 5 '10

Star Wars babies will melt your carbonite heart

Have you ever seen anything sweeter than these two mini Star Wars cosplayers? They actually out-cute the sneezing baby panda. [Buzzfeed via 9gag.com]

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 5 '10

Androids, iPhones Prepped for Battle in Army’s First-Ever App Contest

Unleash the iPhones of war! The Army’s announced the winners of their first-ever mobile phone app development contest. And the general behind the program says some of the applications will be in the field “within a year.” A total of 141 soldiers and Army civilians participated in the contest, called Apps for the Army (A4A),…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 5 '10

A fish species that evolved to cope with colder waters…in just three years

Evolution isn’t generally considered a race, but no matter – the tiny stickleback fish is a clear winner. Faced with suddenly colder water, the species managed to adapt in record time – fast enough to potentially beat climate change. Stickleback fish are very small, no more than ten centimeters long. They originated in the oceans,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 5 '10

NYT: Google Just Killed Net Neutrality (UPDATING: Google and Verizon Deny Internet Traffic Deal)

In 2006, Google co-founder Sergey Brin traveled to DC, urging Congress to support net neutrality. The New York Times reported this morning that Google and Verizon are conspiring to create tiered internet service. (UPDATING: Google denies, WSJ affirms NYT.) If the NYT report is true (see updates below), it would be an about face that…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 5 '10

Lebanon Assessing National BlackBerry Policy

Following the lead of neighbors Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon’s government is reconsidering its own stance on BlackBerry devices amid regional privacy concerns. The Lebanese Telecoms Regulatory Authority is planning talks with RIM regarding its worries. https://gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia-to-ban-blackberry-services-this-friday-5604006 Lebanon is only the most recent country to vocalize its distrust of RIM’s encryption measures,…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle Aug 5 '10

DIY Graphing Calculator is Touchscreen Nerd Excalibur

Who needs Texas Instruments? Not Matt Stack, creator of the Open SciCal. His homemade, 100% open source graphing calculator not only blows away the functionality of store-bought devices, but is the “ultimate status symbol among the nerdiest of the nerds.” When I was in high school, stolen TI-83s were a pervasive trade, the scourge of…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 5 '10

A man proves his innocence by rescuing the president’s daughter from space prison: A real movie!

Luc Besson, writer/producer of Taken, is putting Maggie Grace back in danger — but this time she’s in a SPACE PRISON! It’s called Lockout. We’re in, as long as Lockout has as many throat punches as Taken did. Deadline is reporting that Maggie Grace has signed on to play the role of our future president’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 5 '10

R.I.P. Wes Skiles, the photographer who captured the forbidding beauty of underwater caves

These incredibly lush images show the dangerous caverns deep under the ocean, where few people have ever gone. They’re the work of underwater photographer Wes Skiles, who died July 21. We recently featured a gallery of Skiles’ incredible pictures of “Blue Holes” in the Bahamas. But over the course of his career exploring the most…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 5 '10

LiveRider Kit Makes Your iPhone a Computer For Your Bicycle

Using an iPhone app to log your bike rides is nothing new. But the $99 LiveRider kit is the complete package: a shockproof iPhone mount, wireless sensor, and an attractive app for displaying all your ride data in real time. LiveRider claims to be the first wireless cycling computer, placing a magnetic sensor near the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 5 '10

Your first glimpse at what happened after Lost’s final episode

Get a look inside the Dharma Logistics Warehouse in the first ever clip from the Lost DVD’s epilogue. Find out how the new guy is running things, and where those nifty Dharma canned goods came from. Click to view [Via Access Hollywood]

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 5 '10

The Dangers of Keyboard Tossing

When you’re tossing a keyboard as far as you can across an empty lot, you’ve got a few technique options: double-handed-over-shoulder, single-hand-sidearm, or the risky cord-sling-directly-into-camera-lens. I give it an eight for artistic merit, a four for technique, and a two bajillion for destruction of property. [The Daily What]

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 5 '10

The airship was a jalopy

It was made out of pieces of everything: old jet cones, cruise liners, truck shells. But it flew. Covered in antennae technology from four different decades, and polished to a sheen, that ship was a marvel of speculative mechanical engineering. She’d been stationed on other ships, but they all seemed drab by comparison. Their parts…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 5 '10

X-Men prequel won’t have a Kick-Ass Cyclops. Captain America picks its locations. Plus Alan Tudyk’s Transformers role!

Whoever Matthew Vaughn casts as Cyclops in X-Men: First Class, it won’t be the star of his last movie. Captain America looks overseas for its 1940s New York. Alan Tudyk is a genius cyber spy…and he plays one in Transformers! X-Men – First Class: Producer Tarquin Pack said Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson is probably too…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Aug 5 '10

Don’t Even Tempt Them, BlackBerry…

RIM’s CEO Mike Lazaridis spoke out ahead of tomorrow’s banning of BlackBerry services in Saudi Arabia, coolly pointing out that “everything on the Internet is encrypted. This is not a BlackBerry-only issue.” [WSJ] https://gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia-to-ban-blackberry-services-this-friday-5604006

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 5 '10

Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Coming Next Month

Microsoft Hardware has been teasing what looks like a giant black eraser through its Twitter account lately. But! Neowin has some inside info that leads to a likely explanation: Microsoft’s Arc Mouse is about to get all touchy. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-microsofts-mysterious-black-nub-5603596 It all makes sense, really. Microsoft’s Magic Mouse competitor rumors burbled up just last month, when…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 5 '10

Google Returns Personal Data-Collecting Wallpaper App to Android Market

After security company Lookout revealed 1 million people’s personal details were at risk after downloading an Android wallpaper app, Google has done its own investigation and decided Jackeey Wallpaper wasn’t actually causing any harm to users. https://gizmodo.com/over-1m-android-users-details-were-compromised-thanks-t-5599435 The app has been returned to the Android Market, and while we knew last week that the app…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 5 '10

Forget Holidaying in the Maldives, I’d Be Happy at Their Future Airport

Doesn’t that look tranquil? Even those scared of flying would feel at ease, surrounded by all that water, and inside the hundreds of mini skylights. It’s part of a concept brief for the transformation of their Hanimaadhoo Island airport. Dreamed up by the Norwegian architectures Narud Stokke Wiig and UK agency Haptic, the island currently…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 5 '10

Amazon Kindle Store Opens Shop for Brits with 400,000 Books

With Stieg Larsson books for £2.70 and the Twilight series going for a little over £3 each, Amazon’s UK Kindle Store has opened up shop finally. This comes after they finally launched the Kindle pond-side last week (available for pre-order at the moment, shipping at the end of the month), after months of only being…

Commerce Kat Hannaford Aug 5 '10

Don’t Be a Spock, Follow Uhura’s Monitor Example

At least Uhura won’t be needing a neckrub when she gets home from work, meaning you can spend more time rewatching Plato’s Stepchildren. Oh. [Xadamdx]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 5 '10

Those Indians and Their Crazy Bollywood Robot Movie

Star Wars babies will melt your carbonite heart

Androids, iPhones Prepped for Battle in Army’s First-Ever App Contest

A fish species that evolved to cope with colder waters…in just three years

NYT: Google Just Killed Net Neutrality (UPDATING: Google and Verizon Deny Internet Traffic Deal)

Lebanon Assessing National BlackBerry Policy

DIY Graphing Calculator is Touchscreen Nerd Excalibur

A man proves his innocence by rescuing the president’s daughter from space prison: A real movie!

R.I.P. Wes Skiles, the photographer who captured the forbidding beauty of underwater caves

LiveRider Kit Makes Your iPhone a Computer For Your Bicycle

Your first glimpse at what happened after Lost’s final episode

The Dangers of Keyboard Tossing

The airship was a jalopy

X-Men prequel won’t have a Kick-Ass Cyclops. Captain America picks its locations. Plus Alan Tudyk’s Transformers role!

Don’t Even Tempt Them, BlackBerry…

Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Coming Next Month

Google Returns Personal Data-Collecting Wallpaper App to Android Market

Forget Holidaying in the Maldives, I’d Be Happy at Their Future Airport

Amazon Kindle Store Opens Shop for Brits with 400,000 Books

Don’t Be a Spock, Follow Uhura’s Monitor Example

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