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MOTHERFCKING SHARKS CAN BECOME MOTHERFCKING INVISIBLE

As if they weren’t scary enough, scientists have discovered that sharks can become invisible to prey/you using an optical trick. Not scared yet? Well, one of the invisible shark species is nicknamed the phantom hunter of the fjords. Run. Now. The real name of the phantom hunter is Etmopterus spinax or velvet belly lantern shark.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Will Canada get the professional science fiction magazine it deserves? It’s up to you!

We all rejoiced when a new Canadian science fiction magazine, AE, raised more than its $10,000 goal through the Kickstarter fundraising platform. A new magazine paying SFWA pro rates isn’t to be sneezed at. But we rejoiced too soon. AE, named for writer A.E. Van Vogt, had lofty goals, as its Kickstarter home page explains:…

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Enter the Secret Avengers (as opposed to the Public Avengers)!

What’s got us most excited about Marvel’s new Heroic Age status quo? Ed Brubaker’s Secret Avengers. With an oddball cast of espionage experts and military masterminds, this title looks to give Marvel’s flagship superteam a pulpy twist. We interviewed Brubaker this spring, and he promised an Avengers title with super-spy trappings and Lovecraftian themes. Add…

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Strolling Through 19th Century London Today

Augmented reality might be the future, but my favorite application of it yet transports you far into past. StreetMuseum—an iPhone app from the Museum of London—overlays four hundred years of historic images on today’s city streets. StreetMuseum makes creative use of Google Maps and geo-tagging to show users how London used to look. You can…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Art Intern Wanted

Hello college students. Artsy ones. It’s summer, that most magical of seasons. You want an awesome art internship with a website you love. We have one. We’re pretty demanding of our interns, but in turn, you will learn a lot about this whole professional blogging enterprise. So, the ideal candidate is a college student or…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Best of Last Night’s Street Fighter Commentary Twack

For those of you who didn’t endure last night’s Street Fighter tweetathon, here’s the cream of the preposterous, paramilitary, martial-artsy-fartsy crop. We all cued up the theatrical cut of the Jean Claude Van Damme-Ming-Na Wen-Raul Julia videogame adaptation Street Fighter on Netflix Instant (or on DVD) and Tweeted our way through it. Below, you’ll find…

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Boxee Is Working on a GoogleTV Android App

This is exactly the sort of thing we hoped would happen when Google announced GoogleTV: according to The Candler Blog, Boxee, beloved makers of Home Theater PC software, is working on an Android app. https://gizmodo.com/boxee-beta-finally-ready-for-primetime-just-about-5421014 Of course, just what a Boxee GoogleTV app would do is unclear. There’s certainly going to be a decent amount…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The Mars Phoenix Lander Is But a Dead, Black Dot

After failing to phone home one last time, we knew that the Mars Phoenix was through. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gives us one last look at the little guy. https://gizmodo.com/sad-lonely-mars-phoenix-lander-gets-one-last-chance-to-5510914 The lander’s solar panels should be shining blue, like in the 2008 photo, but instead “severe ice damage” has blackened them like frostbite—possibly amputating one…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Ecomodo: The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, how ants and other animals will change our computers, cars and commute, we visit Maker Faire, buildings shaped like Nintendo DS, showers that heat their own water, and more! Computers to Cars, the Top 5 Areas Where Biomimicry Works Best While biomimicry can be used in every aspect of our lives,…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Watch The Last Airbender bring the Northern Water Tribe to life

When M. Night Shyamalan constructed the Northern Water Tribe, for The Last Airbender, he created the biggest East Coast set ever built. Watch as they piece the massive set together, snowflake by snowflake. Plus a few spectacular new stills. Check out these breathtaking new stills that came out recently: The film, which was inspired by…

io9 Meredith Woerner

AT&T Can Save Their Network… With Wi-Fi?

AT&T’s latest idea is actually kind of brilliant on multiple levels: totally free Wi-Fi in Times Square. And it could be how they save their network. It’s no coincidence that AT&T already runs the largest Wi-Fi network in the country—20,000 hotspots in all—providing free Wi-Fi (to AT&T customers) in the kinds of places that people…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sony’s PSN+ Service to Seriously Compete With Xbox Live?

According to a rumor over on Joystick, Sony is set to announce PSN+ at E3 next month, a premium version of their PlayStation Network service. The alleged benefits sound fantastic. • Cross-game chatting • (Free?) access to rotating list of PSOne Classics and PSP Minis • Downloading some full retail games from demo titles •…

Tech News Mark Wilson

T-Mobile Expands Speedy HSPA+ Network Into New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island

T-Mobile is continuing to roll out their super-speedy HSPA+ network, announcing coverage in areas of upstate New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Specifically: https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-hspa-speed-test-3g-gets-pumped-up-to-21mbps-5493830 As the company continues to aggressively broaden its HSPA+ network in the New York City metropolitan area, including New Jersey and Long Island, T-Mobile announces the further build-out and widespread availability…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Best Year of Science Fiction Ever: 1912

Today, we look at the year that gave us works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hugo Gernsback — does 1912 deserve to be crowned the Best Year of Science Fiction Ever? From February through July 1912, All-Story Magazine serialized Under the Moons of Mars, an epic pulp adventure loosely inspired by the…

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How God Makes Cheetos

“Gobs of cornmeal are fed into an extruder , which rubs the meal between two metal plates. The friction melts the starch in the corn and causes the moisture to heat up… …When it passes its boiling point, the meal “pops,” creating the Cheetos shape. The craggy bits are then spit out of the extruder,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M Just Turned Your Notebook’s Graphics Card Into a Sad Little Chip

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M is the steroidal notebook graphics card you’ve been waiting for (if you’re a huge nerd): The world’s fastest notebook GPU according to Nvidia, it’s the first mobile chip using Nvidia’s ridiculous Fermi architecture. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-480-the-fastest-gpu-in-the-world-5503184 The hard specs, for the numbers-inclined: 352 CUDA cores running at 897 gigaflops, 850MHz processor speed, 1.2GHz…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Buy a Mac, Get a Free iPod Touch (If You’re a Student)

Apple is once again throwing its annual free-iPod-with-a-Mac, starting from today and running through until September 7th. Anyone who buys a new Mac on their education-discount scheme gets a free 8GB iPod Touch model. [Apple]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Mass Effect The Movie! Coming To A Theater Near You

Get ready to dive head first into the vast future-space-verse of role-playing video game Mass Effect – just be careful you don’t get space herpes. Legendary pictures is readying a Mass Effect film, featuring Shepard and the SSV Normandy crew. THR is reporting that Legendary Pictures has purchased the rights to Mass Effect, and the…

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The Seven-Atom-Long Transistor That Will Change the World

It only measures seven atoms but, according to project lead scientist Michelle Simmons, computers made with this transistor—the smallest ever made—will “solve problems that would take longer than the life of the universe with a classical computer.” Simmons says that the silicone crystal-embedded transistor is the first that put us in a solid path towards…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Aliens Leave a Pop Quiz In a Rapeseed Field

Apparently bored with abducting yokels and being shot at by Will Smith, some erudite extraterrestrial has deposited a crop circle in England that puts our left brains to the test. What you’re looking at, Earthlings, is a complex mathematical theorem. The pattern showed up recently in a field in Wiltshire, and looks to contain a…

Tech News Brian Barrett

MOTHERFCKING SHARKS CAN BECOME MOTHERFCKING INVISIBLE

Will Canada get the professional science fiction magazine it deserves? It’s up to you!

Enter the Secret Avengers (as opposed to the Public Avengers)!

Strolling Through 19th Century London Today

Art Intern Wanted

The Best of Last Night’s Street Fighter Commentary Twack

Boxee Is Working on a GoogleTV Android App

The Mars Phoenix Lander Is But a Dead, Black Dot

Ecomodo: The Best of Treehugger

Watch The Last Airbender bring the Northern Water Tribe to life

AT&T Can Save Their Network… With Wi-Fi?

Sony’s PSN+ Service to Seriously Compete With Xbox Live?

T-Mobile Expands Speedy HSPA+ Network Into New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island

The Best Year of Science Fiction Ever: 1912

How God Makes Cheetos

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M Just Turned Your Notebook’s Graphics Card Into a Sad Little Chip

Buy a Mac, Get a Free iPod Touch (If You’re a Student)

Mass Effect The Movie! Coming To A Theater Near You

The Seven-Atom-Long Transistor That Will Change the World

Aliens Leave a Pop Quiz In a Rapeseed Field

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MOTHERF*CKING SHARKS CAN BECOME MOTHERF*CKING INVISIBLE

Will Canada get the professional science fiction magazine it deserves? It’s up to you!

Enter the Secret Avengers (as opposed to the Public Avengers)!

Strolling Through 19th Century London Today

Art Intern Wanted

The Best of Last Night’s Street Fighter Commentary Twack

Boxee Is Working on a GoogleTV Android App

The Mars Phoenix Lander Is But a Dead, Black Dot

Ecomodo: The Best of Treehugger

Watch The Last Airbender bring the Northern Water Tribe to life

AT&T Can Save Their Network… With Wi-Fi?

Sony’s PSN+ Service to Seriously Compete With Xbox Live?

T-Mobile Expands Speedy HSPA+ Network Into New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island

The Best Year of Science Fiction Ever: 1912

How God Makes Cheetos

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M Just Turned Your Notebook’s Graphics Card Into a Sad Little Chip

Buy a Mac, Get a Free iPod Touch (If You’re a Student)

Mass Effect The Movie! Coming To A Theater Near You

The Seven-Atom-Long Transistor That Will Change the World

Aliens Leave a Pop Quiz In a Rapeseed Field

The New ‘Masters of the Universe’ Trailer Brings Eternia to Life

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

UGREEN Bluetooth Tracker 4-Pack Now Just $7 Each With iOS and Android Support, While AirTag Stays at Full Price

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

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