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This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

In this week’s leapfrogged iPhone app roundup: Tweetie, set free! Bodies, sculpted! Copyright laws, not quite circumvented! The trucker life, lived! Football, called soccer! And much more… https://gizmodo.com/google-is-leapfrogging-apple-5543794 If you’d like to view this gallery as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5544875 Twitter: Twitter’s official iPhone app is finally here. The company had purchased Atebits,…

Tech News John Herrman

The Colony explores survival in the new Ice Age

Patrick Tatopoulos, director of last year’s Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, is in talks to take the helm for The Colony, an “eco-horror” movie about a desperate band of survivors trying to save humanity during a new Ice Age. The full plot of The Colony follows a group of humans who retreat to an underground…

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GPS Crab Guides the Way with Highly Accurate Claw Gestures

Get back to basics in the car with a crab-robot that points out directions. Who needs GO LIVE and all those fancy social features, anyway? At least the crab will remind you to pick up pet-food on the way home. Created by both Pioneer and iXs Research, the NaviRobo syncs up to the Pioneer sat-nav,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

What on Earth is Neal Stephenson’s Mongoliad?

On Tuesday, San Francisco peeps will get their first glimpse of the Mongoliad, a serialized story created by Neal Stephenson and written by Stephenson, Greg Bear, Nicole Galland and others. And it’s an experiment in “post-book story-telling.” What exactly is the Mongoliad, and what is it about? We’re not sure, but whoever’s in San Francisco…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

19 fictional islands you can visit now that Lost is over

On Sunday, you’ll have your last visit to Lost’s mysterious island, so what fictional islands should you visit next? Luckily, science fiction is full of weird islands full of secrets, so call your metafictional travel agent today! Be sure to book your travel plans soon, many of these locations have limited availability. Now if you…

io9 Mary

Behind the World’s Lightest Soccer Shoe

The World Cup’s just around the corner, and that means the shoe companies are now battling over who’s stuff is more innovative. In a feat of high-tech engineering, Adidas has made the lightest soccer shoe ever. Where the typical soccer shoe weighs about 10 ounces, the Adidas F50 Adizero tips in at 5.8. It’s a…

Tech News Fast Company

DC’s Wednesday Comics collection: Beautiful, and bigger than a five-year old

Masterminded by art director Mark Chiarello, Wednesday Comics was a wonderful experiment in weekly serialization, with stories by some of comics’ brightest stars. But I dare you to find a shelf big enough for the stunning hardcover edition.

io9 Marc Bernardin

Want to Show Off Your Music Collection at the Next Beach Party?

Just click through this easy survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win an Altec Lansing Speaker System. Perfect for annoying, er, pleasuring those around you with your Lady Gaga and FloRida albums. [Rules]

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AT&T Jacking Up Early Termination Fees To $325

Anyone signing an AT&T contract after June 1 is in for a nasty surprise if ever in the mood to break it: The early termination fee for smartphones is being raised from $175 to $325. Here’s AT&T’s ridiculous explanation: The idea is, and we think that it’s fair approach, that if you spend less on…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Supertankers could be super easy solution to Gulf Coast oil disaster

Engineer Nick Pozzi has a simple solution to the massive oil spill in the Gulf Coast: use empty supertankers to suck up the oil. He says he knows it will work – because it did the last time this happened. Pozzi claims that he used the so-called “suck-and-salvage” technique numerous times during his two decades…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Auto-Tuned Wolves: Your New Summer Jam

Wolf howls! Auto-tune! Random, creepy, nine-second voice-over interlude! This is going to be blasting from my speaker dock from now until forever. You’re welcome. And yes, those are real wolf noises, run through the auto-tunistic LaDiDa iPhone app and layered over a sweet backing track. I just hope someone out there’s working on a baboon…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Gadget Deals of the Day

Friday! Is there anything more wonderful than a Friday? Oh yeah, Dealzmodo. Today, Dealzmodo ends the week strong with oh so low prices on laptops and some awesome Hobomodos. Enjoy the weekend on us! Top Deals: • 12.1″ Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Core i5 Laptop for $879.20 plus free shipping (normally $1,419 – use coupon code…

Tech News Casey Chan

China has a quantum teleporter and we don’t

A team of scientists in China have transmitted quantum information between protons 10 miles apart without the use of a traditional signal or network. No, we’re not “beaming down to the surface” yet. Quantum teleportation involves bonding two protons in so that when the quantum state of one proton is altered, the other gets altered…

io9 Marc Bernardin

IBM Gifts Computer Security Expo Attendees With Virus-Filled USB Sticks

You’d think IBM would’ve been extra careful when handing out complimentary USB sticks at a computer security expo in Australia. But noooo. According to IBM, “some of these USB keys contained malware,” with all sticks suspected to be affected. Oh, the irony. As IBM took to the stage, lecturing in the importance of protecting PCs…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Design secrets of Iron Man 2: Suitcase armor, Whiplash and crazy improv!

Iron Man 2 is a design marvel, from the realization of Tony Stark’s suitcase armor to the high-powered, heavy-metal set pieces. We talked to production designer J. Michael Riva and conceptual illustrators Ryan Meinerding and Daren Dochterman about this film. Oh, and if you still haven’t seen Iron Man 2, then there are spoilers in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

16 Reasons You Need to Jailbreak Your iPad

Jailbreaking the iPad is stupidly easy. But even so, why bother? What’s in it for you and your tablet? Here are 16 of the best, most useful apps and tools for jailbroken iPads. UPDATED: New guide here. https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-jailbreaking-guide-5675757 To view gallery post as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/16-reasons-you-need-to-jailbreak-your-ipad-5543028 Backgrounder: By far the most important…

Tech News John Herrman

What is St. Elmo’s Fire?

We’re all thinking of the movie. It can’t be helped. Just look at the picture once; then we’ll move on to the meteorological phenomenon and pretend that the movie never happened. Except for the song. Love that song. Saint Elmo was the patron saint of sailors. He was thrown into a pit of vipers by…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Daily Stack Concept Lets You Build a To-Do Tower

The old-fashioned to-do list has served us well, sure, but this is 2010 and we’ve embraced the third dimension where two were once adequate. Sometimes that just means really expensive movie tickets, but in this case, it mean stackable productivity. https://gizmodo.com/movie-tickets-reach-20-5544536 The Daily Stack concept helps individuals manage their workflow by stacking wooden blocks—there are…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Internet Commenters Save Two Russian Girls From Possible Sex Slavery

Way to go, internet. A Metafilter user was concerned that his friends, two Russian immigrants promised work as lounge hostesses, were potentially walking into a dangerous situation. Other commenters saw the signs of a human trafficking operation and intervened. The Metafilter thread grew increasingly intense as the commenters cracked the case in real time, beginning…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Listen to the full vampire-centric True Blood soundtrack

With songs like “Howlin’,” “Bad Blood,” and “Fresh Blood,” what’s not to love? All jokes aside, the new True Blood soundtrack is full great tunes from Lucinda Williams with Elvis Costello to the Eels. Take a listen. [EW]

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This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

The Colony explores survival in the new Ice Age

GPS Crab Guides the Way with Highly Accurate Claw Gestures

What on Earth is Neal Stephenson’s Mongoliad?

19 fictional islands you can visit now that Lost is over

Behind the World’s Lightest Soccer Shoe

DC’s Wednesday Comics collection: Beautiful, and bigger than a five-year old

Want to Show Off Your Music Collection at the Next Beach Party?

AT&T Jacking Up Early Termination Fees To $325

Supertankers could be super easy solution to Gulf Coast oil disaster

Auto-Tuned Wolves: Your New Summer Jam

Gadget Deals of the Day

China has a quantum teleporter and we don’t

IBM Gifts Computer Security Expo Attendees With Virus-Filled USB Sticks

Design secrets of Iron Man 2: Suitcase armor, Whiplash and crazy improv!

16 Reasons You Need to Jailbreak Your iPad

What is St. Elmo’s Fire?

Daily Stack Concept Lets You Build a To-Do Tower

Internet Commenters Save Two Russian Girls From Possible Sex Slavery

Listen to the full vampire-centric True Blood soundtrack

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