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Facebook Promises “Simplistic” Privacy Choices

Facebook seems to know they’ve stepped over a line—first came the internal privacy powows and second-guesses. Now Facebook’s public policy honcho says that the site will be introducing “simplistic” privacy choices. Oh good! Now what’s that mean, exactly? https://gizmodo.com/dont-worry-facebook-is-having-an-all-hands-meeting-to-5537712 The short answer is, we don’t know. Facebook’s Tim Sparapani made the pledge yesterday on Kojo…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Today we’ll find out if aliens hijacked Voyager 2

Communications troubles with space probe Voyager 2 – a vessel containing “we are here” messages for aliens – inspired speculation that ET had commandeered the vessel. But NASA calls it a technical glitch. Today is the moment of truth. The furor began last month when the probe, which sends back regular updates to Earth, began…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The art that inspired Godzilla and other giant monsters

Toho’s monsters don’t begin their existences as bodysuits. Illustrators must first sketch out every atomic spike, nuclear fang, and cybernetic proboscis adorning their rubbery hides. Check out Toho’s designs for such classic kaiju as Mechagodzilla, Mothra, and Ghidorah. There’s loads more concept art at the blog Toho Kingdom from both old-school and modern Godzilla flicks.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Undercover Report From Foxconn’s Hell Factory

Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop. There’s no doubt about it. The Foxconn suicides were caused by job stress. Within half a…

Tech News Chris Chang

LG Ally Review: It’s No Droid

Among Android handsets with keyboards, the Droid is the indisputable king. The LG Ally, also on Verizon, doesn’t change this, but it does make buying a Droid tougher to stomach. The LG Ally is an odd handset, spec’d through the roof in some respects—its 800×480 screen and top-notch keyboard, along with Android 2.1—while painfully lacking…

Reviews John Herrman

Join your pals from io9 and Laughing Squid at our NYC meetup 5/25

io9 is joining forces with urban culture blog Laughing Squid to host a late happy hour meetup next Tuesday in glamorous, futuristic New York City. Meet io9 staffers, mingle with commenters, and exchange drunken quips about Lost. Here are the details! io9/Laughing Squid Meetup Where: The Magician Bar, 118 Rivington St., NYC, back room When:…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Chrome Web Store is Webapp Central In Your Browser

There’s a new Chrome tag page (like the one there now that shows bookmarks) that you can “install” webapps onto your browser. Essentially, it’s a shortcut center to the webapps you use. Then, there’s the web store. Clicking the web store icon will give you a web store where you can buy and install webapps.…

Tech News Jason Chen

The iPhone’s Official (and Best) Twitter App Is Now Free

When Twitter swallowed Tweetie maker Atebits, they declared that an official Twitter client—a la Android’s—was on its way. You’ll be happy to hear that Twitter has barely changed the iPhone’s best Twitter app, except where it counts: Price. The app is currently showing up for Tweetie users as an update, but should be available here…

Tech News John Herrman

I’d Advise You Not to Buy the iPad’s Keyboard Upgrade App

Keyboard Upgrade is an iPad app that allows you to split and resize the base iPad keyboard. For a moment, I thought this idea might be neat or even useful, so I dropped $1 to test it. I was wrong. Since developers can’t modify the basic iPad OS, Keyboard Upgrade is similar to those old…

Reviews Mark Wilson

“All The President’s Vampires” novel Blood Oath getting a big-screen adaptation

Christopher Farnsworth’s vampire thriller Blood Oath is getting made into a film. But before you throw your hands up and exclaim, “Not another vampire movie,” this one is at least promising bloody West Wing espionage, and that’s something, right? Heatvision, is reporting that Blood Oath the vampire novel about a “blood oath” which one vampire…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Google Wants to Save Web Video With the New “WebM” Format

HTML5 video has a few hurdles to leap before it can fully replace Flash, but one looms larger than all others: Opposition to proprietary video formats, like h.264. Conveniently, Google has just open-sourced their own format, called WebM. If you’ve been following the Flash/HTML5/h.264 drama for the last few months, this news might sound a…

Tech News John Herrman

What if Doctor Who were a Disney movie?

Can you imagine Britain’s quirky time-travel show made into a Walt Disney movie? Commenter Cristoval did, and the result was this “purposefully terrible” poster. Check out a better look at his his Disneyfied Daleks, below. Here are the Disney Daleks: And a “clean” look at the poster, with no titles: The scary thing is, you…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Springpad Is a Free Android Scrapbook (For Everything)

Springpad, the note-taking, idea-remembering, picture-snapping, list-keeping, location-remembering, bookmark-storing, task-keeping iPhone app has spawned an Android twin. My favorite thing about it? Every scrap of info-junk you collect is saved to Springpad’s servers, accessible through their website. [Android Market, Springpad] https://gizmodo.com/springpad-turns-your-iphone-into-a-scrapbook-for-everyt-5491450

Tech News John Herrman

HTML5 Going To Be On Most Modern Browsers By End of 2010

From the Google I/O keynote: HTML5 support will be more or less complete on all “modern” browsers, says Google. That slight dig by Google is intended, I’m sure.

Tech News Jason Chen

Cerevo Cam Now Supports Ustream Life-Casting—US Release This Summer

Japanese maker CEREVO’s innovative product should’ve really gone on sale a couple of years ago when iJustine and co were at their peak, but I do appreciate a good camera with a unique twist—in this case, Ustream support. While it’s only available in Japan for now, a western-world release is slated for this coming summer.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Everybody Can Ride the Faster, Easier Google Wave Now

There’s a lot of under-the-hood changes to Wave to make it faster, more stable and more extendable with new APIs, among other improvements, but the big news for most people is that now anybody can use it with their standard Google (or Google Apps) account—it’s just going to live in Google Labs for the time…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Old-school space playgrounds were awesome and/or death traps

We recently posted the greatest intergalactic play-fort of all time. Here are some more spaced-out playplaces, replete with robots, spaceships, tetanus, fractured sternums, and lawsuits waiting to happen. https://gizmodo.com/photographic-evidence-that-your-childhood-may-have-been-5534721 Out of all these playgrounds, Giganta the robot blows the competition away. Let me count the ways: 1.) Killer slogan – “A robot that automatically produces…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Watch the Google I/O Developers Conference Keynote Live

The Google I/O developers conference kicks off at 12EST/9PT—as in, like, now. We’re on the ground at the conference and we’ll be posting all the best nuggets we can find, but in the meantime you can watch a stream of the keynote over on YouTube.

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Sony Says Goodbye to Cassette Tapes with a Fancy Boom Box

There will never be anything quite like the mix tape. For better or worse, it really changed the way people listened to music. So it’s sort of bittersweet to see Sony releasing its final cassette-playing boom box ever. Think about it: cassettes were the first medium that allowed people to put a bunch of different…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Dead AT-AT Wedding Cake Probably Got the Groom Dead Too

What’s with the AT-ATmania lately? I guess it’s the Empire Strikes Back’s 30th Anniversary, but this is excessive. We are besieged by AT-AT boomboxes, bunk beds, gadget holders, and the obligatory special edition toys. And now, this AT-AT wedding cake. https://gizmodo.com/at-at-walker-boombox-is-so-awesome-i-want-to-cry-5158577 It may not be as cool as my favorite Star Wars cake of all…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Facebook Promises “Simplistic” Privacy Choices

Today we’ll find out if aliens hijacked Voyager 2

The art that inspired Godzilla and other giant monsters

Undercover Report From Foxconn’s Hell Factory

LG Ally Review: It’s No Droid

Join your pals from io9 and Laughing Squid at our NYC meetup 5/25

Chrome Web Store is Webapp Central In Your Browser

The iPhone’s Official (and Best) Twitter App Is Now Free

I’d Advise You Not to Buy the iPad’s Keyboard Upgrade App

“All The President’s Vampires” novel Blood Oath getting a big-screen adaptation

Google Wants to Save Web Video With the New “WebM” Format

What if Doctor Who were a Disney movie?

Springpad Is a Free Android Scrapbook (For Everything)

HTML5 Going To Be On Most Modern Browsers By End of 2010

Cerevo Cam Now Supports Ustream Life-Casting—US Release This Summer

Everybody Can Ride the Faster, Easier Google Wave Now

Old-school space playgrounds were awesome and/or death traps

Watch the Google I/O Developers Conference Keynote Live

Sony Says Goodbye to Cassette Tapes with a Fancy Boom Box

Dead AT-AT Wedding Cake Probably Got the Groom Dead Too

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