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This Is How Air Space Reboots

The dangerous ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano brought European air traffic to a halt. For a while, the skies over the north of Europe were almost empty of airplanes. Then, the ash went away and the beautiful mayhem resumed. [Twitter] https://gizmodo.com/icelands-volcanic-ash-causes-hundreds-of-european-fligh-5517678

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The U.S. Military’s War On PowerPoint

There’s an insidious force plaguing our nation’s military. It’s vaster than any insurgent network, though much closer to home. It confounds our commanders and keeps our generals up at night. And it’s included with every copy of Microsoft Office. Today’s New York Times gives top billing to the story, in which PowerPoint is shown to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

20 Great “All Seems Lost” Moments From Science Fiction/Fantasy!

We don’t find out what our science fiction/fantasy heroes are made of, until everything seems hopeless and their backs are against the wall. The greatest SF stories also contain the greatest “all seems lost” moments, and here are our favorites. There are a few flavors of “all seems lost” moments in science fiction and fantasy…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

All Aboard the Meat Train!

Get ready for the most delicious way to travel: Amtrak will soon run its Heartland Flyer rail line on beef byproduct biodiesel. Just like me, this train will run slowly and inefficiently on burgers. Yep, thanks to a $274,000 grant from the Federal Railroad Administration, this train will be running on pure meat. Well, pure…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Windows Live Messenger iPhone App Almost Looks Better Than Desktop Version

There’ve been rumors of a Windows Live Messenger iPhone app, but now the Neowin team has gotten its hands on screenshots. Good news? The app looks cleaner and less bulky than the desktop version. Bad news? That’s not saying much. The app will apparently be available in June and “will include photo sharing, chat and…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Ultimate Ears 18 Pro Reviewed: What Do $1350 Earbuds Sound Like?

Cnet’s Audiophiliac Steve Guttenberg unequivocally thinks the Ultimate Ears 18 Pro earbuds, with their six driver setup, are worth $1350. So, uh, what do earbuds that cost more than most computers sound like? https://gizmodo.com/ultimate-ears-18-pro-earbuds-stuff-in-a-whopping-six-dr-5448754 The UE 18 Pro strips away layers of fuzz from the sound; the difference in clarity is pretty astounding. Drums kick…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Michigan’s Abandoned Dinosaur Amusement Park Is Way Creepy

Abandoned amusement parks are eerie. But an abandoned park filled with fiberglass dinosaurs? Eerie as shit. In Irish Hills, Michigan, you can find one such saurian-filled ghost-town: The Prehistoric Forest. It’s like Jurassic Park, but the T-Rex eats your soul. The Prehistoric Forest reportedly opened in 1963 and closed in 1999. At one point, this…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Shrimp Was Once a Bendy Straw

Turn a bendy straw into a shrimp with a pair of scissors and a few folds. The result is about as tasty as imitation crab meat. [InstructionsJP/InstructionsENG via Recylclart via Make:]

Tech News Mark Wilson

What Happens When Black Holes Combine?

There are some theories, and yes, they are all disturbing. Black holes are space’s boogeymen. Although there are a lot of monsters out there in the universe – supernovas, asteroids, death stars – they are never quite as scary. Black holes retain a aura of mystery and menace. How could they not? They retain everything.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Shattered Dreams—iPhone Video Chat Might Be Wi-Fi Only

Code trickles promised video chat hiding inside iPhone OS 4, raising hopes and inflating sci-fi fantasies. Now code snippets bring us back to earth, that iPhone video calling might be real but only over Wi-Fi. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-4-has-video-chat-group-chat-code-5514326 Here’s the code at issue in the iPhone OS 4 Beta 2 SDK: IMAVCHAT_COULD_NOT_CONNECT_NO_REMOTE_WIFI = “The video call could…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Be Gizmodo’s Fan, Friend, or Follower

Did you know that Gizmodo has a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and a new and improved newsletter? That means you can keep track of all our best stories without lifting a finger. Or with lifting fewer fingers, anyway. You can sign up for our rad, redesigned newsletter over there on the left where it…

Social Media Kyle VanHemert

How to Chart Your Every Procrastination

Sure, the Sidetrack table turns your home into a near-police state, with monitors in every room. But how else are you going to get an exact chart of your ADD wanderings? It’s also… woooooaaah SHINY! Sorry. Distracted there for a minute. Where was I? Oh, right, Sidetrack. It’s a project from students at the Copenhagen…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Classic Alien Won’t Appear In Ridley Scott’s Prequels At All

The acid-blood sleek-skinned aliens dreamed up by H.R. Giger and Ridley Scott are among the most memorable creature designs in movie history. But Scott says they’re “worn out” thanks to endless sequels, and they won’t be in his new prequels. In an interview with Screen Daily, the director revealed that he has plans to redesign…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Octavia Butler’s Stories Turned Into Jazz

Jazz flautist Nicole Mitchell writes music and spoken word poetry based on the works of Octavia Butler. [Gapers Block]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Researchers Witness and Image Atomic Spin for the First Time

Theoretically speaking, we could exponentially increase computing power by manipulating the way in which electrons in individual atoms spin. Researchers in Germany have seen atomic spin for the very first time, and captured a few tiny images to prove it. A study published in the journal Nature Technology details how the team, composed of German…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A Little Chip Company Called Intrinsity, and the iPad A4 Chip’s Secret Recipe

There’s not much secret left in the sauce for the iPad’s A4 chip—it’s a faster, customized version of what’s inside the iPhone 3GS. But the recipe probably comes from a tiny chip design firm Apple purchased, called Intrinsity. https://gizmodo.com/deconstructing-the-ipads-a4-chip-its-still-a-giant-iph-5510191 The informed speculation is that Intrinsity’s custom 1GHz ARM chip, codenamed Hummingbird, is in fact the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Why I’ve Replaced My iPhone’s Music App With SoundHound

Remember Midomi? It was a first-wave iPhone app that identified songs, hummed or recorded, via microphone. It’s since grown into a much more ambitious app called SoundHound—ambitious enough to actually replace your iPhone’s music app. Now, it’s free. https://gizmodo.com/midomi-song-recognition-iphone-app-can-name-that-rickro-5023919 SoundHound’s music recognition feature is still prominently featured, and it still does its job. Unlike Shazam,…

Tech News John Herrman

Will Spielberg’s New Alien Invasion Show Right The Wrongs Of War Of The Worlds?

Steven Spielberg is the executive producer for Untitled Alien Invasion Project, a one-hour TV drama slated to air on TNT. What’s Spielberg’s show about? ER’s Noah Wyle and Moon Bloodgood of Terminator Salvation, on the run from victorious alien conquerors. In the script for Spielberg’s upcoming alien show, intergalactic invaders have kicked humanity’s collective keister.…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Give Back to the Internet: Take the Gawker Media Census 2010

Last Census go-around, we found out that 93% of io9 readers consume online content, and 90% also regularly read books. Surely you can stop your zombie-like consumption (we mean that in a good way) for 10 minutes and share your media predilections. The Gawker Media Census 2010 is a way for us to find out…

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French Battlefield Pinhole Camera Shoots Three Rolls of Film Simultaneously

With the name “Battlefield” you’d hope to see a rugged, war-proof camera which could withstand anything. Instead, this pinhole cam looks like it belongs in an art gallery, displaying an example of retro-futurism or something. It’s the work of French photographer Steven Monteau, who built the Battlefield (so named because it resembles a battleship…if you…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Is How Air Space Reboots

The U.S. Military’s War On PowerPoint

20 Great “All Seems Lost” Moments From Science Fiction/Fantasy!

All Aboard the Meat Train!

Windows Live Messenger iPhone App Almost Looks Better Than Desktop Version

Ultimate Ears 18 Pro Reviewed: What Do $1350 Earbuds Sound Like?

Michigan’s Abandoned Dinosaur Amusement Park Is Way Creepy

This Shrimp Was Once a Bendy Straw

What Happens When Black Holes Combine?

Shattered Dreams—iPhone Video Chat Might Be Wi-Fi Only

Be Gizmodo’s Fan, Friend, or Follower

How to Chart Your Every Procrastination

The Classic Alien Won’t Appear In Ridley Scott’s Prequels At All

Octavia Butler’s Stories Turned Into Jazz

Researchers Witness and Image Atomic Spin for the First Time

A Little Chip Company Called Intrinsity, and the iPad A4 Chip’s Secret Recipe

Why I’ve Replaced My iPhone’s Music App With SoundHound

Will Spielberg’s New Alien Invasion Show Right The Wrongs Of War Of The Worlds?

Give Back to the Internet: Take the Gawker Media Census 2010

French Battlefield Pinhole Camera Shoots Three Rolls of Film Simultaneously

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