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FIRST Robot Competition Finals Streaming Live RIGHT NOW

Though the championship match isn’t slated for a few more hours—we’ll be back with full coverage when it does—the division finals for the student-built robotics extravaganza are now streaming live from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. These are the elimination matches, so there are sure to be some robot tears shed. Tune in to see…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Octopus Snatches Diver’s Camera For Home Movie

Octopuses, it is generally agreed, are the sneakiest, most awesome animals in existence. They have magical camouflaging abilities and can squeeze through teeny holes. The latest octopus rascality: stealing a diver’s video camera and shooting an undersea home movie. Updated In this case, the inspired cephalopod borrowed the camera from New Zealand free diver Victor…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Daughter From FlashForward Is The Most Evil Kid On TV

You know FlashForward is a very special program when it can’t even make its plucky child protagonist likable. Seriously, Charlie Benford is a pint-sized harbinger of adultery. It’s like she wants her mom to cheat on her dad or something. If I had to compare this week’s FlashForward episode – “Let No Man Put Asunder”…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Buying Back Your Youth on the Internet

Heartwarming: An elderly actor used the internet to recreate the Manhattan apartment he lived in as a youngster, item by item. Not so heartwarming: it was a stunt by the Swedish Postal Service to familiarize old people with e-commerce. My heart doesn’t know how to feel about this. Bo Brundin, a Swedish actor who appeared…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Shiniest Stories On io9 This Week

What happened on io9 this week? Joss Whedon nabbed Avengers (huzzah!), the io9 Commentary Twack debuted with Dune, Grant Morrison talked Batman, mysterious cryptography boggled us, and McLovin hinted at Kick-Ass 2 (and wore sweet shoes). Why Joss Whedon Should Be Your New Marvel Movie Overlord Will Joss Whedon ruin your superhero-gasm? Some fans seem…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Bees And Flowers Speak In A Secret Code (And They Think Your Haircut Is Goofy)

Flowers may use UV patterns to attract bees. See how, and check out photos that shows us approximately what a bee sees when it looks at flowers. This is a confusing time to be a human. As the human race unlocks the secrets of genetics and uses them to make square tomatoes and clone velociraptors,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How To: Access Your Entire Computer From an iPad

I don’t buy into the iPad as a laptop replacement—not quite. But it is fantastic at tapping into your computers to access video and audio, documents, and even your full desktop, remotely. Here’s how. The iPad is first a foremost a device for consuming media, and where is most of your media if not on…

Tech News John Herrman

Soccer Stars Sleeping In Altitude Tents To Prep For World Cup

Outside of the U.S., soccer is taken quite seriously. So seriously, it turns out, that members of England’s national team will soon sleep in oxygen-deprivation tents to prepare for their high-altitude matches at the upcoming World Cup in South Africa. The players are subjected to a variety of creepy tests at the team’s Hertfordshire “hotel,”…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Stormtroopers Have Lightsabers And C-3PO Has Breasts In Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars Art

If it hadn’t been for this gorgeous concept art by Ralph McQuarrie, Fox may not have embraced George Lucas’ pitch for A New Hope. McQuarrie’s illustrations didn’t just define the Star Wars aesthetic – they made Star Wars happen. For the most part, A New Hope stayed faithful to McQuarrie’s original designs, but it’s intriguing…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

X170 Action Camera Is Ready For Any Adventure

If a rugged cam is only as good as the places you can mount it, then the X170 Action Camera, which can be strapped to heads, latched to handlebars, and velcroed just about anywhere else, must be pretty damn good. The X170 from Drift Innovation shoots 720 x 480 video and 5MP photos on a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Cloud Computing Makes It Easier For Criminals To Get Busted

The great thing about cloud computing is that no matter where you are, your files are just there. It turns out they’re just there for law enforcement, too, as two Google Docs-using spammers recently found out. In a case Wired’s calling “the first publicly acknowledged search warrant benefiting from a suspect’s reliance on cloud computing,”…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Do Cyborgs Dream Of Co-Ed Hot Showers?

The 1990 film Hardware, aka M.A.R.K. 13, might have been trying to be the Terminator of the 1990s, but it was mostly forgettable. Except for this cyborg shower scene. That cyber-hand is great for lathering. [via Bonniegrrl on Twitter]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

One of the Worst Ways to Introduce Yourself

As if it’s not enough that he turned his iPad into an overpriced name tag, this guy had to go a step further and let it dangle precariously from his neck. Geez. There are classier ways to announce your name. Like this: See? All it takes is a hair tie on each corner and your…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

This Week’s Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss

Gears of War 3 is coming out—not until next year, but we still have some pictures and video and stuff. (Plus, much more in TWGSYCM!) Gears of War 3 Now Has Actual Worldwide Release Dates Spoiler: April 5, 2011 https://kotaku.com/gears-of-war-3-now-has-actual-worldwide-release-dates-5515832/ Your First Look At Gears Of War 3 The Mad World Gears of War trailer…

Tech News Mark Wilson

This Week’s 10 Best iPhone Apps

In this week’s personally approved app roundup: Alternative browsers, allowed! TV shows, appified! Your health, minded! Old games, emulated! Your international reputation, protected! And more… https://gizmodo.com/apple-asks-pulitzer-prize-winner-to-resubmit-rejected-a-5518945 If you’d like to see this gallery as a single post, click here. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-10-best-iphone-apps-5519234 Opera Mini: An alternative web browser with (!!!) a different rendering engine than than Safari…

Tech News John Herrman

Important Easter Eggs To Look For While Watching Kick-Ass

One thing we love about the bubble-gum slaughter epic Kick-Ass is the heaps of Easter Eggs and comic book references. We’ve made a list of the best moments, from jabs at The Dark Knight to subtle movie tie-ins. Spoilers ahead… Superhero Montages, Pokes and Riffs Throughout the film, many scenes pay homage to past superhero…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Milking Cows for Electricity

The livestock power mill makes cows even more productive turning farms into virtual power plants. Instead of letting his cows range free on a field while they graze, a Northern Ireland farmer named William Taylor has jury rigged a treadmill to capture that spent energy and generate electricity. One cow on a treadmill can squeeze…

Tech News Kevin Lee

The Man Who Dissected Einstein’s Brain

One remarkable photo out of many in Life’s quietly stunning photogallery, The Day That Einstein Died: Dr. Thomas Harvey, who famously dissected Einstein’s brain, cuts into one here. It might be Einstein’s. [Life via Jon Snyder]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Inside America’s Secret Historical Tweet Vault

The Library of Congress announced this week that they’ll be archiving every public tweet made since 2006, but they’ve been keeping track of some people’s Twitter accounts way longer than that. We’ve collected some of the great tweets from yesteryear: https://gizmodo.com/your-past-and-future-tweets-will-be-archived-at-the-lib-5517180

Tech News Brian Barrett

How Does the Drinking Bird Work?

Don’t even try to tell us that you haven’t wondered about this one. The secret to the bird is not, in fact, patenting and selling such a useless invention. (That distinction, I believe, is held by the person who invented pet rocks. Kudos, whoever you are.) It is choosing the right liquid to fill the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

FIRST Robot Competition Finals Streaming Live RIGHT NOW

Octopus Snatches Diver’s Camera For Home Movie

The Daughter From FlashForward Is The Most Evil Kid On TV

Buying Back Your Youth on the Internet

The Shiniest Stories On io9 This Week

Bees And Flowers Speak In A Secret Code (And They Think Your Haircut Is Goofy)

How To: Access Your Entire Computer From an iPad

Soccer Stars Sleeping In Altitude Tents To Prep For World Cup

Stormtroopers Have Lightsabers And C-3PO Has Breasts In Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars Art

X170 Action Camera Is Ready For Any Adventure

Cloud Computing Makes It Easier For Criminals To Get Busted

Do Cyborgs Dream Of Co-Ed Hot Showers?

One of the Worst Ways to Introduce Yourself

This Week’s Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss

This Week’s 10 Best iPhone Apps

Important Easter Eggs To Look For While Watching Kick-Ass

Milking Cows for Electricity

The Man Who Dissected Einstein’s Brain

Inside America’s Secret Historical Tweet Vault

How Does the Drinking Bird Work?

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