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Steve Jobs Responds To Developer Agreement Concerns

Steve Jobs, personal email replier he is these days, responded to a message from a developer regarding this week’s SDK kerfuffle. His (characteristically brief) take: “intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps.” The exchange started with TaoEffect CEO Greg Slepak emailing Jobs to express his grievances about the newly restricted…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Percy Jackson May Be Your New Spider-Man, Part Deux

Percy Jackson star Logan Lerman has long been rumored to be the next Peter Parker in Marc Webb’s Spidey reboot. Today it was announced that Lerman’s got the part “almost 100% locked.” Damn, and we were pulling for Bruce Campbell. Today Hitfix announced that Lerman is slated to portray Peter Parker in (500) Days of…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Internet Reads Your Mind: Typo Edition

A great democratizing technology, the internet is supposed to let everyone fulfill their unique, individual potential. But some internet experiences are eerily universal. Like the way we forget we’re not listening to music. Or the way we respond to typos. Yes, it’s true, I’m pretty sure I do this every single time I see a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Bad 3D Will Be the Death of 3D

Variety recently talked to Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, about the state of 3D film making. Katzenberg promptly released the Kraken on Clash of the Titans. Here’s why he thinks it could spell the end of 3D. As Katzenberg reminds us, “all 3D is not created equal.” The post-production 3D in Clash of the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

IBM Ad Changes Color To Match Your Outfit

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then this new interactive sign from IBM really, truly wants to get on your good side. It changes its appearance based on what you’re wearing. The sign is part of IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative, an broad effort to make worldwide systems more efficient through the use of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Take the Ford to Work, Leave the BMW For the Nanny

I don’t know exactly what people are buying novelty spy cameras for these days, but I guess babysitter surveillance is as timeless a concern as any. Brando’s newest motion-activated spy gizmo takes the shape of a small luxury automobile. The rechargeable car shoots 29FPS color video at 1280×960 resolution and snaps still shots as well,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A First-Person View Of A Sea Lion Versus A Huge Octopus

In one corner, we have some hungry pinniped thunder from down the under. In the other, there’s eight arms of ink-spewing squishiness. Who wins this battle? Don’t bet on the cephalopod. The National Geographic Crittercam captured this wild footage of an Australian sea lion wrecking an unsuspecting octopus. Like some greasy, sentient torpedo, the sea…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Fundamentalist Whores On “Supernatural”

Even when Supernatural is giving you a fun monster of the week scenario, the writers always manage to throw in a barb or two. On Thursday, we discovered where the devil truly fits into Christian fundamentalism. Spoilers ahead! In “99 Problems,” we begin with a serious bang. The brothers are careening down a street, pursued…

Television Annalee Newitz

A Biography of Steve Jobs, Told Through the iPad

The iPad, like Steve Jobs himself, is confident in its vision and divisive because of it. Our friend Woody Allen Jang shot this beautiful video of the iPad and some of the formative experiences of the man who created it.

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Microsoft Shows Off Finger/Stylus Combo Multitouch Magic

For many touch screen applications, fingers are your best bet. For others, the precision of a stylus is required. Microsoft shows how using both in conjunction might be the best option of all, delivering users to digital scrapbook nirvana. The demo shows how a finger and a stylus can be used together to manipulate digital…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Galactic 1970s Album Covers Are All Robot Nipples And Space Cocaine

Ryan Todd of Darklord Disco has compiled a massive found art gallery of cosmic disco and funk LP sleeves. Equal parts Studio 54 and Mos Eisley, the covers re-imagine outer space as a non-stop party with lots of zero-G nipples. This is but a small sampling of all the sexy, hilarious, and wackadoo art Todd…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Beautiful Gadget Brainstorms

When we see gadget concepts, they are in some sense finished products, whether they’re prototypes, mock-ups, or shiny computer renders. But what comes before that? As seen in these beautiful sketches for Core 77’s Invitational Design Competition: fantastic, unbridled brainstorming. The design ubersite Core 77 invited five designers to dream up features for a new…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Apple Scrubs “Google” Name From Safari Search Button In iPhone OS 4

Apple’s move to ban Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone compiler elicited shrugs from Adobe and complaints from Adobe loyalists. Digging deeper into the OS reveals another, albeit less dramatic slight: Apple scrubbed Google’s name from the new OS’s Safari search button. The iPad has the generic “search” button as well, and the Safari settings allow users to choose…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This Week’s FlashForward Was 60 Minutes Of Pure Nudity

With FlashForward supposedly on the cusp of cancellation, I feel obligated to do my part to keep the show on the air. That’s why I’m informing you that Thursday’s episode, “Queen Sacrifice,” was one hour of unfiltered raunch. Okay, okay, so FlashForward had nothing lascivious going down, unless you count the scene in which Simon…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

How To: Try Windows Phone 7 Right Now

All this iPhone 4 news not doing it for you? Still got Windows Phone 7 on the brain? There’s a simple—and most importantly, free—way to try it out, right now, on your PC. Windows Phone 7 Series marks the first time Microsoft has done something legitimately exciting with its phone software in years, and by…

Tech News John Herrman

Get Ready for Dream Machines with These Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Watch the whole Parker Brothers team in action on the series premiere of Dream Machines tonight at 10/9c—only on Syfy. Watch the whole Parker Brothers team in action on the series premiere of Dream Machines tonight at 10/9c—only on Syfy. Watch the whole Parker Brothers team in action on the series premiere of Dream Machines…

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Building A Shrink Ray? Consult This Grisly Physics Paper About Exploding Horses

In the 1920s, J.B.S. Haldane published a paper entitled, “On Being the Right Size.” It is deliciously gruesome, and to this day, it remains one of the most accessible papers on the intersection of biology and physics. The paper shows its age a little when Haldane opens with a reference to Pilgrim’s Progress. My exposure…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Bank of America Employee Charged With Planting Malware on ATMs

A Bank of America worker installed malicious software on his employer’s ATMs that allowed him to make thousands of dollars in fraudulent withdrawals, all without leaving a transaction record, according to federal prosecutors. Rodney Reed Caverly, 37, was a member of the bank’s IT staff when he installed the malware. The Charlotte, North Carolina, man…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Shiniest Stories On io9 This Week

This gorgeous April week, Sookie Stackhouse shed her skivvies, good scifi made us cry, we talked to Eisner-nominated cartoonist Dash Shaw and Zoe Saldana, and scientists discovered Cretaceous flora and fauna encased in amber. Bottom line? Banner week! “After.Life” Manages To Make Dead, Naked Christina Ricci Boring On paper, the indie flick After.Life sounds terrific.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Ethics of Pirating Ebooks You Already Own

Is it ethical to pirate ebooks of texts you already bought in a bookstore? Randy Cohen, the New York Times Magazine ethicist who weekly presides over readers’ matters of morality, says yes it is. Randy Cohen is one seriously ethical fellow. If there’s some nook or cranny of an issue that seems a little off…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Steve Jobs Responds To Developer Agreement Concerns

Percy Jackson May Be Your New Spider-Man, Part Deux

The Internet Reads Your Mind: Typo Edition

Bad 3D Will Be the Death of 3D

IBM Ad Changes Color To Match Your Outfit

Take the Ford to Work, Leave the BMW For the Nanny

A First-Person View Of A Sea Lion Versus A Huge Octopus

Fundamentalist Whores On “Supernatural”

A Biography of Steve Jobs, Told Through the iPad

Microsoft Shows Off Finger/Stylus Combo Multitouch Magic

Galactic 1970s Album Covers Are All Robot Nipples And Space Cocaine

Beautiful Gadget Brainstorms

Apple Scrubs “Google” Name From Safari Search Button In iPhone OS 4

This Week’s FlashForward Was 60 Minutes Of Pure Nudity

How To: Try Windows Phone 7 Right Now

Get Ready for Dream Machines with These Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Building A Shrink Ray? Consult This Grisly Physics Paper About Exploding Horses

Bank of America Employee Charged With Planting Malware on ATMs

The Shiniest Stories On io9 This Week

The Ethics of Pirating Ebooks You Already Own

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