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Steve Jobs’ Threatening Phone Call to Sun CEO Revealed

According to Jonathan Schwartz—then Sun’s CEO—that’s what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass, a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X’s. After that, Schwartz put Steve in his place: “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?”…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

First Image Of Our New Mexican Alien Overlords, From “Monsters”

We’ve got an exclusive image from what people are calling the “The Latin District 9,” or Gareth Edwards’ Monsters. Is this street art a representation of the possible octopus aliens that have been quarantined in Mexico? Plus a new clip. The film, which is screening at SXSW’s SX Fantastic and Fantastic Fest, tells the story…

io9 Meredith Woerner

PSA: Monoprice May Have Been Hacked, Check Your Credit Card Statement

Several people are reporting that there are odd charges on credit cards they’ve used to make purchases from online retailer Monoprice. This is what the company had to say: A few of our customers recently reported to us that information from credit cards they used on the Monoprice website had been misused. We promptly began…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

iPhone Tweet Defense Slaughters Zombies With Witticisms

The premise of Tweet Defense is simple: The more you tweet and the more Twitter followers you gain, the stronger your tower defenses will be. Clever, though hopefully RT bonuses will come in the future. $1. [iTunes via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/twitter-zombies-to-death-on-your-iphone-5489188

Tech News Mark Wilson

Project Of The Day: Embroider Your Own SETI Scarf

The Arecibo Message isn’t some new Spanish sportswear label – it’s the binary message that SETI researchers transmitted into space in 1974 to converse with extraterrestrials. Nonetheless, you can rock the Arecibo Message sartorially, with this retro-chic SETI scarf. When you’re cruising with this scarf, everyone will know that your DNA is double-helixed, you come…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A Rarely Unobstructed View of a Solar Eclipse

From the new BBC program Wonders of The Solar System, this clip of a solar eclipse over Varanasi is something you really must watch. The view sure beats staring through a pinhole reflection in a cardboard box. [BBC]

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Lady Gaga In Wonderland, An Xbox 360 Robot, Star-Jumping with Elijah Wood, And The Coolest Pool Table Of All Time

Every week, we round up the best tips that you post in io9’s tips forum. This week, we’ve got Lady GaGa in Wonderland, an Xbox 360 Robot Sculpture, Elijah Wood and the Universe, and much more! If you want to post a tip, just click on the #tips link on our navigation bar, or include…

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Taliban Leader, iPhone User

If the terrorists could vote, they’d vote for Candidate X—this argument is America’s greatest rhetorical treasure. So let’s apply it to smartphones, right now! I’ve got a picture of a high-level terrorist with an iPhone and everything! Updated The man pictured here is the recently captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, who…

Tech News John Herrman

Tiny Sensor Listens For Gunshots, Identifying The Gun and Location

This is the gear that gets our troops excited. Microflown Technologies’ tiny sensor listens for the sounds of war by measuring particles in the air. Then it reports what weapon made the sound and where that sound originated. The sensor uses a technology, developed by Microflown, called acoustic vector sensing. AVS heats two 200-nanometer wide…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Dalek War DVDs Are Lovely, Exterminating Hell

Last week, Doctor Who’s most fearsome cybernetic enemies invaded the DVD shelves in greater strength than ever before. The “Dalek War” DVD box set and a new edition of “Remembrance Of The Daleks” both appeared. But are they worth it? Those of us who survived the Dalek War don’t like to talk about it. It’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Teen Hauled to Jail For Overdue Library DVD

What started as a routine traffic stop ended with a Colorado teen doing hard time. The offense? Not returning a “House of Flying Daggers” DVD to his local library. Come on, Colorado. You’re better than that. Apparently young Aaron Henson, an impressionable lad all of 19 years old, fell in with the wrong DVD-borrowing crowd…

Tech News Brian Barrett

A Brief History of Our Flying Car Obsession

Jalopnik’s gathered up the flying car covers from Popular Science’s complete archives and come out with a brief 77-year history of our flying car fantasies, which shift from cautious to optimistic depending on the tone of the decade. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/dude-wheres-my-flying-car-the-popular-science-fantasy-5488461

Tech News Brian Lam

Explained? How BSG Leads To Inappropriate Political Conduct

Wondering what made Congressman Eric Massa tell a staffer that he wanted to frak them? It’s merely the natural crossover between SF geeks and political wonks, according to Ana Marie Cox’s Venn Diagram of Washington’s internal social subcommittees. [GQ]

io9 Graeme McMillan

Wacom Intuos4 Wireless Review: The Joy of Freedom

Here’s the story: I’m in love with the Wacom Intuos4 Wireless tablet. Free from cables, it’s the best graphics tablet experience I’ve ever had. Smoother Than the Smoothest Thing The Wacom Intuos4 was quite a leap from the Intuos3. It doubled the pressure sensitive levels, and it added multifunction Touch Ring trackpad, on-screen radial menus,…

Reviews Jesus Diaz

Energizer Battery Charger Comes with a Software Backdoor

If you’ve bought the Energizer DUO USB battery charger, you might want to uninstall the software immediately. Why? Because it comes pre-loaded with a backdoor that can let someone remotely access your computer. The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned that the software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Apocalypse Cakes Taste Like The End Of The World

Looking for the right bundt for The Rapture? The perfect pie for global pandemics? You just might find your recipe at Apocalypse Cakes, quite possibly the internet’s only doomsday-themed pastry blog. The final word for end time epicures, Apocalypse Cakes seeks to tickle your tastebuds as humanity goes extinct. Its founder(s) have a simple philosophy…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Gadget Deals of the Day

The savings really pile up today. Dell serving up a special buy two offer on the ultimate hackintosh, Final Fantasy XIII launches today and there’s the special bundled Xbox too, and don’t forget to pick up the free SXSW tunes. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-10v-into-the-ultimate-sn-5389166 Top Deals: • 2 Dell Mini 10v Netbooks with WinXP for $398 (normally $550).…

Tech News Kevin Lee

Liev Schreiber Wants To Be In Wolverine 2

At a Repo Men press conference today, Liev Schreiber confirmed that Hugh Jackman has read the Wolverine 2 screenplay. Even though he’s unsure whether Sabretooth will appear, he’s gung-ho to make a comeback during Logan’s Samurai saga. At a press conference for Repo Men in New York, Schreiber had the following to say about Wolverine’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries

Johnny Cash can’t have known about carbon nanotubes when he sang about rings of fire, but MIT scientists have shown how they can create electrical current—about 100 times as much energy per unit of weight as lithium-ion batteries. The new experiments involved nanotubes, or submicroscopic structures just a few billionths of a meter in diameter,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Chuck Vs. The Well-Earned Reveal

Last night’s Chuck finally gave us something we’d been wanting since day one – and made it seem worth the wait. Also, the Ring showed that maybe they’re not completely inept before reassuring us that, yeah, they actually are. Spoilers! First off: Thank God Morgan finally knows. After his suspicions were raised earlier this season…

Television Graeme McMillan

Steve Jobs’ Threatening Phone Call to Sun CEO Revealed

First Image Of Our New Mexican Alien Overlords, From “Monsters”

PSA: Monoprice May Have Been Hacked, Check Your Credit Card Statement

iPhone Tweet Defense Slaughters Zombies With Witticisms

Project Of The Day: Embroider Your Own SETI Scarf

A Rarely Unobstructed View of a Solar Eclipse

Lady Gaga In Wonderland, An Xbox 360 Robot, Star-Jumping with Elijah Wood, And The Coolest Pool Table Of All Time

Taliban Leader, iPhone User

Tiny Sensor Listens For Gunshots, Identifying The Gun and Location

The Dalek War DVDs Are Lovely, Exterminating Hell

Teen Hauled to Jail For Overdue Library DVD

A Brief History of Our Flying Car Obsession

Explained? How BSG Leads To Inappropriate Political Conduct

Wacom Intuos4 Wireless Review: The Joy of Freedom

Energizer Battery Charger Comes with a Software Backdoor

Apocalypse Cakes Taste Like The End Of The World

Gadget Deals of the Day

Liev Schreiber Wants To Be In Wolverine 2

Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries

Chuck Vs. The Well-Earned Reveal

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