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It’s About Time: A Drill-Free Fix For Cavities

If bacteria settle in between your teeth and form a cavity, your dentist must drill through your tooth just to get at it. But now dentists can trade their drills for a simple treatment that stops early-stage cavities. The Icon system lets dentists halt decay between teeth. Usually when a dentist spots an early cavity-when…

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Watchmen 2: Wrath Of The Electric Boogaloo May Actually Happen

Even though original Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons warned DC against making a sequel and we all know Alan Moore is going to hate it, rumors suggest the DC Comics’ new leadership thinks Watchmen 2 is a dandy idea. https://gizmodo.com/weve-seen-rorschachs-face-plus-gibbons-talks-watchmen-5148716 Bleeding Cool is reporting that now that Paul Levitz is stepping down from DC, his stringent…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What’s In Windows Mobile 6.5.3

The first and only time I saw Windows Mobile 6.5.3 in action, it was a grim scene. But according to Mary Jo Foley, the OS, which is now shipping on a single device, it’s more than a questionable makeover. https://gizmodo.com/windows-mobile-6-5-3-where-the-ugly-train-runs-out-of-5445754 6.5.3’s changes fall into two categories: the UI updates, which are piecemeal changes to 6.5…

Tech News John Herrman

The Brutal Master Plan That Can Keep Your Dystopian Epic From Turning Into A Disaster Movie

You have a brilliant script for a short science-fiction film that’ll blow the doors right off of the internet. You’ve even managed to find enough people with the expertise to help you get this thing off the ground. Now what? Congratulations, and welcome to pre-production! Though often maligned and groaned about incessantly, pre-production is actually…

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The Two Wrong Ways To Make a Tablet

Tablets today are thought to be made in one of two ways: Upsizing a smartphone or downsizing a laptop. Many of these new tablets are decent, but both methods render something less than the perfect tablet. These tablets—not the convertible laptops of the past decade, but real single-pane slate-like ones—are in various stages of development,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Hello Kindle Touch: Amazon Buys a Little Multitouch Company

Ker-BOOM. That’s the thundering explosion of Amazon purchasing Touchco, a little company that makes incredibly cheap, infinitely multitouchable displays, and merging it into their Kindle division. Kindle Touch. It actually sounds kind of nice. Touchco’s touchscreen tech is designed to be cheap—under $10 a square foot—using a resistive display tech called interpolating force-sensitive resistance. What…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Skype iPhone App Will Make Calls Over 3G Soon

Once Apple began allowing VoIP over 3G, we heard that iPhone app Fring had the feature built in—instantly allowing Skype calls over 3G. But we wondered when Skype itself would update their official iPhone app. Their answer? Soon. You can watch the video above for more details, but according to the Skype blog there’s a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

New Studies Reveal That Schizophrenia Isn’t Just A Mental Illness

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the effects of schizophrenia appear to extend beyond the brain. And now there’s talk of a blood test to diagnose schizophrenia being rolled out within a year. Because schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder, it was previously believed that the signs of the illness would be contained…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Faulty iMac Saga, Chapter 4: Apple Buying Out Customers

In this week’s iMac update, we talk to an Apple Authorized Service Provider/Reseller from the UK. And what does he tell us? Apple is so short on 27-inch displays that they’re paying customers 15% to simply return faulty iMacs. Can You Safely Buy a New iMac Yet? Nope. Why? The yellow screens have yet to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

ContactFlow Lets You Slide Through Your iPhone Address Book

I hardly use it, but I like CoverFlow and how it allows to wander through albums when you don’t know what to play. I’m not so sure about how useful ContactFlow would be, but it’s good eyecandy. And free. [iTunes]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

ARM’s CEO Has Incredibly Inflated Expectations for Netbooks

It makes total sense for a CEO to be optimistic about the future of his or her product. But predicting that netbooks will grow from 10% of the PC market to 90%? Warren East, you’ve gone and lost your mind. ARM’s head honcho made the remark in an interview posted today at PC Pro. His…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Orci and Kurtzman Sign Three-Year Fox TV Deal

Powerhouse writing team Orci and Kurtzman aren’t done with Fox’s TV line-up just yet. The Fringe duo signed a deal with Fox promising three more years of NEW mind-warping TV. Our pitch: a Walter Bishop origins series, Acid Dreams. [THR]

Television Meredith Woerner

Gadget Deals of the Day

There are loads of hard drives and videogames in today’s dealz. Have fun with a solid and trusty Core i5 Toshiba Satellite, get ridiculously ludicrous with a 52″ Sharp Aquos, and peruse hobomodo to rediscover some awesome Rockstar classics. Top Deals: • 15.6″ Toshiba Satellite L500-ST2544 Laptop with Intel Core i5 for $599 plus free…

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TiVo HD Disappears, Making Room For _______

TiVo’s website is listing the TiVo HD—the company’s core product—as completely out of stock. This isn’t a retailer we’re talking about here: TiVo is official out of TiVos. Is TiVo clearing the way for new models? Basically, yes. https://gizmodo.com/premiere-tivos-next-hd-dvr-possibly-revealed-in-instru-5437422 The TiVo Premiere, which looks like a minor hardware evolution of the existing TiVo HD, was…

Television John Herrman

Help Haiti, And Get A Limited-Edition Dollhouse T-Shirt Or Signed BSG Schwag

It’s not every day that you can raise awareness of the Cylon threat and help the victims of a terrible natural disaster. The Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan has added some sweet BSG and Dollhouse schwag to her Haiti charity auction. Besides a pair of BSG propaganda posters (including the one you see above) Ryan is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Must-Read Classic Steve Jobs Interview: Hardware vs. Software

In 1994, Steve Jobs was not on top of the world. Which is why he was willing to let Rolling Stone probe him at great length in this classic, must-read interview. The insights—into Steve and the industry—are astounding. This quote is actually more true today than it was in 1994 when Steve Jobs said it:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

How Fig Trees Kill Cheating Wasps

Figs and fig wasps have lived in symbioses for centuries — wasps lay their eggs in figs, and pollinate the trees as recompense. But it’s not all altruism. The trees will fight back if the wasps renege on the deal. The symbiotic relationship has been in existence for around 80 million years, with the wasps…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Re-Elect PresidentBot! You Know It Makes Sense.

Vote for DominatorDroid 3000 in this year’s Presidroidal election. We gave the old PeaceBot regime a chance, and it suffered fatal Blue Screen errors. You can register your vote by going to the robot art show at Gallery 242. The exhibition I… You… We… Robot is subtitled “A Visual Homage To Our Inner Geek,” and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Nipple Gamepad T-Shirt

To open the secret entrance to the cave, try left-left-up-left-down-down-right-left then a-y-y-x-b-a and then hold the d-pad down while clicking y-y-b-b. Press start twice, and you will get in. [Flopculture]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sony is ‘Thinking About Charging’ for PSN

The most common charge leveled at the Xbox 360 by Playstation 3 devotees is that Microsoft dares to charge for its Xbox Live service, unlike the free PSN. Not for long! Back in November, a presentation slide revealed that Sony had a paid subscription plan in the works for PSN. And now Peter Dille, the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

It’s About Time: A Drill-Free Fix For Cavities

Watchmen 2: Wrath Of The Electric Boogaloo May Actually Happen

What’s In Windows Mobile 6.5.3

The Brutal Master Plan That Can Keep Your Dystopian Epic From Turning Into A Disaster Movie

The Two Wrong Ways To Make a Tablet

Hello Kindle Touch: Amazon Buys a Little Multitouch Company

Skype iPhone App Will Make Calls Over 3G Soon

New Studies Reveal That Schizophrenia Isn’t Just A Mental Illness

The Faulty iMac Saga, Chapter 4: Apple Buying Out Customers

ContactFlow Lets You Slide Through Your iPhone Address Book

ARM’s CEO Has Incredibly Inflated Expectations for Netbooks

Orci and Kurtzman Sign Three-Year Fox TV Deal

Gadget Deals of the Day

TiVo HD Disappears, Making Room For _______

Help Haiti, And Get A Limited-Edition Dollhouse T-Shirt Or Signed BSG Schwag

A Must-Read Classic Steve Jobs Interview: Hardware vs. Software

How Fig Trees Kill Cheating Wasps

Re-Elect PresidentBot! You Know It Makes Sense.

The Nipple Gamepad T-Shirt

Sony is ‘Thinking About Charging’ for PSN

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