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Chemist Who Helped Invent Birth-Control Pill Also Pioneered Novels About Science

Carl Djerassi, the chemist who helped invent the birth-control pill in 1951, has spent the past couple of decades crafting a new type of literature, which he calls “science-in-fiction.” It’s not science fiction, it’s fiction about science. In a new interview with the Stanford Daily, Djerassi explains that he started writing novels in 1983 when…

The First Clips Shot on the Canon T2i Look As Good as the 7D

The Canon T2i dSLR sounded extremely exciting, as it promised to bring 1080P video (with decent frame rates) to Canon’s sub-$1000 dSLR line. Photographer Dan Chung was among the first to test it out, and the results look fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/canon-rebel-t2i-dslr-18mp-and-legit-1080p-video-for-8-5466616 As it turns out this little camera is a really competent performer and the footage…

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Final Fantasy I & II: An extremely faithful pair of ports. The original FF1 and FF2 are old enough that Square Enix decided to revamp the artwork for the iPhone, making these versions noticeably prettier than the originals. Gameplay doesn’t suffer too much on account of the touch controls because of the games’ slowish pace,…

Will Scarface’s Director Try His Hand At Paranormal Activity 2’s Shaky-Cam?

Since Paranormal Activity made huge profits on a shoe-string budget, Paramount is now shopping around for “bigger” directors, like Brian F-ing De Palma. Consider our minds blown. Sure, why not? Let’s make an ultra-violent, celeb-filled, hand-held-camera demon film. [LA Times]

The Conclusion to the Faulty iMac Saga: The Beginning of the Fix

The latest iMac was released 16 weeks ago. Since then, it’s been plagued with problems, most notably flickering and/or yellow screens. Today, the saga comes to an end because Apple has acknowledged the issues and offered their support. At long last, Apple has released a statement to us, admitting the production issues with iMacs—which reader…

Radion HyBrid Disk Combines Solid State Drive With Backup Hard Drive

Raidon Hybrid Disk puts together a Solid State Drive with a hard drive that backups data, just in case the former goes to hell in ball of fire and data loss mayhem. No price or capacities yet. [Raidon via MacWorld]

Inject Some Futuristic Sci-Fi Into the Oscar Nominees

The Oscars are coming up in a couple of weeks. With the obvious exceptions of Avatar and District 9, there isn’t a lot of sci-fi or gear in the nominees. We can fix that, right guys? https://gizmodo.com/avatar-review-yes-it-changed-everything-after-all-5429424 So take the less sci-fi nominees and inject in a nice dose of tech, will you? Send your…

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Is The Captain America Movie Being Put On Hold? (Updated)

Has The Wolfman done what Batroc The Leaper, Baron Zemo and even Iron Man couldn’t manage? New rumors are claiming that the poor box office performance of director Joe Johnston’s werewolf movie may have resulted in Cap’s (temporary?) demise. UPDATED. Movie blog Remington’s Cinema is claiming that anonymous sources from the set of John Landis’…

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AV Receiver Battlemodo: $600 or Bust

You want a serious home theater. One that will rattle the windows, and ensure movie night is always at your house. But you don’t want to spend more than $600 on the thing that ties it together. Cuz you’re smart. You’ve got the big screen flat panel, you’ve thrown that cheap HTIB system in the…

The Blade That Would Make Helicopters Almost Silent

Helicopters make a lot of noise because of a physical phenomenon called blade-vortex interaction. Eurocopter engineers have developed a new kind of rotor blade that attenuates this problem. It’s called Blue Edge, and—as you can hear—it works beautifully: The new blade shape is combined with another technology called Blue Pulse, which adds three flaps to…

Godzilla Battles Sea Monsters And Dragons, For The Sake Of Art

We love Hugo Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton’s art in general, but his kaiju and dragon images — at least one of which appeared in a Tokyo gallery show — melt our brains with their atomic breath of awesomeness. It’s well worth checking out all of the art over at Eggleton’s blog, Bob’s Art Du Jour…

Motorola CLIQ Firmware 1.3.18 Update Looks Like Trouble

If you have a CLIQ, it’s probably a good idea to hold off on any updates, as a multitude of issues have cropped up. And most importantly, a T-Mobile forum mod recommends you “not to Master Reset your phone if your OTA update did not download or if you are experiencing issues at this time.”…

The Flash Finds Director, Speeds Towards Production?

If rumors are to be believed, Superman isn’t the only DC superhero whose movie plans are on the fast track: The Flash movie may have found its director, and it’s a name that may sound familiar to Green Lantern fans. According to IESB, Greg Berlanti will be the director of DC Entertainment’s The Flash. Berlanti…

Student’s iPod Explodes During Class

A Pentucket Regional High School science class got an unpleasant surprise yesterday when one student’s iPod exploded on her desk. But don’t worry! Nobody was hurt, and there’s a perfectly good explanation. While Apple has gotten in trouble in the past for spontaneous iPod Touch combustion, Newburyport Daily News Online commenter “jos” offered some valuable…