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Borders and Kobo Team Up to Develop a New Reader

Borders is teaming up with a company called Kobo and making some grand plans. They apparently intend on developing a new ebook reader, a new ebook service, and having all the content be “device neutral.” Pretty big task there, fallas. The Kobo service is already live and will apparently allow downloading of “content to the…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 15

Huge Steel Pipes Being Turned Into Offices

When it was time to design new offices for a steel pipe factory, a clever guy decided to use the factory’s product as a major part of the new additions. Puns about pipe dream designs aside, it looks pretty good. Designed by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects for T. Bailey, these offices will integrate giant…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 15

Unbelievable Hubble Shot Captures the Biggest “Star Nursery” Nearby

This absolutely gorgeous shot is the most detailed ever taken of what HubbleSite describes as the “largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood.” Get ready to pick your jaw up off your lap. In the words of experts who understand more about this stuff than “OMG so pretty!”: The massive, young stellar grouping, called…

Space & Spaceflight Dan Nosowitz Dec 15

The Post-Apocalyptic Dance Sequence That The Road Somehow Left Out

When you’ve survived a post-apocalyptic world of cannibals and evil gangs, there’s nothing left to do but have a 1940s-style dance routine. For some reason, this sequence didn’t appear at the end of The Road, so we’re including it here. The awesome dance routine, of course, really comes from the very end of Radioactive Dreams,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 15

Google Street View Captures Guy Getting Ready To Do Something Disgusting on a DC Street

It’s hard to tell exactly what this guy is about to do, but he appears to be squatting (more or less) with his pants around his ankles on a DC street. Click to view View 519 H St NE in a larger map Maybe he is about to take a dump, maybe his lady’s husband…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 15

First Video of the Google Nexus One

So this is a pretty short and inexpertly framed video, but it is the very first one we’ve seen of the Nexus One in action. If you want to see that flashy Android 2.1 boot sequence, read on. You can also see the packaging here, but it could just be the packaging meant for developers—Google’s…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 15

The Greatest Nerdy Gift Books In The Galaxy

If you’re looking for an awesome gift for the uber-geeks in your life, then nothing is better than a book. We’ve collected a gift guide, covering everything from SF classics to Star Wars to astronaut lore, for your favorite nerds. Deluxe Editions Of Science Fiction/Fantasy Classics Should you wish to view this in non-gallery format,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Dec 15

Apple Nemesis Psystar Permanently Banned From Selling Mac Clones

I feared that the Apple vs Psystar battle would just fizzle out, but it’s ending with a strong punch as Apple Insider reports that Apple has been granted a permanent injunction against Psystar, marking the end of shady Mac clones. https://gizmodo.com/final-round-of-psystar-vs-apple-might-be-called-off-5378425 Apparently Psystar has until the final second of this year, midnight on December 31,…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 15

AT&T Dismisses Operation Chokehold as an “Irresponsible and Pointless Scheme”

We’ve told you about Operation Chokehold, the attack on AT&T’s network scheduled for Friday, but now AT&T has something to say about as well. They’re not exactly happy and throw around words like “irresponsible,” “pointless,” and “nothing amusing.” Ouch! https://gizmodo.com/operation-chokehold-a-plan-to-destroy-at-t-this-friday-5426142 This is what an AT&T spokesperson contacted by Cult of Mac said about the plot:…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 15

Man Delivers Baby Using Guide Found on Google

Many men might watch helplessly as their wives are about to give birth, but not Leroy Smith. As soon as Smith realized that the midwife wouldn’t arrive on time, he calmly did a Google search on his BlackBerry. I don’t know what Smith’s Google query of choice was, but in the end it led him…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 15

Deluxe Editions Of Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels

In His Majesty’s Service by Naomi Novik. Pretty much the perfect way for your friend who loves fantasy to discover this alternate history with dragons, all in one go. The first three Temeraire novels, starting with His Majesty’s Dragon, are collected, allowing you to get up to speed and then go find the other volumes…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 15

Know Your Place, Meat Creatures

Katherine Hayles, author of “How We Became Posthuman” goes bio, reminding us that machines aren’t the ones in charge. The catch? Neither are we. [WaPo]

Tech News John Herrman Dec 15

What if James Cameron Made A Spider-Man Movie?

With Avatar opening in a couple of days and James Cameron bemoaning the prevalence of superheroes in modern cinema, our thoughts turned back to when he wanted to make a Spider-Man movie in the ’90s. Want to read the script? Cameron’s early ’90s “scriptment” is the kind of thing that shows that, while he may…

Movies Graeme McMillan Dec 15