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5 Reasons Caprica Is The Season’s Most Promising New SF Series

This Friday brings the first episode of Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica, a noir-scifi drama set on the planet Caprica 58 years before the cylons nuke it into oblivion. Based on the pilot, we think this series could become a classic. Of course there are many reasons Caprica might fail, not the least of which would…

Television Annalee Newitz Jan 25 '10

Second Fix for Flickering 27-Inch iMac Screens Supposedly on the Way

There were complaints that the first firmware update fix for flickering iMac screens made no difference, but now there are whispers that a “combination software and driver patch” will come in “roughly three weeks.” https://gizmodo.com/firmware-update-for-27-inch-imacs-to-fix-flickering-scr-5431482 The timeline for this fix is based on what customers are reporting they’ve heard from Apple Care specialists, but let’s…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 25 '10

Chimp-Directed Chimpcam Project Will Win Every Oscar

The BBC plans to premiere The Chimpcam Project, a documentary shot by actual chimpanzees, this week. Get ready for the inevitable Avatar comparisons, and check out this video preview below. Basically, some researchers encased a camera in a chimp-proof box and gave it to both wild and zoo-bred chimps. Enraptured with the viewfinder, they began…

Movies Dan Nosowitz Jan 25 '10

Will The Google Settlement Leave Ursula Le Guin Dispossessed?

Now that Google has declared war on China, can it take on a diminutive 80-year-old science-fiction and fantasy author? Probably, but Ursula K. Le Guin is not going down without a fight. It all started when the formidable author of the classic Earthsea novels and, most recently, the Virgil-inspired Lavinia, resigned her long membership in…

io9 Scott Timberg Jan 25 '10

The Wolfman’s Moulting: All The Reshoots, Redos And Re-Edits

Reshoots, re-edits, rewrites and re-scoring — The Wolfman has been through it all. But have all these re-snips neutered Benicio Del Toro‘s furry monster picture? We re-trace all of the second-guessing that may have doomed this film. The first sign of problems for the big wolf revival was over two years ago, when Universal pushed…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 25 '10

Bowers & Wilkins 800 Series Speakers Look Great and Sound… Expensive

Just because I could never afford this high-end 800 Series Diamond speaker from Bowers & Wilkins doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy looking at it, and giggling at the phrase “diamond dome tweeter.” The seven new speaker sets are all pricey, so we may as well talk about the flagship 800 Diamond, which is apparently the…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 25 '10

The Perfect Near-Future Novel To Get You Through The Recession

Need a book to get you through another year of unemployment, glacier melts or maybe even another oil crisis? World Made By Hand could do the trick. The soft-apocalypse novel, by the sometimes kooky upstate New York social critic James Howard Kunstler, was well received when it came out in March 2008 — it drew…

Books & Comics Scott Timberg Jan 25 '10

Guitar-Shaped iPhone Speaker Encourages Using Your Phone as an Instrument

This awesome guitar-shaped Bird Electron Ezison 100 iPhone speaker is designed to be used with the many guitar apps in the App Store. How long until we start seeing legit bands use stuff like this on stage? The Ezison 100 is handmade, and there only 50 of them being made. They’ve got pegs for a…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 25 '10

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A trio of Toshibas, the newest Palm smartphones, and an FM transmitter that won’t make you want to tear your brain out. Start saving your tax return for what’s now available. Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 Toshiba’s new Satellite has launched. Our previous interactions with the Satellite series has left us decidedly underwhelmed. Mainly citing battery life…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jan 25 '10

Urban Mars

Over at WebUrbanist, there’s a great post about building cities on Mars, looking at the history of the idea and images of those cities as they might look in the future. [via WebUrbanist, image via Tim Landry]

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 25 '10

That Rapscallion von Poppel Is At It Again!

Neither Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium nor the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus holds any sight quite as bizarre as Arthur von Poppel’s Nautilus One Man Band Submarine. [Nautilus One Man Band via Dark Roasted Blend]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 25 '10

Walt Mosspuppet Reviews the Apple Tablet: “The First Completely Perfect Product That’s Ever Existed.”

“Fire. The wheel. Barbers. The moveable printing press. Whiskey. The automobile. The personal computer. Walt Mossberg. The iPhone. And now, finally, the iSlate.” Walt Mossbergpuppet issues the first and final word on the Apple Tablet. [Mosspuppet]

Tech News John Herrman Jan 25 '10

Caprica’s Ratings: Much Worse Than BSG Or Stargate Universe

Nobody should be surprised that Caprica’s debut pulled in weak ratings on Friday. The pilot was on DVD for months, and viewable online. And the show was opposite a Haiti fundraiser telecast. The real test? This Friday’s all-new episode. [THR]

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 25 '10

Pictionaire Touchscreen Table Instantly Makes Digital Copies of Physical Objects

Developed by Microsoft and University of California Berkeley, the Pictionaire table uses overhead cameras to make digitize physical objects, allowing you to manipulate real stuff with all the intuitive, touchy-feely goodness you’ve come to expect of touchscreen tables. The table, an adapted version of Microsoft Surface, is nearly six feet long and designed to bring…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 25 '10

Why DC’s Brightest Day Could Be The Comic Story Of The Year

DC’s hyper-successful Blackest Night series will, we know now, be followed by a year-long series/event called Brightest Day. But is this really DC’s answer to Marvel’s “Heroic Age” era of optimism, or should we expect something more ambitious? DC announced Brightest Day – The title of which obviously plays off Blackest Night and the classic…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Jan 25 '10

Anti-Spam Warriors Fight Botnet With Botnet

Researchers at the International Computer Science Institute and UC-San Diego have achieved 100% success rates in filtering spam from a specific botnet. The strategy? Capture the enemy, and make him talk. A botnet is a computer that’s been hijacked to send spam out into the world without its owner’s knowledge. By running a captured software…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 25 '10

Steve Jobs: “[We’re] Starting This Week With a Major New Product”

Apparently Jobs is bullish about this “major new product’s” chances. You’d often look for a company to attempt to downplay expectations on a product launch like this, but it’s fun to watch Steve pour some fuel on the fire. COO Tim Cook also gets in on the action with a bit of a taunt during…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 25 '10

Apple’s Blockbuster Quarter Includes 8.7 Million iPhones and 21 Million iPods Sold

Apple blew the doors off of Q4, with strong performances from almost every corner. It’s their highest revenue and profit ever, but will they say anything else about Wednesday’s announcement? Updated live. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-were-starting-this-week-with-a-major-new-5456635 Apple sold twice as many iPhones as last year, although that still managed to be below Wall Street expectations. iPod continued its…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 25 '10

Gremlins 3D Rumors Make Us Fear The Rise of A CG Gizmo

There have been whispers about Joe Dante’s Gremlins 3 for years. But the latest rumor seems to hint that if Gremlins comes back, it may be released in 3-D. Could that mean CG Gremlins? https://gizmodo.com/original-gremlin-director-hints-at-gremlins-3-5233257 There’s been so much chatter about Dante’s Gremlins 3 masterpiece. Will he make it, would it have puppets instead of…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 25 '10

Could This Be The Beginning of the AI Revolution?

A devious device looking suspiciously like the pain box from Dune — or a minimalist sculpture from the ’60s — is now selling on eBay. In fact, that’s all it does. This robot sells itself on eBay every week. Called “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009),” by the artist Caleb Larsen, the imposing cube…

io9 Scott Timberg Jan 25 '10

5 Reasons Caprica Is The Season’s Most Promising New SF Series

Second Fix for Flickering 27-Inch iMac Screens Supposedly on the Way

Chimp-Directed Chimpcam Project Will Win Every Oscar

Will The Google Settlement Leave Ursula Le Guin Dispossessed?

The Wolfman’s Moulting: All The Reshoots, Redos And Re-Edits

Bowers & Wilkins 800 Series Speakers Look Great and Sound… Expensive

The Perfect Near-Future Novel To Get You Through The Recession

Guitar-Shaped iPhone Speaker Encourages Using Your Phone as an Instrument

Now Available

Urban Mars

That Rapscallion von Poppel Is At It Again!

Walt Mosspuppet Reviews the Apple Tablet: “The First Completely Perfect Product That’s Ever Existed.”

Caprica’s Ratings: Much Worse Than BSG Or Stargate Universe

Pictionaire Touchscreen Table Instantly Makes Digital Copies of Physical Objects

Why DC’s Brightest Day Could Be The Comic Story Of The Year

Anti-Spam Warriors Fight Botnet With Botnet

Steve Jobs: “[We’re] Starting This Week With a Major New Product”

Apple’s Blockbuster Quarter Includes 8.7 Million iPhones and 21 Million iPods Sold

Gremlins 3D Rumors Make Us Fear The Rise of A CG Gizmo

Could This Be The Beginning of the AI Revolution?

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