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AI Expert Says We Should Welcome An Economic Takeover By Robots

In a recent post for the Foresight Institute, AI researcher J. Storrs Hall talks about the four different kinds of AI that might eventually surpass humans as planetary overlords. But he’s not worried: The key thing to remember when thinking about the economic AI takeover is that it is not something we should be trying…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Another iPhone Developer Gets Busted Stealing Phone Numbers

iPhone game developer Storm8, creator of games such as World War, iMobsters and Vampires Live, has just been hit with a suit for secretly gathering the phone numbers of everyone who purchases its games. It’s not the first time we’ve seen this; Swiss developerMogo got busted gathering numbers and then calling people to harass them…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Create the Ultimate Bionic Human Upgrades

In the not-too-distant future, we’ll be able to upgrade our bodies with real hardware. But what exactly do you want grafted onto your body? The world is your nanomachine-powered oyster! Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Bionic Upgrades in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Could John Cusack Be Vying For The Preacher Film?

We talked comic book adaptations with John Cusack, and whether he’s ready for his own comic-based film. One particular vampire and killer comic has sparked his interest, and we’re wondering: Could it be Preacher? We talked to Cusack yesterday as part of 2012 interviews: With comic book films being so huge right now in Hollywood…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Shooting Challenge: Fast Food Gallery

It’s a “No Disrespect” from BBNT in Melbourne. Camera used was a Canon 50D, with a 17-35 f/2.8L lens. Photo was taken at 35mm, f/2.8 @ 1/250s and ISO 100 -Tharaka Pathirage LG Voyager cell phone 2.0mp. we call it the “McGangBang”. step1: purchase a Mcdouble cheese burger from mcdonalds. step2: purchase a mcchicken sandwich…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Why Aggressive Men Finish Last

Among the tiny insects known as water striders, males who aggressively attempt to mate with females don’t wind up with as many offspring as their more gentlemanly counterparts. How can aggressive mating ever be a losing strategy? A group of researchers in the United States decided to do an experiment with water striders, in which…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Brainwave Sofa Turns Your Brilliance Into Butt Cushions

After capturing just 3 seconds of brain activity through EEG, designers Lucas Maassen and Dries Verbruggen can carve a snapshot of your thoughts into a block of foam. While the idea itself is entirely unique, the process of constructing the couch sounds almost automated. After hooking someone into an EEG, software converts the brainwave readings…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Science Fiction Legends On Black Velvet Part 2: Blacker And More Velvety

The black velvet smoothness of science fiction art continues, like the blackness of space, only creamier. Artist Bruce White saw yesterday’s black-velvet gallery and steered us to his gorgeous portraits from Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Doctor Who and more. White’s Deviant Art gallery includes tons of these amazing paintings, some of which are still…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Reality Check

Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack 1/3rd of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars] https://gizmodo.com/more-giz-readers-own-macs-than-pcs-5393703

Tech News John Herrman

Orb Media Streaming Finally Available For Macs

Orb’s been out for a while, but now there’s OS X 10.5 and 10.6 compatibility. Mac users can finally use the app to stream all sorts of media from iTunes to nearly any internet-connected device. Oh, and it’s completely free. You can download the Orb application right here. You’ll have to look for porn to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

First Look At Alice On Set For Resident Evil: Afterlife

Finally, here’s our first good look at everyone’s favorite Umbrella Corp resistance leader, Alice. Take a peek at Milla Jovovich and the cast of the next Resident Evil film, looking bad as hell. Plus on-set reports from Milla herself. Spoilers… First off, it’s so good to see Milla in her ass-kicking Alice gear again. We…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Palm Gives Pre Developers a Stupid-Simple Tool to Make Stupid-Simple Apps

It’s no secret that Palm’s been taking it niiiice ‘n slow with their app strategy, whatever it is. Here’s their next baby step: Ares, a browser-based, drag-and-drop development toolkit for making simple apps. It’s a marginally good idea! https://gizmodo.com/palm-couldnt-pick-a-better-first-paid-webos-app-than-ai-5374793 In a way, software written in Ares is the purest kind of web app: It’s designed…

Tech News John Herrman

Nu Pop Watches Make Being Hip Almost Worth the Inconvenience

Ignore the site’s lame hip hop and its general theme of trying too hard, because these nu pop watches by designer Pascal Mouawad and musician Jermaine Dupri are pretty snazzy in their own right. $145. [nupop via Whollysblog via bookofjoe]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Watch Japan’s Far Less Esoteric Avatar Trailer

Were you still a bit confused regarding the story of Avatar? Do you NEED to know every major plot point of a film before walking in to the theater? Fair enough. Check out this new (English) trailer debuting in Japan. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-avatar-trailer-is-big-blue-hyperreal-bliss-5341719 But does anyone else find it a tad too absurd that technology in the…

Movies Mark Wilson

The First Posters from Kick-Ass, the Latest Spot for Avatar, Smallville’s Wonder Twins, and the Hobbit’s Unexpected Source Material

Avatar sees yet another TV spot, and Kick-Ass’ superheroes get posters at last. The Hobbit script draws from material not in The Hobbit, and see the Wonder Twins activate on Smallville. Plus, Lost, Star Trek, Harry Potter, and Fringe. Avatar The latest TV spot shows one of Pandora’s monsters taking down an AMP suit. [First…

Television Lauren Davis

First Dell Adamo XPS Prototypes Had Multi-touch LCD TouchPads

Still drooling over yesterday’s Adamo XPS pics? I am. But it could have been a very different machine. Early prototypes had LCD touchpads (similar to notebooks like Fujitsu’s N7010 and Sharp’s Mebius), and even a capacitive-touch keyboard. Take a look: https://gizmodo.com/dell-adamo-xps-hands-on-insanely-thin-and-just-insane-5397393 Though running certain apps in a tiny window could actually be pretty useful, Dell…

Tech News Danny Allen

Samsung’s DualView TL225 Won’t Meet My Cam-Whoring Needs

Lousy at framing self-portraits? Yeah, me too. Thankfully Samsung’s here to help with the double-screen-toting DualView TL225. Well, at least they would be helping if the camera wasn’t as laggy and unresponsive as Wired found it to be. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-samsungs-dual-display-cameras-5336775 While Wired thought that the front display is fantastic for snapping pics of oneself, they weren’t…

Gadgets Rosa Golijan

Microsoft Research Demos Magically Touch-Less, Transparent Glass Display

Microsoft’s research division is doing tours across college campuses and rather than turning them into snoozefests they’re showing off a prototype straight outta Iron Man fantasies. It’s a clear glass display which accepts input through voice-control, touch-less gestures, and eye-tracking. iStartedSomething has videos showing the prototype in action, and it looks like it’s got quite…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Xbox 360 Wireless N Adapter Resurfaces for a Little Less

Gamestop never released that new Xbox 360 wireless n dongle on 11/3 for $100. Meanwhile, Costco just listed the product for $88 with a November 10th ship date…right before pulling the page. Tracking this thing has become unnecessarily difficult. [Engadget]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Sweet ThunderCats Xbox 360 Makes Me Bummed the Movie is on Hold

I’m a sucker for great paintwork, and this airbrushed 360 from largomods reminds me how much I loved the ThunderCats as a kid. Too bad WB put the CG-animated movie (directed by Jerry O’Flaherty from Gears of War) on hold. http://kotaku.com/309218/gears-unreal-art-director-lands-thundercats-movie Concept renders from the movie’s pre-production, here, if you’re into it. Hooo! [Xbox Freedom]

Tech News Danny Allen

AI Expert Says We Should Welcome An Economic Takeover By Robots

Another iPhone Developer Gets Busted Stealing Phone Numbers

Create the Ultimate Bionic Human Upgrades

Could John Cusack Be Vying For The Preacher Film?

Shooting Challenge: Fast Food Gallery

Why Aggressive Men Finish Last

Brainwave Sofa Turns Your Brilliance Into Butt Cushions

Science Fiction Legends On Black Velvet Part 2: Blacker And More Velvety

Reality Check

Orb Media Streaming Finally Available For Macs

First Look At Alice On Set For Resident Evil: Afterlife

Palm Gives Pre Developers a Stupid-Simple Tool to Make Stupid-Simple Apps

Nu Pop Watches Make Being Hip Almost Worth the Inconvenience

Watch Japan’s Far Less Esoteric Avatar Trailer

The First Posters from Kick-Ass, the Latest Spot for Avatar, Smallville’s Wonder Twins, and the Hobbit’s Unexpected Source Material

First Dell Adamo XPS Prototypes Had Multi-touch LCD TouchPads

Samsung’s DualView TL225 Won’t Meet My Cam-Whoring Needs

Microsoft Research Demos Magically Touch-Less, Transparent Glass Display

Xbox 360 Wireless N Adapter Resurfaces for a Little Less

Sweet ThunderCats Xbox 360 Makes Me Bummed the Movie is on Hold

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