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New Haircuts, Old Whores And Good Old Fashioned Religious Sexual Tension Save True Blood

Last night True Blood brought back some past favorites and reminded us all of last season’s unspeakable vampire dirt sex. Jason turned on an entire camp, and Eric’s new haircut debuted. This week, we went inside the Fellowship Of the Light and realized that just about everyone in the world wants to have sex with…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Verizon FiOS Hikes Up Its Rates

Verizon nonchalantly upped FiOS’s basic “triple play” broadband-phone-TV fee—$5 or $10 extra per month, depending where you live. The only drop was in the priciest bundle, which swapped out HBO for Showtime—finally, Dexter fans get a bone. [NYT]

Tech News Wilson Rothman

ABC’s Blast Of Brown Matter Is Hard To Clean Up

Impact, the ABC miniseries that premiered last night, made a couple of convincing cases: that a “brown dwarf” hitting the Moon could doom humanity. And that these self-centered, vapid, sniveling humans completely deserve obliteration. Spoilers ahead. I have to say Impact’s greatest achievement was making me appreciate The Core anew. Not that I need much…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD

British scientists have developed a new breed of hard drive that uses not spinning discs, but rather a rectangular platter and millions of moving data heads to read/write data. In theory, this could mean transfer speeds of 500 MB/s. Register Hardwaresays that The Hard Rectangular Drive (HRD), developed by DataSlide, is roughly 4x faster than…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Tron Guy Forced to Sell Plane on eBay Due to Crap Economy

You know Tron Guy, that chubby embarrassment in a Lycra suit? Apparently, he was making enough scratch to own a plane that matched his outfit. Sadly, the economy has made his lifestyle a little less sustainable, so he’s selling it. Seriously, this guy owns a private plane. To be fair, he made most of his…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World

The caption says: “Our intern starts today. We figured we’d start her off with a little prank.” I don’t see how this is funny. It looks like our interns’ cubicles. [Flickr—Thanks Alice] https://gizmodo.com/new-york-summer-intern-still-wanted-5286741

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Solar Powered Spider Will Populate My Nightmares for Months

Every time I’ve seen these Jansen walkers—usually driven by the wind, sometimes on electricity—they have crept the hell out of me. This one is solar powered, and it creeps me just the same. https://gizmodo.com/vex-walker-inspired-by-terrifyingly-beautiful-beach-wal-5154248 One day someone will put AI on these, add razor blades to each leg, and the whole thing is going to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

I Don’t Want to Land Here

Seriously. I don’t. This is Funchal Airport’s runway, in the Island of Madeira. It was one of the most dangerous in the world because its runway was just too short for large airplanes. It had to be extended and engineers had two options: Extend the ground base with extra soil and concrete, or build a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Larry Niven Helped Usher In Our Weird World

Ringworld author Larry Niven didn’t just pioneer the “cool massive object in space” genre — he also helped predict today’s world, including flashmobs, cochlear implants and planets orbiting Epsilon Eridani. NASA even found a possible ringworld, in 2004. [USA Today]

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

USB Space Invaders Cooler Is Dedicated To Chilling Your Chocolate

The Japanese take their crane game prizes seriously. Case in point: Taito’s new line of T-Style crane games features a mini shredder, an AC circulator, a mini fridge, mini tv antenna, mp3 speaker and this USB chocolate cooler. What do we get in our crane games? Stuffed animals or something? These devices actually have a…

Tech News Sean Fallon

NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave

On June 12th, Saychev Peak on Matua Island erupted, hurling ash and steam into the air. Luckily, NASA’s International Space Station was watching. This stunning image, from the Earth Observatory, reveals some rare details about this eruption. In this image, you can see the volcanic plume extending into the sky. But you can also see…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

Apple Releases Firmware Update to Boost New MacBook Pro SATA Interface Speed

We reported earlier that it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their hard drive controllers downgraded. Now, Apple has released a new firmware update to jack those speeds back up. https://gizmodo.com/did-apple-downgrade-the-hard-drive-controller-in-the-ne-5291042 It’s called the MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7. Check it: MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by…

Tech News Adam Frucci

New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet

This may sound like something out of Iron Man, but it’s very real. Don Ingber has developed a machine that uses an electromagnet to suck sepsis-causing bacteria out of the blood. In lab tests, Ingber’s team mixed donor blood with the fungus Candida albicans, a common cause of sepsis, and added plastic-coated iron-oxide beads, each…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Bryan Fuller Leaves Heroes, Yet Again

Rumors are circulating that the man who was supposed to save Heroes, Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller, is leaving the series. Giving up hope yet? Update: It’s true. AICN is reporting the rumor that Bryan Fuller has left Heroes, and isn’t coming back. Fuller was brought back on to the series, after the death of…

Television Meredith Woerner

The Palm Pre Can’t Shoot Video, But Stop Motion Photography Is No Problem

The Palm Pre can’t shoot video. But what if it could shoot something better than video, natively? You know, like stop motion animation? https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-review-5277499 By holding the Pre’s spacebar, you can take about one photo per second—that’s pretty fast for a mobile. Continue holding and these photos just keep shooting. Stitch the shots together in…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Alastair Reynolds Gets £1 Million To Write Some More Space Operas

Don’t let anybody tell you there’s no money in writing science fiction. Revelation Space and Pushing Ice author Alastair Reynolds just got a £1 million book deal (about $1.65 million) from his publisher, Gollancz. It’s not quite as massive as it sounds at first — that £1 million is for ten books over the next…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Zeta-Jones vs Chad vs Verizon Guy: Who is Your Favorite Spokesperson?

In case you haven’t noticed, T-Mobile came to their senses and brought Catherine Zeta-Jones back as their spokesperson. Naturally, this has me thinking: cagematch. Which cellphone provider spokesperson is your favorite? https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-drops-catherine-zeta-jones-world-weeps-203575 Which Cellphone Provider Spokesperson Is Your Favorite?(poll)

Tech News Sean Fallon

Seagate’s BlackArmor Drives And NAS Provide More Secure Backup Than Normal Drives

Seagate just updated their BlackArmor line with three units, a 220 NAS that holds up to 4TB, a WS 100 external drive with eSATA and USB 2.0, and a PS 110 portable drive that holds up to 500GB. Their availability and pricing: • Available in late July, Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220—$449.99 for 2TB and $699.99…

Tech News Jason Chen

Find My iPhone Saved My Phone From a Thief

The Find My iPhone feature? It works, as evidenced by Kevin and his two friends, who went an adventure that involved Lego, a dive bar and some fast urban walking. Read on to see how everything played out. – JC https://gizmodo.com/find-my-iphone-lets-you-ping-remotely-erase-your-lost-5283371 Myself and two compadres, Ryan and Mark, are in Chicago (each of us for…

Tech News Kevin Miller

It’s Buffy’s Fault That Vampires Are Weak Now

This past weekend, the “Buffy vs. Edward” meme hit fever pitch, with a video mash-up joining the popular T-shirt showing the vampire slayer killing the Twilight idol. But Buffy-ites are being hypocrites: it’s Joss Whedon’s fault that vampires are wimpy. So in case you missed it (like if you weren’t on Twitter, or you were…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Haircuts, Old Whores And Good Old Fashioned Religious Sexual Tension Save True Blood

Verizon FiOS Hikes Up Its Rates

ABC’s Blast Of Brown Matter Is Hard To Clean Up

Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD

Tron Guy Forced to Sell Plane on eBay Due to Crap Economy

Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World

Solar Powered Spider Will Populate My Nightmares for Months

I Don’t Want to Land Here

Larry Niven Helped Usher In Our Weird World

USB Space Invaders Cooler Is Dedicated To Chilling Your Chocolate

NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave

Apple Releases Firmware Update to Boost New MacBook Pro SATA Interface Speed

New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet

Bryan Fuller Leaves Heroes, Yet Again

The Palm Pre Can’t Shoot Video, But Stop Motion Photography Is No Problem

Alastair Reynolds Gets £1 Million To Write Some More Space Operas

Zeta-Jones vs Chad vs Verizon Guy: Who is Your Favorite Spokesperson?

Seagate’s BlackArmor Drives And NAS Provide More Secure Backup Than Normal Drives

Find My iPhone Saved My Phone From a Thief

It’s Buffy’s Fault That Vampires Are Weak Now

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