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Megan Fox Shares Details On Becoming An Unholy Cheerleading Maneater

Ready to see a vengeful undead cheerleading Megan Fox with a thirst for teenage boys? Fox’s role in Diablo Cody‘s horror flick Jennifer’s Body teaches you to make sure your human sacrifice to the devil really is a virgin. In an interview with MTV Fox explained how it was she ended up with the taste…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Magic Lantern Firmware Unlocks the Canon 5D Mark II’s A/V Potential

The Canon 5D Mark II can shoot jaw-dropping 1080P video, but nothing about the interface makes it easy. So one video guru wrote his own firmware for the device to bring camcorder luxuries to the dSLR. https://gizmodo.com/canon-5d-mark-iis-full-hd-video-is-so-stunning-our-eyes-5050819 Dubbed Magic Lantern, the new firmware improves audio recording by adding onscreen level meters, disabling automatic gain control,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Gadget Deals of the Day

If you’re looking for a new desktop or television, today’s deals should be right up your alley. And just case you’ve started to run out of steam, there’s free coffee too. Computing and Peripherals: • 15.4″ Dell Studio 15 Core 2 Duo Laptop with 4GB RAM for $679 plus free shipping (normally $889). • 15.6″…

Tech News Don Nguyen

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Tech News Chrissie Lamond

A Once-In-A-Generation Event Leads To Saturn’s Rings Disappearing

Check out that flat shadow crossing Saturn’s rings. It’s the shadow of Mimas, one of Saturn’s moons, and its appearance means we’re getting closer to Saturn’s equinox, when it’ll be spring in the North and the rings will go dark. Saturn’s equinox only happens about once every fifteen years, and it’s when the sun crosses…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Navigon GPS Navi iPhone App: Europe-Only Maps, $95 “Special Introduction Price”

We knew that iPhone OS 3.0 would bring navi apps, and that they’d cost plenty. Navigon just popped MobileNavigator Europe—no support for US roads, and a $95 pricetag that will soon go up. https://gizmodo.com/app-store-subscriptions-mean-more-expensive-hopefully-5297473 Even though it only has European maps, Americans can still buy it in the app store. But you should only buy…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Virtuality Blasts Off And Spidey Goes Back To High School

Summer doldrums got you down? This week’s TV features some big events: Ronald D. Moore’s Virtuality is finally getting aired, and teenage Spider-Man is back… and he’s dating. Monday Spectacular Spider-Man – High School Spider-Man is back tonight, and he’s bringing you two colorful animated adventures. (G-rated, of course.) In the season premiere, Spidey and…

Television Meredith Woerner

The Acer Aspire AS5739G Is a Powerful Blu-ray Laptop For $750

Today, Acer announced their updated line of Aspire laptops. But the most interesting has to be the Aspire AS5739G, a no-compromises performance machine with a tempting price of $750. The system features a 15.6-inch LED LCD (1366×768), 2.1Ghz Core2 Duo processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a GeForce GT130 graphics card packing an extra 1GB…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Hands-On: HP PhotoSmart Premium with TouchSmart Web

After playing around with HP’s new web-enabled printer, it’s clear they didn’t take any shortcuts with the hardware, equipping it with a responsive, capacitive touch panel. But besides the same types who buy digital photo frames, will anyone use this? https://gizmodo.com/hp-photosmart-premium-with-touchsmart-web-is-the-worlds-5299801 The software is all very much still in development, but the home screen and…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Nokia, Siemens Helped Iran Rig Networks for Government Control

The role of the internet in Iran’s recent unrest has been stunning; so too have been the regime’s efforts to minimize it. Luckily for the government, Iran’s networks are rigged for suppression, courtesy of Nokia and Siemens. The core of the regime’s online efforts is a process called deep packet inspection, which essentially scans nearly…

Tech News John Herrman

Fake Steve Jobs is Back (For Now)

Fake Steve is writing as if he’s slowly coming back from cryogenic sleep. Or something. Dan Lyons (the author of Fake Steve Jobs) says he couldn’t resist posting, but he warns it may not go on for long. [CoM]

Tech News Brian Lam

Bladez Corners The Market For Flying, Disembodied Terminator Helicopter Heads

Attention manufacturers: don’t even think about flying, R/C Terminator helicopter heads. Bladez has already cornered the market for this hot item. Features: •Combat Function – Terminator V Resistance Battles •Hit opponent 3 times to disarm the enemy •Terminator branded helicopter, handset and packaging •Realistic battle sound effects •Coaxial structure enabling steady flight •10 meter range,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Next Star Trek Could Feature Yeoman Rand

Were you sad the U.S.S. Enterprise was such a sausage-fest in the most recent Star Trek? Then there’s good news: co-writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman tell io9 the next film could feature one of Trek’s most iconic women. Yeoman Janice Rand, with her imposing blonde beehive, only appeared in a handful of Trek episodes…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Couple Says “I Do” In Zero Gravity, Leads Subsequently More Boring Life Together

It’s not hard to spend $16,000 (or much, much more) on a wedding. So you might as well get a zero gravity flight out of the deal. New Yorkers Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor tied the knot on Zero Gravity Corp‘s G-Force One, a padded Boeing 727-200 flown with parabolic zero-g-inducing maneuvers. The bride had…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

The Vaio P Is Now As Fast As Average Netbooks

If you’re willing to fork over $1500, the Vaio P got a slight spec jump this morning as you can now score one with a 1.6GHz Atom processor (up from 1.33GHz). More notably, that price also includes a 128GB SSD, GPS and Verizon Mobile Broadband module. Still…$1500? That’s like…a whole lot to spend for an…

Tech News Mark Wilson

A Dark Cyborg Bird Of Prey Attacks, In A 5-Minute Clip From Shane Acker’s 9

A new clip from Shane Acker‘s 9 shows us the harrowing confrontation between the last remnants of human society — a clan of rag dolls — and a nightmarish cyber-bird. This is the clip that blew our minds at Wondercon. The new clip also gives us more of a sense of the chaos that rag…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Dunkin’ Donuts ‘Dunkin Run’ iPhone App Will Change The Lives Of Office Lackeys

If you are the person responsible for supplying the office with Dunkin’ Donuts products, prepare to have your mind blown. Dunkin’ Donuts new “Dunkin’ Run” iPhone app is going to change your life forever. Dunkin’ Run brings customers a completely new and unique social online group ordering experience and tools. To begin, “Runners” can initiate…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Kodak Discontinues Kodachrome Film Amidst Barrage of Terrible Paul Simon Jokes

We get it, Associated Press, Paul Simon wrote a popular song with the word “Kodachrome” in it. But that’s only a tiny—if annoying catchy—part of the film’s tremendous legacy, which stretches back to 1935. On a technical level, Kodachrome—the first truly popular color film—is a dinosaur, requiring color to be added during development in a…

Tech News John Herrman

Blastosaurus May Be Our Sci-Fi Future

New comic book publisher/movie producer American Original announced its first projects at this weekend’s WizardWorld Philly convention, and amongst them was one science fiction project that sounded right up our alley… if a little worryingly SciFi Original Movie-esuqe: Blastosaurus. The series – which started life as a self-published minicomic – was created by New Zealander…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Megan Fox Shares Details On Becoming An Unholy Cheerleading Maneater

Magic Lantern Firmware Unlocks the Canon 5D Mark II’s A/V Potential

Gadget Deals of the Day

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Create a Hybrid

A Once-In-A-Generation Event Leads To Saturn’s Rings Disappearing

Navigon GPS Navi iPhone App: Europe-Only Maps, $95 “Special Introduction Price”

Virtuality Blasts Off And Spidey Goes Back To High School

The Acer Aspire AS5739G Is a Powerful Blu-ray Laptop For $750

Hands-On: HP PhotoSmart Premium with TouchSmart Web

Nokia, Siemens Helped Iran Rig Networks for Government Control

Fake Steve Jobs is Back (For Now)

Bladez Corners The Market For Flying, Disembodied Terminator Helicopter Heads

Next Star Trek Could Feature Yeoman Rand

Couple Says “I Do” In Zero Gravity, Leads Subsequently More Boring Life Together

The Vaio P Is Now As Fast As Average Netbooks

A Dark Cyborg Bird Of Prey Attacks, In A 5-Minute Clip From Shane Acker’s 9

Dunkin’ Donuts ‘Dunkin Run’ iPhone App Will Change The Lives Of Office Lackeys

Kodak Discontinues Kodachrome Film Amidst Barrage of Terrible Paul Simon Jokes

Blastosaurus May Be Our Sci-Fi Future

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