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The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Did horny teenage vampires keep you away from your computer all week? Don’t worry, we’ve recapped the best of the week right here. This week we spent some quality time with robots that want nothing more than our death. Sex Robots Who Kill: Is Anything Deadlier? As soon as we have convincing(ish) androids and gynoids,…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 22 '09

The io9 Survival Guide To The Terminator Universe

Terminator Salvation is in theaters, and all your friends are rushing to see it. But you won’t be ready to face this robot-oppressed future, unless you know all about the Terminator franchise first. Here’s all the best io9 Terminator coverage. So in case you’ve been living in a bunker, waiting for the nuclear bombardment to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 22 '09

Windows 7 Starter Edition for Netbooks Might Ditch 3 App Limit

Paul Thurrott’s reporting that Microsoft’s going to drop the three-app-at-a-time limitation from Windows 7 Starter—the cheaper Windows 7 geared toward netbooks. He doesn’t know if they’re going let you change your wallpaper with Starter though. No, really. [WinSuperSite] https://gizmodo.com/all-the-flavors-of-windows-7-explained-5145366

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 22 '09

Gadget Deals of the Day: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

We’ve got about 60 deals for you today, including discounted laptops and games, a bunch of mid-sized HDTVs (for those of you who complained), cheap movies, a free boobie rub, and a list of where you can catch some awesome deals for the Memorial Day weekend. https://gizmodo.com/gadget-deals-of-the-day-5250949 Computers and Peripherals: • Dell Vostro 1520 15.4″…

Tech News Andi Wang May 22 '09

Thirteen Books That Will Change The Way You Look At Robots

What will robots really be like when they finally achieve a human level of intelligence and autonomy? No one knows for sure, but we’ve put together a list of books that will challenge and disturb your preconceptions about what robots might become. Special note! For the purposes of this list, I’ve considered a “robot” to…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 22 '09

First TV Image of Mars Ever Was Made With Crayons

What you are looking at here is the very first image ever taken of the surface of Mars. It was acquired by NASA’s Mariner 4 using a television camera, and rendered using crayons. Look closer: After Mariner 3 failed to take images because of a hardware problem, Mariner 4 became NASA’s next big hope to…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz May 22 '09

Join Gawker Media On an Expedition to Africa

If you’re willing to brave the uncharted wilds of the section of downtown Manhattan referred to by outsiders as “Nolita”, we’ve got a proposition for you. Gawker and The History Channel are throwing a screening party for the fascinating new show Expedition Africa, and we’d like you to join us. The details for the party,…

io9 Chrissie Lamond May 22 '09

Is This The Greatest Killer Robot Story Of All Time?

"The Robots Of Death" sounds like a lost Akira Kurosawa film, if Kurosawa had only embraced the killer-robot genre. But the 1977 Doctor Who story is something just as great: a Hitchcockian thriller that has something to say about our relationship with technology. Spoilers of death! The Doctor Who story “Robots Of Death” is a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 22 '09

What Is This?

Looks like a billion gazillion television screens, thundering their nonsense and babbling at the same time in some gigantic art installation. Or maybe one of those crazy LED art projects in a skyscraper. It’s better than all that, put together. What you are seeing here is the Rosetta Disk: 13,500 pages of data—in 1,500 languages—etched…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 22 '09

Master Hackintosh OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart Updated

Rob at BoingBoing’s updated his OS X netbook compatibility chart, which makes it easy to see which netbooks are perfect for hackintoshing and which aren’t—a perfect Memorial Day weekend project using the dearly departed Mahoney’s definitive how-to guide. [BoingBoing Gadgets] https://gizmodo.com/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-5156903

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 22 '09

From The Terrifying Wastes Of The Cosmos Come Scary Old People

Writer Laird Barron plunges his razor-sharp rostrum deep into a Lovecraftian vein, with nine stories of brain-melting cosmic horror in The Imago Sequence. I don’t read much horror, but I enjoy it when I do; I love the Great Old Ones such as William Hope Hodgson and H.P. Lovecraft, there’s Clive Barker of course, Joe…

io9 Grey_Area May 22 '09

The Death Row Inmate Who Turned His Toilet Into an Electric Chair

Michael Anderson Godwin was a murderer. He was awaiting South Carolina’s electric chair in 1989 when he decided to fix his TV set while sitting on his cell’s metal toilet. You can probably see where this is going. Being on death row is lonely, so having a TV is important to your sanity. Godwin’s was…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 22 '09

Some Kind of Android Cupcake Update Is Happening Right Now

A bunch of people running the UK version of Cupcake on their US phones are getting some kind of Cupcake update right now, though no one’s sure what it does. Could Cupcake hit sooner than next week for everybody else? [Phandroid] https://gizmodo.com/android-cupcake-rolling-out-next-tuesday-5265849

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 22 '09

British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen

Gerry Anderson‘s UFO, one of the seventies’ most secretly awesome shows, is getting a movie adaptation. But is America really ready for the show’s bold mix of grim moral ambiguity and absurd purple wigs? UFO isn’t as well-known today as some of Gerry Anderson’s other shows, such as the Supermarionation series Thunderbirds (otherwise known as…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 22 '09

Gort vs. Caprica 6: Which Machine Is Deadlier? (Championship Round)

Gort and Caprica 6 pulled out victories in the final round of the Heavyweight and Humanoid division battles. Just for fun we are pitting them against one another in a final, championship round. Which machine is the deadliest of all-time? https://gizmodo.com/what-is-the-deadliest-machine-of-all-time-heavyweight-5264508 Which Robot is the Deadliest of All-Time?(online poll) Stay tuned later today for a…

Movies Sean Fallon May 22 '09

A Robot Who Walks Like a Human

It’s the next step in creating a robot who can pass as human. Boston Dynamics, the group who brought you the creepy BigDog robot, is working with the military to build PetMan, who walks just like a human. And that’s not the only thing human about PetMan. https://gizmodo.com/dogoid-robot-with-no-head-moves-in-an-eerily-lifelike-m-368949 According to Danger Room: Its job will…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 22 '09

‘Robobama’ Gets Prepped for July 4th Debut at Disney World

Disney technicians are hard at work on an incredibly-lifelike robotic version of President Obama. Dick Cheney is reportedly working on a virus to cause the robot to fail. The robot, which is headed to the Hall of Presidents, is the most advanced presidential robot yet. It also will give a speech recorded by the fleshbag…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 22 '09

Iwata: Nintendo Design More Appreciated than Apple Design

Nintendo has traditionally ignored the iPhone as a competitor, claiming that the DS and iPhone were chasing different markets. Now Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has given in the reality of commerce and started the smack talk. I do not imagine that iPhone will dominate the Nintendo DS market at once. My impression as the person…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 22 '09

Stephen Colbert Gets Confessions From A Real Alien Hunter

Seth Shostak, author of Confessions Of An Alien Hunter, talks little green men with Stephen Cobert. Find out why science is covering up our alien brethren, and how many alien heads Shostak has on his wall — he’s a hunter after all. For those of you that cannot watch Hulu, try the link to the…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 22 '09

Join Gawker Media On an Expedition to Africa

If you’re willing to brave the uncharted wilds of the section of downtown Manhattan referred to by outsiders as “Nolita”, we’ve got a proposition for you. Gawker and The History Channel are throwing a screening party for the fascinating new show Expedition Africa, and we’d like you to join us. The details for the party,…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond May 22 '09

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

The io9 Survival Guide To The Terminator Universe

Windows 7 Starter Edition for Netbooks Might Ditch 3 App Limit

Gadget Deals of the Day: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

Thirteen Books That Will Change The Way You Look At Robots

First TV Image of Mars Ever Was Made With Crayons

Join Gawker Media On an Expedition to Africa

Is This The Greatest Killer Robot Story Of All Time?

What Is This?

Master Hackintosh OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart Updated

From The Terrifying Wastes Of The Cosmos Come Scary Old People

The Death Row Inmate Who Turned His Toilet Into an Electric Chair

Some Kind of Android Cupcake Update Is Happening Right Now

British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen

Gort vs. Caprica 6: Which Machine Is Deadlier? (Championship Round)

A Robot Who Walks Like a Human

‘Robobama’ Gets Prepped for July 4th Debut at Disney World

Iwata: Nintendo Design More Appreciated than Apple Design

Stephen Colbert Gets Confessions From A Real Alien Hunter

Join Gawker Media On an Expedition to Africa

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