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Nokia E71x Coming to AT&T Next Week for $200, Symbian Lovers Rejoice

Some Symbian S60 love from AT&T, at last: Boy Genius says Nokia’s excellent E71x is landing at AT&T March 24 for $200 after the usual two-year contract dance. It’s like a little miracle. [BGR]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

How Realistic Should Sci-Fi Be?

Should science fiction make more of an effort to keep up-to-date with science fact? As part of the UK’s National Science and Engineering Week, that’s the question that the BBC asked four well-known SF authors. Unsurprisingly, none of the writers involved – Paul Cornell, Iain (M.) Banks, Ken MacLeod and Ian Watson – feel constrained…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

iTunes HD Movies Won’t Play on Older Non-HDCP Monitors

If you dropped $20 on an HD movie from iTunes since they came out yesterday, but have a newer Mac and an older external display, you might not be able to watch it. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-now-buy-and-hd-movies-from-itunes-directly-5175855 That’s because iTunes HD movies require that you have an HDCP-compliant external display. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection is designed to prevent…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Chrome Is the Last Browser Standing at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition

Whether you’re a Google Chrome fan or not, you have to give it up to the guys at Google for withstanding day one of the Pwn2Own hacking competition when other browsers went down in flames. As noted yesterday, Safari was compromised in a mere 10 seconds while Firefox and IE were taken down shortly thereafter…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Hubble Captures Four Moons Transiting In Front Of Saturn!

The opportunity to capture a quadruple transit, when Saturn’s ring plane is nearly “edge on” as seen from Earth, only happens every 14 to 15 years. [Hubblesite]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Holy Sh*t Look At This Drill

Behold, the Hitachi DH50MRY. Part drill, part jackhammer, it can eat up concrete like balsa wood without killing your arms. Our friends at PopSci cut one open to show how it works. It’s the first drill of its kind to feature a counterweight strong enough to cancel out what is undoubtedly some pretty serious recoil.…

Tech News John Mahoney

Final Hugo Awards Ballot Full Of Writing, Publishing Goodness

The list of Hugo Award finalists, announced yesterday, is a bit less mystifying than the Nebula finalists, which came out a while back – especially in the novel category. All five of the novel finalists are books we enjoyed, and would be delighted to see win. Meanwhile, it’s good to see Charles Coleman Finlay‘s “The…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Combat Pilots Ejecting After Aircraft Crash

This two-seat Sukhoi Su-24 combat aircraft crashed in a fiery ball of hell in an Iranian airfield last week. Nothing special about that, except that—amazingly enough—the pilots ejected safely after the crash. As you can see in the video, the Su-24 either had bad problems with its flaps—I wouldn’t be surprised, since these Soviet planes…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sometimes Knowing Isn’t Enough

Is life totally random and meaningless? Or is there some predestination, and thus purpose, behind everything? Knowing, opening today, ponders this question and splits the difference: everything is predestined, but it’s still all meaningless. At least that’s the impression I came away with after watching this Nicolas Cage vehicle. The film, directed by Alex Proyas…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn

Microsoft’s latest History of the Internet promotion is a pretty lame, VH1esque mashup of various b-list comedians cracking jokes—until those comedians talk about Internet Explorer 8’s new In Private Mode. In this short excerpt, Microsoft endorses their product with a firm nudge and a wink. I mean, Steve Ballmer didn’t go so far as to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Is iPhone 3.0’s Mysterious iProd a Bitchy Personal Trainer?

In addition to referencing brand new iPhones and iPods, the iPhone 3.0 OS also mentions the intriguing “iProd.” Which is what British publications called a bitchy digital personal trainer Apple patented last year. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3-0-os-reveals-new-iphones-ipods-and-the-myster-5175348 Apple filed patents on an iPod touch-like personal trainer that tracks your fitness level and schedule, has personalized workouts, answers nutrition…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cell Stickies: How People With No Friends Get Text Messages

I can only imagine these acetate stickers (a mere concept, sadly) of the iPhone’s friendly SMS overlay being used to prank someone. But what a prank it would be. [Fiona Carswell via OhGizmo]

Tech News John Mahoney

The Device Ripped His Molecules Apart and Swallowed The Haze That Remained

This glowing, massive tunnel is the gateway to a device that knows only one thing: Deconstructing life at the atomic level. Unfortunately it’s so ancient that it has forgotten how to do the reconstruction. The throat of this machine is actually a piece of huge, walk-in conceptual art by Las Vegas artist Stephen Hendee. Known…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Touchpad Smart Remote Seamlessly Morphs Into Other Remotes

Back at CES, Panasonic was demoing a brilliant touchpad remote control—but I didn’t spot it until my way out. Luckily, Elan has designed something very similar and posted this clip. In fact, Elan’s Smart Remote is so close to what I remember seeing that it might be the same hardware. Regardless, what’s brilliant about the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Is Captain Kirk On Track To Play Hal Jordan?

A shortlist of actors for the iconic role of Green Lantern/Hal Jordan went up on IESB, and everybody’s fixating on Christopher Pine, who already has some experience playing cocky young proto-heroes in Star Trek. Even though I have a feeling Pine’s “Why you talkin’ to me, man?” drawl as Kirk may get a bit old…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Send Someone (or Some Thing) Into Space

People are honoring the daring spacebat all over the world. Now it’s your turn. Your turn to mock the whole thing using your Photoshop skills, sneaking someone onto the space shuttle—inside or out. https://gizmodo.com/spacebat-tribute-video-will-make-you-cry-like-we-are-5175346 Who would you like to send to space to never hear about him/her again? Send us your image at [email protected] with…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Nanofiber Underwear Burns Fat…Literally?

A new nanofiber underwear burns fat just by wearing it. But given the premise, it must chafe a bit. From Japan chemical company Teijin, the underwear is woven from 700-nanometer ultra fine polyester that the company calls Nanofront. Originally used for industrial polishing, the fabric is soft to the skin but apparently causes enough friction…

Tech News Mark Wilson

DC Comics Goes Big, Retro For New Weekly Series

Want to relive the Sunday comics of your youth but with better writing and art? DC Comics‘ newly-announced weekly Wednesday Comics will give you that chances… and also introduce you to some amazing creators. Rumored for some time and finally confirmed yesterday, Wednesday Comics will be an experimental twelve-issue weekly series from America’s oldest comic…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

The Average PS Home Session Lasts One Hour (ORLY)

Remember the world before the PlayStation Home open beta launched? You may, because it looked a lot like the world after PlayStation Home launched. Still, Sony has some numbers they’d like to share with you: The Facts: PlayStation Home now has 4 million registered users. Those users spend an average of 55 minutes on Home…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Intel’s Leaked Z550 Atom Processor For Netbooks/MIDs Reaches 2GHz

Leaks suggest that Intel will be dropping a new single-core Z-series Atom proc that will be the first of the family to reach 2GHz. Granted, the Z series is the slightly lower-powered single-core chips intended for MIDs, but it’s not ridiculous to assume these could find their way into a low-cost netbook or two. The…

Tech News John Mahoney

Nokia E71x Coming to AT&T Next Week for $200, Symbian Lovers Rejoice

How Realistic Should Sci-Fi Be?

iTunes HD Movies Won’t Play on Older Non-HDCP Monitors

Chrome Is the Last Browser Standing at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition

Hubble Captures Four Moons Transiting In Front Of Saturn!

Holy Sh*t Look At This Drill

Final Hugo Awards Ballot Full Of Writing, Publishing Goodness

Combat Pilots Ejecting After Aircraft Crash

Sometimes Knowing Isn’t Enough

Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn

Is iPhone 3.0’s Mysterious iProd a Bitchy Personal Trainer?

Cell Stickies: How People With No Friends Get Text Messages

The Device Ripped His Molecules Apart and Swallowed The Haze That Remained

Touchpad Smart Remote Seamlessly Morphs Into Other Remotes

Is Captain Kirk On Track To Play Hal Jordan?

Send Someone (or Some Thing) Into Space

Nanofiber Underwear Burns Fat…Literally?

DC Comics Goes Big, Retro For New Weekly Series

The Average PS Home Session Lasts One Hour (ORLY)

Intel’s Leaked Z550 Atom Processor For Netbooks/MIDs Reaches 2GHz

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