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Dell Encouraging Employees to Take Unpaid Time Off to Cut Costs

It seems like every tech company is feeling the pinch these days, and Dell is no different. In order to cut costs, they are encouraging employees to take up to five unpaid vacation days or a severance package during Q4. CEO Michael Dell has also initiated a hiring freeze and announced that the company will…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5

Alan Tudyk Eaten By a Giant Anime Lobster

Those of you unfamiliar with the freakish mania of cult web series Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show may find what I am about to tell you very disturbing. Alan Tudyk, who played Wash on Firefly and has shown up in several CSI episodes, has been poisoned by bubbles and attacked by a giant lobster. We’ve…

Television Annalee Newitz Nov 5

An Iraqi Artist Explains His Cyber-Masochism

Is Wafaa Bilal an artist or simply a masochistic attention whore? The Iraqi artist spent a month in a gallery last year, with a webcam and a paintball gun connected to the Internet, letting people from 136 countries shoot 65,000 paintballs at him 24 hours a day. Was this a publicity stunt? A soul-searching art…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 5

Body Found, Believed to Be That of Runaway Teen Gamer

Sadly, Canadian police believe that they have found the body of Brandon Crisp, a 15 year old that ran away from home in early October after his parents took away his Xbox 360 privileges. Apparently, he had become obsessed with Call of Duty 4 and action was taken after it began to affect his grades.…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5

Windows 7 Loading 20% Faster than Vista

Good news, everyone! According to some real-world testing by Lifehacker, Windows 7 is booting 20% faster than Vista. On an identical system, Vista Ultimate took 37 seconds to boot from operating system selection screen to the login screen. Meanwhile, Windows 7 took just 27 seconds…the exact same time as Windows XP.But actually, since Windows 7…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 5

Get Your Pre-Teen Vampire Twilight Tickets Now, Plus Sexy New Clips

Twilight fans, hurry up and pre-order your opening-night tickets right now, so you won’t be left on the cold curb sobbing and screaming, while the rest of your buddies are sobbing and screaming inside the theater. Right now you can pre-order your Twilight goodness on Fandango. Also, we’ve got a batch of new clips including…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 5

Noir Posters Capture the Pulpy Joy of Superhero Movies

With all the dark superhero movies flying through the theater of late, perhaps it’s time to return to the pulpy advertising of the film noir genre. Artist Timothy Lim steps in with his noir-style reimaginings of recent superhero movie posters. His over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek descriptions of the films capture the dark side of their plots,…

Movies Lauren Davis Nov 5

Question of the Day: Was CNN’s Hologram Stupid or Cool?

If you tuned into CNN’s election coverage last night, you probably saw their new fangled hologram technology being used to pull up data and conduct interviews. Sure, it was a gimmick-and-a-half—but it was interesting at least. Plus, as far as I could tell, the complicated system was pretty much glitch-free (Fox News, on the other…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5

Putting Heatsinks on Light Bulbs Makes for Some Crazy Bulb Designs

Who knew that lightbulb design could suddenly become so interesting? Since we’re all well aware that regular old light bulbs are bad for the environment, we’re seeing new designs for LED bulbs come in. And man, they’re strange looking. The weird designs, such as the one above, are the result of the LED being lit…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 5

Personalized Bobblehead iPhone Holder (Yes, Someone Went There)

What do you get for the Apple lover who has everything? This. You get them this. It’s a personalized bobblehead iPhone holder. The subject sends in three different shots of their face, chooses the skin, hair and eye color, and through the magic of…well, we don’t know exactly how they’re built…a figure arrives that looks…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 5

Could The Survivors Cure Your Doctor Who Withdrawal?

Going into Doctor Who withdrawal yet? With the BBC’s time-traveling soap opera pretty much taking a year off, and spin-off show Torchwood also doing a shorter season, you’re going to need an acceptable Who substitute. So it may be worth looking into The Survivors, the remake of a classic show by Dalek co-creator Terry Nation…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Nov 5

Is Grant Morrison Writing The Fastest Movie Alive?

MTV’s Splash Page blog may have accidentally discovered the writer of the much-rumored movie based on DC Comics’ speedster hero The Flash – During an interview with comic writer (and the man behind DC’s current Batman RIP and Final Crisis mega-storylines) Grant Morrison, an innocent question about the rumored movie got Morrison giving the kind…

Movies Graeme McMillan Nov 5

This is What Landing On Mars Feels Like

This is part 2 of an ongoing series by our latest guest editor, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, as it faces its final days. Just over five months ago, on May 25, I was zooming along toward the Red Planet with nothing more than a dream and a lot of butterflies in my stomach. At mission…

Space & Spaceflight Mars Phoenix Nov 5

Gadget Deals of the Day

We’ve got some good deals on video games, video game accessories and movies today, as well as some other miscellaneous deals that might be up your alley. There’s even a iPod nano for $1, although you’ve got to wait in line in front of a 99 cent store in California for it. But hey, if…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 5

The Killer-Robot Comedy Stylings Of The Thing And The Hulk

The Thing and the Hulk, Marvel Comics’ two biggest inhuman bruisers, usually just pound the stuffing out of each other when they meet up. But it turns out they have an awesome buddy-comedy chemistry, judging from this amazing panel from The Incredible Hulk & The Thing, a 1987 graphic novel drawn by the one and…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 5

Robotic Sculptures Are Surveillance Cameras in Disguise

Viewers may be mesmerized by the whirling propellers and twitching legs of Bjoern Schuelke’s interactive sculptures. But these robotic artworks come with a sinister surprise. Armed with tiny cameras, the sculptures stare back at the viewers, quietly recording the people around them.Schuelke’s sculptures feature motion sensors that allow the robots to identify and take aim…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 5

Flat Light Bulbs Are an Incandescent Innovation

The world may be moving on to CFLs, but at least one designer is still thinking about how to improve the classic incandescent bulb. Joonhuyn Kim’s concept is simple: flat bulbs take up less space and make them easier (and cheaper) to store and transport. A great idea, if not a little late. Perhaps makers…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5

Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp Threatens Consequences Beyond Tackiness

You may be tempted to buy the Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp, and you may even notice that it has an affordable $67 price tag. But we don’t recommend the purchase because somewhere, deep beneath the Earth’s crust, there lives a little mole-like man who keeps a very large list, and people who buy things like…

Movies Mark Wilson Nov 5

US Army to Push X-Files Tech Development, Invade World of Warcraft

The US Army is ramping up the development of technology right out of the X-Files, “making science fiction into reality” as Dr. John Parmentola-Director of their Research and Laboratory Management-puts it. The list of things currently in the works is amazing: Regenerating body parts on “nano-scaffolding”, telepathy through electronic impulses in the scalp, and self-aware…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 5

ESA Reveals Next-Gen Reentry Pod, Makes NASA’s Plans Look Kinda Low-Tech

This is ESA’s video unveiling of its Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, a test-bed for a next-generation reentry pod. The IXV is due to rocket aloft on Europe’s new small Vega launcher in 2012 and test out a range of systems for a “proper” future vehicle. Ditching the simplicity and limitations of the now old-fashioned conical-pod-with-heat-shield design,…

Space & Spaceflight Kit Eaton Nov 5

Dell Encouraging Employees to Take Unpaid Time Off to Cut Costs

Alan Tudyk Eaten By a Giant Anime Lobster

An Iraqi Artist Explains His Cyber-Masochism

Body Found, Believed to Be That of Runaway Teen Gamer

Windows 7 Loading 20% Faster than Vista

Get Your Pre-Teen Vampire Twilight Tickets Now, Plus Sexy New Clips

Noir Posters Capture the Pulpy Joy of Superhero Movies

Question of the Day: Was CNN’s Hologram Stupid or Cool?

Putting Heatsinks on Light Bulbs Makes for Some Crazy Bulb Designs

Personalized Bobblehead iPhone Holder (Yes, Someone Went There)

Could The Survivors Cure Your Doctor Who Withdrawal?

Is Grant Morrison Writing The Fastest Movie Alive?

This is What Landing On Mars Feels Like

Gadget Deals of the Day

The Killer-Robot Comedy Stylings Of The Thing And The Hulk

Robotic Sculptures Are Surveillance Cameras in Disguise

Flat Light Bulbs Are an Incandescent Innovation

Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp Threatens Consequences Beyond Tackiness

US Army to Push X-Files Tech Development, Invade World of Warcraft

ESA Reveals Next-Gen Reentry Pod, Makes NASA’s Plans Look Kinda Low-Tech

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