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Email Reveals Nvidia and ATI May Have Colluded to Inflate Prices

A graphics card can cost you almost as much as a bona fide Batman gadget, especially when you get up to ridiculous amounts of power and performance, but that ludicrous price is actually less ludicrous than it could be, because of the cutthroat competition between ATI and Nvidia, right? Not so fast. An email Nvidia…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Get Fired Up For Watchmen With Some New Pics

Mega-classic graphic novel Watchmen sounds sort of like a soap opera when you try to explain it to mainstream people. That’s the lesson I’ve learned from reading Entertainment Weekly’s first big article about Zack Snyder’s movie adaptation. Sally’s mom forced her into the spandex life! She’s trapped in a dead-end relationship with the blue guy,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dell Linux Systems Now Shipping With Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron has been out since April, but Dell wanted to do a whole bunch of testing and add support for stuff like fingerprint readers, Bluetooth, HDMI and MP3/WMA/WMV out of the box before rolling it out on their Linux systems. It’s shipping on ’em as of this second. [Dell via Direct2Dell] https://gizmodo.com/linux-ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron-officially-released-flap-383667

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Periodic Table of Elements, in Videos

What do you get when you mix a frizzy-haired, grandfatherly chemist with his younger, cackling, explosion-loving sidekick? The Periodic Table of Videos! Put together by a team at the University of Nottingham in the UK, this gargantuan effort of 118 short vids chronicled everything from Hydrogen (very explosive) to Oxygen (also very explosive) to Sodium…

io9 Michael Reilly

Rumor Smashed: AT&T Free Wi-Fi for iPhones Isn’t Live Yet

Damn it AT&T, stop pulling this crap. Not only is the AT&T page proclaiming the good news down, Om got confirmation from AT&T that free iPhone Wi-Fi at Starbucks is not the droids you are looking for: https://gizmodo.com/at-t-changes-its-mind-again-no-hotspot-access-for-ipho-388988 “We have not made any announcement regarding free Wi-Fi and iPhone. The webpage was posted in error…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Spock Till You Drop, With New Star Trek Posters

Here’s our first look at Zachary Quinto as Spock, from J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek sequel/prequel/reboot-apalooza. This is one of four posters that will be available at Comic-Con next weekend, representing the only official Star Trek presence at the event. The posters, which premiered in the new Entertainment Weekly, also include Chris Pine’s Kirk, Zoe…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

In 30 Years, Artificial Wombs Mean No More Abortions

When you ask scientists to predict the future, they don’t scrimp on the weirdness. A recent article in Nature included predictions from a number of researchers asked to speculate about how humans will reproduce in 30 years. Scott Gelfland of the Ethics Center at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater said he thought the development of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

iPhone Apps We Like: Twinkle, the New Best Twitter App

So, we were a little premature when we declared Twitterific the best iPhone Twitter app-Twinkle, the hugely popular Twitter app with location goodness for Installer.app, just came to the App store. Its killer location features are totally intact: Tweets are lojacked with your current location (Twitterific just updates your profile’s current location), and you can…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

SLICC Pods Are New First Class Cabins For Air Force Brass

I’ve never been on a trans-Atlantic aboard a military transport aircraft, but I can guess that they’re not the most comfortable way to fly. So it’s understandable that top-ranking Air Force brass would want something a little more amenable to resting, taking meetings, and watching Hot Shots Pt. Deux on a 37″ flatscreen. That’s where…

Tech News John Mahoney

Futurist Japanese Artists Show Us Life in the Next Century

Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. There’s a lot of buzz about Japanese contemporary artists these days. Takashi Murakami’s super-cute, superflat alien-like characters are on everything from Louis Vuitton bags to the pages of io9. But he isn’t the first or only Japanese artist on our…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Barbie Releases Street-Walker Black Canary Doll

You never really realize how unpractical a superhero outfit is until you see it in real life. Barbie’s new superhero collection debuts with DC Comic’s sonic-screaming badass Black Canary, in all her fish leggy glory (suitable for collectors above the age of 14). I forgot how ridiculously slutty Dinah could look (although I’m sure I’ll…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Has SciFi Finally Worked Its Way To Hollywood’s Big Kids Table?

Dark Knight’s Oscar buzz has been circling since the first “Why So Serious?” ad. And now that some science fiction television series garnered a handful of Emmy nominations yesterday, people are wondering if this could be the year the red-headed stepchild of the entertainment industry gets a well deserved pat on the back from Hollywood.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Laser Windshield System Keeps the Elderly Driving Longer For Some Reason

Which sounds like a better way to make the roads safer: rescind drivers licenses from people who are very old and have failing vision, or create a fancy system with lasers to allow them to keep driving. If you answered the latter, you’re in the same camp as General Motors. They’re hard at work on…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Five Ways Technology Has Changed the Olympics

Click to view When the Summer Olympics kick off in Beijing next month, they will be very different from the Olympics held eight or even four years ago. From weather control to laser timing devices, technology is having an impact on the Olympics in a profound way. Supercomputers and weather control – The Beijing Meteorological…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Wii is Now the Number One Console in the U.S.

After outselling the Xbox 360 3:1 in June (660,000 vs 219,800), the Wii eeked ahead in the total U.S. sales race by 500,000 consoles, despite the 360’s one-year head start. NPD is also reporting a 53% increase in game and hardware sales across the industry compared to this time last year. [Information Week]

Tech News John Mahoney

Comic-Con Sold Out

Hopefully you weren’t planning to make any last-minute plans for next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, because for the first time in the show’s history, all four days of the show are sold out before the con even begins. You may think that the organizers would be happy about that, but as Comic-Con International’s Director of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

China Anti-Terrorist Plan Includes Flamethrowers, Segways, Chuck Norris Clones

Great Wall 5 is the codename for China’s Summer Olympics anti-terrorist operations. They say they will use “police forces, the People’s Armed Police, the People’s Liberation Army and the health, environmental protection, meteorology and transportation departments,” but I can also see flamethrowers, SWATs on Segways, anti-aircraft missiles, emergency response teams with sawing machines, and thousands…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Best Superhero Penis Joke Ever

Act 2 of Joss “Firefly” Whedon’s online supervillain musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog arrived on the innerwebs yesterday, and it was a great moment in evil. We get a lot more mugging from Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), as he begins dating Penny, the love of Dr. Horrible’s life. In this clip, Hammer drops by the…

Television Annalee Newitz

Video of the Moon Passing in Front of the Earth Taken From 31 Million Miles Away

We don’t have too many cameras out there in space past the moon, which is why most of our space shots are either looking outward, such as the shots taken by Hubble, or taken of Earth from the moon or closer. Which is why this video is so astounding. It’s a video of the moon…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

Spider-Man Finally To Lose Virginity

In all of his forty-plus years of comics, movies, cartoons and video-games, there’s never quite been a Spider-Man story like Brian Michael Bendis’ Ultimate Spider-Man Annual for 2008. Instead of fighting supervillains, dealing with his Aunt May’s never-ending heart attacks or having money problems, it’s time for Peter Parker to finally become a man… by…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Email Reveals Nvidia and ATI May Have Colluded to Inflate Prices

Get Fired Up For Watchmen With Some New Pics

Dell Linux Systems Now Shipping With Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

The Periodic Table of Elements, in Videos

Rumor Smashed: AT&T Free Wi-Fi for iPhones Isn’t Live Yet

Spock Till You Drop, With New Star Trek Posters

In 30 Years, Artificial Wombs Mean No More Abortions

iPhone Apps We Like: Twinkle, the New Best Twitter App

SLICC Pods Are New First Class Cabins For Air Force Brass

Futurist Japanese Artists Show Us Life in the Next Century

Barbie Releases Street-Walker Black Canary Doll

Has SciFi Finally Worked Its Way To Hollywood’s Big Kids Table?

Laser Windshield System Keeps the Elderly Driving Longer For Some Reason

Five Ways Technology Has Changed the Olympics

Wii is Now the Number One Console in the U.S.

Comic-Con Sold Out

China Anti-Terrorist Plan Includes Flamethrowers, Segways, Chuck Norris Clones

Best Superhero Penis Joke Ever

Video of the Moon Passing in Front of the Earth Taken From 31 Million Miles Away

Spider-Man Finally To Lose Virginity

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