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Man Arrested for Discovering True A.I.

A guy in Japan has been arrested for building a robotic arm that spends all day goofing around on the news-rating website Digg. While he’s out working, the robot arm “reads” stories on Digg, and then interacts with a keyboard and mouse to rate each story. Why this is illegal is beyond me. Sounds like…

io9 Annalee Newitz

PSA: Promotional Xbox 360/Zune Points Expire

Here’s an interesting fact about Microsoft Points-the fake currency used in the Xbox 360 and Zune Marketplaces-that we just learned yesterday: points expire. If you’ve got promotional, contest, or giveaway points from Microsoft for doing something or other, you should check out their billing site. These actually expire after a given time. The good news…

Tech News Jason Chen

Prosthetic Speech Implant Turns Your Thoughts to Words

Imagine waking up one morning and being unable to speak. Your mind still churns away, trying to form words, but no sounds will come out. It’s like the bleak ending of Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream only, you know, real. This is a fact of life for many people with…

io9 Michael Reilly

Apple’s Multi-Touch Gesture Patent Has So Many Combinations It’s a Shocker

You can already do a handful of gestures on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro’s trackpad, but Apple’s going in and patenting a whole bunch more. Not only are there gestures in this application that involve a thumb and three fingers-something casual users will probably never use-but there’s even a sample of how this…

Tech News Jason Chen

Intel’s Insanely Tiny Processor Roadmap: “Clear Path” to 10nm Chips

Think Intel’s breakthrough 45-nanometer chips are impressive stuff? Intel thought at one time dipping below 100nm would be miraculous, but Intel exec Pat Gelsinger says that “today we see a clear way to get to under 10 nanometers,” and it’ll be within the next 10 years. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-whats-the-f-is-a-penryn-335090 The next die shrink is the 32nm Westmere…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

iPhone FAQ Update

We’ve just added a good bit of information to our iPhone FAQ, including more AT&T details, launch date info, and iTunes details. See all the new stuff below, or just go to the FAQ to see the monster in its entirety. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-3g-faq-5016398 Is there a difference between buying the iPhone at AT&T and buying it…

Tech News Jason Chen

Where Is My Silicon-Based Life?

Click to viewWelcome back to Ask a Biogeek, a biweekly column where UC Berkeley biology researcher Terry Johnson answers your questions, no matter how weird. Reader Mike asks: Can you speculate on what a silicon based lifeform might look like? What would an “organic chemistry” look like for silicon, instead of carbon? Life on earth…

io9 Terry Johnson

AT&T Dumping Dish TV (Is Satellite Screwed?)

AT&T is nixing the agreement they’ve had with Dish TV since 2003 to sell their satellite TV service as part of a triple play bundle with internet and voice. Some are speculating it’s because AT&T is simply down on satellite TV (it’s got its own U-verse IPTV thing after all), but more likely it’s pitting…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Asus B51 Business Laptop is Ruggedized for Xtreme Work

Asus is jumping on the bandwagon led by Panasonic and HP and releasing the B51, a super strong ruggedized laptop. The B51 is Mil-Spec 810F tough, can survive three-foot drops and has a keyboard drainage system in case you can’t keep your OJ in a glass. The heavy (7-lb.!) lappie runs Vista, has a Core…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Don’t Take Psych Ward’s Zombie Meds On An Empty Stomach

Psych meds have the worst possible side effects, turning the already-crazy people inside a mental hospital into flesh-craving monsters, in the cleverly named movie… Insanitarium. Despite its awesome premise, this horror flick is saddled with an all-star cast of “that one guy from that TV show,” including the title character Jesse Metcalf (Desperate Housewives) and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

How the New Mission to the Moon Will Work

The NASA 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class recruitment-for the first mission to the Moon in four decades-may be over, but if you didn’t send your résumé, don’t worry: you can still be a space couch potato and look at the pretty images and videos, like this newly-released NASA simulation showing how the whole thing is going…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Action Movie Sequels Nobody Asked For

More signs that the end of days is nigh: the bendy-bullet, killing-machine movie Wanted is rumored to become a full-fledged trilogy. And boozy has-been superhero Hancock may get yet another chance to sully the screen with some terrible plot devices. Click through to find out who’s back, and who’s still dead, in the next pointless…

io9 Meredith Woerner

10 Things We Still Want in PlayStation 3 Firmware (i.e. NOT In-Game XMB)

Sony’s latest PlayStation 3 firmware update 2.4 brought what the fanboys have been crying about since the console’s inception-in-game access to the console’s Cross Media Bar (XMB). But I’ll tell you something, in-game XMB is fine and dandy, yes, but there were more pressing issues that Sony should have fixed first. In fact, I count…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Monster Fight!!!

Man, I just love a good monster-on-monster wrestling match. Thinking about Hellboy 2 coming out next week is getting me all excited about cool monster fights, and that’s why this crazy-ass painting by William B. Hand is just the ticket. Hand does concept design work in New York, and his strange blend of monsters and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

MUTO is Among the More Astounding Videos We’ve Seen Online…or Off

Italian artist BLU is famous for painting politically and socially charged street murals, but his recent project involving street animation may be his most visually stunning. Called MUTO, the video is a series of digital stills assembled from sequential paintings on the streets/walls of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It’s been floating around a bit, but if…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Research UAV is Preview of Hovering Spy Drones of Tomorrow

Meet STARMAC, the Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control. Possibly the cleverest remote control mini-helicopter you’ve ever seen, packed with GPS, sensors and computer power. It’s a research quad-rotor that the Stanford team is using to develop algorithms for future aircraft like it. The algorithms the team develops will allow hovering ‘bots like…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

YouTube Forced to Reveal Username and IP Address of Every Video Watched

Remember Viacom suing YouTube and Google for one BILLION dollars eons ago? That’s still going on! And while a judge ruled yesterday that while Google doesn’t have to reveal its secret search sauce to the multimedia giantface, he did grant Viacom’s request for YouTube to turn over records of “every video watch by YouTube users,”…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

How Far Is Gotham City From Metropolis?

After Meredith asked whether Bruce Wayne was going to show up in Smallville, certain commenters wondered just how long a trip that would be. That’s not the easiest question to answer, considering the entirely fictional nature of both Gotham City and Superman’s hometown. Not that that’s going to stop us taking a stab at answering…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Firefox Claims World Download Record (No One Disputes It)

Mazel tov, Mozilla, for claiming the Guinness world record for most downloaded software in a 24-hour period after 8 million of your minions snagged Firefox 3 on launch day. It’s not that big of a feat considering you took the record from absolutely no one, but you sure set the bar pretty high for anyone…

Tech News Benny Goldman

BlackBerry Pearl Gets Google Maps with Voice Search

Google has just released a new version of their maps application that supports voice recognition search on the BlackBerry Pearl. That means Pearl users can load Google Maps, hold a side button, say “pizza, i said PIZZA…PEE ZZ UH” and have the application magically find tacos in your immediate vicinity. This upgrade doesn’t look to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Man Arrested for Discovering True A.I.

PSA: Promotional Xbox 360/Zune Points Expire

Prosthetic Speech Implant Turns Your Thoughts to Words

Apple’s Multi-Touch Gesture Patent Has So Many Combinations It’s a Shocker

Intel’s Insanely Tiny Processor Roadmap: “Clear Path” to 10nm Chips

iPhone FAQ Update

Where Is My Silicon-Based Life?

AT&T Dumping Dish TV (Is Satellite Screwed?)

Asus B51 Business Laptop is Ruggedized for Xtreme Work

Don’t Take Psych Ward’s Zombie Meds On An Empty Stomach

How the New Mission to the Moon Will Work

Action Movie Sequels Nobody Asked For

10 Things We Still Want in PlayStation 3 Firmware (i.e. NOT In-Game XMB)

Monster Fight!!!

MUTO is Among the More Astounding Videos We’ve Seen Online…or Off

Research UAV is Preview of Hovering Spy Drones of Tomorrow

YouTube Forced to Reveal Username and IP Address of Every Video Watched

How Far Is Gotham City From Metropolis?

Firefox Claims World Download Record (No One Disputes It)

BlackBerry Pearl Gets Google Maps with Voice Search

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