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Please Stop Naming Your Children After Guns

The debate over gun control in America has popped up a lot in the past few years, but I never thought it would eventually have this impact. Parents are naming their children after guns. And they’re doing it so frequently that the name Gunner (with the help of Gunnar) even made the Top 200 list…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Which Character’s Vacation Ended Up Being the Biggest Disaster?

With Labor Day traditionally comes the end of summer vacation and the start of the school year. And in order to stave off any sadness about that, we say, “Remember how vacations suck?” It’s never fun to end up working when you’re supposed to be relaxing. But it’s even worse to find yourself forced to…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Android Pay Can Be Tricked Into Running On Some Phones Right Now

Android Pay should be rolling soon, but if you can’t wait for soon to get here, there are ways to get the app working on your phone now. Well, kind of… Google Play Services 8.1 has already started to appear on some handsets, which makes sense because that update is necessary to run Android Pay…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Watch What Happens to This Drop of Water When It Hits Hot Oil

Oil and water truly don’t mix, and this is especially true if you try to throw water on an oil fire to quench the flames. Instead, it just goes BOOM! That explosive reaction makes this a favorite demo for science lectures. The Royal Institution in London did it in 2012 to promote its annual Christmas…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Dragon Con Day 3: the Cosplay Keeps Getting Better and Better

Every day our photo galleries of the astonishing cosplay at Dragon Con in Atlanta just keeps getting longer with near-overwhelming creativity. Today we’re featuring the dystopian future of Mad Max, a swarm of superheroes, and the champions of League of Legends. Wonder Woman. Image credit: Boon Vong Image credit: Boon Vong Supergirls flanking a Na’vi.…

io9 Mika McKinnon

Replacing Subway Lines With High-Speed Moving Sidewalks Sounds Terrifying

London has the oldest subway system in the world: great for tourism, but sometimes not-so-great for commuters. There’s all sorts ofsensible plans to upgrade the city’s public transport, but here’s one particularly outside-the-box solution: a 15mph moving sidewalk, looping 17 miles under London. What could go wrong! Architecture firm NBBJ has come up with the…

Tech News Chris Mills

Game of Thrones Casts Richard E. Grant, Officially Denudes the UK of All Its Actors

Whenever a familiar name pops up as being new to the Game of Thrones cast, it’s a shock. Mostly because we’d thought they’d run out of British actors we could easily identify a long time ago. This week: Richard E. Grant. If you don’t recognize Grant … you’ve never watched anything, ever. I congratulate you…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

A Meteor Exploded Over Bangkok on Monday Morning

Citizens of the Thai capital Bangkok witnessed a huge fireball descending on the horizon this morning, and thanks to the dashcams in their cars, we can admire the celestial visitor from several different angles. The meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere around 8.45am local time, and burnt up in a huge fireball after striking down from the…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

This Week’s TV: Say Goodbye to Under the Dome and Hello to Z Nation!

What’s on this week? Season premieres of Continuum, Z Nation, Gravity Falls and From Dusk Till Dawn! The series finale of Under the Dome – and possibly Extant, too, I don’t know, it remains to be seen. All this, and more cartoons than our black hearts deserve on TV this week! Tonight: Lego Star Wars:…

io9 Gordon Jackson

Apple’s Latest Hiring Spree Suggests It’s Upping Its AI Game

Apple kick-started the mobile digital assistant thing with Siri some years ago, but it’s Google who mostly run the machine learning show, with its creepily efficient Google Now service. Based on its jobs postings, Apple wants to play some catch-up ball. According to a Reuters report, which analyzed Apple job postings, the company is looking…

Tech News Chris Mills

Changes Keep Coming in Masters of Sex

Masters of Sex spent two seasons building the Masters and Johnson relationship, and the first nine episodes of the third season testing what might break it. Unhappy children? Unexpected pregnancies? Johnson sleeping with other men? Unexpected fame? Flashing a gorilla? Starting projects without your partner’s approval? So as we enter the final four episodes of…

Tech News Diane Kelly

This Is Your Brain On Google’s Deep Dream Neural Network

Ever since Google unveiled its Deep Dream algorithm, people have been having a blast feeding all manner of images into theprogram. It was only a matter of time before some enterprising neuroscientist thought to run a couple of brainy MRI images through the software. Juan (“Zeno”) Sanchez-Ramos did just that (above). A neurologist by training,…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Please Let This Historical Murder Really Have Happened

I know it’s wrong to want someone to have been murdered—especially if that someone is a bishop—but hear me out. This is the best murder story that ever happened. Or, it would be, if it really happened. We know that Thomas Gageexisted. He was born into an English Catholic family in the late 1500s, became…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Earth View Has the Perfect Photo to Replace your Old Wallpaper

Google’s got your next digital wallpaper right here. Earth View is a collection of 1,500 of the most striking satellite view photographs that can be found in Google Earth. The best part is all the images are free to download and use on your own gadgets. There’s also an extension for Chrome that will give…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Netflix Has Put Barry Sonnenfeld at the Helm of A Series of Unfortunate Events

It’s been ages since we heard about any forward motion on Netflix’s TV show version of A Series of Unfortunate Events, but now at least we know who will be in charge: Mark Hudis (showrunner of True Blood) will be the showrunner and Barry Sonnenfeld will direct. Both will be executive producers. Sonnenfeld’s kind of…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

The Real Reason Netflix Won’t Offer Offline Downloads

Offline downloads are perhaps the most often requested, “holy grail” feature of TV and movie streaming services, and while Netflix may be the leading provider, it’s Amazon and its Prime Instant Video service that’s become the first to offer it. Netflix however remains firm in its stance that it’s not going to offer offline downloads…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

This Artist Creates Eye-Popping “Roomscapes” with a Camera Obscura

Notice something strange about the wall mural in the above photograph? It’s upside down! That’s because it was created using a “camera obscura” — the favored technique of Cuban born artist Abelardo Morell, who has been experimenting with this approach since 1991. Latin for “dark room,” conceptually, a camera obscura is the precursor to the…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Magnetic Refrigeration is a Real Thing. Here’s How it Works.

One day we might be able to make home refrigerators without any chemicals or industrial coolants. The main hope for this comes from a special property of metal and a quirk of entropy. We all played with magnets when we were children. We’d get stick magnets on big pieces of metal, or use them to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Transporting an Enormous Aircraft Carrier, Piece By Piece

BAE Systems has just published an amazing time lapse video showing how the largest section of Britain’s second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier was tossed and towed to Rosyth Dockyard from the dock in Glasgow where it was built. Lower Block 04 is the largest hull section of HMS Prince Of Wales, and the 11,200…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Cerberus Is a Hamster and Medusa Has a Bad Date in These Modern Myths

As a master’s graduate film, Alexandra Hetmerová decided to put the characters of Greek mythology in modern day predicaments. You will have sympathy for the monsters and villains the ancients used to hate after watching this. [via Vimeo Staff Picks] Contact the author at [email protected].

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Please Stop Naming Your Children After Guns

Which Character’s Vacation Ended Up Being the Biggest Disaster?

Android Pay Can Be Tricked Into Running On Some Phones Right Now

Watch What Happens to This Drop of Water When It Hits Hot Oil

Dragon Con Day 3: the Cosplay Keeps Getting Better and Better

Replacing Subway Lines With High-Speed Moving Sidewalks Sounds Terrifying

Game of Thrones Casts Richard E. Grant, Officially Denudes the UK of All Its Actors

A Meteor Exploded Over Bangkok on Monday Morning

This Week’s TV: Say Goodbye to Under the Dome and Hello to Z Nation!

Apple’s Latest Hiring Spree Suggests It’s Upping Its AI Game

Changes Keep Coming in Masters of Sex

This Is Your Brain On Google’s Deep Dream Neural Network

Please Let This Historical Murder Really Have Happened

Earth View Has the Perfect Photo to Replace your Old Wallpaper

Netflix Has Put Barry Sonnenfeld at the Helm of A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Real Reason Netflix Won’t Offer Offline Downloads

This Artist Creates Eye-Popping “Roomscapes” with a Camera Obscura

Magnetic Refrigeration is a Real Thing. Here’s How it Works.

Transporting an Enormous Aircraft Carrier, Piece By Piece

Cerberus Is a Hamster and Medusa Has a Bad Date in These Modern Myths

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