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Genius Screen Protector Makes iPhone 6 Easier to Use With One Hand

Using the iPhone 6 one-handed isn’t easy, but reaching the top corners of the screen on the iPhone 6 Plus is nigh impossible with regular-sized hands. So PureGear has created a new glass screen protector with a set of shortcuts to the top corners of the screen positioned next to the home button. Being able…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 1 '15

Google Has a Brand New Logo, Here It Is

Google recently changed its logo a little. Now they’ve changed it a lot. And it’s actually a heck of a lot better, too. I kinda love it. The idea here is that Google doesn’t need as much of logo anymore as it needs a constantly morphing identity that can quickly resonate across mediums, from smartwatches…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 1 '15

Chloe Grace Moretz Details All the Ways Humans Were Killed in the 5th Wave Trailer

Things do not look good for humanity in the first trailer for Sony’s The 5th Wave, based on the Rick Yancey novels. We’ve got Moretz’s Cassie going through the empty world with a gun at the ready, while her voiceover lists the four other waves of alien destruction. Then Liev Schreiber shows up to talk…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Sep 1 '15

Ditch the Binary Model: Sexual Orientation Is More Like Height, with Many Variations

Research on the biological origins of human sexual orientation remains controversial (and poorly funded), and more than two decades of slow work is starting to reveal a much more complex process than anyone first suspected. In an article for the Boston Globe Magazine last month, Neil Swidley examines the current state of the field, and…

Tech News Diane Kelly Sep 1 '15

Mad genius creates a crazy super drone flying machine using 54 propellers

Man can’t fly but with the help of 54 drone propellers and an umbrella to protect the ol’ noggin, man can kind of fly. This mad genius made what he calls, The Swarm, which is essentially a lawn chair strapped to some metal bars and 54 counter-rotation propellers and six grouped control channels with Hobbyking…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 1 '15

PayPal Launches Service That Will Compete With Venmo, a Company It Owns

Do you like Venmo? Then you’re going to love PayPal.me, a new Venmo-like payment platform by PayPal, Venmo’s parent company. It works a lot like Venmo except, you know, it’s PayPal instead. It’s not quite as confusing as it sounds. PayPal.me is basically a streamlined version of its namesake that also makes it easy for…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 1 '15

NASA Tossed Astronauts with this Gimbal Rig Before Launching Them into Space

How do you regain control of a spacecraft tumbling through space? The Mercury astronauts trained by spinning in this gimbal rig in an effort to mimic the disorienting chaos they’d need to battle during the earliest human spaceflight missions. All Mercury astronauts trained on this multi-axis space test intertia device, nicknamed the gimbal rig, to…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Sep 1 '15

Transparent Batteries That Charge in the Sun Could Replace Smartphone Screens

A group of Japanese researchers have managed to improve the design of a transparent lithium-ion battery so that it’s now able to recharge itself when exposed to sunlight without the need for a separate solar cell. The transparent battery was first developed by the researchers, led by Kogakuin University president and professor Mitsunobu Sato, back…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 1 '15

Land Rover Has Come Up With a Way To Make Trailers Invisible

Driving with a trailer in tow leaves with you a gigantic blind spot directly behind your vehicle. So to make it easier to keep an eye on traffic following you, Land Rover has come up with a way to make trailers appear to be transparent using strategically placed cameras. The system augments a Land Rover’s…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 1 '15

This First Clip From the Gotham Season Premiere Is Already Completely Bonkers

As io9’s reviewer of Gotham, I’ve been looking forward to the second season much like I look forward to a dentist appoint—painful, but necessary. But this two-minute clip from the show’s first new episode has dropped, and it’s so terrible, so insane, and yet so promising you all have to give it a watch. The…

io9 Rob Bricken Sep 1 '15

Hilarious video does the impossible and turns Joffrey into the hero of Game of Thrones

Joffrey is such a despicable character on Game of Thrones with such a punchable face and hateful personality that it’s pretty much impossible to make him look good. And yet! This video by Blood Blitz Comedy tries its hardest to re-edit the show to make Joffrey look like the true hero he could have been…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 1 '15

How to Maximize Battery Life on Windows 10

Whether you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 on your laptop or bought a brand new machine, you’re going to want to eke out as much battery juice as you can while you’re on the go. Microsoft’s shiny new OS includes a new native battery saver feature — and there are a few other tricks you can…

Gadgets David Nield Sep 1 '15

Amazon Video Now Has Offline Playback For Prime Subscribers, See Ya Netflix

For the first time on any subscription video service, Amazon Prime subscribers will now be able to download movies and TV shows from the company’s huge catalog. Roll over Netflix. The new service is a huge deal. It means precisely what it sounds like: If you’re a Prime subscriber, you’ll be able to download that…

Commerce Mario Aguilar Sep 1 '15

Archaeologists Tracked Lewis and Clark by Following Their Trail of Laxatives

How do you follow a trail more than 200 years old, when even the maps they used uncertain? You look for specific historical deposits. And famed explorers of the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, made some very unusual ones. A year after President Thomas Jefferson purchased a lot of land from the French in 1803,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 1 '15

Ikea Is Stuffing New Cushions With Old Shredded Catalogs

Whether you embrace it with open arms or toss it in the trash as soon as it arrives, the Ikea catalog is one of the most widely distributed publications on earth. But to help reduce the environmental impact of all that paper, the company is now recycling old copies into cushion stuffing. If you happen…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 1 '15

Game of Thrones Could Be Filming Some of the Book Plots the Show Skipped Over Before

There are a ton of Game of Thrones rumors, some more plausible than others. Bill Murray explains why he’s coming back to Ghostbusters. Find out what Skye is up to on Agents of SHIELD. Plus our first look at Lucy Lane in Supergirl. Spoilers now! Ghostbusters Bill Murray explained how his cameo in this film…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Sep 1 '15

DxO One Review: Souping Up Your iPhone’s Camera Comes at a Cost

How do you combine the ease and connectivity of a smartphone with the quality and control of a camera? It’s basically one of the greatest conundrums of our time. Does DxO have the answer? It wants to transform your iPhone 6 into a full-fledged camera thingy with this quirky attachment. What Is It? It’s a…

Reviews Michael Hession Sep 1 '15

Nest’s Got a New Thermostat

It’s been quite the four-year journey for Nest Labs, launching two big smart home gadgets and eventually drawing the eye of Google in January of 2014—and it all started with the Nest Learning Thermostat. Today, Nest Labs, now under the Alphabet umbrella, is announcing the 3rd generation of the thermostat that started it all. Technology…

Tech News Darren Orf Sep 1 '15

Humans Have Killed Off One Less Species Than Originally Thought

As a species, humans are pretty awful for the rest of the things living on this planet. But as it turns out, you can take one less creature off the extinction list: Allonautilus scrobiculatus isn’t all gone, just quite hard to find. Lovingly known as the ‘fuzzy nautilus’ by the scientist who discovered it, Peter…

Tech News Chris Mills Sep 1 '15

A Clever Google Algorithm Could Make 4K Video Half the Size

Viewers of Silicon Valley will appreciate the earth-shattering importance of compression algorithms. To most everyone else, it’s a geeky bit of math that’s of no particular interest. But when Google promises an algorithm that can cut the bandwidth needed to stream a video in half, things get a little more interesting. In an interview with…

Tech News Chris Mills Aug 31 '15

Genius Screen Protector Makes iPhone 6 Easier to Use With One Hand

Google Has a Brand New Logo, Here It Is

Chloe Grace Moretz Details All the Ways Humans Were Killed in the 5th Wave Trailer

Ditch the Binary Model: Sexual Orientation Is More Like Height, with Many Variations

Mad genius creates a crazy super drone flying machine using 54 propellers

PayPal Launches Service That Will Compete With Venmo, a Company It Owns

NASA Tossed Astronauts with this Gimbal Rig Before Launching Them into Space

Transparent Batteries That Charge in the Sun Could Replace Smartphone Screens

Land Rover Has Come Up With a Way To Make Trailers Invisible

This First Clip From the Gotham Season Premiere Is Already Completely Bonkers

Hilarious video does the impossible and turns Joffrey into the hero of Game of Thrones

How to Maximize Battery Life on Windows 10

Amazon Video Now Has Offline Playback For Prime Subscribers, See Ya Netflix

Archaeologists Tracked Lewis and Clark by Following Their Trail of Laxatives

Ikea Is Stuffing New Cushions With Old Shredded Catalogs

Game of Thrones Could Be Filming Some of the Book Plots the Show Skipped Over Before

DxO One Review: Souping Up Your iPhone’s Camera Comes at a Cost

Nest’s Got a New Thermostat

Humans Have Killed Off One Less Species Than Originally Thought

A Clever Google Algorithm Could Make 4K Video Half the Size

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