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Google’s Using An Insane GoPro Rig and YouTube to Bring VR to Everyone

GoPro has developed a rig housing that’ll allow you to shoot 360 video for Google’s Cardboard. It’s just one part of making content using Google’s new Jump system—a solution that standardizes every step of creating VR content. This is how VR goes mainstream. This is a very important part of the virtual reality puzzle. Until…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Why Doesn’t Wonder Woman Have A Real Archenemy?

Greetings, imperators and gentlemen! I hope this week has found you well and, if you’re a War Boy of some kind, you finally got your hands on some Chapstick. Anyways, do you know why Spider-Man keeps getting rebooted when Transformers doesn’t? You will if you start reading. Equal Fights Peter W.: Dear Mr. Postman, If…

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What Do You Want to Know About Sexual Anatomy?

When I was in graduate school, I wondered what changes made erectile tissue in the penis shift from its soft and flexible state to its stiff and inextensible state. Then, with the help of some armadillos, I did the research and figured it out. Tell me what you wonder about, and I’ll see whether I…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Nvidia Shield Review: Do You Want an Android TV Game Console?

I want you to buy the Nvidia Shield, because I’m a selfish prick. If you buy the Nvidia Shield, perhaps developers will actually make games for it—and then I could buy one too. Why would you buy the Nvidia Shield? Well, it’s the most powerful set-top-box ever made: an Android TV box with a Tegra…

Reviews Sean Hollister

Google Cardboard Now Works With iOS

Google’s Clay Bavor just told everyone at Google I/O that there are over a million Google Cardboard headsets in the world today. There’s about to be a whole lot more: he also just announced that Google Cardboard’s Virtual Reality apps are heading to iPhone. Bavor practically announced the cross-platform support with a shrug, quickly moving…

Tech News Sean Buckley

Our Google I/O Liveblog Is Right Here

Today is the first day of Google I/O, the company’s annual conference where they announce what’s coming in the next year. We’re here at the keynote, and we’ll be liveblogging it for you, starting now. Keep hitting refresh to get the latest updates! (The newest updates will be at the top.) 11:47AM PT And we’re…

Tech News Annalee, Sean, and Brent

The magic pizza sauce machine that sauces pizzas at Costco

Imagine a turntable but instead of a needle, you have a pizza sauce spout, and instead of a record, you have pizza crust spinning so the red sauce can cover every inch. Imagine no more. That’s how pizzas get made at Costco. Workers put the dough on the turntable and the pizzas gets expertly covered…

Sploid Casey Chan

Watch Black Hole Shoot One Piece Of Matter Into Another Piece Of Matter

We’ve been using the Hubble Space Telescope to watch a jet of material coming out of galaxy NGC 3862 for over twenty years. Only recently, after piecing together a string of pictures, have we seen what’s really happening. The black hole at the center of NGC 3862 galaxy has been shooting out massive jets of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Here’s Where We’ll Build Our First Space Mines, According to the Miners

There’s gold in them thar’ space rocks, say the miners of the future. There’s also platinum, rare earth elements, and even water. Mining in space may sound like science fiction, but as the founders of two space mining companies recently told me, their plans are very real. Meet the Miners About 4 billion years ago,…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

The Surprising Connection Between George R.R. Martin And Frank Miller

About 30 years ago, both superhero comics and fantasy novels went through a startling narrative transformation. In comics, narrative captions replaced thought balloons. In books, authors started writing “tight” third person narrative, instead of “omniscient” or first person. Why did this happen? The shifting perspective If you read a comic book from prior to the…

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Google Photos: Free Unlimited Photo Storage With Automatic Organization

Here’s Google Photos, Mountain View’s big shot at making your enormous photo collection usable. It’s unlimited photo and video storage, plus some smart design and brains to make a huge number of photos manageable. It launches today on Android, iOS, and desktop. Like Flickr, this is supposed to be a a home for all the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Google Maps, Chrome, and YouTube Will Be Available Offline

There’s nothing more frustrating than cueing up a set of Google Maps directions to your destination only to lose service and have them evaporate while you’re in transit. Now Google Maps, websites, and even YouTube will work with no internet connection on your Android phone. Google announced the series of lighter apps for the audience…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Take A Look At The Beautiful Mechanical Innards Of An R/C R2-D2

What goes into making R2-D2? In the Star Wars universe, it’s a bunch of fictional technological bits and bobs. In ours, it’s usually a bit of electronics and Kenny Baker. But if you’re making an R/C R2? it takes a hell of a lot of technical wizardry, as this video about the R2-D2 Builders Club…

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Star Trek IV‘s Whales Are Now A Bobblehead, Because Why The Hell Not

Remember that bit in The Voyage Home where Spock swims with some Whales because he’s goddamn Spock and he’ll do as he pleases? Well, the maddening merchandising glory that is San Diego Comic Con will never let you forget, because said scene is now a Bobblehead that you can buy at the con. What a…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Google’s Brillo and Weave Hope to Make Your Smart Home Actually Smart

Google just announced that a hyper-efficient operating system for the internet of things: Brillo. Developed with the engineers from Nest, the new Android-based OS is designed to be very streamlined, so that any connected object can communicate with another. The common standard that makes it all possible is called Weave. https://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-google-brillo-the-new-operating-system-f-1706783821 Brillo should help you…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Hallucinations And Delusions Are Surprisingly Common

Ever heard a voice inside your head or saw something that wasn’t there? You’re not alone — and it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s something wrong with you. A study of more than 30,000 people from 18 countries found that about one in 20 of us have experienced a psychotic episode at least once. The long-term…

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Google’s Inbox App Is Now Available For Everyone

Inbox, aka Google’s attempt at fixing the cesspool that is email, is no longer invite only. You can download it right now at the Apple or Google Play store. To mark the occasion, Google’s also pumped out some new features, including the super duper important “undo send.” We weren’t blown away by Inbox when we…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Android Pay Is Google’s Plan for the Mobile Payments Future

We suspected that Google would announce a new payments system at I/O, and we were right. Enter Android Pay. Android Pay is an open-platform API that enables customers to make payments from their credit cards within an Android mobile app. To use it, unlock your phone like normal, place it in front of the data-slurping…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Android M Is Here, and So Is Google’s Smartphone Future

The future of Android is here. Android M (I’m still hoping for Muffin) is the software that will power Android smartphones starting this fall. Aesthetically, everything looks familiar, but there’s a lot buried under that Material Design exterior. Let’s take a look. App Permissions Google’s Senior VP Sundar Pichai introduced M saying that Android focused…

Tech News Darren Orf

HBO Now Is Coming to Google Play, Alright

After just a few months of “exclusivity” with Apple, HBO Now will be available to Android devices through Google Play. Woohoo more GoT everywhere. The first big announcement at Google I/O is a content play: HBO’s streaming video service, which is basically identical to HBO Go, gives you access to all the goodness on HBO…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Google’s Using An Insane GoPro Rig and YouTube to Bring VR to Everyone

Why Doesn’t Wonder Woman Have A Real Archenemy?

What Do You Want to Know About Sexual Anatomy?

Nvidia Shield Review: Do You Want an Android TV Game Console?

Google Cardboard Now Works With iOS

Our Google I/O Liveblog Is Right Here

The magic pizza sauce machine that sauces pizzas at Costco

Watch Black Hole Shoot One Piece Of Matter Into Another Piece Of Matter

Here’s Where We’ll Build Our First Space Mines, According to the Miners

The Surprising Connection Between George R.R. Martin And Frank Miller

Google Photos: Free Unlimited Photo Storage With Automatic Organization

Google Maps, Chrome, and YouTube Will Be Available Offline

Take A Look At The Beautiful Mechanical Innards Of An R/C R2-D2

Star Trek IV‘s Whales Are Now A Bobblehead, Because Why The Hell Not

Google’s Brillo and Weave Hope to Make Your Smart Home Actually Smart

Hallucinations And Delusions Are Surprisingly Common

Google’s Inbox App Is Now Available For Everyone

Android Pay Is Google’s Plan for the Mobile Payments Future

Android M Is Here, and So Is Google’s Smartphone Future

HBO Now Is Coming to Google Play, Alright

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