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CSI: Cyber and the Killer Internet Poker Pill Kingpin

A man buying coffee has a bad case of the dizzies, which honestly happens to me fairly regularly before I consume caffeine in the morning. But if you think he just needs his cup of morning java then hoo boy have you got the wrong show. This is CSI-Fucking:Cyber and we are about to witness…

Television Kate Knibbs

Cute video shows a puppy grow into a big dog over time

Why hello Pegasus the dog. His human Dave Meinart has filmed Pegasus every day of his life on a treadmill and made this time lapse of sorts so you can see how the cute pup grows into a loving big dog. I always wish they could stay puppies forever but the growth is in the…

Sploid Casey Chan

These Prank Videos Prove That Human Nature Is Inherently Terrible

There are debates about the basic nature of humanity that have been raging for millennia. Are we decent? Are we nasty and brutish? These ontological questions can never be settled — unless you have hidden cameras and access to Youtube, that is. Then those questions can be settled easily, with video pranks. And the answers……

io9 Vincze Miklós

A New Study From Facebook Reveals Just How Much It Filters What You See

A few years ago, I gave a talk about how algorithms and social media shape what we know. I focused on the dangers of the “filter bubble” — the personalized universe of information that makes it into our feed — and argued that news-filtering algorithms narrow what we know, surrounding us in information that tends…

Social Media Eli Pariser

Scottish Exhibit Unveils Odd Memento Of 19th Century Serial-Killer Duo

A special University of Edinburgh exhibit offers a chance to view one of the library’s most bizarre and fascinating artifacts: a letter, stashed in a Victorian-era scrapbook, written in the blood of William Burke — half of the murdering-for-profit duo commonly referred to as Burke and Hare. The scrapbook was thought to be kept by…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Icelandic Has the Best Words for Technology

When the University of Iceland got its first computer in 1964, Icelandic did not have a word for “computer.” So the guardians of the language invented one: tölva—a fusion of tala (number) and völva (prophetess) that adds up to the wonderfully poetic “prophetess of numbers.” Iceland is an isolated island of just 300,000 people, and…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

To Treat Cancer, Doctors Will Grow Miniature Organs from Your Tumors

Organoids are exactly what they sound like: simplified miniature organs. And now geneticists are growing them out of living cancer cells, creating tiny, living cancer tumors for study. It sounds terrifying, but it’s actually one possible way we’ll get personalized medicine to treat many kinds of cancer. In a paper published this week in the…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland

Twitter Got Paid to Promote a Tweet About “Killing Arabs”

It was a hateful message to spread under any circumstances. And Twitter actually took money to promote it. “My fellow Jews,” it read, “the time to start killing Arabs is NOW.” Today, Twitter blocked white supremacist tweets promoted by notorious troll and human-sized used condom full of diarrhea Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer. That’s good. But without…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

3D Printing Has A Strange, Unintended Consequence

So far, the reach of 3D-printing hasn’t extended too far into most of our lives. We still buy appliances, instead of punching specifications into a console. We do our shopping at stores instead of downloading patterns. We cook our food, we don’t print it. But 3D printing is making a major change to our lives,…

io9 Ria Misra

An Animated History Of The PG-13 Movie

The PG-13 rating wasn’t introduced Motion Picture Association of America’s film rating system until 1984, but why and how did it impact the ways that sex and violence are portrayed in mainstream American films? This video from Pitchfork takes a quick look at the history of PG-13 cinema. [via Neatorama]

Movies Lauren Davis

That’s No Fort… It’s an Observatory

This stunning aerial photograph of the Very Large Telescope platform somehow reminds me of a smaller base in a real time strategy game, like Starcraft or Total Annihilation. However, this scene is perfectly peaceful. What you’re seeing are the four Unit Telescopes, the four Auxiliary Telescopes, and the VST, operated by the European Southern Observatory…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Glorious New Photos Capture A Sunset On Mars

We’ve seen photos of Martian sunsets before, but nothing quite as spectacular as these. Photo credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Damia Bouic (republished at io9 with permission) Long before Curiosity landed on Mars, the prospect of color photos made me dream. I imagined the wonderful pictures we’d get of Martian sunsets and sunrises.…

io9 Damia Bouic — Chez Damia Bouic

Here’s Our Clearest Look Yet At Google’s Rejected “Moon Shot” Campus

Yesterday we learnedthat Google’s robot-built glass wonderland had been struck down by Mountain View’s City Council in favor of a plan by LinkedIn. Today, Bloomberg paints a picture of the plan that got shirked. Yesterday Mountain View denied Google almost 80 percent of the land it requested to develop—giving most of it to LinkedIn, which…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Dirty Nest? No Sex For You!

To a female sand goby fish, this little guy could be everything she’s looking for. He has great dancing moves, good rhythm, and a fantastic burrow that looks like a fine place to leave some eggs. But before she commits to spawning, she’ll need to give his bachelor pad a sniff. She’s not being a…

Tech News Diane Kelly

The New Walking Dead Figures Feature A Wonderfully Gore-Splattered Carol

You wait ages for a Carol action figure, and two come along at once! Hot after her action figure debut late last year, the next wave of Walking Dead toys will feature another version of the TV show’s coolest badass: and she’s got an awful lot of red on her. The 8th series of McFarlane…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Watch Up Close As Stones Hit The Water And Bounce Off

For those of you who have been fascinated with skipping stones, this is a great video. We actually see how a projectile hits the surface of a liquid, scoops out a hollow, and bounces back upwards. Take a closer look at a skipping stone in action. That videos hows exactly what physicists have observed in…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Flickr Might Be Relevant Again Thanks to Magical Image Recognition

Despite being a totally excellent online repository for photos—you get 1TB of storage for free!—Flickr feels like an outmoded service. But a huge new update that adds features and a couple of new apps is a big step towards modernizing the service. Flickr 4.o is here, rolling out across mobile platforms, the web, and desktop.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Masterful Scene From Lord Of The Rings Gives Me Chills Every Time

Everyone has those special film scenes that just give you chills, no matter how many times you see them. For me, one such scene takes place in the first film of the Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring. Here’s a video explaining why this one scene is so perfect. The scene…

Movies Michael Hession

So This Is What a Terrifying Quadcopter Tornado Looks Like

We’ve covered the remarkable work that researchers at ETH Zurich have been doing with robots and quadcopters before, but did you know its facility has a dedicated Flying Machine Arena where they tether drones to poles and make them fly in circles at terrifying speeds? It’s even more amazing than it sounds. You’d expect a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Newly Identified Species Of Penis Worm Still Looks Nothing Like A Penis

Scientists recently identified a new species of penis worm, a marine invertebrate named after its allegedly penislike shape. The gist is as follows: Researchers led by University of Cambridge paleobiologist Martin Smith used electron microscopy to examine and catalogue the teeth of 110 fossilized penis worms. The fossils were originally recovered from the paleontologically prolificWalcott…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

CSI: Cyber and the Killer Internet Poker Pill Kingpin

Cute video shows a puppy grow into a big dog over time

These Prank Videos Prove That Human Nature Is Inherently Terrible

A New Study From Facebook Reveals Just How Much It Filters What You See

Scottish Exhibit Unveils Odd Memento Of 19th Century Serial-Killer Duo

Icelandic Has the Best Words for Technology

To Treat Cancer, Doctors Will Grow Miniature Organs from Your Tumors

Twitter Got Paid to Promote a Tweet About “Killing Arabs”

3D Printing Has A Strange, Unintended Consequence

An Animated History Of The PG-13 Movie

That’s No Fort… It’s an Observatory

Glorious New Photos Capture A Sunset On Mars

Here’s Our Clearest Look Yet At Google’s Rejected “Moon Shot” Campus

Dirty Nest? No Sex For You!

The New Walking Dead Figures Feature A Wonderfully Gore-Splattered Carol

Watch Up Close As Stones Hit The Water And Bounce Off

Flickr Might Be Relevant Again Thanks to Magical Image Recognition

This Masterful Scene From Lord Of The Rings Gives Me Chills Every Time

So This Is What a Terrifying Quadcopter Tornado Looks Like

Newly Identified Species Of Penis Worm Still Looks Nothing Like A Penis

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