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How Not to Write an Email to Your Tutor (or Boss, For That Matter)

For those of you at college, here’s what not to say in an email to your teaching assistant. For those yet to get to college, remember this. For those in their 30s: students email their lecturers these days! [PHD Comics]

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How the Nature of Invention Has Changed Over the Past 150 Years

Not all inventions are born equal. Some spring from nowhere to create an entirely new class of technology; others assemble existing ideas to create useful new products. Now, researchers have shown that the past century’s seen a steady increase in invention by the combination of concepts—but less in the way of pure discovery. You might…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Banishing These Florescent Cells Could Save Your Sight

Do not shield your eyes. These bright biological blobs may look like something from a garish 80s party, but they could help crack the age-related macular degeneration that causes eyesight to deteriorate over time. This image shows the blood vessels—in blue—of the retina of a mouse. The neon blobs are the nuclei of the cells…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Security Researcher: It’s “Trivial to Bypass Security Tools on Macs”

Time was, Mac owners could sit smugly in the knowledge that their computer was far safer than a Windows machine. But the rise of Apple brought the rise of hacker interest—and now a researcher claims that it’s “trivial for any attacker to bypass the security tools on Macs.” Apple includes a series of security measures…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Make Sure All Your OneDrive Files are Synced for Offline Access

OneDrive for Windows 8.1 shows you all the files in your locker—but they’re not necessarily all stored locally on your machine. If you want to make sure they are all synced and available the next time your Wi-Fi connection disappears, here’s how to do it. Any file you create on your PC itself is stored…

Gadgets David Nield

Why Senator Ron Wyden Has It Wrong About the Open Internet

Sen. Ron Wyden took to Wired yesterday to argue that the Fast Track bill he co-sponsored to rush approval for trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will help protect the free and open Internet. Sen. Wyden has long been a staunch defender of the Internet and users’ rights, and more recently, he has…

Tech News Maira Sutton

Experience One Of The World’s Deadliest Mountains In All 360 Degrees

The North Face of the Eiger — also known by its more charming moniker, the Wall of Death — is one of climbing’s most iconic faces. It was first climbed in 1936, and since then, has claimed the lives of dozens of alpinists. These 360-degree videos bring that sensation of pure, unbridled terror right into…

Tech News Chris Mills

iFixit Is Taking Apart An Apple Watch Right Now

Habitual destroyers of gadgets iFixit have got their paws on an Apple Watch, and as is their wont, they’re tearing it apart, chip by chip. And yes, there’s a camera watching. The team isn’t made of money, though, so the version being taken to pieces is the low-rent Sport model. Thus far, the screen’s come…

Gadgets Chris Mills

If You Must Have An Apple Watch Tomorrow, Head To Los Angeles

If you absolutely positively have to have an Apple wrist computer clamped to your arm by tomorrow, well, you should’ve pre-ordered. But if you didn’t, hope is not lost! (Yet.) Although Apple isn’t selling watches off the shelf in its retail stores, a small number of luxury boutiques are. It would appear that at least…

Tech News Chris Mills

This Hubble Fly-Through Is The Next-Best Thing To Soaring Through Space

This fly-through of the Gum Nebula into the Westerlund stellar cluster is beautiful, epic, and the perfect way to celebrate 25 glorious years of the Hubble Space Telescope imaging our awe-inspiring universe. To celebrate Hubble’s milestone 25th anniversary, NASA has released an all-new image of Westerlund 2, a cluster embedded within the Gum 29 nebula.…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Sending Directions To Your Android Phone Just Got Stupidly Easy

Google’s on a drive to make the search box do much more than searching. Last week, it introduced an option to find your phone from the box; this time, it’s sending directions to your handset with about three clicks. It’s ridiculously simple to use: just Google ‘send directions’, with a pop-up box giving you options…

Tech News Chris Mills

New Hookup App Promises Terrifying Dates with Free Travel

I have never seen an ad for a product that so completely sums up all the reasons why you would never, ever want to use it. The MissTravel app helps “attractive females” score free vacations from “generous males” who just want a first date. And this insanely creepy video is supposed to sell you on…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Jurassic World Footage Puts The Focus Back On The Dinosaurs

Universal brought out its big star Chris Pratt to show off a whole new sizzle reel for Jurassic World. And what I saw was definitely better than the earlier released clip, mainly because it was very dinosaur-heavy. And it helped the evil smart dinosaur a little as well (a very little). Spoilers ahead. Pratt and…

Movies Meredith Woerner

CSI: Cyber and the Perverted Harem Selfie of Death

Want to not get murder-kidnapped by a hyper-sexual control freak? CSI:Cyber provides a very helpful guide on what not to do: Don’t use your phone’s location services while taking selfies if you’re a 5’2 brown-haired young girl who uses social media! Duh. A very grossly decomposing dead girl named Elizabeth Marks is updating her FriendAgena…

Television Kate Knibbs

Fuck Belle Gibson And The Enablers She Rode In On

“Wellness Guru” Belle Gibson lied about having terminal brain cancer and made a killing peddling bogus cures. At Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin excoriates Gibson and “the culture of magical thinking and hero idolization that built her myth into a profitable business, ignoring decades of real science, and placing vulnerable people with cancer at real risk…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Film About High-Diving Giraffes Is An Instant Cure For The Blues

We’re not sure what possessed director Nicolas Deveaux to make a five-minute film about animated, acrobatic giraffes diving from the high board into a swimming pool, but we’re glad he did — because we’re grinning ear to ear watching them tuck and plunge. 5 mètres 80 won best in show at SIGGRAPH Asia for its…

io9 Lauren Davis

Grandparents Are Monsters In Trailer For M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit

M. Night Shyamalan gets into (at least partially) found footage-style horror with his new film The Visit. In the trailer, we meet the brother and sister who go to Nana and Papa’s house — only to learn that something very, very weird is going on with their grandparents. Shyamalan wrote and directed The Visit, which…

Trailers Lauren Davis

Avatar Exhibition Will Tour The World To Remind You Avatar 2 Is A Thing

Cast your minds back to the heady days of 2009 — and to the days when Avatar, for better or worse, was the only movie people would talk about. Six years on, a new exhibition celebrating Pandora will travel the globe, a less than subtle reminder that James Cameron still wants to make another one…

Movies James Whitbrook

What Was Your First Online Video Experience?

Today marked the 10-year anniversary of the first video ever uploaded to YouTube. Back then, it was hard to imagine YouTube as the behemoth it has become — a Google-acquired media entity so massive that some people make millions of dollars from the videos they produce. But video’s been on the internet much longer than…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Dr. Oz’s Defense Against Critics: My Show “Isn’t A Medical Show”

Dr. Oz is in full damage control mode this week after numerous experts have pointed out that he’s full of shit. And his latest talking points might be the most hilarious yet. His bizarre defense? He says the Dr. Oz Show is “not a medical show.” America’s doctor is making the rounds on everything from…

Tech News Matt Novak

How Not to Write an Email to Your Tutor (or Boss, For That Matter)

How the Nature of Invention Has Changed Over the Past 150 Years

Banishing These Florescent Cells Could Save Your Sight

Security Researcher: It’s “Trivial to Bypass Security Tools on Macs”

Make Sure All Your OneDrive Files are Synced for Offline Access

Why Senator Ron Wyden Has It Wrong About the Open Internet

Experience One Of The World’s Deadliest Mountains In All 360 Degrees

iFixit Is Taking Apart An Apple Watch Right Now

If You Must Have An Apple Watch Tomorrow, Head To Los Angeles

This Hubble Fly-Through Is The Next-Best Thing To Soaring Through Space

Sending Directions To Your Android Phone Just Got Stupidly Easy

New Hookup App Promises Terrifying Dates with Free Travel

Jurassic World Footage Puts The Focus Back On The Dinosaurs

CSI: Cyber and the Perverted Harem Selfie of Death

Fuck Belle Gibson And The Enablers She Rode In On

This Film About High-Diving Giraffes Is An Instant Cure For The Blues

Grandparents Are Monsters In Trailer For M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit

Avatar Exhibition Will Tour The World To Remind You Avatar 2 Is A Thing

What Was Your First Online Video Experience?

Dr. Oz’s Defense Against Critics: My Show “Isn’t A Medical Show”

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