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The Best and Worst From Microsoft Build 2015

Microsoft’s Build Developer Conference wraps up today, and as we pack away our (metaphorical/emotional) lanyards and look forward, we’re mostly excited about how Microsoft’s latest consumer electronics fever dream is shaping up. Best: HoloLens is achingly close to a faceputer regular people might want Microsoft’s craziest idea right now is by far it’s most exciting.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 1 '15

Are These Insanely Fast Slot Cars Racing at the Speed of Light?

If you spent any time playing with slot cars as a kid, you’re going to have a hard time figuring out how these racers—at the Slot Car Racing European Championship—are able to keep their vehicles on the track. The cars look like nothing but blurs as they complete laps in mere seconds without rocketing off…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 1 '15

If Satan Talked To You Backwards, Could You Actually Understand Him?

So the Dark Lord is talking to you backwards through the medium of your favorite record. What message could you get from this speech? Find out, and listen to some “backmasked” messages. During the Satanic Panic, there was concern that rock bands were the tools of the devil. They were engaging in “backmasking,” playing messages…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell May 1 '15

Video: Inside the fiery inferno of a rocket launch

Here’s an awesome view of the fiery power that is a rocket. A GoPro camera is strapped inside this rocket test so that rocket scientists can get a view of what’s going on inside. It’s pretty amazing, the fire burns so hot that you can almost feel it through the screen. Rocket scientists incorporate a…

Sploid Casey Chan May 1 '15

All The Comics You Absolutely Gotta Grab This Free Comic Book Day

Are you ready for some free comics? I certainly hope so, since May 2nd is Free Comic Book Day all across the country. There are dozens and dozens of offerings, but we know exactly which ones you need to make sure you pick up tomorrow. One warning: Once you read these, the chances of you…

io9 Rob Bricken May 1 '15

Actually, Most Women Don’t Need an Annual Pap Smear

Cervical cancer can be deadly and is treatable if caught early — which makes regular screenings really important. But according to clinical guidelines released yesterdayby the American College of Physicians, many women are getting screened far too often. Top image: Tom Schoumakers/Shutterstock.com The ACP’s “best practices” recommendations join (and are largely identical to) the screening…

Tech News Diane Kelly May 1 '15

ASUS G501 Lightning Review: If The MacBook Pro Could Game

Want a thin gaming laptop? We have a whole guide for that—but the ASUS G501 wasn’t the best laptop on our list. In fact, I kind of dismissed it with just three sentences. It deserves more. Let’s take a slightly deeper look. What Is It? Emblematic of what manufacturers seem to think a thin gaming…

Reviews Sean Buckley May 1 '15

First Exclusive Look At The Plague Paranoia In The Last Ship Season 2!

The Last Ship was one of the best surprises last summer — the plague apocalypse tale was basically a fun-as-hell summer movie with heroic scientists, whom we actually see doing science. Plus some neat post-apocalyptic political battles. So here’s a first look at season two, in which there’s a whole new storyline about scary immune…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 1 '15

Yep, Your Cool Wrist Tattoo Is Confusing Your EVEN COOLER Apple Watch

It’s a heartwrenching decision: either get that expensive tattoo removal, or live a life without an Apple Watch. Or, as Apple suggests, put on a heart rate monitor instead. The company has quietly confirmed that tattoos screw with the watch’s heart rate tracking. The comment was spotted by Trusted Reviews, which noticed a support page…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 1 '15

There’s No Reason To Ever Get Out of a Millennium Falcon Bed

Finding the motivation to crawl out of bed to face work, school, or even sunlight is hard enough. But imagine the herculean task of getting up in the morning when your bed is a near perfect replica of the Millennium Falcon’s cockpit. This pic was posted to Imgur by edmcgowan a few days ago with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 1 '15

How to Use Instagram to Track Climate Change

In Los Angeles, the transition from spring to summer is heralded by the blooming of jacarandas, a photogenic tree that explodes in bright lavender fireworks and sprinkles flowers across the city like purple rain. But as I Instagrammed my sneakers against the rubbery petals the other week, I had a nagging feeling—this was way too…

Climate Change Alissa Walker May 1 '15

9 Bizarre Jobs That Will Redefine Our Lives In The 2050s

The fields of biotechnology and medicine are rapidly evolving, and with them their associated employment opportunities. Here are nine biomedical professions to look for in the coming decades. Art by Tara Jacoby To help me compile this list, I recruited the help of IC/Futures, a collective of futurists at Idea Couture. The group includes Emily…

io9 George Dvorsky May 1 '15

Proof that all movie trailers are exactly the same

Movies use the same formula to make us want to watch them. We know this. They know this. And yet we all pretend it’s not happening because it’s really fun to pay 15 bucks to turn your brain off for two hours. This video stitching together similar scenes in movie trailers shows how it’s undeniably…

Sploid Casey Chan May 1 '15

The Information Age Is Over. Welcome to the Infrastructure Age.

Nobody wants to say it outright, but the Apple Watch sucks. So do most smartwatches. Every time I use my beautiful Moto 360, its lack of functionality makes me despair. But the problem isn’t our gadgets. It’s that the future of consumer tech isn’t going to come from information devices. It’s going to come from…

Tech News Annalee Newitz May 1 '15

A Vampire Rips Up Small-Town Life In Gritty Trailer For The Stranger

Uruguayan writer-director Guillermo Amoedo makes his English-language debut with Chile-shot The Stranger, which is produced by Eli Roth but conveys its own unique flavor of dark and creepy (an early review compared it to “the best parts of Near Dark”). The title character is a man whose sudden appearance in a small town is… not…

io9 Cheryl Eddy May 1 '15

President Obama’s $20 Million for Police Body Cameras Is a Good Start

On the heels of rioting over police violence in Baltimore, the Justice Department announced today that the Obama administration will be giving local police departments $20 million in grants to buy body cameras for their officers. The $20 million is not a small amount of money—it’s also the first sum that Congress has approved funding…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 1 '15

A “Horse Storm” Is A Real Thing (But Nothing Like You Would Imagine)

Under the right conditions, a boat traveling over the ocean or down a river can get badly damaged from a special kind of storm. This storm comes from inside the boat, when its cargo of horses gets a little too restless – in a very coordinated way. The question of how to get a horse…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell May 1 '15

This Is The Last Thing MESSENGER Saw Before Crashing Into Mercury

It had a great run, but MESSENGER is dead. And here is how it ended. The Mercury-orbiting spacecraft, which ended up running three years longer than its expected lifespan, hit the planet’s surface last night. Right before it impacted though, it was able to snap this last picture (and beam it back to us) of…

io9 Ria Misra May 1 '15

GPS eReader Lets the Book Take Place Wherever the Reader Is Located

An eReader lets travelers bring thousands of books with them on their journeys, but what if each of those stories was customized to wherever they happened to be at the moment? That’s the idea behind the Trip Book from a Brazilian loyalty program called Smiles that uses GPS to automatically change the location and landmarks…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 1 '15

You Can Finally Buy That Back to the Future Mr. Fusion Replica

Officially revealed back in September of last year, and teased even earlier at Toy Fair in New York, Diamond Select Toys’ perfect replica of the time-traveling DeLorean’s Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor seen in the Back to the Future trilogy is finally available for sale. If you haven’t been able to find a model 223A…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 1 '15

The Best and Worst From Microsoft Build 2015

Are These Insanely Fast Slot Cars Racing at the Speed of Light?

If Satan Talked To You Backwards, Could You Actually Understand Him?

Video: Inside the fiery inferno of a rocket launch

All The Comics You Absolutely Gotta Grab This Free Comic Book Day

Actually, Most Women Don’t Need an Annual Pap Smear

ASUS G501 Lightning Review: If The MacBook Pro Could Game

First Exclusive Look At The Plague Paranoia In The Last Ship Season 2!

Yep, Your Cool Wrist Tattoo Is Confusing Your EVEN COOLER Apple Watch

There’s No Reason To Ever Get Out of a Millennium Falcon Bed

How to Use Instagram to Track Climate Change

9 Bizarre Jobs That Will Redefine Our Lives In The 2050s

Proof that all movie trailers are exactly the same

The Information Age Is Over. Welcome to the Infrastructure Age.

A Vampire Rips Up Small-Town Life In Gritty Trailer For The Stranger

President Obama’s $20 Million for Police Body Cameras Is a Good Start

A “Horse Storm” Is A Real Thing (But Nothing Like You Would Imagine)

This Is The Last Thing MESSENGER Saw Before Crashing Into Mercury

GPS eReader Lets the Book Take Place Wherever the Reader Is Located

You Can Finally Buy That Back to the Future Mr. Fusion Replica

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