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Where New York City’s Most Notorious Speeding Ticket Cameras Are Hiding

New York City obviously doesn’t tell citizens where its speed cameras are, but using data on the tickets police issued last year, WNYC tracked down the location of the most absurd traps, including the city’s $2.75 million cash machine. The data shows that about half on New York’s 51 cameras sit in fixed spots, whereas…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Story Behind Earth’s “Other” Moon And Its Completely Whacked Orbit

We all know and love the moon. We’re so assured that we only have one that we don’t even give it a specific name. It’s just The Moon. But the moon is not the Earth’s only natural satellite. Here’s what you need to know about 3753 Cruithne and what its weird orbit reveals about the…

io9 Duncan Forgan — The Conversation

RC Hulk Does Exactly What Kids Want Him To: Smash Stuff

As Marvel’s most wantonly destructive character, there’s only one feature kids are really looking for when they ask their parents for a Hulk toy. It has to smash stuff, and it has to smash stuff repeatedly until they get tired of smashing stuff. It’s a simple list of demands, and JAKKS Pacific has met every…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Cops Are Using Stingray Surveillance for Minor Crimes Like 911 Hangups

Florida police are using Stingray tracking devices—powerful surveillance tools cloaked in secrecy, capable of hoovering data from the phones of anyone in a wide search area—to catch thousands of suspects, even in low-level crimes like 911 hangups. Documents published by the ACLU this week show how widespread Stingray use is in Florida among local law…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Motorola’s Great Little Cheapo Phone Has a New Look and LTE

Right now, smartphone rumors are at a fever pitch. HTC is a leaky ship and Samsung hearsay arrives on the regular. Motorola opted out of the whole Mobile World Congress rat race that will be happening this weekend and instead shipped its new low-end champion, the Moto E, for all us gadget bloggers to gawk…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Insanely Detailed Animation Is Made From Only 4096 Bytes of Code

The demoscene is an internet subculture that has managed to stay cool for decades. And as the winning entry in a recent demo competition in Tokyo proves, the demos just keep getting better. If you’re not familiar with the term, “demos” refer to algorithms written by a programmer or group of programmers to generate graphics…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Celebrate 35 Years Of Gundam Model Kits With This Exquisite Mobile Suit

This July, Bandai celebrate 35 years of selling ‘Gunpla’ – plastic model kits of the mechs from the long running Mobile Suit Gundam franchises. They’re doing so in style too, with this ultra-fancy new version of the Gundam model that started it all. The first ever Gundam Model Kit, a 1/144 scale rendition of Amuro…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Kids Get Dropped Off At This Webcomic’s Camp—And Never Go Home Again

Camp Weedonwantcha is a nature camp for kids who have been ditched. In this darkly funny webcomic, kids get dropped off one day at a camp with absolutely no adult supervision. Left to their own devices, they must survive the limited supplies, wild animals, and each other. Katie Rice’s webcomic was a bit famous even…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Mystery Drones Are Appearing Over Paris Landmarks

For the second night in a row, mysterious drones have appeared above Parisian landmarks. The authorities are baffled—and worried. Permission is needed to fly aircraft below 19,700 feet over Paris in the daytime, and personal drone flights are totally banned at night. That’s why the French are freaking out over the unexplained appearances. The drones…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

The Horrible Things That Happen If You Don’t Get Enough Sodium

In the 1930s, it was generally accepted that the body needed sodium to function, but no one had studied what broke down when the sodium in a person’s diet was removed. One researcher researcher and four volunteers decided to find out. It was awful. The body’s need for salt wasn’t hard to establish. Anyone with…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How Our Future Cities Will Look After Extreme Flooding

We know sea levels are rising. We can even project how the rising ocean will change our cities. But seeing how drastically our world will be changed, thousands of years in the future? That’s something else. The designer and cartographer behind the blog Spatialities, Jeffrey Linn, is finding out what that distant future looks like.…

Climate Change Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

What’s The Best Designed Piece Of Technology You’ve Ever Used?

Whether you want to point to an old technology that has stood the test of time mostly unchanged or you prefer to highlight one of the newer technologies that has slipped seamlessly into your daily life, we want to know about the most perfectly designed technology you’ve ever used. Tell us in the comments what…

io9 Ria Misra

This video made me crave coffee this morning (even more)

If you like coffee as much as I do, New York City is the place you want to be. Filmmaker James Casey shares New Yorker’s obsession with coffee and shows them talking about it in this neat video that made me crave a cup of deep black joe. While I was enjoying my good hot…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Curiosity’s Latest Wide-Angle Selfie Is Its Most Remarkable Photo Yet

Now would be a good time to update your desktop wallpaper. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has snapped a spectacular — if not inexplicable — wide-angled self-portrait at the Mojave Site on Mount Sharp where the probe is currently drilling for samples. Here’s how NASA created the extraordinary shot. It’s actually a composite of dozens of…

io9 George Dvorsky

Create an HD Fly-Through Video Tour in Google Earth Pro

In January, Google decided to make Google Earth Pro free for everyone—that means we can all make use of features that previously cost $400 a year, and one of those features is the ability to record HD video of your tours. From floating along the Grand Canyon to zooming into your local neighborhood, here’s how…

Gadgets David Nield

What Makes an Image Go Viral? Could Be as Simple as Color

Never before in human history has it been so easy to share, like, pin, reblog, images. That’s, like, totally awesome for teenage girls showing off their prom dresses but also a pretty huge boon for scientists studying what makes images shareable. And it could be something as simple as color. A paper published this month…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Power Wheels Is Making Tiny Porsches Again

There’s some great news from Mattel for parents who like to live vicariously through their kids and long ago had to trade their sports car dreams for a practical, spacious minivan. It’s been almost a quarter century since Power Wheels offered a Porsche option, but come October kids aged three and older will be able…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Disney’s Making A Brand New DuckTales Cartoon!

Disney has just announced it’s bringing back its beloved cartoon series DuckTales on its Disney XD channel. In related news, you’re going to have the DuckTales theme song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Woo-oo! Deadline reports the series won’t air until 2017, but listen to everyone who’s going to be…

io9 Rob Bricken

Dwayne Johnson Says Shazam Could Be Coming Sooner Than We Realized

How many movies will Margot Robbie play Harley Quinn in? Plus, a Star Wars villain is back for Rebels’ season finale, Tom Mison talks about where to take Ichabod in Sleepy Hollow’s potential season three, and teasers for The Walking Dead. Hot Spoilers! Top image: The Walking Dead. Shazam Speaking to MTV at the Oscars,…

io9 James Whitbrook

Hot Toys’ Incredible New Hulk Is Suitably Massive And Angry

Like, seriously angry. That is the Hulk’s thing, but man, Hot Toys’ latest entrant into the Age of Ultron line certainly captures the rage of Bruce Banner in stunning style. This is the second Hulk figure the company have done – they of course did a big Hulk/Bruce Banner set for the character’s appearance in…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Where New York City’s Most Notorious Speeding Ticket Cameras Are Hiding

The Story Behind Earth’s “Other” Moon And Its Completely Whacked Orbit

RC Hulk Does Exactly What Kids Want Him To: Smash Stuff

Cops Are Using Stingray Surveillance for Minor Crimes Like 911 Hangups

Motorola’s Great Little Cheapo Phone Has a New Look and LTE

This Insanely Detailed Animation Is Made From Only 4096 Bytes of Code

Celebrate 35 Years Of Gundam Model Kits With This Exquisite Mobile Suit

Kids Get Dropped Off At This Webcomic’s Camp—And Never Go Home Again

Mystery Drones Are Appearing Over Paris Landmarks

The Horrible Things That Happen If You Don’t Get Enough Sodium

How Our Future Cities Will Look After Extreme Flooding

What’s The Best Designed Piece Of Technology You’ve Ever Used?

This video made me crave coffee this morning (even more)

Curiosity’s Latest Wide-Angle Selfie Is Its Most Remarkable Photo Yet

Create an HD Fly-Through Video Tour in Google Earth Pro

What Makes an Image Go Viral? Could Be as Simple as Color

Power Wheels Is Making Tiny Porsches Again

Disney’s Making A Brand New DuckTales Cartoon!

Dwayne Johnson Says Shazam Could Be Coming Sooner Than We Realized

Hot Toys’ Incredible New Hulk Is Suitably Massive And Angry

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