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NYPD Caught Editing Wikipedia Articles on Police Brutality

Looks like the long arm of the law is trying to diddle Wikipedia into submission. Members of the NYPD are trying to scrub Wikipedia’s entries about police violence. Capital New Yorktraced edits to IP addresses registered to the NYPD. Looking at which entries the NYPD tried to alter highlights a disturbing pattern. These are blatant…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Mar 13 '15

Crazy guy rode his snowmobile off a cliff and then started flying

A snowmobile weighs nearly five hundred pounds and isn’t meant for flying and yet, that’s what professional crazy person Antti Pendikainen did with his snowmobile. He gunned it down the mountain and then launched it off a cliff and then started soaring, reaching heights in the air typically meant for helicopters and planes. You know,…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 13 '15

15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Farts

Admit it. You’ve always wanted to know whether farts can carry germs. Photo Credit: John Sibley | CC BY-NC 2.0 1. Farts can probably carry germs, but you don’t really need to worry about it unless you’re naked A brief entry in the British Medical Journal’s 2001 holiday issue recounts how one Dr Karl Kruszelnicki…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 13 '15

California Has Just One Year of Water Reserves, So… Water Cannons?

Jay Famiglietti, a senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has a terrifying piece in the Los Angeles Times about the future of California’s water. According to Famiglietti, the state has just one year of water in reserves: Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 13 '15

The Pilot Who Drew This Giant Dick in the Sky Is the Hero We Deserve

GPS trolling is an art form spawning a movement of walkers, runners, and auto enthusiasts to create map-based creations. But one enterprising pilot, with a private plane and time to kill, took to the skies to draw the an image that fills the notebooks of 8th graders and college art majors alike — a big…

Tech News Darren Orf Mar 13 '15

Stephen King’s Teleportation Tale “The Jaunt” Will Be A Feature Film

The 1981 Stephen King short story The Jaunt (popularized by its inclusion in 1985 collection Skeleton Crew) will be made into a feature film by Andy Muschietti, director of Guillermo del Toro-produced horror flick Mama. Deadline reports that Plan B (Brad Pitt’s production company) optioned the rights to the tale, which first appeared in Twilight…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Mar 13 '15

io9 Newsstand: The Best Stories from the Week of March 8 – 14

This week’s stories are about the things that come at us out of the dark — be it the star-specked darkness of space, or the conscience-riddled darkness of our souls. Plural by Lia Swope Mitchell | Cosmos Magazine The aliens come in peace, as they always do, bearing gifts and a banner printed with hopeful…

io9 K. Tempest Bradford Mar 13 '15

Facebook Fraudster Jumps Bail By Giving His GPS Anklet a Mind of Its Own

A man under house arrest for faking an ownership stake in Facebook is missing after rigging up an elaborate contraption to make it look like he was still in his home. Paul Ceglia filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg using falsified emails and an edited contract that made it look like the Facebook…

Social Media Kate Knibbs Mar 13 '15

This Technology Can Prevent a Superbug Apocalypse

Nearly a century after scientists dug up penicillin, researchers are turning once more to the soil for new pharmaceuticals. But this time, they have tiny, powerful technologies on their side. Here’s how scientists are unlocking the secrets of soil microbes and discovering the next generation of medicine. Soil is the most biodiverse habitat on the…

Tech News Maddie Stone Mar 13 '15

Kim Stanley Robinson Says Colonizing Mars Won’t Be As Easy As He Thought

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy filled us all with hope that we could terraform Mars in the 21st century, with its plausible description of terraforming processes. But now, in the face of what we’ve learned about Mars in the past 20 years, he no longer thinks it’ll be that easy. Talking to SETI’s Blog Picture…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Mar 13 '15

A Red Hot Nickel Ball Proves Gak Is Basically Invincible

Remember Gak? The impossibly amazing substance invented by Nickelodeon’s mad scientists in the 1990s is still on the market, and it’s still incredible. And, as this new video of a red hot nickel ball waging war against the toy seems to illustrate, it looks like Gak is actually invincible. But what is Gak? What kinds…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 13 '15

Chess Is Even More Challenging Played On a Tiny Board With All Queens

There’s nothing more devastating to your morale than losing your queen while playing a game of chess. She’s like Mario after he’s found himself one of those invincible stars—except she can still be wiped out by a pawn. But here’s an interesting take on the classic game that sees every piece replaced with nothing but…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 13 '15

Your Precious Wet Wipes Are Destroying Your City’s Sewers

Are you happy, wet wipe users? Your “dank clusters,” as theNew York Times calls them, are threatening to destroy the infrastructure your city depends on. The NYT blows the story wide open this morning with an investigation of NYC’s sewer treatment plants that are “under siege”, having spent $18 million in five years on “wipe-related…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Mar 13 '15

What If You Found Out That Everyone Dreamed About You Last Night?

Here’s a short film that plays like an ultra-violent Twilight Zone episode. Billy wakes up one morning to learn that his girlfriend had a really messed-up dream about him the night before — and she’s not the only one. Strangely, that’s not the weirdest thing that happens to Billy over the course of his day.…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 13 '15

Ukraine Is Just The Beginning: Welcome To The Age Of Shadow Wars

Confused about what’s been going on between Russia and Ukraine? You’re not alone. And that’s sort of the point — this conflict serves as a case study in the effectiveness of shadowy, “hybrid” warfare, which is hard to understand from the outside. And the effectiveness of this strategy means it could be the future of…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 13 '15

Use Google Now to Let Your Family Know When You Get Home

Google Now has more than one trick up its sleeve, and if you’re prepared to take a few minutes to set it up: You can have a card display whenever a family member arrives at home (or work). Here’s how to get the feature activated on your device. From the Google app menu tap Settings…

Gadgets David Nield Mar 13 '15

Seth Rogen Wants Iron Man’s Dad To Star In The Preacher TV Series

From cosmopolitan billionaire to small-town Texas preacher? It’s not generally considered a positive move, but it may be for actor Dominic Cooper. Word is the man who plays Tony Stark’s father in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Agent Carter is the top choice to star as Jesse Custer in the Preacher adaptation. This comes from…

Television Rob Bricken Mar 13 '15

This Jedi Holocron Quiz Toy Knows More About Star Wars Than You Do

In the Star Wars universe the Holocrons are kind of like a Jedi’s version of a flash drive, storing vast amounts of knowledge and data. And in the case of Uncle Milton’s new Jedi Holocron toy, all of that knowledge happens to be about Star Wars itself, and by asking just 20 yes or no…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 13 '15

Sadly This 10TB Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies—aka HGST, aka a subsidiary of Western Digital—was recently showing off its gigantic new 10TB hard drive at the Linux Foundation Vault tradeshow in Boston. But unfortunately you won’t be packing 10,000 gigabytes into your laptop anytime soon because the drive is designed for use in servers, and mostly because it requires…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 13 '15

Author Robert Repino Is Here To Talk To You About Mort(e)

In March, the io9 book club read Robert Repino’sMort(e). Today, from 11:00 am – noon (Pacific time) he’ll be here to answer your questions about post-apocalyptic tales, animals in fiction, and anything else you want to know. Start asking Repino your questions in the comments section right now and he’ll answer as many as he…

Books & Comics Ria Misra Mar 13 '15

NYPD Caught Editing Wikipedia Articles on Police Brutality

Crazy guy rode his snowmobile off a cliff and then started flying

15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Farts

California Has Just One Year of Water Reserves, So… Water Cannons?

The Pilot Who Drew This Giant Dick in the Sky Is the Hero We Deserve

Stephen King’s Teleportation Tale “The Jaunt” Will Be A Feature Film

io9 Newsstand: The Best Stories from the Week of March 8 – 14

Facebook Fraudster Jumps Bail By Giving His GPS Anklet a Mind of Its Own

This Technology Can Prevent a Superbug Apocalypse

Kim Stanley Robinson Says Colonizing Mars Won’t Be As Easy As He Thought

A Red Hot Nickel Ball Proves Gak Is Basically Invincible

Chess Is Even More Challenging Played On a Tiny Board With All Queens

Your Precious Wet Wipes Are Destroying Your City’s Sewers

What If You Found Out That Everyone Dreamed About You Last Night?

Ukraine Is Just The Beginning: Welcome To The Age Of Shadow Wars

Use Google Now to Let Your Family Know When You Get Home

Seth Rogen Wants Iron Man’s Dad To Star In The Preacher TV Series

This Jedi Holocron Quiz Toy Knows More About Star Wars Than You Do

Sadly This 10TB Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop

Author Robert Repino Is Here To Talk To You About Mort(e)

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