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Every Single One of These Drone Crashes Is Glorious

Technology! It gives us amazing devices that allow us to experience life in new ways. How wonderful. Even more wonderful is when those devices fail us to extremely comedic effect. Exhibit 1: Drones. You know that a consumer device like the quadcopter has gained a certain critical popularity when compilations of their dramatic demises begin…

Tech News Michael Hession

No, Women’s Voices Are Not Easier to Understand Than Men’s Voices

The not-quite human voice that emanates from your phone or GPS or other device is, more often than not, female. It’s an obvious pattern, and one that many have claimed has a simple technical explanation: Female voices are easier to understand. The only problem is that it’s not true. Last week, Annalee Newitz wrote about…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

The Subversive Lesson About Genius Hidden In James Bond

Truth time: Without the highly skilled tech and strategic teams he has behind him, James Bond would be just an overdressed field agent with an unnecessarily picky drink order. But, does that fictional string of geniuses reveal an important truth about how talent works? In response to this post on villains who wanted to get…

Movies Ria Misra

The Sony Hack’s Banal Reality: Paper Memos, BlackBerries, and Takeout

It’s been a little over two months since the Sony hack first rocked the world of the tens of thousands of employees who had their passwords and social security numbers (among other sensitive bits of info) exposed. Butdespite what some of the more imaginative amongst us might hope, it turns out that the reality of…

Privacy & Security Ashley Feinberg

Why So Many Hackers Are Going After the Health Care Industry

Initial suspicions from the massive hack at Anthem are just starting to roll in, and they are suspicious. Long story short, a few unnamed people immediately jumped to the conclusionthat it was China. That said, Anthem is hardly the only health care company that’s been hacked lately. It’s a bit of an pandemic, actually (pardon…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

A Disturbing Visualization That Shows Where Kids Aren’t Being Immunized

For parents living in North America and other developed countries, the choice not to have children immunized is a luxury and a privilege. As this map makes painfully clear, there are many parts of the world where it’s the inaccessibility of vaccines that’s the problem. This map was produced by Benjamin Hennig and Save the…

io9 George Dvorsky

How Adblock Plus Is Becoming a Source of Internet Advertising

Before Adblock Plus bloomed into existence in 2006, going anywhere online could be a flashing, ad-filled nightmare. Adblock Plus offered a way out of the commercial chaos, and blocked ad revenue from websites in the process. But now it’s opening up the gates — and allowing a few choice advertisers through, for a price. Adblock…

Tech News Darren Orf

Obama Got a Sneak Peek at the Original iPhone From Steve Jobs

President Obama has been an Apple fanboy for a while now, according to the upcoming book Believer: My Forty Years in Politics from Obama’s political strategist David Axelrod. In 2007, Steve Jobs gave then-Senator Obama a private viewing of the iPhone before it was made publicly available. According to Axelrod, Obama’s first impression of the…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Watch An Acorn Turn Into An Oak Sapling In This Eight-Month Timelapse

It takes just three minutes to watch this video, but it covers eight months of an oak tree’s life. First, we go underground, where the plant slowly bursts from its shell, and eventually above ground, where it shoots up into a young tree. Neil Bromhall filmed this video, and explains the timeline of the tree’s…

io9 Lauren Davis

RIP Giant Machine That Put Space Shuttles on Top of 747s

It’s a great American tradition. When something is old and less useful than it once was, we just tear it down to make room for new and more useful things. That’s exactly what’s happened to the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It used to mount Space Shuttles on 747s. Now it’s scrap…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

The Rim On this Indoor Basketball Hoop Shrinks To Test Your Skills

Backyard Sports started as a series of video games where players could challenge kid-versions of pro athletes in less-than-professional venues. It disappeared for a while, but the brand has recently been reborn as a series of mobile games that now work alongside real-life sports equipment to reward players for the time they spend playing in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Flynn’s Arcade, Transformed Into An Incredible Lego Creation

Okay, this is pretty damn amazing. Flickr User Joel Baker built the facade for Flynn’s Arcade from Tron in 2012, but recently returned to his lego creation to fully flesh out the interior, turning it into a wonderfully detailed arcade for his Lego minifigures. Even the sign lights up! Well, sort of – Baker recreated…

Tech News James Whitbrook

The Most Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful Cliff Top Hotels Ever Built

These hotels, seated atop high cliffs, don’t just have marvelous views; they’re also quite wonderful to look at — stunning buildings perched at the perfect junction of air, land, and sea. Anyone else ready to take a vacation? The Bulgari Resort, Bali, Indonesia via Bulgari Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa, Port de Sóller, Mallorca,…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Beautiful tilt-shift photos turn the Universe into precious jewels

The Universe is an incredible place that defies belief. We take it for granted because the distances and scale is so alien to our little tiny pale blue dot that our brains can’t even process them. Maybe that’s why Italian artist St. Tesla turns galaxies and nebulae into tiny precious jewels. “Macrocosm and microcosm is…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

RPG Company Roll20 is Hiring a Professional Dungeon Master

Would you like to design deathtrap dungeons, run epic adventures, and portray nefarious NPC villains as your actual job? Then this might be the greatest job listing of all time. Roll20 is a web app that provides a virtual tabletop for running RPGs. It’s pretty highly regarded among RPG players who like to play with…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Blade Nano QX FPV Review: Leave Your Body Behind With This $480 Drone

I have a confession: I’ve been having out-of-body experiences. They feel like a video game. I’m a spirit in the sky, watching my flesh-and-bone self shamble about as I float on the breeze. How? Because I’ve been testing one of the coolest toys ever made: a tiny drone with a pair of wireless video goggles…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Tesla’s Insanely Fast P85D, Reviewed

The Tesla Model S P85D—aka The D—is a badass with dual electric motors that can go 0-60 MPH in 3.2 seconds. It even has a software update on the way that can supposedly make it even. Our friends at Jalopnik got behind the wheel to give it the full review treatment. Read about it below!

Tech News Eric Limer

Study Finds Record Labels Take Most of the Streaming Money From Artists

Streaming music is controversial amongst many musicians who claim that they don’t get a fair shake of the revenue that’s being pulled in. A new study of the music industry by the French recording industry confirms suspicions that at least part of the reason artists are getting screwed is because labels are taking all the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Instagram Account Proves We’re Living in Blade Runner‘s Future

How close are we to living in Blade Runner’s dark and moody dystopia of 2019? Pretty damn close, if you follow the Instagram account bladerunnerreality. At least aesthetically. The part that doesn’t seem to match up with the film? Aside from the absence of flying cars (we still have four years, guys!) Blade Runner was…

Tech News Matt Novak

A Horrifying Short Film About How Facebook Could Turn Even Creepier

From Argentina, this ghostly horror short from director Andrés Borghi examines the ways in which Facebook affects relationships … particularly those that Just. Won’t. Die. Though it has some familiar stylistic elements, it’s eerie, well-paced, and has a supremely creepy score. For maximum chills, watch it on your computer (duh) and with the lights off…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Every Single One of These Drone Crashes Is Glorious

No, Women’s Voices Are Not Easier to Understand Than Men’s Voices

The Subversive Lesson About Genius Hidden In James Bond

The Sony Hack’s Banal Reality: Paper Memos, BlackBerries, and Takeout

Why So Many Hackers Are Going After the Health Care Industry

A Disturbing Visualization That Shows Where Kids Aren’t Being Immunized

How Adblock Plus Is Becoming a Source of Internet Advertising

Obama Got a Sneak Peek at the Original iPhone From Steve Jobs

Watch An Acorn Turn Into An Oak Sapling In This Eight-Month Timelapse

RIP Giant Machine That Put Space Shuttles on Top of 747s

The Rim On this Indoor Basketball Hoop Shrinks To Test Your Skills

Flynn’s Arcade, Transformed Into An Incredible Lego Creation

The Most Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful Cliff Top Hotels Ever Built

Beautiful tilt-shift photos turn the Universe into precious jewels

RPG Company Roll20 is Hiring a Professional Dungeon Master

Blade Nano QX FPV Review: Leave Your Body Behind With This $480 Drone

Tesla’s Insanely Fast P85D, Reviewed

Study Finds Record Labels Take Most of the Streaming Money From Artists

This Instagram Account Proves We’re Living in Blade Runner‘s Future

A Horrifying Short Film About How Facebook Could Turn Even Creepier

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