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Fanboys Stab Each Other Over Android vs Apple

The ever-heated battle over mobile ecosystems left two wounded fanboys today: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, two roommates were hospitalized after a drunken fight about the relative benefits of Android and Apple phones. “When police arrived at the apartment complex, they learned that the roommates had been drinking and arguing over their mobile phones,” KTUL Tulsa reports.…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Apr 17 '15

Welcome To The Nightmare World Of Sea Creatures With Human Teeth

Feel like going down to the beach this weekend? Don’t do it. Or if you have to for some reason, don’t go into the ocean. Because there are things swimming around your waters that can bite you with your own teeth. If that’s not scary enough for you, by all means, plunge in! Sheepshead: The…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Apr 17 '15

This Attack On Titan Crossover Is Unofficial, Possibly Illegal

The Asylum is known for monster/disaster moies like Sharknado, and straightto-home video homages to big-budget movies with cheap-o simulacrums such as Transmorphers. Now they be known for copyright infringement, as their new movie has a monster that is clearly one of Attack on Titan’s Titans. The movie is Megashark Vs. Kolossus, the latest in their…

Trailers Rob Bricken Apr 17 '15

The FTC Wants Your Opinion On Airbnb, Uber and Lyft

Should cities treat Airbnb rentals like any other hotel room? What kind of insurance should Uber drivers carry to protect passengers? These are just some of the questions that the Federal Trade Commission will (probably) be discussing in an upcoming workshop exploring the so-called “sharing economy.” And it wants to hear from you. Despite fears…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 17 '15

Of course the new Star Wars trailer is amazing in Lego

The second trailer for The Force Awakens hasn’t even lived on the interwebs for more than a day, but there’s already a Lego creation of the entire 110 seconds of pure awesome, courtesy of FinalFeature. There are Lego stormtroopers. There are Lego Star Destroyers. There’s an old Lego Han Solo. And even though it’s made…

Tech News Darren Orf Apr 17 '15

This Taut, Cruel Horror Flick Is Shot Through a Teen’s Laptop Screen

There are certain films that are so obviously meant to be projected on a big screen it feels wrong to watch them for the first time at home—grandiose, SFX-heavy space sagas like Gravity only feel right splayed across an IMAX canvass. Unfriended, in its scale, has the reverse affect. It’s best watched on a laptop,…

Movies Kate Knibbs Apr 17 '15

Beautiful drone footage shows the endless color of flower fields

Flower fields are such a wonderful place to spend an entire day or stumble upon happenstance or purposely get lost in. The colors are breathtaking, the rows are perfectly manicured and it feels like it totally shouldn’t exist. Here is drone footage of the Keukenhof Gardens in The Netherlands. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 17 '15

Ford Designed a Sleek Futuristic Foosball Table With Actual Grass Turf

When Ford’s designers aren’t perfecting the gorgeous curves on vehicles like the company’s new Ford GT, they’re putting their design chops to good use on more affordable and attainable objects like this magnificent see-through foosball table. Created by Ford’s global design studios for the Salone Del Mobile show in Milano, Italy, the foosball table is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 17 '15

Want the Best App for Your Daily Commute? Take a Public Bus.

I take buses and trains everywhere in the San Francisco area, and I know the city’s bus routes better than I know the UX on my phone. So I had to try Leap, the city’s new private bus service. It was a nice experience in many ways, but I wouldn’t recommend it – and not…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Apr 17 '15

How Lord Byron’s Scandals Led Ada Lovelace To Become A Mathematician

Ada Lovelace is now most famously known as the mother of computer science, but during her lifetime, she was also well known on account of her famous father: Lord Byron. Although Ada never met her father, his scandalous behavior had a profound effect on how she was raised — on a strict diet of mathematics.…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 17 '15

America Should Envy This Speed Record-Shattering Japanese Bullet Train

The Central Japan Railway Company’s maglev bullet train hit 366 miles per hour yesterday in a test, a record-setting clip that breaks the the 12-year-old landspeed record of 361 mph, the Wall Street Journal reports. That’s crazy fast, and much faster than the train will go when it starts carrying passengers in 2027. (The video…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 17 '15

Rejoice, Lando Calrissian Is Getting His Own Marvel Comic Series

Perhaps, just this once, this deal is getting better all the time — everyone’s favourite Space Gas magnate Lando Calrissian will headline his own comic book from Marvel this summer. Let’s hope it’s full of adventure and fabulous half-capes. The news was actually announced yesterday to coincide with the start of Star Wars Celebration, but…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Apr 17 '15

A Super Mario Bros. Plush Thwomp Is Perfect For Pillow Fights

Do you remember the first time a Thwomp unexpectedly fell from the sky to end your life while playing Super Mario Bros.? Of course you do, it was as traumatizing as it was frustrating. But it also gave you a greater appreciation for Thwomps as an enemy to be feared, and a better understanding of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 17 '15

Welcome Back, GIFs! Here Is Your Party

It’s Friday, so you know what to do: GIFs. Updates. Digital mingling. Party. We want to know what’s been happening on your side of the screen lately — and, as per usual, we want to know it in GIFs. So make your most expressive digital avatar selections, and then let the party begin!

io9 Ria Misra Apr 17 '15

Bacon, egg and cheese pizza is a great excuse to eat pizza for breakfast

What would you say about eating a breakfast sandwich on a pizza? Sizzling bacon, a runny egg and perfectly melted cheese on top of pizza dough. Maybe add mushrooms and chives if you’d like. How can you say no? I know I couldn’t. Even if there’s no tomato sauce, I’d eat the heck out of…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 17 '15

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane will be painted to look like R2-D2

Japanese airliner ANA just announced the R2-D2 Jet—a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner painted to look like the iconic Star Wars’ droid. The aircraft will take off this fall and will serve to promote the Star Wars: The Force Awakens film. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Apr 17 '15

Harrowing New Video Shows A Powerful Landslide In Action

An eerie new video has emerged, showing an earthflow creeping its way across a landscape in Russia, levelling everything in its path. It’s like a tsunami — but one comprised of snow, rocks, and mud. The four-minute video shows the earthflow as it crunches trees and powerlines. You can actually hear the sounds of the…

io9 George Dvorsky Apr 17 '15

Software Could Automatically Put Your Vacation Photos in Perfect Order

If you rely on just a single camera while traveling, it’s easy to organize your photos by time and date when you get home. But most of us use multiple cameras, and smartphones, and action cams, to document our travels. So researchers at Disney and the University of Washington are working on software that can…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 17 '15

18 Useful Voice Commands to Try With Cortana

Cortana is coming for you, Siri and Google Now. An integral part of Windows Phone—rumored to be making the jump to Android and iOS, and about to be everywhere with the launch of Windows 10—the personal assistant is fast becoming one of Microsoft’s most useful apps. Here are 18 of the best voice commands to…

Gadgets David Nield Apr 17 '15

A Very Simple Property Of Sugar Can Save (Or Ruin) Your Food

Why does everything have sugar in it? It isn’t just in there because it tastes good. If that were all sugar had to offer, it would be added to far fewer products. As it is, sugar is added to things that aren’t like leather, concrete and hand lotion. Why? Because it is hygroscopic. Hygroscopic things…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Apr 17 '15

Fanboys Stab Each Other Over Android vs Apple

Welcome To The Nightmare World Of Sea Creatures With Human Teeth

This Attack On Titan Crossover Is Unofficial, Possibly Illegal

The FTC Wants Your Opinion On Airbnb, Uber and Lyft

Of course the new Star Wars trailer is amazing in Lego

This Taut, Cruel Horror Flick Is Shot Through a Teen’s Laptop Screen

Beautiful drone footage shows the endless color of flower fields

Ford Designed a Sleek Futuristic Foosball Table With Actual Grass Turf

Want the Best App for Your Daily Commute? Take a Public Bus.

How Lord Byron’s Scandals Led Ada Lovelace To Become A Mathematician

America Should Envy This Speed Record-Shattering Japanese Bullet Train

Rejoice, Lando Calrissian Is Getting His Own Marvel Comic Series

A Super Mario Bros. Plush Thwomp Is Perfect For Pillow Fights

Welcome Back, GIFs! Here Is Your Party

Bacon, egg and cheese pizza is a great excuse to eat pizza for breakfast

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane will be painted to look like R2-D2

Harrowing New Video Shows A Powerful Landslide In Action

Software Could Automatically Put Your Vacation Photos in Perfect Order

18 Useful Voice Commands to Try With Cortana

A Very Simple Property Of Sugar Can Save (Or Ruin) Your Food

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