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Even As Just A Head, This Lego Smaug Is Spectacular

Now this is creative – Flickr User and Lego fan Finn Tegotash made this brilliant recreation of Bilbo’s confrontation with Smaug in The Desolation Of Smaug, building Smaug’s lego-y face out of a cavalcade of brown pieces – including scales created built out of little lego chair pieces. Finn made the diorama for part of…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Here’s How Windows 10 Apps Will Run Across PCs, Tablets, and Phones

Microsoft claims Windows 10 is the operating system that finally unifies all your computing devices. One OS to rule them all. What does that actually mean in practice? We’re literally finding out right now. And the answer—at least for Microsoft’s own new universal apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Photos—is that the exact same apps…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Microsoft Office Will Be Free on Windows 10 Phones and Tablets

Microsoft will bundle the all-new Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as part of Window 10 for phones and tablets, Joe Belfiore announced during Microsoft’s two-hour-long Windows 10 event. However, there was no mention whether this generous app gift-giving would extend to the desktop. During the brief preview today, which Belfiore stressed was early builds,…

Tech News Darren Orf

From Lazarus Long To Capt. Jack Harkness: Bisexuality In Science Fiction

Why were there so many bisexual heroes in the 1970s (including Robert A. Heinlein’s Lazarus Long), and was bisexuality viewed as “futuristic”? More to the point, why did bi heroes mostly vanish throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and what brought them back? Erotic science fiction author and Circlet Press publisher Cecilia Tan explains. https://gizmodo.com/this-erotica-book-might-actually-be-the-years-most-dang-5969540 Tan…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Is What Windows 10 Looks Like on a Phone

Last September, Microsoft pulled the curtain off Windows 9 10, its new digit-skipping operating system with versions for phones, tablets, computers, everything. We’ve seen bits and pieces of the new desktop through Microsoft’s preview program, but nothing on the mobile side. Until now. If you’ve ever seen Windows Phone 8.1, this will all look pretty…

Tech News Eric Limer

Some Of The Most Surprising New Products That Came From NASA Research

A skin cream, an algae-based pet food, a hand-held cabin pressure monitor, speakers built with magnetized fluid and a machine designed to fix your golf swing. What do they all have in common? All of them were made using NASA research. Top image: A picture from the magnetic fluid research, conducted in the ’60s, now…

io9 Ria Misra

Windows 10 Has Cortana Voice Commands Baked Into Every Cranny

Microsoft’s Cortana voice-assistant is coming to Windows 10 as we expected. Now you’ll be able to speak commands and ask questions throughout the operating system. At its core, it’s similar to the assistant we’ve seen on Windows Phone, but it’s also been updated to create a more holistic experience. The old Cortana on a desktop…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The More Mass You Add To Black Holes, The Less Dense They Get

Black holes are what happens when matter is packed so densely that it compresses into a singularity… but some of them are still as insubstantial as air. If you think that’s weird, it gets weirder. You make can make these ultra-light black holes even less dense by adding mass. Black holes are so inescapably dense…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Windows 10 Is a Free Upgrade for the First Year

Want Windows 10? You got it: for free. This is a sea change in Microsoft’s strategy when it comes to upgrades. Gratis upgrades will be available for Windows 7, 8.1 and even Windows Phone 8.1 users for a full year. Microsoft’s Terry Myerson made the announcement with a vision of a more unified Windows —…

Tech News Sean Buckley

Why Marvel’s Civil War Movie Shouldn’t Be Anything Like The Comic

Greetings, my lascivious envelope-lickers! Uh, that sounded dirtier than I intended. Sorry. In today’s mailbag, I have the answers you seek — as long as you’re wondering where the hell Disney’s cartoons are hiding and whether Thor’s hammer has accidentally killed somebody. Three, two, one, let’s jam! Civil, Right Mad scientist13: Mr. Postman: I am…

io9 Rob Bricken

C.J. Cherryh Explains The Key To Creating Terrific Female Characters

How do you go about creating female characters that have the same charisma and depth as the male ones? People debate this endlessly, and come up with complicated arguments about one aspect or another. But Downbelow Station author C.J. Cherryh has a refreshingly simple answer to this question. Writer and regular io9 contributor Andrew Liptak…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Concept Mouse Has a Whole Computer Inside It

If the smartphones in our pockets are exponentially smaller and more powerful than the laptops that used to break our backs, couldn’t we squeeze a computer inside a mouse? I know what you’re thinking; what’s the point of doing that? But ask not “why”, but instead how? The creators behind the Mouse-Box believe they’ve cracked…

Tech News Gerald Lynch

Watch the Windows 10 Keynote Live

Starting at noon EST, Microsoft will be debuting Windows 10 for the public, along with possible announcements about their mobile operating system, Cortana the audio assistant, details on the Spartan browser, and maybe a few surprises about Xbox. You can watch it streaming live! The livestream is here, starting at noon. Of course we can’t…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

You’ll Desperately Want To Climb Inside This Aliens Power Loader Figure

Like lightsabers and time-traveling DeLoreans, the Caterpillar P-5000 Powered Work Loader—or Power Loader for short—in Aliens is one of those props that ended up being the real star of the movie. Who wouldn’t be excited to come to work every day if it involved piloting a robotic exoskeleton? So hats off to Hollywood Collectibles for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

BlackBerry Classic Review: Good at Being a BlackBerry, and Not Much Else

Let’s talk about the word “classic.” Classic can mean “timeless,” as in an ageless beauty that never fades or a joke with a punchline that always hits. It can also mean “old,” like the candy red ’57 Chevy you’ll probably never see on a modern highway. Which one describes the BlackBerry Classic? Take a guess.…

Reviews Darren Orf

This Aliens Power Loader Is Sadly Not Life Sized, But It Is Massive

Sure, it’s not a Power Loader of your own to stomp around in, but it’s still pretty cool – this new statue of Aliens’ iconic mech suit is scaled to match the model made for the original movie, but even then, it’s still a huge bit of kit. Two Power Loaders were constructed for Aliens…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Oklahoma’s Myths Come Out To Play In This Delightful Webcomic Dramedy

The weirdest thing about Oscar’s life used to be his name. (It’s Oscar Wilde.) Then he moved to Podunk, Oklahoma, a quiet town that turned out to be…not so quiet. Now he has to deal with ghosts, witches, and werewolves, and that’s before the local mythological creatures start crawling out of the woodwork. Pascalle Lepas’…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch a Dad’s Special Effects Turn Playtime Into Crazy Action Scenes

The world’s best Dad-who-is-also-pretty-good-with-Adobe-AfterEffects is back with a brand new batch of cutscenes to turn his lucky kid into the most adorable action hero this side of baby Groot. Between blasting UFOs out of the window of a car to starring in a Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robot’s scene that is at least 50 times…

Movies Eric Limer

How To Write Perfect Sentences No One Understands

I didn’t mean to kill him. I didn’t mean to kill him. I didn’t mean to kill him. I didn’t mean to kill him. I didn’t mean to kill him. Which one of these did I mean? This is a fallacy that goes all the way back to Aristotle. He came from a culture interested…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

These Before and After GIFs Show Just How Fake Ad Photography Can Be

We all know that the modification, retouching, and compositing of photographs is utterly commonplace. But few actually realize the extent to which some advertising imagery is conjured from so many disparate elements. These GIFs prepared by Russian compositor Ashot Gevorkyan reveal the crazy path from reality to finished product. Below are the GIFs, followed by…

Tech News Michael Hession

Even As Just A Head, This Lego Smaug Is Spectacular

Here’s How Windows 10 Apps Will Run Across PCs, Tablets, and Phones

Microsoft Office Will Be Free on Windows 10 Phones and Tablets

From Lazarus Long To Capt. Jack Harkness: Bisexuality In Science Fiction

This Is What Windows 10 Looks Like on a Phone

Some Of The Most Surprising New Products That Came From NASA Research

Windows 10 Has Cortana Voice Commands Baked Into Every Cranny

The More Mass You Add To Black Holes, The Less Dense They Get

Windows 10 Is a Free Upgrade for the First Year

Why Marvel’s Civil War Movie Shouldn’t Be Anything Like The Comic

C.J. Cherryh Explains The Key To Creating Terrific Female Characters

This Concept Mouse Has a Whole Computer Inside It

Watch the Windows 10 Keynote Live

You’ll Desperately Want To Climb Inside This Aliens Power Loader Figure

BlackBerry Classic Review: Good at Being a BlackBerry, and Not Much Else

This Aliens Power Loader Is Sadly Not Life Sized, But It Is Massive

Oklahoma’s Myths Come Out To Play In This Delightful Webcomic Dramedy

Watch a Dad’s Special Effects Turn Playtime Into Crazy Action Scenes

How To Write Perfect Sentences No One Understands

These Before and After GIFs Show Just How Fake Ad Photography Can Be

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