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Search For Tweets By Location With Castround

There are all kinds of reasons why you might want to filter tweets based on a location—from breaking news to travel tips—and new Android app Castround makes the process much simpler than it is on the Web. Here’s how to use it and several alternative approaches you can try. Castround for tweets Free to install…

Gadgets David Nield

This Dying Star Is The Center Of The Coldest Place In The Universe

Until NASA’s Cold Lab comes online in 2016, the coldest place in the universe is a faint scattering of gas and dust 5,000 light years away in the Centaurus constellation. The Boomerang Nebula is just 1 degree above absolute zero, colder than the natural background temperature of space. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-is-creating-the-coldest-spot-in-the-universe-1515817649 Top image: Boomerang Nebula as seen…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

For 7,500 Years, We’ve Made Sculptures Out Of Data

Our desire to create 3D visualizations of data—for practical purposes, artistic expression or both—stretch back many millennia. Two experts in the field have created a stunning online archive of such physical artifacts from 5,500 BC to the present day, and beyond. The List of Physical Visualizations, curated by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen, currently has…

io9 Mark Strauss

Western Fairytales Get A Korean Makeover In Gorgeous Illustrations

Little Red Riding Hood, the Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and other fairy tale characters shed their Western wardrobes and don traditional Korean fashions in artist Na Young Wu’s series of incredibly love manhwa-style illustrations. Na Young Wu is a character illustration artist for games, and in what she calls her “Korean Western Fairy…

io9 Lauren Davis

Hackers Can Read Your Texts Thanks to Huge Security Flaw

The global telecom network Signal System 7 helps phone carriers across the world, including AT&T and Verizon, route calls and texts. It’s also apparently perforated with security holes that lets hackers and spies listen to your calls and read your texts. It’s so bad the ACLU’s chief technologist told me that people worried about being…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

The Coolest (and Weirdest) Stuff From Today’s Animation Art Auction

There’s an impressive art auction at Profiles in History today and tomorrow featuring everything from wax figures to theme park blueprints. Here’s some of the coolest (and weirdest) stuff from it, if you’re still looking to get me something for Christmas. For instance, the Alice in Wonderland concept painting above by legendary Disney artist Mary…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Complete History Of Earth In One Tidy Infographic

Graphic designer Juan David Martinez has captured our planet’s entire 4.6-billion year history in this rather clever wheel-like chart. Martinez does a good job packing over a dozen different epochs into the infographic, but it doesn’t take the scale of time into account. Unlike Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar, Martinez’s chart divides each geological era into…

io9 George Dvorsky

Those Medical Talk Shows Are Even More Inaccurate Than You Feared

Programs like The Dr. Oz Show and The Doctors dispense with a lot of medical advice. But how many of these recommendations can be substantiated? Some researchers took the time to find out, and the results are not encouraging. We won’t leave you hanging: Roughly 50% of advice on these shows is either unsupported or…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Whosoever Holds This Mug, If He Be Worthy, Shall Possess A Warm Drink

There’s a lot of weird knick-knacks out there that the moment you see them, you think ‘How has someone not done that before!?’. I’m not entirely sure a mug in the shape of Thor’s legendary hammer Mjolnir is one of those things. No worthiness is necessarily required to lift this mug so Asgardian saints and…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

A New Glimpse Into the Gigantic Construction Project Hidden Below NYC

What do you want to be when you grow up? A baseball player? A doctor? A blogger (LOL)? How about a badass who carves caves through the Earth to improve the lives of millions in America’s greatest city? That sounds pretty heroic. And right now, hundreds of hard hat-wearing workers are tackling that grand task…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Game Of Thrones‘ Arya Will Be Unrecognizable In Her Season 5 Outfit

We’re used to seeing Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark in her functional, rugged clothes, often disguised as a boy. But next season, Arya will be getting a very different look—so different, in fact, that many people didn’t recognize actress Maisie Williams the first time she wore it on set. Mild spoilers ahead. When last we…

Television Lauren Davis

Paramount Cancels Team America Screenings Because Everyone’s a Coward

In the wake of Sony Pictures canceling its release of The Interview, some theaters with actual balls opted to show Team America: World Police as a protest. No such luck. In a truly staggering act of cowardice, Paramount appears to be telling theaters to shut it all down. What the fuck. This insane cancellation ostensibly…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Best Last-Minute Geeky Gifts That You Can Get For Under $10

It’s December 18? How did that happen? If the holidays got away from you this year — and you’re feeling the pinch of the most wonderful … and freakin’ expensive … time of the year — we’ve got you covered in the last-minute affordable gift department. Here are the best last-minute gifts for under a…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

One Man’s Quest To Surf Berlin

Berlin lies hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. But, that didn’t stop one determined man from discovering a rare local break, then teaching himself to surf it. This is his story. Ira Mowen is an American artist living in the German city. He’s creating a documentary film about his experience finding and eventually surfing…

Tech News Wes Siler

This is how sex robots would look inside one day (NSFW)

I initially thought this was a photo of a real art installation reflecting on the the objectification of women. It is not. It’s a computer generated cutaway of a futuristic sex robot made by French 3D artist Cesar Vonc. After seeing this, I don’t think I would be able to get aroused by a sex…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The Air Force’s Stealth Cruise Missile Just Got Even More Stealthy

In order to keep its pilots out of enemy cross-hairs but still be able to deliver devastating strikes against hardened bunkers, the USAF has spent the better part of two decades developing a family of long-range, semi-autonomous cruise missiles called the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. And the latest JASSM progeny now can hit targets more…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A Planet In The Dreaded “Rotisserie” Alignment Could Still Support Life

One of the criteria for the habitability of exoplanets is their obliquity—the angle of the axis relative to the orbit around a star. Current thinking holds that the more extreme the tilt, the less likely the possibility of life. But MIT researchers suggest one notable exception: a world completely covered by water. Illustration by Christine…

io9 Mark Strauss

The Clones Are Ready For War In First Teaser For Orphan Black Season 3

Orphan Black’s second season ended with an Earth-shattering revelation, and now it looks like all the clones are preparing themselves for the fallout. But one clone is conspicuously absent. Don’t watch this unless you’ve already seen the second season finale. Clone roll call: We’ve got Cosima, Sarah, Helena, Alison, Charlotte, Mark, and the other Project…

Television Lauren Davis

Business Is Booming for Evolution, the Weapons and Drugs Dark Market

When the FBI seized the Silk Road 2 and other popular darknet markets, it was a dark day for people who buy illegal shit online. But it turned out to be a great day for Evolution, the largest market that didn’t get shut down in the raid. Research from the Digital Citizens Alliance confirms that…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

California Sees A Big Drop In Drought Severity

The latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows California experienced a major, state-wide dip in drought severity this week, following record-setting rainfall – but the state still has a long way to go. https://gizmodo.com/california-still-needs-11-trillion-gallons-of-water-to-1672304442 According to this morning’s report, more than three-quarters of California is still experiencing “extreme drought,” while nearly a third remains…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Search For Tweets By Location With Castround

This Dying Star Is The Center Of The Coldest Place In The Universe

For 7,500 Years, We’ve Made Sculptures Out Of Data

Western Fairytales Get A Korean Makeover In Gorgeous Illustrations

Hackers Can Read Your Texts Thanks to Huge Security Flaw

The Coolest (and Weirdest) Stuff From Today’s Animation Art Auction

The Complete History Of Earth In One Tidy Infographic

Those Medical Talk Shows Are Even More Inaccurate Than You Feared

Whosoever Holds This Mug, If He Be Worthy, Shall Possess A Warm Drink

A New Glimpse Into the Gigantic Construction Project Hidden Below NYC

Game Of Thrones‘ Arya Will Be Unrecognizable In Her Season 5 Outfit

Paramount Cancels Team America Screenings Because Everyone’s a Coward

The Best Last-Minute Geeky Gifts That You Can Get For Under $10

One Man’s Quest To Surf Berlin

This is how sex robots would look inside one day (NSFW)

The Air Force’s Stealth Cruise Missile Just Got Even More Stealthy

A Planet In The Dreaded “Rotisserie” Alignment Could Still Support Life

The Clones Are Ready For War In First Teaser For Orphan Black Season 3

Business Is Booming for Evolution, the Weapons and Drugs Dark Market

California Sees A Big Drop In Drought Severity

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