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Is This DJI’s New Drone?

identifies The hobby drone world is all aflutter this week as DJI prepares to unleash its latest creation onto the world: the Inspire 1. And just like Apple fanboys, they’re eagerly seeking out leaks. The latest images look, well, pretty real. The quadcopter in question is black and white and shaped like an “H.” Quadcopter…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

These Iconic Road Trips Make You Want To Grab a Camera and Just Drive

The road trip is one of the great American photographic traditions. Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, a new book published by Aperture, revisits the journeys of 18 influential photographers as they set out in search of weird, beautiful, and unknown things to point their cameras at. It’s hard to imagine the evolution…

Books & Comics Michael Hession

This Is The Future Of War

War has been with us throughout our history — and it will likely continue to be with us for some time. But will the ways in which we wage war change? Here’s how the wars of the future could unfold. Some of the next wave of weapons will also undoubtedly be focused on digital strikes…

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NASA Captured the Lonely Last Journey of an Aircraft Carrier

This is the loneliest funeral march I’ve ever seen. This photo from November 5th was taken during a NASA mission called Operation IceBridge, the goal of which is to survey polar ice. But it also captured the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64), a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier being towed by comparatively tiny tugboats. The Constellation is…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Call The Avengers: The Pentagon wants to make helicarriers

DARPA—the Pentagon’s advanced military technology research agency—is taking a page from Marvel’s playbook and wants to make “aircraft carriers in the sky.” They won’t be Nimitz-size, of course, but they will have “to carry, launch and recover multiple unmanned air systems for a variety of missions.” According to the agency, drones are obviously a great…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Do You Care About Frozen‘s Origin Story? Nope. OK, Then Skip This OUAT

The best part of Once Upon A Time last night was cruelly teased and then ripped away. There was a fairy tale Mommy & Me play date and Emma got all upset because she’s no longer an infant. The rest was about Frozen. 🙁 Look, if you’re super into the Frozen storyline, this isn’t going…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Geologists Found “Not Guilty” of Causing Deaths in Italian Quake

An appeals court has cleared seven experts of manslaughter charges after being accused of failing to adequately warn citizens of the risk before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009. The verdict had outraged many in the scientific community. The six scientists and one governmental officialwere facing six-year jail terms in the wake of a…

io9 George Dvorsky

You Can Finally Edit Your Embarrassing Typos on Instagram

Mistake-makers, rejoice. After years of choosing between deleting an entire photo and report it or living with the typos and ill-conceived jokes of the original, Instagram has decided to allow us to edit our captions after they’ve been published. In a blog post this afternoon, Instagram’s staff described the feature as “one of the top…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Transforming Gift Wrap Means You’re Actually Giving Two Presents

If you’ve ever looked at a mountain of shredded wrapping paper after a birthday party or Christmas morning and felt guilty about the waste—even if you intend to recycle it all—then you’ll surely appreciate Nendo’s alternative gift wrap that turns into a reusable tote afterwards. The simple fabric bags come in three different sizes, with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Evidence that Killer Whales Are Trying to Communicate with Dolphins

Humans are not the only creatures who try to imitate the sounds of other animals. It turns out that killer whales try to imitate dolphin clicks. But why? Photo by Monika Wieland via Shutterstock Over at Seriously, Science?, we learn that a new scientific study has identified a series of calls that killer whales make…

io9 Annalee Newitz

So. Much. Armor: A Collection Of Glorious BlizzCon Cosplay!

BlizzCon was this past weekend in Anaheim, and fans of Blizzard’s games and other game franchises descended on SoCal to celebrate their greatest heroes and inspirations. Which involved a LOT of incredible armor and painstaking recreations of weapons. Check out some of our favorites from BlizzCon below. This cosplay photography comes viaphotographer Davann Srey, who…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What happened to all the Fantasy Movies?

While writing my guide to the heroes of Duncan Jones’ Warcraft Movie over the weekend, something really struck me. What happened to big ticket Epic Fantasy at the box office? Fantasy movies in the early 00’s went through something of a renaissance – we had Lord of the Rings dominating the box offices, and the…

Movies James Whitbrook

Behind The Scenes With Ray Harryhausen And His Special Effects Models

Ray Harryhausen was the stop-motion special effects pioneer behind movies like Mighty Joe Young, Jason and the Argonauts, and Clash of the Titans. And while his creations were impressive on the screen, it’s equally remarkable to see Harryhausen creating and manipulating them in his studio. The from Mighty Joe Young, 1949 (via Chelloveck) The Rhedosaurus…

io9 Vincze Miklós

One in four self-made American billionaires dropped out of college

Bloomberg crunched the numbers on “self-made” billionaires in the U.S. and found that about a quarter of them were college dropouts. Ten of America’s 43 self-made billionaires dropped out. One, Harold Hamm, never even attended college. College drop-outs (estimated worth): Sheldon Adelson dropped out of City College of New York ($36.4 billion) Paul Allen dropped…

Tech News Matt Novak

Mozilla Is Helping Tor Get Bigger and Better

Mozilla knows what’s up. The non-profit is aware that the vast majority of its users think that privacy on the internet is falling apart, so it’s launching a new strategic privacy initiativecalled Polaris. And you’ll never guess who’s on board. Just kidding, it’s totally obvious: the Tor Project. Along with the Center for Democracy &…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

HBO Will Make Asimov’s Foundation With Interstellar‘s Jonathan Nolan

It looks like HBO is teaming up with Interstellar writer and Person Of Interest showrunner Jonathan Nolan to adapt the highly revered and beloved Foundation books into a TV series. Wow. The Wrap is reporting that Jonathan Nolan will be working with HBO for yet another series. The Interstellar writer is currently working on a…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Stop Putting New Age Pseudoscience in Our Science Fiction

If the pseudoscientific woo about love and time travel in Interstellar pissed you off, you aren’t alone. Though Christopher Nolan’s gorgeous space opera isn’t the first science fiction film to descend into a morass of new age platitudes, here’s why it should be the last. Spoilers for Interstellar ahead. Let’s get something clear. There are…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The US Postal Service Got Hacked

The U.S. Postal Service just made a bad-news delivery to its 800,000 employees: Their personal data, including social security numbers, may have been stolen. The good news: It doesn’t look like the pilfered information has been used. “It’s an unfortunate fact of life these days that every organization connected to the internet is a constant…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Watch the Atlas Robot Show Off Some Mad Balancing Skills

The latest version of IHMC’s Atlas has a new trick up its sleeve, one that makes it look like it’s auditioning for a part in some kind of future-dystopian version of The Karate Kid. Thankfully, it can only pull off the balancing portion of the Crane Kick, which given the bot’s weight and proportions, is…

io9 George Dvorsky

This build looks dilapidated even in shiny Lego brick

This build, by LegoJalex, won third place in the Swebricks Lego competition The city we built. The contest was decided by forum vote, so as in this case, the best build did not win. LegoJalex used some great techniques to make even the most brilliant colors of brick look old and run down. You’re reading…

Tech News Michael Schulte

Is This DJI’s New Drone?

These Iconic Road Trips Make You Want To Grab a Camera and Just Drive

This Is The Future Of War

NASA Captured the Lonely Last Journey of an Aircraft Carrier

Call The Avengers: The Pentagon wants to make helicarriers

Do You Care About Frozen‘s Origin Story? Nope. OK, Then Skip This OUAT

Geologists Found “Not Guilty” of Causing Deaths in Italian Quake

You Can Finally Edit Your Embarrassing Typos on Instagram

Transforming Gift Wrap Means You’re Actually Giving Two Presents

Evidence that Killer Whales Are Trying to Communicate with Dolphins

So. Much. Armor: A Collection Of Glorious BlizzCon Cosplay!

What happened to all the Fantasy Movies?

Behind The Scenes With Ray Harryhausen And His Special Effects Models

One in four self-made American billionaires dropped out of college

Mozilla Is Helping Tor Get Bigger and Better

HBO Will Make Asimov’s Foundation With Interstellar‘s Jonathan Nolan

Stop Putting New Age Pseudoscience in Our Science Fiction

The US Postal Service Got Hacked

Watch the Atlas Robot Show Off Some Mad Balancing Skills

This build looks dilapidated even in shiny Lego brick

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