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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

In contrast to last week’s gush of new apps from the Microsoft Garage project, things have slowed back to normal. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some awesome apps to mention. Let’s also not forget that we achieved a major smartphone milestone this week: You can now order Taco Bell with just an app.…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Is The Public Pee Stain Typeface You’ve Been Waiting For

If you’ve been looking for that radical new typeface that will totally bring together than lackluster PowerPoint presentation, urine the wrong place. New York artist Aravindan Thirunavukarasu has created a typeface modeled after public pee graffiti. The “Art of Peeing” was modeled after the artist’s own pee calligraphy on walls around the city. CityLab was…

Tech News Darren Orf

What Do You Miss Most About the Early Days of the Internet?

Nostalgia is making a come back, specifically warm and fuzzy feelings about the internet’s early years. Influences of Web 1.0 can be seen in new apps from Facebook and Ello’s stripped-down design and call for an ad-free social network. But what do you miss from those early years of web surfing? Since the internet became…

Tech News Darren Orf

How the Most Prolific Counterfeiter in America Made His Millions

Welcome to another installment of Reading List where we take a look at some of the the great tech and science reads from around the web. This week we enter the weird world of sweeping, gaze through the lens of ghost cams still haunting the internet, look at why technological limits made Abbey Road Studios…

Tech News Darren Orf

Back of the Box – 11/02/2014

The final countdown begins – It’s November, and that means there’s only one month left for Toybox’s time on the recruit program. Let’s look back at the last week in Pop Culture before looking ahead to the rest of the month. First off, I’d like to apologise for the barren nature of the page today…

Tech News James Whitbrook

11 of the Best Sci-Fi Robots Ever

The thing that makes art great—whether film, books, or TV shows—is that it aims to teach us about ourselves and the human condition. But sometimes in order to do that, you need a teacher who is completely inhuman. That’s where robots come in. Robots have origins rooted in ancient mythology and have often been used…

Tech News Darren Orf

Baseball, Lava, Street Harassment: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

A video on street harassment sparks an online debate. Fiery lava is slowly encroaching upon a town in Hawaii. And winning the World Series is always a great excuse to burn down a neighborhood. It’s a hot list in this week’s What’s Ruining Our Cities. A World Series championship ruined San Francisco Because nothing says…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Creepy Cop Charged With Stealing Nudes Off Suspect’s Smartphone

Earlier this week, a California cop was accused of texting and disseminating nude photos from a 23-year-old woman’s smartphone. Well, the depressing end result of this gross accusation is, yep, he totally did it. The woman, who was being detained as a suspect on a DUI charge, allowed the cop to slip by her passcode…

Tech News Darren Orf

Why Do Zombies Shuffle?

This headline isn’t the set up for a joke (although I obviously welcome your punchlines in the comments); it’s a real question. Is there a neuroscientific basis for the prototypic zombie’s lumbering gait? Neuroscientists Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek wrote Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? to provide readers a neuroscientific view of the zombie…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

U.N. Panel Reaffirms That Climate Change Is “Irreversible”

The U.N. panel charged with a five-year mission to assess global climate change and provide a necessary course of action in order to stem its negative effects finally released a Synthesis Report detailing their findings in stark black-and-white. The news was all pretty doom and gloom. “Human influence on the climate system is clear,” says…

Climate Change Darren Orf

You Either Solve This Riddle, Or You Die

Answer this week’s riddle incorrectly, and your life – and the lives of 22 others – will be forfeit. Sunday Puzzle #5: 23 Prisoners, 2 Switches A warden meets with 23 newly arrived prisoners. He tells them, “You may meet today and plan a strategy. But after today, you will be in isolated cells and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

SNL GoPro Parody Invites Action Cam Enthusiasts to “Go Deeper”

GoPro is the go anywhere, do anything camera that’s the go-to solution for athletes to capture that perfect wave or that harrowing 1080, but last night SNL dreamed up another addition to the GoPro family specifically for detecting colon cancer: the GoProbe. The skit opens with the stereotypical b-roll of the skaters, surfers, and snowboards…

Tech News Darren Orf

Researcher Who Found ‘Puppy Sized Spider’ Received Death Threats

Last month, Harvard entomologist Piotr Naskrecki’s wrote a blog post about finding a “puppy-sized” spider in South America. The post went viral. A few days later, Naskrecki was receiving death threats. Why? For collecting one of the specimens he described in his post, and placing it in a museum. Naskrecki appeared on NPR yesterday to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The 10 Greatest Changes Of The Past Millennium

Historian Ian Mortimer, author of Centuries of Change, has assembled an intriguing list of the ten biggest changes of the last 1000 years. Above: The French Academy of Sciences was established in 1666 The list, published atThe Guardian, focuses mostly on the UK and Europe, though a Eurocentric perspective on the last 1000 years isn’t…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Jane Goodall To John Oliver: “I Don’t Like You”

John Oliver sat down with primatologist Jane Goodall recently to discuss the “objectivity” of scientific research and, more importantly, brainstorm dirty chimp names. It was a surprisingly productive meeting, notwithstanding Goodall’s feelings toward Oliver. Seriously, though. Jane Goodall is the best.

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The “Ideal” Microbiome Is a Myth

Embracing the complexity of the microbiome means doing away with pat conceptions of its function. Your body is a habitat to trillions of microscopic organisms known, collectively, as your microbiome. Today, the microbiome is one of the hottest areas of biological research, and for good reason. This body-wide ecosystem not only adapts to our diets,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What Was the World’s First Triboluminescent Technology?

Triboluminescence is light emitted by the mechanical stimulation of crystals. The first people to use it might have been a Native American tribe. Learn about the physics of glowing crystals and the people who used it. You can generate triboluminescence relatively cheaply. All it takes is some quartz, which most of you can pick up…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

One man’s glorious tribute to Ewok action Figures

David Mizejewski works for the National Wildlife Federation in his day job, but in his spare time he’s apparently a rather avid fan of Return of the Jedi’s fluffy guerilla fighters, the Ewoks. In celebration of World Ewok Appreciation Day (!?), he shared pictures of his very own elaborate Ewok village display. First of all…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Can Brown Bears, House Cats, and Gorillas Teach Us About Human Health?

The fact that humans and animals suffer from many of the same diseases is no longer controversial. But do they have similar causes? How do factors like air quality, social stress, and the built environment contribute to health and illness in people and animals? We live-tweeted the Zoobiquity conference today, which was devoted to discussing…

Health Jason G. Goldman

Report: A New Google Product Will Rival AirDrop

Last year when Google bought Bump, an app that lets users transfer data from device to device without help from NFC, its plans for the app weren’t clear. But based on reports from Android Police yesterday, Google’s been working on a service that may integrate some of that functionality. According to the report, the code-name…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This Is The Public Pee Stain Typeface You’ve Been Waiting For

What Do You Miss Most About the Early Days of the Internet?

How the Most Prolific Counterfeiter in America Made His Millions

Back of the Box – 11/02/2014

11 of the Best Sci-Fi Robots Ever

Baseball, Lava, Street Harassment: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Creepy Cop Charged With Stealing Nudes Off Suspect’s Smartphone

Why Do Zombies Shuffle?

U.N. Panel Reaffirms That Climate Change Is “Irreversible”

You Either Solve This Riddle, Or You Die

SNL GoPro Parody Invites Action Cam Enthusiasts to “Go Deeper”

Researcher Who Found ‘Puppy Sized Spider’ Received Death Threats

The 10 Greatest Changes Of The Past Millennium

Jane Goodall To John Oliver: “I Don’t Like You”

The “Ideal” Microbiome Is a Myth

What Was the World’s First Triboluminescent Technology?

One man’s glorious tribute to Ewok action Figures

Can Brown Bears, House Cats, and Gorillas Teach Us About Human Health?

Report: A New Google Product Will Rival AirDrop

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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This Is The Public Pee Stain Typeface You’ve Been Waiting For

What Do You Miss Most About the Early Days of the Internet?

How the Most Prolific Counterfeiter in America Made His Millions

Back of the Box – 11/02/2014

11 of the Best Sci-Fi Robots Ever

Baseball, Lava, Street Harassment: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

​Creepy Cop Charged With Stealing Nudes Off Suspect’s Smartphone

Why Do Zombies Shuffle?

U.N. Panel Reaffirms That Climate Change Is “Irreversible”

You Either Solve This Riddle, Or You Die

SNL GoPro Parody Invites Action Cam Enthusiasts to “Go Deeper”

Researcher Who Found ‘Puppy Sized Spider’ Received Death Threats

The 10 Greatest Changes Of The Past Millennium

Jane Goodall To John Oliver: “I Don’t Like You”

The “Ideal” Microbiome Is a Myth

What Was the World’s First Triboluminescent Technology?

One man’s glorious tribute to Ewok action Figures

Can Brown Bears, House Cats, and Gorillas Teach Us About Human Health?

Report: A New Google Product Will Rival AirDrop

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

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