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36,000-year-old Human DNA Reveals Europe’s Deep Past

He was a European with dark skin and dark eyes. And his ancestry was mixed. A group of geneticists have sequenced DNA from the remains of a man who died 36,000 years ago in Kostenki, Russia, near the Ukraine border. The results are surprising, and could reveal a lot about how modern humans spread out…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 7 '14

Watch Following To See the Legendary Christopher Nolan’s Beginnings

If you want to know what a filmmaker is really like at their core, watch their first movie. Thanks to tiny budgets and a lack of experience, these movies tend to be very direct in style, and a lot more honest. Following is exactly that. It’s a boiled down collection of what went on to…

Tech News Nicholas Stango Nov 7 '14

Seeing machines build cars always makes me think we’re in the future

I forget how cool the technology around us is sometimes. And then I get reminded when I see these giant machine robot arms make a car. It reminds of those futuristic scenes of sci-fi movies that make me wonder how come we’re not advancing fast enough. Truth is, we really are. Here’s footage of a…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 7 '14

Why The Next “Best Actor” Oscar Could End Up Going To A Team

Part of the mystique of the Oscars for best actor and actress is their singularity: Just one person gets each award every year. But, an interesting new development has the potential to turn that notion on its head, opening the door for a whole team, not just one person, to snag the nod. After reading…

io9 Ria Misra Nov 7 '14

Why I’d Let Google Put My Genome in the Cloud

For the past 18 months, according to the Tech Review, Google has been quietly rolling out a cloud computing service for DNA. Google Genomics could one day have millions of genomes on its servers, available at a click of a button to researchers. Are there legitimate privacy concerns here? Definitely, but it’s not Google’s grubby…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Nov 7 '14

Cyclists spin around in light suits

It’s like a trippy and visually spectacular 3D kaleidoscope or something. The cyclists are wearing a LED light suit that can change colors and the flash-rate and the luminosity so that they can look completely different while they spin around in carefully choreographed moves. Called Ghost Peloton, it was created by NVA and the Phoenix…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 7 '14

T-Pain: Stoicville

T-Pain premiered this song over at the Fader yesterday. He says its one of 127 songs he already has recorded off his forthcoming album, and it’s an autotune-free, heartfelt beauty. If you’re not convinced by Teddy Bend Her Ass Down’s ability without autotune, check out his NPR Tiny Desk concert. It’s excellent. After a few…

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 7 '14

Peter Capaldi Recorded This Message In Character To Help A Grieving Boy

It’s always immensely sweet when actors who play iconic characters understand the power those characters have and wield them for good. Peter Capaldi recorded this video as the Twelfth Doctor to help a nine-year-old boy with autism cope with the death of his grandmother. Ross Goodall said this video arrived the day before the funeral…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 7 '14

Agent Carter Adds Whiplash’s Dad, Because Why The @#$% Not

Hey, remember in Iron Man 2, when Whiplash was all super-pissed at Tony Stark because Tony’s dad Howard screwed over his dad? And you didn’t care because you were much more confused about why Whiplash had a parrot? Agent Carter will reveal the story behind the dad (but not the parrot, alas). Australian actor Costa…

io9 Rob Bricken Nov 7 '14

The Lick Observatory Has Been Saved!

It’s the world’s oldest mountaintop observatory, but Lick Observatory was about to shut down due to lack of money. The venerable facility was about to close forever. But then it was saved at the last minute, thanks entirely to public funding. Sometimes we can have nice things.

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 7 '14

Pilot lands airplane in the middle of a forest way up in the mountains

That’s some serious skill. Not only is the plane landing in the mountains, it’s also in the middle of the forest. Not only is it in the middle of the forest but the runway is incredibly narrow. Not only is the runway narrow but it’s a bumpy ass strip of dirt too. So yeah. That…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 7 '14

A Closer Look at Some of the Most Familiar Logos Ever Designed

The modern logo is actually surprisingly old: The first trademarked logo dates all the way back to the 18th century. But it wasn’t until the 20th—the era of instant and ubiquitous communication—that identity design really bloomed. A few moths ago we wrote about Manuals 1, a book of great corporate logo design, from NASA to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 7 '14

This Rocket Raccoon is 3 Feet tall, made of Foam and yours for $350

First came the action figures. Then the plushies, and the T-Shirts, and all the other paraphernalia – but this might just laud over them all as a testament to absolutely absurd Rocket Raccoon merchandise. Well, actually it is going to laud over them all, it’s three feet tall. NECA announced this full-sized Rocket Raccoon earlier…

Tech News James Whitbrook Nov 7 '14

Walmart’s Chromecast Knockoff Looks Like How They Stream in Hell

I suspect the Germans have a word for taking something great and then stripping it of everything remotely joyful until it’s a cold hollow shell not fit for existence. Now I do too! Well, two words, I guess: Vudu Spark. The Vudu Spark is not a thing you can purchase yet; as first reported by…

Tech News Brian Barrett Nov 7 '14

Teens Created This Shot-for-Shot Remake of the Ghostbusters Trailer

And it’s hilariously great. h/t Bonnie Burton

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 7 '14

What Actually Goes Down on the International Space Station

The main purpose of the International Space Station is to provide an international laboratory for experiments within the space environment. Which, despite all our technological advances, is nearly impossible to replicate here on Earth. Because for many of those experiments, the key parameter is—you guessed it—weightlessness. While we do have a vacuum chamber tower facility…

Space & Spaceflight Robert Frost - Quora Nov 7 '14

Broke Ex-Apple Sapphire Supplier Says Apple Pulled a Bait-and-Switch

When Apple and GT Technologies first struck a deal for GT to produce sapphire for Apple’s products, GT announced the deal with excitement. Now that GT has filed for bankruptcy, the company is painting the deal in very a different light. GT COO David Squiller condemned Apple for pulling a “bait and switch” resulting in…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Nov 7 '14

Reader’s Digest Will Pay to Retweet You in Print

You there! Hooligan! How much to retweet that tweet about butts in our weekly print periodical? Twenty-five dollars, you say? Sold! At least, that’s how we’d like to imagine it went down. Because as more and more traditional newspapers are being forced to shutter their doors in favor of their internet-based brethren, the ones that…

Social Media Ashley Feinberg Nov 7 '14

The Best Reason to See Interstellar: It’s Part of a Dying Breed of Film

There’s something exceptional about Interstellar that everyone should experience—it is a moviemaking “alignment of stars” akin to the perfect storm in music that lead to Woodstock. It’s a film so extravagant in nature, it was projected in 70mm, a format equal to the scale of its fantastic story, and shot on IMAX 65mm. Shooting in…

Tech News Nicholas Stango Nov 7 '14

This Robot Can Tap People Until They Hallucinate

Ever get that tingly creeping feeling that someone is behind you, only to turn around and discover there’s nothing there? That’s called “Feeling of Presence,” and it doesn’t mean you’re getting trailed by a ghoul. It can be a symptom of many neurological conditions, which is why scientists custom-built a robot to induce that very…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Nov 7 '14

36,000-year-old Human DNA Reveals Europe’s Deep Past

Watch Following To See the Legendary Christopher Nolan’s Beginnings

Seeing machines build cars always makes me think we’re in the future

Why The Next “Best Actor” Oscar Could End Up Going To A Team

Why I’d Let Google Put My Genome in the Cloud

Cyclists spin around in light suits

T-Pain: Stoicville

Peter Capaldi Recorded This Message In Character To Help A Grieving Boy

Agent Carter Adds Whiplash’s Dad, Because Why The @#$% Not

The Lick Observatory Has Been Saved!

Pilot lands airplane in the middle of a forest way up in the mountains

A Closer Look at Some of the Most Familiar Logos Ever Designed

This Rocket Raccoon is 3 Feet tall, made of Foam and yours for $350

Walmart’s Chromecast Knockoff Looks Like How They Stream in Hell

Teens Created This Shot-for-Shot Remake of the Ghostbusters Trailer

What Actually Goes Down on the International Space Station

Broke Ex-Apple Sapphire Supplier Says Apple Pulled a Bait-and-Switch

Reader’s Digest Will Pay to Retweet You in Print

The Best Reason to See Interstellar: It’s Part of a Dying Breed of Film

This Robot Can Tap People Until They Hallucinate

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