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Trash Talk Bassist Destroys a Drone With a Beer and That’s Pretty Punk

Punk shows have an indescribable energy. They’re a kind of “you had to be there, man” experience. And like anything worth seeing nowadays, someone decided to film one with a drone. But where drones are commonplace when filming scenic parks or sprawling cityscapes, punk shows might prove to be a more hostile environment. Harry Arnold,…

Tech News Darren Orf

What Movie Would You Want To Watch on the Oculus Rift?

The Oculus Rift is built for gaming. Despite rumors about Facebook talking with movie studios and Palmer Luckey’s appearance last week at SIGGRAPH 2014 hinting at other use cases for his VR headwear, the Rift will be a video game device for the foreseeable future. But the growing evidence is undeniable. Companies are developing cameras…

Tech News Darren Orf

This May Be The Most Convincing Sunscreen Advertisement We’ve Ever Seen

And it’s not even technically an ad. Artist Thomas Leveritt used a specially equipped video camera to demonstrate the UV-blocking power of sunscreen to passersby in Brooklyn, New York. The effect was dramatic. A UV filter, it seems, can make you see sunscreen in an entirely different light [Update: Leveritt has stopped by to talk…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Set Your Alarm: Venus and Jupiter Will Light Up the Pre-Dawn Sky

This is a week dedicated to the early riser. If you’re an energetic morning person who can actually operate in the early hours or just have a strong desire for astronomy that overrides your need for sleep, then you’ll be able to witness quite the light show. At about 45 minutes before sunrise (about 5:2o…

Space & Spaceflight Darren Orf

Twitter Tests Turning Favorites Into Retweets, Frustration Ensues

Social media websites are one massive, ongoing experiment. If they’re not specifically experimenting on you, then they’re tinkering with function or nipping and tucking design elements to give their site a one up on the competition. For Twitter, visual changes usually come in the guise of a limited rollout and grow from there. Earlier this…

Tech News Darren Orf

All The Most Exciting Moments From The 2014 Hugo Awards!

Tonight at the World SF Convention, we saw the brilliance and inventiveness of science fiction and fantasy on full display. Tonight’s Hugo Awards winners include Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, along with stories by Charles Stross, Mary Robinette Kowal and John Chu. And Kameron Hurley, twice. Photo by Kevin Standlee This was really a year…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

This Hyperactive Acid Trip Is Actually Birdsong Visualized

Australian artist Andy Thomas recently built a visualizer for birdsongs, the latest in his fascinating line up of so-called “audio life forms.” As the term implies, these gorgeous creations look like the sounds they represent and react accordingly. The end result is an acid trip of an experience. In many ways, Thomas’s visualizer is just…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Terrible Things That Happen When You Like Everything on Facebook

Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo’s Sunday afternoon roundup of this week’s best writing from around the web. Today we’ve got great stuff from Wired, New York Times Magazine, re:form, and more! Mat Honan performed what sounds like a simple and straightforward Facebook experiment: Liking every single item that popped up in his Newsfeed, just to…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Best Buy’s Website Prices Moto 360 at $250

Motorola’s upcoming, stunningly circular wearable has been a pretty leaky ship. We even got to spend some hands-on time with the device. But the one thing that’s been eluding us is the price. According a Best Buy product page, you’ll need to shell out $250 if you want a Moto 360 smartwatch. That prices makes…

Tech News Darren Orf

Watch the 2014 Hugo Awards Live, Right Now!

The 2014 Hugo Awards Ceremony kicks off today at 12 noon, PDT. Watch the broadcast, streaming live from Loncon 3, right here on io9! https://gizmodo.com/announcing-the-2014-hugo-award-nominees-1565144494 You can also follow along with text-based coverage on the Hugo Awards website. Be sure to check back here for the complete list of winners later this evening! Broadcast live…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

An Incredible Close-Up View Of One Of The World’s Most Venomous Spiders

The formidable fangs of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) are certainly intimidating, but it’s this spider’s venom that you really need to watch out for. Photo Credit: Alex Wild According to National Geographic, the fangs of A. robustus “may be the most dangerous ‘teeth’ in the world.” We think that’s a bit of an…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Century-Old Urban Policy That Divides St. Louis

Those of us who grew up in St. Louis have a pretty cool parlor trick we can perform for you. We can basically predict the conversation that will occur, word-for-word, when we meet another person who grew up in St. Louis. Here is the first question we will ask each other: “What high school did…

Tech News Alissa Walker

These Are All The Places That Curiosity Didn’t Land On Mars

Picking a good landing site is key for a rover mission. Here’s a look at all the locations that were under consideration when deciding where to drop the Curiosity rover on Mars two years ago, set to oddly dated soundtrack. [HiRISE]

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Godzilla Delivers His Best ‘I Am Batman’

“YOU GUISE WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING? I AM BATMAN.” Best I can tell, this comes from an amazing series over on GIGABLOG that includes images like this: And this: If you have a more definitive lead on the provenance on these photos, please don’t hesitate to sound off in the comments. I’ve been giggling over…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

How to Donate Your Body to Science

What are you going to do when you die, just rot in the ground like a selfish jerk? If instead you’d rather set those organs you aren’t using anymore to better use saving lives and training surgeons, here’s what you need to know about making something of your afterlife. Before you blanche, the practice is…

Health Andrew Tarantola

Watch The Buffy Parody Series So Bad It Never Aired. Until Now.

Back in 2007, the folks behind Not Another High School Movie created the pilot for Not Another High School Show. As you can probably guess, the show was a spoof of all the tween TV series we love, starring Alison Brie and Jennifer Lawrence. Now, the first-ever footage from the parody series is out. It’s…

Television Meredith Woerner

Surveys Can Make People Go Extreme

There are all kinds of reasons why people don’t tell the truth when asked questions. Sometimes they suddenly turn into fanatics. They hate, or love, anything. Here’s how you catch people when they go extreme, or when they try to just get along. We already know that people deliberately lie when given surveys on sex…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How Do You Know You’re Real?

In this video from TED-Ed, James Zucker teams up with Stretch Films’ John R. Dilworth to dish out a cogent, three-minute introduction to René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. If you’ve ever wondered how to get from “How do I know I’m real?” to “I think, therefore I am,” this one’s for you. Complement with…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Sneaky Mom App Locks Smartphones and Is an Angsty Teen’s Nightmare

What can only be described as the “end of days” for angsty teens eager to escape the yoke of overbearing parents, a new $2 Android app called Ignore No More turns any misbehaving miscreants’ smartphone into a really, really dumb phone. In fact once locked, it can only do two things—call 911 or call mom.…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Is What The Rattlesnake “Combat Dance” Looks Like

Southern Pacific Rattlesnakes are a common sight in the forests and hiking trails in Southern California, so it was no surprise that a group of mountain bikers – who were also National Park Service volunteers – came across a pair of the rattlers last week. They were, however, treated to a unique bit of snake…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Trash Talk Bassist Destroys a Drone With a Beer and That’s Pretty Punk

What Movie Would You Want To Watch on the Oculus Rift?

This May Be The Most Convincing Sunscreen Advertisement We’ve Ever Seen

Set Your Alarm: Venus and Jupiter Will Light Up the Pre-Dawn Sky

Twitter Tests Turning Favorites Into Retweets, Frustration Ensues

All The Most Exciting Moments From The 2014 Hugo Awards!

This Hyperactive Acid Trip Is Actually Birdsong Visualized

The Terrible Things That Happen When You Like Everything on Facebook

Best Buy’s Website Prices Moto 360 at $250

Watch the 2014 Hugo Awards Live, Right Now!

An Incredible Close-Up View Of One Of The World’s Most Venomous Spiders

The Century-Old Urban Policy That Divides St. Louis

These Are All The Places That Curiosity Didn’t Land On Mars

Godzilla Delivers His Best ‘I Am Batman’

How to Donate Your Body to Science

Watch The Buffy Parody Series So Bad It Never Aired. Until Now.

Surveys Can Make People Go Extreme

How Do You Know You’re Real?

A Sneaky Mom App Locks Smartphones and Is an Angsty Teen’s Nightmare

This Is What The Rattlesnake “Combat Dance” Looks Like

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