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Wizards Can Ride Starships in These Excellently Crunchy RPGs

Two RPGs that throw off the shackles of the “rules light” trend give players customizable spellcasting systems and the ability to design starships. Combine O.L.D. and N.E.W. RPGs and you can have both. O.L.D. and N.E.W. are mutually compatible tabletop RPGs designed by Russ Morrissey, owner of EN World. The game system is touted as…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: Less Is So Much More

If you can say one thing about Samsung’s Galaxy S line of smartphones, it’s that they consistently pair some of the best hardware with inexplicable software. The S5 scales back Samsung’s bells and whistles, which helps make it easily the best Galaxy phone yet. If only they’d gone even further. What Is it? Samsung’s new…

Reviews Brent Rose

Will Alaska’s Biggest Sled Dog Race Continue Without Snow?

The Iditarod, a 900-mile sled dog race across Alaska, goes on no matter what the weather, which can range from whiteout blizzards to hazardously frosty temps. But what happens when the racers show up and the snows don’t? This year, we found out. Top image: Iditarod dogs 2009, in snowier times / Frank Kovalchek. When…

io9 Ria Misra

Pentax 645Z: The Medium Format DSLR Gets a Major Sensor Upgrade

Medium format digital cameras are out of reach for most, but Pentax has been providing ones on the “affordable” side (under $10k), for a few years now. Their new guy, the 645Z, packs a brand new, friggin large, 51 megapixel CMOS sensor. How is that different from the old 645D? Well, that camera, and all…

Tech News Michael Hession

Apple CarPlay Comes to Pioneer’s Aftermarket Infotainment Systems

Apple iOS car integration is coming to loads more vehicles now, thanks to a firmware update that’ll make CarPlay available through Pioneer’s popular aftermarket in-dash infotainment systems. Apple is at long last jumping into in-car “infotainment” systems. As we recently saw in a Volvo demo, CarPlay basically puts iOS in your car’s dash, allowing you…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

It’s a Shame To Think These 3D Milled Ice Cubes Will Melt Away

You can find silicone ice cube moulds for everything from perfect spheres to gummy bears these days. But if you’re throwing a dinner party and really want to impress your guests, nothing says “I have too much money and free time” like using a 3D milling machine to sculpt a frozen drink-chilling masterpiece like this.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Avengers Assemble Episode Was A Crime Against All Marvel Fans

Lots of Marvel fans lamented the loss of the late, great Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon, but we understood when Marvel chose to replace it with a new cartoon, Avengers Assemble, that hewed more closely to the cinematic universe. And it sucks. Sometimes it’s just not very good, and sometimes, it’s so bad I have…

io9 Rob Bricken

8 Images of Hyper-Modern South Korea Compared With Its Past

Korea has undergone rapid change over the last century, with Seoul metamorphosing from the first East Asian city to light its royal palace with electricity to arguably the most modern city in the world. Photographer Sungseok Ahn captured change by setting up a screen and projecting the old on top of the new. I ran…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Discounted Today: USB3 Sticks, SD/microSD Cards, $2000 Flash Drives

Today’s Amazon Gold Box features flash storage ranging from 16GB to 2TB, and we’re not talking external hard drives. Pick up a new flash drive or memory card, or get your hands on the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 1TB USB3 Flash Drive, which is sitting at a new low by $100. [Amazon] USB3 Flash Drives Kingston…

Tech News Shane Roberts

NBC’s Rosemary’s Baby Trailer Updates A Classic, Keeps The Haircut

No one will ever be able to top the 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, but the NBC TV movie starring Zoe Saldana as the lead and Jason Isaacs as coven leader Roman Castevet, doesn’t look all that bad. Behold! The premiere is May 11th, and while we’re pretty sure no one will be able to…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Anyone Can Buy Google Glass Today, Starting Now

If you’ve long lusted over a pair of the world’s geekiest glasses, today all your Christmases come at once. For one day only, Google is allowing any United States resident to buy Glass. The folks at Mountain View still expect you to become a Glass Explorer—which means ponying up $1,500 for the privilege—but you will…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Saturn May Have Just Spawned A New Moon

New images acquired by Cassini show a bright clump orbiting Saturn at the outermost edge of its outer ring. Astronomers say it could be a brand new moon in the process of being born. The images show a 745-mile-long (1,200 km) and 6-mile-wide (10 km) arc of icy material traveling along the edge of the…

io9 George Dvorsky

Amazing Arcade Flight Simulator Spins Players Completely Upside-Down

The arcades that dominated the 1980s and 1990s slowly died off as home video game consoles became more and more capable, but there are apparently still some good reasons to keep a pocket full of quarters handy. Namely this arcade simulator for a game called War Thunder that puts Afterburner to shame. Most arcade simulators…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

“Creationist Cosmos” Reveals The Truths Regular Cosmos Won’t Tell You

Still upset that Neil deGrasse Tyson isn’t spending an equal amount of time on his show Cosmos discussing how science may be fake? Then Funny or Die’s “Creationist Cosmos” may be the show you’re looking for. That’s Veep’s Timothy Simons as the host/Creationist Baptist Church of Alabama Community Outreach Leader, doing an outstanding job. [Via…

io9 Rob Bricken

Dyson’s Massive Floating Trash Vacuum Could Clean Up Our Rivers

James Dyson’s has an idea for a new form of sucking machine—one so large it requires an entire barge to house it. The idea here is to let a giant water-going vessel free and allow it to “mine” rivers of all the floating junk that’s been tossed away into waterway everywhere since man first invented…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - GIzmodo UK

Meet The Retro Robot Band From The Fabulous ’50s

The Trio Fantastique — made up of guitarist Wink, drummer Blink and saxophonist Nod — was the creation of a Belgian engineer with the Scifi name of Zenon Specht. The robot band was a feature of Antwerp’s Robot Club, but also appeared in fairs and made a tour of department stores in Paris and Lens,…

io9 Ron Miller

A Map Of Every Earthquake Over The Last Century

This map takes every quake from the last century and plots them out to give a sense of the incredible scope — and the power — of earthquakes. The map is the work of Nathan Yau at FlowingData. Using USGS stats, Yau plotted 72,000 earthquakes topping magnitudes of 5.0 scale from the last century, each…

io9 Ria Misra

Everyone Has Hemorrhoids (Yes, Even You)

Much like bathroom-humor at the dinner table, hemorrhoids can be a taboo subject. The truth is, everyone has them. Their job is to protect your anal sphincter muscles (the ones that open and close your anus) and to help keep your anus closed when you have moments of increased abdominal pressure, like when you’re coughing.…

Health Scott - TodayIFoundOut.com

Heartbreaking Video Shows A Male Monkey Comforting His Dying Partner

Scientists working in Brazil recently witnessed a heartbreaking scene involving a female marmoset who sustained a mortal head injury after accidentally falling from a tree. They then watched in amazement as her partner of three-and-a-half years climbed down to comfort her as she lay dying. For primatologists, this is a truly rare occurrence. Prior to…

io9 George Dvorsky

How to Check If Your Android Device Could Be Hacked via Heartbleed

Heartbleed is causing heartache on hundreds of servers all over the internet, but security researchers have also warned that the bug could allow direct hacks of Android, too. Here’s how to check if your device is at risk. While researchers at security firm Symantec happily report that the major browsers don’t rely on the OpenSSL…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Wizards Can Ride Starships in These Excellently Crunchy RPGs

Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: Less Is So Much More

Will Alaska’s Biggest Sled Dog Race Continue Without Snow?

Pentax 645Z: The Medium Format DSLR Gets a Major Sensor Upgrade

Apple CarPlay Comes to Pioneer’s Aftermarket Infotainment Systems

It’s a Shame To Think These 3D Milled Ice Cubes Will Melt Away

This Avengers Assemble Episode Was A Crime Against All Marvel Fans

8 Images of Hyper-Modern South Korea Compared With Its Past

Discounted Today: USB3 Sticks, SD/microSD Cards, $2000 Flash Drives

NBC’s Rosemary’s Baby Trailer Updates A Classic, Keeps The Haircut

Anyone Can Buy Google Glass Today, Starting Now

Saturn May Have Just Spawned A New Moon

Amazing Arcade Flight Simulator Spins Players Completely Upside-Down

“Creationist Cosmos” Reveals The Truths Regular Cosmos Won’t Tell You

Dyson’s Massive Floating Trash Vacuum Could Clean Up Our Rivers

Meet The Retro Robot Band From The Fabulous ’50s

A Map Of Every Earthquake Over The Last Century

Everyone Has Hemorrhoids (Yes, Even You)

Heartbreaking Video Shows A Male Monkey Comforting His Dying Partner

How to Check If Your Android Device Could Be Hacked via Heartbleed

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