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Shure’s New Cheap Earbuds Will Sound Way Better Than Your Crap EarPods

Shure is one of the oldest players in the earbud game—the company accidentally helped invent the category in the 90s whilst designing in-ear stage monitors for musicians. The company’s stuff sounds fantastic, and now with it’s new SE112, they’ll cost just a couple bucks more than the unfortunate buds that ship with your phone. Specs…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Afghanistan Gets Spooky Ghostriders as the AC-130H Retires

For more than 40 years, American ground forces have relied on the AC-130 gunship for protection and close air support. However, the venerable AC-130H Specter variant, which has been deployed in every major combat operation since Vietnam, is beginning to show its age. As such, the Air Force’s 16th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron has recently…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Why Supercentenarians Hold the Key to Extended Life

Supercentenarians are rare people who have reached the age of 110 and remain fit. Amazingly, many of them never get sick, despite having some bad health habits in some cases. Scientists say it all comes down to genetics — which could lead to a gene therapy that promotes longevity. Here’s how super-c’s will help us…

io9 George Dvorsky

Crab steals a video camera and tries to take it home

Sometimes, observing wildlife doesn’t go quite the way you hoped it would. When Diederick Ryan decided to film the local crabs while on vacation, he didn’t expect one of them to try to run off with the camera. [Laughing Squid]

io9 Lauren Davis

A Tour of the Largest Commingled Recycling Plant in the U.S.

As of last month, New York City’s Sunset Park waterfront is home to the largest commingle recycling facility in the nation. After its inaugural run on opening day, the facility shut down for some final tweaks and testing before it opens full time. During this period of maintenance, Gizmodo visited the new facility for a…

Tech News Nicholas Stango

Behold the gorgeous, batsht insanity of the new Monkey King* trailer

There’s no way to adequately describe this new trailer for Donnie Yen’s The Monkey King, so you’re just going to have to watch it. Just don’t confuse it with Stephen Chow’s goofier cinematic take on the Chinese legend, Journey to the West. Because when it saw this Monkey King trailer, it curled up into a…

Trailers Rob Bricken

That time we nearly nuked Canada (with their permission)

The fifties and sixties were a crazy time when it came to nuclear bombs. Half the population was trying to build shelters to get away from them, and half saw them as the wave of the future. Some of that second half came up with a great idea – nuke Canada for oil. The Athabasca…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How To Order Internet Delivery During a Blizzard and Not Be a Dick

If you live in the blizzard-ridden United States, you might be looking out your window at a harsh, desolate, snowy wasteland. Cars in the middle of the street. Frosty despair. But you’re also hungry. Here’s how to order in, guilt-free. The advent of online food delivery has ushered in an era of indulgent slothfulness for…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Disney is giving the Star Wars comics license to Marvel in 2015

Dark Horse has just announced that they are losing the Star Wars comics license, as Disney has chosen to give it to their more-or-less in-house publisher Marvel. Damn. This announcement isn’t particularly surprising, but it’s still the end of an era — Dark Horse has been publishing Star Wars comics for over two decades, and…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

What Harry Potter book covers from all over the world look like

Different translations and editions of the Harry Potter books receive different covers, which means that each volume has been treated to a variety of artistic styles, from grand paintings to cartoons to works that focus on a single magical object. redditor AtlaKorra collected 20 different sets of Harry Potter covers, highlighting the differences between the…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

The Snowstorm Ruining Your Day Looks Like a Monster From Space

A monster of a winter storm ruined a lot of people’s Fridays this week with brutally cold temperatures and buckets of snow. This image, taken by NASA on Thursday, reveals that the storm indeed looks like a yeti crawling drunkenly out of the Atlantic in an effort to devour Omaha. Stay safe out there! [NASA]

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

What If Operating Systems Were Religions?

Yesterday, after writing my way past the notional halfway point (both of the current novel manuscript, and of the trilogy it’s the middle volume of), I went and overindulged in food and drink with friends. Over the beer, the conversation turned—for no sane reason—to computer operating systems. There being some non-technical folks at the table,…

Tech News Charles Stross

16 Trick Arrows That Make Green Arrow’s Boxing Glove Arrow Look Cool

We have made fun of Green Arrow’s Boxing Glove Arrow for too long. Sure, it’s easy to laugh at a man firing a boxing glove from his bow, but it’s still an arrow meant to knock bad guys out instead of piercing their flesh, and that’s genuinely useful. Besides, Green Arrow has had dozens of…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

These skydiving lunatics prove the world has always had total badasses

Borderline supermen have been making crazy dives at the Earth since long before Felix Baumgarnter took a fall from space. Here are a pair of back-in-the-day badasses in a 1941 “Death Dive Race” to the ground. And looking back on it today they still seem as ballsy as ever.

Sploid Eric Limer

These wearable accessories turn shadows into high fashion

The accessories in Maiko Takeda’s Cinematography collection aren’t just decorative by themselves; when light shines through them, they also decorate other surfaces with photograph-like images of light and shadow. Each item in the collection contains a hand-pierced screen, which projects an image onto the surface of the skin or another nearby surface. Of course, the…

io9 Lauren Davis

6 Jaw-Dropping Superyachts Designed by Architects

Generally speaking, architects are brilliant and creative people with a wide range of talents. That sort of versatility is part of what makes them good architects in the first place. But let’s be honest. Just because some people are good at a lot of things does not mean they’re good at everything. Take yachts, for…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The new Paranormal Activity movie is a great introduction to the series

There have been precisely 1,179 movies in the Paranormal Activity series, about a fame-whore demon and the feckless humans who capture him on video. It’s daunting. But even if you’ve never seen a PA movie, or you’ve missed a few, the new spin-off is a great intro to the series. It’s fresh, scary and bursting…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The New Basis Band Dives Deeper Into Your Sleep

The Basis B1 band was already one of the best activity trackers you could buy, with a few caveats. In the last few months, it’s taken significant steps towards becoming even better; in November the B1 improved how it keeps track of your exercise habits, and starting this month, it will be able to tell…

Tech News Brent Rose

Bots show how tough environments affect evolution

Animals come in sorts of shapes and sizes, but why they have to be so different from each other remains a mystery to evolutionary biologists. But a recent computer simulation suggests that body types remain simple when placed in simple environments, but evolve into complex shapes when things get challenging. Evolutionary biologists are interested in…

io9 George Dvorsky

The proposal to put a bikes-only highway high over London

Will London soon have a bikes-only highway rising high over the city? Well, maybe. The plans have been released, but whether it will actually be built is up in the air. The Guardian explains the plan for the the 136 mile bike-path, dubbed SkyCycle by Norman Foster, the architect behind it: SkyCycle proposes a network…

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Behold the gorgeous, batsht insanity of the new Monkey King* trailer

That time we nearly nuked Canada (with their permission)

How To Order Internet Delivery During a Blizzard and Not Be a Dick

Disney is giving the Star Wars comics license to Marvel in 2015

What Harry Potter book covers from all over the world look like

The Snowstorm Ruining Your Day Looks Like a Monster From Space

What If Operating Systems Were Religions?

16 Trick Arrows That Make Green Arrow’s Boxing Glove Arrow Look Cool

These skydiving lunatics prove the world has always had total badasses

These wearable accessories turn shadows into high fashion

6 Jaw-Dropping Superyachts Designed by Architects

The new Paranormal Activity movie is a great introduction to the series

The New Basis Band Dives Deeper Into Your Sleep

Bots show how tough environments affect evolution

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Shure’s New Cheap Earbuds Will Sound Way Better Than Your Crap EarPods

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Behold the gorgeous, batsh*t insanity of the new Monkey King trailer

That time we nearly nuked Canada (with their permission)

How To Order Internet Delivery During a Blizzard and Not Be a Dick

Disney is giving the Star Wars comics license to Marvel in 2015

What Harry Potter book covers from all over the world look like

The Snowstorm Ruining Your Day Looks Like a Monster From Space

What If Operating Systems Were Religions?

​16 Trick Arrows That Make Green Arrow’s Boxing Glove Arrow Look Cool

These skydiving lunatics prove the world has always had total badasses

These wearable accessories turn shadows into high fashion

6 Jaw-Dropping Superyachts Designed by Architects

The new Paranormal Activity movie is a great introduction to the series

The New Basis Band Dives Deeper Into Your Sleep

Bots show how tough environments affect evolution

The proposal to put a bikes-only highway high over London

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

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