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Facebook Denies Zuck Wall Hacker $500 Reward, Internet Gives Him $10K

Remember our friendly white hat hacker, Khalil Shreateh, who got stiffed on his just reward after identifying a Facebook bug that let him post on Zuckerberg’s wall? Well, looks like the hacker community has no intention of letting their buddy’s bank account fall to the wayside. After setting up a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe, security…

Social Media Ashley Feinberg

Ha, the Most Hated Customer Service Companies Are All Cable and ISPs

You know cable companies are unpopular. ISPs are, generally, too. But seeing just how unpopular is just too funny. As in: pretty much the entire bottom end of the list was made up of cable and internet companies. The chart here is made up of a survey of 10,000 consumers on 235 companies, across 19…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Mortal Instruments is like The Avengers of teen fantasy

Remember when The Avengers came out, and it was just so gleefully jam-packed with crazy shit? Like, they shook the bag until every last thing fell out? The Mortal Instruments is like that, except for teen urban fantasy. This movie has everything in it, and it will make you laugh until you pass out. Spoilers…

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Why This Luxury Resort Appeared in the Middle of the Mongolian Desert

The Desert Lotus Hotel doesn’t seem like a particularly convenient place to vacation. Embedded in the rolling dunes of Inner Mongolia, the hotel is more than 500 miles west of Beijing, far from the coast or any major metropolitan centers. But it is close to one thing: Baotou, the Chinese city that mines more than…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Scientists Just Figured Out How to Make Lightning-Fast Graphene CPUs

Graphene has the power to change computing forever by making the fastest transistors ever. In theory. We just haven’t figured out how yet. Sound familiar? Fortunately, scientists have just taken a big step closer to making graphene transistors work for real. https://gizmodo.com/where-do-all-those-amazing-discoveries-go-anyway-1053115334 Graphene transistors aren’t just fast; they’re lightning fast. The speediest one to date…

Tech News Eric Limer

NASA Captures Footage of South Pole During Aurora, Makes a GIF

Ever seen an aurora? Ever seen an aurora from space? You have now. https://gizmodo.com/a-breathtaking-aurora-from-earths-largest-geomagnetic-s-5879920 Via the usagov tumblr: This is an animation of the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights), eight days after a record-setting solar flare sent a shower of charged particles towards Earth. From Earth, this glowing ring would appear as a curtain of light…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The World’s Biggest Test Bench Puts Wind Turbines Through the Wringer

Vestas‘ latest and greatest offshore wind turbine, the 8 MW V164, is designed to operate for a quarter century with minimal upkeep. To ensure that these massive turbines (their blade sweep area is equal to three football fields) are robust enough for 25 years of service in the North Atlantic, Vestas tortures its housings atop…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A Simple Waterproof Camera That Automatically Shares Your Shots Online

Samsung’s Android-powered Galaxy Camera was the first dedicated shooter that let users instantly upload their photos to their favorite social networks. And while it offered better image quality and controls over a smartphone’s built-in camera, at $500, plus the cost of a data plan, it was a tough sell. But at just $200, plus a…

Social Media Andrew Liszewski

Millions of unemployed Chinese college graduates live in “ant colonies”

Every year, China puts out millions of college graduates who can’t find jobs. Without any possibility to have a house of their own, they go to live into huge compounds—often underground—where they share rooms and bunk beds. They call them the “ant tribes.” https://kotaku.com/a-look-into-the-homes-of-chinas-ant-tribe-1107163431

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Would a Marvel/Star Wars crossover be the worst idea ever?

Greetings, fellow denizens! Today’s mailbag has a bit of an international flair, with letters coming all the way from Belgium and the Philippines! How did a fake mailman in post-apocalyptic America with nothing but a horse receive these letters? I have no fucking idea. Top image by Jonathan Moore. Make Mine Mon Mothma Ross A.:…

io9 Rob Bricken

Ancient Romans Built Monuments Centuries Before Archaeologists Believed

We already knew Rome wasn’t built in a day. But it turns out it took a lot longer to build than anyone imagined. According to The New York Times, last summer an archeological dig about 11 miles from central Rome revealed that the Romans were erecting monuments far earlier than we previously thought. How much…

Tech News Leslie Horn

7 Up Used to Include Prescription Mood Stabilizers

Today I found out that the soft drink 7 UP used to include a psychiatric medication as one of its ingredients. The lemon-lime flavored soda, 7 UP was created by Charles Grigg of the Howdy Corporation in 1929 and first launched two weeks before the stock market crash that spurred the Great Depression… Timing! It…

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Isolated Peruvian tribe attempts to make contact, asks for food

Members of the Mashco-Piro tribe — one of the most isolated on Earth — recently attempted to make contact with outsiders, resulting in a tense stand-off at a river hamlet. The Mashco-Piro, who live in Peru’s southeastern Amazon, are one of several tribes designated by officials as “uncontacted people.” This particular tribe, which numbers in…

io9 George Dvorsky

Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison

Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for crimes related to stealing government documents and sharing them with WikiLeaks. The sentence, handed down by Judge Denise Lind, is significantly less than the 60 years that the government asked the Army colonel to hand down. The judge did send the young soldier through…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Extraordinary sleuthing connects Rita Hayworth and the atom bomb

Rita Hayworth was one of the most celebrated celebrities of all time, and a favorite wartime pin-up. But she became an infamous pin-up when a picture of her was rumored to have been put on an atomic bomb. Thanks to some amazing detective work, we now know the rumors were right. Orson Welles, who was…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Crazy Criminal Stole $210,000 in Quarters From Rigged Parking Meters

A Buffalo, NY, parking meter mechanic was running a pretty lucrative criminal conspiracy one quarter at a time. Over eight years, he managed to steal $210,000, or five tons of quarters from modified meters. That’s a lot of pocket change. James Bagarozzo, quarter-rich criminal mastermind, had worked out a pretty good system for himself. As…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Orion 8: Some of these men and women will go to Mars

Some of these eight men and women will go to Mars and land on an asteroid for the first time in the history of humankind. Through rigorous tests, NASA selected them from 6,100 candidates to plan and carry the next space missions beyond Earth orbit. We can call them the Orion Eight, after the new…

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Space exploration goes awry in the beautiful scifi short “Beyond”

A woman with special genetic code which allows her to survive teleportation is tasked with exploring new worlds in Raphael Rogers’ quite gorgeous scifi short. But when a mission takes her beyond the universe, will she find the answers she seeks or just more mysteries?

io9 Rob Bricken

A Laser-Filled Room Lets You Indulge Your Entrapment Fantasies

Heist movies like Ocean’s Twelve and Entrapment often feature the now-cliché laser-filled room that requires a limber thief to skillfully navigate the beams lest they trigger an alarm. And as old hat as that’s become, it would admittedly still be pretty fun to try it in real life—so the folks at Nerdworking built one for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch as this comet plunges directly into the Sun

Earlier this week, NASA and ESA scientists working with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft caught a glimpse of a tiny comet barreling towards the Sun. As you’ll see in this video, the poor thing never had a chance. According to Karl Battams of the U.S. Naval Research Lab, the object was only a…

io9 George Dvorsky

Facebook Denies Zuck Wall Hacker $500 Reward, Internet Gives Him $10K

Ha, the Most Hated Customer Service Companies Are All Cable and ISPs

The Mortal Instruments is like The Avengers of teen fantasy

Why This Luxury Resort Appeared in the Middle of the Mongolian Desert

Scientists Just Figured Out How to Make Lightning-Fast Graphene CPUs

NASA Captures Footage of South Pole During Aurora, Makes a GIF

The World’s Biggest Test Bench Puts Wind Turbines Through the Wringer

A Simple Waterproof Camera That Automatically Shares Your Shots Online

Millions of unemployed Chinese college graduates live in “ant colonies”

Would a Marvel/Star Wars crossover be the worst idea ever?

Ancient Romans Built Monuments Centuries Before Archaeologists Believed

7 Up Used to Include Prescription Mood Stabilizers

Isolated Peruvian tribe attempts to make contact, asks for food

Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison

Extraordinary sleuthing connects Rita Hayworth and the atom bomb

Crazy Criminal Stole $210,000 in Quarters From Rigged Parking Meters

The Orion 8: Some of these men and women will go to Mars

Space exploration goes awry in the beautiful scifi short “Beyond”

A Laser-Filled Room Lets You Indulge Your Entrapment Fantasies

Watch as this comet plunges directly into the Sun

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