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New game creates a hive mind out of Google Glass users

By encouraging Glass users to behave and work like virtual ants, a new game called Swarm! is showing the tremendous potential for augmented reality to bring crowdsourcing to the next level — if not to humanity itself. Swarm! is currently under development by Daniel Estrada of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and Jonathan Lawhead…

io9 George Dvorsky

Did psychic assassins kill these four Turkish defense contractors?

Four mysterious suicides are now being investigated as possible murders using telepathy, according to a report prepared for the Turkish prime minister. Over several months in 2006 and 2007, four engineers working for the defense contractor Aselsan killed themselves under strange circumstances. Has mind control finally been weaponized? Neuropsychologist Nevzat Tarhan writes in the government’s…

Sploid Ken Layne

Amazon has added Kurt Vonnegut to its “official” fan fiction program

What do Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, and Slaughterhouse-Five all have in common? Well, now people can write and sell completely legal fan fiction based on each of them, thanks to Amazon’s Kindle Worlds program. This cannot end well. Amazon announced that the entire Vonnegut library would be joining the Worlds service, which allows people…

io9 Rob Bricken

This mysterious brain-eating amoeba is the stuff of nightmares

A microscopic view of the brain-eating amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri reveals a trio of feeding structures, twisted into a macabre clown-face. The parasitic organism – which lives in warm bodies of fresh water – has infected 128 people since 1962. Only one has survived. Image by D.T. John & T.B. Cole, Visuals Unlimited, via…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Most Colorful Houses Engulfed in Vegetation

When plants run wild grow onto houses, the results can be spectacular — and weird. Sometimes, a building will just look like it’s grown a luxurious beard. Other times, though, it’ll look like something out of The Earth Without Us, with a house submerged in greenery. Check out the most lush and astonishing images of…

io9 Vincze Miklós

7 Ways NASA Making the Mars Rover Sing Itself “Happy Birthday” Is Sad

As you may know, yesterday was Curiosity’s one-year anniversary on Mars, where it’s been spending its time wandering the desolate, barren Martian desert in inconceivable levels of solitude. And how did NASA decide to commemorate the occasion? Happy birthday, idiot. Now dance, monkey—dance! https://gizmodo.com/curiositys-greatest-hits-in-its-one-year-on-mars-1029853730 Yes, not only was Curiosity forced to spend its special day…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg

Actor didn’t love Percy Jackson 2‘s “Some Like it Cyclops” scenes

The new Percy Jackson movie, Sea of Monsters, is in theaters tomorrow. And returning in the role of Grover the Satyr is Brandon T. Jackson, who once again supplies a lot of the comedy moments. But there was one comedy sequence in the film that he wasn’t crazy about doing. Spoilers ahead… We spoke to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

MIT’s White Blood Cell Magnet Could Revolutionize Disease Diagnosis

To give you an idea of how micro this video is, those dots you see moving diagonally toward the top of the screen are individual white blood cells. What you’re looking at is a microchip that sorts out white blood cells from a blood sample. It makes a great visual, but more importantly, it could…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

10 smart tips that will help you survive a summer of bonkers weddings

It’s the last whole month of summer, which means it’s time for a whole lot of increasingly insane weddings held in far flung (expensive) locales, with weeks of required showers and suppers and gifts. If the wedding is yours, here’s how to get your life back. If the wedding is someone else’s, here’s how to…

Sploid Ken Layne

Alan Moore’s lost ‘80s project resurfaces in This Week’s Comics

When Alan Moore wasn’t busy making Watchmen in the ’80s, he was writing a screenplay for a twisted version of Beauty and the Beast titled Fashion Beast. This lost epic finally arrives as a graphic novel this week, along with Jeff Lemire’s new Vertigo series, the Dark Tower finale, a Robocop you never saw and…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Airsleep for iOS: Drown Out Airplane Noise and Get Some Shut-Eye

What’s everyone’s favorite thing to do on a plane? Sleep, of course. Coincidentally, it’s also one of the hardest thing to do. Airsleep aims to fix that. What does it do? Feeds you a mix of nature sounds, ambient music, and something called “brainwave audio.” This bizarrely titled component has been patented by the app’s…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

This computer took 40 minutes to simulate one second of brain activity

And it required 82,944 processors, to do it — showing that we’re still quite a ways off from being able to match the computational power of the human brain. Top image: Japan’s K Computer — a massive array consisting of over 80,000 nodes and capable of 10 petaflops (about 1016 billion operations per second). The…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Government Wants to Create Cybersecurity Insurance

Ever nervous about the looming threat of a devastating cyberattack, the government is redoubling its efforts to get companies that operate critical infrastructure to buy into its cybersecurity plan. It’s so committed, it may even make sure participants get reimbursed… if they get attacked. That’s a roundabout way of saying that the government is considering…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Damon Lindelof is tired of movie disaster porn

Damon Lindelof is so tired of your summer disaster porn flicks, unless they have a ripped albino in them. Seems like everyone in Hollywood has an opinion about the glut of giant superhero movies or robot movies that destroy whole cities. In a long and very heartfelt interview with Vulture, Linelof delves into the highly…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What’s the most pointless rivalry or schism in all of fandom?

The great thing about science fiction and fantasy is that there’s a nearly limitless amount of books, movies, TV shows and comics to celebrate. But sometimes, people decide that you can only be a fan of one thing or another. You have to choose. What’s the most pointless rivalry in all of fandom? Please include…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

iPhone or Android? Who cares!

Android or iPhone—if it’s a good phone, does it really matter? After all, you spend most of your life using apps available for both. So when Gizmodo’s Brent Rose says the new Moto X is awesome and you can customize its design to your liking without a stupid case, maybe it’s time to ditch your…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

These “Pinhole Movies” Capture Cities Through Bedroom Camera Obscuras

Camera obscuras are literally older than Jesus—but a pair of filmmakers named Romain Alary and Antoine Levi have managed to reinvent the optical trope thanks to the magic of timelapse. Their “pinhole movies” capture the passage of time across apartment-sized camera obscuras all over the world. For the uninitiated or confused, here’s the gist of…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This hideous three-foot-long worm lives in people, until it bursts out

The horrific Guinea Worm enters the body through drinking unfiltered water, and then it burrows deep into the flesh and grows up three feet long, at which point it bursts out of a painful blister and must be carefully drawn out of the victim’s flesh. Can science exterminate the last of these hell worms? https://amnh.kinja.com/guinea-worms-an-extinction-to-celebrate-1005618729

Sploid Ken Layne

An 83,000-Processor Supercomputer Can Only Match 1% of Your Brain

You’ve undoubtedly heard over and over again about what an absurdly complex entity the human brain is. But a new breakthrough by Japanese and German scientists might finally drive the point home. Taking advantage of the almost 83,000 processors of one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the team was able to mimic just one…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

The first Muppets 2 teaser trailer is all about sequel-itis

The Muppets was one of the nicest surprises in recent years — a big, good-natured film that commented on how those felt puppets had lost relevance and fame. Now, the sequel seems to be commenting on the fact that it’s an obligatory sequel, judging from the first trailer. This actually looks pretty fun, though —…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

New game creates a hive mind out of Google Glass users

Did psychic assassins kill these four Turkish defense contractors?

Amazon has added Kurt Vonnegut to its “official” fan fiction program

This mysterious brain-eating amoeba is the stuff of nightmares

The Most Colorful Houses Engulfed in Vegetation

7 Ways NASA Making the Mars Rover Sing Itself “Happy Birthday” Is Sad

Actor didn’t love Percy Jackson 2‘s “Some Like it Cyclops” scenes

MIT’s White Blood Cell Magnet Could Revolutionize Disease Diagnosis

10 smart tips that will help you survive a summer of bonkers weddings

Alan Moore’s lost ‘80s project resurfaces in This Week’s Comics

Airsleep for iOS: Drown Out Airplane Noise and Get Some Shut-Eye

This computer took 40 minutes to simulate one second of brain activity

The Government Wants to Create Cybersecurity Insurance

Damon Lindelof is tired of movie disaster porn

What’s the most pointless rivalry or schism in all of fandom?

iPhone or Android? Who cares!

These “Pinhole Movies” Capture Cities Through Bedroom Camera Obscuras

This hideous three-foot-long worm lives in people, until it bursts out

An 83,000-Processor Supercomputer Can Only Match 1% of Your Brain

The first Muppets 2 teaser trailer is all about sequel-itis

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