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Snoring duck is America’s new favorite animal (video)

Do ducks snore? Of course they do. But you probably have never seen very cute video of a sleeping duck snoring. Experts say all snoring is very annoying unless an adorable little duck is the one guilty of snoring.

Sploid Ken Layne

Four Easy Ways to Listen to Your Music Outdoors

The season for backyard barbeques and pool parties is upon us! But with the summer sun smothering the East Coast, who wants to crowd their ears into a pair of headphones or jam silicone buds down their ear canals? Instead, here are four easy ways to bring your playlist poolside. Reuse Old Computer Speakers The…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Verizon Now Offering 500Mbps (Down) Internet Service

File this under batshit crazy. Verizon is now offering a 500/100Mbps service tier where FiOS is available. According to Verizon, you’ll be able to download a 2 hour HD movie in 1.4 minutes and upload a 2 hour HD video in 6.9 minutes. Fast, right? Assuming you get the advertised speeds, of course. The newly…

Tech News Peter ha

A Norse Town Has Built an Artificial Sun to Light Up Its 5-Month Night

The extreme far north (or south) isn’t the only place on Earth that spends the winter locked in perpetual darkness. Beginning in September and ending in March, the Norwegian town of Rjukan is cast into a perpetual shadow. But no longer: This month, engineers are completing The Mirror Project, a system that will shed winter…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Creepy World of Abandoned Asylums

The abandoned asylum, soaked in tragically crazy ghosts, is a staple of the horror genre. And for good reason. These real-life decaying asylums will give you the shivers. Cane Hill Asylum, Croydon, London, 1883-1990 (via Forlorn Britain,Tom Wheeler and Paul/howzey) Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Trenton and Ewing, New Jersey (founded in 1848) The director of this…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Watch these humpback whales come within feet of gobbling up two divers

These divers had an incredibly close encounter with two humpback whales recently, while exploring the waters of Central California’s Souza Rock. The divers, understandably, lose it. Humpbacks tend to have this effect on people. Though, for as dramatic as this video is, the divers were at little-to-no risk of being swallowed whole. Humpbacks subsist not…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A weird new insight into how new species evolve

When two populations of a species are separated for many generations, their genomes start to drift apart as they adapt to their different environments. Eventually they can become two distinct species. But new research now suggests it’s not always incompatible DNA that halts interbreeding — sometimes it’s incompatible gut microbes. You’ve no doubt heard a…

io9 Joseph Bennington-Castro

Fukushima’s Leaking Radioactive Water into the Ocean After All

Well over two years after the Tōhuku earthquake and tsunami, TEPCO officials admit that radioactive groundwater has been leaking into the nearby ocean for, well, two years. The confession came just one day after an election that brought Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pro-nuclear party a solid majority, and months after watchdogs raised the red flag…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

See Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt’s mecha suits from Edge of Tomorrow

We’ve seen the footage from Tom Cruise’s new Super Troopers-eque war movie, Edge of Tomorrow. And now we’re getting a closer look at the suits Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt wear to kick ass in. Here’s the premise: A soldier fighting in a war with aliens finds himself caught in a time loop of his…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Invention of Jaywalking Was a Massive Shaming Campaign

Before the invention of the car, jaywalking wasn’t a recognized concept. Want to get across the street? Then just walk across the street—nobody’s going to stop you. But the rise of the automobile posed a new problem for people of the early 20th century. While the median state-designated speed limit for American cities was just…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Governor tells us why The Walking Dead is deadlier than ever

What is this weird new “threat” everyone is talking about dealing with in the fourth season of Walking Dead? We asked the Governor (David Morrissey), and what he told us made us very scared indeed. On the red carpet of the Walking Dead Hyundai party, we nabbed actor David Morrissey and got to chatting about…

Television Meredith Woerner

These Internet-Themed Crayons from the 90s Are Hilariously Dated

A long, long time ago, in a land where people had yet to even ponder words like “Reddit” and “Twitter,” a bright-eyed arts and crafts company decided to embrace this crazy thing called the information superhighway. The year was 1997, and that company was Crayola. The results are absolutely glorious. Dubbed the “Techno Brite” collection,…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Dealzmodo: 802.11ac Router, Headphones And Headsets, Big Media Section

Cylindrical is the new black. 802.11ac is here and it’s time to take advantage. $80 is a killer price for an 802.11ac router, to say nothing of the fact that it’s app-enabled and looks pretty cool too. It’ll play very nice with one of the those new MacBooks we found you a deal on (still…

Tech News Shane Roberts

This Year’s “Scifi That Could Change Your Life” Recommendations

Every year at Comic-Con, io9 hosts a panel where we invite writers in all genres to tell us about stories that came out in the last year which are both entertaining and thoughtful. Maybe these stories are so brilliant that they could even change your life. Here are this year’s recommendations. Annalee Newitz, io9 editor:…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Which science fiction book you would give to a first-time SF reader?

It only takes one great science fiction or fantasy book to get someone hooked. If it’s the right book, that is. When you’re faced with someone who likes to read but hasn’t delved much into science fiction or fantasy, what the “gateway drug” book you offer him or her? What’s the best book for a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

If You Want This iOS Screen-Recording App You’d Better Hustle

xRec, which appeared in the iTunes store on Saturday, promises to record everything on your iPhone’s screen — including apps that prohibit screengrabs. If you’re into that sneaky kind of thing, you better grab it fast, because we don’t expect it to stay in iTunes very long. UPDATE: A reader informs us that this app…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Netflix for Giant Arcade Consoles Is So Crazy It Just Might Work

Buying an old-school arcade console is a big investment. Ms. Pac-Man bragging rights don’t just cost a lot of money—you pay the price in real estate. That whole corner of your living room gone for just one measly game. A new service called All You Can Arcade sort of makes this proposition worthwhile. For $75…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

3D Printers Might Get Way Cheaper After 2014

The 3D printing “revolution” isn’t just being held up by the state of the technology. It’s also being held up by the sheer cost of a 3D printer. But in February 2014, some key patents will expire, leaving an opening for competitors come in with cheaper alternatives. The patents in question are for a technology…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Here Come The Leap Motion Music Apps

Leap Motion launched its groundbreaking motion detection module on Monday, allowing anyone to connect a little box to their Mac or Windows computer that can detect gestures more precisely than Microsoft Kinect can, for a mere $80. Eventually, Leap Motion technology will be integrated into computers, so you won’t even need to buy a separate…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolvr.fm

A lot of bad movies came out on DVD this week, but MST3K can help

Oh, there’re some cartoons and anime releases this week, but don’t be fooled — crappy movies rule this week’s DVD and Blu-ray release list. Some are old, some are new, but they’re all terrible. Thank goodness we begin with some professional help — courtesy of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 folks. • Mystery Science Theater…

io9 Rob Bricken

Snoring duck is America’s new favorite animal (video)

Four Easy Ways to Listen to Your Music Outdoors

Verizon Now Offering 500Mbps (Down) Internet Service

A Norse Town Has Built an Artificial Sun to Light Up Its 5-Month Night

The Creepy World of Abandoned Asylums

Watch these humpback whales come within feet of gobbling up two divers

A weird new insight into how new species evolve

Fukushima’s Leaking Radioactive Water into the Ocean After All

See Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt’s mecha suits from Edge of Tomorrow

The Invention of Jaywalking Was a Massive Shaming Campaign

The Governor tells us why The Walking Dead is deadlier than ever

These Internet-Themed Crayons from the 90s Are Hilariously Dated

Dealzmodo: 802.11ac Router, Headphones And Headsets, Big Media Section

This Year’s “Scifi That Could Change Your Life” Recommendations

Which science fiction book you would give to a first-time SF reader?

If You Want This iOS Screen-Recording App You’d Better Hustle

Netflix for Giant Arcade Consoles Is So Crazy It Just Might Work

3D Printers Might Get Way Cheaper After 2014

Here Come The Leap Motion Music Apps

A lot of bad movies came out on DVD this week, but MST3K can help

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