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CBS Is Blocking Time Warner Cable Users from Watching Shows on CBS.com

Because we’re all basically pawns when it comes to billion dollar companies fighting over dollars, CBS has just blocked Time Warner Cable customers from watching any video on CBS.com. Basically, if you’re a TWC customer and head to CBS.com, instead of CBS video, you’ll see anti-Time Warner Cable ads. Classy. There’s actually precedent for using…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 2 '13

Composite picture of every Superman (unsurprisingly) has a sick chin

Behold every single Superman mushed into one great white superhero. Created by Redditor morphinapg, this image combines Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain, Tom Welling, Brandon Routh, and Henry Cavill all together. It’s kind of creepy.

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 2 '13

The Insanely High-Concept TV Show That Launched a Bidding War

On the face of it, Extant sounds like the most insanely high-concept premise ever. A married couple is living with their android son, created by the dad. But they’re also expecting another child… who might be an alien. Weirdest family ever. And yet, this pilot spec by new writer Mickey Fisher has won Hollywood, with…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 2 '13

An Illustrated History of the Hovercraft

If you’ve ever wanted to master English by using the phrase “My hovercraft is full of eels,” then it’s time you learned about the history of the strange vehicle known as the hovercraft. Here is a photographic history of this legendary piece of technology. The first hovercraft design, looks like an upside down boat, by…

io9 Vincze Miklós Aug 2 '13

Watch this adorable 3-week-old elephant play in an inflatable pool

Meet Belle, an Asian elephant born nearly a month ago at the Forth Worth Zoo in Texas. She was recently seen splashing around an inflatable pool inside her enclosure — resulting in a level of cuteness that can only be described as ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!! Belle is just the second Asian elephant to be born at…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 2 '13

Perfect for the weekend: a mantis shrimp snuff film

Sorry, Oatmeal. Your precious mantis shrimp – with its ultraviolet visual abilities and admittedly powerful raptorial appendages – is no match for the deadly cunning of a hungry octopus. https://gizmodo.com/9-animals-that-would-make-great-superheroes-773868690 Via WeirdunderWaterWorld: In this epic battle, we witness who would win if a mantis shrimp was pitted against a veined octopus. It’s a face to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 2 '13

Okay, Who Invited The Osprey to the Rave?

Woohoo! Party aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer! But wait, who invited MV-22 Osprey? Ugh… It’s not that I don’t like Ospreys, it’s just that sometimes they get so intense with the glow sticks. [Navy]

Tech News Mario Aguilar Aug 2 '13

This Week in Time Capsules: Royal Baby Edition

This week we have a time capsule of floppy disks that will be hard to read, a church that thinks microfilm is the best way to future-proof your capsule, and we finally get that royal baby time capsule I was wondering about last week. IT’S A BOY(sterous waste of media coverage)! Royal Baby Gets Time…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 2 '13

iPhone Apps of the Week: Imgur, Commercial Break, and More

Imgur: Imgur, everyone’s favorite super simple image hosting site, has had an Android app out for about a month now. As of today, though, the app is also available for iOS users, and now nearly everyone can be just a little bit less productive, together. You can do virtually everything you’d be doing on the…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Aug 2 '13

Android Apps of the Week: Zagat, Microsoft Office, and More

Zagat: Zagat’s new app offers pretty much everything you can get on the website in both its iPhone and Android versions. You’ll see Zagat reviews and summaries, directions to restaurants and night spots via Google Maps, news and videos from editors, and curated lists varying by city. Most notably, this is the first time that…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Aug 2 '13

iPad Apps of the Week: Ikea, ACI Cockpit360, and More

Imgur: Imgur, everyone’s favorite super simple image hosting site, has had an Android app out for about a month now. As of today, though, the app is also available for iOS users, and now nearly everyone can be just a little bit less productive, together. You can do virtually everything you’d be doing on the…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Aug 2 '13

S.H.I.E.L.D. promos spread around a lot of Agent Coulson goodness

Check out a batch of S.H.I.E.L.D. promos, full of new Agent Coulsony footage. Is this the most anticipated new television series of the fall? Now that it has a Firefly alum and Cobie Smulders joining the cast, there’s no stopping this show. https://gizmodo.com/high-res-shield-photos-include-first-your-glimpse-of-a-993613726

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 2 '13

Is America becoming the new Russia?

Yesterday, whistleblower Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia, after revealing how the US government was spying on its citizens. Meanwhile, some of the most idealistic Americans on television are the Soviet spies in FX series The Americans. Have the 1980s superpowers swapped positions in the 2010s? https://gizmodo.com/edward-snowden-the-nsa-whistleblower-explains-why-he-512212147 They haven’t swapped in real life,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 2 '13

The Most Important Book on Color Theory Is Now an iPad App

If you are at all interested in design or art, enlighten yourself with one of the most important books on color ever written. It’s called The Interaction of Color, and now you can experience it on your iPad. The book was created by painter and Bauhaus teacher Josef Albers in 1963. Albers spent his life…

Tech News Michael Hession Aug 2 '13

This Gel Works Like the Memory Cloth from The Dark Knight

Remember that scene from Batman Begins The Dark Knight where Christian Bale leaps off a building in Hong Kong, grabs his cape and the gloves Morgan Freeman made him send an electrical charge through the material causing it to firm up in the shape of a wing. Well, a material like that actually exists. Researchers…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 2 '13

This new molecule could be guided through your body with a magnet

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University have created a large hollow magnetic-cage molecule that could someday administer drugs directly inside the body. Back in the 1980s, scientists discovered the C60 fullerene — more commonly known as the Buckminster Fullerene — a molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms that forms a hollow cage. It’s a structure that…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 2 '13

New Tech Could Allow Super-Speed Internet on Old Phone Lines

Gigabit internet is fast and amazing. But that “Download entire movies in mere seconds!” line gets real old if you, like the vast majority of the country, don’t have access to those lightning fast fiber lines. But thanks to a new approach from Alcatel-Lucent, your creaky old copper phone lines might be good enough. That’s…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 2 '13

Rare Video From Inside a 45-Story Venezuelan Slum

Torre de David is a 45-story, partially-finished office tower that houses a vibrant community of squatters in Caracas. It’s also an internationally-known symbol of Venezuela’s economic troubles, to which the The New Yorker and The New York Times have both devoted long profiles. But there hasn’t been much video documentation of life inside—until now. Vocative…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 2 '13

Time Warner Cable Drops CBS Programming

CBS’s full statement: NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Effective 5:00 PM Eastern Time, Time Warner Cable has dropped CBS in New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas and several other markets. We deeply regret this ill-advised action, which is injurious not only to our many affected viewers, but also to Time Warner Cable itself.…

Tech News Peter ha Aug 2 '13

This Smart Mobile Wind Meter Contains No Electronics

It’s always nice to see a Kickstarter project make it through to reality—and this is a neat one. Vaavud, an inexpensive wind meter that was funded on Kickstarter earlier this year, is finally available to buy. There are other mobile wind meters out there, but what makes Vaavud smart is its durability. People who need…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 2 '13

CBS Is Blocking Time Warner Cable Users from Watching Shows on CBS.com

Composite picture of every Superman (unsurprisingly) has a sick chin

The Insanely High-Concept TV Show That Launched a Bidding War

An Illustrated History of the Hovercraft

Watch this adorable 3-week-old elephant play in an inflatable pool

Perfect for the weekend: a mantis shrimp snuff film

Okay, Who Invited The Osprey to the Rave?

This Week in Time Capsules: Royal Baby Edition

iPhone Apps of the Week: Imgur, Commercial Break, and More

Android Apps of the Week: Zagat, Microsoft Office, and More

iPad Apps of the Week: Ikea, ACI Cockpit360, and More

S.H.I.E.L.D. promos spread around a lot of Agent Coulson goodness

Is America becoming the new Russia?

The Most Important Book on Color Theory Is Now an iPad App

This Gel Works Like the Memory Cloth from The Dark Knight

This new molecule could be guided through your body with a magnet

New Tech Could Allow Super-Speed Internet on Old Phone Lines

Rare Video From Inside a 45-Story Venezuelan Slum

Time Warner Cable Drops CBS Programming

This Smart Mobile Wind Meter Contains No Electronics

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