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This Handsome Passive Speaker Is Down to Party Anywhere

It’s late afternoon on a Friday, which means we’re all thinking about our weekend plans. That might mean a party, but what’s a party without a little music? The attractive Timbre Amplifier is just the ticket for your shindig’s soundtrack, and you don’t have to worry about charging it. It’s a passive speaker, meaning it…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This Trash-Sorting Robot Could Revolutionize Recycling

We’ve seen a lot of frivolous applications for robotic arms: Artisanal cocktail making. Slow pit stops. Whatever’s going on here. Meanwhile, in Finland, a precociously-named company called ZenRobotics has figured out how use them to solve one of the biggest problems with recycling: automatic sorting. https://gizmodo.com/watch-darpas-robot-arms-perform-the-worlds-slowest-pit-5993293 You see, a big problem with recycling—and in particular,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Much Ado About Nothing proves Joss Whedon is still a comedy genius

Shakespeare wrote several “comedies,” and some of them are still funny today. (As You Like It and Twelfth Night come to mind.) But Much Ado About Nothing is not one of the funny ones. Unless it’s being filmed by Joss Whedon, in which case it’s fall-out-of-your-seat, holy-shit-can’t-breathe funny. There are spoilers for a 400-year-old play…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

How to Make Instant Barrel-Aged Cocktails

If you’ve been spending too much time in bars lately—and we certainly hope you have been—you’ve likely noticed the rise of barrel-aged cocktails. The technique takes some of your favorite mixed drinks, mellows them out, and adds some layers of complexity. There is, however, a barrier to entry for most at-home barkeeps: Patience. Unless you…

Tech News Brent Rose

And now, a wine carafe shaped like blood vessels

For the weekend: a beautifully sculpted glass carafe, in the shape of big, fat veins. Just one in a collection of vascular carafes from sculptor Etienne Meneau. (Each one holds a full, 750mL bottle.) [Spotted on Boing Boing]

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Sony Xperia Tablet Z Review: Sony Finally Gets One (Mostly) Right

In a time when tablets are becoming increasing similar, it’s rare that you pick up a device and have one of those, “Whoa!” moments. You relish them when they come, because it means that creativity and innovation still exist in a world of look-alikes. After years of trying and failing with Android tablets, Sony has…

Reviews Brent Rose

Why You Should Care About NSA Surveillance

Many people argue that, since they have nothing to hide, they don’t care about the NSA capturing all their emails, messages, calls, photos, videos and documents. This Gizmodo post is a good example of that. These arguments are horribly wrong. https://gizmodo.com/why-i-just-dont-give-a-shit-about-prism-or-any-other-s-511941519 Yes, the world doesn’t give a shit about you and your antics, your Instagrams…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

You Don’t Have To Be Cool on the Internet

Everyone wants to be cool, but no one wants to admit it. In spite of that, since the beginning of the internet, people have been formulating an ever-evolving script for achieving coolness. It’s confusing, and often contradictory. We’ve certainly told you what to do and what not to do plenty of times. But maybe it’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Apocalypse comedy Rapture-Palooza will make you hail Satan

There’s not a lot of movies that would have audiences crying out “Hail, Satan!” at the end of them, but Rapture-Palooza is one of them. Thanks due entirely to Craig Robinson, better known as Daryl on The Office, who plays the Antichrist with such a filthy flair as to carry the entire movie, out today.…

Movies Rob Bricken

Disney’s Epic Plan to Save a Terminal From LA’s Oldest Airport

After more than a decade of research and negotiation with local authorities, Disney recently got the greenlight for its plans to renovate the Grand Central Air Terminal. Located just north of Los Angeles in Glendale, California, the rundown terminal is a relic of the region’s oldest commercial airport, and the departure point for the country’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Why Is Anyone Surprised That the Government Spies on Us?

Everybody from Tea Party patriots to left wing weirdos are up in arms over PRISM, the government’s ultra secret surveillance program that’s been reading Americans’ emails, listening to their phone calls and raking through their Internet data—among other things—since 2007. Details of the program exploded onto the public stage this week just hours after news…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Oh Hey the NSA Is Hiring Lawyers Now

National Security Agency: Attorney ( #FortMeade , MD) http://t.co/iV394rwWTB #Legal #Job #Jobs #TweetMyJobs — NSA (@NSACareers) June 7, 2013 Oh look! Everyone’s favorite secretive spy agency employment twitter feed, @NSACareers, has posted a new listing. Anyone know a good lawyer? It sounds like a fun gig! From the NSA’s job description: NSA OGC has several…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Tour D-Day Normandy’s Surreal Destruction in These Rare Color Photos

Yesterday marked the 69th anniversary of D-day, the largest amphibious invasion in history and the beginning of the end for the Axis Powers. After 160,000 US, British, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy and secured a foothold for the Allies, war photographer Frank Scherschel surveyed the French town’s nearly complete destruction. Only a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Want to see a train crash into a nuclear containment pod?

I do. How fortunate for us both that there are videos of it. A nuclear containment “flask” is subjected to all kinds of impact tests, and then submerged in a pool of burning jet fuel in this informative video. It’s tempting to say that, after watching the strenuous testing done to make sure that this…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This contact lens could eventually make Google Glass obsolete

Google Glass is great, but it’s also big, clunky, and exceedingly obvious. What would be more practical is something that could be fitted directly onto the eye, like a contact lens. Korean researchers have taken a major step towards achieving that goal. A group led by Jang-Ung Park recently embedded an inorganic light-emitting diode directly…

io9 George Dvorsky

NYC’s Effort to Rebuild Its Beaches in Just Five Months

The most expensive and complex effort to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy didn’t concern floodgates, transit, or even buildings. It concerned the beach: 14 miles of gritty—and beautiful—shoreline that are reopening after only nine months. Last week, the city’s Commissioner of the Department of Design and Construction described the reconstruction effort as “one of the most…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Why I Just Don’t Give a Shit About PRISM (Or Any Other Spying)

Last night, the world found out about the NSA’s pervasive, encompassing PRISM surveillance program. We learned that we are all being monitored, in a literal sense, and that the largest tech companies on the planet are involved. There is no way to avoid it. And I just can’t find any reason to care. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-prism-511875267 To…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Gorgeous Footage of Last Weekend’s Surprise Aurora Borealis

Last week, an undetected solar storm sent a wave of charged particles hurtling toward Earth. On the night of May 31st, those particles crashed into our planet’s magnetic field and rattled the upper atmosphere, igniting the sky in an unanticipated burst of purple, pink and green. Astrophotographer Brad Goldpaint was lucky enough to be shooting…

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The Router Known As The Dark Knight Is Your Deal of the Day

Routers are boring. Most people set them up and forget they even have one. But this Asus router is so notorious that it has a cool nickname: “The Dark Knight.” And Newegg’s selling them for $100 shipped. https://lifehacker.com/the-asus-rt-n66u-dark-knight-router-delivers-stellar-5932516 These Asus RT-N66 routers are refurbished, which explains the $50 savings over a new one from Amazon.…

Tech News Kif Leswing

Criminologists explain why RoboCop, Dredd and Running Man make sense

Yesterday’s dystopian thrillers about crime-fighting are tomorrow’s perfectly rational solutions to the crime problem. At least, that’s what a bunch of criminologists told The Atlantic. Here are a few sample quotes from The Atlantic’s roundup of dystopian crime movies, and what criminologists have to say about them: “When you look at the technologies that the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This Handsome Passive Speaker Is Down to Party Anywhere

This Trash-Sorting Robot Could Revolutionize Recycling

Much Ado About Nothing proves Joss Whedon is still a comedy genius

How to Make Instant Barrel-Aged Cocktails

And now, a wine carafe shaped like blood vessels

Sony Xperia Tablet Z Review: Sony Finally Gets One (Mostly) Right

Why You Should Care About NSA Surveillance

You Don’t Have To Be Cool on the Internet

The Apocalypse comedy Rapture-Palooza will make you hail Satan

Disney’s Epic Plan to Save a Terminal From LA’s Oldest Airport

Why Is Anyone Surprised That the Government Spies on Us?

Oh Hey the NSA Is Hiring Lawyers Now

Tour D-Day Normandy’s Surreal Destruction in These Rare Color Photos

Want to see a train crash into a nuclear containment pod?

This contact lens could eventually make Google Glass obsolete

NYC’s Effort to Rebuild Its Beaches in Just Five Months

Why I Just Don’t Give a Shit About PRISM (Or Any Other Spying)

Gorgeous Footage of Last Weekend’s Surprise Aurora Borealis

The Router Known As The Dark Knight Is Your Deal of the Day

Criminologists explain why RoboCop, Dredd and Running Man make sense

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