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Bing Maps Has Revealed Russia’s Secret Stealth Fighter Jet

Bing Maps is apparently really great at one thing: revealing top secret military information. After capturing a top secret military base, Bing has now caught a stealth Russian airplane that’s been shrouded in mystery. The Bing Maps image above shows Russia’s MIG Project 1.44, Russia’s first attempt at building a stealth fighter jet. A jet…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 27 '13

These Low Tops with Curved Laces Are Somehow Basketball Shoes

Kevin Durant, the best basketball player in the world who isn’t a hybrid of a beast and monster, has a new pair of shoes. And it’s a low top. And it has a tongue that curves. And it basically looks like a soccer shoe. But it’s for basketball and they’re so bizarre looking that I…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 27 '13

Everyone Who Records Video on Their Phone Needs to Follow This Rule

I understand that when you take a picture or video with your phone, it makes a lot of sense to hold your phone upright. It’s more comfortable! It’s totally natural! And though Instagram has helped fix portrait mode pictures by squaring them off, we still haven’t solved the portrait video problem. It’s awful to watch…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 27 '13

The Difference Between a Geek and a Nerd in One Graph

It’s 2013. We should all know that there are clear differences between calling something a nerd and calling someone a geek. This is a fact! Slackpropagation created this nifty graph that shows the dividing line on what defines a geek and what defines a nerd. The easiest way to tell the difference? Geeks are fans…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 27 '13

A Field Guide to Cryptids From Europe and Africa

Some legendary cryptids are absolutely real. But here are some of the greatest mythical animals and monsters from the world of fantasy. https://gizmodo.com/legendary-cryptids-that-turned-out-to-be-absolutely-rea-5814976 The Wolpertinger in the Bavarian forests in Germany This freaky animal has a body composed of various animal parts, but in most cases it’s only a horned squirrel or a rabbit. https://gizmodo.com/rabbits-with-horns-meet-the-human-papillomavirus-5795996…

io9 Vincze Miklós Jun 27 '13

Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey, as explained by puppets

Don’t let the puppets or the mention of Adam Sandler movies at the beginning throw you off — this is the best, most entertaining explanation of Joseph Campbell’s “Monomyth” theory that you’re going to get outside of actually reading his books. Thanks to Fafa and Mario of Glove and Boots, you’ll learn about the Hero,…

io9 Rob Bricken Jun 27 '13

There will soon be TWO competing Game of Thrones porn spoofs

You might have supposed that a single Game of Thrones porn movie would be sufficient. Or you might have thought the HBO show is already fulfilling your porno needs. In any case, there will soon be two duelling Thrones pornos. Lee Roy Myers, who’s done porno parodies of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Big…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 27 '13

Incredible Space Engine Runs Nonstop for Five Years

NASA has been running this incredible ion thruster for five years, or 48,000 hours. These electronic propulsion engines have rapidly gone from science fiction to the preferred thruster for today’s space projects.

Sploid Ken Layne Jun 27 '13

WSJ: Google Is Making an Android Video Game Console and Smartwatch

According to the WSJ, Google is currently developing an Android-based video game console and an Android-based ‘smartwatch’. More Android in more places means more fun. Less interestingly though, Google is also supposedly developing a second version of the Nexus Q. Supposedly, Google is making these Android-powered devices in reaction to Apple’s upcoming devices. Or what…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 27 '13

Planets can form and survive in insanely dense star clusters

Could you imagine a view of the night sky that looks like this? It’s a star cluster — a region of space in which as many as 10,000 stars are jam-packed to within a few light years of each other. Now, evidence shows that even these areas can give rise to planets, implying that someone…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 27 '13

Is Superman the Antichrist?

It’s hard not to feel a bit of schadenfreude here. Warner Bros. hired a Christian marketing company to pitch The Man of Steel to churches, on the grounds that this was really a movie about Jesus. And apparently, this strategy has backfired, somewhat. As in, people are calling Superman “the Antichrist.” https://gizmodo.com/is-man-of-steel-all-about-jesus-warner-bros-hopes-chri-513484485 Sometimes pandering to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 27 '13

Glenn Beck Says Paula Deen Is Just Like Martin Luther King Jr.

Glenn Beck is still jabbering away on his pretend news network, the Internet. You know who reminds him of racist death-food huckster Paula Deen? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., obviously!

Sploid Ken Layne Jun 27 '13

Scientists Create Real Life Star Trek Deflector Shield

This image shows a working deflector shield, developed by researchers at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Like the Enterprise’s force field, this will protect real spaceships against the space radiation that could kill astronauts on their way to Mars and beyond.

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 27 '13

The Internet Chooses the Movies at This Clever Stoop Cinema

We’ve seen loads of pop-up urbanism over the past few years, from parks to libraries, all designed to turn dead urban space into lively ones. But how do you stop people from immersing themselves in their phone screens in public? By building a larger screen, where they can be immersed together! A group of designers…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jun 27 '13

Science Shocker: Mouse Cloned From Single Drop of Blood

Mad scientists in Japan have cloned an entire mouse from a single drop of blood. This is good news for the world’s lab animals, which generally have to be killed before their cells are extracted for a clone.

Sploid Ken Layne Jun 27 '13

Proposed ‘deflector shield’ could protect astronauts from radiation

As if Star Trek didn’t already provide enough futuristic inspiration, scientists from the UK are working on an actual deflector shield that could protect astronauts from dangerous levels of radiation. And it would work in a way that’s very similar to how we’re protected right here on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/how-nasa-might-build-its-very-first-warp-drive-5963263 https://gizmodo.com/nasa-shows-off-a-prototype-of-its-new-xenon-ion-engine-510277963 It’s well known that a…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 27 '13

Teen May Get Eight Years In Prison for Sarcastic Facebook Comment

Justin Carter may get eight years in prison after someone called the cops following a distasteful Facebook comment. The 18-year-old Carter said “Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head, I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts.” The father claims he was joking and…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 27 '13

The greatest penis rescue story ever told

Sometimes a medical technique is so awesome that researchers are tempted to tell its story more than once. This seems to be the case with the dramatic rescue of a man’s penis in India. The doctors involved just got in trouble for using it as a case study in multiple scientific journals. Over at Retraction…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 27 '13

Do geek stereotypes keep women out of computer science?

The media is full of geek stereotypes, everywhere from Big Bang Theory to episodes of CSI and NCIS. These images of geeks as antisocial, immature dorks may seem harmless — but a new study suggests these media images help keep women out of computer science. https://gizmodo.com/the-unbelievable-wretchedness-of-mainstream-tvs-nerd-e-5974830 A team of researchers at University of Washington decided…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 27 '13

NoteSuite for iPad: Meet Evernote’s New, Subscription-Free Competition

After finding success with note-taking/to-do app Projectbook last year, Theory.io has decided to overhaul their signature productivity app and take it a step further. Now, hoping to go head-to-head with big dogs like Evernote, the developers are officially re-releasing the app as NoteSuite—the potential answer to all your disorganized digital life woes. What does it…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Jun 27 '13

Bing Maps Has Revealed Russia’s Secret Stealth Fighter Jet

These Low Tops with Curved Laces Are Somehow Basketball Shoes

Everyone Who Records Video on Their Phone Needs to Follow This Rule

The Difference Between a Geek and a Nerd in One Graph

A Field Guide to Cryptids From Europe and Africa

Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey, as explained by puppets

There will soon be TWO competing Game of Thrones porn spoofs

Incredible Space Engine Runs Nonstop for Five Years

WSJ: Google Is Making an Android Video Game Console and Smartwatch

Planets can form and survive in insanely dense star clusters

Is Superman the Antichrist?

Glenn Beck Says Paula Deen Is Just Like Martin Luther King Jr.

Scientists Create Real Life Star Trek Deflector Shield

The Internet Chooses the Movies at This Clever Stoop Cinema

Science Shocker: Mouse Cloned From Single Drop of Blood

Proposed ‘deflector shield’ could protect astronauts from radiation

Teen May Get Eight Years In Prison for Sarcastic Facebook Comment

The greatest penis rescue story ever told

Do geek stereotypes keep women out of computer science?

NoteSuite for iPad: Meet Evernote’s New, Subscription-Free Competition

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