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First look at Disney’s new Avengers Assemble cartoon

Disney has just released the first poster for Avengers Assemble. I hate to admit it, since I’m still insanely bitter it’s replacing the magnificent Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes, but the character models do look pretty great. And the new official synopsis also sounds pretty awesome: “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble” reunites the most popular super hero team…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 8 '13

Oz the Great and Powerful Should Have Been a B-Movie

In between making the disastrous Spider-man 3 and Oz the Great and Powerful, director Sam Raimi made what The Middleman once called “a zombie palate cleanser”: the masterfully nuts B-movie Drag Me to Hell. As you watch the plodding action in Oz unfold, you’ll find yourself wishing it had a bit more of the anything-goes…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 8 '13

All the Google I/O Easter Eggs (And How I Found Them)

If you go to the Google I/O 2013 homepage and punch in IIIOOIII on your keyboard, the I/O logo changes into an new logo formed by cats. There are 12 of these easter eggs in all, and Zak El Fassi figured them all out. Here they are, plus an explanation of how he solved a…

Tech News Zak El Fassi Mar 8 '13

How the World’s Biggest Clock Tried to Change the Center of Time

For the multitudes of cultural differences that exist throughout human civilization, we do share a single, universal goal: to build stuff bigger and better than the schmucks next door. Every single one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was created as a chest-thumping, neighbor-shaming testament to its builder’s awesomeness. That proud tradition continues…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 8 '13

Facebook’s Most Overlooked Design Change

Facebook showed us its new News Feed yesterday. It’s as pretty as anyone could have hoped, and a wonderful update to the design. But lost in the big images and new feeds was a pretty major change that actually started weeks ago: The first thing you look at on Facebook’s page has moved. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-new-news-feed-the-biggest-change-in-years-5989228 Move…

Social Media Kyle Wagner Mar 8 '13

This Aliens-inspired “advertisement” is so awesome it hurts

Remember the P-5000 Work Loader? The hulking mechanized exoskeleton that Ellen Ripley uses to rip the xenomorph queen a new one in Aliens? Sure you do. Well, this is what an advertisement for the P-5000 would look like, were we all ill-fated enough to live in the world of Weyland Corp. The illustration was created…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez Mar 8 '13

Flexible Flat-Pack Furniture That Actually Looks Pretty Comfy

What you gain in convenience when opting for flat-pack furniture from stores like Ikea, you lose in comfort. But with a clever enough design, it turns out that your flat-pack seating can actually look comfortable and inviting—as South Africa-based Wintec’s Stratflex line demonstrates. At first glance it’s hard to believe these contoured curvaceous pieces actually…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 8 '13

A star that looks older than the universe itself

About a century ago, astronomers discovered a fast-moving star formally known as HD 140283. Initial estimates of its age placed it a perplexing 16 billion years old — a serious problem considering that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. But a recent analysis of this so-called Methuselah Star has re-dated it to 14.5 billion…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 8 '13

The Loneliest Unicorn is the saddest, most beautiful thing we’ve seen in ages

Pixar artist and creator of Inappropriate Golden Books, Josh Cooley has created another fantastic piece of work. Behold, the cutest webcomic that will rip out your heart and show it to you, The Loneliest Unicorn. We’ve got a bunch of panels below: https://gizmodo.com/inappropriate-golden-books-or-how-to-awesomely-warp-y-5543549 To see the conclusion, head over to Cooley’s Website. It’s amazing.

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 8 '13

Your Favorite Fantasy Characters Are Now Fighting To the Death

It’s one of so many holy traditions in SF/F that the greatest characters in the canon be pitted against each other in a gory duel to the death, fang against sword against phaser. Well, in the words of that august lunatic Dr. Dealgood, “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls… Dyin’ time’s here.” Suvudu, Random House’s…

io9 By Kwame Opam Mar 8 '13

Bikers Rejoice: You’ve Got Your Own (Equally Unaffordable) Lamborghini Now

Rather bike than drive? Prefer beautiful, totally unattainable things to realistic purchases? Enter the Lamborghini 50th Anniversary Edition impec, a bike that’s as beautiful as it is out of your reach. A marriage of high-end, custom-made Italian components and a Swiss-made carbon fiber impec frame, this child of a Lamborghini and BMC partnership is a…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 8 '13

Staring At The Sun

NASA Image of the Day Gallery has just released this nice photo of NASA engineer Chip Holloway waiting for the sun to align with the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE III) during a clean room “sun-look” test on March 4, 2013, at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. SAGE III passed this test,…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 8 '13

Apple’s Mysterious Ebay Storefront Sells Macs For Less Than the Apple Refurb Store

Since last October, there’s been a store on Ebay that goes by the name Refurbished_Outlet, and it only sells Apple products. Although there’s no contact information and little Apple corporate branding, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider think it’s an official Apple outlet, because it sells official Apple refurbs. As you may know, Apple refurbs are already one…

Tech News Kif Leswing Mar 8 '13

In the Flesh shows the downsides of being a “cured” zombie

Pardon the pun, but this new trailer for the BBC zombie drama In the Flesh fleshes out the series, giving us a look at the other characters and the other problems the teenager Keiran Walker faces as he tries to reintegrate back in the society he… well, once ate, actually. It looks pretty darned good…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 8 '13

Report: Global temps are the highest they’ve been in 4,000 years

It’s global warming, stupid. And how. In an extensive study published in today’s issue of Science, researchers report that today’s global temperatures are warmer than any point in at least the last 4,000 years, and show no signs of declining: analyses of weather patterns since the end of the last Ice Age presage that the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 8 '13

Check out this picture of a building just before a nuclear bomb hits

About two weeks ago, we looked at the first few milliseconds of nuclear explosions, as caught by a special camera that was specially designed by genius engineer Harold Edgerton. Richard Miller, author of Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing, contacted me with another startling picture — an amazing look at a glass-windowed building…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 8 '13

Bringing iPhone Safari Up to Speed

Safari is technically a platform on its own, separate from the App Store. Until the day that Gatekeeper comes to iOS, it will continue to be the most open way for users to access information on Apple’s mobile devices. But besides iCloud Tabs and Reading List, Mobile Safari has remained basically unchanged since its unveiling,…

Tech News Brent Caswell Mar 8 '13

Syfy orders up a full series of Ron D. Moore’s disease thriller Helix

Hooray! More Moore! Ron D. Moore’s latest thriller series Helix has received a straight-to-pilot order on Syfy! THR is reporting that we’re going to get 13 episodes (the perfect number) of Helix which also described the series as: A thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 8 '13

A Department Store’s “Faux Fur” Coats Were Actually Dog Fur

A New York retailer has been busted for selling people fancy Marc Jacobs coats trimmed with luxurious dog fur that was advertised as fake stuff. There appears to be some confusion in the fashion industry concerning what constitutes “fur”. Most people who actually buy fur probably wouldn’t consider the skinned hide of East Asian raccoon…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 8 '13

One Day Your Credit Card Will Recognize Your Signature

A signature-based security approach is only effective if a cashier actually double checks what’s scrawled across the back of a credit card. And even then, there’s still plenty of opportunity for fraud since minimum wage clerks usually aren’t capable of spotting a forged signature—but one day your credit card might be. Using biometrics, the Fraunhofer…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski Mar 8 '13

First look at Disney’s new Avengers Assemble cartoon

Oz the Great and Powerful Should Have Been a B-Movie

All the Google I/O Easter Eggs (And How I Found Them)

How the World’s Biggest Clock Tried to Change the Center of Time

Facebook’s Most Overlooked Design Change

This Aliens-inspired “advertisement” is so awesome it hurts

Flexible Flat-Pack Furniture That Actually Looks Pretty Comfy

A star that looks older than the universe itself

The Loneliest Unicorn is the saddest, most beautiful thing we’ve seen in ages

Your Favorite Fantasy Characters Are Now Fighting To the Death

Bikers Rejoice: You’ve Got Your Own (Equally Unaffordable) Lamborghini Now

Staring At The Sun

Apple’s Mysterious Ebay Storefront Sells Macs For Less Than the Apple Refurb Store

In the Flesh shows the downsides of being a “cured” zombie

Report: Global temps are the highest they’ve been in 4,000 years

Check out this picture of a building just before a nuclear bomb hits

Bringing iPhone Safari Up to Speed

Syfy orders up a full series of Ron D. Moore’s disease thriller Helix

A Department Store’s “Faux Fur” Coats Were Actually Dog Fur

One Day Your Credit Card Will Recognize Your Signature

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