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Watch This Girl Incredibly Paint a Portrait of Adele with Burning Candles

Hong Yi, the lovely artist who makes mind blowing art from everyday objects like books, coffee and basketballs, is back at it again. This time? She paints a picture of Adele using burning candles. Seriously. Who needs a paintbrush when you have hot wax, right? https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-girl-sculpt-zuckerbergs-face-with-books-5916540 I can barely light a candle without burning myself…

Tech News Casey Chan

Samsung vs. Apple: The South Korean Verdict Is In (Updated)

The Wall Street Journal has streaming coverage of the South Korean Samsung vs. Apple verdict return. The highly anticipated verdict came in only minutes ago, setting the stage for the equally hot US version of the verdict to come. The WSJ reports that the decision seems to be a more or less even split between…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Use This Equation to Figure Out If Alien Life Exists

The Drake Equation, developed by astronomer Frank Drake, is an equation that estimates how many alien civilizations might live in our galaxy. But the more we find out about the way of the milky, the less chance alien life exists. Just check out the difference between how much alien life existed before when the Drake…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

Mobile Wi-Fi Should Be Better

It really should. We have come so far—so, so far—from the days of dumb dialup. And it’s not like the technology doesn’t exist (hello Boing, MiFi, et al.) So, why oh why is mobile Wi-Fi still so shitty? I shouldn’t turn down a trip to Maine just because I’m worried I won’t be able to…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Saying Happy Birthday to Your Friend on Facebook Is Meaningless

We’ve already told you that Facebook ruined your birthday. And it’s so completely true! It’s completely meaningless now, hordes of semi-friends and quasi-acquaintances fake like they care about you. Ugh. And maybe when the wall posts first start trickling in you’re a little happy but as more and more keyboard vomit starts popping up, you…

Tech News Casey Chan

Dutchess House Is a Glittering Jewel Box of a Country Retreat

Nestled in the heart of Duchess County, in upstate New York, Dutchess House No 1. is an aluminum clad hideaway with a surprisingly warm and cozy interior. This sustainable weekend retreat was designed by Grzywinski+Pons for a couple based in New York City. Its exterior is clad in aluminum shingles and accented with IPE wood…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Prominent scientists sign declaration that animals have conscious awareness, just like us

An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are — a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus. But will this make us stop…

io9 George Dvorsky

This Most Amazing Time Lapse Shows The Beautiful Life of a City

Call it vapid, call it fake, call it soul sucking. Go ahead. Complain about the traffic, complain about the people, complain about the smog. You can say whatever you want but the fact is this: Los Angeles is so very beautiful. Don’t believe me? Watch this time lapse video of LA by Colin Rich which…

Tech News Casey Chan

Watch what happens when you play Cypress Hill through a squid’s fin

Cephalopods like squid and octopuses change their appearance with color-changing cells called chromatophores. Chromatophores can be stimulated via electrical signals — like the ones coming out of the headphone jack of an iPhone playing Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain.” I think you know where this is going. This amazing mashup of neuroscience, music, and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Post-Apocalyptic Book That Raises the Bar on Bleakness

In some ways, The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is a cozy sort of post-apocalyptic novel. As the novel begins, the main character has a pretty comfortable life, with plenty of supplies and a safe place to sleep. He has a pet dog and a buddy who helps keep him safe from the roving bands…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The iPad Mini Might Actually Be Announced in October

We’ve long known that iPhone 5 Day 2012 would be September 12th—Apple would hold an event, Tim Cook would go on stage, a new iPhone would be announced and Apple will claim that this changes everything. There were also reports that a new 7-inch iPad mini would be announced on the same day. They might’ve…

Tech News Casey Chan

Yeasayer: Henrietta

Fragrant World, Yeasayer’s new album, dropped yesterday, and if you haven’t given it a listen yet, fire up Spotify right now. This accordion/organ backed track “Henrietta” is the second single. It’s a great track—sorry if it gets stuck in your head. Not really though. Typical of Yeasayer, the song is wonderfully weird but incredibly infecting.…

Tech News Leslie Horn

How The Dark Knight Rises should have ended

It’s time for another “How it should Have Ended” webisode. This one focuses on the problems and loop holes in The Dark Knight Rises. Some of these hits come a little too easy, but we will agree about the brilliant plan to put every cop underground. Ah well, can’t win them all.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Nic Cage’s Ghost Rider deleted scenes show his insane commitment to be the flaming skull

We are in love with these deleted scenes from Nic Cage’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Especially because they show how Nic Cage looked when he was acting with a fully lit head. It’s pretty spectacular — especially when you watch Cage try and suck our your soul. [Via Comic Book Movie]

Movies Meredith Woerner

The world’s first looping roller coasters were basically torture devices

The early days of theme parks were rife with ambitious mechanical amusements…and minimal safety concerns. In fact, the one of the first inverted roller coasters, The Flip-Flap Railway, attracted thrill seekers in the late 1890s thanks to its 25-foot, circular loop-de-loop. And despite the neck injuries this whiplash device inflicted upon passengers, the ride managed…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How The Apparition Turned Draco Malfoy Into a Paranormal Investigator

There are two reasons to be excited about The Apparition, the horror movie that comes out tomorrow: 1) Tom Felton playing a paranormal investigator type. 2) It’s got a college science experiment gone wrong, that unleashes some horrible supernatural presence that grows stronger the more people believe in it. If you love Draco Malfoy and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Yes It’s Still Summer, but This Burton Jacket Will Make You Wish For Snow

Summer has been great, but as the weather is starting to change, you’ve got something to look forward too—snow. When you hit the slopes later this year, you have to look good and stay warm. It’s no surprise that Burton’s 2012-2013 collection fulfills both of those requirements, and this space-age Embark Snowboard jacket ($475) is…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Sex, Anarchy, and Robert Pattinson’s Hair Haunt David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis

There are two kinds of people who will like five-minutes-into-the-future flick Cosmopolis: People want to take revenge on Robert Pattinson’s hair after the Twilight movies, and people who are David Cronenberg completists. Cronenberg’s latest film is a spare, unsettling tour of a New York City on the brink of collapse, trashed by Occupy-style anarchists and…

Movies Annalee Newitz

An Unknown Hacker Group Claims That It Shut Down the World’s Largest Oil Company—And That They’ll Do It Again

The NY Times is reporting that unknown computer hackers who call themselves “Cutting Sword of Justice” have claimed responsibility for spreading a malicious virus into Saudi Aramco, the Saudi government-owned oil company that’s also the world’s largest, and destroying three-quarters of all its computers. The hackers used a similar virus as the government created virus,…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

Are antibiotics making your kids obese?

The science of studying the human gut microbiome is still in its early days — but research into this area is beginning to reveal some pretty startling things. Take two recent studies published in Nature and the International Journal of Obesity, both of which indicate that the use of antibiotics in young children could be…

io9 George Dvorsky

Watch This Girl Incredibly Paint a Portrait of Adele with Burning Candles

Samsung vs. Apple: The South Korean Verdict Is In (Updated)

Use This Equation to Figure Out If Alien Life Exists

Mobile Wi-Fi Should Be Better

Saying Happy Birthday to Your Friend on Facebook Is Meaningless

Dutchess House Is a Glittering Jewel Box of a Country Retreat

Prominent scientists sign declaration that animals have conscious awareness, just like us

This Most Amazing Time Lapse Shows The Beautiful Life of a City

Watch what happens when you play Cypress Hill through a squid’s fin

A Post-Apocalyptic Book That Raises the Bar on Bleakness

The iPad Mini Might Actually Be Announced in October

Yeasayer: Henrietta

How The Dark Knight Rises should have ended

Nic Cage’s Ghost Rider deleted scenes show his insane commitment to be the flaming skull

The world’s first looping roller coasters were basically torture devices

How The Apparition Turned Draco Malfoy Into a Paranormal Investigator

Yes It’s Still Summer, but This Burton Jacket Will Make You Wish For Snow

Sex, Anarchy, and Robert Pattinson’s Hair Haunt David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis

An Unknown Hacker Group Claims That It Shut Down the World’s Largest Oil Company—And That They’ll Do It Again

Are antibiotics making your kids obese?

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