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How will our starships navigate in deep space?

When explorers started going around the Earth, they used the stars to find their way around. While the oceans and plains stretched out indefinitely, the stars were dependable guides. But when we travel into deep space, what will we use to find our way? What will be the lighthouse that our future starships use to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell May 30

Put Your Home on Vacation Mode, Right from the Airport

The future is here, people. Want to see what’s happening at your abode when you’re not there? Well, Verizon Home Monitoring and Control not only lets you do just that, it also allows you to remotely turn lights on and off, adjust your thermostat, and lock and unlock doors with just the swipe of your…

Tech News Sponsored post May 30

Small iPads, Big iPhones: How Apple Battles Its Own Legacy

Tim Cook gave his second-ever interview as Apple’s CEO last night. He said all the right things about the company’s present and future, but lurking behind every question was the past. Just like it has been for every Apple product release and rumor since last October. It may not be fair, but it’s Apple’s biggest…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 30

The three actors rumored for Hunger Games’ Finnick Odair

The last important casting decision in the Hunger Games franchise rests with Finnick Odair, the flirty red head who kills with a trident and wears nothing but a fisherman’s net when he’s representing District 4 in the parade for the 3rd Quarter Quell Hunger Games. He’s bold, charming, and super-sexy. So who does Hollywood want…

Movies Meredith Woerner May 30

The extraordinarily surreal World War II editorial cartoons of Dr. Seuss

For those of you who grew up with such classics as Green Eggs and Ham and Horton Hears A Who, these World War II editorial cartoons by Theodor Geisel may take you by surprise. This wasn’t a dalliance for Seuss either — the illustrator was a prolific newspaper contributor during the early 1940s. One does…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar May 30

A Lovely Book-Shaped Shelf With a Terribly Awkward Name

It’s surprising to think that no one’s thought to create a bookshelf sculpted with the same form and curves as a book left sitting open on a desk. But it’s even more surprising what the creators of this bookshelf decided to name it. The Shelf-book? Nope. The Paper-rack? Nuh-uh. Cassina did decide to stick with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 30

Verizon FiOS Is Getting Insanely Fast 300Mbps Home Internet

Verizon FiOS is already pretty beastly, maxing out at 150Mbps download/35Mbps upload speeds. But because the red god of internet is feeling generous, apparently, it’s basically doubling that next month, with a new top end of 300/65Mbps. That is totally insane and unnecessary and wonderful. The other new tiers shake out to 50/25, 150/65, and…

Tech News Kyle Wagner May 30

If You’re Fat, Your Friends Will Always See You That Way

For many people, a decision to lose weight isn’t just made because of the obvious health advantages, but to change the way people think about them. So it’s a shame that new research suggest that, in the minds of friends and family, a fat person is always fat, regardless of how much weight they lose.…

Health Jamie Condliffe May 30

Giant Wall Switch Watch Only Illuminates the Time

If you’re befuddled by watches filled with gauges and covered with buttons, then Click Watches has a new design that caters to luddites like you. The Wall Switch is just one giant rocker button that toggles between the time and date when flicked. Easy peasy. It also sports a very minimalist aesthetic since the Wall…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 30

See a jellyfish-like creature imitate Batman at the bottom of the sea

Last year, a videographer from Neptune Canada spotted this odd creature floating deep under the northeastern Pacific Ocean off of Vancouver Island. Was Batman having a brave and bold adventure with The Atom in his new micro-Bat-bathyscape? Not exactly. This bobbing Bat-signal is a cilia-covered predatory cnidarian and a relative of sea jellies: During a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 30

Intel Ultrabooks Will Get Free Wi-Fi Almost Everywhere and Auto-Update from Your Bag

The “ultrabook” designation doesn’t mean too too much, since manufacturers constantly look for ways to skirt around Intel’s sorta-arbitrary specs. But just being on Team Intel’s gonna get a few new perks, with its new deal to get all ultrabooks free, automatic, no-login access to 5.6 million Wi-Fi hotspots. The deal with Devicescape will use…

Tech News Kyle Wagner May 30

How to Hide Your Router in Plain Sight

You have a router. It’s ugly and it blinks. Maybe it’s located somewhere where you can’t completely place it out of view. Maybe it needs to be in the open for reasons of signal strength. Either way, here’s a very quick, very easy, and very elegant way to camouflage your router in the home. Find…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 30

Join Jose Canseco’s Website, Watch Him Do Steroids

Welcome to Jose Canseco’s new website, where you can pay real money to talk baseball and nonsense and see the former major leaguer and current juice head take his daily shot of testosterone. Wait, what? No really, this morning, he tweeted details of his new “membership website” it from his utterly ridiculous account. “You will…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 30

Honeymooning Zuckerberg Can’t Figure Out an ATM

Mark and Priscilla are on their honeymoon, adding Life Events to their Timelines and handing out shiny American dollar coins to Italian peasant children. But they might be running low on that IPO cash, because Zuck can’t use an ATM. In the video below, captured by Italian TM News, the nouveaux riche royalty are seen…

Social Media Sam Biddle May 30

Sword Fighting with Neal Stephenson and His Mongoliad Co-Authors

It’s not even 10:30 in the morning, and I’m already holding an archaic deadly weapon in my hands. I’m in a nondescript warehouse in Seattle, to which I’ve traveled so that award-winning science fiction novelists can demonstrate how they could cut me in half if they felt like it. Somebody has just pulled a sword…

Books & Comics Douglas Wolk May 30

Facebook’s Pay-to-Promote Posts Feature Has Arrived (Updated)

We’ve heard rumblings that Facebook was testing a system called Highlight that would allow people to pay to promote a post, and now obnoxiously enough, it’s starting to show up. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-testing-a-pay-for-promotion-system-everyone-5909486 Chris Cantalini, who runs a music blog called Gorilla vs. Bear, tweeted that he was posting a track by Holy Balm when he was…

Social Media Leslie Horn May 30

The Most Game-Changing Episodes of Babylon 5

Babylon 5 was a ground-breaking TV show in many ways — but a couple of episodes, in particular, stand out as especially influential on television as a whole. When we were preparing yesterday’s roundup of the 10 TV episodes that changed television, we wanted to include an episode of Babylon 5, so we consulted Babylon…

Television Charlie Jane Anders May 30

Transparent Bubble Crib Makes Your Bundle of Joy Look Like a Science Experiment

Inspired by the image of baby comfortably nestled in a cloud of soap bubbles, designer Lana Agiyan came up with the idea for this circular rocking Bubble Baby Bed. But it unfortunately also happens to make your kid look like they’re being raised in a laboratory. If you can get past the cold, sterile aesthetics,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 30

Willy Loman Contemplates Twittercide

In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman Willy Loman meets his unceremonious end unsure about the meaning of his life as an agent of soulless American capitalism. Our friends at McSweeney’s explore what might happen if Loman faced a tragically empty existence in the social media vortex. Linda, Happy, Biff, pull some seats up to…

Tech News Jason Harrington - McSweeney's May 30

Simon Pegg says Star Trek‘s villain isn’t who you think. Plus New Dark Knight Rises and Total Recall Videos!

Simon Pegg swears Benedict Cumberbatch’s villain isn’t who you think in the Star Trek sequel. Jon Favreau talks NBC’s Revolution. Nick Frost promises more dwarfs in a prospective Snow White and the Huntsman sequel. Plus new characters for Game of Thrones! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Total Recall. The Dark Knight Rises…

Television Alasdair Wilkins May 30

How will our starships navigate in deep space?

Put Your Home on Vacation Mode, Right from the Airport

Small iPads, Big iPhones: How Apple Battles Its Own Legacy

The three actors rumored for Hunger Games’ Finnick Odair

The extraordinarily surreal World War II editorial cartoons of Dr. Seuss

A Lovely Book-Shaped Shelf With a Terribly Awkward Name

Verizon FiOS Is Getting Insanely Fast 300Mbps Home Internet

If You’re Fat, Your Friends Will Always See You That Way

Giant Wall Switch Watch Only Illuminates the Time

See a jellyfish-like creature imitate Batman at the bottom of the sea

Intel Ultrabooks Will Get Free Wi-Fi Almost Everywhere and Auto-Update from Your Bag

How to Hide Your Router in Plain Sight

Join Jose Canseco’s Website, Watch Him Do Steroids

Honeymooning Zuckerberg Can’t Figure Out an ATM

Sword Fighting with Neal Stephenson and His Mongoliad Co-Authors

Facebook’s Pay-to-Promote Posts Feature Has Arrived (Updated)

The Most Game-Changing Episodes of Babylon 5

Transparent Bubble Crib Makes Your Bundle of Joy Look Like a Science Experiment

Willy Loman Contemplates Twittercide

Simon Pegg says Star Trek‘s villain isn’t who you think. Plus New Dark Knight Rises and Total Recall Videos!

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