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Anonymous: We Have Access to Every Secret Government Database

Anonymous has been meek and quiet since the great Sabu treachery, failing to even threaten much of anything. But in a new interview, one of the group’s last remaining leaders says Anon has a nuclear card up its sleeve. Christopher “Commander X” Doyon, whose name is public because he’s been busted for hacking a California…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 14

Can Children Ever Be Diagnosed as Psychopaths?

All children play up from time to time, but deep-down, some are incredibly badly behaved. While it’s easy enough to spot them in the playground, researchers are struggling to come to terms with whether it’s possible to diagnose children as being real—and perhaps even dangerous—psychopaths. The New York Times ran a wonderful and thought-provoking piece…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 14

Man pulled over for being radioactive

Last Wednesday, Mike Apatow was getting on to Interstate 84 in Newtown, CT, when police stopped him for no reason he could determine. When the cop told him that his car had set off his radioactivity detectors, it started making sense: Apatow was most certainly radioactive. Earlier in the day, Apatow had had a bit…

io9 Julian Whitcrosse May 14

How One Infinity Can Be Bigger Than Another

Infinity is a pretty difficult concept for us to grasp. The world we live in is full of limitations, so the idea that something can go on and on, forever and ever, doesn’t come naturally to us. And to make things even more confusing, some infinities can actually be bigger than others. Huh? The term…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski May 14

Which new superhero will join Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in The Avengers 2?

After The Avengers made another $100 million at the box office this weekend, a sequel is simply a matter of time. And it sounds like Joss Whedon has a definite idea about whom he wants to add to the team… and it isn’t another dude! Plus Christopher Nolan talks the challenges of making his third…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 14

Report: New MacBook Pros Will Be Retina Display, USB 3.0 Monster Machines

It’s always best not to put too much stock in the old familiar “supply chain sources,” but 9to5Mac knows a guy who knows a guy who has confirmed what we’ve always thought about Apple’s next MacBook Pros: They’re going to be thin, fast, and gorgeous. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-generation-macbook-pro-2012-5884734 Oh, and Apple’s ditching Ethernet. According to the report,…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 14

A Slingshot Bow and Arrow: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

There’s a reason very few hunters wander out into the woods armed with a slingshot. They can be deadly for smaller game, but you’re probably not going to fell a buck with one. Unless you happen to be slingshot madman Joerg Sprave, and your slingshot fires friggin arrows. Referring to his latest creation as a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 14

Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac Benchmarked?

Intel’s hot new next-gen chipset looks like it’ll be making an appearance in Apple’s computer ranges rather soon, with Ivy Bridge processors popping up in some Apple tech benchmarks. Two new Apple models have appeared in the stats over at Geekbench. One shows a MacBook Pro running a Core i7-3820QM at 2.7GHz, which achieved a…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - gizmodo uk May 14

This Is the World’s Most Expensive Camera

You’re looking at a prototype Leica 35mm film camera, known as the 0-series. It was one of just 25 produced in 1923 for testing, and only 12 of them are known to have survived to this day. That’s why it’s just set a record, becoming the world’s most expensive camera. It was sold at the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 14

A Fat Breakfast Will Hit Your Hips in Three Hours

Fancy a big breakfast? Think again: scientists have shown that the fat content will go straight to your hips in no time at all. Researchers from Oxford University have found that instead of fat being put on over a gradual amount of time it can, in fact, be just a matter of hours after eating…

Health Jon Partridge - Gizmodo UK May 14

Kickstarter Will Eat Itself

A couple of months ago, our all-powerful leader Joe Brown banned Kickstarter projects from the pages of Gizmodo. If you’re still puzzled over that decision, consider this: Kickstarter is becoming such a widely abused platform that it will soon eat itself. https://gizmodo.com/were-done-with-kickstarter-5897449 That sentiment is beautifully conveyed by today’s XKCD, which depicts a fictional Kickstarter…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 14

The Stunt-Double Drugs That Hollywood Actors Take on Camera

While movie stars aren’t drug-free zones, movie sets are at least supposed to be. Which is why, during filming, actors have to make do with stunt-double drugs. An article in Wired neatly summarizes some of the most common stand-ins; here are a few of the best. [Wired] Methamphetamine Taking huge quantities of real meth can…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 14

You Can Now Make Phone Calls on Virgin Atlantic Flights

Virgin Atlantic has announced that, first in its Airbus A330s and soon in other planes, passengers will be able to make and receive cell phone calls. Virgin Atlantic has signed up to a service provided by AeroMobile, which uses GSM connections to allow voice calls from the air. Currently, the service is only up for…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 14

This Is Why Leica Cameras Are So Damn Expensive

Last week, along with a cool-but-crazy monochrome-only digital camera, Leica announced that it was launching a a special edition of its M9 with fashion label Hermès. It will cost an eye-watering $25,000—and this video goes some way to explaining that price. https://gizmodo.com/leica-m-monochrom-only-shoots-in-black-and-white-and-th-5909346 In fact, while the video concentrates on the Hermès collaboration, it helps explain…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 14

Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Enriched Uranium Hidden In a Basement

Kodak may be going under, but apparently they could have started their own nuclear war if they wanted, just six years ago. Down in a basement in Rochester, NY, they had a nuclear reactor loaded with 3.5 pounds of enriched uranium—the same kind they use in atomic warheads. https://gizmodo.com/kodak-goes-belly-up-and-files-for-chapter-11-5877428 But why did Kodak have a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 13

io9 Roundup: May 13, 2012

HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY | An Alien Empress runs afoul of a foolhardy Predator, in this illustration by Justin Currie. How our predictions for the Year 2000 changed throughout the 20th Century https://gizmodo.com/how-our-predictions-for-the-year-2000-changed-throughou-5908600 Our vision of the future is always changing. In the year 1910, we imagined that the year 2000 would be filled with airships…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 13

City Bans Texting While Walking: Good or Bad Idea?

I’ve been bumped on the streets by people who were texting while walking. A thousand times. It’s annoying. I guess I should be happy that the town of Fort Lee, New Jersey, have started issuing $85 tickets to any pedestrians caught texting and walking. Except I’m not. It’s a stupid law. The fact is that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 13

A rousing musical tribute to a lazy harp seal

And now, with the minimum of requisite explanation, here is Nerf Herder lead singer Parry Gripp’s paean to a languid pinniped. It is set to this particular nature documentary and offers a withering critique of this northern Atlantic aquatic mammal’s inability to secure a steady income. [Via Deep Sea News]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 13

Nepal’s most mysterious language might soon disappear

Kusunda is one of the most enigmatic languages on the planet. This tongue from western Nepal looks nothing like any other language, and its strange structure baffles linguists. And there’s only one person left in Nepal who speaks it. Kusunda is an example of a language isolate, meaning a language with no known relative. Of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 13

The genes behind human intelligence also made us vulnerable to autism

The exact genetic roots of autism are still being untangled, but we do know that the most common single-gene causes of the condition is Fragile X syndrome, in which errors on the X chromosome trip up normal neural development. Specifically, Fragile X syndrome prevents the production of a crucial protein known as FMRP. This particular…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 13

Anonymous: We Have Access to Every Secret Government Database

Can Children Ever Be Diagnosed as Psychopaths?

Man pulled over for being radioactive

How One Infinity Can Be Bigger Than Another

Which new superhero will join Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in The Avengers 2?

Report: New MacBook Pros Will Be Retina Display, USB 3.0 Monster Machines

A Slingshot Bow and Arrow: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac Benchmarked?

This Is the World’s Most Expensive Camera

A Fat Breakfast Will Hit Your Hips in Three Hours

Kickstarter Will Eat Itself

The Stunt-Double Drugs That Hollywood Actors Take on Camera

You Can Now Make Phone Calls on Virgin Atlantic Flights

This Is Why Leica Cameras Are So Damn Expensive

Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Enriched Uranium Hidden In a Basement

io9 Roundup: May 13, 2012

City Bans Texting While Walking: Good or Bad Idea?

A rousing musical tribute to a lazy harp seal

Nepal’s most mysterious language might soon disappear

The genes behind human intelligence also made us vulnerable to autism

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