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How to Make Sure You Get Paid When You Design a Website

If the people who hired you to design a website have been dodgy and unreliable about payment, here’s a little stunt that will shock their wallets and open their checkbooks: scrap the entire site and kindly demand payment on the website’s front page. Your payment should come soon after. Our own Jesus Diaz has admitted…

Tech News Casey Chan May 1

The Next Yellowstone Supereruption Is Closer Than You Think

The good news: scientists have discovered that “the Yellowstone super-volcano is a little less super than previously thought.” The bad news: the Yellowstone super-volcano is “more active than previously thought.” That means eruptions are more frequent. So the next one is likely closer than previously predicted. Gulp. According to the the researchers from Washington State…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 1

You’d Never Want To Graduate From this Amazing, Automated College Dorm Room

Like any first year college student, Derek Low wanted to make a name for himself at UC Berkeley. But instead of streaking across the quad during frosh week, he converted his boring dorm room into what he dubbed B.R.A.D.—or the Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm. This is Where the Magic Happens. These are our favorite temples…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 1

The Ultra-Modern Chair That’s All About Old-School Carpentry

The Medici Chair is a contemporary piece inspired by traditional craftsmanship. It was designed for Mattiazzi by Konstantin Grcic, who got his start as a cabinet maker. Formed from a American walnut, Douglas Fir, and thermo-treated Ash, the chair is characterized by its basic wood composition. It is built in a way that is true…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 1

Too Little Sleep Activates Genes That Make You Fat

People that sleep a lot are fat and lazy, right? Nope: toss that old idea out right now, because a new study suggests that sleeping for less than seven hours promotes genetic influences associated with weight gain. We’ve known for a while that there are genetic influences that can contribute to obesity; things like glucose…

Health Jamie Condliffe May 1

F-22 Pilots Don’t Want to Fly the F-22

Not exactly a grand gesture of confidence: some of the US Air Force’s airmen, the world’s most elite, want nothing to do with the Air Force’s “elite” new fighter. Why? Because the only people it’s threatening are its own pilots. https://gizmodo.com/the-sad-odyssey-of-the-f-22-americas-big-broken-toy-5853857 ABC News reports, shockingly, that the admission came from within the Air Force itself—the…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 1

Dark Knight Rises trailer screencaps show just how bad it gets for Bruce Wayne

After going through the latest trailer for The Dark Knight Rises frame by frame, we only have one question left in our minds: Why isn’t this movie called The Dark Knight Falls? Check out our detailed look at the Gotham City horror, with in-depth analysis of screencaps plus some wild speculation, below. Beware: Major spoilers!…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders May 1

Behold the Starship Enterprise of 1930

If Star Trek were a thrilling radio drama sandwiched between Ovaltine ads and spots for the dyspepsia-fighting power of Moxie, then the Enterprise might possibly bear a resemblance to its long-lost cousin, Guido Fallei’s amphibious dirigible gyrocopter. As the September 1930 issue of Popular Mechanics explained of Fallei’s craft: The craft has a single wing,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 1

New Blood Test Could Predict Breast Cancer Years in Advance

A new blood test which identifies a genetic change that doubles the risk of breast cancer could allow doctors to identify women at high risk of the disease years before they develop a tumor. The research, which is published in Cancer Research, analyzed blood samples from 1,380 women of various ages, 640 of whom went…

Health Jamie Condliffe May 1

This Earblowing Space Shuttle Launch Video Will Reduce Your Brain to Rubble

If you never attended a shuttle launch, you must watch this perfect video. Watch it with good and big headphones. Or better yet, with an amazing sound system. In fact, this is the perfect video to test your audio setup with gigantic subwoofer. But beware. It’s loud. Deliciously loud and crispy. [Thanks Oscar!]

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz May 1

Believe It Or Not, LinkedIn Would Have Been Even More Annoying In the 80s

Constantly being bombarded with emails urging you to join your friends’ and co-workers’ professional networks on LinkedIn is incredibly annoying these days. But the folks at Squirrel-Monkey show us that it could have been a lot worse had LinkedIn existed in the 80s. CD-ROMs, dot-matrix printers, DOS? This video will almost make you appreciate all…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 1

BlackBerry World Keynote: Follow Along Live!

It’s been a difficult time for RIM; the company’s manifold difficulties have been catalogued extensively both here and and elsewhere. Today, though, relatively new CEO Thorsten Heins will take the BlackBerry World stage to chart RIM’s glorious future—or further decline. Let’s find out which! What can we expect today from Heins? More details on BlackBerry…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 1

Tons of New Rumors About Villains, Aliens, and Cameos in the Star Trek Sequel!

Tom Hiddleston reveals what he wants Loki to receive in Thor 2. The Amazing Spider-Man might be ridiculously short. James Cameron might partner with China for Avatar 2. Will James Bond be grappling with depression in Skyfall? Plus lots more on Prometheus and Men in Black 3! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 1

Safely Shoot Your Bullitt Remake With Contour Vehicle Mounts

Bullitt’s famous car chase sequence through the streets of San Francisco is fun to watch, but it would be even more fun to re-create now that Contour has announced a new Moto Mounts kit for capturing your extreme, but reasonably safe and responsible vehicular exploits. Designed for use with the company’s line of cameras—including the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 1

Facebook Makes Organ Donation Social

This morning, Facebook announced that it’s making organ donation social. From today, you’ll be able to declare that you’re an organ donor on your timeline—something that Zuckerberg hopes will drive more people to sign up to donate. The Facebook initiative will provide links with every Timeline post which will enable friends and family to sign…

Health Jamie Condliffe May 1

Oxford Doctors Can Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder With… Tetris?

In recent years, the military’s top brass have funded some truly bizarre approaches – from neck injections to Reiki – in an effort to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress afflicting today’s soldiers. Turns out, they could’ve just equipped troops with Game Boys. At least according to one research team out of Oxford University, who claim…

Health Katie Drummond - Wired May 1

The Flashback Trojan Made Its Makers $10,000 a Day

If you’ve ever wondered why people write malware, it’s just like anything else – it’s all about the money. Symantec has worked out that the evil-doing bottom-feeders behind that nasty Flashback Trojan, which caught the Mac world with its pants down, were raking in around $10,000 a day. Apparently Flashback was cheating Google out of…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk May 1

Seized Memory Card Contained al Qaeda Documents Encoded in Porn

Last year, Maqsood Lodin was being interviewed by police after he’d travelled to Pakistan. When his questioners found a memory card in his underwear, they were suspicious—but it seemed only to contain porn. Later investigation, however, reveals that one film was actually encoded with more than 100 secret al Qaeda documents. CNN reports that Lodin…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 1

Is the Washington Post Hiring Digg’s Entire Tech Team?

Digg has been on a downward trajectory for some time, but now things seems to be getting worse. Rumors are circulating that the Washington Post is trying to hire the entire tech team from Digg—which would leave the aggregator site pretty much dead on its feet. All Things D reports that, if the dealings go…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 1

Skype Investigating Vulnerability Which Reveals Users’ IP Adresses

Skype has announced that it is investigating a new tool which can be used to collect users’ IP addresses. The hack, which can provide the IP address of a targeted Skype user without even having to add them as a contact, has been circulating online since last Thursday. Computer World reports that the trick—which can…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe May 1

How to Make Sure You Get Paid When You Design a Website

The Next Yellowstone Supereruption Is Closer Than You Think

You’d Never Want To Graduate From this Amazing, Automated College Dorm Room

The Ultra-Modern Chair That’s All About Old-School Carpentry

Too Little Sleep Activates Genes That Make You Fat

F-22 Pilots Don’t Want to Fly the F-22

Dark Knight Rises trailer screencaps show just how bad it gets for Bruce Wayne

Behold the Starship Enterprise of 1930

New Blood Test Could Predict Breast Cancer Years in Advance

This Earblowing Space Shuttle Launch Video Will Reduce Your Brain to Rubble

Believe It Or Not, LinkedIn Would Have Been Even More Annoying In the 80s

BlackBerry World Keynote: Follow Along Live!

Tons of New Rumors About Villains, Aliens, and Cameos in the Star Trek Sequel!

Safely Shoot Your Bullitt Remake With Contour Vehicle Mounts

Facebook Makes Organ Donation Social

Oxford Doctors Can Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder With… Tetris?

The Flashback Trojan Made Its Makers $10,000 a Day

Seized Memory Card Contained al Qaeda Documents Encoded in Porn

Is the Washington Post Hiring Digg’s Entire Tech Team?

Skype Investigating Vulnerability Which Reveals Users’ IP Adresses

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