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Experience The Hunger Games from the Comfort of Your Browser

Everyone in the known world is cawing about The Hunger Games. Team Peeta, Team Gale, Effie Trinket’s getups, and on and on. Whether you devoured the trilogy in a single train ride, lined up at 8 AM for the midnight movie premiere, or avoided Twitter for the last, oh, 6 months in the hopes of…

Tech News Sponsored post Mar 30 '12

Every Major Credit Card Provider Is Potentially Hacked Right Now

Global Payments, a major credit card processing company, has reportedly been hacked. That means each of the four major credit card companies, and according to reports, as many as 10 million customers are at risk. The story has been developing throughout the morning. Right now, it goes like this: Hackers gained access to an administrative-privileged…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner Mar 30 '12

What if Cake Was More Rational?

Sick of looking at an iced cake and wondering what could be inside? I-cakes, one of the innovative products designed by artist Marti Guixé, are for you. The inside is delicious cake. The outside is a pie chart indicating what ingredients are inside. Isn’t food terribly inefficient? What’s inside a cake, pie, or covered pastry?…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 30 '12

Genetic Atlas Yields a Brainbow of Cognitive Information

Scientists have created the first genetic “atlas” of the human brain, and the result is a very pretty Skittles-esque map of the brain as a rainbow. A brainbow. It’s more than just a fun visual. The atlas reveals a whole new way of organizing the cerebral cortex—the .08-ish-inch-thick sheet of neural tissue that wraps around…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Mar 30 '12

Qwikster Is a Terrible Name So Netflix Bought DVD.com

When Netflix announced last year that it was splitting its DVD rental service from its streaming service, consumer anger mostly centered around how subscribers would be getting fewer services for the same price. But part of the PR disaster was about how terrible the name Qwikster is, because, let’s face it, it’s pretty much the…

Tech News Kif Leswing Mar 30 '12

These Silently Screaming Dental Mannequins Are What Nightmares Are Made Of

These synthetic heads don’t need to be anywhere near the Uncanny Valley to be terrifying. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the creepiest prosthetic mouths in dentistry. Also check out these creepy medical mannequins, 12 videos of automata, and a dozen crash test dummies. Various views of a terminator like vintage dental manikin…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com Mar 30 '12

The Origins and Evolution of the Strategy Board Game RISK

A game combining luck, strategy, and diplomacy, RISK brings together friends for a maniacal six hour adventure, where just setting up the game and strategically placing armies can take up to an hour. The fragile alliances that you make and break over the course of a game are key to the game’s popularity — along…

io9 Keith Veronese Mar 30 '12

Watch the History of April Fools Day

This Sunday is April’s Fools Day. Here’s a very interesting video showing the history of this silly day, which may have started in 1582. Still, do you know what’s the biggest calendar joke this year? This one. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-hell-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail-5885346

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 30 '12

Two leaders of “Faster-Than-Light” Neutrino Team Resign

On the morning of September 22, 2011, OPERA spokesperson Antonio Ereditato announced to the world that members of the OPERA experiment had observed neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. The next day, experimental coordinator Dario Autiero presented the team’s findings at an internationally broadcasted presentation. Today, it is being reported that Ereditato and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 30 '12

A Treasure Trove of Cosplay from the Swinging 1970s [NSFW]

Science fiction and fantasy cosplay has changed a lot in the last 35 years. Back in the late 1970s, there weren’t very many rules, if any. And there certainly was nothing like a separate costuming fandom. There were also an awful lot of naked people (which eventually resulted in the only rule I ever remember…

io9 Ron Miller Mar 30 '12

This Card Shuffler Is Your The-House-Always-Wins Deal of the Day

Hey kids, gather ’round. I’ve got something important to share. In Macau, the Vegas of Asia, things are pretty much exactly the same as the original gambling Mecca – lots of people in pyjamas and loads of smoke. The same rules apply too. But I’m going to go out on a limb here, the food…

Tech News Andrew James Mar 30 '12

Foxconn Workers: Please Let Us Work More!

After the people Apple hired to clear its name wrote up a gloomy report of Foxconn working conditions, the manufacturer vowed to reform. First up: shorter, legal working days. But now these overworked workers want to keep overworking. What? https://gizmodo.com/overworked-and-in-danger-the-full-foxconn-labor-report-5897593 Foxconn says it’s going to bring its employees under the dictates of Chinese law, which…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 30 '12

This Ukrainian salt mine is like a tourist resort for morlocks

Or a spring break destination for CHUDs. In the Ukrainian town of Soledar, an unused salt mine 300 meters underground has become a tourist attraction thanks to its ornate passageways. A church, soccer arena, and sanitarium have been carved out of the salt, giving the mine the veneer of the Mines of Moria with high…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 30 '12

What Being Inside a Tornado Looks Like

If you’ve ever wondered what being inside the swirling terror of a tornado looks like, watch this video. It’s footage from a school bus that got trapped inside the destructive spin of the grey cyclone. It’s utterly terrifying. The tornado attacks quickly, so watch carefully. Once it hits the bus, it takes less than 10…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 30 '12

NASA’s New Rocket Sled Looks Like a Lot of Fun

This is NASA’s latest project and it looks like a lot of fun. Built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the US Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake, California, this rocket sled on rails is designed “to replicate the forces a supersonic spacecraft would experience prior to landing.” It will allow NASA to test…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Mar 30 '12

The Nimble Empire: In Defense of Cable

One of the most fascinating stories of the last year has been the evolution of Amazon Prime. In exchange for a recurring fee, you get access to a huge, varied media library: movies, TV shows and books. And yeah, some of that content isn’t all that great, and even more isn’t stuff I would choose,…

Commerce Tim Carmody - Wired Mar 30 '12

So where did life on comets come from in the first place?

There’s an increasing body of evidence that suggests organic molecules that formed the origin of life on Earth got their start on meteors — but then how did the organic compounds get there to begin with? https://gizmodo.com/more-evidence-that-life-first-came-from-comets-5895604 Top image: Michael Jacger According to research published in Science Express, it may all go back to ice,…

io9 Tim Barribeau Mar 30 '12

Megaramps Suck, But This First-Ever Skateboard 1080 Is Cool

Megaramps. Giant wooden launch pads that professional aerialists like Danny Way and Bob Burnquist make their livings off of. As a longtime skateboarder, I have always resented the megaramp trend. Why? It reduces the subtleties and variety of skateboarding to mere spectacle. Who can launch the farthest from the biggest roll in? It turns skateboarders…

Tech News Michael Hession Mar 30 '12

10 Deadly Enemies that Humans Turned Into Servants

We hear a lot, in science fiction, about things that now serve us but will soon kill us. Like robots. But what about the reverse — things that used to kill us in droves, but now serve us? Predatory animals, microbes, and the elements themselves — they all held dominion over us. Once. Celebrate the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 30 '12

11 New Lives for Dead Tennis Balls—None of Which Involve Tennis

Old tennis balls may not be able to bounce around the court, but they can be incredibly handy around the house. Here are eleven second acts for the Wilsons. Just give the balls a chance. 1. Park perfectly. Tape the ball to a string and hang it from the garage ceiling so it touches the…

Tech News Brett Martin Mar 30 '12

Experience The Hunger Games from the Comfort of Your Browser

Every Major Credit Card Provider Is Potentially Hacked Right Now

What if Cake Was More Rational?

Genetic Atlas Yields a Brainbow of Cognitive Information

Qwikster Is a Terrible Name So Netflix Bought DVD.com

These Silently Screaming Dental Mannequins Are What Nightmares Are Made Of

The Origins and Evolution of the Strategy Board Game RISK

Watch the History of April Fools Day

Two leaders of “Faster-Than-Light” Neutrino Team Resign

A Treasure Trove of Cosplay from the Swinging 1970s [NSFW]

This Card Shuffler Is Your The-House-Always-Wins Deal of the Day

Foxconn Workers: Please Let Us Work More!

This Ukrainian salt mine is like a tourist resort for morlocks

What Being Inside a Tornado Looks Like

NASA’s New Rocket Sled Looks Like a Lot of Fun

The Nimble Empire: In Defense of Cable

So where did life on comets come from in the first place?

Megaramps Suck, But This First-Ever Skateboard 1080 Is Cool

10 Deadly Enemies that Humans Turned Into Servants

11 New Lives for Dead Tennis Balls—None of Which Involve Tennis

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