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Foolproof! Man Somehow Caught Trying to Pay With Homemade Million Dollar Bill

I don’t know how they did it, but an eagle-eyed Walmart cashier in Lexington, Kentucky North Carolina somehow managed to foil Michael Anthony Fuller’s attempt to pay for a purchase with a $1 million bill he made. Maybe he didn’t get the watermarks exactly right? And it’s not like Fuller attempted to buy a million…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 2

10 Sex Robots Who Kill

As soon as we have convincing(ish) androids and gynoids, we’ll create pleasure-droids. And soon after that, those sex-machines will use their super-powerful thigh muscles to try and kill us. Here are ten examples of the sexy robot death that awaits you in the future. It’s inevitable, in general, that when we finally create self-aware machines,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 2

This nebula might be home to the universe’s hottest star

This is AB7, a binary star system found in one of the nearby Magellanic Cloud galaxies. The two stars are constantly venting massive amounts of stellar material. That process is heating up one of the stars to absolutely unimaginable temperatures. We can’t be absolutely sure which star is the hottest. There are stars born in…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 2

Seven Tech Resolutions to Avoid Suffering in the New Year

Now that your vision is de-blurred and you can feel your face again, it’s time to kick 2012’s ass. For some, that means no more smoking or chicken nuggets—but let’s also have a fresh start with electronics. Back Up Your Computer (Regularly!) This one is inexcusable! We don’t care how you do it. Get an…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 2

Android-Themed Manga Comic Breaks Down the Drama

The world of Android is complicated. One company hates another, some are secretly sharing beds… my God, it’s just like high school! Well, a Manga arteeest took that concept and ran with it: welcome to Sweet Android High School. The comic, which runs on extra editions of the Japanese PC magazine “Weekly ASCII” centers around…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 2

More classic comic covers transformed into weirdo GIFs

Remember Kerry Callen’s hilarious GIF-ified comic covers? He’s whipped up a new batch, this time of Jim Steranko’s Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #4 and Curt Swan and Stan Kaye’s Superman’s Girlfriend: Lois Lane #29. Batman is extremely impatient. [Via Nerdcore]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jan 2

Science solves the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock’s crazed birds

What made Alfred Hitchcock’s birds go bananas and start pecking out the eyeballs of the good people of Bodega Bay, California? Scientists think they’ve finally figured it out. Hitchcock’s Birds was loosely inspired by crazed seabirds who pelted the shores of North Monterey Bay, California with regurgitated anchovies back in 1961. Many scientists have since…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 2

World’s Tallest Building Shows Off World’s Awesomest Fireworks Display

As if being the tallest building in the world isn’t already impressive enough, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai put on one of the most amazing fireworks displays I’ve ever seen to ring in the new year. Instead of just surrounding the building with giant colorful explosions, the Burj Khalifa itself was turned into a 2,723…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 2

HP Insiders Claim WebOS Was Doomed From The Start

We’re all well aware of the commercial problems that HP has endured with WebOS. But now, according to the New York Times, insiders have admitted that the software was doomed from the get-go. When WebOS started development, it was ambitious: Palm originally intended for the operating system to be based on common Web technology, WebKit.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 2

This Week’s TV: The Return of Supernatural, Clone Wars, Vampire Diaries and Tons of Other Shows!

Most of your favorite TV shows are back this week, as the spring TV season cranks into action. Check out your first look at new episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, Once Upon a Time and several others. Plus our favorite nerdy musical icon is finally getting his own Behind The…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 2

The opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, recreated using old adventure movies

Check out the first 13 minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark recut with scenes from the sort of free-wheeling adventure flicks Steven Spielberg and George Lucas drew their inspiration from. These shots were taken from 30 separate films released from 1919 to 1973. [Via Boing Boing]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 2

When Siri Pranks Go Wrong (or Right, If You’re a Terrible Person)

Some malcontents in England briefly turned Siri into a deviant, Ricky-Gervais-impersonating insult comic. When asked how many people there are in the world, a demo iPhone in a store told a 12-year-old boy to “Shut the f*ck up, you ugly t***.” Lovely. So what happened here wasn’t actually a feature of Apple’s maligned personal assistant…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jan 2

Will these be The Avengers in the year 2027?

If you’re a comic book character, chances are you don’t age at a normal rate (unless you’re the Punisher or a character in Love and Rockets). Still, that hasn’t stopped artist Ilias Kyriazis from taking the tots, tykes, and tweens of the Marvel Universe today and imagining where they’ll be 15 years down the road.…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jan 2

How to Find the Perfect Portrait Lighting Using a Marble

This is a really great portrait photography trick that requires no special equipment: use a black marble to see how the light hits on the eyes of the person you want to photograph: Just hold a fist in front of you (like holding a telescope), tuck the marble just under your forefinger, and there you…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 2

This Is What Happens When Barbie Dolls Turn Into Meth Heads

I love these amazing, ultra-realistic model photography series by the very talented Carrie Becker: Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse. I imagine this happening in an alternative universe where Ken leaves her after she turns into a meth head following years of alcohol and coke abuse. This series was done in part during an artist residency, otherwise…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 2

What if Buffy, Dr. Horrible, and Caprica Six composed 1960s folk albums?

You may remember Joe “Joebot” Spiotto’s mod remake of the Firefly gang as a group of children’s troubadours. Since then, he’s been busy giving other science fiction and fantasy icons their own (vinyl) record deals. You can find prints of these at Joebot’s Etsy store. [Via Popped Culture]

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jan 2

Twin NASA Spacecraft Now Orbiting the Moon Carrying Space Eyes For Students

NASA’s new favorite ships for all Middle school students are now ready to start work: GRAIL-B has joined her twin GRAIL-A into a near-polar, elliptical orbit around the Moon. The probes will be ready for science on March 2012, when they will be spinning around the Moon every two hours in a near-circular orbit at…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jan 2

The first UFO landing of 2012

It looks like we’ve had our first UFO landing of the year, in the hilly desert of Peru. No word yet on who or what parked this two-seater spacecraft, but maybe we’ll know more once researchers figure out how to open the hatch. I think the best part about this concept art from Nyord is…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 2

Turn Any Surface Into a Touch-Sensitive Instrument With a $20 Microphone

My desk is boring. My walls are boring. My windows are boring. I need to liven them up by turning them into musical instruments that detect and recognise my touch. Fortunately, that’s cheaper and easier than it sounds. This video shows off Mogees, an interactive gestural-based way of turning any surface into a real-time, wacky…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 2

A virtual Morrissey is on the loose in Google Earth

If you use Google Earth to look up the Salfords Lads Club in Manchester, England, you’ll find a famously coiffed squatter in this virtual world. Punch in “St Ignatius Walk, M5 3RX” on 3D Buildings mode and you’ll see a pixelated incarnation of Morrissey, The Smiths’ loud-mouthed pontificator, forever standing smugly. The building was featured…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 2

Foolproof! Man Somehow Caught Trying to Pay With Homemade Million Dollar Bill

10 Sex Robots Who Kill

This nebula might be home to the universe’s hottest star

Seven Tech Resolutions to Avoid Suffering in the New Year

Android-Themed Manga Comic Breaks Down the Drama

More classic comic covers transformed into weirdo GIFs

Science solves the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock’s crazed birds

World’s Tallest Building Shows Off World’s Awesomest Fireworks Display

HP Insiders Claim WebOS Was Doomed From The Start

This Week’s TV: The Return of Supernatural, Clone Wars, Vampire Diaries and Tons of Other Shows!

The opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, recreated using old adventure movies

When Siri Pranks Go Wrong (or Right, If You’re a Terrible Person)

Will these be The Avengers in the year 2027?

How to Find the Perfect Portrait Lighting Using a Marble

This Is What Happens When Barbie Dolls Turn Into Meth Heads

What if Buffy, Dr. Horrible, and Caprica Six composed 1960s folk albums?

Twin NASA Spacecraft Now Orbiting the Moon Carrying Space Eyes For Students

The first UFO landing of 2012

Turn Any Surface Into a Touch-Sensitive Instrument With a $20 Microphone

A virtual Morrissey is on the loose in Google Earth

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