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Experts Are Baffled by These Mysterious Ancient Markings Found In Jerusalem

An excavation in a part of Jerusalem known as the City of David has uncovered stone markings that date back thousands of years. Nobody has any idea what they are or what they mean. But whatever it is? It’s important. The v-shaped markings (not be confused with our other favorite mysterious markings) are on the…

Tech News Brent Rose Dec 7

How the new Detective Comics will depict Batman’s rookie days

As part of DC’s New 52 relaunch last September, the long-running series Detective Comics rebooted with a newfound focus on Batman’s early career. io9 recently caught up with Detective Comics writer/artist Tony Daniels and asked him how the Bat’s salad days will go. Your relaunch of Detective Comics takes place both in the New 52…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 7

35 DVDs of Menacing Clint Eastwood Glares Are Your Deal of the Day

Get off my lawn if you feel lucky, do ya? Do you want 35 movies starring or made by Clint Eastwood? Is the answer yes? Would you like to pay about two bucks each for them? Today will be greater than the day you had kids. If you don’t have some kids, buy these movies…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Dec 7

Scary 515 million-year-old predator had better vision than almost any animal alive today

Anomalocaris is one of the weirdest and fiercest creatures from the Cambrian period, when multicellular life first evolved over 600 million years ago. With its circular, serrated mouth, giant eyes on stalks, spiked arms, and body-spanning fins, this two-meter-long creature was at the top of the food chain in the Earth’s ancient seas. And now…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 7

Watch Brad Pitt transform into David Lynch’s Eraserhead

The New York Times transformed a crop of 2011 actors (who were heralded for playing nice characters) into classic movie villains, including Brad Pitt as Henry Spencer! Watch as America’s Favorite Dad goes batshit insane as giant insects flap around in his frizzed hair. Technically, Pitt is channeling “The Madman” archetype, but that is so…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 7

Today at Gizmodo Gallery: Free Nerf Guns, Reader Meetup, Tour of the Universe

Gizmodo Gallery has only been open for 24 hours, and already we’ve gotten to hang out with Woz and almost break the Santa Claw. (Don’t worry, it’s still running.) What’s next? Glad you asked! Here’s a rundown of today’s planned events. 3-D Tour of the Universe with AMNH 7pm Carter Emmart, the Director of Astrovisualization…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 7

Lamarck’s bizarre theory of evolution may turn out to be right after all

Before Charles Darwin, the leading evolutionary theorist was Jean-Baptise Lamarck, who believed organisms acquired traits over their lifetimes that they then passed onto their children. This theory has been roundly disproved…but in the case of roundworms, Lamarck was actually right. The classic example of Lamarckian evolution is giraffes. According to Lamarck, giraffes developed their long…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 7

Eek, Jumping Cockroaches Can Cover More than 50 Times Their Body Length in a Single Leap

A recently discovered South African cockroach leaps through the air like a missile, traversing nearly 50 times its body length with every hop. Called a leaproach, the insect only infrequently scuttles like a regular roach. The rest of the time it uses two powerful hind legs with spring-loaded knees to rocket above fields of sedge…

Tech News Dave Mosher - Wired Science Dec 7

Apple’s New Mothership Campus Shows Mysterious Research Facilities

The City of Cupertino has published the complete proposal for Apple new mothership campus. There’s a lot of interesting new things that nobody has seen yet, like a mysterious “research facilities” separated from the main building and an underground auditorium. My guess is that the independent research facility would be the top secret, high security…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 7

The Ultimate History of Cute Robots

Cute robots have been a fixture in the pop culture landscape, ever since C-3PO and R2D2 crashed on Tatooine in the original Star Wars — but there have been cute robots in pop culture for way longer. The history of cute robots is a proud and totally cuddly one, full of beeping, blooping noises. Here’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Gordon Jackson Dec 7

What Does Nexus Mean for Android Anymore?

The reason you buy a Nexus phone isn’t just because it’s the best Android phone. It’s a pure distillation of everything Google has to offer. The best Android can possibly be at a given moment in time. But that won’t be the case for the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon. It’ll be missing a pretty big…

Tech News Brent Rose Dec 7

So What’s Taking Instagram So Long to Hit Android?

Instagram. It’s one of the iPhone’s most popular apps—50 million users just a year after launch—probably our favorite social network, and the envy of Android users worldwide. However, at the Paris LeWeb conference today, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom announced—again—that a team is working to port the app to Android OS. Promises, promises. The announcement was…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 7

Android Phone Name Generator: Funny Because It’s Sad

Oh, to be an Android brand manager, brewing up new device names by tossing darts at a Saturday morning cartoon adjective board. But why work even that hard? This Android phone name generator does it to sweet, sad, cliched perfection. Below are a few of the favorites that I’ve encountered at my new favorite single-serve…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 7

Save This Cheeseburger Wrapping Paper for Your Juiciest Gifts

Extravagant? Maybe. But embracing this mouth-wateringly wonderful cheeseburger wrapping paper might actually save you in the long run. I mean, when you wrap and stack six gifts to look like a Royale with cheese, well, who cares what’s in the boxes? The five-piece set (buns, tomato, lettuce, cheese, patty) still has a decent way to…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 7

Kung fu Gecko will kick your ass first, ask questions later

Ah, geckos. So cute. So harmless. So unassuming. Or maybe that’s just what they want us to think. This photo is from a series by Indonesian photographer Shikhei Goh that features geckos doing what I can only assume they get up to when we humans aren’t huddled around their tanks, pleading with them to come…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 7

This iPod Dock Is the Size of a Car

OK, a really small car, but still: Behringer’s iNuke Boom is f*cking huge. Its four feet tall, eight feet long, and weighs 700 pounds. Not impressed? 10,000 watts. Yeah, thought so. While the dock is clearly an attempt to stir up some publicity for its new Eurosound consumer electronics brand, the iNuke Boom is apparently…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 7

Facebook’s Top Trends of 2011 Should Make Us All Embarrassed

Facebook’s big report on what we humans blabbed about online is here! The good news: three of the top ten topics of the year were important. The bad news: the rest is inane, sad, incoherent shit. We suck. The top status of the year? “LMS,” for “like my status,” perhaps the most vivid indicator of…

Social Media Sam Biddle Dec 7

Why our minds have probably evolved as far as they can go

Humans evolving into hyper-intelligent beings is a powerful idea in science fiction, but that’s probably where the idea will have to stay. Our brains have reached an evolutionary “sweet spot”, and we can’t get much smarter without making major trade-offs. That’s the finding of psychologists Thomas Hills of the University of Warwick and Ralph Hertwig…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 7

Secrets of Rise of Planet of the Apes‘ Epic Golden Gate Bridge Battle!

The bloody final battle between humans and apes was the climax of this summer’s blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But how did Fox capture a human-vs.-animal showdown on the legendary Golden Gate Bridge? Simple: Weta Digital, and lots and lots of ape-men in grey performance-capture pajamas. Watch how this film brought an…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 7

Cloaked bubble UFO in Italy perplexes onlookers

On November 13, Antonio Urzi captured this stealthy bubblecraft buzzing over Cinisello Balsamo in Italy. Here’s a six-minute take on the story. Remember, if you’re trying to sell your UFO footage to the public at large, be sure to score it with the Pure Moods soundtrack. Gentle synths wash away all skepticism! Take it away,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 7

Experts Are Baffled by These Mysterious Ancient Markings Found In Jerusalem

How the new Detective Comics will depict Batman’s rookie days

35 DVDs of Menacing Clint Eastwood Glares Are Your Deal of the Day

Scary 515 million-year-old predator had better vision than almost any animal alive today

Watch Brad Pitt transform into David Lynch’s Eraserhead

Today at Gizmodo Gallery: Free Nerf Guns, Reader Meetup, Tour of the Universe

Lamarck’s bizarre theory of evolution may turn out to be right after all

Eek, Jumping Cockroaches Can Cover More than 50 Times Their Body Length in a Single Leap

Apple’s New Mothership Campus Shows Mysterious Research Facilities

The Ultimate History of Cute Robots

What Does Nexus Mean for Android Anymore?

So What’s Taking Instagram So Long to Hit Android?

Android Phone Name Generator: Funny Because It’s Sad

Save This Cheeseburger Wrapping Paper for Your Juiciest Gifts

Kung fu Gecko will kick your ass first, ask questions later

This iPod Dock Is the Size of a Car

Facebook’s Top Trends of 2011 Should Make Us All Embarrassed

Why our minds have probably evolved as far as they can go

Secrets of Rise of Planet of the Apes‘ Epic Golden Gate Bridge Battle!

Cloaked bubble UFO in Italy perplexes onlookers

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