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Scientists Creating a “Stay-Sober Pill”: Fingers Crossed Nobody Dies

Scientists are hard at work creating a pill that will let you drink a whole lot of booze but limit the alcohol’s effect on the brain. That sounds great, right? Wrong. It’s a terrible, deadly idea. The American and Australian scientists behind this drug have been looking long and hard at the way glial cells…

Health Brent Rose Oct 3

The Timing Chain Clock Makes Me Want to Live in a Factory

For those obsessed with all things industrial, the Timing Chain clock is a piece made for you. Just look at it, the thing looks like it was plucked from an Upton Sinclair-era factory machine and adorned with time markers. Standing 44 inches tall, this wall mounted clock stands leaves its gears and motor exposed and…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 3

Pottermore Won’t Sell Harry Potter Until Next Year

Pottermore was supposed to be huge. Instead, it’s a million crazed Potter fans, most of them kids, playing Harry Potter minigames. Great! Kids love minigames. But why the hell isn’t Pottermore selling Harry Potter ebooks? They’re blowing this, big time. Instead of a “Beatles on iTunes moment,” for ebooks—a hyped step into the future—Pottermore is…

Books & Comics Sam Biddle Oct 3

The Kindle Touch 3G Will Only Let You Browse the Web Over Wi-Fi

Turns out the unlimited 3G-ness of the new Kindle Touch 3G is not quite as unlimited as we thought. According to Amazon’s Kindle forums, the Touch will grant you 3G connectivity for accessing the Kindle store, buying books, and surfing Wikipedia. Everything else requires WiFi. Which isn’t a bad thing, per se. Just a bit…

Commerce Kwame Opam Oct 3

Pentagon Wants to Cover Its Drones With Insects’ Tiny Hairs

For years, the military has turned to the birds and the bees for inspiration, churning out mechanical hummingbirds and remote-controlled insect cyborgs. Now the Pentagon wants its mini-drones to have hairy wings and bug eyes, too. It’ll help the tiny machines spy on – and creep out – any enemies, military researchers promise. MAVs or…

Tech News Dawn Lim - Wired Oct 3

New Fitbit Ultra’s Got an Altimeter and an iPhone App to Make You Less Fat

Gamification is kind of annoying, but if it manages to help melt away the slug of a human person I’ve become, I’m willing to reconsider. The new Fitbit Ultra’s altimeter makes taking the stairs a quantifiable achievement. If you need a refresher on Fitbit, it’s a clip-on exercise monitor that measures your activity, food intake…

Health Kyle Wagner Oct 3

The New Season of Arrested Development Could Help Save Netflix

Yes! After years of waffling, a fourth season of Arrested Development is finally in the works. AND it’ll tie into the movie they’re planning, too. This is incredible news. And even better that it might run on Netflix come 2013. ArrDev creator Mitch Hurtwitz spoke about the show at this weekend’s The New Yorker festival,…

Television Kwame Opam Oct 3

Facebook Now Scans All External Links to Keep Grandma Safe From Porn (and Viruses)

From today on, every link you click in Facebook will be scanned, in realtime, for viruses, phishing, botnets, and other nefarious internet badness. This is the best news ever for your hapless friends that are constantly duped. Facebook has hooked up with security firm Websense to make this all happen behind the scenes. Websense will…

Social Media Brent Rose Oct 3

Sony Ericsson CEO Regrets Having His Ass Kicked by iPhone

Sony Ericsson used to be a hugely popular phone maker with some interesting handset designs—sort of like Motorola. But unlike Motorola, it sat and did nothing while Apple created the smartphone frenzy. Perhaps that was a mistake! SE’s CEO, Bert Nordberg, admits to the WSJ that sticking to candy bar dumbphones while the iPhone made…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 3

Science proves that most wolves are lazy jerks

The wolf pack seems like the perfect example of how unity can provide strength, of how fierce and often vicious hunters can work together for the common good. Unfortunately, that’s a big lie. Turns out many wolves are freeloading bums. At least, that’s what researchers from the University of Minnesota discovered when they examined the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 3

Who Wants a Super Thin Android Notebook?

NEC is supposedly working on this Android laptop/notebook/smartbook thingy that’s model thin and apparently foldable in every each way. The pictures above are just of the prototype but they give you an idea how crazy this laptop might be. There’s not even a name for this device yet (the keyboard is unfinished!), it’s called the…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 3

This Week’s TV: American Horror Story brings rubber fetishists and crazy mutilation to prime time!

This week on television, the creators of Glee and Nip/Tuck pay homage to The Shining and Rosemary’s Baby with American Horror Story. Syfy has the season finale of Warehouse 13 and the season premiere of Sanctuary. But that’s not all! Jewel Staite is a demon on Supernatural, an asteroid is on a collision course with…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 3

This robot has got a wicked case of the Mondays

Monday morning got you feeling a little…less than human? If so, it may interest you to know that even robots don’t necessarily feel like themselves at the beginning of the week. This video is just one of several robot shorts produced by Eric B. Shanks, a self-proclaimed stuff-maker and thing-typer. You’ll find his other two…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 3

64GB iPhone 4S and 8GB iPhone 4 Show Up on Vodafone Germany’s Site

Well the cat’s just about out of the clear plastic shrink-wrap bag on the iPhone 4S. Giz Brazil had exclusive photos of Apple’s new iPhone 4S over the weekend, and now Vodafone Germany’s listed the iPhone 4S and a new 8GB iPhone 4 on its official site. The Vodafone site lists 16, 32, and 64GB…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 3

The moon makes waves in our atmosphere as it moves in front of the sun

During total solar eclipses, the moon moves between the earth and the sun, completely blocking out the sun’s light. But that’s not all that happens. Recently scientist proved that when this happens, the moon sends waves rippling through the earth’s atmosphere that pile up like the bow waves on a boat. Once again, science gets…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 3

This video of a little kid learning who Luke Skywalker’s father is will melt your cold shriveled heart

Star Wars fans have been a cynical lot as of late, given the rather dubious changes to the films’ Blu-ray release. But this video of YouTube user BashTheMonkey‘s four-year-old son reacting to Darth Vader’s paternity reveal should brighten your Monday morning. Unless you’re George Lucas, of course — you’re already scheming to make Dengar Luke’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 3

Can The Thing match John Carpenter’s sense of dread? Four new clips give us hope.

The best part about John Carpenter’s The Thing was the excruciating paranoia. When you’re fighting an alien that copies its prey perfectly, everyone is a potential threat. Thank goodness the new prequel to the 1982 classic has paranoia and slow burn tension in spades. Find out for yourself, with these four new clips! The Thing…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 3

River Song’s Chronology on Doctor Who, from River’s Own Point of View

Still confused about the tangled, time-crossed chronology of River Song and the Doctor on Doctor Who? Alex Kingston herself narrated the whole River timeline, in the final episode of the tie-in show Doctor Who Confidential after Saturday’s season finale. We track River’s own POV on her timeline below — plus there’s a four-minute Doctor Who…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 3

A new Universal Soldier TV show is in the works

Fans of blond cyborg action rejoice — Universal Soldier is back from the dead! After almost twenty years and five films of variable badassitude, the producers of the original Universal Soldier film are looking to reboot the franchise with help of Stargate and Sanctuary writer Damian Kindler. Will there be more wild-eyed grocery store monologues?…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 3

General Zod reveals the new Superman movie is going to some surprising places

New General Zod actor Michael Shannon reveals that Man of Steel is his first trip to an actual alien planet. Does this mean a return to Superman’s homeworld? Plus Shannon explains just what sort of Kryptonian General Zod really is. Sam Worthington promises James Cameron’s vision for Avatar 2 is monumental! Check out new set…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 3

Scientists Creating a “Stay-Sober Pill”: Fingers Crossed Nobody Dies

The Timing Chain Clock Makes Me Want to Live in a Factory

Pottermore Won’t Sell Harry Potter Until Next Year

The Kindle Touch 3G Will Only Let You Browse the Web Over Wi-Fi

Pentagon Wants to Cover Its Drones With Insects’ Tiny Hairs

New Fitbit Ultra’s Got an Altimeter and an iPhone App to Make You Less Fat

The New Season of Arrested Development Could Help Save Netflix

Facebook Now Scans All External Links to Keep Grandma Safe From Porn (and Viruses)

Sony Ericsson CEO Regrets Having His Ass Kicked by iPhone

Science proves that most wolves are lazy jerks

Who Wants a Super Thin Android Notebook?

This Week’s TV: American Horror Story brings rubber fetishists and crazy mutilation to prime time!

This robot has got a wicked case of the Mondays

64GB iPhone 4S and 8GB iPhone 4 Show Up on Vodafone Germany’s Site

The moon makes waves in our atmosphere as it moves in front of the sun

This video of a little kid learning who Luke Skywalker’s father is will melt your cold shriveled heart

Can The Thing match John Carpenter’s sense of dread? Four new clips give us hope.

River Song’s Chronology on Doctor Who, from River’s Own Point of View

A new Universal Soldier TV show is in the works

General Zod reveals the new Superman movie is going to some surprising places

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