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Children were prehistoric cave artists just like adults

The amazing inscriptions on ancient cave walls represent some of humanity’s first known creative work, but it wasn’t just master artists who were allowed to paint. Kids as young as two or three were cave-painting 13,000 years ago. That’s the finding of Cambridge archaeologist Jessica Cooney, who discovered some of the paintings in the French…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 2

Gizmodo Exclusive: Looks Like There Will Be a Cheaper iPhone 4, Made in Brazil

Our Brazilian brothers, Gizmodo.com.br, got their hot little hands on a few photos of a new iPhone, to be announced next week. How? Well, there’s a Foxconn factory in Brazil, and Pedro & co got one of their men inside. Inside, they found a new-SKU iPhone that looks just like the old iPhone 4. Most…

Tech News Joe Brown Oct 1

Why This Year’s Doctor Who Finale Was (Mostly) Better than Last Year’s

Doctor Who has always been about escaping from inescapable traps, and winning miraculous victories against overwhelming odds. But seldom have the odds been more impossible than the ones the Doctor faced throughout the latest season — and yet, the season finale wasn’t so much about how the Doctor wins, but the consequences of that victory,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 1

Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street

This is some old-school soul for you. A friend of once said that you ought to walk like you’ve got someplace you’ve gotta be. Bobby Womack’s classic Across 110th Street is the song for that occasion. It’s obvious, no? Anyone who’s watched their fair share of Tarantino knows this from the intro to his homage…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

Chicago’s Giant Marilyn Monroe Statue Is a Giant Upskirt Umbrella

In the months since this gargantuan statue of Marilyn Monroe was erected in Chicago, it’s met plenty of sidelong glances and even vandalism. The only good thing? Her undercarriage will keep you plenty dry. This is form finding function by accident, people. …But why do I feel so dirty? [Buzzfeed]

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

These Are the Postal Service’s Sad Ads Against Email

The Post Office is dying, kids, hemorrhaging money while you fritter away your time with those emails. Don’t you know that paper mail is safer? Friendlier? And can’t be hacked… by terrorists?! That’s what the USPS’s new ad campaign wants you to think. https://gizmodo.com/the-post-office-is-dying-because-we-dont-need-it-anymor-5837512 It’s… pretty pathetic, actually. They’re painting it as though we’ve lost…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

Will the iPhone 5 Be Available on Prepaid Plans?

Well, this is surprising. A reader over at TUAW saw both the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S pop up on the Cincinnati Bell website. Not only is Cincinnati Bell not a big carrier like AT&T and Verizon, but it in the prepaid section. What the? Although this should be taken with a helping of salt,…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

On Supernatural, the Leviathans will win your black, goo-covered heart

After Supernatural’s terrific season premiere, I think we were all wondering how the Leviathans, our new big bads, could possibly be as good as their origin story was last week. As Supernatural has shown before, a good monster is all in the writing — you don’t need much in the way of special effects. That’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 1

Watch surfers ride neon blue bioluminescent waves caused by red tide

On the beaches of Southern California, a phytoplankton called Lingulodinium polyedrum is responsible for a spate of red tide. Massive algal blooms like this make the water ruddy during the day, but disrupting the microorganisms at night results in bursts of electric blue bioluminescence. Says Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professor Dr. Peter Franks of this…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

Happy 40th Birthday, Disney World!

Today marks the 40th birthday of the largest, most visited amusement park in the world, Walt Disney World. Part of Walt Disney’s dream for the theme park was a planned community where people could live with the technology of the future, today. Although that dream was never literally realized, the spirit of technology runs strong…

Tech News Michael Zhao Oct 1

The Earthscraper, a 65-story-tall skyscraper buried under Mexico City

This here’s concept art for BNKR Arquitectura’s Earthscraper, an inverted skyscraper shoved deep under the surface of Mexico City. Click on the above image to see a massive cross-section. Explains the firm of this 300-meter-deep structure: The Historic Center of Mexico City is in a desperate need of a programmatic make-over. New infrastructure, office, retail…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

50 Cent Will Make Dr. Dre Proud with These Headphones

It’s been ages since I’ve mentioned Dre and 50 Cent in the same breath, but 50’s new SYNC headphones remind me that he was once one of his proteges. These cans are pretty much his answer to the Beats by Dre headphones. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-dr-dre-and-monster-headphones-vs-a-5033864 That may not be a bad thing; they just look like black…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

The sea caverns of Singapore

Singapore has embarked upon the excavation of an underground oil reserve, expanding the city’s industrial port beneath the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It is “no ordinary construction site,” the BBC tells us, but an elaborate project of engineering and infrastructure currently underway “several hundred feet underground, below the seabed in Singapore.” There, workers are…

io9 Geoff Manaugh - BLDGBLOG Oct 1

TSA Pats Down Breast Cancer Survivor Even After Getting Scanned

Lori Dorn, the wife of Laughing Squid’s Scott Beale, recently submitted to a backscatter scan at JFK airport. The TSA pulled her aside for a breast patdown, even though she stated she had breast implants in place after her bilateral mastectomy. Of course, that didn’t stop them. They didn’t even let her take out the…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

The BBC has just released a new trailer for Frozen Planet, and it looks incredible

If you’re a fan of the Blue Planet and Planet Earth documentary series, then there’s a good chance you’ve already heard about the forthcoming collaboration between the BBC and the Discovery Channel, Frozen Planet. Well, the BBC just put up the trailer for Frozen Planet on their YouTube channel, and it looks downright amazeballs. It’s…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 1

How Do You Shut Down the Second Most Powerful Particle Accelerator?

The Tevatron shut down yesterday. Before its duties were taken up by the the Large Hadron Collider, it accelerated highly charged particles through 4 miles of electromagnetic coil and vacuum tubes to discover the secrets of the universe. How do you turn a beast like that off? https://gizmodo.com/farewell-to-one-of-the-greatest-physics-experiments-of-5845134 Two buttons, both specially designed for the…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

iPhone 4S Details Show Up in the Latest iTunes Beta

According to 9to5 Mac, the iPhone 4S popped up in all its glory in the 9th beta of iTunes. It also looks like the Verizon iPhone. That means two things: either Apple hasn’t changed the iTunes placeholder image, or the 4S really is an updated 4. It might also be an indication of an iPhone…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

The Most Fascinating Relationship on Fringe This Year

Until recently, Fringe was all about the relationships among its central trio — Walter, Peter and Olivia. Now, everything’s changed, and even the Walter-Olivia relationship is a shadow of its former self. Luckily, there’s one relationship on the show that’s still holding our attention — and it’s not one we would have predicted. Spoilers ahead……

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 1

Join cloth Jean-Luc Picard aboard the felt Enterprise

Let your fingers take a tour of the fuzzy, felt Enterprise with this crafty quiet book, featuring finger puppets of the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew, a detachable saucer section, and a Locutus of Borg paper doll. Julie Gillrie created this crafty tome — as well as a Star Wars quiet book with a…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 1

Turns Out You Might Be in Love With Your iPhone

With iPhone day upon us, plenty of us are waiting with bated breath for what the iPhone 5 will truly be like. Even though, heh, we kinda already know. The New York Times has it that you’re in love with your iPhone. Really? https://gizmodo.com/why-wait-the-worlds-first-iphone-5-review-5844836 All told, it reads similarly to an older study conducted on…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

Children were prehistoric cave artists just like adults

Gizmodo Exclusive: Looks Like There Will Be a Cheaper iPhone 4, Made in Brazil

Why This Year’s Doctor Who Finale Was (Mostly) Better than Last Year’s

Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street

Chicago’s Giant Marilyn Monroe Statue Is a Giant Upskirt Umbrella

These Are the Postal Service’s Sad Ads Against Email

Will the iPhone 5 Be Available on Prepaid Plans?

On Supernatural, the Leviathans will win your black, goo-covered heart

Watch surfers ride neon blue bioluminescent waves caused by red tide

Happy 40th Birthday, Disney World!

The Earthscraper, a 65-story-tall skyscraper buried under Mexico City

50 Cent Will Make Dr. Dre Proud with These Headphones

The sea caverns of Singapore

TSA Pats Down Breast Cancer Survivor Even After Getting Scanned

The BBC has just released a new trailer for Frozen Planet, and it looks incredible

How Do You Shut Down the Second Most Powerful Particle Accelerator?

iPhone 4S Details Show Up in the Latest iTunes Beta

The Most Fascinating Relationship on Fringe This Year

Join cloth Jean-Luc Picard aboard the felt Enterprise

Turns Out You Might Be in Love With Your iPhone

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