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Facebook Fails To Let Fans Share Music Across Platforms

Facebook wants to be the “connective tissue” desperately needed by music fans and the music industry alike, so that, at long last, people would be able to share music with each other without friction – and without breaking the law. However, despite all the other neat stuff Facebook unveiled today, it mostly failed in that…

Social Media Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Sep 22

First Set Photos from Game of Thrones Season 2!

HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones is filming in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which is going to double as both King’s Landing and Qarth. And the first set pics are showing up on tons of Croatian news sites — including a look at Emmy-winning actor Peter Dinklage on set. Check out some more set pics below. The…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Sep 22

Amazing video shows us the actual movies that play inside our mind

This is about as awesome as neuroscience gets. This video shows us some everyday clips, and – thanks to some super-advanced brain imaging and computer simulations – how those clips are seen inside our brains. Researchers at UC Berkeley used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and some seriously complex computational models to figure out what…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 22

Another Benefit of Smoking Weed? It Might Be Able to Cure PTSD

There’s such a long list of awesome things about smoking weed that I’m starting to lose track of all the benefits. One thing I’m pretty sure I never heard of before though: marijuana might be able to cure post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious psychological disease that can flip lives upside down.…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 22

Female Promiscuity Is a Biological Imperative

Men have always had evolution to blame for their wily Cassanova ways—that whole spreading their seed far and wide thing. Finally, evolution is coming through for women, too! Female promiscuity is common in chimpanzees, chickens, salmon, sea urchins and obviously humans. But no one ever found an evolutionary benefit to it. (Although they had found…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Sep 22

You Can Test Drive a Bionic Hand Without Actually Losing Your Hand

Bionics are an amazing technology that most of us will hopefully never have to use. But being able to move a robot hand with your brain is incredibly cool, and Touch Bionics’ new Virtu-LIMB lets you try a bionic hand without “installing” it. Virtu-limb works with either the i-LIMB Ultra—the update to the really awesome…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Sep 22

H.P. Lovecraft’s fantasy classic Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, in comic book form

If you’re an HP Lovecraft fan, and you like comics, you’ll want to help comic book writer (and io9 columnist) Jason Thompson realize his dream of creating a beautiful, printed version of his comic book adaptation of Lovecraft’s only fantasy novel, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Right now, Thompson is trying to raise $10,000 in printing…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Sep 22

Scientific breakthrough: Physicists at CERN have recorded particles moving faster than light

Looks like Einstein may have been wrong — An international team of scientists at CERN has recorded neutrino particles traveling faster than the speed of light. According to Reuters: Antonio Ereditato, who works at the CERN particle physics center on the Franco-Swiss border, told Reuters that measurements over three years showed the neutrinos moving 60…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 22

Everything You Need to Know About the New Facebook

If you thought yesterday’s Facebook changes were dramatic, you’d better sit down before you see what’s coming next. Today at F8, Mark Zuckerberg led off by showing off Timeline: it’s the future of Facebook, and it’s a tectonic shift. Timeline Zuck calls the new Timeline “all the stories, all your apps, a new way to…

Social Media Roberto Baldwin Sep 22

Zombie, Alien, Frankenstein and Vampire Fleshlights Look as Horrible as They Sound

I miss Adam Frucci every day, but today I really miss his expertise. Behold, the Zombie, Alien, Frankenstein, Dracula and Cyborg Fleshlights and matching dildos! I don’t know what kind of sick nerd would like to have sex with a zombievag. https://gizmodo.com/i-had-sex-with-furniture-the-shameful-nsfw-fleshligh-5375323 On the other hand, I don’t think we need to test these. [Fleshlight]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 22

10 Star Trek Episodes We’re Glad They Never Filmed

Space, the final frontier, is endless — and so are the storytelling possibilities of Star Trek, in all its various incarnations. But sometimes Trek boldly goes too far. We all have our own least favorite episodes of Star Trek — but it could have been much worse. https://gizmodo.com/the-craziest-space-racists-of-all-time-5187619 https://gizmodo.com/brannon-bragas-biggest-regret-about-star-trek-voyager-5842708 Over the decades, the producers of…

Television Gordon M. Jackson and Charlie Jane Anders Sep 22

Making Art with Molotov Cocktails

Can you imagine Molotov cocktails being used for anything other than destruction? Well, artist t-radya used those burning cocktails to create art. Seriously. He strategically placed bandages on wooden panels and then burnt it up by tossing Molotov cocktails on it. I don’t know how flames can be so exact or controlled but the charring…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 22

Man to Feed Exclusively On 162 Gallons Of Wife’s Breast Milk

After her third premature baby, Katie filled this 22-cubic-foot upright deep freezer with her excess breast milk. Now, her husband Curtis plans on feeding only on it for as long as his body can take it. Their objective is to discover how much breast milk will it take to nourish a 6’4″, 185-pound grown man…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 22

Become an armchair astronaut

NASA has a game that allows players to conduct a virtual space walk and go on virtual missions. It’s based on actual missions. The game gives aspiring astronauts a tour, a quest, and a timer. The description beckons those who want to do glamorous work like repairing power lines while keeping an eye on their…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 22

Watch Facebook Show Off Its New Sharing Goodies Right Here

Mark Zukerburg is getting ready to take the stage at Facebook’s f8 Developers Conference in San Francisco. Live streaming of the event begins at 9:30am PST/12:30pm EST and you can watch it live here. Here’s what we know so far, Facebook has already pushed the news “ticker” and updated news feed with blue-triangle tagged “top…

Social Media Roberto Baldwin Sep 22

Western Digital’s New Passport Drives Pack Big Space in a Little Place

Lugging around an external drive that weighs more than your MBA kind of defeats the purpose of buying a lightweight laptop. Luckily, Western Digital’s latest My Passport drives can hold a terabyte of data but tip the scales at less than a pound. The Studio connects with FireWire800 for lightning-fast (though not Thunderbolt-fast) data transfers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 22

The Secret Recipe of Tech’s Favorite Metal

There’s a reason why Jony Ive has forged so much of Apple’s success from aluminum for the last decade or so. Basically: You tell this metal what you need, and it’ll work it out. You want a perfectly cooked Thanksgiving bird? A beer that doesn’t taste like shit? A lighter automobile? Better all around electrical…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Sep 22

What’s so bad about sugar?

We blame sugar for adding extra calories to almost anything we purchase in the grocery store, and call sugary snacks “junk food.” But is sugar really junk? Let’s take a look at some common myths about sugar, and find out why there are good reasons for you to keep natural sugars as a part of…

io9 Keith Veronese Sep 22

Buy a New HTC Phone, Get 5 Gigs of Dropbox Storage for Free

If you buy any HTC phone running their Sense 3.5 UI now, or in the future, you’ll be entitled to 3 additional gigabytes of Dropbox storage on top of the 2 everyone starts with. Thats 5 gigs in all. [Pocket-Lint via GigaOM] https://gizmodo.com/htc-rhyme-hands-on-dont-call-it-a-lady-phone-or-do-5841986

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 22

The World’s Largest Cider Press Is a Civil War Relic

During the Civil War, apple cider was a valuable commodity. Not just because it was delicious, but because it made for a handy alcoholic disinfectant. (You do know what medicine was like back then, right?) So a press able to churn out over one hundred gallons of the stuff a day must’ve been the 19th…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 22

Facebook Fails To Let Fans Share Music Across Platforms

First Set Photos from Game of Thrones Season 2!

Amazing video shows us the actual movies that play inside our mind

Another Benefit of Smoking Weed? It Might Be Able to Cure PTSD

Female Promiscuity Is a Biological Imperative

You Can Test Drive a Bionic Hand Without Actually Losing Your Hand

H.P. Lovecraft’s fantasy classic Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, in comic book form

Scientific breakthrough: Physicists at CERN have recorded particles moving faster than light

Everything You Need to Know About the New Facebook

Zombie, Alien, Frankenstein and Vampire Fleshlights Look as Horrible as They Sound

10 Star Trek Episodes We’re Glad They Never Filmed

Making Art with Molotov Cocktails

Man to Feed Exclusively On 162 Gallons Of Wife’s Breast Milk

Become an armchair astronaut

Watch Facebook Show Off Its New Sharing Goodies Right Here

Western Digital’s New Passport Drives Pack Big Space in a Little Place

The Secret Recipe of Tech’s Favorite Metal

What’s so bad about sugar?

Buy a New HTC Phone, Get 5 Gigs of Dropbox Storage for Free

The World’s Largest Cider Press Is a Civil War Relic

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