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Could @Qwikster Make Mad Bank Selling His Twitter Handle to Netflix?

Sunday night’s announcement from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the company was to be split in two was a bombshell that quickly became a joke. According to Reed, Netflix will continue to stream content, while a new company called Qwikster would handle DVD distribution. Unfortunately Netflix/Qwikster haven’t acquired the Qwikster Twitter handle from weed-smoking gangstaz,…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Sep 19

Why aren’t we in a golden age of genre television?

We are, most people would agree, in the midst of a Golden Age of Television. Since the late-1990s, the programming that’s been pumped into our homes has been as good as it’s ever been — and, in many respects, better than the movies that have long sat atop the Pop Cultural Quality Pile. But why…

Television Marc Bernardin Sep 19

An iPhone Speaker for People Who Hate Quality Sound

I love the rich sound of my old vinyl albums, but I hardly ever spin them. MP3s suck, but they’re so easy that I’ve given up. At least I have this awesome speaker to remind me of better times. We’ve seen iPhone speaker horns before, but this is the first to really embrace bastardized low-fi…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 19

Everything You Need to Transform Yourself Into a Pirate

YAAAAAAAR, IT BE TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, YE OLDE, FESTERING WENCH! AS SUCH, I WILL SHOUT ALL ME RANTINGS AND YOU’LL LIKE IT. IF THOU EVER HOPES TO GET SOME SEA LEGS, YOU’D BEST HEED THIS LIST. Marion Hyper-Submersible Powerboat Sailboats just won’t do for a pirate anymore. Hell, normal-powered boats won’t even do.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 19

New 3D app lets you imagine living inside an orbital space habitat

What would it be like to live inside an orbital space colony? A new online app lets you glimpse the possibilities. Created by author Joan Slonczewski to tie in with her new novel The Highest Frontier, Frontera 3D takes you inside a rotating cylindrical colony, similar to the O’Neill cylinders envisioned in the 1970s by…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 19

Stevie Wonder High Fives Steve Jobs Creating Awesome Wonder-Magic Warp

Stevie Wonder, the music genius and Motown icon who created jewels like Talking Book and Sounds In the Key of Life, had some words of appreciation for Steve Jobs during the last Wonder-full LA party: I want you all to give a hand to someone that you know whose health is very bad at this…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 19

Will Your Facebook Page Resemble These Antique Report Cards in 80 Years?

This is the 1930 report card of Marie Garaventa. It has her academic evaluations, performance, and even a detailed history of the places she worked after she graduated. It’s whimsical and nostalgic and wonderfully voyeuristic. And in another 80 years, it might resemble all the data you store (and that’s stored about you) online. The…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner Sep 19

Birds from the Cretaceous period went out the same way as the dinosaurs — with a bang

For years, paleontologists have disagreed over whether birds from the Cretaceous period went out with a whimper — dying out gradually over the course of millions of years — or with a bang — getting wiped out by the same mass extinction event that is believed to have killed off Earth’s most recent (and final)…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 19

Could Star Wars happen today?

Chances are, you spent the weekend rediscovering the magic of Star Wars (with a few unwelcome tweaks.) The original Star Wars was a miracle of seat-of-the-pants film-making that captured the world’s imagination and boosted science fiction to new popularity. https://gizmodo.com/darth-vader-will-lose-a-little-more-of-his-dignity-in-s-5835951 But could something like Star Wars even get made today? There’s plenty of reason to…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Sep 19

Can Bird Poop Really Crack Your Car’s Windshield?

It’s one of life’s great mysteries: how much damage can bird poop falling at terminal velocity really do? Rhett Allain, Wired’s resident physics guy, did us all a kindness and set his equations on this serious and pressing matter, originally raised by a Car Talk caller. The answer? Maaaaybe, if it was an especially large…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner Sep 19

Google Wallet: The Future of Money Is Here, Sorta

“Whoa, how did you do that?” I didn’t say anything when the clerk at Duane Reade—or was it Walgreen’s?—asked me how to pay. I just smashed my phone into the PayPass terminal. Money poured out of my Nexus S, and into somebody’s corporate coffers. Magic! But then I still had to tell the dumb credit…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 19

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown Joins MSNBC’s Tamron Hall On NewsNation

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown appeared on MSNBC’s NewsNation on September 19, 2011 to talk about Netflix. Watch the clip above. For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Tech News Scott Kidder Sep 19

Is Christopher Nolan refusing to write down the ending of The Dark Knight Rises?

In an effort to stymie blabbermouths, director Christopher Nolan’s apparently only revealing the ending of The Dark Knight Rises to select cast members. And according to Gary “Commissioner Gordon” Oldman, Nolan’s directorial omertà is so thorough that he won’t commit the ending to paper. In an interview with Contact Music, Oldman elaborated on Nolan’s spoiler-proofing…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19

Memory City Will Turn Your Mountain of Flash Drives into a Byte-Sized Burg

The flash drives are taking over. They live in your desk drawers, you laptop bag, between your couch cushions and in your pockets. They’re taking over. It’s out of control. They need a home. Behold, Memory City. Memory City is like the Land of Toys in Pinocchio. It’s a place where thumb drives are free…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 19

The Big Bang Theory Is Now On 5 Nights a Week

This fall, television’s most lovable physicists and one hot, wacky neighbor are expanding their geektastic hilarity to five nights a week. In honor of this exciting news, let’s do a roll call of the brainiac/maniacs you’ll come to know and love. And click here to see when The Big Bang Theory is on in your…

Tech News Sponsored post Sep 19

Beautician Enlarges Breasts and Makes Women Prettier By Beating the Crap Out of Them

This is so bizarre it reads like a Monty Python skit: A Bangkok beautician claims that she can make you beautiful, thinner and enlarge your breast by beating the crap out of you. Shockingly, Thailand’s government has approved her technique. Khemmikka Na Songkhla uses slapping to “re-shape” your body, claiming that she can make you…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 19

Oldest known DNA fragment is over a billion years old

There’s one tiny fragment of DNA that pretty much all vertebrates and invertebrates share. It’s the only piece of DNA known to be a billion years old — and it still has a role to play in shaping our genes. Researchers at the University of Barcelona discovered the fragment, which is a noncoding sequence of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 19

Finally! A Solar Tree That Can Charge Your iPhone

It only took few years and a few fascinating if controversial breakthroughs in solar power. Now, thanks to designer Vivien Muller, you can finally have a decorative-houseplant-cum-solar charger for your iPhone right on your desk. Just give it plenty of light. The Electree was originally a concept debuted by Muller a few years back, and…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19

Tintin returns to the mind-melting worlds of H.P. Lovecraft

Remember Murray Groat’s Cthulhu versus Tintin book covers? Groat’s expanded this series and introduced the boy reporter to the Yithians, the Mi-Go, and Crawford Tillinghast. Something tells me this would have happened if Peter Jackson tapped Guillermo del Toro to help out on Secret of the Unicorn. https://gizmodo.com/tintin-meets-h-p-lovecraft-in-this-mind-bending-mash-u-5696372 And if these covers pique your interest,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 19

Mad Men on DVD Is Your Unflappably Cool Deal of the Day

I want to start a cult. In this cult, we would drink until we couldn’t see straight, smoke until our lungs turned black and eat until we suffered massive coronaries. We would dress impeccably and never appear affected by the trials and tribulations of the world. And that’s just the workday! Our sacred tome would…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Sep 19

Could @Qwikster Make Mad Bank Selling His Twitter Handle to Netflix?

Why aren’t we in a golden age of genre television?

An iPhone Speaker for People Who Hate Quality Sound

Everything You Need to Transform Yourself Into a Pirate

New 3D app lets you imagine living inside an orbital space habitat

Stevie Wonder High Fives Steve Jobs Creating Awesome Wonder-Magic Warp

Will Your Facebook Page Resemble These Antique Report Cards in 80 Years?

Birds from the Cretaceous period went out the same way as the dinosaurs — with a bang

Could Star Wars happen today?

Can Bird Poop Really Crack Your Car’s Windshield?

Google Wallet: The Future of Money Is Here, Sorta

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown Joins MSNBC’s Tamron Hall On NewsNation

Is Christopher Nolan refusing to write down the ending of The Dark Knight Rises?

Memory City Will Turn Your Mountain of Flash Drives into a Byte-Sized Burg

The Big Bang Theory Is Now On 5 Nights a Week

Beautician Enlarges Breasts and Makes Women Prettier By Beating the Crap Out of Them

Oldest known DNA fragment is over a billion years old

Finally! A Solar Tree That Can Charge Your iPhone

Tintin returns to the mind-melting worlds of H.P. Lovecraft

Mad Men on DVD Is Your Unflappably Cool Deal of the Day

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