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First look at the zombies from World War Z

Wondering how World War Z will make the zombie masses stand out from other undead hordes we’ve seen recently? Wonder no longer — take a look at a collection of zombie faces from the WWZ. Here are a few images snapped while the movie adaptation of the Max Brooks book was filming in Glasgow. Notice…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 22

In People’s Minds, Being a Zombie Is Better than Being a Vegetable

Dead is dead. Except when you’re actually dead, apparently, because a recent study published in Cognition shows that people think a dead person is somehow better at thinking than a human vegetable. Score one for the zombie apocalypse. The study was conducted by scientists working out of the University of Maryland and Harvard. Researchers approached…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 22

10 of the World’s Worst Invasive Species

Not all invasions come from marauding armies. You can devastate a place just by introducing a non-native species that creates dramatic and unexpected shifts in the dynamics of the ecosystem. It’s no coincidence that we refer to non-native species that begin taking over a new environment as “invasive” — when the local environment is ill-equipped…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 22

10 Things You Can Do with a $100 TouchPad

The TouchPad may not be the perfect tablet, but it is selling for $100 right now, but it’s going fast. Actually, it’s pretty much gone. But if you did manage to snag one, here are ten good uses for it. https://gizmodo.com/hp-touchpad-review-unbreak-my-heart-5816916 1. E-book Reader The TouchPad has a mighty fine Kindle app, but at only…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 22

This iPad Book Is Meant to Be Read on Shuffle

Marc Saporta’s novel Composition No. 1 is a non-linear work, meaning it was written with the intent of being read in any order. But the novel’s iPad iteration takes the concept to a whole new level with its shuffle feature. When you launch the app, according to Co.Design, it begins rotating through the book’s pages…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 22

Rdio Has Discounted Family Plans Now

We don’t usually recommend emulating cell phone carrier behavior, but this is pretty cool: Rdio now lets you combine accounts into a family account for a ~20% discount. Combining two $10/mo accounts brings the total down to $18, and three accounts brings it to $23. You can add more than three, but the price per…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 22

Miramax Launches Biggest Facebook Movie App Yet

Miramax just released an app named Miramax eXperience that will allow U.S. users to rent up to 20 different movies through Facebook. You’ll be able to watch films like No Country for Old Men and Pulp Fiction for $3 each through Facebook or Google TV, or on your iPad’s browser. Pretty cool, considering the former…

Social Media Alyssa Bereznak Aug 22

This Swiss Lunatic Scaled a Mountain By Tightrope Walking Its Cable Car Wire

Amazing. 46-year-old Freddy Nock, a Swiss stuntman, successfully walked this 1,000 meter long cable car cable Saturday that runs up to the summit of Bavaria’s 9,000 foot tall Zugspitze mountain. Without a balancing pole or harness. That’s ballsy. He plans on going for the world record for highest tightrope walk ever. I think he got…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 22

Prop Up Your iPad and Type Feverishly with a Wingstand

The iPhone and iPad are convenient for a lot of reasons, but the ability to type quickly or in great quantities is not one of them. Thus this Kickstarter campaign for the Wingstand. The Wingstand is very simple: just a few pieces of injection-molded plastic, which clip your iPad or iPhone to a Bluetooth keyboard…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Aug 22

Fox’s 8-Day Hulu Delay on TV Shows Is a Boon to Piracy

You play with fire and you’ll get burned. Fox, which recently delayed new episodes of TV shows from streaming on Hulu until 8 days after they’ve aired, has already seen a spike in piracy for those shows. https://gizmodo.com/fox-just-tightened-the-noose-on-hulu-meet-the-8-day-co-5824982 Fox’s dumb system works like this: if you’re a Hulu Plus or Dish Network subscriber, you can…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 22

This Week’s TV: Doctor Who‘s Moment of Truth, the Venture Bros. Musical Documentary, and Summer Glau With New Superpowers!

A Time Lord may be running out of time, as Doctor Who comes back this weekend. And meanwhile, see the Venture Bros. like you’ve never seen them before. And somebody finally had the bright idea of giving Summer Glau superpowers! But that’s not all. There’s alternate history, dinosaur regeneration, and Jedi hostage negotiation. And Battlestar…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 22

You Need A New Profile Picture

That over-exposed, half-faced, self portrait is not even Top Eight-worthy. It’s time for you to get over 2005 and get a new damn photo of yourself. And what better way to go about it then by taking this short survey and possibly winning a Fuji Instax Mini camera. Now just try and avoid making the…

io9 Sponsored post Aug 22

Hop on the Googarola Train for Less than $70

Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility can only be a sign of bigger and better things to come. To get you on the right track, RadioShack has the Sprint Samsung Conquer™ 4G, complete with Android’s Gingerbread OS, on sale right now for the ridiculously low price of $69.99.* Despite the astonishingly low price, the Conquer™ packs…

Tech News Sponsored post Aug 22

How the World’s Oldest Fossils Could Give Clues About Life on Mars

Clusters of islands poked through hot oceans 3.4 billion years ago, when the world still had no oxygen and the seas churned under a pallid, overcast sky. But life thrived on Earth even then, scientists say – and now they have the world’s oldest fossils to prove it. There were no plants or algae to…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - PopSci Aug 22

What Could Be Apple’s Next “Absolutely Different” Product?

In 2001 it was the iPod. In 2007, the iPhone. And three years later, it was the iPad. Now, the rumor is that Apple may be preparing an entire new product line. But what could that be? The rumor has been published by Makotakara, a Japanese site that has been right about a few things…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 22

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossils on Earth in Australia

The Earth was a very different place 3.5 billion years ago. In the absence of oxygen, many scientists believe Earth’s earliest ecosystems survived on sulphur, but researchers have long been unable to find any proof of this hypothesis, in the form of fossilized microbial life. Now, an international team of geologists has discovered evidence of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 22

World’s Most Advanced Crash Test Dummy Takes It In the Face So You Don’t Have to

In the 1940s, researchers would throw just about anything at a wall—anesthetized pigs, human cadavers—to gain an understanding of a high-speed collision’s effect on the body. Thankfully, the latest generation of crash test dummies use sophisticated sensor arrays to do that, not dead people. Detroit’s Wayne State University was actually the first to begin research…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 22

The Five Stages of Grief, as explained by the Conan the Barbarian franchise

So this weekend’s freshly oiled Conan The Barbarian film failed to pillage moviegoers’ wallets and Jason Momoa’s gently undulating pectorals didn’t hypnotize critics. This shouldn’t have entirely come as a surprise, seeing as how the Conan moving-picture franchise has been in dire straits for decades now. https://gizmodo.com/a-few-rules-you-should-follow-before-watching-conan-the-5832738 Indeed, we can use the historical trajectory of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 22

The $99 HP TouchPad Is an Amazing Deal, No Matter What Your Nerd Friends Tell You

The HP TouchPad for $99 seems too good to be true. “It is,” your nerd friend will tell you. “It’ll never get software updates. There won’t be new apps for it. It’s a dead platform. Don’t buy it.” Screw them. Here’s the thing about your nerd friends, and most of the people writing about tech:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 22

Nikon’s Curious Crusade Against Physical User Manuals

Okay Nikon, so you don’t include a dead tree user manual with new cameras anymore. That’s fine; they just sit at the bottom of a drawer until we eventually throw them out. But to also DRM against printing it out? What the hell. Nikon does offer a fully printable version of its manuals if you…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 22

First look at the zombies from World War Z

In People’s Minds, Being a Zombie Is Better than Being a Vegetable

10 of the World’s Worst Invasive Species

10 Things You Can Do with a $100 TouchPad

This iPad Book Is Meant to Be Read on Shuffle

Rdio Has Discounted Family Plans Now

Miramax Launches Biggest Facebook Movie App Yet

This Swiss Lunatic Scaled a Mountain By Tightrope Walking Its Cable Car Wire

Prop Up Your iPad and Type Feverishly with a Wingstand

Fox’s 8-Day Hulu Delay on TV Shows Is a Boon to Piracy

This Week’s TV: Doctor Who‘s Moment of Truth, the Venture Bros. Musical Documentary, and Summer Glau With New Superpowers!

You Need A New Profile Picture

Hop on the Googarola Train for Less than $70

How the World’s Oldest Fossils Could Give Clues About Life on Mars

What Could Be Apple’s Next “Absolutely Different” Product?

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossils on Earth in Australia

World’s Most Advanced Crash Test Dummy Takes It In the Face So You Don’t Have to

The Five Stages of Grief, as explained by the Conan the Barbarian franchise

The $99 HP TouchPad Is an Amazing Deal, No Matter What Your Nerd Friends Tell You

Nikon’s Curious Crusade Against Physical User Manuals

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