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8 Tools for Getting Out of Libya Alive

When dudes start firing off home-brew, truck-mounted rockets and bandying about phrases like “open, armed rebellion,” it’s high time to get the f-ck out of Tripoli. These eight tools will help get you to your Embassy in one piece. USMC Improved Modular Tactical Vest Sucking chest wounds are not a good look for you. Keep…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola Aug 22

RFID Implants Won’t Rescue the People Kidnapped in Mexico

Kidnappings in Mexico have worsened in the last 5 years, sky-rocketing by 371%. So too have the demand for those RFID implants that were said to allow authorities find the victims. Except for one thing: they don’t work. https://gizmodo.com/mexicos-rich-embedding-gps-assisted-rfid-tags-under-the-5040538 The main problem is that the technology, for a number of reasons, couldn’t have worked in…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 22

The Decemberists’ New Music Video: A Scene from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest is one of the great novels of our era, but it would probably make a terrible movie. In any case, this is as close as we’re ever likely to get: a music video for the Decemberists’ “Calamity Song,” that pays tribute to a scene from David Foster Wallace’s great novel. That scene is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 22

Monsters University Concept Art! Behold Sulley’s freshman 15 and Mike’s retainer

This weekend at D23 Pixar showed off tons of concept art from their monster prequel Monsters University. Mike and Sulley go to college! See what the gruesome duo looked like before they were hot-shot scarers at Monsters Inc. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-pixars-next-movies-m-5833039 The new logo! With University font! Billy Crystal and John Goodman will both be back to…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 22

JackBack iPhone 4 Panels Are the Shatterproof Deal of the Day

ACK! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! AS*A&D^ASD* AS(D&_ASD*@!_!@HO!@ !@ADJWUIO)(*EYQ%@NBQ*@&$!_@% &%WEBNWQE. That’s the sound of your iPhone 4 scraping asphalt, mixed with the expletives flowing forth from your lips. Luckily, your screen survived. Unfortunately that glass back did not. What is one to do? My first suggestion is to withdraw from society, curl up in a ball and fall into…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Aug 22

Tron Guy and Duct Tape Go Perfectly Together

Even in his basement, playing with duct tape and getting harassed by his wife, Tron Guy is still cooler than you. It might be shilling, but the animation is spot on. [The Sci-Fi Cast] https://gizmodo.com/why-does-america-hate-tron-guy-so-hard-5810318

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 22

Sony Vaio Z Review: So Fast, So Light

The Vaio Z is Sony’s sculpted little reminder that companies besides Apple can make exciting laptops too. Why It Matters This is the dream machine. It weighs 2.6 pounds. It’s 0.66 inches thick. But this 2.7GHz Core i7 notebook also has a gorgeous, super-pixel-dense 1920×1080 13-inch display. An auxiliary dock houses a discrete AMG Radeon…

Reviews Adrian Covert Aug 22

The U.S. Coast Guard Spent $7 Billion and Has Two Ships to Show for It

10 years ago, the Coast Guard was guaranteed $17 billion dollars to purchase or re-outfit 250 ships over a period of 25 years. After spending $7 billion, there are two completed ships. There are supposed to be at least eight. According to the AP, blunders by contractors have pushed the estimated budget up to $24.2…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert Aug 22

Read an exclusive preview of Anne Rice’s new horror comic, Servant of the Bones

IDW has given us an exclusive sneak peek at Anne Rice’s new comic miniseries Servant of the Bones. This title is an adaptation of Rice’s historical horror novel and hits stores this Wednesday, August 24. Here’s the solicitation information, courtesy of IDW: Anne Rice’s Servant of the Bones #1 (of 6) Anne Rice & Mariah…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 22

Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, plays Joust and explains his new novel at the same time

We caught up with Ernest Cline, author of dystopian gamer novel Ready Player One, and challenged him to the ultimate geek test. Could he play Joust and talk about the cultural meaning of videogames at the same time? See for yourself! We also talked to him about the novel that’s rapidly becoming the summer’s most…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 22

WebOS May Have a Future, But It’s Bleak

All Things D snagged an interview with webOS honcho Stephen DeWitt, who is not surprisingly downright bullish on webOS’s future! But after TouchPad and the phones go, what exactly is left? According to DeWitt, while it’s not clear whether webOS will be licensed or find a hardware partner or what, exactly, HP does know where…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 22

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

8 Tools for Getting Out of Libya Alive

RFID Implants Won’t Rescue the People Kidnapped in Mexico

The Decemberists’ New Music Video: A Scene from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

Monsters University Concept Art! Behold Sulley’s freshman 15 and Mike’s retainer

JackBack iPhone 4 Panels Are the Shatterproof Deal of the Day

Tron Guy and Duct Tape Go Perfectly Together

Sony Vaio Z Review: So Fast, So Light

The U.S. Coast Guard Spent $7 Billion and Has Two Ships to Show for It

Read an exclusive preview of Anne Rice’s new horror comic, Servant of the Bones

Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, plays Joust and explains his new novel at the same time

WebOS May Have a Future, But It’s Bleak

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

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