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How Car Crash Modeling Technology Could Predict Offshore Drilling Disasters

It’s the billion-dollar question for offshore drilling giants: Could the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been prevented? Researchers at MIT’s Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory may have found at least a partial answer—the same kind of computer modeling that predicts whether car components can hold their own in a crash could also forecast whether pipes will fracture…

Tech News Reach Ariel Schwartz - Fast Company Aug 17

Super-Intelligent Ape Chauffeurs By the Year 2020

Before it became a magazine, The Futurist was launched as a newsletter in 1967. The second issue was released in April of that year and is filled with some amazing predictions of yestermorrow. The “cover story,” if you will, is by Glenn T. Seaborg (the dude who discovered plutonium in 1941) and is titled “Women…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 17

Discover New Music At Google’s Magnifier Website

Have a Google Music Beta account and an uninspired music collection? Then check out Google Magnifier, a new music discovery website. Magnifier features a new artist each week. You can check out videos, performances, interviews, music tracks and more. The first artist to debut on Magnifier is indie rock band, My Morning Jacket. You can…

Tech News Kelly Aug 17

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It appears our peers at Silicon Alley Insider got sucked into some sort of space-time vortex, tumbling out in a world without Google TV. But they’ve made it back! And they’re here to spread the news: Google won’t do it. I’m still not exactly sure what this hurried warning means—is Google afraid in this parallel…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 17

Cab Service to the International Space Station Will Begin Ahead of Schedule

Public access to multi-passenger spacecraft like Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo may still be a few years off, but NASA’s personal cab service to and from the International Space Station is set to kick off ahead of schedule. NASA recently gave the go ahead on the very first cargo delivery to the ISS by SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 17

New York Invaded by “Rodents of Unusual Size”

New York City has a big, furry, four-legged problem. Rabbit-sized rats have invaded Central Park. People are complaining that the giant rats are feasting on the buggy-horse food (which apparently gives them super growth powers). [Via UPI]

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 17

The Pill Doesn’t Make You Fat Even Though Drug Companies Say It Does

The pill doesn’t make you gain weight? The idea goes completely against what pretty much every woman in the world believes, myself included – until today. It turns out scientists have studied – like really studied in clinical trials – the association between the pill and weight gain and have found no evidence to support…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Aug 17

Left Behind: Jets and Taxes, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. IRS Is Now Regulating PayPal Sales If you’re a PayPal power user—the type that either moves $20,000…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 17

This is what a massive plankton bloom looks like from space

Plankton are tiny all by their lonesome, but every summer these tiny marine organisms take over the Barents Sea north of Norway. On August 14, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this giant bloom stretching several hundred kilometers over the Scandinavian Peninsula. Here’s what you’re seeing, courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 17

In 1959, People Played Card Games Against Mecha-Foes

“If you are one of the hundred best players in the world, these hands will not puzzle you.” So reads the instruction manual for AutoBridge, a mechanized version of the classic card game that let enthusiasts play alone. Currently available on Etsy for $8, the seller says the game is from 1959, which makes me…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 17

How the Hell Did a 17-Year-Old Get the Materials to Make Bombs?

Chalk this up under Near Disasters. Earlier today police arrested a 17-year-old who was allegedly putting together bomb-making materials in order to wage war on his former high school and “cause more casualties than were suffered at Columbine.” What in the hell? Yes, it’s horrible that someone that young could be that disturbed, but more…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 17

The Ultimate Guide to Fall 2011’s Science Fiction and Fantasy TV

It’s almost time for the fall TV season! What are the hottest new science fiction shows coming out next season? What’s coming back? And what events can you not afford to miss? We’ve compiled the best of the best of 2011’s Fall TV. So start setting your DVRs. Doctor Who It’s going to be fairly…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 17

The Most Awesomely Ridiculous Moments from Conan the Barbarian Ripoffs

The original Conan the Barbarian was a phenomenon, spawning a decade’s worth of awful imitators in which muscled-up warriors went around killing people in something vaguely resembling the ancient past. And, as our video evidence shows, they were absolutely incredible. I’ll warn you right now: you are about to see more shirtless men, clumsy swordplay,…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins Aug 17

Ugandan Police Sprayed People with Pink Water Cannons to Break Up a Ceremony

Seemingly lifted straight from some B-movie horror flick, a group of mourners in Uganda were sprayed by the police with water cannons filled with pink dye. The police said they were only “preventing the worst from happening.” Along with the pink water, tear gas was thrown to break apart the vigil. The people, who are…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 17

Dogs Can Smell Cancer on Your Breath

Lung cancer is really hard to detect early. So some scientists in Germany put their best sniffer dogs on the task. And you won’t believe this but it totally worked. Researchers at Schillerhoehe Hospital gathered up 220 volunteers who had lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, along with ones who were healthy. They gathered samples…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Aug 17

Anti-smoking PSA from the 1980s warns Brits about the scary posthuman future

Britain’s National Archives has created an amazing online collection of “public information films,” or what we in the United States call “public service announcements” (PSAs). It’s an incredible collection that goes back to the 1950s and continues up through 2006. Some of the movies are just silly, and others are kind of amazing in their…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 17

AT&T Is Suing the People Who Want to Stop the T-Mo Purchase

For months, Bursor & Fisher has represented the masses—such as they are—so opposed to the proposed AT&T-mo power coupling that they’ve resorted to legal means to stop it. Last week, AT&T finally slung some lawsuits back their way. According to Reuters, AT&T has moved to close off any chance that the claims brought against them…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 17

Mexico City’s Texcoco Park will put Central Park to shame

When you think of big urban parks, which ones typically come to mind? NYC’s Central Park? Vancouver’s Stanley Park? Well Mexico City’s El Parque Ecologico Lago de Texcoco (Texcoco Lake Ecological Park) makes these classic examples of urban naturalization look like scant patches of grass. The enormous environmental engineering project, recently unveiled by Mexican architect…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 17

Stealing ATM PIN Numbers Using a Thermal Camera Is Too Freaking Easy

I can’t believe criminals haven’t jumped onto thermal cameras because they’re apparently BOSS at stealing your ATM PIN number. Not only can they figure out the set of numbers in a pin but sometimes they can even tell the order too. Scary. Researchers from UCSD pointed thermal cameras towards plastic ATM PIN pads and metal…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 17

Razer Tiamat: The First Legit 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset Carpet Bombs Your Eardrums With 10 Discrete Drivers

There are a metric shitton of 7.1 surround sound gaming headsets in existence. They fake it, mostly, with virtual surround sound. Razer’s Tiamat 7.1 headset, though, pushes surround sound into your skull with 10 discrete drivers. Which Razer says makes it the “first true 7.1 surround sound gaming headset.” Each ear cup has 5 drivers,…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar Aug 17

How Car Crash Modeling Technology Could Predict Offshore Drilling Disasters

Super-Intelligent Ape Chauffeurs By the Year 2020

Discover New Music At Google’s Magnifier Website

What?

Cab Service to the International Space Station Will Begin Ahead of Schedule

New York Invaded by “Rodents of Unusual Size”

The Pill Doesn’t Make You Fat Even Though Drug Companies Say It Does

Left Behind: Jets and Taxes, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

This is what a massive plankton bloom looks like from space

In 1959, People Played Card Games Against Mecha-Foes

How the Hell Did a 17-Year-Old Get the Materials to Make Bombs?

The Ultimate Guide to Fall 2011’s Science Fiction and Fantasy TV

The Most Awesomely Ridiculous Moments from Conan the Barbarian Ripoffs

Ugandan Police Sprayed People with Pink Water Cannons to Break Up a Ceremony

Dogs Can Smell Cancer on Your Breath

Anti-smoking PSA from the 1980s warns Brits about the scary posthuman future

AT&T Is Suing the People Who Want to Stop the T-Mo Purchase

Mexico City’s Texcoco Park will put Central Park to shame

Stealing ATM PIN Numbers Using a Thermal Camera Is Too Freaking Easy

Razer Tiamat: The First Legit 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset Carpet Bombs Your Eardrums With 10 Discrete Drivers

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