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All the Coolest and Craziest Stuff We Saw at GenCon!

GenCon is insane, there’s no two ways about it. Between the exhibition hall, the thousands of games constantly going on 24-hours a day, the LARPing, movie-watching, seminars, writing, and just about everything else, it really is four days of overwhelming craziness. Here are just some of the crazy and cool things we saw at GenCon!…

io9 Tim Barribeau Aug 8

Strapping a Portable Speaker to Your Bike Sounds a Bit Douche-y

Foxl’s tiny portable speaker is a solid piece of equipment, so it should follow that you might want to take it everywhere. So, SoundMatters went ahead and provided a Bike Bundle Kit to strap it to your bike. I’m just not sure you’d want to. https://gizmodo.com/foxl-portable-speaker-no-system-so-small-ever-sounded-5049045 Don’t get me wrong. The idea sounds nice on…

Gadgets Kwame Opam Aug 8

On the paranoid mating of fruit flies

Females of certain fruit fly species mate with multiple males, which gives the males motivation to mate for as long as they possibly can. But in species where the female chooses only one mate for life, males are still jealously protective…but why? That’s the question pondered by researchers at the University of Liverpool. Dr. Anne…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 8

I’m Sorry Your Crappy City Doesn’t Have Something Like the New Yorker’s Goings On App

The great thing* about living in New York City is that there’s always something going on. But with the city moving at a million miles a minute, keeping track of what’s happening is pretty damn hard. New Yorker’s Goings On app simplifies that. In a nutshell, the Goings On app is the New Yorker’s entertainment…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 8

The New Images of the World’s Newest Tallest Building Are Simply Insane

We showed you the first look of the world’s tallest building, the Kingdom Tower. Now, Chicago’s AS+GG Architecture has released stunning new renders of the project. The glass and steel spire would look perfectly at home in Coruscant. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-image-of-the-worlds-new-tallest-building-5826867 The 3,280-foot (one kilometer!) Kingdom Tower will dwarf the 2,717-foot (828-meter) Burj Khalifa. You will be…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 8

The Best Apps for Surviving This Economic Clusternut

The economy sucks. Our country is in a rut. The market dropped another 600 points today after the 500 point drop last week. It’s just a terrible time not to have money. So be responsible and save! Yeah, I know it’s hard. Where do you start? Do you put it under the mattress? Nope! Just…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 8

The OC Complete Series Is Your Luxurious, Angst-ridden Deal of the Day

Marissa Cooper was the most beautiful girl I’d ever known in my life. I’d followed her adventures through Orange County for years—glued to my TV during my adolescent years. As I sat in my hovel, drinking a soup made from straw and rainwater, I fantasized of spending my life with her, gilded hand in gilded…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Aug 8

Star Wars and Marvel both launching tabletop games next year

At this year’s GenCon, the big announcements on the floor were that two major franchises had just found new homes as tabletop games: Fantasy Flight Games scored a wide-ranging license for Star Wars products, and Margaret Weis Productions will be making a Marvel RPG. I got a chance to swing by both their booths, and…

io9 Tim Barribeau Aug 8

Seagate’s New GoFlex Turbo Keeps Your Data in a SafetyNet

The Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive has the amenities you’d expect for its price range. 500GB. USB 3.0. Support for FireWire and eSATA. But what makes it stand out is that it offers full data recovery right out of the box. Seagate calls their Data Recovery Service SafetyNet. It works as the name promises; should…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 8

Spotify Has 175,000 Paying Customers

Not bad for one month’s work and 1.4 million invites activated. They only need 625,000 more paying subscribers to catch up with Rhapsody. More number-crunching at All Things D via Techmeme.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 8

Mother Nature Doesn’t Give a Shit About Your Data

We all ooh and ahh when lightning zaps from one cloud to another, but when the cloud that gets hit is the one where we store our data, suddenly it’s not so cool. The Register UK is reporting that last night lightning struck a transformer in Dublin, Ireland which caused a large explosion and some…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 8

How To Train Your Dragon‘s stage show will feast on Spider-Man’s Broadway entrails

Now this is a movie-inspired kids stage show we’d pay money to see. Check out the first ever footage form the Melbourne stage production of How To Train Your Dragon. The production looks a lot like the very popular traveling show, Walking With Dinosaurs, only with dragons. This is not a bad thing. So, when…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 8

Google+ Isn’t Completely Broken on iPad Anymore

The iOS app for Google+ just got an update that adds touch support for iPad and iPod Touch and groups notifications. It’s still just a humongified version of the iPhone app on iPad, but at least now it’s actually usable. [9to5mac]

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 8

The Gizmodo vs. Deadspin iPhone Repair Contest: And The Winner Is…

A while ago we challenged Deadspin to an iPhone carnage contest. https://gizmodo.com/the-gizmodo-vs-deadspin-iphone-repair-contest-if-it-a-5819012 The results are in and the winner is Gizmodo reader Bryan Tye, who submitted the bent beauty pictured above. “I had my phone docked in an Ion Block Rocker on my boat, and it took a nose-dive, phone first into the floor,” Tye…

Tech News Alyssa Bereznak Aug 8

How You Did In Predicting the Summer’s Box Office Hits and Misses

This summer was like a battlefield of awesomeness, with a larger-than-average slew of superhero movies, action movies and escapist fare. Some films emerged victorious, while others fell by the wayside. Back in early May, we asked you to predict which films would be a sleeper hit, and which films would be a surprise flop. How…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 8

How to transform your garden gnomes into Satan’s little helpers

Want to turn your garish lawn ornaments into minions of the night? Hack A Day has created this nifty video guide to give your gnomes laser eyes. You just need a few gnomes, a solar light, a willingness to lower the property values in your neighborhood, and no taste whatsoever.

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 8

The Bitcoin Is Dying. Whatever.

There’s no denying the rise of Bitcoin has been as amusing as it has been interesting. A quasi-anonymous, internet-spawned currency that shoots up to a price of $32 is captivating. But the honeymoon is over and Bitcoin is falling. Fast. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-bitcoin-5803124 After tumbling to a price of $7, the Atlantic’s Nicholas Jackson points out the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 8

Did a New Taliban Weapon Kill a Chopper Full of Navy SEALs?

The US suffered a tremendous loss Saturday in Afganistan when the downing of a Chinook helicopter took the lives of 31 special forces troops. As Danger Room reports, it may have been an entirely new Taliban weapon that did it: The passengers and crew of the twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook helicopter probably never saw the rocket…

Tech News David Axe - Wired Aug 8

10 Places to Buy Amazing Science Fiction and Fantasy Art

Summer is coming to a close, and for many of us that means new beginnings. With school right around the corner, hordes of us will be moving into new apartments and houses for the year, and with new digs comes the opportunity to update (or start) your collection of science fiction and fantasy artwork! And…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 8

The Japanese Tsunami Also Destroyed Part of Antarctica

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rumbled the northeast coast of Japan at a depth of 15.2 miles. The resulting tsunami destroyed everything nearby, but most people thought it never affected other areas. Until now. https://jezebel.com/the-complete-japan-crisis-timeline-live-updates-5780998 Dr. Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center, and other researchers have discovered evidence…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 8

All the Coolest and Craziest Stuff We Saw at GenCon!

Strapping a Portable Speaker to Your Bike Sounds a Bit Douche-y

On the paranoid mating of fruit flies

I’m Sorry Your Crappy City Doesn’t Have Something Like the New Yorker’s Goings On App

The New Images of the World’s Newest Tallest Building Are Simply Insane

The Best Apps for Surviving This Economic Clusternut

The OC Complete Series Is Your Luxurious, Angst-ridden Deal of the Day

Star Wars and Marvel both launching tabletop games next year

Seagate’s New GoFlex Turbo Keeps Your Data in a SafetyNet

Spotify Has 175,000 Paying Customers

Mother Nature Doesn’t Give a Shit About Your Data

How To Train Your Dragon‘s stage show will feast on Spider-Man’s Broadway entrails

Google+ Isn’t Completely Broken on iPad Anymore

The Gizmodo vs. Deadspin iPhone Repair Contest: And The Winner Is…

How You Did In Predicting the Summer’s Box Office Hits and Misses

How to transform your garden gnomes into Satan’s little helpers

The Bitcoin Is Dying. Whatever.

Did a New Taliban Weapon Kill a Chopper Full of Navy SEALs?

10 Places to Buy Amazing Science Fiction and Fantasy Art

The Japanese Tsunami Also Destroyed Part of Antarctica

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