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That MacBook Air Refresh May Be a Little Later Than We Thought

Okay, don’t panic, nobody freak out or anything, but the MacBook Air refresh rumored for this week has officially been rerumored, by AllThingsD, to next Thursday or Friday instead of tomorrow. You okay, buddy? Here, breathe into this paper bag. https://gizmodo.com/macbook-airs-white-macbooks-mac-minis-but-no-mac-pros-5820745 The good news is, the kinds of spec improvements we can expect to see…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 14

Were you, like me, part of a great nutritional experiment?

Parents have always experimented on their children to make them better, even before the idea of genetic engineering was conceived. Perhaps the most basic experiment is making kids better through nutrition – an experiment I expect many people were a part of. I know I was. In an attempt to capture the baby market, it…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 14

Sprint’s Best Phone Is Now Only $100

You can now get the Google Nexus S 4G for only a c-note. (Of course, with a 2-year contract.) Not bad considering it’s our favorite Sprint phone—you’re guaranteed the latest software updates as soon as they’re available. [TechCrunch] http://gizmodo.com/5804752/google-nexus-s-4g-where-wimax-and-battery-life-arent-mutually-exclusive

Tech News Michael Zhao Jul 14

Masquerade for iPhone: It’s Like Making a Conan O’Brien Skit on Your Phone

You know when Conan puts a picture of a celebrity and replaces his or her lips to say something outrageously funny? Masquerade for iPhone does the same exact thing. It’s silly, juvenile fun. What’s it do? It makes you laugh! You can use Masquerade’s stock pictures, add-ons, or any pictures from your camera roll and…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 14

Yee-Haw! Pew Pew! It’s the motherlode of Cowboys & Aliens stills!

We’ve got a giant heaping of Cowboys & Aliens stills for you fine cowpoke. Watch as “Cantankerous Land Owner” Harrison Ford steely-eyes the shit out of “The Man With The Black Hat,” Daniel Craig. So many cowboys! Not enough aliens — can’t wait until the big reveal on July 29th.

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 14

Your allergies could help you fight off cancer

If you have a contact allergy, merely touching the wrong metal or chemical is enough to send your immune system into overdrive, triggering hives, swelling and general unpleasantness. However, it seems that this sensitivity may have a positive side effect: your hair-trigger immune system could be better at fighting off cancer. In a long-term study…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jul 14

The Invention and Evolution of the Drinking Straw, from Mint Juleps to Milkshakes

Marvin Stone was sipping on a mint julep with some buddies, but he was not enjoying it. In the late 1800s, when this happy hour took place, natural rye grass was the tool used to slurp up your booze. But Stone found himself decidedly displeased with what the natural straw was doing to his drink.…

io9 Rachel Swaby Jul 14

Sony’s Gross-Proof MP3 Player Lets You Stop Sweating on Your iPhone

Using your phone as your mp3 player while you work out sucks. It gets sweaty and gross and you have to carry it around the rest of the day smelling like your armpit. No thanks. Give me a sweat-proof one like the new Sports Walkman. Sony’s new waterproof mp3 player looks kind of amazing. It…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 14

The beadlet anemone has a personality and makes complex decisions…all without a brain

Personality might seem like it’s something you can only have if you’ve got complex, human-like intelligence, but that isn’t necessarily the case. In fact, the brainless sea creature Actinia equina reveal distinct personalities in how they respond to threats. The beadlet anemone is related to other cnidarians like jellyfish and coral. In their evolutionary history,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 14

Google Has Ensnared Over 10 Million People in Its Circles, Latched Millions More to Android

During a call to discuss Google’s record-setting quarter, CEO Larry Page shared some tidbits about the company’s nascent social program: over 10 million people have Google+ accounts just a couple of weeks in, and approximately one billion items are shared and received in a single day. Still a far cry from Facebook’s 750 million, but…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 14

Scientists Punch a Hole in the Fabric of Time with a “Time Cloak”

What a preposterous world we live in, where developments in invisibility cloak tech are common enough to elicit yawns. Fine, you unmovable automatons, how about a time cloak? Is that something you might be interested in? Researchers at Cornell have designed, built and demonstrated the first “cloak” that hides events in time. The process relies…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 14

Is Spotify Really Your Streaming Music Savior?

Spotify is a unicorn no more. It promises to be the end all, be all solution to our music listening needs in the 21st century. And, by the beard of Zeus, they’ve delivered on that promise. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-has-arrived-on-us-shores-5821149 Why It Matters Co-founder Daniel Ek said he wanted to create something better than pirating music. He wanted…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 14

How Harry Potter Changed Publishing

The Boy Who Lived also helped breathe new life into the struggling publishing industry. Even before Harry Potter became one of the most successful movie heroes of all time, the Potter books were turning countless people into readers. But that’s not all they did. J.K. Rowling’s book series about the boy wizard who’s destined to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 14

Top 5 Spotify Home Systems: From Apple to Zeppelin

Spotify has finally reached the shores of the New World. If you’re one of the lucky few with an account or an invite, these are the best devices to listen to it with. You can now play over 15 million Spotify songs on your computer for free in this country – partially because Spotify counts…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Jul 14

The Pentagon Suffered One of the Most Damaging Cyberattacks in US Military History This Past Spring

The US Department of Defense just revealed that they lost 24,000 files to “foreign intruders” in March. Though they wouldn’t specify on details, they acknowledged it was “one of the most damaging cyberattacks to date on the US military”. The Pentagon did say that the files lost were taken from a defense contractor but wouldn’t…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 14

Watching a Guitar Be Played from Inside the Guitar Is Trippy

Kyle Jones, a guitarist, had the clever idea of recording himself playing guitar from inside his guitar. He didn’t expect to see the guitar strings turn into wacky, wavy and shapely lines. It’s crazy. And it’s thanks to the iPhone. Like when the iPhone’s camera captured floating blades of an airplane propeller, these crazy shapes…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 14

New The Thing Trailer: Sheer Freaking Terror, Served Ice Cold

The first full-length trailer for the Thing prequel is here, and it serves up a huge dose of claustrophobia and paranoia, laced with awesome bloody violence. If you’ve been skeptical about a prequel to John Carpenter’s film, check this out. This trailer might just win you over to the Thing thang. In particular, it’s looking…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 14

7 Tools to Make Your Bike Commute Less Turrible

Between red light-running drivers, road hazards, and oblivious jay-walking pedestrians, biking to work can be the most stressful part of your day. These seven tools will inject some peace of mind into your morning rides. The Lock Loop A proper lock is paramount if you don’t want your afternoon commute to be worse (as in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 14

The Sony NEX-7 Might Be an Amazing 24MP Rangefinder Camera That’s Only $1200

This may or may not be Sony’s new NEX-7 camera. If it is, we’re in for a treat. Rumors are already swirling as to its final feature set but, as the image dug up by Sony Alpha Rumors appears to confirm, the NEX-7 may well include a range finder ala the Fuji X100 as well…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 14

50 glorious screencaps from John Carter offer your first real look at the Tharks!

You’ve seen the amazing trailer for John Carter — now let’s pick apart this alien world, image by image. Stare into the eyes of the green alien beasts from Mars, meet the people of Barsoom and behold the teenaged Edgar Rice Burroughs! https://gizmodo.com/john-carter-trailer-rips-you-open-with-the-sword-of-mar-5821222 1866, the year Edgar Rice Burroughs discovers his “Uncle John Carter’s” journals.…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 14

That MacBook Air Refresh May Be a Little Later Than We Thought

Were you, like me, part of a great nutritional experiment?

Sprint’s Best Phone Is Now Only $100

Masquerade for iPhone: It’s Like Making a Conan O’Brien Skit on Your Phone

Yee-Haw! Pew Pew! It’s the motherlode of Cowboys & Aliens stills!

Your allergies could help you fight off cancer

The Invention and Evolution of the Drinking Straw, from Mint Juleps to Milkshakes

Sony’s Gross-Proof MP3 Player Lets You Stop Sweating on Your iPhone

The beadlet anemone has a personality and makes complex decisions…all without a brain

Google Has Ensnared Over 10 Million People in Its Circles, Latched Millions More to Android

Scientists Punch a Hole in the Fabric of Time with a “Time Cloak”

Is Spotify Really Your Streaming Music Savior?

How Harry Potter Changed Publishing

Top 5 Spotify Home Systems: From Apple to Zeppelin

The Pentagon Suffered One of the Most Damaging Cyberattacks in US Military History This Past Spring

Watching a Guitar Be Played from Inside the Guitar Is Trippy

New The Thing Trailer: Sheer Freaking Terror, Served Ice Cold

7 Tools to Make Your Bike Commute Less Turrible

The Sony NEX-7 Might Be an Amazing 24MP Rangefinder Camera That’s Only $1200

50 glorious screencaps from John Carter offer your first real look at the Tharks!

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