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Helicopter Dumps Giant Water Load on Reporter and Triggers Smokey Gigglefest

Suzi Theodory was ready to cover an LA County wildfire for Time Warner News. She even had her anti-smoke sunglasses on! But what she wasn’t prepared for was to be doused with hundreds of gallons of water from above. Luckily, she takes it all in stride! Thoroughly soaked, she bursts into an uncontrollable fit of…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 12

Watch Santa’s elves fight a polar bear in the trailer for Aardman Animations’ Arthur Christmas

Santa’s Secret Ops team provokes a Polar Bear in the trailer for Arthur Christmas, the movie about Santa’s idiot son from the makers of Wallace and Gromit. We’ve been taken with this film ever since it showed off Santa’s sick new UFO ride. This film appears to be all about the science behind Santa, and…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Jul 12

Read the insane Dazzler script starring Cher and Robin Williams

Imagine a screenplay crammed with so much insanity, the climax pits KISS against the Village People, in the middle of a dystopian feudal New York (where people ride unicorns). That’s the basis for Jim Shooter’s Dazzler script. Stop whatever you are doing and read this now! Dazzler, the Marvel superhero pop star — who has…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 12

The Fast-Approaching Future of Google+

Joseph Smarr, a technical lead for Google+, has been fielding questions about the “social sharing” site since yesterday on AnyAsq (think AMA from Reddit). His answers give a behind-the-scenes look into where Google’s latest hit product is headed. https://gizmodo.com/google-to-surpass-10-million-users-5820276 Of course, some it is rehashing the Mountain View party line (Circles is going to change…

Tech News Michael Zhao Jul 12

Fukushima’s Radiation Now Spreading in Japanese Meat

You know what happens when your nuclear reactor explodes, sending radioactive materials into the dirt? The irradiated gunk gets into the plants. Animals eat the plants. Humans eat the animals. You can see where this is going. Japanese health officials have found radioactive cesium in packaged beef, CNN reports—beef that in all likelihood’s been eaten…

Health Sam Biddle Jul 12

Computer teaches itself English so that it can play Civilization

Computers may be naturally fluent in binary, but how might they fare with learning human languages? Computers were tested by playing the game Civilization. Random chance let them win about half the time…but then they started reading the instruction manual. MIT researchers gave their AI this particular challenge because winning a game like Civilization is…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 12

The Gizmodo/io9 Giveaway for Robotnik Film Heads

It’s pretty much impossible to make a movie about robots that I don’t want to see. Well, aside from Surrogates, maybe. But that atrocity isn’t playing at this year’s Robot Film Festival! Giz and io9 are giving away tickets to the event to the best robot rhymers. The Goods Two winners will receive a pair…

io9 Kyle Wagner Jul 12

What Is a Derecho? (Hint: It’s a Highly Destructive Force of Nature)

You’re in the middle of a midwestern field right now. You feel a warm breeze gathering. Then wall of clouds starts heading in your direction. The wind gets stronger. Then a thunderstorm comes out of nowhere. Amazingly, the wind gets even stronger. So strong that it damages a barn in a neighboring field. These aren’t…

io9 Adrian Covert Jul 12

What if Calvin & Hobbes were rebooted as hardboiled pulp detectives?

We’ve featured the artwork of Black Panther illustrator Francesco Francavilla before, but he’s outdone himself with these posters for C.H. Investigations, a gumshoe firm that’s 50% luchador (à la Santo). Can Bill Watterson come out of retirement for this? https://gizmodo.com/join-the-dalek-war-effort-5529246 https://gizmodo.com/the-strange-case-of-the-lost-luchador-versus-dracula-nu-5793691 Via Pulp Sunday. Thanks, Warren!

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 12

Your Android Tablet Just Got Better: What’s New in Android 3.2

Android 3.2 is an unexpected little update, especially with Ice Cream Sandwich coming later this year. But good on Google for making its less-than-amazing Android tablets a little bit better all the time until that major new hotness happens. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-androids-ice-cream-sandwich-5800358 So! Here’s what’s new and better in Android 3.2, which is already rolling out to…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 12

Finally, a Website that Steps Up to Prevent Unwanted Body Art

The next time you see a middle-aged man with an unfortunately placed, “Frankie Say Relax,” tattoo, hold your judgement. Many Friday nights ago, he may have fallen victim to a threat that haunts us all: the drunken tattoo decision. If you’ve simply resigned yourself to the possibility of waking up with an unwanted tramp stamp,…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Jul 12

The Gizmodo/io9 Giveaway for Robotnik Film Heads

It’s pretty much impossible to make a movie about robots that I don’t want to see. Well, aside from Surrogates, maybe. But that atrocity isn’t playing at this year’s Robot Film Festival! Giz and io9 are giving away tickets to the event to the best robot rhymers. The Goods Two winners will receive a pair…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 12

Above France for iPad: It’s Like the Tour de France Without Any of the Sweaty Cycling or Crashes

Making fun of France is as American as apple pie but it doesn’t mean we don’t think it’s a beautiful country (what? there’s more than Paris?). Above France is an app from National Geographic Traveler and Fotopedia that shows off the beauty of the rest of the country. It’s a series of jaw dropping photographs…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 12

One Third of iPhone Users Think They Already Have 4G

Our friends at The Loop found a pretty interesting survey that finds 34 percent of all iPhone owners think their phones have 4G. Of course, the actual number of people with 4G iPhones is zero percent. I’d say something snarky about people being dumb, but given how many people have iPhones, the alphabet soup of…

Tech News Mat Honan Jul 12

Creepy Old Guy Pretended to Be a Pretty Young Girl on Facebook to Solicit Child Porn

James Dollins, a 42-year-old creep with a stressful scowl and receding hairline, has been arrested for soliciting teenage boys for child porn and sex. He invented a persona on Facebook, ‘Kelly Redkin’, an attractive 19-year old girl, to lure them. Dollins was discovered when he became romantically involved (electronically, that is) with a 13-year-old boy.…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 12

The massive Perseus Cluster stretches out over 15 million light-years

At first glance, this looks like just another star field. But almost every source of light in this image is actually one of the 190 galaxies making up the massive Perseus Cluster, one of the nearest such clusters to Earth. While even the size of the solar system, let alone the Milky Way, is far…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 12

The New Android Market Looks Like a Windows Phone App—Which Means It Looks A Lot Better

Google just launched a new Android Market for Android 2.2+ users and added book and movie downloads to the Market. What’s bigger news to me though, is that sticking true to Google’s recent trend, Android Market looks a lot better. https://gizmodo.com/googles-looking-real-nice-right-now-5817102 With the new look, Android Market’s humble beginnings are pretty much long forgotten. Though…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 12

States Are Lining Up to Investigate the AT&T-Mobile Deal

While no local governments have actually moved to prevent AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA, a whole bunch have started firing off subpoenas at both Ma Bell and Sprint, the deal’s most vocal opponent. The nine states are requesting data related to antitrust investigations, which, hey, of course going from four major carriers to three is…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 12

What car made the Bugatti Veyron SS back down from a fight?

The Bugatti Veyron SS is the fastest car in the world. The big bully in the automotive playground. And I just saw it back down from a fight with something even more menacing. What scared this Veyron driver? [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/what-car-made-the-bugatti-veyron-ss-back-down-from-a-fi-5820228

Tech News Matt Hardigree Jul 12

Top Stories: Tuesday July 12, 2011

Helicopter Dumps Giant Water Load on Reporter and Triggers Smokey Gigglefest

Watch Santa’s elves fight a polar bear in the trailer for Aardman Animations’ Arthur Christmas

Read the insane Dazzler script starring Cher and Robin Williams

The Fast-Approaching Future of Google+

Fukushima’s Radiation Now Spreading in Japanese Meat

Computer teaches itself English so that it can play Civilization

The Gizmodo/io9 Giveaway for Robotnik Film Heads

What Is a Derecho? (Hint: It’s a Highly Destructive Force of Nature)

What if Calvin & Hobbes were rebooted as hardboiled pulp detectives?

Your Android Tablet Just Got Better: What’s New in Android 3.2

Finally, a Website that Steps Up to Prevent Unwanted Body Art

The Gizmodo/io9 Giveaway for Robotnik Film Heads

Above France for iPad: It’s Like the Tour de France Without Any of the Sweaty Cycling or Crashes

One Third of iPhone Users Think They Already Have 4G

Creepy Old Guy Pretended to Be a Pretty Young Girl on Facebook to Solicit Child Porn

The massive Perseus Cluster stretches out over 15 million light-years

The New Android Market Looks Like a Windows Phone App—Which Means It Looks A Lot Better

States Are Lining Up to Investigate the AT&T-Mobile Deal

What car made the Bugatti Veyron SS back down from a fight?

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