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The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

Fifteen years ago, aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin published The Case for Mars, and issued a clarion call to his fellow scientists, and the people of Earth. We need to plan our Mars colony, and we need to do it now. Zubrin has released an updated and revised version of his classic book, outlining the most…

Space & Spaceflight Robert Zubrin Jun 28

Mark Zuckerberg Is Rich, Filthy Rich

Mark Zuckerberg is so rich, he could carpet his house with $100 bills and still have more money than all the readers of this post combined. His net worth is now estimated at $18 billion, a figure that makes him the third richest tech leader in the world. On the rich guy scale, the Facebook…

Social Media Kelly Jun 28

This Splitscreen Is Big Enough for the Both of Them

Two people on two continents heading in two different directions. But when their paths of travel are placed side by side, they’re not so dissimilar after all. Shot on a Nokia N8, Splitscreen: A Love Story was submitted to the Nokia Shorts Competition, and not only does it look great, the entire concept is well-executed.…

Movies Adrian Covert Jun 28

Mr. Bump Is an Alarm Clock You Love to Hate

Ahh, alarm clocks. They are modern-day torture devices designed to interrupt a peaceful slumber. Some make it difficult like Tocky which runs away when it goes off. Others like the classic Mr. Bump help you vent your frustration at having to get up so early. Mr Bump is a ball-shaped clock that you throw at…

Books & Comics Kelly Jun 28

A Look Into the Pits of Hell

If Earth could give humans the evil eye, it will look exactly like Eritrea’s Nabro Volcano. It began erupting last June 12 and not much information has been published about it. Since it began erupting emissions from have drifted over much of East Africa and the Middle East. Ash has displaced residents living near the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 28

Google’s New Home Page Pushes You to Plus

Along with launching a new social sharing (don’t call it networking!) service and adding authorship view to search results, Google changed the way its iconic front page looked today. Phew! I’m tuckered out and all I did was blog. Poorly. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-google-changing-all-of-information-sharing-5816311 The new front page shrinks the logo a bit, and moves all the links…

Tech News Mat Honan Jun 28

Get a good awesome look at David Tennant, Vampire Hunter

See what the vampire-hunting David Tennant looks like, sans ridiculous wig and silly Las Vegas magician get up. It’s not looking good for Collin Farrell’s evil vampire. Check out the new Fright Night character posters now! Dear me, that is a sexy vampire slayer! If you didn’t already know, Tennant is playing a new version…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 28

Captain America’s Dunkin Donuts Super Soldier Slushy will turn you into the Red Skull

The X-Men have shilled for an insurance company, and Green Lantern did a campaign for Subway. But the most hideous movie tie-in of the summer may well be Captain America’s collaboration with Dunkin Donuts. https://gizmodo.com/so-why-exactly-do-the-x-men-want-to-learn-to-be-insuran-5804865 As we showed you this morning in “morning spoilers,” the Sentinel of Liberty is doing tons of Dunkin Donuts promo,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 28

A Beautiful Building For the Scottish War Blind

Blind veterans in Scotland have a new place they can hang out and not hurt themselves. Designed for the Scottish War Blinded, the New Linburn Centre has a curved spine layout with a wide, sweeping hallway that is easy to picture in the mind. Guests can grab the railing and use this mental map to…

Tech News Kelly Jun 28

Canadian motorists warned about undead traffic delays

The stalwart zombie-road-sign prank recently befuddled drivers outside of St. John’s, Canada. Anonymous pranksters set it up to inform unwitting Newfoundlanders/Labradorians of a necrotic outbreak. Walking dead and those darn space rays, griefing the roadways of North America. https://gizmodo.com/indiana-road-sign-advises-drivers-not-to-fear-space-ray-5809608 I’m particularly fond of the EXPECT APOCALYPTIC DOOM! message. That alone would be enough to raise…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 28

We Annihilated Another Evil Disease From the Planet

You may not know what rinderpest was. But if you knew that this cattle killer was believed to have been a biblical plague and helped bring down the Roman Empire, you’d cheer that we wiped it off the face of the earth. Rinderpest, meaning “cattle plague” in German, was believed to have emerged at around…

Health Kwame Opam Jun 28

Birds are the first non-human animals to use grammar

There are lots of animals, including dogs and apes, that can communicate in something we might understand as sentences. But only one non-human species has complex enough communication that they actually need grammatical rules. Say hello to the Bengal finch. What we’re specifically talking about here is syntax, the idea that individual units of meaning…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 28

Yakuza, Lies, and Danger Are Only a Few Reasons to Hate TEPCO

After decades of sterling grins and nuclear juice, TEPCO is finally being realized as the crooked, careless atom-monger it is. Jake Adelstein and Stephanie Nakajima detail the Fukushima-botching monopoly’s glowing green underbelly over at The Atlantic Wire. The piece delves into TEPCO’s history of coverups, conspiracy, and outright lies to the Japanese government and public—the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 28

10-Inch Blackberry Playbook Not Coming After All

To answer our previous question (“Is there a 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook?”), um, no. https://gizmodo.com/is-blackberry-planning-a-10-inch-playbook-tablet-5798834 RIM has reportedly axed production for a more vital project: It’s dedicating all of its resources to developing a “QNX BlackBerry superphone” (read: last ditch hail-mary to save the failing company). Not an unwise choice. [Crunchgear] https://gizmodo.com/ten-reasons-why-blackberry-is-screwed-5812832

Tech News Michael Zhao Jun 28

There are robots rioting in Brixton

In 1981, British working class neighborhood Brixton saw an outbreak of rioting in response to several violent episodes between local police and Brixton’s black residents. Now, filmmaker Kibwe Tavares has reimagined these riots between police and robot workers. His short film “Robots of Brixton” is a fascinating and gorgeously-designed interpretation of what might happen to…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 28

Google+ for Android Is Like Having Facebook, iCloud and GroupMe in One App

Google+. It has a legitimate chance to be really good. But like any other budding social network, a good app is a requirement. Google+ for Android looks to combine features I use from other apps into one single portal. Awesome. The home page of Google+ acts as launcher for the four main features of the…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 28

Google Search Results Now Show Identity of Creators

It’s been a busy day for Google. In addition to launching Google+ and Swiffy (a tool that lets you convert Flash video to HTML5) the company also updated Search so that it now shows content creators within the results. Two weeks ago Google announced a new authorship markup designed to let creators claim their content…

Tech News Mat Honan Jun 28

What if “At The Mountains of Madness” was an Italian educational cartoon?

This nifty cartoon by a group of Italian filmmakers distills H.P. Lovecraft’s Antarctic misadventure novella into a 30-minute film. The film’s subtitled and the animation’s not super-complex, but it zips through the story, and some of the visuals are squirm-inducing. In any case, think of it as a consolation prize for Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 28

This Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Is Surrounded by Floodwaters

The good news: Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station is staying dry despite being surrounded by tremendous Midwestern flooding. The bad news: Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station is surrounded by tremendous Midwestern flooding, and a history of safety mistakes. Also unsettling, as Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker points out, is the fact that all our…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 28

The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

Mark Zuckerberg Is Rich, Filthy Rich

This Splitscreen Is Big Enough for the Both of Them

Mr. Bump Is an Alarm Clock You Love to Hate

A Look Into the Pits of Hell

Google’s New Home Page Pushes You to Plus

Get a good awesome look at David Tennant, Vampire Hunter

Top Stories: Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Captain America’s Dunkin Donuts Super Soldier Slushy will turn you into the Red Skull

A Beautiful Building For the Scottish War Blind

Canadian motorists warned about undead traffic delays

We Annihilated Another Evil Disease From the Planet

Birds are the first non-human animals to use grammar

Yakuza, Lies, and Danger Are Only a Few Reasons to Hate TEPCO

10-Inch Blackberry Playbook Not Coming After All

There are robots rioting in Brixton

Google+ for Android Is Like Having Facebook, iCloud and GroupMe in One App

Google Search Results Now Show Identity of Creators

What if “At The Mountains of Madness” was an Italian educational cartoon?

This Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Is Surrounded by Floodwaters

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