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Who should be cast as the leads in the American Gods miniseries?

We’re excited about the recent news that Tom Hanks will be producing a six-season adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s epic novel American Gods for HBO. And now for the real question: Who should be cast as the leads? https://gizmodo.com/tom-hanks-producing-6-seasons-of-neil-gaimans-american-5811012 Take our polls and decide for yourself! Painting by Curious Squid. We’ve offered some suggestions for who…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs and Gordon Jackson Jun 15

The Best Deal of the Day

One monitor is boring. You can only look at one thing! Like, a single YouTube video. And what fun is that? Imagine if you had a bunch of monitors at once! Then you could pretend to be a powerful Wall Street emperor, or drug dealer, or comatose WoW addict. This might just sound like some…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jun 15

Watch the lunar eclipse on your computer right now!

There’s a 120-minute long, total lunar eclipse starting today at 2:20 PM EDT and that, of course, is awesome. But what’s not so awesome is that it won’t be visible to people in North America. Selfish Moon! Good thing we have Google to live stream the whole shebang. Just click play on the video above…

io9 Casey Chan Jun 15

Shooting Challenge: Summer Solstice

A ncient civilizations buit monuments dedicated to the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll just need to photograph it. The Challenge Capture a photo of the summer solstice – that’s June 21st – sorry it’s not a weekend, but the Universe sort of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 15

Whimsical video explains how to use DNA to compute square roots

DNA isn’t just the building block of all complex life…if you give it about eight hours, DNA can also calculate the square root of 15. It’s all explained in this video, which awesomely mixes hardcore science with fairy tale storytelling. California Institute of Technology researchers Lulu Qian and Erik Winfree recently manipulated 130 strands of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 15

Watch the Milky Way Wheel Overhead In All Its Glory

Randy Halverson took this amazing time lapse of the night sky over the plains of central South Dakota. Each shot took perseverance, as clouds and high winds made it harder to shoot. He still makes it looks easy. [Motherboard]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 15

U.S. Senator Calls Robot Projects Wasteful. Robots Call Senator Wasteful

A U.S. senator has cited three robotics projects as examples of “wasteful” research that lack useful applications and shouldn’t have received government funding. In a recent report, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma takes aim at the National Science Foundation, the premier source of funding for science and engineering in the United States, raising questions about…

Tech News Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum Jun 15

The Justice League gets medieval in the Year 1000

Artist Ulises Farinas imagines rebooting the DC continuity all the way back to the Year 1000, where the mad King Batman, the Woman of Wonders, and the Monk with a Green Lantern battle ancient trolls and wicked Knights Templar. Farinas has long graced the Internet with his offbeat takes on superheroes, including his portrayal of…

io9 Lauren Davis Jun 15

Sprint Bringing Phishing Protection to Its Smartphones

IT can be easy enough to fall into a cleverly-executed phishing net on a modern desktop browser—nevermind the piddling ones on our smartphones. So Sprint’s teaming up with software firm Lookout to make your pocket browsing safer. Lookout’s safe browsing app will be available in Sprint’s Android market, checking the URLs you peruse against a…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 15

Parasitic fish actually switch genders when they eat too much

No animal is more defined by what it eats than the cleaner fish. These helpful parasites are all born female, but the biggest eater becomes the dominant male…and then, as you might expect, institutes a strict diet for everyone else. Cleaner fish do pretty much exactly what you’d expect them to: they swim up to…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 15

Apple Store Employees Aren’t Allowed to Say ‘Unfortunately’

Ah, Apple stores, gleaming temples of consumption. So bright and airy, filled with friendly, clean-cut geeks. A little too friendly, if you ask us. What’s the secret? A ban on negativity. The Wall Street Journal spoke to a bunch of former employees and Apple Geniuses for an opus on Apple Stores. And they painted a…

Tech News Adrian Chen Jun 15

The Hotter the Action, the Redder This Bedside Table Glows

a These fancy Lexham tables have all sorts of weird forced-perspective angles going on, but the reason I want them is due to the thermochromic-sheeting applied to the tops. When the temperature rises, they glow red—when cold, blue. [DesignMilk]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 15

Nine Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible by 100 Years of IBM

IBM’s Centennial anniversary is fast approaching (as in TODAY), and their 100 years of hard work shouldn’t go unnoticed. Behind every major technological advance, you’re likely to find IBM’s name floating around somewhere. Here are 9 of our favorite IBM-aided innovations. Personal Computers Without IBM, we wouldn’t have computers at all. From the earliest, most…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 15

First poster for Disney’s John Carter (of Mars)

Taylor Kitsch is giving his best over-the-shoulder John Carter in the first-ever poster from Andrew Stanton’s John Carter of Mars movie adaptation (now just titled John Carter). Look closely — you can see some pulpy bare-chested leather chest thong action! We’re excited that the first image of Carter is of a shirtless scowl — it…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 15

A Bookshelf that Rolls Up Like Ancient Parchment

I love little space-savers like this. Here’s a tensioned bookcase that unfurls to give you space for your books and such. Plus it has compartments for pens and other scrolls. For writing decrees, naturally. [BoingBoing]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 15

Shazam Has a New Karaoke-like Feature

Shazam Encore and Shazam Red both have a new feature called LyricPlay. It’s pretty much like karaoke, the app will display and animate (scroll, jump or slide) the lyrics of the song you’re listening to for you to sing along. [iTunes]

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 15

America, This Is Just Too Much

Can’t…stop *wheeze* laughing…at…the…cruel *big breath* irony of it all. This is no Photoshop japery like that “Seriously McDonalds” viral; this is the real deal, spotted at an American KFC. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Flickr seals it. [SelfishGiving via Grist] https://gizmodo.com/seriously-mcdonalds-hoax-pic-angers-internet-mcdonalds-5811193

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 15

How to Watch Today’s Lunar Eclipse from Your Computer

There’s going to be a 120-minute long, total lunar eclipse today at 2:20 PM EDT and that, of course, is awesome. But what’s not so awesome is that it won’t be visible to people in North America. Selfish Moon! Good thing we have Google to live stream the whole shebang. Google has teamed with SLOOH…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 15

5 Ways To Keep Your Dad From Being That Guy

Father’s Day is speedily approaching, and while your pops might normally expect a new tech toy from you, why not try something new? This year give him something he can always use—the gift of sartorial intervention. Flip through the gallery above to see our picks for the best summer looks from Old Navy to help…

Tech News Sponsored post Jun 15

If you keep going around the universe, will you end up where you started?

Is the universe flat or spherical or saddle-shaped, and what do any of these things really mean? Do we live in a Pac-Man universe, or an infinite one? In this week’s “Ask a Physicist” we’ll find out. Art (detail from 963A X Cubed) by Hannah Michael Gale Shapero. Physicists tend to take certain phrases for…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg Jun 15

Who should be cast as the leads in the American Gods miniseries?

The Best Deal of the Day

Watch the lunar eclipse on your computer right now!

Shooting Challenge: Summer Solstice

Whimsical video explains how to use DNA to compute square roots

Watch the Milky Way Wheel Overhead In All Its Glory

U.S. Senator Calls Robot Projects Wasteful. Robots Call Senator Wasteful

The Justice League gets medieval in the Year 1000

Sprint Bringing Phishing Protection to Its Smartphones

Parasitic fish actually switch genders when they eat too much

Apple Store Employees Aren’t Allowed to Say ‘Unfortunately’

The Hotter the Action, the Redder This Bedside Table Glows

Nine Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible by 100 Years of IBM

First poster for Disney’s John Carter (of Mars)

A Bookshelf that Rolls Up Like Ancient Parchment

Shazam Has a New Karaoke-like Feature

America, This Is Just Too Much

How to Watch Today’s Lunar Eclipse from Your Computer

5 Ways To Keep Your Dad From Being That Guy

If you keep going around the universe, will you end up where you started?

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