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Libyan rebels turn Power Wheels toy into tiny killer robot tank

You know the little Power Wheels-style ATV your kid uses to drive across the lawn? it turns out that it makes a great machine gun drone in the hands of Libyan rebel, and structural engineer, Mohammad Bin Saud. Bin Saud is one of a growing legion of rebel Libyans turning anything and everything — including…

Tech News Matt Hardigree Jun 14

What really happens when a shark attacks a robot

Liquid Robotics is a small company that makes simple ocean-going robots. As you can see above, the bots look like modified surfboards, and can carry equipment for monitoring water levels, temperatures, taking pictures, and measuring substances in the water. And they are also the first robots ever to tangle with sharks. A researcher with the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 14

Totally Demented Green Lantern Storylines That Won’t Be in the Movie

Green Lantern comes out on Friday, and we can’t wait to see how Hal Jordan’s saga translates to the big screen. We can’t tell you just what’ll happen in the movie, but we do know one thing. There’s no way the movie can include these 16 utterly loopy storylines from the Green Lantern comics. #1…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 14

These Aerial Super Tankers Drown Forest Fires With 20,000-Gallon Waterfalls from the Sky (UPDATED)

389,000 acres. That’s how much of Arizona the Wallow fire has consumed since May 29th. With the blaze 0% contained, authorities have called in some of the largest air tankers in the world to help. Aerial firefighting employs airplanes and helicopters to combat wildfires from above. Originally developed from WWII bombers, air tankers are built…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 14

Next Week Could Bring Final Cut Pro X and New Thunderbolt Accessories

The latest Apple rumor to pop up suggests that Final Cut Pro X will finally hit the Mac App Store next week along with peripherals that support the Thunderbolt/Lightpeak data transfer interface (hard drives, etc…). [MacRumors]

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 14

A House Made from Bookshelves Is So Much Better Than a House Made from E-Books

Say what you will about the death of print and the space hogging nature of physical books, cause I know this much: I’d rather live in this bookshelf house and thumb through pages than a house with Kindle-lined walls. The homeowner wanted his house, located in Osaka, Japan, to be able to store and showcase…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 14

Artist Paints Tiny Pictures on Chewing Gum Spit Out on the Sidewalk

Ben Wilson, a British artist, paints tiny little paintings on the chewing gum that mar the sidewalk of London. He transforms those black and grey blobs into delightful, colorful and meaningful works of art. Wilson, who’s been doing this for six years, has a specific technique in painting the hardened gum. The NY Times details…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 14

A Better Look at Hawkeye and The Hulk from Joss Whedon’s Avengers

Marvel’s big superhero ensemble movie The Avengers released an early look at some rough promo art. Which includes some concept art for Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye, and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk! Clearly these are the same images used on the boxes of the Hasbro movie toys, which were released as super-early concept art (see these earlier Captain…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 14

The art of a Manhattan Project engineer whose nightmares led him to quit atomic research

If you played a small part in the Manhattan Project and had a nightmare about the world destroying itself, what would you do? You’re looking at a detail from a painting called Ex. 4-Trinity’s Trine, by an artist named Jess who fled the life of atomic science after working on the Manhattan Project. Now it’s…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 14

Get a New Perspective with the 18-270MM Di II VC PZD Lens from Tamron

Are you finally ready to brush off the last of your accumulated winter crust, stop reading about coveted gear, and actually start using it in the big, wide world? Well, weighing in at just 15.9 oz, Tamron’s 18-270MM Di II VC PZD is the world’s most compact, lightweight 15X ratio lens. The award-winning model comes…

Tech News Sponsored post Jun 14

The 8 Most Bizarre, Intriguing, and Otherwise Cool Documents the NSA Just Declassified

It was spring cleaning time at the NSA, who dropped a staggering 50,000 pages of declassified documents into the hands of the National Archives. A lot’s on the mundane side—so here are the best looking eight: The documents haven’t been digitized yet, so we had to do some guesswork. • 1607 17-May-1948 SLIDE TUBE This…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 14

Darren Aronofsky Wants Batman to Play Noah in a Biblical Epic

Darren Aronofsky wants to do an “edgy re-telling” of the tale of Noah’s ark. The first step? Getting Christian Bale to play the titular Noah. Shortly after dropping out of directing The Wolverine, Darren Aronofsky’s next project appeared to be a fantasy epic version of Noah’s ark that he’d written himself. He’s looking for $130…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 14

Scientific “proof” that abstract art is only 4% better than what a kid could do

There’s no quicker way to whip up a pointless debate than to discuss abstract art. Does it defy and profoundly challenge our preconceived notions of what art can be…or is it just some crap any second grader could during playtime? UCLA researcher Mikhail Simkin has been behind a ton of unusual papers, including one that…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 14

Japan Says It’s Not Kicking the Nuclear Habit Anytime Soon

Despite recent rallies against Japan’s nuclear energy dependency, the country’s Industry Minister says its reactors will remain online indefinitely. Furthermore, the country will do its “utmost” to keep them that way. I mean, what could go wrong? [Kyodo News]

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 14

Best Case for Your PC Build: 8 New Chassis Tested & Rated

When you’re outfitting a new computer, it can be tempting to just buy the cheapest no-name case you can find, slap your new parts into it, and call it a day. While that might have been a valid choice in ye olde beige days-heck, early Dream Machine builds didn’t even list the case-it’s not one…

Tech News Nathan Edwards and Alan Fackler - MaximumPC Jun 14

Comcast Bringing Facebook to TVs

A day after they announced their Skype partnership, Comcast says that they plan on bringing Facebook and more to their customers living rooms. Their new service will be called MyTV. Comcast is also be working with Intel and other companies to turn the service into a personal experience. That means search, weather, and traffic apps…

Social Media Kwame Opam Jun 14

How Cellphone Jammers Are Helping Us Win the Iraq War

Danger Room has an awesomely comprehensive look at all the cell phone jammers the US military used during the Iraq War. Those jammers proved incredibly important in stripping insurgents of their most powerful weapon—the IED. The US government has spent $17 billion buying 50,000 jammer units with fantastic names like Warlock Green, Warlock Red, Warlock…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 14

Newt Gingrich Is a “Big Fan of Going into Space” and Wants to Kill NASA

Last night’s GOP debate didn’t just tap the tectonic plate-moving question of whether Ron Paul likes iPhones (he doesn’t!). Newt Gingrich was hit with an actually non-bullshit question: should we de-fund NASA? He didn’t really answer, but loves space! https://gizmodo.com/ron-paul-chooses-blackberry-over-iphone-in-pivotal-deba-5811737 Whether he meant the notion of humankind blasting into the vacuum, or some hitherto covert…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle Jun 14

NYT and OpinionLabs Slap Apple Patent Troll Lodsys with Lawsuits

When Lodsys started targeting iOS developers, it probably wasn’t looking for the kinds of fights it’s been running into. A few days after Apple came to the aid of its devs, word comes that the New York Times and OpinionLabs are counter-troll-suing as well. https://gizmodo.com/apple-comes-to-the-aid-of-developers-in-legal-fight-aga-5810732 The NY Times had been targeted by Lodsys over its…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 14

A fleet of Navy ghost ships, right out of the Bermuda Triangle

Not the real Bermuda Triangle — the fictional one where Cthulhu, Amelia Earhart, and Aqua-Sasquatch chill out drinking Bay Breezes. This is actually a photo of the Navy’s eerie mothballed fleet in Suisun Bay, 30 miles north of San Francisco. Photographer Scott Haefner and his colleagues evaded military patrol vessels to photograph these floating behemoths,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 14

Libyan rebels turn Power Wheels toy into tiny killer robot tank

What really happens when a shark attacks a robot

Totally Demented Green Lantern Storylines That Won’t Be in the Movie

These Aerial Super Tankers Drown Forest Fires With 20,000-Gallon Waterfalls from the Sky (UPDATED)

Next Week Could Bring Final Cut Pro X and New Thunderbolt Accessories

A House Made from Bookshelves Is So Much Better Than a House Made from E-Books

Artist Paints Tiny Pictures on Chewing Gum Spit Out on the Sidewalk

A Better Look at Hawkeye and The Hulk from Joss Whedon’s Avengers

The art of a Manhattan Project engineer whose nightmares led him to quit atomic research

Get a New Perspective with the 18-270MM Di II VC PZD Lens from Tamron

The 8 Most Bizarre, Intriguing, and Otherwise Cool Documents the NSA Just Declassified

Darren Aronofsky Wants Batman to Play Noah in a Biblical Epic

Scientific “proof” that abstract art is only 4% better than what a kid could do

Japan Says It’s Not Kicking the Nuclear Habit Anytime Soon

Best Case for Your PC Build: 8 New Chassis Tested & Rated

Comcast Bringing Facebook to TVs

How Cellphone Jammers Are Helping Us Win the Iraq War

Newt Gingrich Is a “Big Fan of Going into Space” and Wants to Kill NASA

NYT and OpinionLabs Slap Apple Patent Troll Lodsys with Lawsuits

A fleet of Navy ghost ships, right out of the Bermuda Triangle

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