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Wednesday’s comics will have you warbling “O Canada”

Sometimes they’re dead, sometimes they ain’t! In any case, Alpha Flight is back this week, fighting injustices from Yellowknife to Labrador. Also, Godzilla fights organized crime and Captain America forms a one-man band. First Issues First off, Gred Pak and Fred Van Lente bring back the sometimes deceased Alpha Flight for a new maxiseries —…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 14

Save $150 When You Join the Cause to Help Dad Take Great Pictures…Finally

It happens all the time: a well-meaning, possibly not the most well-traveled dad dusts off his old point-and-shoot just before the big family vacation, only to take 500 pictures of breathtaking vistas and smiling faces that are blurred by a fingerprint, or accidentally captured as .mov files, or impressionistic neon light sculptures—all because he doesn’t…

Tech News Sponsored post Jun 14

HELLO DEAR, Where Does Spam Come From?

Typically our electronic exchanges flow from person to person, one real email address to another. But the sad fact is, the vast majority of messages sent don’t have anything to do with managing relationships, workloads, or weekend plans. Spaaaaaaam! According to Dave Marcus at McAfee Labs, 80-90 percent of email floating between servers is spam.…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Jun 14

ISO DADDY

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io9 Sponsored post Jun 14

It’s Once Again Time to Worry About Russian Lasers

It looks like X-Men: First Class isn’t the only thing cashing in on Cold War nostalgia this summer. Russia may also be reaching back to the past by reviving a Soviet-era laser project. Way back when (in 1977), the Soviets started putting a laser cannon on an Ilyushin-76 jet. Two models existed, one was put…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 14

Now You Can “Birdwatch” Using a Telescope Lens For the iPad 2!

Wait, it took Brando this long to sell a telescope lens for the iPad? Too many novelty USB sticks Brando, far too many. Attached to a case, it adds 6x zoom to the iPad 2 camera and costs $28. [Geeky-Gadgets] https://gizmodo.com/dont-be-fooled-this-usb-drive-is-not-secure-5791016

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 14

The shocking truth about what your brain does when you’re asleep

Upon seeing this video, anaesthesiologist Professor Brian Pollard from Manchester Royal Infirmary told BBC reporter Jennifer Carpenter: “Our jaws just hit the ground. I can’t tell you the words we used as it wouldn’t be polite over the phone.” Pollard had just seen the first-ever images of what a human brain looks like as it…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 14

The U.S.-designed engine that powered Hitler’s personal plane

This BMW 132 radial nine began life in 1926 as a U.S.-built Pratt & Whitney Hornet and went on to power thousands of Luftwaffe planes, including both of Hitler’s personal planes during his reign over Germany. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/hitler-s-personal-plane-was-powered-by-this-us-designed-5810715

Tech News Apisuper Jun 14

HTC’s Not Updating the Desire With Gingerbread as Sense UI Is Too Big

Just a year after the former-flagship Desire was released, HTC’s slammed any hopes of owners receiving a Gingerbread upgrade. Writing on the HTC UK Facebook fanpage, they credited it to there not being enough memory for both Gingerbread and the Sense UI. https://gizmodo.com/htc-desire-a-premium-nexus-one-without-the-google-5472642 For anyone who dislikes Android interfaces, this will be further meat for…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 14

Spacecrafts Blasting Off Underwater

Photographer Owen Silverwood snapped photos of these model NASA spacecraft launching underwater. Titled “Inner Space,” the cloud these rockets kick up while lifting off captures some of the awe you’d feel while watching a real launch. [Owen Silverwood via Neatorama]

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam Jun 14

The iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup

The iOS and iPhone 5 rumors have been coming in at a whirlwind clip lately, and it can be a Sisyphean task trying to keep up with it all. So here’s a quick roundup of everything that might have slipped under your radar. The Latest First, the juicy stuff: it looks like Apple is in…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 14

Wearing an Iron Man costume to your office is the world’s greatest aphrodisiac

Shanghai office worker Wang Kang had an innocent dream — to wear his 50-kilogram foam Iron Man exoskeleton to his workplace and impress his colleagues with his cosplay prowess. Did it work? Yes…perhaps a little too well. After convincing security to let him in, Mr. Kang’s suit filled his coworkers with terror and lust. Explains…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 14

Greatly Expensive New Bowers & Wilkins Speakers Probably Sound Great

B&W’s known for a kind of antique-meets-future design approach—think AirPlay Zeppelin. But the new PM1 mini-monitors look squarely from the pre-War past. Each helmet-shaped unit sports a panoply of materials (kevlar, carbon fiber, resin) for a pretty face. Given B&W’s record, the PM1s are probably packing more than looks as well. They claim their top-mounted…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 14

Harness a Cooking Pot’s Energy and Charge Your Phone While Camping

Rather than a cooking pot that heats up by your computer over USB, it’s actually a pot that uses energy that would’ve otherwise been wasted, to charge up any USB device. An alternative to the solar-powered charger, you could say. It’s just gone on sale in Japan for the equivalent of $280, and can apparently…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 14

What causes the arc of the rainbow?

We all know that rainbows are formed by the sun seen through water droplets. But what’s the exact mechanism, why is the rainbow an arc, and what’s the magic angle that you have to be standing at to see it? As a child, I often found rainbows confusing. I knew that they were the result…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jun 14

Watch the Insane Slingshot God Get Medieval

The bald, t-shirted European who brought us the terrifying Crossbow Machete and the whimsical-but-terrifying Gatling Slingshot Crossbow has returned. Joy! Meet his positively Dark Aged way to cause extreme pain with wood, lead, and rubber. https://gizmodo.com/the-crossbow-machete-the-most-badass-way-to-accidental-5787139 As Joerg explains, it’s not the most powerful slingshot he’s ever built, or the biggest. But the craftsmanship of…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 14

Showtime buys a TV series about the last hospital on Earth

Showtime has just greenlit a post-apocalyptic series titled Last H.O.P.E. — which stands for the Last Hospital On Planet Earth. While very little is known about the project, it is being described as Mad Max meets M.A.S.H. which sounds like a dreamy mash up of genres. Writer David DiGilio, who has been tapped by Disney…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 14

Robert Downey, Jr. talks The Avengers filming, and Jon Favreau reveals his role in Iron Man 3!

The Dark Knight Rises adds a new actor. J.J. Abrams talks about Brad Bird’s live-action directorial debut, the latest Mission: Impossible movie. Plus new videos for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Torchwood: Miracle Day, and Game of Thrones! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Walking Dead. The Dark Knight Rises The movie…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 14

Wine Disguised As Perfume Can Only End Badly

As if Smirnoff Ices weren’t targeted enough, these perfume-shaped wine bottles have gone on sale in Europe, with three “novel” flavors to choose from—jasmine, rose, and violet. Because what girl doesn’t want their breath to smell of roses? Those lucky German and Italian men! Holding their girlfriends’ hair back as they vom in the back…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 14

Everything You Love and Hate About Your Smartphone

As much as you love your smartphone, you probably hate it equally. And who could blame you? Here are all the reasons your smartphone affair is such a tortured one, from Matthew “The Oatmeal” Inman. Click to biggie-size. Republished with permission from Matthew Inman aka “The Oatmeal,” a former web designer turned comic artist. You…

Books & Comics Matthew Inman, theoatmeal.com Jun 14

Wednesday’s comics will have you warbling “O Canada”

Save $150 When You Join the Cause to Help Dad Take Great Pictures…Finally

HELLO DEAR, Where Does Spam Come From?

ISO DADDY

It’s Once Again Time to Worry About Russian Lasers

Now You Can “Birdwatch” Using a Telescope Lens For the iPad 2!

The shocking truth about what your brain does when you’re asleep

The U.S.-designed engine that powered Hitler’s personal plane

HTC’s Not Updating the Desire With Gingerbread as Sense UI Is Too Big

Spacecrafts Blasting Off Underwater

The iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup

Wearing an Iron Man costume to your office is the world’s greatest aphrodisiac

Greatly Expensive New Bowers & Wilkins Speakers Probably Sound Great

Harness a Cooking Pot’s Energy and Charge Your Phone While Camping

What causes the arc of the rainbow?

Watch the Insane Slingshot God Get Medieval

Showtime buys a TV series about the last hospital on Earth

Robert Downey, Jr. talks The Avengers filming, and Jon Favreau reveals his role in Iron Man 3!

Wine Disguised As Perfume Can Only End Badly

Everything You Love and Hate About Your Smartphone

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