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WordPress Makes Blogs More Like Magazines on the iPad

WordPress has a new feature for the iPad , which makes any of its 18 million blogs look and act like the magazine-inspired Flipboard, except it’s in mobile Safari. The HTML5-powered feature designed by Onswipe will let you flick, swipe and tap to your heart’s content, with animations that are as beautiful as they are…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 23

The Red Square Nebula rips a hole in space-time

This might look like some weird cosmic gateway straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey or a particularly trippy old-school Doctor Who adventure, but the Red Square Nebula is completely real. Just don’t ask astronomers to explain its bizarre shape. Even if its name sounds downright un-American, the Red Square Nebula has got to be…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 23

Barack Obama’s Super Secure Tent Lets Him Hold Top Secret Discussions

This is a picture from inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility aka a makeshift tent that lets top government officials discuss top secret information anywhere in the world. As you can see by the fugly floral carpeting, Obama’s tent was propped up inside a hotel. SCIFs are actually very interesting. They’re designed to withstand anything…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan Mar 23

What if the black monolith from 2001 did a million hits of ecstasy?

It would probably look like this “Escape Machine” in Paris, which doles out free vacations (or oversized invalid tickets). It’s like HAL and the monolith had a bastard child, and it was adopted by a nice couple from Candyland. I guess it’s a promotion for a French travel site, but I sort of don’t want…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 23

Could dying white dwarf stars be home to habitable planets?

In the search for Earth-like worlds, astronomers look for conditions that are roughly the same as those on our planet. But the assumption that most Earth-like planets will be found around stars like our Sun might not necessarily be true. As we recently discussed, it’s exciting times in the search for Earth-like planets, with the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 23

Bring Your iPad and Its Every Accessory with the iPad Travel Express Case

You might say that owning a carrying case akin to a full-sized laptop bag is self-defeating to the iPad’s portability. But where else can you find a pouch with enough room to fit your iPad, external keyboard, power brick, power cord, and all other cables you might need—all for the same price as Apple’s flimsy…

Tech News Davey Alba Mar 23

Tiger Woods: My Swing App Only Improves Your Golf Swing

Tiger is back on the prowl and on the golf course. And that guy knows a thing or twenty about both. His brand new app, Tiger Woods: My Swing helps your golf game by recording a video of your golf swing and analyzing where you’re going wrong by identifying the key primary positions of your…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 23

The speed of light could turn the middle of the ocean into a stock-trading center

When the world’s financial giants begin creating vast artificial islands in the middle of the oceans to use as the hubs of stock-trading, it’ll all be because of the speed of light. High-frequency trading is a major – and extremely controversial – part of modern financial practice, in which computerized traders make extremely fast transactions…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 23

Apple’s Cash Supply Will Ensure a Steady Flow of iPad and iPhone Touch Panels

Digitimes says Apple could avoid facing iPad and iPhone shortages by using their sizable supply of cash to outbid competitors for touch panels. Even before the Japan earthquake caused concern about Asian manufacturing capabilities, there had been worries about availability. Apple is currently receiving 60% of all touch panels produced in Taiwan. [Digitimes via AllThingsD]

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 23

That Free NY Times Twitter Account Got Taken Down. Here’s Another One

When we told you how to keep reading the NY Times for free, we mentioned the Twitter account @freenyt. That’s been taken down! The new one is @freeUnnamedNews (and expects to stay up since there’s no mention of the NYT). https://lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-reading-the-ny-times-for-free-updated-5783043 Remember, when you access the NY Times through links on Twitter, you’ll always get…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 23

Nintendo Distancing Itself from the 3D in 3DS

The 3DS is really neat, and Nintendo’s done a good job so far making sure its nifty display makes great (rather than gimmicky) use of the extra depth. But there’s one problem—not everyone can see the 3D. If you’re designing games that are meant to be enjoyed in 3D, those whose eyes can’t process the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 23

What if Harry Potter was an adult burnout? Mike Carey reveals the warped literary universe of The Unwritten

What if J.K. Rowling based Harry Potter on a real boy, who grew up to be a surly young man jaded by the spotlight? And what if this crabby adult then discovered that his childhood adventures weren’t entirely fictional? Such is the (extremely condensed) premise of Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ comic book The Unwritten,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 23

PhotoSync for iPhone and iPad

How do you get your awesome iPhone pictures onto your computer? Plug it in? No! That’s beyond annoying. Instead, use PhotoSync for iPhone and iPad. It wirelessly transfers photos to and fro your iOS device and computer. No cables allowed. What is it? PhotoSync, $2, iPhone and iPad. It’s genius, really. It’s an app that…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 23

SGU’s odd couple bomb squad saves the day

Last night SGU dropped a massive bomb on our home planet. Thank goodness the odd couple was around to diffuse the situation. Ha! But seriously folks, this was a dark little episode of Stargate… with a French Stewart cameo. Apologies about missing last week, it’s been crazy around here. And what a week to miss!…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 23

Kidnappers Should Probably Think of Other Hidey-Holes Now Folding Shipping Containers Exist

Look—we’ve all seen Dexter and The Wire. I don’t have to spell out what happens in empty shipping containers. That’s why these Staxxon folding containers make so much sense. Reducing kidnapping-related murders and carbon footprints all in one! [Flickr via GCaptain]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 23

How Kickstarter Got Its Kickstart

iPod Nano watches. Genius iPad stands. A kickass statue of Robocop. None of these projects would have been possible without Kickstarter, an idea incubator where your donations can help make conceptual gadgets, films, art works—basically anything a person can dream and pitch—become reality. https://gizmodo.com/the-ipad-stand-that-attracted-over-100k-funding-from-f-5779433 It’s an ingenious warehouse of creativity, one that oversees more than…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 23

Prop Up Your iPhone With This Case’s Fold-Out Arm

The pic.me iPhone tripod case manages to merge cute and useful with its fold-out stand that can prop it up in both landscape and vertical orientations for your HD shooting pleasure. The arm rotates and locks into 19 different positions and has over 270 degrees of motion. The project, created by Joey Chun, is just…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 23

CRT Monitors Leave Futuristic Beauty Behind When You Shut Them Off

Remember CRTs? Those big boxy things we used to stare at all day, instead of the new screens we stare at all day now? Photographer Stephan Tillmans does—and he’s captured the dazzling colors they blast when switched off. [Stephen Tillmans via Andrew Liszewski. Thanks Mark!]

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 23

Paper Train Is Fight Control For Dummies

Anyone that’s played the iPhone classic Fight Control knows that the joy in that game comes from the wondrous chaos generated by the twisting flight paths drawn by shaking fingers in order to avoid deadly mid-air collisions. In Paper Train… [Kotaku]

Tech News Kotaku Mar 23

WordPress Makes Blogs More Like Magazines on the iPad

The Red Square Nebula rips a hole in space-time

Barack Obama’s Super Secure Tent Lets Him Hold Top Secret Discussions

What if the black monolith from 2001 did a million hits of ecstasy?

Could dying white dwarf stars be home to habitable planets?

Bring Your iPad and Its Every Accessory with the iPad Travel Express Case

Tiger Woods: My Swing App Only Improves Your Golf Swing

Top Stories: Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The speed of light could turn the middle of the ocean into a stock-trading center

Apple’s Cash Supply Will Ensure a Steady Flow of iPad and iPhone Touch Panels

That Free NY Times Twitter Account Got Taken Down. Here’s Another One

Nintendo Distancing Itself from the 3D in 3DS

What if Harry Potter was an adult burnout? Mike Carey reveals the warped literary universe of The Unwritten

PhotoSync for iPhone and iPad

SGU’s odd couple bomb squad saves the day

Kidnappers Should Probably Think of Other Hidey-Holes Now Folding Shipping Containers Exist

How Kickstarter Got Its Kickstart

Prop Up Your iPhone With This Case’s Fold-Out Arm

CRT Monitors Leave Futuristic Beauty Behind When You Shut Them Off

Paper Train Is Fight Control For Dummies

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