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The Badass R/C Car That’s Controlled by an Xbox 360 Controller

A video game programmer in Chicago decided he wanted to work on a fun project. So he made a custom R/C car with a wireless video camera on board, all controlled by an Xbox controller. Awesome. [CreeperBot, Thanks, Dan Howery]

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 3

Five ancient technologies that were ahead of their times

Sometimes archaeologists find artifacts so mind-blowing they seem like evidence of lost civilizations or alien visitors. Which ones are misinterpretations or hoaxes, and which are the real thing? Reliable evidence of startlingly advanced ancient technology is few and far between. The Antikythera Mechanism, which we’ve discussed previously, is the crown jewel of astonishing artifacts. Beyond…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jun 3

Dear Sprint, Will You Change Your Data Plans Like AT&T? No? Really?

After AT&T pulled a data plan switcheroo on their customers, a concerned Sprint customer wondered if the same thing would happen to him. So he emailed Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and asked. The reply? One can never say ‘never,’ but [Sprint] has no current plans to change our pricing.” Good on them. [Engadget]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 3

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Game

Deep-voiced Movie Trailer Guy: They said the classic nineteenth-century tale that you were forced to read in high school couldn’t be adapted to a zombie novel. They were wrong. Then they said it couldn’t be a side-scrolling game. Wrong again. Regular Jason Guy: If you wanted to not just see, but control a woman in…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 3

Everything Wrong With The Steve Ballmer Era On Display At D8

Today at the All Things D conference we saw a snapshot of what’s wrong with Microsoft under Steve Ballmer’s tenure. Walt Mossberg asked Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, what they thought of Google, Android, and Chrome. Ballmer yammered away about how Google’s strategy of having two operating systems doesn’t make any…

Tech News Business Insider Jun 3

Yes, Our Comment System Has Gone C-C-C-C-Craaaazy

Our tech team is aware that our comments system has gone a bit nuts today. They’re working on fixing things, so please don’t panic if you see comments appear, disappear, and reappear in the wrong places. Things will be back to normal soon.

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 3

A mathematical function to describe the beauty in a pile of sand

Nikki Graziano is a mathematician and photographer who likes to combine her two interests into math art. In this series, called Found Functions, she shows the mathematical principles at work in the natural world. via Nikki Graziano (spotted on FFFFOUND)

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 3

How two shapeshifting girls from Venus became the Beatles’ most trusted advisors

Author Pat Cadigan tells NPR how she and her friend concocted a fantasy life in the 1960s, in which they were twins from Venus, in charge of the entire solar system. But they still found time to advise the Beatles. You never know how people are going to react after watching The Day The Earth…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jun 3

Behind the Music: Tongues (Synopsis: They Are Gross)

I’m sure USC’s Speech Articulation group gained all manner of important phonological insight from these videos of an opera singer and a beatboxer doing their respective things in an MRI machine. Here’s the insight I gained: tongues are gross. Think animations-of-tongues-talking gross and multiply it by five. [USC—Thanks Dan!]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jun 3

BP Successful In Cutting Oil Pipe, Containment Dome Redux Comes Next

It’s a small victory, but BP reports that it successfully sawed through the ruptured oil pipe in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico today, the first critical step to their new containment dome strategy. Initial attempts to cut the pipe with a diamond-tipped blade failed, and the company had to settle for severing the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jun 3

Sob Stories Wanted in Exchange for Powermat Wireless Charging System for iPhone

Send us your “forgot to charge my iPhone” story—the crushing chargelessness and the hideous aftermath (missed dates, squandered Foursquare mayorship opportunities, etc.)—and you could win a Powermat 1XA Mat/Receiver Case for iPhone 3G/3GS! Email your tale of woe to us by 6pm EST on Friday, June 11 at [email protected] with “Powermat Wireless Charging System for…

Tech News Gawkercreative Jun 3

10 of the Best Android Apps

O’Reilly makes some of the best tech books around, so we were super excited to hear about their new title Best Android Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders. Here are ten of those best Android apps for ten different activities. We scoured the Android Market to find the best apps that will make your phone…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jun 3

Are Cameras the New Guns? The LAPD Investigates!

Wendy McElroy asked the question yesterday: Should it be illegal to film police officers while they’re working? The LAPD is launching a probe into that time that one of their officers answered that question himself, aggressively.

Privacy & Security John Herrman Jun 3

Watch how AMC will decompose The Walking Dead

You’ve seen the behind the scenes undead stills and teaser trailer for AMC’s Walking Dead series, based on Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead comic. Now watch how Frank Darabont’s TV series plans to decompose the living dead. In October, AMC will premiere its live-action adaptation of the Walking Dead comic book. Here’s a tiny taste…

Television Meredith Woerner Jun 3

Commodore Invictus Keyboard-Computer Specs Bests the Asus Eee Keyboard

The Commodore Invictus is picking a fight with the Asus Eee Keyboard for supremacy in the PC-in-a-keyboard with a touchscreen-on-the-side category, and with the specs Commodore is listing, it may just win. Well, if it ever releases. Compare the Commodus Invictus’ 1.6Ghz Intel Atom 330 processor, up to 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, nVIDIA GeoForce 9400,…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 3

Las Vegas Augmented Reality App Makes the Strip Even More Larger Than Life

Vegas is already larger than life, causing a crick in the neck every time you want to take in the full wonders of the strip. And that’s before you make it to Déjà Vu Erotic Ultralounge. The free app mostly pimps MGM’s hotels, however it also offers other interactive details on rival hotels, casinos and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 3

The PC Will Continue to Thrive, Because Everything Is a PC

The question implicit here would have meant something completely different five years ago. But things are changing: computers are shrinking; tablets are knocking; the clouds are forming. The PC will thrive, says Ballmer, because PCs apparently encompass all of this. [Bits]

Tech News John Herrman Jun 3

What would it sound like to be inside the Big Bang?

The hottest material ever created in the laboratory makes an eerie drone. A similar sound may have pervaded the universe just after the big bang, when space was a seething cauldron of matter. The lab-made material was created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Upton, New York. The particle smasher slams gold ions together,…

io9 Rachel Courtland - New Scientist Jun 3

Gadget Deals of the Day

Welcome to my inaugural dealz post. (See what I did there? I spelled deals with z because I’m hip). Anyway, we’ve compiled quite the beefy list today. The Wire is on sale and has made the cut! You’re welcome. Top Deals: • 46″ Sharp Aquos LC-46LE700UN LED 1080p LCD HDTV for $949 ($921 w/ DPA)…

Tech News Ryan F. Salerno Jun 3

With “Naamah’s Curse,” Jaqueline Carey explores sex and religion in alternate history

Naamah’s Curse is the eighth novel in Jaqueline Carey’s alternate medieval history, and it’s a standout. Set 200 years after the Kushiel novels, it’s about a mixed-race witch named Moirin, questing to rescue her boyfriend from an evil queen. One of Carey’s gifts as a writer is that she’s able to infuse breezy summer reading…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Jun 3

The Badass R/C Car That’s Controlled by an Xbox 360 Controller

Five ancient technologies that were ahead of their times

Dear Sprint, Will You Change Your Data Plans Like AT&T? No? Really?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Game

Everything Wrong With The Steve Ballmer Era On Display At D8

Yes, Our Comment System Has Gone C-C-C-C-Craaaazy

A mathematical function to describe the beauty in a pile of sand

How two shapeshifting girls from Venus became the Beatles’ most trusted advisors

Behind the Music: Tongues (Synopsis: They Are Gross)

BP Successful In Cutting Oil Pipe, Containment Dome Redux Comes Next

Sob Stories Wanted in Exchange for Powermat Wireless Charging System for iPhone

10 of the Best Android Apps

Are Cameras the New Guns? The LAPD Investigates!

Watch how AMC will decompose The Walking Dead

Commodore Invictus Keyboard-Computer Specs Bests the Asus Eee Keyboard

Las Vegas Augmented Reality App Makes the Strip Even More Larger Than Life

The PC Will Continue to Thrive, Because Everything Is a PC

What would it sound like to be inside the Big Bang?

Gadget Deals of the Day

With “Naamah’s Curse,” Jaqueline Carey explores sex and religion in alternate history

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