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This Revolting Fungus Could Make You Younger And Healthier

This looks like an alien parasite, or maybe an evil brain, but it’s actually a fungus that attacks corn. U.S. farmers call it “corn smut” and have spent millions to eradicate it. But it’s actually better for you than corn. A new study, released in the journal Food Chemistry reveal that corn smut, also called…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 27

$100 Will Buy You The Next Best Thing To Tony Stark’s Armor

Marvel omnibuses are jam-packed with story, large enough for the coffee table, and heavy enough to incapacitate burglars. This week, Marvel drops Volume 2 of old-school Invincible Iron Man yarns, and a new arc from Matt Fraction’s Iron Man run. In anticipation of Iron Man 2, Marvel is going whole hog this week with a…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Apr 27

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010: Students Take On Big Problems With Tech

The U.S. finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, an annual competition that encourages students to tackle big problems with technology, were held yesterday. One winning solution: combining cameraphones and powerful software to detect diseases in developing areas of the world. That’s the idea behind Mobilife Biotech, a team from California that won the software design category…

Health Kyle VanHemert Apr 27

Han Solo Figures Out the Whole Brother-Sister Thing

Given its reputation as family friendly, the original Star Wars trilogy has a surprising amount of incest in it. While we noticed the problem with the Luke-Leia-Han love triangle early on, Mr. Solo didn’t catch on until right here. At least someone figured out a reason behind all of Harrison Ford’s sloppy-twitchy face acting…. (Via…

io9 Marc Bernardin Apr 27

183 Heavenly HDR Wallpapers

There’s no going wrong with HDR photography. At its most sensitive, the technique allows for color/tone gradients rarely appreciated by anything but the naked eye. At its most aggressive, HDR’s a hyperreal spectacle. This week’s Shooting Challenge celebrate both schools: Lead Shot This photo was taken in the middle of Tokyo (Ginza area) a few…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 27

The Man Who Makes Will Ferrell Funny May Direct “Cokehead Superhero” Epic

The man wrote and directed Step Brothers and Anchorman and whose daughter is Will Ferrell’s mean-baby Landlord might be taking on the superhero-hating R-rated comic The Boys. Which means we may have a new superhero comedy blockbuster on our hands. Ever since we heard that Rob Corddry wanted a part in Columbia’s live-action adaptation of…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 27

Earth, Viewed From Another Planet

I can only imagine the feeling of standing on Mars and seeing this exact view of home…the CO2 atmosphere and “You are here” arrow ruining an otherwise stellar make-out spot. [flickr via boingboing]

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson Apr 27

Wonder Woman Takes it to Batman’s “Old Chums”

This piece by cartoonist Britt Wilson conveys an old truth: Sometimes, a girl’s just gotta put her foot down — or up — even when dealing with superheroes. As cool as the Dark Knight might be to us mere non-heroes, one definitely gets the sense that he could be an insufferable prick to his friends.…

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin Apr 27

Is This The New Rebooted Face Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Looks like the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is going in the rebooted Batman Begins direction. Because these rumored prototype turtle-heads really do look like the end result of rolling a turtle around in a can of ooze. Not that that’s a bad thing! Latino Review has the exclusive first look at a possible…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 27

Switch, the Choose Your Own Swiss(ish) Army Knife

A pocket knife that you can configure yourself with just the turn of a quarter? That’s a clever bit of engineering. The “Switch” is on presale at Quirky for $68 with 13 tools, including a memory stick. [Quirky]

Tech News Joel Johnson Apr 27

The Best of the Demolition Man Commentary Twack

If you couldn’t stay up for last night’s Demolition Man tweetathon, here’s the cream of the Sylvester Stalloney, fish-out-of-watery crop. We all cued up the theatrical cut of the Stallone-Snipes-Bullock “classic” on Netflix Instant (or on your own DVD) and Tweeted our way through it. Below, you’ll find the best of the sleepy, partially intoxicated…

Movies Marc Bernardin Apr 27

AMD’s $300 6-Core CPU: Too Good To Be True?

AMD’s new Thuban hexa-core CPUs come out swinging with prices that belie their size. And if we’ve learned anything from years of watching action movies: You never, ever count out the underdog. Such is the case with perennial underdog AMD. Bloodied, beaten, and bruised by months and months of Intel chips that outpaced its parts,…

Tech News MaximumPC Apr 27

The New BlackBerry OS 6.0: Video and Details

After reviewing the new devices we saw yesterday—the Blackberry Bold 9650 and the Pearl 3G—RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis revealed what we’ve been waiting for at this year’s WES: BlackBerry 6.0. Updated: Video! https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-bold-9650-the-new-blackberry-to-buy-on-veri-5524317 It’s been a while since we’ve seen anything new for BlackBerry users in terms of interface (we were beginning to feel like…

Tech News Rosa Golijan and Kat Hannaford Apr 27

Evans Talks Captain America. Plus A Splice Featurette, Jonah Hex Footage, And Doctor Who Clues!

Find out how Chris Evans sees Captain America, and how the creators see sexy/scary gene-splicing epic Splice. Plus find out what Ouija, Adjustment Bureau and Jonah Hex are all about. Also: Doctor Who, Ashes To Ashes, Smallville and Caprica spoilers. Captain America: Chris Evans says he struggled with the decision to take on this iconic…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Apr 27

The Smallest Earth In Human History

This 3D map of Earth, carved by IBM’s new nanometer-scale silicon milling machine, could fit alongside 999 other Earths onto a single grain of salt. Here’s a look at the machine behind it: Using heat and pressure, this nanomill can carve a substrate with single nanometer accuracy, and pretty quickly to boot. This Earth took…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 27

3D Motorola “Ming” Clamshell Turns Up In China, Could Use Nintendo 3DS-Style 3D Tech

My, how the quality of life would improve if all leaked photos were of this quality. And plentiful! Motorola’s 3D “Ming” clamshell is looking very near completion, but the girth looks…challenging. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-reimagines-the-clamshell-in-3d-5508108 We already know it’s 3D capable thanks to the patent that appeared only a couple of weeks ago, showing a clamshell that displays…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 27

TomTom GO LIVE 1000 Adds Capacitive Touchscreen and WebKit Browser

TomTom’s claiming the GO LIVE 1000 marks “the first in a whole new generation of navigation devices,” which just makes me think it’d be worth holding out to see what the second model does. Nonetheless, the capacitive touchscreen is big news. I don’t know about you, but poking and prodding at resistive sat-nav screens always…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 27

Nokia N8 Official, With 12MP Camera and 720p Video Recording

Well now, this is awkward. Only yesterday Mobile-Review was calling the N8 an unpolished turd, and now Nokia’s gone and announced it to the world. As leaks foretold, it’s got a 12MP camera with Xenon flash, and runs Symbian^3. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n8-takes-great-photos-but-symbian-3-is-an-unpoli-5524344 It’s Nokia’s first Symbian^3 phone, and while initial videos and photos made it look pretty…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 27

Toshiba Working On Glasses-Less 3DTV Using Parallax Barrier Technology

Sharp was first out the door with its parallax barrier technology, which is apparently being used in the Nintendo 3DS, to skirt around wearing glasses when viewing 3D. Toshiba’s now got similar a 21-inch display which also doesn’t require glasses. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-3ds-might-use-parallax-barrier-displays-develo-5507890 It may be 21-inches in size, but the resolution isn’t quite full-HD, at 1280…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 27

Spotify Now Allows iTunes Libraries To Be Uploaded

Available now if you live in Europe or are particularly handy with an IP override, Spotify’s just released the latest version of the desktop client. iTunes libraries can be uploaded to Spotify for accessing anywhere, and social features added too. https://gizmodo.com/why-its-worth-getting-excited-for-spotifys-us-launch-5502815 The biggest news is that iTunes integration, called Library—being able to ditch iTunes altogether…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 27

This Revolting Fungus Could Make You Younger And Healthier

$100 Will Buy You The Next Best Thing To Tony Stark’s Armor

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010: Students Take On Big Problems With Tech

Han Solo Figures Out the Whole Brother-Sister Thing

183 Heavenly HDR Wallpapers

The Man Who Makes Will Ferrell Funny May Direct “Cokehead Superhero” Epic

Earth, Viewed From Another Planet

Wonder Woman Takes it to Batman’s “Old Chums”

Is This The New Rebooted Face Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Switch, the Choose Your Own Swiss(ish) Army Knife

The Best of the Demolition Man Commentary Twack

AMD’s $300 6-Core CPU: Too Good To Be True?

The New BlackBerry OS 6.0: Video and Details

Evans Talks Captain America. Plus A Splice Featurette, Jonah Hex Footage, And Doctor Who Clues!

The Smallest Earth In Human History

3D Motorola “Ming” Clamshell Turns Up In China, Could Use Nintendo 3DS-Style 3D Tech

TomTom GO LIVE 1000 Adds Capacitive Touchscreen and WebKit Browser

Nokia N8 Official, With 12MP Camera and 720p Video Recording

Toshiba Working On Glasses-Less 3DTV Using Parallax Barrier Technology

Spotify Now Allows iTunes Libraries To Be Uploaded

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