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Manga And Folk Tales Rule The 2009 Tiptree Awards

The mighty James Tiptree Jr. Awards have surveyed another year of science fiction and fantasy relating to gender. This year’s best gender-related SF books: Greer Gilman’s trippy folk tales and, for the first time, a Manga series. Once again, the Tiptree Award goes to two different works this year, and they couldn’t be more different.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Mar 18 '10

Apple Is Trying Real Hard to Get Its Cable-Killing iTunes TV Deals in Time for iPad

This is curious, at least amidst a massive publishing war with Amazon. According to the WSJ, Apple’s putting its massive newspaper-and-magazine-revival-on-the-iPad effort on the “backburner in favor of focusing on other content,” like its long-festering plan to bundle TV shows as a pseudo-subscription service through iTunes, as well as selling certain TV shows for a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18 '10

Dell: The Adamo XPS Isn’t Dead, We’re Selling It Again

Is it dead? Is it not dead? There was quite a bit of confusion about the fate of Dell’s Adamo XPS and now there’s an official explanation of the whole mess: https://gizmodo.com/r-i-p-dell-adamo-xps-you-died-too-young-update-or-n-5489831 Today the Adamo XPS is available again directly from Dell at Adamobydell.com. Orders may also be placed via phone or chat sales. When…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 18 '10

A Look Inside AT&T’s Cell Towers on Wheels

AT&T managed to keep its network from crashing and burning at SxSW this year by wheeling in three COWs, or cell towers on wheels. Rocketboom went inside one to check it out. [Rocketboom] https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-at-t-served-up-great-3g-data-to-sxsw-geeks-n-5493880

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 18 '10

The Pentagon’s Artificial Intelligence Camera Will Narrate What It Sees

The mad geniuses at DARPA have their next project lined up: a camera that can guide itself and report back from the field. That kind of visual intelligence has been an exclusively human trait, until now. The plan, called “The Mind’s Eye,” is going to be outlined next at a one-day conference in DC in…

Artificial Intelligence Brian Barrett Mar 18 '10

Image Comics Zings Marvel With Fake Avengers Ads

To promote the upcoming Invincible spin-off Guardians of the Globe, Image Comics has released promos lampooning Marvel’s recent Avengers ads. But are Image’s ads a light-hearted parody or a piss-take on Marvel’s über-marketable Avengers teams? This week, Image released a series of Guardians of the Globe promos modeled exactly on Marvel’s “I Am An Avenger”…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 18 '10

Gadget Deals of the Day

Today’s deals are sure winners with a pack of bundled apps for Mac users, the PSP 3000 goes on sale, and if all the savings have tuckered you out, grab a free swing of some Myoplex protein shake. Top Deals: • Mac Update Promo 10 apps for $49.99 (normally $376). • PSP 3000 Slim Core…

Tech News Kevin Lee Mar 18 '10

Reminder: Send In Your Photos of Ugly Americans from St. Pat’s

You saw them: Dudes in Erin Go Bragh berets slipping in green sick and Sexy Leprechauns flashing their bloomers and otherwise atop a shamrock float. Share your photos of the ugliest messes you encountered on St. Pat’s and you could win big! In honor of Comedy Central’s new show Ugly Americans, send your best photos…

Tech News Gawkercreative Mar 18 '10

Dinocroc Vs. Supergator Trailer Takes A Bite Out Of Your Mind!

The Dinocroc Vs. Supergator trailer crams more torso-biting deaths into its first 45 seconds than most movies manage in two hours. Scientists, tourists and bikini-girls only exist to get chomped. And then, the showdown… Plus Syfy announces Lake Placid 3! We’ve been excited for Dinocroc Vs. Supergator for months now, and now its arrival on…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 18 '10

Review: Life Proves That Reality Beats CG Every Time

There are many moments in Life, the followup to Planet Earth, that just have to be fake. They look so perfect, so surreal and so crazy that there’s no way that they aren’t made with computers. But they’re all real. Planet Earth was a groundbreaking documentary when it was released in 2006 by the BBC.…

Reviews Adam Frucci Mar 18 '10

LEAK: Xbox 360 to Support USB Mass Storage

According to what looks like legitimate Microsoft documentation, the Xbox 360 will soon support USB mass storage through an official System Update. There are a few caveats, however. From the looks of it, the 360 will support pretty much any size of external hard drive (over 1GB), and this drive can be partitioned to be…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 18 '10

Gorgeous New Views Of Saturn’s Rings From Cassini

Years of research into Saturn’s rings, plus new information from the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around the ringed gas giant, have resulted in a comprehensive new study of the planet. These images are among the most stunning from that study. Science magazine published two studies on Saturn today, which bring together past research with contemporary…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 18 '10

Try to Out-Ridiculous the Official NASA Mission Posters

Have you seen these ludicrous posters that NASA makes for every mission? They are insane. But I think you guys can top them. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-mission-posters-are-hilariously-painful-5496405 Go ahead and whip up your own posters and send your best entries to me at [email protected] with NASA Posters in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Mar 18 '10

Hot Chip’s “I Feel Better” Video Makes Us All Feel Better — With Alien Carnage

The latest video music video hotness from the genre loving group Hot Chip unleashes a group of laser-vomiting aliens on the muscled-up boy band. Stick with the video through the end — it pays off. The video was directed by Peter Serafinowicz, who’s best known as a Brit comic and is also playing Paul McCartney…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 18 '10

Water Silos Could Tap Underground Lake In Sudan

These baobab-inspired towers from Polish firm H3AR are designed to pump water from the 19,110 sq. mile lake under Darfur. And although they exist only in concept, these water-gathering monoliths could ostensibly slake the thirst of this drought-plagued region. These three clay-brick towers from H3AR would pump water up from the underground to an artificial…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 18 '10

This Is Your Faulty Brain, On a Microchip

Take a good look at the downward trend of this graph—it’s important. It’s the reason why you’re only getting worse at first-person shooters and why you never feel as sharp as you were yesterday. It’s the human condition. Your Mind Is Declining Starting in your 20s—not old age—behavioral evidence suggests that you enter a linear…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 18 '10

Apple’s iGroups Patent Would Instantly Connect You With Nearby iPhone Humans

The Apple patent to actual Apple product ratio is pretty terrible, but sometimes you just want them to follow through. Like with iGroups! It’s a location-based social network that instantly puts you in touch with iPhone-having people around you. The technical aspect is kind of strange: iPhones exchange Bluetooth ID tokens to create little clumps…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 18 '10

Windows Phone 7 Series Promo: What Lies Beneath

The first Windows Phone 7 Series ad has debuted! And my goodness, I haven’t seen this many attractive, well-adjusted people since Joey got canceled. But let’s look a little closer, shall we? Something seems… amiss. Adorable parents. Adorable kid. Peppy music. But Anna, why are you in a record store when you could be jamming…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 18 '10

Upcoming Lightsaber iPhone App Pairs Via Bluetooth For Dueling Sessions

Have iPhone, download lightsaber app. It’s almost a pre-requisite for iPhone owners. From next month you’ll need a new saber app though—the Bluetooth-enabled Lightsaber Duel which pairs with other iPhone users for proper dueling sessions. https://gizmodo.com/phonesaber-strikes-back-returns-as-lightsaber-unleashe-5048330 THQ Wireless has even included 11 new Star Wars characters whose lightsabers you can use! Download it you must,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 18 '10

If Only Michael Bay’s Transformers Looked This Cool

Classic Transformers artist Don Figueroa uploaded hundreds of amazing pieces of concept art to his DeviantArt page, mostly for the new Transformers Ongoing comic and the Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover. Here’s some of our favorite Figueroa art. You can view the rest over at the link. Note: Figueroa removed a lot of art from his DeviantArt…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 18 '10

Manga And Folk Tales Rule The 2009 Tiptree Awards

Apple Is Trying Real Hard to Get Its Cable-Killing iTunes TV Deals in Time for iPad

Dell: The Adamo XPS Isn’t Dead, We’re Selling It Again

A Look Inside AT&T’s Cell Towers on Wheels

The Pentagon’s Artificial Intelligence Camera Will Narrate What It Sees

Image Comics Zings Marvel With Fake Avengers Ads

Gadget Deals of the Day

Reminder: Send In Your Photos of Ugly Americans from St. Pat’s

Dinocroc Vs. Supergator Trailer Takes A Bite Out Of Your Mind!

Review: Life Proves That Reality Beats CG Every Time

LEAK: Xbox 360 to Support USB Mass Storage

Gorgeous New Views Of Saturn’s Rings From Cassini

Try to Out-Ridiculous the Official NASA Mission Posters

Hot Chip’s “I Feel Better” Video Makes Us All Feel Better — With Alien Carnage

Water Silos Could Tap Underground Lake In Sudan

This Is Your Faulty Brain, On a Microchip

Apple’s iGroups Patent Would Instantly Connect You With Nearby iPhone Humans

Windows Phone 7 Series Promo: What Lies Beneath

Upcoming Lightsaber iPhone App Pairs Via Bluetooth For Dueling Sessions

If Only Michael Bay’s Transformers Looked This Cool

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