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The Great Thing About YA Fiction Is, There Are No Genre Boundaries

Nowadays, “young-adult fiction” includes every type of story, including post-apocalyptic and fantasy, says Forest Of Hands And Teeth author Carrie Ryan. And then readers reach adulthood and we suddenly expect them to choose their genres. Talking to Magical Words, Ryan says: One of the great things about YA is that all the books are shelved…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 12 '10

Gadget Deals of the Day

On today’s dealz—romance. A notebook that will undoubtedly get you noticed, an alarm clock to buzz you awake in all the wrong ways, and some hair cream to go in your neckbeard. Have a happy Valentine’s Day. Top Deals: • 11.6″ Acer Ferrari One Netbook for $579.99 with free shipping (normally $599.99) • iLuv Desktop…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Feb 12 '10

HBO’s How To Make It In America is Like a Free Drink at an Art Opening

Meaning, awesome. This Valentine’s Day, grab your girlfriend or your girlfriend pillow and tune in to HBO for the premiere of How To Make It In America, a show about two 20-somethings hustling to make it in downtown NYC. Check out the trailer! https://gizmodo.com/7-gadgets-that-fulfill-all-of-your-sad-emotional-needs-5378019/ How To Make It In America focuses on the urban adventures…

Tech News Gawkercreative Feb 12 '10

Apple Finally Puts out sRAW Compatibility Update

The latest Digital Camera Raw Compatibility 3.0 update for OS X update finally adds Canon sRAW, which until now has been pretty difficult to manipulate on Macs (without third party programs). This update extends RAW image compatibility for Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’09 for the following cameras and formats: Canon PowerShot S90 Canon sRAW Canon…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 12 '10

Pretend You’re Bathing With A Na’vi This Valentine’s Day

Slaves were creating mosaic objects thousands of years BC, but I bet they never dreamed of a bathtub covered in glittering photo-luminescent mosaic tiles. In fact, I bet they never even knew what a bathtub was. The tiles come from Italy, and while the bath is a custom job, it wouldn’t be too difficult to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 12 '10

Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

Fans of gravelly-voiced bald scifi heroes rejoice: Universal has announced that it will be releasing a third Chronicles of Riddick movie in the US, with international rights being auctioned off at the Berlin Film Festival. The third movie, to be titled Riddick, will be written and directed by the man behind the first two movies…

Movies Graeme McMillan Feb 12 '10

Did Percy Jackson Rip Off Avatar’s Plot?

When you watch Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, you may start wondering if it’s a straight-up remake of Avatar. The plot similarities are uncanny after a while… almost like the Hand of Destiny is at work. Spoilers… Consider the stories of both movies: There’s a guy, who’s just a plain ordinary Joe,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 12 '10

Giz Explains: Why ISO Is the New Megapixel

In 1975, the first digital camera took 23 seconds to record a 100-line black-and-white photo onto cassette tape. Today, a Nikon D3s takes photos with 12 million pixels at 1/8000 of a second. And it can see in the dark. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-d3s-dslr-has-night-vision-with-102-400-iso-yes-5381043 The conventional wisdom is that the romp-stomp-stomp of progress in digital imaging has proceeded…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 12 '10

NBC Olympics App Hits Just In Time to Track Hot Biathlon Action

The 2010 Olympics start tonight! And while I might not be so excited about curling, I’m looking forward to updates and athlete profiles on my iPhone. NBC’s free Olympics app also has a social component, ideal for trash-talking Norwegian lugers. There are also updated medal counts, video (US-only), and sport-by-sport forecasts. The focus is predominantly…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 12 '10

Finally, Stargate Universe Gets An Old School SG-1 Villain

Looks like some of your Stargate writing tips sunk in, the second season of SGU is adding a new big bad. Spoilers ahead. https://gizmodo.com/stargate-universe-writer-asks-for-your-help-with-the-ne-5459054 The characters name is Simeon, and he’s a Lucian Alliance soldier — a member of a group we met way back in the day, when they were a band of space…

Television Meredith Woerner Feb 12 '10

Dubai Like You Have Never Seen It Before

It takes someone as amazingly talented and knowledgeable as Philip Bloom—the guy who shot Prague and the Skywalker Ranch—to make Dubai to look this amazing using a Canon 7D, two 5D MkII, and one Panasonic GF1. [Philip Bloom] https://gizmodo.com/mind-blowing-video-of-the-canon-1d-mark-iv-5432830

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 12 '10

New to Sext? Here’s a Sexting User’s Guide

Don’t know how to give good sext? Fleshbot’s Lux Alptraum told me she’ll give a private lesson to everyone who leaves their name and phone number in the comments of her new howto. [Fleshbot] (NSFW, naturally.)

Tech News Joel Johnson Feb 12 '10

Microsoft to Introduce Windows Phone 7 Monday at MWC

The WSJ has confirmed that Mic will introduce their newest mobile phone OS on Monday at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. WinMo 6.5 is dead; long live Windows Phone 7. The announcement will almost certainly come during Steve Ballmer’s Windows Phone press conference, scheduled for 3pm local time. According to the WSJ, Windows Phone…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 12 '10

Dune Movie Finds New Writer

Pierre Morel’s much-discussed (by him, at least) Dune reboot has found its writer: Relative unknown Chase Palmer. Palmer has been brought on to rework the existing script to bring it closer to Morel’s big ideas. [Hollywood Reporter]

Movies Graeme McMillan Feb 12 '10

huBox Adds Another Practical Element to USB Hubs

A USB hub/SD card reader is a handy thing to have on your desk. But the huBox takes both of these components and sticks them into a small, Mac-Mini-friendly box. Clever. (On sale soon for unknown price.) [huBox via AkihabaraNews]

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 12 '10

SIMFi Transforms Any (SIM) Phone Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

First, the Eye-Fi added Wi-Fi to any camera with an SD card. Now, the Sagem Orga SIMFi does something similar. It’s a SIM card that adds Wi-Fi capabilities to cellphones…Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities, that is. Just like the Eye-Fi, the SIMFi runs its own integrated software, meaning there shouldn’t be any special setup on your phone.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 12 '10

Computer Engineer Barbie Has a PhD In FUN (And Breaking Down Stereotypes)

This is actually wonderful. Barbie’s had 124 careers since 1959, ranging from Stewardess to Paratrooper. Today she gets her 125th: computer engineer. You can tell she’s smart ’cause she’s got glasses, and reads nothing but binary. Barbie’s latest career move is also significant for being the first decided entirely by online vote. Though maybe it’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 12 '10

The Blazing Poles Of Blue Saturn

Saturn put on an incredible once-in-a-blue-moon show for the Hubble Space Telescope — Hubble was able to view the planet when its rings were edge-on, so that the planet’s twin aurorae, its northern and southern lights, were visible. According to Hubble press site: At first glance the light show of Saturn’s aurorae appears symmetric at…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 12 '10

A Rebuttal To MacPadd Accusations

Gizmodo’s Comments on MacPadd UnTrue, Erroneous, Unfounded and in Contravention of its Own Terms of Service A long awaited telephone conversation in early in December 2009 with Nick Denton CEO of Gawker Media assured us that our response to the November Gizmodo article would get complete and equal “play-time”. All we wanted was for the…

Tech News David Free Feb 12 '10

Transcend Ski Goggles Feature Cyborg HUD

Not even Bono can pull off wearing huge glasses to use a HUD through life. But ski goggles? They’re practically designed to look ludicrous. These Zeal Recon Transcend Ski Goggles display GPS, speed, altitude and more in real time. Available this fall for between $350 and $450, Transcend goggles are a partnership between two companies:…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 12 '10

The Great Thing About YA Fiction Is, There Are No Genre Boundaries

Gadget Deals of the Day

HBO’s How To Make It In America is Like a Free Drink at an Art Opening

Apple Finally Puts out sRAW Compatibility Update

Pretend You’re Bathing With A Na’vi This Valentine’s Day

Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

Did Percy Jackson Rip Off Avatar’s Plot?

Giz Explains: Why ISO Is the New Megapixel

NBC Olympics App Hits Just In Time to Track Hot Biathlon Action

Finally, Stargate Universe Gets An Old School SG-1 Villain

Dubai Like You Have Never Seen It Before

New to Sext? Here’s a Sexting User’s Guide

Microsoft to Introduce Windows Phone 7 Monday at MWC

Dune Movie Finds New Writer

huBox Adds Another Practical Element to USB Hubs

SIMFi Transforms Any (SIM) Phone Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

Computer Engineer Barbie Has a PhD In FUN (And Breaking Down Stereotypes)

The Blazing Poles Of Blue Saturn

A Rebuttal To MacPadd Accusations

Transcend Ski Goggles Feature Cyborg HUD

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