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Prometheus 2 Won’t Connect to Alien, but Prometheus 4 Might. Wait, What?

When Ridley Scott’s Prometheus hit theaters, it was polarizing for a bunch of reasons. Some of the biggest were its connections to Alien, which created more questions than they answered. The connections, of course, came in the form of the reveal of who was in that Space Jockey suit (the mysterious Engineers) and eventually a…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 23

What’s the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer.

The most common mistake when tying your shoelaces is accidentally making a weaker granny knot instead of the stronger square knot. Now, physics can help you tie the perfect knot that stays tight no matter what. While it is well-known that any knot’s strength depends on its configuration, nobody really understands specifically why this should…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette Sep 23

The Drivers of SF’s Tech Buses Are Paid So Little They’re Forced to Live in Cars

The buses that shuttle San Francisco tech workers to and from their Silicon Valley jobs each day have been blamed for displacing longtime residents. In a heartbreaking twist, the drivers of those buses are paid so little that they, too, have been priced out of San Francisco–and some of them must live in their cars.…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 23

Here Are Some Essential Survival Skills We’ve Lost From Our Ancient Ancestors

The basic structure of the human brain has remained essentially unaltered for tens of thousands of years, but the information processed within it has changed dramatically over time. Today, we require an entirely new set of skills to get by, but at the expense of our ancient know-how. Here are some essential skills used by…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 23

The Cheater-Catching Service Amber Rose Shills on Instagram Ripped Me Off

Celebrities promote stuff on Instagram all the time, from waist trainers to skinny teas to DIY teeth whitening systems. Products rarely look good, but with Amber Rose’s recent plugs for a sketchy background check website, we’ve reached a dismal new rung of vacuous shilling. Rose is a prolific Instagram hawker, and right now, she’s mostly…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Sep 23

How a Futuristic Super-Assassin Deals With Obnoxious Coworkers

Koko Martstellar, the assassin-turned-brothel-owner, has starred in two futuristic adventure novels thus far, Koko Takes a Holiday and Koko the Mighty. But what was she like back when she was just a struggling young assassin? Here’s an exclusive look at a short story from the early days of Koko. THE MEAT CLOCK By Kieran Shea…

io9 Kieran Shea Sep 23

Speed Across Jakku in This Awesome Star Wars Virtual Reality Demo

Now this is awesome. It’s only a scant few months before we get to see Rey race across the sands of Jakku in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But why wait when you can do it yourself with this awesome little VR experience? The nifty little “360 degree experience” was just released on Star Wars’…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 23

These are the ingredients and additives inside your favorite foods

Eating a bag of chips? Delicious right! Great snack. But what you’re really eating are all these weird powders and difficult to pronounce additives and manufactured colors and sticky glue goop. This photo series for the book Ingredients by Dwight Eschliman and Steve Ettlinger reveals what’s inside your favorite foods and displays them each in…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 23

Minority Report Shows Us a World Where the “Smart City” Is Real

The new FOX series Minority Report debuted on Monday, and it promises to be a crazy future tech playground — though whether the plots can sustain the amazing worldbuilding remains to be seen. Set 20 years after the events in the movie Minority Report, the series maintains many of the original touches that came straight…

Television Annalee Newitz Sep 23

Facebook and Oculus Will Bring Insane 360-Degree Video to Your News Feed

Working with its recently acquired Oculus VR division, Facebook will soon bring short, immersive, 360-degree videos to your News Feed. That lets you look in any direction within an image, as though you were really there. It’s Facebook’s first project with Oculus to bring VR-like technology to the main service. How will it work? Simply…

Social Media Bryan Lufkin Sep 23

Hackers Stole 5.6 Million Sets of Federal Employee Fingerprints

The Office of Personnel Management hack keeps getting worse. We already know over 21.5 million federal employees had their personal information hijacked from the OPM’s servers. And now the government agency admits that 5.6 million federal employees had their fingerprints stolen. Wired confirmed that OPM’s tally for compromised fingerprints is a lot higher than previously…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs Sep 23

It Takes Just Seven Welds to Assemble the Newest Orion Spacecraft

With enough ingenuity, nearly anything is possible. Engineers on NASA’s Orion crew module have found ways to cut down the number of main weld-points from 33 to just 7 in the latest prototype, dramatically reducing mass by the equivalent of several astronauts. Engineers practiced on a full-scale barrel piece in August before starting manufacture on…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Sep 23

Appeals Court Rules the Batmobile is Copyright Protected

Batman’s vehicle of choice has had a lot of different looks over the 75 years it’s been around—but an ongoing legal case over unlicensed replicas based on the 1966 and 1989 versions of the Batmobile called into question whether DC had the right to copyright the car. Turns out, despite the myriad redesigns, they do.…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 23

Pebble Time Round Is a Smartwatch For People Who Don’t Like Smartwatches

“It looks like a watch!” my wife proclaimed, when I showed her the Pebble Time Round. She wasn’t stating the obvious. She meant that out of all the smartwatches she’d ever seen, it’s the first one that looks like something she would wear. In case you’re not familiar, Pebble is the tiny company that put…

Tech News Sean Hollister Sep 23

Field Guide Needs You! Send Us Your Nagging Questions About Your Tech

Field Guide’s mission is to help you get more out of your technology, whether that’s tips for your favorite apps, round-ups of the best tools for a particular task or in-depth guides to achieving a particular goal. From stretching out battery life to kid-proofing an iPad, we’ve covered a lot of ground over the last…

Gadgets David Nield Sep 23

Install Glextor for Full Control Over Your Android Apps

Glextor is an Android app manager that gives you full control over the way apps appear on your device: split them into categories and folders, highlight your favorites, find important apps quickly, tailor the app drawer interface and more. There are both free and paid-for versions of the app to choose from. The premium edition…

Gadgets David Nield Sep 23

We Just Survived the Hottest Summer in Recorded History

Four months ago in New Delhi, the streets melted and the power grid flickered as temperatures soared well beyond 110 degrees Fahrenheit. India was in the midst of the fifth deadliest heat wave in its history, and summer hadn’t even begun. Today, on the autumn equinox, we bid good riddance to the hottest summer in…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 23

NeoKylin Is the Desktop OS China Built As a Substitute For Windows

The Chinese government’s replacement for Windows is called NeoKylin, and it looks very familiar based on a hands-on from Quartz–which reports today that the OS is already running on more than 40 percent of commercial units sold in the country by Dell. Quartz fired up the latest “community version” of NeoKylin 6.0, which isn’t necessarily…

Tech News Leah Becerra Sep 23

Limitless Premiere: Would You Take a Pill That Might Kill You If It Turned You Into a Total Badass?

Take this pill, and you turn into a human supercomputer. Careful though, ‘cause it’ll kill you. That’s the premise of CBS’s new crime drama Limitless, a sort-of sequel to the 2011 Bradley Cooper flick. The show kicked off last night, and has Cooper serving as executive producer and appearing as the hero-turned-villain from the original…

Television Bryan Lufkin Sep 23

This Crazy Feudal Law Wasn’t Abolished Until 1922

This feudal right was established around 1000 AD. At the time, it was a reasonable law. Unfortunately it benefited the rich and powerful, so it was extended over nine centuries. When the heriot started in England, serfdom was in full swing. One of the duties of a serf was to serve in his lord’s army.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 23

Prometheus 2 Won’t Connect to Alien, but Prometheus 4 Might. Wait, What?

What’s the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer.

The Drivers of SF’s Tech Buses Are Paid So Little They’re Forced to Live in Cars

Here Are Some Essential Survival Skills We’ve Lost From Our Ancient Ancestors

The Cheater-Catching Service Amber Rose Shills on Instagram Ripped Me Off

How a Futuristic Super-Assassin Deals With Obnoxious Coworkers

Speed Across Jakku in This Awesome Star Wars Virtual Reality Demo

These are the ingredients and additives inside your favorite foods

Minority Report Shows Us a World Where the “Smart City” Is Real

Facebook and Oculus Will Bring Insane 360-Degree Video to Your News Feed

Hackers Stole 5.6 Million Sets of Federal Employee Fingerprints

It Takes Just Seven Welds to Assemble the Newest Orion Spacecraft

Appeals Court Rules the Batmobile is Copyright Protected

Pebble Time Round Is a Smartwatch For People Who Don’t Like Smartwatches

Field Guide Needs You! Send Us Your Nagging Questions About Your Tech

Install Glextor for Full Control Over Your Android Apps

We Just Survived the Hottest Summer in Recorded History

NeoKylin Is the Desktop OS China Built As a Substitute For Windows

Limitless Premiere: Would You Take a Pill That Might Kill You If It Turned You Into a Total Badass?

This Crazy Feudal Law Wasn’t Abolished Until 1922

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