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Kepler Just Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Ever Discovered

Kepler just can’t stop discovering exoplanets. Nearly two years after scientists said it was crippled, the planet-hunting telescope recently identified eight new planets. But that’s not all. They’re all in the Goldilocks zone of their respective stars, and two of them are more Earth-like than anything astronomers have ever seen. This is exciting. If you’ve…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes Jan 6

You Can Now Buy Dell’s Incredible Android Tablet

Remember when Dell made Android tablets interesting again? Four months later, you can finally buy the Dell Venue 8 7000 tablet. While it’s still listed as “coming soon” on Dell’s website, Best Buy is now carrying the slate which wowed us with a beautiful screen, crazy camera, and ultra-thin chassis. It’ll set you back $400.…

Tech News Sean Hollister Jan 6

Harman’s New Headphones Listen To Your Ears

At CES, Harman just announced a bold-looking new set of AKG headphones designed by Quincy Jones. The involvement of a musician who’s won 27 Grammys isn’t what’s most impressive, though. Harman says the AKG N90Q are “the world’s first headphone with personalized sound.” How does that work? The headphones literally listen to your ears and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jan 6

I Fought a Dragon In a Head-Mounted Holodeck

VR is coming, for real this time, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Me, I want to put every dumb-looking headset I see onto my face. Today it was the Sulon Cortex, a big ol’ camera-toting headset that claims it’ll turn your living room into the holodeck. It can’t quite pull it off,…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 6

A Whole Bunch Of Free Science Fiction And Fantasy To Download Right Now

If you’re looking for something fun to put on your Kindle or other e-reading device, Tor.com has just published their annual collection of some of their best stories. You can read them all for free on the web, sure, but now they’re in a handy free ebook. The stories include a lot of our favorite…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jan 6

Oculus Brings 3D Audio To Virtual Reality, And It Sounds Great

Sorry folks, there’s no new version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset at this year’s CES, and no word on when the fabled consumer version might appear. So why am I writing this post? The company has added 3D positional audio to its already mindblowing Crescent Bay demo, and it’s even better than before.…

Tech News Sean Hollister Jan 6

Why Apple Could Leave Ports Behind

While rumors of a 12-inch MacBook Air have been merrily percolating these last few months, the most interesting aspect of Apple’s upcoming redesign turns out not to be the size after all. It’s the apparent abandonment of ports. As Cupertino Whisperer Mark Gurman showed today, the rumored redesign isn’t just a matter of size. Apple…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 6

I must have this delicious burger with latke buns

I’ve spent almost a month out of the US eating the most delicious things, but right now all I want to put in my mouth is this delicious pornburger: Smokey shiitake mushrooms, caramelized onions, kimchi thousand island dressing, seared beef patty, swiss, and a couple of crispy root vegetable latkes as buns. Maximum drool age.…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 6

One Man Recreated The Blizzcon Warcraft Trailer With Gorgeous Art

Last November, Blizzcon attendees were treated to a very special surprise – a trailer for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie, that no one but them got to see. Harumph. Good job artist Yanmo Zhang was there though, because he decided to recreate the whole thing shot for shot with some incredible art. Zhang, who was invited…

Movies James Whitbrook Jan 6

Stunning Andromeda galaxy photo clearly shows over 100 million stars

Overwhelmed. That’s how I feel when I zoom into this new panorama of the Andromeda galaxy. Yesterday it was the mind-blowing new photo of the Pillars of Creation. Today isthis view of Andromeda with over 100 million stars in it. Yes, that is not noise. Each of those dots is a star! You really have…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 6

June 30 Will Be One Second Longer This Year, and That Could Be a Problem

Because Earth’s rotation is slowing ever so slightly, we occasionally need to add an extra second to re-sync our super-precise atomic clocks to our planet’s rotation. But you know who’s not on board with that? Those damn computers, whose operating systems just can’t handle it. The last time we added a leap second in 2012,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jan 6

Paul Revere’s 1795 Time Capsule Will Be Opened Tonight (Again)

People are understandably excited to see what’s inside Paul Revere’s time capsule when it’s opened tonight in Boston. The capsule was first interred in a cornerstone by Revere and Samuel Adams in 1795, and many news outlets are playing up the idea that the contents are a complete mystery. Except that it’s not. Because it…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 6

2,400 MS-DOS Games Are Now Free Online (Some of Them Are Porn)

The Internet Archive just dumped nearly 2,400 old MS-DOS video games into an easy-to-navigate repository. Every single one of the games is free to play in your browser. Some of the games are classics. Some of them are hilariously obscure. And some of them are porn—which is something you probably didn’t realize existed on MS-DOS.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jan 6

David Cronenberg Says Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrecking Film Criticism

David Cronenberg, director of culty arthouse classics like Videodrome, The Fly and A History of Violence, says film criticism is no longer “effective.” And he blames sites like Rotten Tomatoes, that offer aggregate opinions rather than reasoned ideas. Photo by charles taylor via Shutterstock A movie critic’s job is to offer informed analysis of a…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 6

Panasonic’s 4K Blu-Ray Player Could Make Discs Matter Again

The CES show floor just opened, and the chaos is real. Sift through it and you’ll find Panasonic has a gem hiding out in its massive booth. We’ve already been told 12930821321312 times that that 4K is here, and while the screens are, the stuff to watch is still sparse. But Panasonic’s new Blu-Ray prototype…

Tech News Darren Orf Jan 6

Homeland Security’s Drones Really Suck at Border Patrol

For nearly a decade now, 10 Predator B drones have been zipping around our nations’s borders at $12,000 an hour under the pretense of securing our borders. Except that, according to a scathing report released earlier today by Homeland Security, not only do these drones cost five times as much as advertised, but they’re doing…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Jan 6

First photo of the fully operative Chinese rivals to the US Navy F-18

The Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark—the first Chinese carrier-based fighter that is designed to match and even surpass the American F/A-18E/F Super Hornet—is no longer a test prototype. This photo shows fully operative serial units on the deck of the Liaoning, People’s Liberation Army Navy’s aircraft carrier. According to the US Naval Institute, “these aircraft are…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 6

This Notorious Killer Got Even Creepier After She Went to Prison

Convicted child killer Myra Hindley was dubbed “the most evil woman in Britain.” Now a stack of recently-discovered jailhouse letters reveal that she became a raging Valium addict in her later years, making weirder and weirder demands of the government. Hindley, half of the notorious “Moors Murders” couple (Hindley and former boyfriend Ian Brady killed…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jan 6

Why Your Next TV Could (and Should) Be Stuffed With Quantum Dots

It’s no secret that OLED televisions produce the best quality HDTV images on the market today. It’s also no secret that OLED sets are ludicrously, obscenely expensive compared to conventional LEDs. But what if there were a way to produce OLED-quality images at a fraction of their current price? Oh hey, there is. They’re called…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 6

The Third Hobbit Movie Takes Two Minutes To Film One Page Of The Book

We have all been made aware of how incredibly long Peter Jackson’s three Hobbit movies are, especially as compared to J.R.R. Tolkien’s original book. But 538’s Walt Hickeyactually broke down the ratio of film to page, and discovered an amazing fact: there are two minutes of TBotFA for every book page it covers. You can…

io9 Rob Bricken Jan 6

Kepler Just Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Ever Discovered

You Can Now Buy Dell’s Incredible Android Tablet

Harman’s New Headphones Listen To Your Ears

I Fought a Dragon In a Head-Mounted Holodeck

A Whole Bunch Of Free Science Fiction And Fantasy To Download Right Now

Oculus Brings 3D Audio To Virtual Reality, And It Sounds Great

Why Apple Could Leave Ports Behind

I must have this delicious burger with latke buns

One Man Recreated The Blizzcon Warcraft Trailer With Gorgeous Art

Stunning Andromeda galaxy photo clearly shows over 100 million stars

June 30 Will Be One Second Longer This Year, and That Could Be a Problem

Paul Revere’s 1795 Time Capsule Will Be Opened Tonight (Again)

2,400 MS-DOS Games Are Now Free Online (Some of Them Are Porn)

David Cronenberg Says Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrecking Film Criticism

Panasonic’s 4K Blu-Ray Player Could Make Discs Matter Again

Homeland Security’s Drones Really Suck at Border Patrol

First photo of the fully operative Chinese rivals to the US Navy F-18

This Notorious Killer Got Even Creepier After She Went to Prison

Why Your Next TV Could (and Should) Be Stuffed With Quantum Dots

The Third Hobbit Movie Takes Two Minutes To Film One Page Of The Book

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