I have a Sony BDP-S350, a hand-me-down (as most of my electronics and a fair amount of my media are). I should be able to plug it into a router or modem with an ethernet cable, thereby connecting it to the Internet so I can take part in "live" viewings and download firmware updates for the player. However, so far my attempts have only resulted in ( Read more... )

Physicists theorize that the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged...via time travel.

No, really.

Short version from io9.com: “Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future?”

Longer take from the New York Times: “The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate”

From an interview at io9.com on the future of books in an increasingly digital world:
io9: Will new online formats change the format of the novel?PNH: I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction. Here's an interesting thing online: The explosion of fanfic. I don't read much, but back in ( Read more... )

From Wil Wheaton’s blog:

Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London

Launching in London today, the Espresso Book Machine can print any of 500,000 titles while you waitIt's not elegant and it's not sexy - it looks like a large photocopier - but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since ( Read more... )