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Trying To Live Anywhere Outside Of Our Solar System Is Going To Be Harder Than We Can Imagine

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular technology, culture and science stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: science art, colonizing the solar system, international business, toys and CGI. Maria Sibylla Merian was a naturalist in the 1600s, drawing up fantastic images that helped to inform…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Jan 24

Public Infrastructure Goes Unnoticed, But It’s What Sets The US Apart

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular technology and science stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: flawed forensics, robotic probes and the US Postal Service. Forensics are often used in criminal trials, but now, with more scrutiny, it looks like much of what’s been used…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Jan 3

While Print Books Are Making A Comeback, Magazines Aren’t

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular culture and science fiction stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: film stories, John Williams, Flash Gordon and b-movie titles. When you come right down to it, there’s not a whole lot in cinema that’s original. Here’s a look…

io9 Andrew Liptak Jan 3

One Chip Changed The Video Game Market Forever

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular culture and science fiction stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: The Star Wars Holiday Special, reading lists, managing movie theaters and the invention of video game cartridges. The Star Wars holiday special is particularly reviled, but how did…

io9 Andrew Liptak Dec 27

It Makes Us Realize That We All Do Exist On One Small Globe

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular technology and science stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: cheap microscopes, physics and saving the planet. How a microscope that costs less than one dollar will revolutionize global health. [New Yorker] What came before the Big Bang? Alan…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Dec 27

The Essential Cyberpunk Reading List

It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read fascinating books, and seen dozens of offshoots like steampunk (and my new favorite, deco punk) develop. Here are the 21 cyberpunk books you absolutely must read. The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester This 1956 novel,…

Books & Comics Diana Biller Dec 25

In 1983, If You Wanted To Pirate A Movie, You Needed A Gun

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular culture and science fiction stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: We look at hidden comic book stores, how movies were pirated in 1983, drugs in science fiction, bookselling and radio dramas. Joseph Koch’s Comic Book Warehouse has one…

io9 Andrew Liptak Dec 20

This Winter, Remember That Mistletoe Is A Vampire Plant

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best science and technology stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: Housing in Silicon Valley, Mistletoe, restaurant hype, chocolate and shirts. As housing prices in Silicon Valley have risen, poorer residents have been forced out, with nowhere to go. [New Republic]…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Dec 20

Warning: Don’t Instagram The Bears

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best science and technology stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week, On December 3rd, 1990, a massive earthquake was supposed to shake Missouri and the American midwest. It didn’t, but brought some attention to the risks that such a quake could…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Dec 13

How Do You Study Nuclear Bombs When You Can’t Use Them Anymore?

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, your Sunday guide to some of the most interesting science and technology stories on the internet this week. This week, we’ll examine the response to the Ebola Outbreak, climate change, transportation and nuclear bombs. During the height of the Ebola crisis, medical professionals were subjected to mandatory quarantines upon…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Dec 6

Why Are SWAT Teams Being Called On Gamers?

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, your Sunday guide to some of the most interesting science and technology stories on the internet this week. This week, we’ll examine a wartime deception, cyberattacks, swatting, and changes in the world around us. During the Second World War, the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops had a unique mission: staffed…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Nov 29

After Observing Wasps For Years, One Scientist Has Found Parallels In Cooperative Behavior In Amoebas

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, your Sunday guide to some of the most interesting science and technology stories on the internet this week. This week, we’ll examine a potentially deadly medical procedure, ponder the inner workings of social networks, and more. In the mid-19th Century, thousands of ‘Water Towns’ popped up across the United…

Tech News Andrew Liptak Nov 22

Doctors Say Morcellation Can Leave Women Vulnerable to Cancer

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, your Sunday guide to some of the most interesting science and technology stories on the internet this week. This week, we’ll examine a potentially deadly medical procedure, ponder the inner workings of social networks, and more. Morcellation is a less invasive way to remove fibroids and other growths through…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland Nov 15

This Former Soviet Observatory Just Keeps Going and Going

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, our weekly collection of great science and technology stories from around the internet. This week, we’ll tour a former Soviet observatory that’s still watching the skies, meet the archaeologists studying history while it’s still alive and kicking, and more. Hidden away high in the remote mountains of Georgia, the…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland Nov 8

Why Are We So Fascinated by the Locations of Death and Violence?

Welcome to this week’s edition of Reading List, Gizmodo’s weekly gathering of fascinating science and technology stories from around the internet. This week, we’ll attend an Indonesian funeral, explore the darker side of tourism, and join an expedition to the unforgiving Greenland ice sheet. What motivates people to visit sites of tragedy and atrocity? Whether…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland Nov 1

This Is the Battle Over Policing the Deep Web

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, our weekly collection of great science and technology articles from around the internet. This week, we’ll do a shift at an Amazon warehouse, delve into the Deep Web, and confront online bullying. The so-called Darknet is only a tiny fraction of what’s on the Deep Web, the part of…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland Oct 25

The Internet Really Isn’t A Permanent Archive

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, our weekly collection of interesting science and technology stories from around the internet. This week, we’ll delve into the seedy world of online gambling, consider the transitory nature of the internet, and more. We tend to think of the internet as a worldwide repository of instantly accessible information and…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland Oct 18

A Legendary Hollywood Set Lies Buried on the California Coast

Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo’s weekly collection of great tech, science, and culture reads from around the web. This week we explore how the remains of an ancient Egyptian city became buried in a dune field along California’s Central Coast, we tour the lives of the hackers trying to take down ISIS, and more! Dig…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 11

E-Books Will Never Replace Print, Because E-Books Are Stagnant and Poorly Designed

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best science and technology stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week, we’ll ponder the place books have in our lives, explore urban history, see without realizing it, and remember the birth of online music streaming. We’ll probably never have the same…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland Oct 4

Before the PC Could Take Over, We Had to Learn to Define It

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, a collection of the internet’s most interesting science and tech stories. This week, we’ll experiment with medical marijuana, race a helicopter across New York City, and more. The personal computer today is ubiquitous, but in the 1980s, people were still learning how to define it. [Ratter] Medical marijuana is…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland Sep 27

reading list

Trying To Live Anywhere Outside Of Our Solar System Is Going To Be Harder Than We Can Imagine

Public Infrastructure Goes Unnoticed, But It’s What Sets The US Apart

While Print Books Are Making A Comeback, Magazines Aren’t

One Chip Changed The Video Game Market Forever

It Makes Us Realize That We All Do Exist On One Small Globe

The Essential Cyberpunk Reading List

In 1983, If You Wanted To Pirate A Movie, You Needed A Gun

This Winter, Remember That Mistletoe Is A Vampire Plant

Warning: Don’t Instagram The Bears

How Do You Study Nuclear Bombs When You Can’t Use Them Anymore?

Why Are SWAT Teams Being Called On Gamers?

After Observing Wasps For Years, One Scientist Has Found Parallels In Cooperative Behavior In Amoebas

Doctors Say Morcellation Can Leave Women Vulnerable to Cancer

This Former Soviet Observatory Just Keeps Going and Going

Why Are We So Fascinated by the Locations of Death and Violence?

This Is the Battle Over Policing the Deep Web

The Internet Really Isn’t A Permanent Archive

A Legendary Hollywood Set Lies Buried on the California Coast

E-Books Will Never Replace Print, Because E-Books Are Stagnant and Poorly Designed

Before the PC Could Take Over, We Had to Learn to Define It

Sony Soundbar With Bass Reflex Speaker Is Now as Cheap as Budget Earbuds After a Sudden Price Drop

Why There Is Still Hope to Find Even More Missing ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes

Crypto Project Details Alleged 6-Month North Korean Intel Op Behind $285 Million Hack

Crypto Investment Scams Were the Most Costly Type of Fraud in the U.S. in 2025

This $1.78/mo VPN Shouldn’t Be This Good: Surfshark’s Deal That Feels Illegal

Dropbox Is a Joke: Get pCloud Family at $1,550 Off With Free Password Manager

Someone Finally Took a Good iPhone Photo of the Moon. Good Luck Copying Their Trick

In Letter, OpenAI Reportedly Says Elon Musk and Meta Are Coordinating ‘Attacks’ Against It

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