Carli Velocci, Author at Gizmodo

More Fake Pokémon Go Apps Were Released To Ruin Your Phone

There have been reports of malicious Pokémon Go apps out in the wild since the game was released over a week ago, but more of them are popping out of the brush than Caterpies just out of Pallet Town. According to security firm ESET, apps have been masquerading under similar Pokémon titles, attracting people looking…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 15

Experience One of the Darkest Places On the US Coast in This Timelapse

Dry Tortugas National Park is one of the darkest places on the east coast of the United States. So if you’re going to make a timelapse video of the night sky, that’s an ideal place to do so. Located around 70 miles west of Key West, this set of islands is home to a fort…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 15

New Research Shows That Opposites Attract, But Only Under One Condition

The saying “opposites attract” is a little too simple for my liking when it comes to relationships, but if two new studies are any indication, there might be some science behind that theory. Researchers at Charles University in the Czech Republic published a paper last month in Frontiers in Psychology that proposes single people are…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 15

70-Year-Old Tolkien Poem To Be Republished, Will Probably Make You Cry

Just because J.R.R. Tolkien has been dead since 1973 doesn’t mean he can’t still continue to publish work. So of course, after two of his poems were found earlier this year, we’re set to get another poem. According to The Guardian, “The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun,” which was published in 1945 in the literary…

io9 Carli Velocci Jul 14

Small Groups of Satellites Are More Accurate Because of Teamwork: Study

Different points of view are valuable when discussing any event or describing an object. Sure, you might have your own analysis, but somebody else is going to have seen something different. By combining all angles, a clearer picture emerges. The same concept can be seen in a recent MIT study that found a cluster of…

Climate Change Carli Velocci Jul 13

E.T. Is Technically in Star Wars, So I Guess It Goes in the Star Wars Exhibit

Yes, that is an E.T. wax sculpture surrounded by weird interpretations of Star Wars characters. Yes, it’s really there. No, we don’t know why. Internet users noticed the questionable placement over at Imgur this week, wondering if anybody working at Barcelona’s Wax Museum (or the Museu de Cera) had seen Star Wars and just why…

io9 Carli Velocci Jul 13

Nissan Encourages Drivers Not to Be Morons With Its Autopilot Feature

With all the criticism recently surrounding self-driving cars, you might think it’s a strange move for Nissan to announce some news regarding its own system. Well, it is, but the company is aware. According to Reuters, the car company launched a suite of auto driving functions on Wednesday called ProPilot and announced that the new…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 13

Mantis Shrimp Roll Their Eyes, But For A Good Reason

This is just how mantis shrimp roll. They’re dangerous, are among the most badass and intriguing undersea creatures and, according to a new study, have another unique trick that only adds to their reputation: rolling their eyes to see clearer. Researchers at the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences found that mantis shrimp use…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 13

We Get Our First Look of Sofia Boutella As the Mummy

We were pretty excited when we found out that Kingsman: The Secret Service scene-stealer Sofia Boutella was cast as the titular monster in Universal Studio’s The Mummy reboot. It’s a different take on the iconic monster and it has the potential to jump start the expanded Monsters universe that Universal wants so badly. So when…

Movies Carli Velocci Jul 10

This Guy Used a Drone to Try to Catch Pokémon

Pokemon GO is a game that relies on its players going on long walks, meaning that some will eventually find any way to get around that system. Tumblr user Perchbird is one of those people. He posted a photo set that showed his phone running the app while mounted on a drone. The caption just…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 10

Shockingly, Jared Leto Said He Loved Playing the Joker

Anybody who’s been following the news surrounding Suicide Squad can tell that Jared Leto got into the role, so much so that he’s gotten kind of annoying and a little creepy about it, and not in a good way. But at least he had fun? In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Leto spoke about…

io9 Carli Velocci Jul 10

Apollo 11’s Source Code Is A Surprisingly Hilarious Artifact Now Online

One of the most surprising things about the Apollo 11 guidance computer source code isn’t just the sheer size of it, but rather the amount of in-jokes that scientists included with it. While the code for the command and lunar modules has been available online since 2003 (tech researcher Ron Burkey transcribed every line of…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 10

Thanks Space For Making These Astronauts Nearsighted

We know that astronauts’ bodies are heavily impacted by their time in space, but as more of them come back to Earth following longer and longer stays without gravity, more issues are going to arise. Take for example the case of astronaut John Phillips, who was aboard the International Space Station in 2005. According to…

Space & Spaceflight Carli Velocci Jul 10

Did You Install This Malicious Pokémon Go App?

People all over have been trying to enjoy the new Pokémon Go app, which released this week to so much fanfare that it’s experiencing massive server overload. The hype was so real that people were passing around APK files so that people outside the countries where it’s available could side-load it on Android, something I…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 9

A Pinch of Nuclear Forensics Can Change the Way We View Past Blasts

A new test developed by scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico can potentially alter what we know about the nuclear tests done as a part of the Manhattan Project. According to Popular Mechanics, the test involves using just a pinch of dirt. That small amount contains large amounts of information, which…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 9

Gambit Is Still In The Works Apparently, To Start Filming in 2017

The X-men spinoff film starring everyone’s favorite card-throwing Cajun has been in the works for a while and has changed hands so many times that it’s been unclear as to where it is in the development process. It was supposed to come out in October of this year, and so far we don’t have anything.…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 9

The Star Wars Theme Played on Floppy Drives is Glorious

In 2011, a university student in Poland named Paweł Zadrożniak hooked up two floppy disk drives and started making music. Five years later, he’s assembled a full symphony. In a video posted to his blog on Wednesday, Zadrożniak shows off what he calls the “Floppotron,” a large assembly that includes 64 floppy drives and eight…

io9 Carli Velocci Jul 9

Please, Don’t Try Brain Stimulation At Home

In today’s edition of Things That Shouldn’t Need Explaining, scientists have issued a warning against self-administered brain stimulation by do-it-yourself users online. In the July 7 issue of Annals of Neurology, 39 neuroscientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania noted that while…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 9

Scientists Find First Instance of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System

A cloudy day here on Earth might be a sign for gloom, but elsewhere in the universe, to behold one is a scientific achievement. In this case, a team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz announced that they have detected water clouds for the first time outside our solar system on a brown dwarf known…

Space & Spaceflight Carli Velocci Jul 9

How to Extract Pure Silver From Shitty Fireworks

Are you an aspiring alchemist? Do you try to turn lead into gold? What about poppers into silver? The poppers, or bang snaps as they are also called, contain trace amounts of silver fulminate, so Cody over at Cody’sLab on YouTube decided to try and extract it. To do so, he bought around 5,000 poppers…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 4

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More Fake Pokémon Go Apps Were Released To Ruin Your Phone

Experience One of the Darkest Places On the US Coast in This Timelapse

New Research Shows That Opposites Attract, But Only Under One Condition

70-Year-Old Tolkien Poem To Be Republished, Will Probably Make You Cry

Small Groups of Satellites Are More Accurate Because of Teamwork: Study

E.T. Is Technically in Star Wars, So I Guess It Goes in the Star Wars Exhibit

Nissan Encourages Drivers Not to Be Morons With Its Autopilot Feature

Mantis Shrimp Roll Their Eyes, But For A Good Reason

We Get Our First Look of Sofia Boutella As the Mummy

This Guy Used a Drone to Try to Catch Pokémon

Shockingly, Jared Leto Said He Loved Playing the Joker

Apollo 11’s Source Code Is A Surprisingly Hilarious Artifact Now Online

Thanks Space For Making These Astronauts Nearsighted

Did You Install This Malicious Pokémon Go App?

A Pinch of Nuclear Forensics Can Change the Way We View Past Blasts

Gambit Is Still In The Works Apparently, To Start Filming in 2017

The Star Wars Theme Played on Floppy Drives is Glorious

Please, Don’t Try Brain Stimulation At Home

Scientists Find First Instance of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System

How to Extract Pure Silver From Shitty Fireworks

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