Jesus Diaz, Author at Gizmodo

The First 10 Minutes of the New Star Trek Into Darkness Leaked Online

You’ve got to watch this: a Russian site has obtained the first ten minutes of the new Star Trek Into Darkness movie. It’s quite blurry but holy mother of Spock!—what a ride. Update: We got a cease and desist order, so we are taking the clip down. Here are some captured from the clip, so…

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Full Star Trek Trailer May Reveal Its Villain’s Identity

It’s here. After the first teaser trailer, we got to see the full one. This one really goes up to Warp 11. So who is the bad guy? Gizmodo reader Thomas Steves has a very good theory, which is supported by some strong evidence and logic: https://gizmodo.com/new-star-trek-movies-first-trailer-looks-terrific-and-a-5966161 The villain is not Kahn… it’s Gary Mitchell.…

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This Conversation Between Two Drone Pilots Is Really Sad

Spiegel’s Nicola Abé wrote a very interesting story on The Woes of an American Drone Operator. It includes the conversation between two drone pilots, right after firing a Hellfire missile only to see a kid appear on their targeting screens a second before impact: “Did we just kill a kid?” he asked the man sitting…

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Is This the Most Over the Top Christmas Tree Ever? Maybe

I came across this image buried in one of those wacky picture dumpster sites, wandering from url to url across the web. I don’t know who set the tree up. I don’t know how many thousands of LED lights are around that tree. And I don’t know why people spend so much money making these…

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Woman Gains Full Mind Control Of Robotic Arm, Just Like in Star Wars

This is truly extraordinary: Jan Scheuermann, a 52-year-old quadriplegic woman, has gained full control of a robotic arm. Not just simple commands, but truly complete control with “skill and speed almost similar to that of an able-bodied person.” According to the study—led by the University of Pittsburgh’s professor of neurobiology Andrew Schwartz—she achieved this incredible…

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This Is World’s Largest Super Collider That Never Was

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva is 17 miles (27 kilometers) long. It’s an incredible machine capable of releasing 14 TeV (Tera-electronvolts) of energy, which gave the Europeans the lead in experimental physics. But back in the early 80s, there was going to be another beast that could have obliterated the LHC’s record…

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Did You Know that These Strange Fields of Ice Flowers Exist At Sea?

This beautiful alien landscape is right here on Earth: a never-ending sea of ice flowers quietly floating over a thinly frozen sea. These strange ice structures are very rich in salt and bacteria—and very hard to pick, according to oceanography doctoral candidate Jeff Bowman. Bowman explains how they grow: When sea ice forms during the…

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Google Maps for iOS Review: Maps Done Right

After some intensive testing since its yesternight release, there’s no doubt about it: Google Maps for iOS is, hands down, the best maps application, perhaps on any platform. So good, so fast, and so clean. There’s really no contest. They nailed it, and shamed Apple in the process. https://gizmodo.com/download-google-maps-for-ios-right-now-and-get-turn-by-5968065 I thought that maybe my first…

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North Korea’s Satellite Is Out of Control: Why This Is Very Bad News

After failing miserably on numerous occasions, North Korea has finally put a satellite in orbit. But according to US officials, it is now “tumbling out of control.” This is bad news, and more bad news, covered in a double layer of extra bad news. https://gizmodo.com/north-korea-says-it-just-put-a-satellite-in-space-upda-5967710 NORAD detected the launch yesterday at 7:49pm Eastern Time. The…

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It’s 12/12/12—the Last Major Numerical Date in this Century

December 12, 2012 is an extremely special date! It’s the last major numerical date of this century. There was 01-01-2001, 02-02-2002 and so on—until today. There’s no 13th month, so there’s no way this will happen again until the XXII century. Not that the Universe gives a damn about our completely arbitrary Gregorian calendar, but…

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All the Apple Startup Chimes In History

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent for the startup chime sound. But that sound hasn’t always been the same. Here you have all the Apple startup chimes since the original Macintosh, released in 1984. https://gizmodo.com/what-to-do-with-an-original-1984-macintosh-5269088

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Woman Caught Smuggling Cocaine Inside Her Breasts

A woman has been arrested by airport police carrying almost three pounds of cocaine in her breasts. Not in her bra, no—inside her breasts. You can see the cocaine implants in this image. They are 1.5 pounds each. The woman was traveling from Bogotá, Colombia, to El Prat airport, in Barcelona, Spain. The police thought…

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The 10 Most Searched Things of 2012 Show How Screwed Up Humanity Is

Google, the number one search engine on the planet, has published its comprehensive list of what was on people’s minds during 2012. The company’s 2012 Zeitgeist—”the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time”—is as accurate a reflection of humanity’s current state of…

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Scientists Create Fish With Legs

Genetic researchers have been working for a long time to reproduce the mysterious evolutionary step that grew legs on fish. This change eventually moved life from water to land, resulting in a explosion of walking species that took over the Earth’s land and skies more than 300 million years ago. Now, they have achieved it.…

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These Are the Best Internet Service Providers

If you’re looking for the fastest, most reliable internet service provider, here you have the ranking of all the major ISPs in the United States. It’s actual, real world performance—compiled by Netflix from all its customer data: 30 million members watching 1 billion hours of movie content every month. That’s a lot of data, so…

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What’s Your Favorite GIF of the Year 2012?

Animated GIFs. Stupid, awesome, funny, always good. What was your favorite GIF of the year 2012? It can be anything: politics, nature, dumb fails, sports, music, major events, catastrophes… whatever you want. Just tell us in the comments. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-biggest-animated-gif-party-ever-and-youre-inv-5951078

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Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Now Available With Retina Display Support

The only complaint I had about my new MacBook Pro 15 is now gone. Well, not all of them, but only the one about its gorgeous Retina display: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are now both available with Retina display support. What a change! https://gizmodo.com/mountain-lion-review-os-x-needs-a-new-vision-5928783 I’ve been using the Retina-enabled betas for quite a while…

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What Is This?

The first time I saw this photo at the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space telescope site I couldn’t believe my eyes. It didn’t look like any space structure I’ve seen before. It actually look like some kind of weird inter-dimensional portal. Then I read the description and the answer was simple—and actually quite fascinating. You…

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What Happens When You Put Jet Fuel In a Normal Car?

It just happened at a gas station in New Jersey: cars got filled with kerosene after a delivery tank truck mistakenly filled one of the pumps deposits with jet fuel. So what happened next? Did the cars explode in flames? Did they run faster? Actually, the answer is (fortunately) a let down: the cars just…

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This Is the Future of the US Navy

Witness, the beginning of a new era: the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System on the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman. Soon, there will be no more Maverick or Ice Man. In a couple of decades, everything will be stealthy, autonomous or remote controlled war creatures, much more cost-effective than their expensive human-carrying…

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The First 10 Minutes of the New Star Trek Into Darkness Leaked Online

Full Star Trek Trailer May Reveal Its Villain’s Identity

This Conversation Between Two Drone Pilots Is Really Sad

Is This the Most Over the Top Christmas Tree Ever? Maybe

Woman Gains Full Mind Control Of Robotic Arm, Just Like in Star Wars

This Is World’s Largest Super Collider That Never Was

Did You Know that These Strange Fields of Ice Flowers Exist At Sea?

Google Maps for iOS Review: Maps Done Right

North Korea’s Satellite Is Out of Control: Why This Is Very Bad News

It’s 12/12/12—the Last Major Numerical Date in this Century

All the Apple Startup Chimes In History

Woman Caught Smuggling Cocaine Inside Her Breasts

The 10 Most Searched Things of 2012 Show How Screwed Up Humanity Is

Scientists Create Fish With Legs

These Are the Best Internet Service Providers

What’s Your Favorite GIF of the Year 2012?

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Now Available With Retina Display Support

What Is This?

What Happens When You Put Jet Fuel In a Normal Car?

This Is the Future of the US Navy

WD 5TB Portable External Hard Drive for Mac Drops to $0.03 per GB Even After Amazon’s Spring Sale

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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