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Researchers turn skin cells into healthy, beating heart tissue

For the first time ever, scientists have genetically transformed skin cells from heart failure patients into healthy, beating, “young” heart tissue. This is a fantastic achievement for the field of regenerative medicine. “We have shown that it’s possible to take skin cells from an elderly patient with advanced heart failure and end up with his…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Why Eating When You’re Depressed Makes You Eat More

In Austin Powers, Fat Bastard explains that he eats when he’s depressed, and he’s depressed because he eats. Turns out, these kinds of vicious circles of eating are due to a drug-like hit-and-comedown response in your brain, activated specifically by rich foods. A team of researchers, from the University of Montreal Hospital, has been studying…

Health Jamie Condliffe

The Huge Difference Between Food in the 1950’s and Today

What’s the biggest difference between food back in the 1950’s and today? Portion size. According to the CDC, meals are four times bigger now compared to what they once were and as a result, people are 26 pounds heavier. Yeesh! No wonder we’re all so fat. If you eat more than you need, you gain…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Hipster X-Men were feared and loathed by humanity before it was cool

What if Wolverine worked as an artisanal maple syrup farmer who made side cash ironically fronting a Bryan Adams cover band with his single-monikered, flannel-wearing friends “Puck” and “Sasquatch?” Then he’d probably be hanging out with some of these X-Hipsters designed by Nate Bellegrade. It looks like Emma Frost plays the role of the strung-out…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Google’s Rad Synth Doodle Explained By Moog Music Chief Engineer

We first got a look at the Google Doodle celebrating Robert Moog’s 78th birthday on Google.jp yesterday, and now it’s live in the US. Synthtastic! But, uh, how do all of those knobs and sliders work? Here’s an excellent explainer on how to play the synth by Moog Music Chief Engineer Cyril Lance. Hint: Start…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Tattle on Parking Jerks with This App to Publicly Shame Them

Apparently there’s a mild epidemic in Russia where drivers park anywhere they please, including sidewalks or anyplace they can fit their vehicles. So a Russian news website, The Village, has supposedly created an app that lets citizens tattle on these jerks. But tattling’s only half the story. We assume the Russian police have bigger fish…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facebook IPO Nosedive Gets Facebook IPO Class Action Lawsuit

It’s been more and more apparent that there was some shady—though not necessarily illegal!—activity from Facebook’s bank advisors in the lead-up to the company’s IPO last week. And now, investors who got the shaft are trying to get their money back through the courts. https://gizmodo.com/wsj-blame-morgan-stanley-for-facebooks-woeful-ipo-5912571 At issue: Morgan Stanley, Facebook’s IPO sherpa, was encouraging its…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Bigup to Brent Rose, The Crime-Fighting Tech Writer

Tech writers often get a rap for being shy wimpy nerds. And, you know, a lot of us are. But not Brent Rose, our space-reporting, booze-hacking, Android-love-espousing, (frequently found cross-dressing) actor-cum-writer from Berkeley, CA. While riding his bike through Prospect Park last night, Brent stopped a group of four jerks from mugging a solitary citizen.…

Tech News Joe Brown

See the No-Stick Ketchup Bottle of the Future in Action

Getting ketchup out of a bottle is a massive unsolved engineering problem. Plastic squeezy bottles, upside down bottles, tapping the 57, just shove a butter knife in there—none really does the job. But the wonderful nerds at MIT might have done it with their new non-stick LiquiGlide bottle. LiquiGlide is actually a coating made up…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Orson Scott Card reveals secrets of the Ender’s Game movie. Plus Guillermo del Toro talks Pinocchio!

Orson Scott Card reveals the most difficult thing from his book to translate to the big screen. Guillermo del Toro talks possible casting for Pinocchio. Alan Ball reveals more details about Christopher Meloni’s True Blood vampire modernist. Plus, the sibling dynamic we’ll see in Thor 2, and Star Trek takes its first movie filming trip…

Television Alasdair Wilkins and Lauren Davis

Rugged Android Tablet Redefines Tonka-Tough… and Ugly

Designed to be used by those who are actively getting shot at in warzones, not just those of us who are clumsy with our gadgets, the new Rampage 6 tablet is even more rugged than Panasonic’s Toughbook tablet. Though, far less capable. https://gizmodo.com/the-panasonic-toughbook-android-tablet-is-a-rugged-beas-5812576 The Rampage 6, from Juniper Systems and SDG Systems, has an IP67…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facebook Engineer Turns 5-Year-Olds Into Hackers

Carlos Bueno wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer. By day, Bueno is a Facebook engineer. He helps hone software on the servers underpinning the world’s largest social network. But he moonlights as a children’s author. His first book is called Lauren Ipsum, and it’s a fairy tale that seeks to introduce children –…

Social Media Klint Finley - Wired

This Crazy Optical Illusion Makes Beautiful Celebrities Look Grotesque

Watch this video while staring at the cross in the center, and you’ll see bulbous foreheads, gigantic noses and terrifying eyes. Watch it again while looking at the faces, and you’ll see they’re perfectly normal pictures of attractive Hollywood actors. What the hell? In fact, this is part of a research project by Matthew Thompson…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Say Goodbye to Sony and Samsung TV Sales

If you’re hoping to pick up a Sony or Samsung TV in the sales sometime in the future, you’re out of luck. The Wall Street Journal reports that both companies are fed up of third-parties slashing the price of their products—so, they’re now enforcing minimum pricing on their TVs. It was rumored that Sony was…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe

WSJ: Blame Morgan Stanley For Facebook’s Woeful IPO

Since the start of the week, Facebook’s stock price has been sinking like an anti-social stone. Despite NASDAQ’s open admission about screwing up the offering, the Wall Street Journal is pointing its finger higher up the chain. https://gizmodo.com/nasdaq-we-really-messed-up-the-facebook-ipo-5911896 In an interesting peek behind the scenes of the offering, the Wall Street Journal reports that a…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Do You Need a 4K-Capable Camera on Your Phone?

Actually, I can answer that for you: no. But, do you want a camera on your phone that can churn out 16-megapixel images? Perhaps! Good news, then, because OmniVision has just announced new high-resolution image sensors for mobile devices that can shoot 4K video. https://gizmodo.com/reminder-megapixels-dont-matter-5888552 The new sensors can shoot 30fps video at the full…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

At IBM Headquarters, Siri Is Persona Non Grata

This week, IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MIT’s Technology Review that Siri, best pal of Zooey Deschanel and oft snarky gal Friday of the iPhone, has been banned from the company’s internal networks, over concern that spoken queries might be stored somewhere. In point of fact, IBM’s concerns are not unfounded; Apple’s iPhone Software License…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

This Flirtatious NYC Airport Avatar Was Definitely Designed by a Dude

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has installed in Newark Liberty, JFK, and LaGuardia airports an interactive avatar projected onto a plexiglass silhouette of a woman’s body. Lost and disoriented travelers can ask her for help with things like getting to the correct gate, security checkpoint rules, and duty-free shopping. And all…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Perfect Three-Pointers, Penn Jillette Is Not Amused, and Please Do Not Smoke the Artwork

Penn Jillette Isn’t Laughing at Obama’s Weed War Never one to mince words, magician/comedian/actor Penn Jillette had a few choice ones for the President’s crackdown on potheads during a recent Penn’s Sunday School Do we believe, even for a second, anybody believe that if Obama had been busted for marijuana, under the laws that he…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A webcomic about Snowflame, a real DC Comics supervillain who gained his powers from cocaine

When it comes to obscure DC Comics supervillains, few are as celebrated as Snowflame, a Colombian bad guy who debuted (and died) in 1988’s New Guardians #2. What made Snowflame so memorable? Well, he was a crime lord who obtained superhuman powers from inhaling copious amounts of cocaine. Upon getting high as hell, Snowflame would…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Researchers turn skin cells into healthy, beating heart tissue

Why Eating When You’re Depressed Makes You Eat More

The Huge Difference Between Food in the 1950’s and Today

The Hipster X-Men were feared and loathed by humanity before it was cool

Google’s Rad Synth Doodle Explained By Moog Music Chief Engineer

Tattle on Parking Jerks with This App to Publicly Shame Them

Facebook IPO Nosedive Gets Facebook IPO Class Action Lawsuit

Bigup to Brent Rose, The Crime-Fighting Tech Writer

See the No-Stick Ketchup Bottle of the Future in Action

Orson Scott Card reveals secrets of the Ender’s Game movie. Plus Guillermo del Toro talks Pinocchio!

Rugged Android Tablet Redefines Tonka-Tough… and Ugly

Facebook Engineer Turns 5-Year-Olds Into Hackers

This Crazy Optical Illusion Makes Beautiful Celebrities Look Grotesque

Say Goodbye to Sony and Samsung TV Sales

WSJ: Blame Morgan Stanley For Facebook’s Woeful IPO

Do You Need a 4K-Capable Camera on Your Phone?

At IBM Headquarters, Siri Is Persona Non Grata

This Flirtatious NYC Airport Avatar Was Definitely Designed by a Dude

Perfect Three-Pointers, Penn Jillette Is Not Amused, and Please Do Not Smoke the Artwork

A webcomic about Snowflame, a real DC Comics supervillain who gained his powers from cocaine

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