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FaceTime Is Making People Hate Their Faces So Much They’re Getting Plastic Surgery

No—not an Onion article. A Washington, DC-area plastic surgeon is being hit with patients rendered so self-conscious by their video chatting visages that they’re asking for phone-specific facelifts. Technology is great except when it’s so, so awful. Of course it’s not fair to blame the tech alone, here—you have to include the horrible vain people…

Tech News Sam Biddle

More Defective Birth Control Spreads Across US

If this month’s previous birth control terror wasn’t enough to scare you celibate, try the pharmaceutical industry’s latest screwup: this time the pills aren’t fake, they’re just assembled backwards! https://gizmodo.com/warning-those-morning-after-pills-may-be-fake-5834531 The FDA says packs of Glenmark’s “Norgestimate and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets USP” (above) have essentially been put together in reverse—the last pill is placed first,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The first flying car was based on the Ford Pinto, and killed its inventor

If you’re one of those people who’s always wondering why the flying car hasn’t been invented yet, you’re too late. The first flying car was already created back in the 1970s — but don’t get too excited. It was literally a huge disaster. Over the last year, scientists have been trying to perfect a real…

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South Korea’s Awesome Real Life Counter-Terrorist Plan Can Save World Leaders from Nuclear Death

This isn’t a scene from John Woo’s latest movie but are rather of real life security guards practicing their counter-terrorist plan in South Korea. It’s a run through of what could go wrong at the Nuclear Security Summit and how the security force would react: rappelling, spiderman webs, martial arts and more. I’d totally watch…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

This bat has one of the craziest noses in the animal kingdom

Meet Hipposideros griffini, who’s also known as Griffin’s leaf-nosed bat of Vietnam. This newly discovered species possesses a unique configuration of leaf-like protrusions on its schnoz that may help with echlocation. And if not, this creature deserves a medal for evolving one of most ridiculous mammalian noses out there. Researchers from the Vietnam Academy of…

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Women Might Replenish Their Eggs Like Men Do Sperm

Until about 2004, most scientists believed that women were born with all the reproductive eggs they would have for the rest of their lives. Then a scientist named Jonathan Tilly published research that claimed women might actually replenish their supply of eggs throughout their lives. It was shocking. The previous school of thought was that…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Rumor: Benedict Cumberbatch Coming to Doctor Who… as a Familiar Character

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is ruling science fiction and fantasy right now — he’s playing Smaug in The Hobbit, and he’s coming to blows with Spock in the new Star Trek movie. But could he make it a hat-trick with a crucial role in Doctor Who? That’s the rumor being spread by Britain’s ever-reliable tabloids.…

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Gyroscopic Midi Controller For DJs Who Like To Be Part Of The Show

DJ TechTools has updated its arcade button Midi Fighter midi controller with a 3D gyroscope allowing parameters like pitch and volume to be controlled by simply moving it about. But only DJs with a penchant for performing might be interested. The Midi Fighter 3D includes the same 16-button array of arcade-like buttons as its predecessor,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This tiny galaxy might rewrite the early history of the universe

This dwarf galaxy is located just 59 million light-years away, making it one of the closest galaxies to our own. But because most of its stars are still just starting out, it’s like a portal to the early universe. The galaxy, whose rather nice full name I Zwicky 18 is generally shortened to the fiercely…

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Phonogram, our fave comic about magicians channeling Madonna records, is coming back

In artist Jamie McKelvie and author Kieron Gillen’s Image Comics series Phonogram, a group of British magicians draw their supernatural powers from pop music LPs ranging from Pulp to Robyn to Dexys Midnight Runners. It’s a sleek and clever comic with two volumes — Rue Britannia and The Singles Club — and has also been…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Internet of the Future Will Be Powered by Optical RAM

Fiber optics are the future of data transfer. The problem is that when that light signal reaches a machine, it must be converted into an electrical signal copper-veined devices can handle, resulting in speed bottlenecks. But Japanese engineers at NTT think their groundbreaking optical RAM will allow for an internet backbone comprised entirely of light-based…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Facebook Ads Turn Unsuspecting Man Into Spokesperson for Giant Tub of Lube

A 55-gallon tub of lube is funny. That’s just science. But when you post to Facebook about it being a funny thing that exists in the world, there’s a chance that your post might get turned into an ad for that specific lifetime supply of hand love enabler, visible to everyone you know. That’s what…

Social Media Kyle Wagner

Your First Look at the Inspector Spacetime Webseries!

Community made huge waves among Doctor Who fans when it introduced a metafictional TV series called Inspector Spacetime — and now there’s a chance we might get a full-fledged Inspector Spacetime webseries. https://gizmodo.com/theres-going-to-be-an-inspector-spacetime-web-series-5886382 We saw a live reading (with illustrations) of the first episode of this webseries at the Gallifrey One convention last week. And…

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In the Market for a Free Personal Assistant?

Manilla automates so much of your household and financial life, you’ll think you have a personal assistant. Manilla is a secure and intuitive online tool that allows you to quickly see balances, pay anything from utility bills to insurance statements, and manage your travel rewards programs, daily deals and subscriptions in one convenient dashboard. Manilla…

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Army’s New Hybrid Tank Targets Our Enemies and Soaring Oil Prices

All the military funding in the world won’t be able buy fuel when the world’s oil supplies are depleted. So the U.S. Army has commissioned a new hybrid electric tank that’s not unlike a war-friendly version of the Prius. It’s being designed and built by BAE Systems working with Northrop Grumman who just released some…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This giant penguin ruled New Zealand 25 million years ago

Because of its extreme isolation from any other major landmass, New Zealand’s unique native ecosystem is literally for the birds. And these rather elegant-looking penguins briefly dominated this bird paradise, back when New Zealand was mostly underwater. This artist’s conception depicts the Kairuku penguin, a Maori term that loosely means “diver who returns with food.”…

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Light-Controlled Pain Relief Could Banish Novocaine Face Syndrome

New research could mean no more droopy numb face after you leave the dentist. Scientists are working on a precise form of anesthesia controlled by light. A new molecule could allow doctors to specify which nerves are quickly turned on and off to pain using specific wavelengths. It’s part of a budding new field called…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

AT&T Is Planning to Let Developers Pay for Your Data Usage

Comparing it to the data equivalent of a toll-free 1-800 number, AT&T’s network and technology head John Donovan, said that AT&T is working on creating a service that would let developers foot the bill for data usage in its apps. Like if all the data you used in an app would be free to the…

Tech News Casey Chan

The best “cloud UFO” video you’ve ever seen

You know how the biggest annoyance with UFO videos is that they are blurry and shaky and look sort of like somebody threw a bunch of LEDs into the sky and filmed them? Well, you certainly can’t make that complaint about this video, which captures a truly bizarre UFO floating down from the sky, getting…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Rejected Star Wars Toys: George Lucas is denying you an inflatable Emperor’s Throne!

Four years ago, Jason Geyer from Action Figure Insider blew the lid of the Star Wars merchandising world by displaying a collection of rejected but glorious Star Wars toys. And now he’s back, with even more interesting and awesome Luke and Leia tie-ins that never made it into our homes. Take a look at the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

FaceTime Is Making People Hate Their Faces So Much They’re Getting Plastic Surgery

More Defective Birth Control Spreads Across US

The first flying car was based on the Ford Pinto, and killed its inventor

South Korea’s Awesome Real Life Counter-Terrorist Plan Can Save World Leaders from Nuclear Death

This bat has one of the craziest noses in the animal kingdom

Women Might Replenish Their Eggs Like Men Do Sperm

Rumor: Benedict Cumberbatch Coming to Doctor Who… as a Familiar Character

Gyroscopic Midi Controller For DJs Who Like To Be Part Of The Show

This tiny galaxy might rewrite the early history of the universe

Phonogram, our fave comic about magicians channeling Madonna records, is coming back

The Internet of the Future Will Be Powered by Optical RAM

Facebook Ads Turn Unsuspecting Man Into Spokesperson for Giant Tub of Lube

Your First Look at the Inspector Spacetime Webseries!

In the Market for a Free Personal Assistant?

Army’s New Hybrid Tank Targets Our Enemies and Soaring Oil Prices

This giant penguin ruled New Zealand 25 million years ago

Light-Controlled Pain Relief Could Banish Novocaine Face Syndrome

AT&T Is Planning to Let Developers Pay for Your Data Usage

The best “cloud UFO” video you’ve ever seen

Rejected Star Wars Toys: George Lucas is denying you an inflatable Emperor’s Throne!

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