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Why Boosting Your Camera’s ISO Setting Can Make Your Photos Worse

Increasing your camera’s ISO setting improves its ability to see in the dark, but it can also lead to artifacts in your images that look like millions of tiny dots, known as noise. But where exactly does it come from? https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-iso-is-the-new-megapixel-5470334 Dylan Bennett breaks it down for you in this 10+ minute clip which explains…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

B&N Will Give Nook Tablet Owners More Freedom Over Their Storage Space

Nook Tablet owners have been frustrated that the devices only leaves you 1GB for your personal files while reserving 12GB for downloaded content. Beginning March 12th, you’ll be able to take your 16GB Nook Tablet into your local Barnes & Noble store, and the staff will help you repartition it to your liking. https://gizmodo.com/the-16gb-nook-tablet-only-lets-you-use-1gb-freely-5860494 B&N…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The secret story behind Admiral Ackbar’s “It’s a trap!” line

Thirty odd years ago, radio dramatist Erik Bauersfeld recorded the voices of Admiral Ackbar and Bib Fortuna for Return of the Jedi, saw the movie, and promptly forgot about the whole experience. It wasn’t until decades later that he began receiving fan mail from Star Wars lovers wanting an autograph from the guy who knew…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Army Officer Teaches You How to Shoot Your DSLR Like a Rifle

If you’re like most people, photography boils down to automatic mode paired with luck. Not for US Army officer Alex Jansen, who wrote up a massive guide to crisp low-light photography based on “the four fundamentals of marksmanship. Snap, headshot. Separated into several sections depending on circumstance—though none for suppressing enemy fire—Jansen walks you through…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Supercut: Every single maniacal laugh from Once Upon A Time’s Rumpelstiltskin

The very best part of our weekly viewing of fairy tale moppet theater, aka Once Upon A Time, has to be Robert Carlyle’s Rumpelstiltskin and his insane giggle fits. Here’s our video compilation of every single Rumple snark, snort, giggle, smirk and crazed laugh, for your amusement. We don’t know who started encouraging Carlyle to…

Television Meredith Woerner

Apps That Abuse Privacy Will Now Be Punished By the Law

Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General, says the state has reached an agreement with Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM and others to prosecute developers who do not abide by new privacy policies. Basically, this new agreement will protect you from rogue apps that broadcast your data without your knowledge. https://gizmodo.com/paths-big-mistake-updated-5883395 According to the NY Times, the new…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

Thieves Snatch Briefcase Full of Secret Drone Documents in Public

Sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes life imitates a series of stupid spy movie cliches: a briefcase detailing a joint French/UK military drone was stolen in Paris. A briefcase! A briefcase full of secret documents. Christ, man. The briefcase in question, belonging to an executive from major French military contractor Dassault (French for “The Assault”),…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Lying Is the Wrong Way to Raise Awareness About Climate Change

Climate change scientist Peter Gleick has admitted on The Huffington Post that he lied about his identity to acquire information about a movement to deny climate change. Way to do more harm than good for your cause, jerk. After a story appeared in The New York Times describing the Heartland Institute’s organized campaign against climate…

Climate Change Kristen Philipkoski

Holy crap, does this worm-like amphibian lay terrifying eggs

In the soils of northeastern India, researchers from Delhi University have uncovered an entirely new family of amphibians. Meet the Chikilidae, which belong to an earthworm-like order of amphibians known as caecilians. Seven new species of Chikilidae were uncovered by the team, who recently published their findings in The Proceedings of The Royal Society B.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The World’s Deepest Land Bug Lives More Than a Mile Underground

The deepest-dwelling land animal in the world has been found almost 2 kilometres underground. Fittingly, its home is Krubera-Voronja, the world’s deepest cave, whose bottommost point is 2191 metres below its mouth.The cave is located near the Black Sea in Abkhazia, a breakaway republic of Georgia. The arthropod, known as Plutomurus ortobalaganensis, was discovered 1980…

Tech News Andrew Purcell - New Scientist

Ikea Could Learn Something From This Self-Assembling Rising Table

If Robert van Embricqs worked in Ikea’s design and engineering department, the company wouldn’t have to worry about creating instructional videos for assembling its furniture. All his Rising Table needs is some heavy lifting and the pull of gravity. https://gizmodo.com/ikeas-video-assembly-instructions-vastly-increase-your-5887243 The not-so secret is a latticework of intricate hinged wooden slats that fall to the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Ridiculous: A Loose Cable Caused Those ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Particles

We know that Einstein always has the last laugh, but this is hilarious: the faster-than-light particles that could have wrecked his relativity theory are no more. It was a mistake in the test results caused by a loose cable. https://gizmodo.com/faster-than-light-particles-could-wreck-einsteins-relat-5843006 Didn’t anyone from the Genius Bar tell them about the first rule of tech support?…

Physics & Chemistry Jesus Diaz

The Earth might have a “pulse” that causes extinctions every 60 million years

Every sixty million years, the biodiversity of our planet’s oceans mysteriously crashes. This strange boom and bust cycle goes back 500 million years, and we now might know why: rising continents make the oceans too shallow for species to survive. The key to this mystery, according to new research led by University of Kansas physicist…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Scientists discover vast field of footprints from 8-million-year-old elephant herd

One of the largest paleontological finds in history has been discovered in the United Arab Emirates. Researchers working in the country’s deserts have uncovered a massive tract of land riddled with the footprints of four-tusked titans called Stegotetrabelodon syrticus — the earliest known members of the elephant family. It’s one of the best windows we’ve…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Review: A Beautiful Desert

You might not recall, but when the BlackBerry PlayBook came out last year it was close—oh, so close—to being a respectable iPad competitor. But the omission of native email, calendars and contacts was a fatal flaw, both for reviewers and the buying public. https://kotaku.com/blackberry-playbook-review-5791814 Now, though, PlayBook OS 2.0 is here, righting those wrongs and…

Reviews Adrian Covert

This Mini Portable USB Turntable Is Your Preservationist Deal of the Day

Oh man check out this totally awesome and rare 45 I got off eBay. Everyone thought the song was lost forever. But now I have the only known copy of it. It only cost me $1500 and the blood of my first born. Pretty good deal no. But enough talk, lets listen to this thi—NO.…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Munch’s “The Scream” expected to fetch $80 million at auction

“The Scream” may be a weird, unnerving piece of art — but it’s also made of money, apparently. Edvard Munch did several versions of his masterpiece, and now the last remaining version in private hands is coming up for auction at Sothebys — and it’s expected to pull in over $80 million. According to the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Shooting Challenge: Shattered

Our world celebrates the perfect—smooth, virgin surfaces, on our bodies and possessions alike. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, make the broken beautiful. Capture an intricate shatter. The Challenge Capture something that’s shattered. Whatever you like. However you like. The only requirement is that a shatter is the subject of the photo. The Technique I know,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Y chromosome isn’t going extinct after all

A few years back, we learned that the Y chromosome was essentially rotting, shedding hundreds of its genes over the last 300 million years. That isn’t wrong, but it turns out reports of the Y chromosome’s eventual extinction were premature. The X and Y chromosomes first emerged as the two sex-determining chromosomes – X for…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Magic Bullet Crosses Mexican Border to Hit Woman In Texas

According to El Paso’s Police Chief Gregory “Gregg” Allen, this morning a bullet crossed the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to Texas, striking down a 40-year-old woman after hitting her on the leg: We had a lady grazed by a stray bullet we believe could be from Mexico during a gun battle where a car…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Why Boosting Your Camera’s ISO Setting Can Make Your Photos Worse

B&N Will Give Nook Tablet Owners More Freedom Over Their Storage Space

The secret story behind Admiral Ackbar’s “It’s a trap!” line

Army Officer Teaches You How to Shoot Your DSLR Like a Rifle

Supercut: Every single maniacal laugh from Once Upon A Time’s Rumpelstiltskin

Apps That Abuse Privacy Will Now Be Punished By the Law

Thieves Snatch Briefcase Full of Secret Drone Documents in Public

Lying Is the Wrong Way to Raise Awareness About Climate Change

Holy crap, does this worm-like amphibian lay terrifying eggs

The World’s Deepest Land Bug Lives More Than a Mile Underground

Ikea Could Learn Something From This Self-Assembling Rising Table

Ridiculous: A Loose Cable Caused Those ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Particles

The Earth might have a “pulse” that causes extinctions every 60 million years

Scientists discover vast field of footprints from 8-million-year-old elephant herd

BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Review: A Beautiful Desert

This Mini Portable USB Turntable Is Your Preservationist Deal of the Day

Munch’s “The Scream” expected to fetch $80 million at auction

Shooting Challenge: Shattered

The Y chromosome isn’t going extinct after all

Magic Bullet Crosses Mexican Border to Hit Woman In Texas

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