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Bill Gates Building Nuke Plant for China

What do you do when you’ve run out of things to spend money on, and everyone already uses your software? How about developing a nuclear plant with China? Sure! Bill Gates is doing just that, the AP reports. For science? Although Gates says his baby nuclear energy company, TerraPower, is having “very good discussions” with…

Tech News Sam Biddle

NASA claims to have found “bullet proof evidence” of Mars’ watery past

A few weeks ago, NASA scientists announced they’d discovered something completely new on the surface of the Red Planet. Now they know what it is —and they’re calling it the most powerful evidence for liquid water on Mars ever encountered by the Opportunity Rover. The unassuming mineral vein, nicknamed “Homestake” by its discoverers, measures just…

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21st Century Children Raised by Wild Animals

Tales of children raised by wolves and other wild animals are strewn throughout human history and fiction, with one of the earliest surrounding Romulus and Remus and the founding of Rome. Most modern stories of this sort turn out to be false when subjected to scrutiny. A Syrian Gazelle-Boy covered by Life magazine in the…

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Now THAT’S How You Open a Gallery

Ouch, my head hurts. I don’t know if it’s because I had a little too much to drink or if I just experienced far too many different kinds of incredible at the #GizmodoGallery opening last night. Woz hung out! Antics ensued! We almost broke Santa Claw! Has anybody seen Mascari? How do you kick off…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Has the first viral marketing for The Dark Knight Rises revealed the brain behind Bane?

It’s been many years since the infamous “Why So Serious” and “I Believe in Harvey Dent” Dark Knight virals that had fans running all over America to attend secret clip screenings, and papered the streets with Gotham paraphernalia. Now, at last, it’s time to dust off your Christian Bale whisper-scream, because The Dark Knight Rises…

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A haunting audio/visual representation of a geomagnetic storm

Geomagnetic storms are probably most famous for generating especially vibrant aurorae — some of the most breathtaking natural light displays on Earth. But these storms also give rise to all manner of electromagnetic interference across the radio spectrum — interference that gets picked up and measured by equipment here on Earth, like Canada’s CARISMA radio…

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How the Rubens’ Tube turns music into fire

The Rubens’ Tube is a lit gas jet attached via a tube to a stereo speaker. When the speaker kicks into gear, the changes in pressure along the tube make the the flames spring up or die down in waves as the music plays. You may have seen a version of this if you’ve attended…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A theory that explains why females like to have sexy female friends

Humanity isn’t the only species where females have to put up with unwanted advances from males. Researchers from the universities of Copenhagen and Exeter looked into how other species deal with this problem. They hypothesized that females select more sexually attractive social companions in order to draw the attention away from themselves — that’s right,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

The latest top choices to play the main villain in the Star Trek sequel, plus crucial details about Peter Weller’s character!

Gary Oldman reveals Harvey Dent’s legacy on The Dark Knight Rises. Tom Hiddleston reveals Loki’s Avengers torment. Stars Max Minghella and Olivia Thirlby discuss The Darkest Hour’s Moscow setting. Steven Spielberg wants Michael Bay to do Transformers 4. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight Rises Gary…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Double-Amputee Soldier Skydives with His War Dog

I was ready to face the possibility that the war dog well ran dry—no further awesomeness of fur and daring could be extracted. I was wrong. This prosthetic-legged warrior jumped out of a plane, war dog in tow. The soldier in question wrote in to DefenseTech with his small story: “I am still rocking! For…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Activity Book For Young Scientists Encourages Coloring Inside the Cellular Walls

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Introductory Calculus For Infants comes another book dedicated to introducing scientific concepts to kids in a fun way so the subjects seem less intimidating when they finally get to school. The Coloring Book For Very Young Scientists, from Nerdy Baby, fills over sixty pages with puzzles and activities like…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

This Camera Filmed Star Wars

If you had $625,000, this Panavision PSR 35mm camera could have been yours. Which is expensive. But it also happened to have filmed most of Star Wars. So, yeah, money well spent. The beautiful late-60s camera was purchased at auction from Hollywood starlet of decades ago, Debbie Reynolds, who had been holding onto it for…

Tech News Sam Biddle

If the Candyland Illuminati existed, they would’ve directed this J-Pop music video

This is Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, a Harajuku model/singer whose music video for the song “PONPONPON” won fans across the globe for its thrilling reenactment of what would happen if you subsisted solely on ayahuasca and gumdrops for a few weeks. For her latest music video “Tsukematsukeru” — which is about fake eyelashes — the singer…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Happy Death Day to Cicero, the World’s First Internet Troll

Today is a solemn one: December 7th, 43 BC, Ancient Greek sculptor Marcus Tullius Cicero passes suddenly, tragically from this planet. The demise of Cicero, inarguably the most baleful anniversary of this dark date, arcs to our era: internet trolling lives. Though he didn’t, in a strict technical sense, use the internet, Cicero operated on…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Sat Chair Hides Your Satellite Dish In Plain Sight

In many high-rise buildings satellite dishes are banned for safety or aesthetic reasons. But since patio furniture is still ok, Sat+ has created a chair-shaped satellite dish secretly giving you hundreds of channels without being hassled by your landlord. The chair provides the same level of reception as a 24-inch dish, and manages to incorporate…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Marvelous Gifts for the Comic Fanboy

Comics are cool now. Well, kind of cool. Acceptable. But it’s not all pasty nerds reading comics in the dark in their parents’ basements anymore—lots of us have moved on to reading in the dark in our own homes and apartments. Here’s how to buy for the comic fanboy in your life. 1. iPad The…

Books & Comics Kyle Wagner

Nokia’s WP7-Powered Lumia 710 Is (Probably) Coming to T-Mobile

WPcentral did some digging around on the FCCs site and came up with the instruction manual for a T-Mobile branded, Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 710. Sadly, no, it’s not this phone, but rather this phone. As it turns out, the actual manual for the device that comes with the phone is now online via the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Facebook Sex, PlayBook Tears, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. 3% of People Facebook During Sex 1. Not buying it. 2. Is “Facebook” a verb yet? Is…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Will ‘Viagra in a Condom’ Get Guys To Like Using One?

The rubber, the cock sock, the goalie, the love glove, the salami sling. No matter how many adorable monikers it gets, no one really likes a condom very much. But that all might be about to change, at least for dudes. Durex has a new condom out that promises to enhance erections with a gel…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Gizmodo Gallery Opening Party

G-Unit’s DJ Whoo Kid, Steve Wozniak, and Gizmodo’s Joe Brown Steve Wozniak, Nick Denton Eclectic Method in the Santa Claw Perceptive Pixel’s Jeff Hahn and Mary Bentley Houk The Daily’s Justin Rocket Silverman Gawker’s Meredith Katz Woz and NYU’s Clay Shirky NBC Today’s Vanessa Rae Gizmodo’s Chris Mascari and Splitsider’s Adam Frucci Woz and Gizmodo’s…

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Bill Gates Building Nuke Plant for China

NASA claims to have found “bullet proof evidence” of Mars’ watery past

21st Century Children Raised by Wild Animals

Now THAT’S How You Open a Gallery

Has the first viral marketing for The Dark Knight Rises revealed the brain behind Bane?

A haunting audio/visual representation of a geomagnetic storm

How the Rubens’ Tube turns music into fire

A theory that explains why females like to have sexy female friends

The latest top choices to play the main villain in the Star Trek sequel, plus crucial details about Peter Weller’s character!

Double-Amputee Soldier Skydives with His War Dog

Activity Book For Young Scientists Encourages Coloring Inside the Cellular Walls

This Camera Filmed Star Wars

If the Candyland Illuminati existed, they would’ve directed this J-Pop music video

Happy Death Day to Cicero, the World’s First Internet Troll

Sat Chair Hides Your Satellite Dish In Plain Sight

Marvelous Gifts for the Comic Fanboy

Nokia’s WP7-Powered Lumia 710 Is (Probably) Coming to T-Mobile

Facebook Sex, PlayBook Tears, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Will ‘Viagra in a Condom’ Get Guys To Like Using One?

Gizmodo Gallery Opening Party

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