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Sanity-Saving Gifts for the Stressed-Out Student

College. Ugh. Nonstop, privileged toil. Growing up is sooooo hard. Days without sleep, binge-drinking, experimenting with bodies—it’s a miracle that anyone learns anything. These gifts won’t print a diploma, but they will help your student earn one. 1. iPad The laptop’s reign as the must-have college accessory has ended. The iPad is king. It does…

Tech News Michael Zhao

The Hacker Watch: Gold Has Never Looked So Modern

Despite the name, Michael Young’s Hacker Watch is as inspired by the industrial 21st century cyberpunk aesthetic as it is something more ancient and opulent—almost like a sundial built as a tribute to Helios. The scooped edges, the gold (coloring), the chunk of metal smack dab in the middle. Hardly indicative of the cool and…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Watch how aliens abducted John Wayne’s grandson in Cowboys and Aliens

In this exclusive behind the scenes clip from Cowboys & Aliens, watch John Wayne’s grandson cower before the very difficult task of being thrown into the sky off a horse! Thank goodness Olivia Wilde was there. This is but a clip of the many behind-the-scenes features you can find on the Cowboys & Aliens DVD…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Warehouse 13‘s Joanne Kelly: “I would love” to see H.G. Wells and Myka get together

Warehouse 13 is back on Tuesday, with a brand new holiday special on Syfy. And we were lucky enough to talk on the phone one-on-one with Joanne Kelly, who plays Myka Bering. She told us why the H.G. Wells-Myka sexual tension was the actors’ idea, and just how far she’d like to see that relationship…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Disgusting New Crab Species Eats Food Grown On Its Own Arms

This is one of the weirdest animals I’ve ever seen: a furry white crab that only eats the bacteria growing on its claws and arms. It looks like a disgusting Christmas ornament if disgusting Christmas ornaments ate their own bristles. This large yeti crab species, identified by marine ecologist Andrew Thurber, allows a symbiotic bacteria…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Scientific fraud Diederik Stapel signs off on his first official retraction

Early last month, prominent social psychologist Diederik Stapel was outed as one of the biggest frauds in scientific history when he admitted to fabricating results in numerous scientific studies. The committees charged with investigating Stapel’s work continue to pore over the results from over 150 of publications in search of fraudulent data, but yesterday, Stapel…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Why Are Some iMacs Being Delayed 5-7 Weeks?

AppleInsider noticed something peculiar about some build-to-orders iMacs; they went from a shipping estimate of 1-3 days to 5-7 weeks. Specifically, the delay affects any iMac that is equipped with a 2TB hard drive. What’s going on? The answer could lie with the floods in Thailand right now, as Thailand supplies a significant portion of…

Tech News Casey Chan

Here’s Why Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics

Siri, are you pro-life? Siri, are you a proto-Republibot? Siri, are you… just a crappy search engine? Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land raises a point that makes a lot of sense: Siri’s regrettable Abortiongate scandal mirrors, more or less, the growing pains that Google faced as it went from popular upstart to search monolith:…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Sexy Captain Hook sucks the magic out of Syfy’s Neverland

How many Lost Boys must you stab with a rusty knife to get to the heart of Peter Pan? Quite a few, according to Syfy’s new miniseries Neverland. When this Peter Pan origins tale isn’t gutting small children with giant swords, it’s pumping Native Americans full of bullets and pushing Pirates off cliffs. Oh and…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Brink Is Your Reason-To-Stay-Indoors-This-Weekend Deal of the Day

To be honest, I know nothing about Brink. Our friends at Kotaku says its a class-based FPS. I know FPS. I like FPS. I also like KFC. And UFC. And NBA, NFL, MLB. NBC and ABC are cool too. IBM and AMD, totally fine. CIA, FBI, NSA, sweet. LAX, JFK, SFO, dope. Oh! And USA.…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

The Windows 8 Public Beta Rumored for a February Release

TheNextWeb has sources at Microsoft telling them that the Windows 8 public beta will arrive in February of next year, though little is known about what new features might be included in the beta. The beta will follow the release of the developer preview build, which offered an extremely limited glimpse at the anticipated OS…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Must Watch: NASA’s Amazing 3D Video of Asteroid Vesta

Back in July, NASA’s Dawn probe began orbiting the asteroid Vesta. As it approached, and while it orbited, Dawn was busy recording images, which members of the Dawn team here on Earth have compiled into a 3-D video. (You can see it without 3-D glasses, but for the full effect, you could buy a pair,…

io9 Sophie Bushwick

This Samsung Galaxy S II Started Burning In a Man’s Pocket And Almost Blew His Nuts Off

It’s not just iPhones that are blowing up these days, this Samsung Galaxy S II almost exploded in a man’s pants. Seriously. Could you imagine if your phone caught fire and started burning everything in your nether regions? Ouchouchouch. According to an XDA-developer forum member, his friend first heard a sound and then felt a…

Tech News Casey Chan

How to Use Time Travel to Ruin Your Own Life, in a Dozen Easy Lessons

Time travel opens up all sorts of weird possibilities — especially when you visit your own past. There are paradoxes. There is endless weirdness. The past is a foreign country, so let’s invade it and dump our toxic waste there. And so on. As far as metaphysical novels about time travel go, Evan Mandery’s Q…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Is Mars really red?

You hear us refer to it as the “Red Planet” all the time, and any amateur stargazer will tell you that it definitely appears red in the night sky — but is Mars actually red? As this one-minute video from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains, the answer is yes. Kind of. Sometimes. [Spotted on SkeptTV]…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Nike MAG—AKA the Back to the Future Shoes—Will Be at Gizmodo Gallery

When Nike finally released the Nike MAG (aka the shoes Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II), we couldn’t believe it. Did we just time travel? Has 2015 arrived already? Where’s Doc? Those are the same questions you’ll be asking at Gizmodo Gallery, because we’ll be showing off the Nike Mag all week.…

Tech News Casey Chan

Will Burying Mass Quantities of Carbon Dioxide Relieve Our Global Warming Pains?

Whenever I have something laying around my room and I don’t wanna deal with it, I just toss it under my bed. . That mentality has to work for carbon emissions, right? BoingBoing’s Maggie Koreth-Baker has a great article about an imaginative, if not entirely permanent, idea for addressing climate change: bury CO2 underground. Koreth-Baker…

Climate Change Adrian Covert

Shoot Fish for Coins, Go Mining in Space, and Get Medieval on Your Apps

The weekend’s so close you can almost taste it. It tastes like lollipops and sunshine. Let’s kick off the week’s end with a free-gaming-app Friday edition of app deals. Space mining seems like a good idea for a game. But in reality, with dwindling resources on Earth, you could be learning a valuable job skill.…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Google’s Getting Hit with a 400-Page Smackdown from the European Commission

The European Commission is the latest governing body to jump on the Google antitrust dogpile. According to the FT, it’s about to serve Google with a 400-page statement of objections, containing a litany of by-now familiar complaints. The complaints against Google from the EC mirror the qualms the FTC has with the search giant. Mainly,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Child Psychology of Sesame Street

Sesame Street has been there for three generations of children at this point. Everyone reading this has cherished memories of their favorite characters or segments. They seemed entirely organic. But psychologists (along with other creators) shaped every last one of them Find out about the child psychology of the street. Sesame Street was a bright…

Television Esther Inglis-Arkell

Sanity-Saving Gifts for the Stressed-Out Student

The Hacker Watch: Gold Has Never Looked So Modern

Watch how aliens abducted John Wayne’s grandson in Cowboys and Aliens

Warehouse 13‘s Joanne Kelly: “I would love” to see H.G. Wells and Myka get together

This Disgusting New Crab Species Eats Food Grown On Its Own Arms

Scientific fraud Diederik Stapel signs off on his first official retraction

Why Are Some iMacs Being Delayed 5-7 Weeks?

Here’s Why Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics

Sexy Captain Hook sucks the magic out of Syfy’s Neverland

Brink Is Your Reason-To-Stay-Indoors-This-Weekend Deal of the Day

The Windows 8 Public Beta Rumored for a February Release

Must Watch: NASA’s Amazing 3D Video of Asteroid Vesta

This Samsung Galaxy S II Started Burning In a Man’s Pocket And Almost Blew His Nuts Off

How to Use Time Travel to Ruin Your Own Life, in a Dozen Easy Lessons

Is Mars really red?

The Nike MAG—AKA the Back to the Future Shoes—Will Be at Gizmodo Gallery

Will Burying Mass Quantities of Carbon Dioxide Relieve Our Global Warming Pains?

Shoot Fish for Coins, Go Mining in Space, and Get Medieval on Your Apps

Google’s Getting Hit with a 400-Page Smackdown from the European Commission

The Child Psychology of Sesame Street

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