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Army Tests Its Own Secret Supersonic Attack Vehicle

The good old days of threatening the world with a jillion nuclear ICBMs are over. Drones work great, but are relatively sluggish. So what if we need to blow something up in a hurry? The Army’s got a new toy. The Pentagon announced a rare successful weapons test today, claiming its Advanced Hypersonic Weapon—basically a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How to Prepare For The Next Great Depression

Some economists are referring to our current economic malaise as the “Lesser Depression” — but it could be getting worse soon. Europe is unraveling, China’s October output fell off a cliff and the U.S. Supercommittee is about to push a round of austerity. It’s not too late to start unleashing your inner survivalist, in case…

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Please Don’t Tell Me the Galaxy Nexus Comes Preloaded with Verizon Crapware

The best thing about Google’s Nexus line is that it’s supposed to be Google’s pure vision of what an Android phone should be. The reference phone for the HTCs, Motorolas and Samsungs of the world to copy. It’s supposed to be clean, set standards and lead the pack. SO WHY THE HELL DOES THE GALAXY…

Tech News Casey Chan

Skype’s Updated App Lets You Make Facebook-to-Facebook Video Calls

Skype’s been powering Facebook’s video chat feature since July, but its new apps for Windows and OS X now let you use the Skype client to directly make video calls to your Facebook friends. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-skype-video-chat-something-awesome-upda-5818418 The new interface is really simple. You just link your Skype and Facebook accounts, and your Skype friends list is…

Social Media Kyle Wagner

Seeing a Smoke and Fire Breathing Human Is So Wrong

Double you tee eff doesn’t begin to explain this. This lunatic takes being a pyro to the next level. He stuffs his mouth with some sort of powder, waves a fan through his ear and starts a fire THROUGH HIS MOUTH. I’m not sure if I should be grossed out or impressed, I mean, the…

Tech News Casey Chan

Hear a chorus of electric fish

So what do you get when you put together a tank full of black ghost knife fish, some audio equipment, and a bunch of crazy people? A fish chorus. Black ghost knife fish, which would totally be an awesome name for a band, use electricity to pick up information about their surroundings. If sensors convert…

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Get a Crash Course in the Life of Philip K. Dick

Those familiar with Philip K. Dick’s prolific body of work (which includes Scanner Darkly and Now Wait For Last Year) know that he hardly treated time as a linear experience. An over-arching theme in much of his writing is the way his characters—consciously, or not—operate outside of the temporal structure. Which is why it’s so…

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Walking Through Doorways Causes You to Forget, Stupid

You ever get up to do something, walk into another room, and then immediately forget what you were going to do? Don’t worry, it’s probably not early onset Alzheimer’s. Turns out it was the door’s fault. Yep. The door. A new study from Gabriel Radvansky, a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame,…

Tech News Brent Rose

Fresalina Limoneta is the scariest slice of lab-grown cake you’ve ever seen

Let’s get one thing right out in the open: I’m all for lab-grown food. I think that lab-grown meat and burgers, for example, could soon become a great way to circumvent a lot of the environmental and ethical problems of today’s meat industry. But I think we can all agree that if our foodstuffs were…

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Meet the SRW-S1 Steering Wheel: High-End Racing Control on the Go

Playing a sick racing game with a joystick just doesn’t cut it. Like, at all. You need a wheel at the very least. They’re usually big and will set you back hundreds. This won’t do either. The SRW-S1 from Steel Series was designed specifically for Simraceway, but it should work with any other game, too.…

Tech News Brent Rose

Can Food/Life Get Any Better Than Spiral Hot Dogs? (Answer: NO, NO IT CAN’T)

Life is wondrous, my friends. How can we not be elated to have the privilege of experiencing this astonishing planet and all the marvels that it contains? Perhaps you aren’t sure? It’s fine. Behold, the spiral hot dog. Spellbound. It only requires hotdogs, a knife and a long drill bit. Pleasure and joy was never…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Adding electrode arrays to your brain can stop seizures

Medicine increasingly involves modifying your body with technology, becoming a little bit cyborg to lead a normal human life. Case in point: new research suggests that brain implants may be the best treatment for epileptic seizures. Called “electrode array monitoring technologies,” these devices wire the brain with a hair-thin electrode and could make dangerous seizures…

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Keeping Up With Runkeeper

Runkeeper was one of the original iOS apps. It started off simply: turn it on and it would monitor how far and fast you ran. But the really interesting stuff began once Runkeeper opened up beyond the phone. As Runkeeper began to support more devices it released a public API, and suddenly it was sitting…

Tech News Mat Honan

The 16GB Nook Tablet Only Lets You Use 1GB Freely

So the Nook Tablet has a dumb little quirk: of its 16GB capacity, only a gig is freely accessible to users, meaning anything you don’t download through Barnes and Noble, or any approved app, is limited to that teensy sliver of memory. Maximum PC first made the discovery yesterday, and Barnes and Noble confirmed the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

NBC orders a pilot for The Munsters from Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller

The Munsters are coming back in a big way, thanks to Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller — and it won’t be a comedy. Deadline is reporting that NBC is keen to get Fuller’s revamped Munsters show for the summer. And Fuller has reimagined the entire thing as a one-hour drama. But knowing Fuller, it will…

Television Meredith Woerner

Nano-Scale LEDs Toast Lasers When It Comes to Data Transfer

When it comes to transferring huge amounts of data in the fastest possible time, copper sucks. What you need to use is light. Until now that meant lasers—but nano-scale LEDs can do it with a fraction of the energy. Plenty of laser data transfer systems already exist, designed to replace circuitry on motherboards in supercomputers.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Asus Transformer Prime Smart Cover Has More Folds Than an Origami Crane

When it’s finally available, Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime will be inevitably compared and reviewed against the iPad. And one feature that will certainly help its cause is this Smart Cover that takes a more intricate folding approach to Apple’s original design. https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-the-worlds-fir-5857759 Revealed on Amazon’s German site, the $53 Smart Cover doesn’t do much…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch NASA’s new astronaut recruitment video

Looking for work? Have a math, science, or engineering degree? NASA’s posted a job listing you should really have a look at. Oh, and I almost forgot: you should also be open to the idea of space travel. Every 2-4 years, NASA recruits a new crop of astronauts to add to its corps of highly…

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These Are the Real McFly Shoes of the Future—and Their Matching Spacesuit

One of the coolest things at the AMNH’s Beyond Planet Earth exhibition is the next-generation spacesuit, made of a stretchy fabric made of spandex, nylon and a new substance that will eliminate baggy suits forever. Skinny is in on Mars. https://gizmodo.com/you-cant-miss-the-new-beyond-planet-earth-exhibition-at-5859864 The coolest thing, however, may be the shoes. And the real life Tricorder. It’s…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

I Wish There Were More Samurais To Use This Craftsman’s Swords

Kill Bill bloodbaths notwithstanding, ex-assassins with traditional sword training do not wander the streets looking for vengeance IRL. Still, this interview with one of Japan’s 30 last-remaining sword craftsmen is totally inspirational. Maybe sword craft is somewhat outdated, but Korehira Watanabe’s dedication is timeless. The craftsman defied the wishes of his family and has been…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Army Tests Its Own Secret Supersonic Attack Vehicle

How to Prepare For The Next Great Depression

Please Don’t Tell Me the Galaxy Nexus Comes Preloaded with Verizon Crapware

Skype’s Updated App Lets You Make Facebook-to-Facebook Video Calls

Seeing a Smoke and Fire Breathing Human Is So Wrong

Hear a chorus of electric fish

Get a Crash Course in the Life of Philip K. Dick

Walking Through Doorways Causes You to Forget, Stupid

Fresalina Limoneta is the scariest slice of lab-grown cake you’ve ever seen

Meet the SRW-S1 Steering Wheel: High-End Racing Control on the Go

Can Food/Life Get Any Better Than Spiral Hot Dogs? (Answer: NO, NO IT CAN’T)

Adding electrode arrays to your brain can stop seizures

Keeping Up With Runkeeper

The 16GB Nook Tablet Only Lets You Use 1GB Freely

NBC orders a pilot for The Munsters from Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller

Nano-Scale LEDs Toast Lasers When It Comes to Data Transfer

Asus Transformer Prime Smart Cover Has More Folds Than an Origami Crane

Watch NASA’s new astronaut recruitment video

These Are the Real McFly Shoes of the Future—and Their Matching Spacesuit

I Wish There Were More Samurais To Use This Craftsman’s Swords

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