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The Best Birth Control Is a Tiny Piece of Plastic Lodged Inside Your Uterus

What’s the most aggravating form of birth control? Taking a pill every day for most of your young adulthood or inserting a spindly plastic thingy—otherwise known as an intrauterine device—in your uterus? If you’re not a lady you’d guess the former. But you might be wrong. So why, you ask are these little whippersnappers just…

Apple Has More Dollars and Cents Than the US Government

You know something is wrong when the US Government has an operating cash balance of $73.8 billion at the end of the day and Apple has $76.3 billion. [The Atlantic; Shutterstock/bioraven]

Cockmuncher, Cyberfuc, Knobjockey, and the 473 Other Words on Google’s Banned List

Google’s What Do You Love site is a cute little way to both show off their web-scouring muscles and dazzle you with delicious info—about things you love! But what if you love semen, fannyflaps, or didlos? Tough shoot. https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-know-what-you-love-5816104 Jamie Wilkinson (co-creator of the internet treasure house Know Your Meme) extracted WDYL’s master list of…

The new cast of ThunderCats explains why this reboot is better than the original

What does do new ThunderCats have that the original kitties didn’t? World-building, and tons of it. Watch the new voice cast of the ThunderCats series compare this new version to The Hobbit. And of course, there’s an excellent Sword of Omens call to round it all out. In case you were wondering, above we have…

Twitter May Soon Flag Tweets With NSFW Content

Twitter could soon flag tweets containing links to inappropriate content with a NSFW designation. There’s a new field in the API designated “possibly_sensitive” that will appear when any tweet contains a link. Right now this field does nothing, but in the future, it could tag tweets with potentially offensive images and video links. Twitter users…

Exchange Students Find a Spy Camera in Their Bathroom, 6 Ways to Deal with a Hangover, and We Explain How to Throw Trout out of an Airplane

36 Incredible Photos…That Move http://gizmodo.com/5819367/shooting-challenge-cinemagraph/gallery/ They’re not quite photos. They’re not quite movies. They’re cinemagraphs, you made them and they’re so much more incredible than your run-of-the-mill animated gif. More » Let’s See If This Is Really the iPhone 5 https://gizmodo.com/lets-see-if-this-is-really-the-iphone-5-5825712 Team, we’re getting very close to iPhone 5 time. You can smell it by the…

Someday, People Will Fly in Planes Made by 3D Printers

A research team at the University Southampton have built a functioning aircraft from a 3D printer. Though it’s a fraction of the size of a normal aircraft (its wingspan is 6.5 feet), future plane designs might find the design techniques valuable. Eurekalert says that the team used a laser sintering machine, which assembles objects layer-by-layer…

Tweet Causes Riot At L.A. Film Premiere

It was chaos outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Wednesday night . A documentary about the Electric Daisy Carnival rave was ready for its world debut when a star in the film, DJ Kaskade, tweeted “Today(at)6pm in Hollywood (at)Mann’s Chinese Theatre. ME+BIG SPEAKERS+MUSIC(equals)BLOCK PARTY!!! RT!” It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened next.…

How crazy is Greek god adventure The Immortals going to get?

Tarsem Singh’s greased-up Greek god action flick Immortals looks like the sexiest take on Greek mythology yet — and leading lady Freida Pinto tells us that it gets pretty intense. We also asked Stephen Dorff about being the only mortal among the Immortals. And Dorff tells us about his ideas for a movie about Deacon…

This Lego Dragon Actually Spits Fire Off His Mouth

This beautiful red dragon made of Lego is called Firestorm and he actually breaths fire! Apparently, Lego bricks are more fireproof than I ever imagined. [Akama1 Flickr via Brothers Brick]

Flying mammals are a big waste of energy

Bats are the only mammals that can technically fly, but a lot of other creatures do a pretty good impression of flight by gliding down from the tops of tall trees. But there’s a problem: this behavior makes no sense. Lots of small mammals have perfected the art of gliding, using folds of skin to…

The NYT’s Top 50 Words You Don’t Understand

If you aren’t sure what panegyric, immiscible, or Manichaean mean (or if they’re even really English), fear not! Turns out nobody else does either. These literary head-scratchers are among the 50 most obscure words used by the New York Times this year. Compiled from NYT online articles run between January 1st and July 14th, the…

Visidon AppLock for Android: Pretend You Work for the CIA and Unlock Apps with Your Face

I’ve always wanted a job that gave me a super high security clearance that required facial scans to make sure it’s me. Sadly, I’ll probably never be that important. INSTEAD, I’ll make myself feel important by programming my phone to unlock by scanning my freaking face. What’s it do? It’s a security app meant to…

Matt Smith explains why Doctor Who’s darkest hour is yet to come

Doctor Who shook up its entire universe by revealing the truth about River Song — and then left us hanging all summer. How will River Song shape the Doctor’s future? We asked Matt Smith. We were lucky enough to have five minutes with the Doctor Who star, who told us what to expect from this…

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Be the Belle of the Bondage Ball with Knot Guide HD

Knot-tying, like calculus and corpse-disposal, is a skill you really only need when you really need it. And when you really need to know how to get out of a San Diego Jam, Knot Guide HD will show you how. Knot Guide, a longtime staple of the App Store, has received an HD upgrade and…

Daniel H. Wilson Unleashes Robopocalypse in Episode 41 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse, joins us to discuss super intelligent AIs, working with Steven Spielberg, and how to survive a robot uprising. Art by Roberto Robert Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. You can download the MP3 for this episode here, subscribe to The…

Why Knights of Badassdom is the ultimate adventure movie

We recently talked to Knights of Badassdom director Joe Lynch, who showed us new footage from his LARPing-meets-demons movie. He explained why this movie avoids CGI, what genre this is, and why this is the most authentic LARPing movie ever. First, let’s do a mildly spoiler-y description of the footage, which was dubbed “Succubeth Rising.”…

Tiny Robots Helping Tiny Robots Is an Adorable Thing

I’m so sick of this “robots are evil” trope—we created them. They live to serve. They love us. And they also love each other! Like these swarm bots who scurry around following their quadrocopter pal. Awwww. The Khepera robots, out of Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems, don’t talk to each other. Instead, they’re guided by…

Let’s See If This Is Really the iPhone 5

Team, we’re getting very close to iPhone 5 time. You can smell it by the rumors. In fact! Just now 9to5Mac posted a picture of what they say might be the next iPhone. Only one way to be sure: ENHANCE! According to the Apple rumor site, a tipster sent them a few choice shots of…