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La Niña Is Kicking El Niño’s Ass

Move over, El Niño. You may be the strongest such climate pattern humans have ever recorded, and you may have given California crabs this week, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration can see right through you, and you’re losing ground. That’s right: the El Niño phenomenon that fueled endless weird weather, hot months, and…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Watch the 2016 Google I/O Keynote Right Here

Android VR, Chrome, self-driving cars, chatbots, and all kinds of other fun stuff. Google is going to tell us what the company has in store for the year—and many years— ahead. It all starts at 1pm ET/10am PT. Streaming the event is incredibly simple. Just feast your eyeballs on the YouTube livestream below. If you’re…

Tech News Darren Orf

Horrific Canadian Wildfires Now Overtaking Oil Facilities

The wildfire that swept through Fort McMurray two weeks ago has now breached a critical firebreak, threatening Canada’s largest oil production facilities, and forcing the evacuation of thousands more workers. As seen from space, this ongoing wildfire is a horrific sight to behold. Plans to restart oilsands production in northern Alberta were put on hold…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Wrong Winged Superhero Guy, DC Comics

Hawks are a kind of bird, yes. But Birdman and Hawkman are not the same character. This seems like something DC Comics should probably know. Whoever’s in charge of DC Comics’ twitter account just messed up when they sent this tweet promoting the launch of Future Quest—a new series that teams up old-school Hanna-Barbera characters—which…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Slick Editing Turns This Pudgy Pup Into a Drum Machine

The right editing can turn anything into a song. We’ve watched a guy turn a bass with no strings into a sweet beat. Hell, Andrew Huang’s built an entire YouTube channel on the concept. But this is the first time I’ve seen it done with a live animal. All sorts of percussive sounds can be…

Sploid Avery Ellis

This New, Much-Improved Ghostbusters Trailer Amps Up the Ghostly Action

The first trailer for the new Ghostbusters focused on this new group of heroes coming together as a team, but our latest look at the film dives a bit deeper into the story, and delivers a whole lot of Ghostbustin’ badassery to boot. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-ghostbusters-trailer-is-here-and-everything-lo-1762501978 Not everyone was a fan of the first trailer, but this…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Apple’s Latest Patent Hints at the All-Screen iPhone We Desperately Want

Apple is known for its seamless and aesthetically pleasing design. As smartphone design evolves, however, its chunky bottom bezel—where the home button lives—is starting to look mighty antiquated. Judging by a patent published yesterday, however, Apple might be fixing to leave the bezel behind. The concept, Patently Apple reports, is called “Man-machine interface for controlling…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Legendary Doctor Who Writer Paul Cornell Is Bringing the Third Doctor to Comics

Six Doctors down, six Doctors to go for Titan’s Doctor Who comics. With tales featuring Doctors 4, 8, and 9 through 12 already coming out from the company, it’s time for even more Time Lord action in the form of Jon Pertwee’s dandy scientist (and Venusian aikido expert), the Third Doctor. Cornell—best known to Doctor…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

A Mysterious Object Beyond Pluto Is Coming Into Focus

Pluto may be long gone, but NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is by no means finished with the outer solar system. For the second time, New Horizons has observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile wide Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) that orbits over 3 billion miles from the sun. The latest observations, which were made on April 7th…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

College Students Turned Go-Karts Into Mario Kart With Real-Life Power-Ups

Many of us spent a good portion of our college years battling it out in Mario Kart. Those carefully-honed skills aren’t exactly a big seller on your resume, unless you happen to be one of four Colorado State University students who created a real-life version of the game, complete with weapons and power-ups. It’s called…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What to Expect From Google I/O 2016

It’s once again time to learn about all the fun things Google’s planning for the next year. Google I/O 2016, which starts on May 18th, will be the company’s first developer conference under Alphabet, and this time around Android likely won’t be the focus of the big announcements—at least not the Android on your smartphone.…

Tech News Darren Orf

Clever Chess Set Is Already Set Up and Ready to Play When You Open the Box

Mastering the game of chess is infinitely complicated, but getting started just got easier with a chess board that’s perfectly set up and ready to go as soon as you open the box. That’s the genius of Preset Chess. Before newcomers can even begin to start learning how the various chess pieces move around the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

There’s Good News and Bad News About the Future of Marvel TV

A familiar face is confirmed for Transformers: The Last Knight. Shane Black hints at Schwarzenegger’s return for Predator. Bryan Singer says X-23 could appear in X-Force. Plus, more rumors about the Captain Marvel director, and descriptions of a mysterious new Krypton teaser. Spoilers now! Transformers: The Last Knight Michael Bay is “considering” letting Tyrese Gibson…

Television James Whitbrook

Queen Announces UK Push for Autonomous Cars and Drones

Every year, the Queen gives a speech about what the UK government will focus its attentions on over the coming twelve months. Today, she explained that, among other things, she wants the country to focus on autonomous cars and drones. During her speech, which takes place at the House of Lords in central London, she…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

There Are Going to Be New Nokia Android Phones and Tablets

Nokia has just announced that a licensing deal will see a new range of Android phones and tablets produced under its name for the next ten years. Earlier this morning, we found out that Microsoft was selling its feature phone business, branded using Nokia’s name, to a Foxconn subsidiary, FIH Mobile. Now, Nokia has explained…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Microsoft Is Selling Off Its Feature Phone Division

Microsoft has announced that it’s selling its feature phone division to Foxconn for the princely sum of $350 million. While Microsoft claims it will continue to work on Windows 10 Mobile and the Lumia smartphone brand, it will hand over all of the assets relating to its Nokia-branded feature phones, “including brands, software and services,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Explore Grand Central in Facebook’s First 360 Video

Remember when Facebook built a wacky 360-degree camera to record immersive video? Well, now it’s shot its first film, which allows you to explore New York’s Grand Central Terminal. Mark Zuckerberg posted the video to Facebook overnight, calling it “a preview of what a full-length virtual reality movie will feel like.” Especially if you’re a…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

This Stretchable Battery Pack Wraps Around Anything and Charges Itself

There’s one big obstacle holding back flexible electronics and conformable wearables, and that’s stiff and bulky li-ion batteries. Now, a team of scientists has developed a stretchable mesh of power cells that sticks to surfaces like a Band-Aid to skin—and it can even charge itself. The device has been built by a team of international…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Wonderfully Weird Short Film Mixes Together Alfred Hitchcock and Star Wars

Fabrice Mathieu turned Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest into a film that includes Star Wars characters and it’s totally bizarre and so weird that … I kind of like it? I mean, it’s just stupid fun to see Cary Grant run away from a TIE fighter, and stare at R2-D2, and wonder where in the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Making the Perfect Ice Cube Requires So Much More Than Just Freezing Water

Ice is very important to me. Outside of beer and orange juice, I believe that every drink can be improved with ice. But even I know my love for ice has its limits. It’s just frozen water, after all. But to Ross Simon from Bitter & Twisted Cocktail Parlour in Phoenix, Arizona, ice is so…

Sploid Casey Chan

La Niña Is Kicking El Niño’s Ass

Watch the 2016 Google I/O Keynote Right Here

Horrific Canadian Wildfires Now Overtaking Oil Facilities

Wrong Winged Superhero Guy, DC Comics

Slick Editing Turns This Pudgy Pup Into a Drum Machine

This New, Much-Improved Ghostbusters Trailer Amps Up the Ghostly Action

Apple’s Latest Patent Hints at the All-Screen iPhone We Desperately Want

Legendary Doctor Who Writer Paul Cornell Is Bringing the Third Doctor to Comics

A Mysterious Object Beyond Pluto Is Coming Into Focus

College Students Turned Go-Karts Into Mario Kart With Real-Life Power-Ups

What to Expect From Google I/O 2016

Clever Chess Set Is Already Set Up and Ready to Play When You Open the Box

There’s Good News and Bad News About the Future of Marvel TV

Queen Announces UK Push for Autonomous Cars and Drones

There Are Going to Be New Nokia Android Phones and Tablets

Microsoft Is Selling Off Its Feature Phone Division

Explore Grand Central in Facebook’s First 360 Video

This Stretchable Battery Pack Wraps Around Anything and Charges Itself

Wonderfully Weird Short Film Mixes Together Alfred Hitchcock and Star Wars

Making the Perfect Ice Cube Requires So Much More Than Just Freezing Water

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