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‘iMom’ Will Haunt Your Dreams

“iMom” isn’t a short with a brand new idea or even a totally shocking plot twist. There are many stories about what happens when a piece of technology takes over a quintessentially human function (in this case, mothering). What is great about iMom, though, is the execution. Matilda Brown plays the robotic iMom better than…

President Barack Obama and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx are just a few of the civic leaders talking tech at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin. Catch our own Alissa Walkerin conversation with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, and author Gabe Klein on March 14.

Theranos Was Even More Reckless With Patients Than We Thought [Updated]

As blood testing startup Theranos works to remedy severe deficiencies in its lab practices, new details have emerged about the extent to which the company has put people’s lives in danger. According to an unreleased report obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the company performed an important blood test on 81 individuals despite erratic results.…

Everything We Know About Apple’s New 9.7-Inch iPad Pro [UPDATE]

While almost everyone in the universe is convinced tablets are dead, destined to be replaced by some hybrid laptop, Apple remains committed to the product category. If rumors are true, Apple is doubling down on its insistence that we all need new tablets. The company is rumored to be working on a brand new, ultra-slim…

The Creators of That Drake Coloring Book Now Have a Kim Kardashian Connect-the-Dots

If coloring books were somehow able to make a miraculous comeback in a time when even watches are an entertaining distraction, there’s no reason that connect-the-dots puzzles can’t be popular again too. And there’s no better person than the most-famous Kardashian to help bring connect-the-dots back into the spotlight. The same folks behind that Drake…

There’s Nothing Fishy About These Sushi Cakes

Using her enviable baking skills, Yolanda of How To Cake It turned batter, fondant, and icing into a mouth-watering sushi dinner, complete with pickled ginger and wasabi paste. At the heart of the futomaki are chunks of a jelly roll, while the nigiri are plain old vanilla cake filled with a ginger buttercream. Making cakes…

Cyborg Rats Solve Mazes Better and Faster Than Normal Rats 

Chinese scientists have created “cyborgized” rats that perform better on maze tests than normal rats and a computer algorithm. It’s an exciting proof-of-concept that heralds the potential for “cyborg intelligence.” The details have just been published in PLOS One. Digital computers and biological brains are capable of remarkable feats, but their competencies don’t always overlap.…

That Secret 3D Scan of Nefertiti’s Bust Was a Hoax 

Last month, Gizmodo and other outlets reported on artists who had secretly 3D scanned Nefertiti’s Bust, making it available for anyone to 3D print. Well, we were fooled—it appears it was a hoax, and the scan is not new. Multimedia artist and 3D printing consultant Cosmo Wenman investigated the claims made by Nora Al-Badri and…

Add These Gorgeous Scifi Landscapes to Your Art Collection Right Now

As recognizable as the characters in our favorite scifi movies are, the landscapes are what completes the vision. A new poster set by artist Jordan Buckner focuses on these familiar cinematic vistas, and each one is more gorgeous than the next. Buckner’s 12-print series is called “Visions of a Past, Present and Future” and it…

Surround Yourself With 360 Degrees of Kittens

San Francisco’s Kit Tea is the city’s first cat cafe, where patrons can hang out with (and adopt) the 10 to 15 felines milling around inside. A regular hour-long visit usually runs about $20, but now you can spend twice that time inside for free, thanks to this 360-degree video made by Everything is Film.…

In Defense of Furries

I wrote a post about Disney’s efforts to market Zootopia to furries last week, and I really pissed off some furries by describing the community as “people who like to roleplay as animals for sex reasons.” The following is an email I received from a furry named Brooke, published with her permission: Recently I stumbled…

Ford Just Patented an Absurd Movie Screen Windshield For Driverless Cars

If Ford has its way, we’ll all be comfortably watching porn (or a nice movie) while hurtling along the highway at 70 miles-per-hour. A new patent issued to the auto giant on March 1 includes plans for a driverless car with a weirdly complex built-in entertainment system. The patent describes an autonomous car with screens…

Lumberjanes and Gotham Academy Are Getting the Most Delightful Comic Crossover Ever

This news is as entirely unexpected as it is great: Boom! Studios has announced that its wildly successful teen comic series Lumberjanes is going to crossover with DC Comics’ very own Gotham Academy, creating what might just be the hippest teen mystery team-up in comic book history. Announced through Village Voice, the six-part series from…

Some Guy Figured Out How to Hack Into Any Facebook Profile [updated]

A white hat hacker in India says he found a way to hack into any Facebook user’s profile. Don’t freak out though! Like a good white hat, the hacker alerted Facebook to the disastrous loophole. Facebook paid him a $15,000 bug bounty. Seems small. Anand Prakash is the aforementioned security engineer from India. In a…

How a Brush With Death Inspired The Only Living Boy

David Gallaher and Steve Ellis’ ongoing scifi webcomic The Only Living Boy follows Erik Farrell, a 12-year-old lost on a strange alien world after he runs away from home. Writing for io9, Gallaher reveals the personal tragedy that inspired Erik’s story—and how being diagnosed with epilepsy transformed the way he wrote comics. My Winter Beard…

It Looks Like Climate Change Drove These Giant Marine Reptiles To Extinction

A hundred million years ago, ichthyosaurs—massive marine reptiles that look like a dolphin mated with a fish—ruled Earth’s oceans. But nearly 30 million years before the extinction of the dinosaurs, these badass predators vanished. It wasn’t an asteroid that killed the ichthyosaurs, so what did? A new study argues that it was climate change. The…

Good news, Supergirl fans—a second season is all but confirmed. CBS CEO Les Moonves has announced that five of the network’s new shows from this current season, including Supergirl and Limitless, will definitely be renewed for new seasons. It’s not 100 percent official yet, but it’s about as close as you can get. Contact the…

We Think We Know What These Mysterious Glimmers on Titan’s Surface Are

There’s something glimmering on Titan’s surface, and the truth behind the cause could be crazier than we expected. The strangeness began in 2013. The Cassini spacecraft had just spotted glimmers on the surface of Ligeia Mare, a vast hydrocarbon sea located near Titan’s north pole. The glimmers weren’t there in 2007, and by 2014, they…

The Elektra Movie Is Somehow So Much Worse Than You Remember

When Daredevil returns for season two later this month, we’ll be treated to Élodie Yung as Elektra Natchios. The last time the Greek ninja had a live-action performance, she was portrayed by Jennifer Garner in the critically unacclaimed 2005 movie of the same name. And yet I’m here to tell you it’s infinitely more terrible…

Holy Crap, Craig Robinson Is Joining Mr. Robot

The comedian who starred in The Office and Hot Tub Time Machine will be joining USA’s hacker drama, which is supposed to get even more intense in season two. Variety reports that Craig Robinson has signed on as a recurring guest star for the next season of Mr. Robot, which started filming yesterday in New…