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Here’s Your Exclusive First Look Of Kameron Hurley’s Upcoming Novel The Stars Are Legion

Kameron Hurley is one of the more exciting authors to break into the science fiction publishing field in recent years. Her upcoming book, The Stars Are Legion is one of our most anticipated books this year, and we have an exclusive first look at it! Here’s what the book is about: Somewhere on the outer…

Whatever You Do, Don’t Set Your iPhone To 1970 [Updated]

The tech world loves their Easter eggs, from Adventure’s original hidden feature to Tesla’s various car tricks. But don’t fall for the recent claims for one hidden in your iPhone: if you attempt it, you’ll brick your device. A prank originating from 4chan claims that if you set your iPhone’s (5s models and up) date…

Lionel Has Turned the Classic Model Train Set Into a Race Track

It’s a testament to the devotion of train enthusiasts that model railroads have remained a popular hobby for over 100 years. And to keep another generation interested in the toys, Lionel has turned its classic trains into something that looks more like a slot car track. But where as you usually need to clear a…

Lego Star Wars Returns to Hoth With This Amazing Playset

There have been rumors of a massive new Star Wars set based on Echo Base from Empire Strikes Back for ages now, but they’ve finally been confirmed: Lego have just announced a gigantic new set jam packed with so much goodness even the smell of Tauntaun insides couldn’t ruin it. Assault on Hoth contains over…

Gillian Flynn Has Sold Her Short Story The Grownup To Universal For An Absurd Amount of Money

Gillian Flynn, author of such blockbuster books as Gone Girl, Sharp Objects and Dark Spaces, has just sold the rights to her short story, The Grownup to Universal Pictures for “high-six figures”. The short story follows a con artist who comes across what she thinks is an easy mark. When she accompanies the woman to…

The World’s Largest Rubik’s Cube Is 10,000X More Frustrating

Because apparently a regular-sized Rubik’s Cube wasn’t already enough of a challenge, Tony Fisher built himself a version that’s over five feet long on each side. Even just bringing it out to play looks like a monumental struggle, let alone the back-breaking challenge that is trying to solve it. Fisher is still perfecting the design…

Armed With Your Nerf Blasters this Go-Kart Becomes a Mad Max-Like War Machine

Here’s another thing to add to your ‘I really wish they had these when I was a kid’ wish list. If just the thought of running into battle carrying three or four Nerf blasters leaves you breathless, the Battle Racer from Hauck Toys makes it easy to simply roll up with a heavy duty arsenal…

Watching These Videos May Make You Feel as Good as Doing Drugs

If you’ve experienced it, you know what I’m talking about, although you might not have known the name for it. It’s when a sound triggers a physiological response from your body—perhaps a slight tingling that starts at the nape of your neck. It feels gooooood. But what is it? Welcome to Gizmodo’s Happy Hour. Substance…

Ripley Has a Habit of Removing Her Jumpsuit at the Worst Moment in This 1986 Aliens Spoof

Back when Aliens was the number one movie in America, Sigourney Weaver took to Saturday Night Live for their 12th season opener, and took part in an Aliens spoof. The skit is… sort of interesting, but the joke on Ripley randomly removing her jumpsuit for no reason is pretty classic. Also, E.T. had it coming.…

Over at The Monitor, David Bowles is reviewing some of the best science fiction books of all time. Read his reviews of The Left Hand of Darkness, Ender’s Game, 1984 and Dune, and keep your eyes open for more installments. Dune cover art via Scientific American

This May Be the Season The Walking Dead Finally Goes Too Far

The Walking Dead has never been accused of being a happy show, but it’s one of the few series to be called “misery porn”—an exercise in watching characters face tragedy after tragedy until their eventual horrible deaths. I’ve never thought this was true… but having seen this Sunday’s mid-season premiere, I wonder if the show…

This Video of People Climbing a Skyscraper Is So Damn Stressful

Shun Hung Square is a 1,260-foot tall skyscraper that’s the third tallest building in Shenzhen, China. It’s really, really tall. And watching the guys from On the Roofs climb it gets more and more stressful because they just keep going up. You think they’ve reached the top but there’s still another level that’s narrower and…

Suck It Dudes. Science Proves Women Are Better Coders.

Guys may loudly rule the dark corners of the internet and be considered the “computer nerds,” but according to a new paper from Cal Poly and North Carolina State University, it’s the ladies who are kicking ass and taking names when it comes to coding. The paper, still awaiting peer review and thus subject to…

Let’s Talk About That Badass Fight Scene in Last Night’s The 100 

In last night’s episode of The 100, we finally got to see Lexa, the fearless commander of the Grounder coalition, fight in one-on-one combat. And she kicked some serious butt. It was yet another reminder that this is one of the most feminist shows on TV right now. Grounder technology may be primitive, but when…

Lego has announced a series of animated shorts set just before Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The first episode of Lego Star Wars: The Resistance Rises, focusing on Poe Dameron rescuing Admiral Ackbar from the clutches of Captain Phasma, airs next Monday on Disney XD after the conclusion of Gravity Falls. Here’s a clip!

Holy Hell, the US Military Made the Fastest Quadcopter I’ve Ever Seen

DARPA, the Pentagon’s research division, just revealed a speed demon quadcopter that flies 45 miles an hour. It’s like a cheetah drone. I can’t stop watching glorious footage of this glorious cheetah drone. It’s a product of DARPA’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy program (FLA), whose goal is to beef up drone processing power that’ll let them…

Here’s the Best Nigerian Prince Email Scam in the Galaxy

The Nigerian prince scam will never die. It’s lasted in various forms for decades now, but the latest iteration is downright amazing. Can’t you give $3 million to help a Nigerian astronaut get home from his secret space mission? You know how these scams work by now: an email says that someone is in prison…

Here’s Your First Inside Look at Marvel’s All-New, All-Different Wasp

Janet Van Dyne’s legacy as the Wasp is interwoven through decades of Marvel Comics—but now, a new character is going to take the moniker. Who is she? What’s her agenda? What’s her connection to the Wasp’s legacy? We sat down with writer Mark Waid to exclusively unveil the first details about the new Wasp. https://gizmodo.com/marvel-is-introducing-a-new-wasp-1753252803…

That Time Eisenhower’s Presidential Motorcade Picked Up Two Hitchhikers

I was going through President Dwight Eisenhower’s daily schedule (as one does) and just noticed what might be the weirdest entry I’ve ever seen. On December 10, 1954 Eisenhower was on his way from the White House to Camp David, and he picked up two hitchhikers. Granted these weren’t your average hitchhikers. They were Marines…

Glorious Ultra Clear Video Shows One Entire Year of the Sun

This is what the sun looks like over the course of a year. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the Sun and all of its fiery grace from January 1, 2015 to January 28, 2016. That beautiful burning orb looks unbelievable in this amount of detail. NASA Goddard writes: SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a…