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Seeing pills dissolve in water is bizarre and almost jarring

Get sick? Pop a pill. Feel sad? Pop a pill. Too excited? Pop a pill. Took too many pills? Pop a pill. Pills are the correct answers to most of life’s problems because chemistry is a hell of an art and the human body is easily unbalanced. But the inoffensive pill shape hides some gnarly…

Sploid Casey Chan

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

I’m really excited about this week’s apps. SwiftKey is trying to make its already great (and smart) keyboard smarter. The Podcasting app Overcast is now completely free, plus it’s been updated. And the Truecaller app finally gave its Windows Phone community some much needed attention. There’s also a pretty awesome calendar app that visualizes your…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Hendo 2.0: Tony Hawk Helped Design a New Hoverboard That Actually Hovers

This time last year, we reviewed the Hendo—a real-life hoverboard that actually levitates off the ground (as opposed to whatever this thing is.) The same company’s new and improved model looks and feels more like a skateboard—with help from Tony Hawk. The image above is just an illustration, since the real thing will be revealed…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Watch a part of an airplane wing horrifyingly fall off during take off

No matter how many times you’ve flown or how many years you’ve lived, it’s always fun to peer out the window of an airplane and watch it take off. It’s flying, man. However, the worst thing is if you look out and see parts of the plane falling off. Like in this video from Chile.…

Sploid Casey Chan

Marvel Could Be Introducing Another Major Comic Book Hero Through Netflix Soon

It’s official: King Kong will fight Godzilla again. Watch clips from Jem and the Holograms and The Last Witch Hunter. Black Panther gets another rumored director. An Agent Carter favorite might return in season 2. Plus, the rules of time travel on Legends of Tomorrow, and a new clip from Doctor Who. To Me, My…

Television James Whitbrook

A Streaming Camera on this RC Paper Airplane Lets You Ride Along

Admit it, when you were a kid, every time you launched a paper airplane you imagined what it would be like to actually pilot it. It’s been quite a few years since you were a kid, though, and it turns out the technology to realize such a fantasy finally exists. PowerUp Toys first revolutionized the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Set Your Android Alarm To Get Louder and Louder Until You’re Awake

If you don’t struggle to get up in the mornings, we salute you; if you do, then this could come in handy for forcing you out of bed. Google—unlike Apple—updates its stock apps separately from the main Android OS. That means there won’t be as much to talk about for Android 6.0 Marshmallow as there…

Gadgets David Nield

Study: 85% of Android Devices Exposed to at Least One Critical Vulnerability

A new study by security researchers from Cambridge University claims that around 85 percent of Android devices have been exposed to at least one of 13 critical vulnerabilities that the operating system has struggled with. Researchers from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have published a paper explaining a new score card they’ve…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Garmin Now Puts Directions and a Live Feed of Your Baby On Your Car’s GPS

Touchscreen tablets never quite killed off e-ink book readers like the Kindle, nor did GPS-equipped smartphones kill off dashboard GPS nav units. They’re still thriving, and Garmin intends to keep it that way by now letting parents also monitor their kids in the backseat using the same display that’s giving them directions. The company’s new…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Amazingly Detailed Life-Size Caravan Is Made Entirely From Lego

It’s a niche award, but we’d all love to win it. This construction was just awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest caravan built with interlocking Lego pieces. Built by a team of 12 Lego-certified professional builders, it’s a full-sized caravan made of 215,150 individual bricks, complete with a Lego sink, Lego utensils and…

Tech News Aatif Sulleyman - Gizmodo UK

Two Sated Warthogs Light Up the Sky in Spectacular Fashion

Aerial refuelling photos are always awesome. But this one, taken right after two of America’s best ground attack jets were topped up, easily beats all the similar photos I’ve ever seen. Two U.S. Air Force A-10 Warthogs, assigned to the 163rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, release flares after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker, 340th Expeditionary…

Tech News Attila Nagy

How the Lego Color Palette Has Changed Over the Last 40 Years

When Lego first burst on to the toy scene, its bricks came in a very limited selection of colors; now, there’s an overwhelming range of choice. This chart shows how the available palette has changed over the years. The stats were pulled together by Dave E over on the BrickSet forums. With the help of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

T-Mobile’s Also Working to Give You One Phone Number on Multiple Devices

Yesterday, AT&T announced it was readying a new feature that will allow you to use one phone number across multiple devices. Perhaps predictably, T-Mobile says it’s also working to provide a similar service. Speaking to Re/code, T-Mobile’s operating chief Mike Sievert explained that T-Mobile’s feature would build on AT&T’s offer, though he didn’t go as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Video Explainer: How Criminals Can Easily Hack Your Chip & PIN Card

You may be under the impression that the new EMV chip system for credit card payments is nice and secure. But the UK’s been using it since 2003 — so crooks have had plenty of time to work out how to hack the system and steal your cash. In this video explainer from Computerphile, Professor…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

FAA Says You Must Not Pack Lithium Batteries in Your Hold Luggage

If you squirrel away batteries in hold luggage ready to power your kit through a trip, you may need to rethink: the Federal Aviation Administration is making a push to ensure you don’t. CNBC reports that the FAA is warning that lithium batteries“present a risk of both igniting and fueling fires in aircraft cargo/baggage compartments.”…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The First Humans Moved From Africa to China — Not Europe

It’s hard not to feel slightly superior when you belong to the only human species on the planet. Behind us there is a long track of extinct relatives that did not make it to our days. The Neanderthals in Europe went extinct some 40,000 years ago, just as we got there – leading us to…

Tech News María Martinón-Torres & José María Bermúdez de Castro

Where Would You Put Your VR Rig?

VR is a technology that has not had a chance to invade our homes quite yet. So while a bunch of companies are in the midst of designing VR products, no-one really knows where or how they would fit into the Average American Home™. To try and get some information on how people would use…

Tech News Chris Mills

The LG G4 Will Be the First Non-Nexus Phone to Get Android Marshmallow

The newest version of Android, 6.0 Marshmallow, rolled out to Google’s own-brand Nexus devices last week. Other manufacturers traditionally take a little longer to follow suit, but it looks like LG is winning this particular round. According to the company, owners of the flagship G4 in Poland will be the first to get Marshmallow, with…

Tech News Chris Mills

Internet Inventor Vint Cerf Thinks the FCC’s Proposed Wi-Fi Rules Are Crap

The FCC’s latest controversy is over a proposed set of changes to the rules surrounding Wi-Fi routers, in theory to make them more secure, and less easy to abuse. But a group of big-name internet experts would beg to differ. The FCC’s regulations are mostly designed to make sure that any radio-emitting device—including the Wi-Fi…

Tech News Chris Mills

A Satellite Took an Image That Looks Like a Van Gogh

This image of the Azore islands, taken by Sentinel-1A, was processed to make the water appear in blues and the land in brown and greens. The effect turns the image into something like a van Gogh painting. Image credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/ESA Contact the author at [email protected].

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Seeing pills dissolve in water is bizarre and almost jarring

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Hendo 2.0: Tony Hawk Helped Design a New Hoverboard That Actually Hovers

Watch a part of an airplane wing horrifyingly fall off during take off

Marvel Could Be Introducing Another Major Comic Book Hero Through Netflix Soon

A Streaming Camera on this RC Paper Airplane Lets You Ride Along

Set Your Android Alarm To Get Louder and Louder Until You’re Awake

Study: 85% of Android Devices Exposed to at Least One Critical Vulnerability

Garmin Now Puts Directions and a Live Feed of Your Baby On Your Car’s GPS

This Amazingly Detailed Life-Size Caravan Is Made Entirely From Lego

Two Sated Warthogs Light Up the Sky in Spectacular Fashion

How the Lego Color Palette Has Changed Over the Last 40 Years

T-Mobile’s Also Working to Give You One Phone Number on Multiple Devices

Video Explainer: How Criminals Can Easily Hack Your Chip & PIN Card

FAA Says You Must Not Pack Lithium Batteries in Your Hold Luggage

The First Humans Moved From Africa to China — Not Europe

Where Would You Put Your VR Rig?

The LG G4 Will Be the First Non-Nexus Phone to Get Android Marshmallow

Internet Inventor Vint Cerf Thinks the FCC’s Proposed Wi-Fi Rules Are Crap

A Satellite Took an Image That Looks Like a Van Gogh

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