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For Decades, the Public Was Not Allowed to View Maps of the US Internet

There’s a good reason why you don’t know how your data gets from one place to another on the internet. The major network cables that truss the United States haven’t ever been fully viewable to the public–until now. In 2006, the US Senator Ted Stevens used a string of four words to describe the internet:…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Black-Footed Ferrets Recover from Near-Extinction — Thanks to Artificial Insemination

If you’re trying to save an endangered animal, you need to protect its habitat and change the human behaviors driving it toward extinction. But all that will be meaningless if the animals don’t have babies. And so sometimes, you have to help with that, too. No one deliberately set out to kill off all the…

Biology Diane Kelly

The Two Men (And the One Dinner) That Uncovered the Cause of Botulism

Today we bend Clostridium botulinum to our will, forcing it to make our faces smoother and our actors less able to do their jobs. Once, though, people had no idea what caused the “sausage disease.” It took two good men and one bad dinner to let the world know what was going on. The Sausage…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Your DNA Can Teach Us About Ancient History

For thousands of years, history has been recorded piecemeal, in books, artifacts, buildings and legends. But in the age of molecular biology, a new archive is helping to fill in the gaps: your genetic code. Each of our genomes contains a record of the journeys taken by our ancestors, one that scientists are just now…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Steven Universe Is Quickly Becoming A Show About Flawed Mothers

In a way, Steven Universe has always been about the struggle of motherhood—a main character born out of an absent mother, raised by surrogates with their own problems. But since its return, the show is seemingly laser-focused on Moms… although “Sadie’s Song” doesn’t quite the same high notes as last week’s episode. https://gizmodo.com/on-steven-universe-the-scariest-thing-in-the-world-is-1730080239 Spoilers ahead,…

io9 James Whitbrook

Making Stop-Motion Lego Movies Is Easier With Phonetic Minifig Heads

If you’re a stop-motion Lego filmmaker who thinks that adding moving mouths in post-production is cheating (or too time-consuming) then over on Minifigs.me you’ll want to grab a set of these Minifig heads featuring phonetic mouth poses that can be swapped in while you’re animating. The site actually worked with professional animators to help develop…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Samsung’s New “Serif” TV Is More About Design Than Technology

There’s no other company that likes to muck around with form factor than Samsung. The Korean company applies strange curves, slopes, and even folds on lots of its gadgets, but for its latest television, it teamed up with one of the world’s best furniture designers to create Serif, a TV that’s more posh than the…

Gadgets Darren Orf

What The Hell Is This Crazy Monster, Designed by Hellboy‘s Mike Mignola?

Mike Mignola gave us Hellboy, so it’s probably not surprising that he’s designed a totally bizarre new monster, which you can glimpse above. But what the hell is it? That’s an excellent question, since it’s on the cover of a new anthology called What the #@&% Is That? Update: Now with full table of contents!…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Look at Our Record-Breaking Global Heat Wave In One Terrifying Chart

How many months in a row have we run the same headline? Two? Three? Four? NOAA released its global climate report for August yesterday, and guess what? Once again, it’s the hottest month on record. With the year half over now, that makes 2015 a very, very strong contender for hottest year ever. Here’s the…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

5 Facts That Prove The Theater Is Weirder Than You Realize

For centuries, humans have placed way too much importance on people playing fictional characters on stage. And when you’ve done that for as long as we have, things are bound to get weird occasionally. Here are five of the strangest stories from the history of theater. 1. The secret to an illusionist’s trick was discovered…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Error Exposes 1.5 Million People’s Private Medical Records on Amazon Web Services [UPDATED]

Police injury reports, drug tests, detailed doctor visit notes, social security numbers—all were inexplicably unveiled on a public subdomain of Amazon Web Services. Welcome to the next big data breach horrorshow. Instead of hackers, it’s old-fashioned neglect from companies managing data that exposed your most sensitive information. Texas tech enthusiast Chris Vickery had heard strange…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Volkswagen Ordered to Recall Half a Million Cars After It Cheated on Smog Checks

The Obama administration announced today that it was ordering Volkswagen to recall 482,000 cars sold between 2009 and 2015. The EPA alleges that the cars were designed to intentionally mislead smog emissions testing equipment, using special software installed in the cars. According to the EPA, almost half a million cars were equipped with a device…

Tech News Matt Novak

Inside the Twisted World of the “Co-Ed Killer,” Whose Bloodlust Could Not Be Contained

When he was 15, Edmund Kemper shot his grandparents, curious about what it would feel like to commit murder. A stint in a maximum-security prison hospital did little to cure him; after his release at age 21, his urge to kill led him to a new target: college girls. His headline-grabbing nickname became “The Co-Ed…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Many Apple Users Are Reporting Lags and Crashes From iOS 9

A thread on MacRumors about lagginess and other issues from the iOS 9 update has become massive in size and Twitter is full of complaints. The iDownload Blog has dubbed the iOS 9 problems “lag gate.” Writer Christian Zibreg notes, “Some folks are even going as far as to suggest that iOS 9 is laggier…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

This Delicious Looking Pizza Is Actually a Giant Marshmallow

When you crack open this cardboard box your eyes will be greeted with the sight of a hot, delicious pizza covered in gooey cheese. But when you reach for a slice and don’t have to deal with an avalanche of toppings, you’ll quickly realize that the only ingredient in this pie is marshmallow. So instead…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Ancient “Tomb of the Serpent Jaguar Priests” Discovered in Peru

Archaeologists working in northern Peru have discovered an intact 2,700-year-old tomb belonging to the high-altitude Pacopampa people. The tomb contains as number of fascinating artifacts, along with the bodies of two individuals thought to be high priests. The discovery was made by a combined team of Peruvian and Japanese researchers at a site in the…

io9 George Dvorsky

Photoshop Contest: What Does LA’s Newest Museum Really Look Like?

Locals have taken to calling it the Cheese Grater, but there’s so many more things that the new Broad Museum’s wacky facade evokes. A sponge. A giant Jambox. A celebrity whale. Now it’s your turn to tell us what you see. https://gizmodo.com/las-new-broad-museum-tries-to-cement-its-place-in-histo-1731280979 The fiberglass-reinforced concrete shell that encases Eli Broad’s art museum is made from…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Fastest Human-Powered Vehicle In the World Is a Ridiculous Bike That Just Broke 85 MPH

A group of humans put one of its humans in a crazy, covered bike. That human broke a world speed record for a human-powered vehicle. Aaaand now I feel even more like a motionless fat-accumulating sloth. It all went down Thursday morning in Battle Mountain, Nevada, at the 16th annual World Human Powered Speed Challenge.…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

R2-D2 adorably falls in love with a mailbox in this super cute film

I can’t imagine anything cuter than R2-D2 trying to seduce someone—or in this case, something: A blue mailbox. He brings her flowers, performs the sweetest mating dance, watches movies with her, or even zaps away people who try to mail things. But love is capricious and as Mick Jagger would say: “You can’t always get…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

This Sinister Software Tells You How to Craft the Perfect Email Based on People’s Personalities

What if you knew exactly what to say over email to get someone to like you? When to insert a smiley face, when to get to the point, when to flirt? A service called Crystal offers a cheat sheet for email finesse. Crystal promises to help people write emails so perfectly aligned with recipients’ interests…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

For Decades, the Public Was Not Allowed to View Maps of the US Internet

Black-Footed Ferrets Recover from Near-Extinction — Thanks to Artificial Insemination

The Two Men (And the One Dinner) That Uncovered the Cause of Botulism

Your DNA Can Teach Us About Ancient History

Steven Universe Is Quickly Becoming A Show About Flawed Mothers

Making Stop-Motion Lego Movies Is Easier With Phonetic Minifig Heads

Samsung’s New “Serif” TV Is More About Design Than Technology

What The Hell Is This Crazy Monster, Designed by Hellboy‘s Mike Mignola?

Look at Our Record-Breaking Global Heat Wave In One Terrifying Chart

5 Facts That Prove The Theater Is Weirder Than You Realize

Error Exposes 1.5 Million People’s Private Medical Records on Amazon Web Services [UPDATED]

Volkswagen Ordered to Recall Half a Million Cars After It Cheated on Smog Checks

Inside the Twisted World of the “Co-Ed Killer,” Whose Bloodlust Could Not Be Contained

Many Apple Users Are Reporting Lags and Crashes From iOS 9

This Delicious Looking Pizza Is Actually a Giant Marshmallow

Ancient “Tomb of the Serpent Jaguar Priests” Discovered in Peru

Photoshop Contest: What Does LA’s Newest Museum Really Look Like?

The Fastest Human-Powered Vehicle In the World Is a Ridiculous Bike That Just Broke 85 MPH

R2-D2 adorably falls in love with a mailbox in this super cute film

This Sinister Software Tells You How to Craft the Perfect Email Based on People’s Personalities

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