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Here’s What Happens When You Throw Water Into Hot Oil

It’s a bad idea to try to put out an oil fire with water, and this video will show you why. It will also show you a drop of water crazily growing and shrinking, over and over, inside some hot oil. Here we see water drops in hot oil. Starting at 1:58, the drops undergo…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Windows 10 is Being Auto-Downloaded to Windows 7 and 8.1 Users

The files needed to install Windows 10 are being automatically downloaded to Windows 7 and 8.1 users by Windows Update—even if users have no intention of upgrading. According to The Register, the upgrade files are being downloaded even by users who have not opted to digitally “reserve” a copy of Windows 10 in Microsoft’s app.…

Tech News James O'Malley - Gizmodo UK

Huge Communities of Crayfish Are Living Right Underneath The Prairies

If you ever spend a humid night walking around the American prairie, you might run into one of these. It’s a prairie crayfish, and it and all of its friends have been living under your feet. We see crayfish in rivers and streams. They need to keep their gills wet to survive. But they’ve become…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Why Trading In Your Old Car for a 2016 Prius Might Not Be the Best Investment

Photos of Toyota’s shiny new 2016 Prius leaked onto the Internet this week, supposedly boasting an estimated 60 MPG rating. But should you rush right out to reserve one of your very own? Not so fast. It all depends on the fuel efficiency of whatever you’re driving now. Full disclosure: I drive a 2007 Prius…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Early Forensics Helped Solve England’s Gruesome “Jigsaw Murders” Case

In September 1935, two women were found buried at the spot marked on this photograph of a grassy ditch next to a Scottish road. To find their killer, investigators would need to identify the women first—a task that would require piecing together their scattered, dismembered bodies. The process forced the advancement of forensic techniques that…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

This Week’s io9 Newsstand Is Not Just About 9/11

This morning, The New Yorker heralded the arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction with trepidation, calling the trend “unsettling.” The article is partly a commentary on how fiction of any kind deals with traumatic, culture-shaping events, and partly a review of the new anthology In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World…

io9 K. Tempest Bradford

Cool video shows a spectacular B-52 bombing run from inside the weapons bay

Here’s really awesome footage that shows a B-52 bombing run on an island from inside the weapons bay. You can see the open doors of the plane peering down towards the ocean and then see the bombs drop away and strike the target and pepper the ground with explosions. Such a cool perspective. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan

This New Clip From The Martian Includes A Plan So Crazy, It Just Might Work

One of your astronauts is stranded on Mars. The rest of his crew is on their way back to Earth. How the heck do you turn the crew around fast enough to rescue the astronaut before he starves to death? Donald Glover has a plan in a new clip from The Martian—but it’s nuts. In…

Movies Germain Lussier

Study: Humans Are Wired For Laziness

In news that definitely isn’t going to help me achieve my half marathon goal, a team of Canadian researchers is claiming that human beings are biologically wired to be lazy. Awesome. In a study that appears this week in Current Biology, researchers asked nine volunteers to wear robotic exoskeletons — similar to leg braces —…

Tech News Maddie Stone

The First Crowdfunded Skyscraper Is Almost Finished, and More Are Coming

Skyscrapers have been around for 130 years, and during that time they’ve been built one way: With investments from a few very, very wealthy investors. In Bogota, Colombia, this week, workers put the last floor in place on a 67-story skyscraper that is now the country’s tallest structure. The tower, called BD Bacatá, is a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This Artificially Intelligent Boss Means the Workplace Will Never Be the Same

Suddenly, your boss doesn’t seem so bad. Japanese firm Hitachi is now using artificially intelligent managers, in what may be a world’s first. These AI bosses can not only issue workflows and employee duties in real time, they can even find ways to improve employee efficiency. A week ago, Hitachi announced its new initiative via…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Most Perfect Way That Star Wars Could Troll Everybody

Actually, there are a LOT of ways that Star Wars could troll its fans, and audiences in general. Almost a whole galaxy’s worth of ways, in fact. But commenter Sean Kelley hit on a great one. In response to the question about whether Star Wars: The Force Awakens should have a post-credits scene, Kelley imagined…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

And lo, the weekend did arise, and descend upon the good people of Gizmodo. The big news in tech this week was Apple’s iPhone (and giant iPad/talking TV/OMG WTF a stylus) keynote. You can review our coverage here. While we’re on it, which phone should you buy? Fun stuff today: a gun attachment that makes…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

How Much Money Would It Take To Be Batman?

Is it possible to be Batman? Okay, better question, who could afford the technology to be Batman? Could we even make much of what we see being used by Batman in the Dark Knight movies? Certainly some of the technology exists, but putting it together in a way that can be used the way the…

Tech News Thaddeus Howze - Quora

Should Star Wars: The Force Awakens Have a Post-Credits Sequence?

There’s a new rumor going around that The Force Awakens will have a post-credits sequence when it debuts in December. We don’t know what it would be—a promo for Rogue One, maybe a teaser for Episode VIII—or if it even exists. But some people are losing their minds at the idea. So what do you…

io9 Rob Bricken

California Smacks Down Bill That Would’ve Limited Private Drone Flights

This week marked a win for fans of unmanned aerial vehicles: California governor Jerry Brown vetoed Senate Bill 142, which would’ve outlawed drone flights below 350 feet over private property. The bill, proposed by Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, was introduced back in January. Its goal? To make drone flight above private places (like backyards) illegal, just…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Which Horror Movie “Spooky Kid” Was the Absolute Spookiest of Them All?

It’s only 50 days until Halloween, so naturally we’ve got horror on the brain. Spooky kids have been a part of scary movies as long as the genre’s been around; it’s just so unnerving to see a pint-sized kid that’s possessed, a drippy-haired demon, precociously evil, a vampire, a cannibal … Anyway, there’s a huge…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Risk: Star Wars Edition Lets You Conquer an Entire Galaxy, Not Just Earth

You know the sense of satisfaction you get from conquering an entire planet while playing Risk? Well imagine what it must feel like when you take over an entire galaxy. If that’s not enough reason to try Risk: Star Wars Edition, playing with X-wings and TIE fighters should sweeten the pot. Available now for $30,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hold This Magnet In Your Hand and It Stops Being a Magnet

If you love a magnet, set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s due to a temperature called Curie. Look, I’m not a poet. Just read this. Magnetism requires a degree of order. A magnet is a piece of metal in which the magnetic moment of its atoms are in line. We’ve talked…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

If We Burned All of Our Fossil Fuels, We’d Melt Antarctica

If we burned all the coal, oil and gas that’s left in the ground, we’d melt Antarctica and global sea levels would rise as much as 60 meters (200 feet) over the next ten thousand years. Coastal cities from New York to Shanghai would wind up deep underwater. That’s the disturbing conclusion of a new…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Here’s What Happens When You Throw Water Into Hot Oil

Windows 10 is Being Auto-Downloaded to Windows 7 and 8.1 Users

Huge Communities of Crayfish Are Living Right Underneath The Prairies

Why Trading In Your Old Car for a 2016 Prius Might Not Be the Best Investment

Early Forensics Helped Solve England’s Gruesome “Jigsaw Murders” Case

This Week’s io9 Newsstand Is Not Just About 9/11

Cool video shows a spectacular B-52 bombing run from inside the weapons bay

This New Clip From The Martian Includes A Plan So Crazy, It Just Might Work

Study: Humans Are Wired For Laziness

The First Crowdfunded Skyscraper Is Almost Finished, and More Are Coming

This Artificially Intelligent Boss Means the Workplace Will Never Be the Same

The Most Perfect Way That Star Wars Could Troll Everybody

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

How Much Money Would It Take To Be Batman?

Should Star Wars: The Force Awakens Have a Post-Credits Sequence?

California Smacks Down Bill That Would’ve Limited Private Drone Flights

Which Horror Movie “Spooky Kid” Was the Absolute Spookiest of Them All?

Risk: Star Wars Edition Lets You Conquer an Entire Galaxy, Not Just Earth

Hold This Magnet In Your Hand and It Stops Being a Magnet

If We Burned All of Our Fossil Fuels, We’d Melt Antarctica

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