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Meerkat now lets you live-stream video straight from a GoPro camera that’s connected to your iPhone.

Apple’s Cut the App Store Prices of 100 Popular Apps to $0.99

If you’re staring at your iPhone and feeling bored, how about a few new cheap apps? Fortunately Apple has launched a new promotion where it’s cut the price of 100 popular apps to 99 cents. Including Goat Simulator. The ‘100 Apps & Games’ has some pretty great titles on offer, too. For instance, all of…

Why That $100m Alien Listening Project May Be a Waste of Time

The launch of the $100M Breakthrough Initiative project to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been supported by many leading scientists including Stephen Hawking and astronomer royal Martin Rees. But there is no evidence – and few convincing theories – to suggest that intelligent, communicative aliens actually exist. So are listening projects really the best…

Google Voice Gets Neural Network-Powered Transcription to Slash Errors

Google Voice has an incredibly useful function that provides you with a transcribed version of your voicemail—but if often gets things wrong. Now, Google is throwing neural networks at the problem to help improve its performance dramatically. The service now uses Google’s recurrent neural networks, similar to those used by Google’s voice search in Chrome…

The Opening Number of Disney’s Descendants Is Utterly Insane

Here are the first six minutes of the Disney Channel’s Descendants, a TV movie about the second generation of Disney villains being reintegrated into the happy kingdom of the Beast. It. Is. Completely. Bananapants. I have so many questions about this: Did Kenny Ortega actually clone Zac Efron for the son of Belle and the…

Why the Hell Is Windows 10 Sharing My Wifi Passwords?

Look, Microsoft. Just because I am Facebook friends with someone, doesn’t mean I want to share my wifi passwords with them. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens by default in Windows 10. Anyone who I’m Outlook.com contacts with (spammers), Skype friends with (webcam strippers), or Facebook friends with (high school buddies turned webcam strippers) can connect…

Don’t Ask Google Maps ‘Are We There Yet?’

The Google Maps lady might sound all friendly and helpful, but like any mom, she gets real sassy if you keep asking her if you’re there yet. As spotted by Android Police, the latest version of Google Maps for Android is hiding a neat Easter Egg. In turn-by-turn navigation mode, there’s a microphone button so…

The Latest X-Files Teaser Asks If Scully Is Ready

The second tiny teaser Fox has given us from the return of Mulder and Scully. In it, we finally, finally, get to see our leads talk to one another. Even if Mulder stupidly asks Scully if she’s ready. Scully is always ready. The footage before that little interaction is pretty much the same as the…

Here’s Every Detail About Motorola’s New Budget Moto G

Motorola won’t be officially launching the new version of its venerable budget smartphone until next week, but it might as well cancel the event: thanks to an accidental leak on Moto’s site, we already have all the details. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-cheap-smartphone-for-every-off-contract-need-1671295476 The Moto Maker page for the new phone was briefly live on Motorola’s site — certainly,…

The Pebble Timehas a firmware update that makes it a whole lot better: a brighter backlight, buzzing notifications that don’t shake your wrist off, and the long-overdue option to dismiss all notifications. [Pebble]

Windows 10, Day One

Last night, as promised, I installed Windows 10 on my own personal laptop. I left everything to chance. I didn’t back up my data. Hell, I set my Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on the floor of a pizza parlor in San Francisco—dongle and all—and let it install totally unattended. Then, I woke my precious laptop to…

Meet Captain Eli, the “One-in-Several-Million” Neon Orange Lobster

Fisherman Bill Coppersmith plucked this very rare orange lobster yesterday from the Gulf of Maine, but amazingly, it’s not his rarest-ever catch. That honor goes to the white albino lobster he snagged in 1997. Still, the critter he dubbed “Captain Eli,” in honor of his grandson, is unique indeed. According to Maine’s Portland Press Herald:…

Testing Kids for “Potential Depression” Seems Like a Bad Idea

What if you lived in a world where every kid got tested for potential depression when they were in elementary school? This video, from Binghamton University, describes new research on how we’d do it. The researchers created a test that’s designed to determine whether children of depressive parents will also suffer from depression. So the…

Surfing while you’re on fire looks so crazy but actually makes sense

My first, unwrinkled brain reaction: Oh my God, that man is on fire. Like, flames are coming out of his body on fire. And he’s surfing! And doing things that aren’t get these flames that are coming out of my body off my body. I don’t know about you but if I see myself on…

Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of Explorers With This Nifty Poster

The 1985 film Explorers is one of those movies that’s friends talk about in secret. If you’ve seen it, you probably love it. If you haven’t, it’s a movie you have to share. And that makes sense considering it was made by Gremlins director Joe Dante and stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix. In the…

“In an odd reversal, it’s the scientists who are showing more fear than the civilians.” At Wired, Amy Maxmen writes at length on the awesome potential of the much-ballyhooed gene-editing tool known as Crispr-Cas9. A must-read. Contact the author at [email protected].

Berlin Spends $16 Million a Month To Maintain This Never-Opened Airport

As the EU’s self-appointed morality police, Germany publicly spanked Greece earlier this month for being so financially frivolous. Well, Germany has its own money troubles! Namely, a catastrophe-riddled $6 billion airport that the country continues to pour money into—with no opening date in sight. Scheiße! This week’s Businessweek engages in some A+ finger-pointing to call…

Watch planes cut straight through Paris by flying on top of a street

Watch as airplanes cut straight through Paris as they fly right on top of Champ-Elysses and hit all the landmarks of Paris, from La Defense to the Arc de Triomphe to the Louvre and everything in between. The footage gets a little jittery at times and almost looks fake, but it’s so cool to rip…

The World’s Deadliest Construction Projects, Visualized

The infrastructure being built for Qatar’s World Cup is using the most cutting-edge construction technologies. Yet due to the poor treatment of migrant workers, an estimated 4,000 people could die building it. A new timeline of construction deaths shows this inconsistency throughout history: Even though construction methods have improved over time, worker conditions don’t always…

Windows Search Doesn’t Suck Anymore

The first thing that everyone notices about Windows 10 is that the Start Menu is back. It’s a cool feature, but an irrelevant one. Thanks to the absurdly powerful new system-wide Search, you’re never going to need a Start Menu again. Search has been getting better and better with every version of Windows, but with…