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The Galaxy Tab S2 Is Samsung’s Next Flagship Tablet

Last year, Samsung redefined how many pixels you can cram into 10 inches with the Galaxy Tab S; this year, it’s back with a thinner and lighter second round. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-s-review-good-lord-that-display-1595179884 The Tab S2 will come in two sizes, just like the tablet it’s replacing: a smaller 8-inch model, and the full-size 9.7-inch version (a tad…

Tech News Chris Mills

Instagram Hijacked An Account to Give It to Soccer Star

Andres Iniesta is a Spanish soccer star, captain of FC Barcelona and player on the national team. A different Andres Iniesta is a regular guy from Madrid, and owner of the @ainiesta Instagram account. Or at least, he was. According to a post written by the non-sports-star Iniesta, his Instagram account was spontaneously frozen on…

Tech News Chris Mills

Old WWII Bomb Blown Up After Washing Ashore on a Florida Beach

This makes stepping on a jellyfish seem like no big deal: A beachgoer found a mysterious cylindrical hunk of sea-worn metal washed up on the shore at St. Pete Beach, Florida. It turned out to be a barnacle-covered M122 photoflash bomb from World War II, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Yes, GMOs are Safe to Eat

Welcome to this week’s installment of Reading List, a weekly assemblage of the best science and technology reads on the Internet, brought together in one place, just for you, by Gizmodo. This week, we’ll meet a pair of Ukrainian YouTube stars making it big with do-it-yourself science, then contemplate what we’ll do with all our…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland

Last Day of School: 8 Tech and Science Projects for Your Kids to Do This Summer

School’s out for summer, which means that it is up to you, the parents, to stop your kids’ minds from rotting over the next six weeks. So no pressure there, then. To make it a bit easier, here are some ideas for some technology and science projects you and your kids can work on over…

Tech News James O Malley

This Week, Killjoys Goes To A Very Dark Place

Up to this point, I’ve been pretty happy with Killjoys being a fun, reasonably lighthearted show that points to the occasional social message. In this week’s episode, Glitch in the System, the show turns dark, fast. This week’s episode starts off with the crew jetting about in space, near an asteroid field. They’ve got a…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Amazon is Building A New Wind Farm in North Carolina

Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services announced that it was contracting the construction of a 208 megawatt wind farm in North Carolina. The new Amazon Wind Farm US East is supposed to start generating 670,000 megawatt hours of wind energy a year, beginning in December of 2016. That’s enough energy to power 61,000 U.S. homes…

Commerce Kiona Smith-Strickland

There’s a Secret to Winning This Game Every Time. Can You Spot it?

In this week’s puzzle, two players face off in an unusual tabletop game. It’s one you can play yourself—and, if you know the strategy, win every time. Sunday Puzzle #41: Dueling Cigars Two people are seated at a square-topped table. One places an ordinary cigar (flat at one end, pointed at the other) on the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Dark Matter Goes All Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind On Us

We got a lot of information about the pasts of our amnesiac crew this week. By having Five wander the memories she’s got downloaded into her brain. Of course, there’s one she likes better than the others, and we get to hear all about how wallowing in the past is dangerous. As always, I apologize…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

This Palm Tree on Fire in the Pouring Rain Pretty Much Sums Up LA

Yesterday the good citizens of Los Angeles were surprised to see water falling from the sky. Water! From the sky! Like it was no big deal! What will Mother Nature dream up next? Less surprising was the fact that some cocky palm tree took the opportunity to show off. It seems everybody’s trying to get…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Bahamas are a Beautiful Watercolor in Latest Photo From Space

The Bahamas are simply gorgeous in this latest astronaut photograph from the International Space Station. The delicate ripples on the sandy ocean floor, gentle texture of muddy islands, and clean cuts of deeper ocean channels make this more of an idealized painting than real life. If astronaut Scott Kelly is going to keep sending home…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Watch Smoke from July’s Wildfires Wrap Around the Arctic

Smoke plumes from last month’s wildfires in Alaska and Canada wrapped all the way around the Arctic circle in less than two weeks. In this animation of satellite imagery from NASA, you can watch smoke from Alaskan wildfires drift west while smoke from Canadian wildfires goes east, until the two massive smoke plumes converge over…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

Here’s The Names Of The New Ghostbusters

Paul Feig took to twitter yesterday evening and dropped some new information about the upcoming Ghostbusters movie, revealing the names of the headline characters. Based on the image that he linked to, Kristen Wigg will be playing Erin Gilbert and Melissa McCarthy will be playing Abby Yates. According to IMDB, Kate McKinnon is playing Jillian…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Books Are Quirky And Charming In This Supercut Of Wes Anderson’s Films

Books hold a special, significant place in Wes Anderson’s films, and The A to Z Review has put together a neat supercut of the various points throughout his films where books are featured. Watching it, it’s interesting to see just how important books are to Anderson’s films, and how much the director draws upon a…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Garfield Plus Saga‘s Lying Cat Is Just The Best

I really loved Garfield Minus Garfield, which is exactly as it sounds: Garfield with its titular character stripped out. What happens when you replace Garfield with Saga’s Lying Cat? Absolute brilliance. Read the rest here.

io9 Andrew Liptak

Charging Your Phone on a London Overground Train Could Get You Arrested

What’s worse than a long, cramped train journey? A long, cramped train journey without a smartphone to distract yourself with. But for artist Robin Lee, leaving his phone in his pocket may have been a more sensible option, as charging his device through a London Overground train’s power socket unexpectedly led to his arrest. Speaking…

Gadgets Gerald Lynch

Stunning Pluto Art Makes Me Want to Hike the Norgay Montes

Over the past few weeks, we’ve watched Pluto transform from a fuzzy gray ball into a reddish-pink world with ice plains, mountains ranges, and hints of geologic activity. But science isn’t the only great thing about the recent Pluto discoveries: The new artwork is pretty stellar, too. What would it be like to stand on…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Hubble’s Portrait Of The Crowded Quintuplet Cluster

This latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope is utterly stunning: it’s of the Quintuplet Cluster, named for its five brightest stars. Up until 1990, we had no idea that this existed: because it’s so close to the center of the galaxy, dust has blocked our view of it. This image was taken by observing…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Concept Trailer For Momentum Film Is Fast And Furious With Flying Cars

This neat concept trailer has been flying around the internet the last couple of days: it’s a story of a hover car racer who has to choose between his family and the potential for fame, and it features some pretty cool flying cars. Queue the obligatory “Now this is podracing!” puns, but this looks like…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The Onion’s Explanation for Dark Matter is My Favorite Yet

This may be the best explanation for dark matter yet: It’s just fucking nitrogen. Okay, fine, scientific explanations from The Onion really shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but gorramit, it’s Saturday evening and we’ve had plenty of hardcore astronomical science to blow your mind already this week. “Look, nitrogen is a pretty stable element that’s…

Tech News Maddie Stone

The Galaxy Tab S2 Is Samsung’s Next Flagship Tablet

Instagram Hijacked An Account to Give It to Soccer Star

Old WWII Bomb Blown Up After Washing Ashore on a Florida Beach

Yes, GMOs are Safe to Eat

Last Day of School: 8 Tech and Science Projects for Your Kids to Do This Summer

This Week, Killjoys Goes To A Very Dark Place

Amazon is Building A New Wind Farm in North Carolina

There’s a Secret to Winning This Game Every Time. Can You Spot it?

Dark Matter Goes All Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind On Us

This Palm Tree on Fire in the Pouring Rain Pretty Much Sums Up LA

The Bahamas are a Beautiful Watercolor in Latest Photo From Space

Watch Smoke from July’s Wildfires Wrap Around the Arctic

Here’s The Names Of The New Ghostbusters

Books Are Quirky And Charming In This Supercut Of Wes Anderson’s Films

Garfield Plus Saga‘s Lying Cat Is Just The Best

Charging Your Phone on a London Overground Train Could Get You Arrested

Stunning Pluto Art Makes Me Want to Hike the Norgay Montes

Hubble’s Portrait Of The Crowded Quintuplet Cluster

Concept Trailer For Momentum Film Is Fast And Furious With Flying Cars

The Onion’s Explanation for Dark Matter is My Favorite Yet

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