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What’s Inside GoPro’s Tiny New Camera?

GoPro’s new camera is a tiny cube. It’s unlike any GoPro ever made. What’s packed inside? iFixit tore the GoPro Hero4 Session apart—literally—to find the answer. What did they find? Tiny circuit boards, of course, a fairly tiny lens assembly, and a totally sealed transparent cube they had to tear apart with a saw and…

Reviews Sean Hollister

Lucasfilm is Pissed About These Amy Schumer Star Wars Photos

Thursday afternoon, GQ Magazine revealed photos from their latest issue featuring Trainwreck star Amy Schumer in joking, sexual situations with Star Wars characters like C-3PO and R2-D2. Friday, Lucasfilm responded and not in kind. In a post on Twitter by the official Star Wars account, they said the following: “Lucasfilm & Disney didn’t approve, participate…

Movies Germain Lussier

A Closeup View of Pluto’s Heart

You’ve seen the view from 77,000 km overhead, now get up close and personal with Pluto’s cold, cold heart (now officially known as Tombaugh Regio) with this detailed look at the region’s vast, frozen plains. Contact the author at [email protected]. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI.

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Northern Lights Over Newfoundland Make Me Happy to Be An Earthling

It’s Friday, and the end of a looong week of peering into the far reaches of our solar system and being astounded by what we found. But as much as we love Pluto, we don’t need to gaze billions of miles away to see incredible sights. We’ve got them right here on Earth. These stunning…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Firefighters Can’t Help People In Burning Cars Because of a Stupid Drone

A giant wildfire currently spreading through Southern California’s Cajon Pass is burning cars on the freeway in what the San Bernardino County Fire Department is calling a “multi-casualty incident.” But the firefighters also issued a report that due to a drone seen flying in the area, they couldn’t get their helicopters to the scene right…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Astronaut Don Pettit Explains the Dynamics of Boiling Water in Space

Microgravity complicates everything. Much of our sense of “how things work” is influenced by gravity. Don Pettit uses a soldering iron to boil water, and we see how it both is and isn’t different from a pot and stove on Earth. This is pretty cool. Don Pettit guides us through boiling water in microgravity. We’ve…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

“The Next Downton Abbey” Could Be A Science Fiction Show

When the hit drama Downton Abbey ends its six season run later this year (in the UK at least), it’s going to leave a big hole for its channel, ITV. Now, in a new interview, ITV execs suggested a science fiction show could take its place as the channel’s big prestige drama. Steve November, the…

Television Germain Lussier

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

This week was alllll about Pluto for Giz and space nerds everywhere. As it should be! Though, nearly just as hyped as the New Horizons flyby was… Amazon’s “Prime Day,” which, unlike Pluto, turned out to be a giant let down. All that and more in this week’s story highlights! Everything We’re Learning About Pluto…

Tech News Meg Neal

What Watching Pluto Pop Into Focus Has Meant To Us

Our look at Pluto has been 85 years in the making—and this is what it meant to us. Our comment of the day today is this little bit of warmth from Straelbora—“My three year old son will always know that Pluto is a pinkish-red color. For some reason, that fact is very cool to me.…

io9 Ria Misra

9 Cocktails Made With LaCroix, a Sparkling Water With a Cult Following

The perfect warm weather drink is an elusive unicorn. Light and tasty? Refreshing and boozy? It’s hard to achieve all of these things in a single glass. Luckily, I have the answer. It’s time to give your summer cocktails a makeover with the zany fruit-essence flavors of LaCroix sparkling water. Welcome to Gizmodo’s Happy Hour.…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This Mad Max/Star Wars Mash-Up Video Is Almost Too Good

Two of the biggest events so far this year were the release of Mad Max: Fury Road and a new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What happens when you put those together, and throw in a lot of original trilogy stuff too? One of the coolest mashup videos we’ve seen in a long…

io9 Germain Lussier

This is What Pluto and Charon Look Like in Real Life

If you could survive the long, cold trip to Pluto, this is how you would see the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon with your own eyes. The New Horizons spacecraft took a final pair of colour photographs of Pluto and its largest moon before its closest approach. The images were taken separately, then…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

Oh, hello there! It’s the weekend, just in the nick of time. I’m not gonna lie, guys — it’s been a weird week here. I went from highs (Breakfast at Pluto at the Natural History Museum with livestreaming Mission Control and Neil deGrasse Tyson) to…whatever’s happening around these parts today. So I’m gonna go chainsmoke…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

This Startup Melted Down After Its Workers Fought to be Employees

Pour one out for home cleaning startup Homejoy, one of the first big casualties of the brewing fight between workers and “gig economy” apps like Uber and Taskrabbit. Homejoy is shutting down, and it’s due to lawsuits filed by workers who wanted to be treated like employees instead of contractors. Google has already picked apart…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Australian Snow Is So Rare They Don’t Have Tools to Measure It

As a new climate report concluded this week, our planet is definitely getting warmer, which leads to more extreme temperatures around the world. Now Australia is seeing its coldest temperatures in decades, and last night, many Australians saw snow for the first time in their lives. The local Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Gorrdon Banks told…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

This Robot Just Passed a Rudimentary Self-awareness Test

It’s nothing to get too excited or alarmed about, but a robot has passed a modified version of the classic King’s Wise Men Test. It’s another classic case of simulation rather than emulation, but the experiment shows how artificial self-awareness can be programmed into our technology. For the experiment, roboticists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s…

io9 George Dvorsky

There Is No Hannibal Recap Today Because Hannibal Now Airs On Saturdays

Ohhhh NBC. First you cancel Hannibal, then you “downgrade” it by moving it from Thursday night to Saturday night, aka TV’s boneyard? After this week, there are still six episodes, and we haven’t even met Francis Dolarhyde yet! Fortunately, despite all the bad news, the show still held its Comic-Con panel. Speaking of Comic-Con, that’s…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Why The Best Post-Apocalyptic Stories Are Usually Kind Of Silly

What do Judge Dredd, Mad Max and Adventure Time all have in common? They’re three of the best post-apocalyptic narratives we’ve ever seen. And they’re all slightly ludicrous, ranging from outright surrealism to mad social satire. In fact, the best post-apocalyptic storytelling is usually kind of ridiculous. When you think about it, post-apocalyptic stories aren’t…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Reddit Needs a Definition for Violence

Reddit’s new chief alien, Steve Huffman, announced a vaguely worded set of new content guidelines yesterday afternoon. The general takeaway? Bad stuff is bad and should be banned. The subtext? If Steve Huffman says stuff isn’t bad—like racism—it’ll be tolerated. Come again? Case in point: Coontown. This racist Subreddit celebrated yesterday when Huffman quite boldly…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Meet Your Three New National Monuments

President Obama just created three new National Monuments, protecting over 1 million acres of land in California, Nevada and Texas for the enjoyment of the American people. Where are they, why were they protected and how can you use them? Let’s take a detailed look at each. This latest round of National Monuments take the…

Tech News Wes Siler

What’s Inside GoPro’s Tiny New Camera?

Lucasfilm is Pissed About These Amy Schumer Star Wars Photos

A Closeup View of Pluto’s Heart

Northern Lights Over Newfoundland Make Me Happy to Be An Earthling

Firefighters Can’t Help People In Burning Cars Because of a Stupid Drone

Astronaut Don Pettit Explains the Dynamics of Boiling Water in Space

“The Next Downton Abbey” Could Be A Science Fiction Show

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

What Watching Pluto Pop Into Focus Has Meant To Us

9 Cocktails Made With LaCroix, a Sparkling Water With a Cult Following

This Mad Max/Star Wars Mash-Up Video Is Almost Too Good

This is What Pluto and Charon Look Like in Real Life

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

This Startup Melted Down After Its Workers Fought to be Employees

Australian Snow Is So Rare They Don’t Have Tools to Measure It

This Robot Just Passed a Rudimentary Self-awareness Test

There Is No Hannibal Recap Today Because Hannibal Now Airs On Saturdays

Why The Best Post-Apocalyptic Stories Are Usually Kind Of Silly

Reddit Needs a Definition for Violence

Meet Your Three New National Monuments

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