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The FDA Agrees Hospitals Should Stop Using Hackable Drug Pumps

Last month, we received the cool and totally non-alarming news that drug infusion pumps manufactured by Hospira could be easily hacked over a network. The company has stopped making the pumps, and now the FDA has concluded that yes, hospitals should probably stop using them too. The FDA has issued a full statement on the…

Learn How A Titan Missile Is Fired In This Video 

At the height of the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had thousands of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles trained on one another. In this video, we get a tour of a Titan missile silo, and learn exactly what would happen when the order came down to launch an attack. Veritasium has been posting some…

Mark Hamill’s Autographs Are The Best

Imgr user raggedrabbit has posted up a number of Luke Skywalker cards that Mark Hamill has signed. Apparently, the actor has a bit of fun when he signs them, leaving snarky notes in addition to his signature. See the full gallery here. [Imgr via Dangerous Minds]

Fear The Walking Dead Preemptively Renewed For Second Season

AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead might not be premiering until August 23rd, but the channel has confirmed that they will be picking the show up for a second, 15 episode season, which is expected to premiere in 2016. The show will explore the zombie apocalypse that began in The Walking Dead “through the lens of…

Bill Nye Reads The Meanest of Tweets

The Mean Tweets genre — whereby a celebrity reads a sampling of their Twitter abuse — is well established by this stage in the internet life cycle. So it’s about time that Bill Nye shared his worst. Contact the author at [email protected].

Channing Tatum Officially Joins Gambit Movie

Channing Tatum has been eager to star as Gambit in the X-Men spinoff for years, and now The Hollywood Reporter has reported that the actor has officially signed on for the film, despite rumors earlier this week that he was getting ready to leave the project. THR reported that negotiations for the role hit some…

Former Mt. Gox CEO Arrested Under Suspicion Of Stealing Bitcoins

Mark Karpales, the former CEO of scandal-hit Bitcoin trading emporium Mt. Gox, has been arrested this morning by Japanese police. They suspect he had something to do with the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin. Specifically, Tokyo police are alledging that Karpales manipulated his own account at Mt. Gox to show an…

Ian McShane Joins Game Of Thrones Cast For Season 6 

According to Entertainment Weekly, Ian McShane has been cast in a mystery role. Let the speculation begin. The show’s tight-lipped production will not reveal any details about McShane’s character, who’s coming on board for the most mysterious season yet. Thrones is preparing to dive headlong into narrative territory not yet revealed in author George R.R.…

AMC Renews Humans For A Second Season

AMC, Channel 4 and Kudos have renewed their science fiction show Humans for a second, eight episode season yesterday, continuing their cautionary story of robots in the near future. The new season will pick up after this season’s cliffhanger finale. AMC indicated that the show attracted a considerable audience in the US and in the…

Don’t Fall For This Windows 10 Email Scam

Windows 10 is good, sure, but don’t be in such a rush to upgrade that you get suckered in by this (fairly obvious) email scam. As spotted by Cisco, some scammers are taking advantage of the reservation system for Windows 10 to send out malware-ridden emails, posing as Microsoft. The email pretends to contain the…

How We’ll Find Out If the Discovered Plane Wreckage Is Part of MH370

It’s been nearly a year and a half since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared and investigators finally have their first big lead in the search. A piece of an aircraft’s wing—a flaperon, to be specific—washed up on Réunion Island, east of Madagascar, some 3000 miles away from where investigators were looking. But we’re still a…

Drunk Ron Weasley Wishes Harry Potter A Happy 35th Birthday

Simon Pegg, in his finest role thus far, stopped by Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show as a rather distraught Ron Weasley to wish Harry Potter a happy birthday. Clearly, the post-Hogwarts years for Weasley haven’t treated him all that well. [EW]

We’re Actively Creating the Geekiest World in the Universe

It’s no secret that scientists are incredible, unrepentant geeks, so we really shouldn’t be surprised that the tentative maps for Pluto and Charon read like the most awesome mishmash of exploration history and popular culture to ever grace a planetary system. And every single place holds a story. The New Horizons science team is busy…

Your Computer Probably Can’t Use One Of Windows 10’s Coolest Features

How did I just do that? I’m using Windows Hello, a new feature of Windows 10 that can log you in with your face instead of a password. It gets better: Microsoft plans to let you log into all kinds of things the exact same way. Once your computer knows that it’s actually you sitting…

Researchers this week announced the recovery and identification of four sets of human remains belonging to leaders of colonial Jamestown. Among the items recovered from the graves was a sealed silver box, revealed by X-ray to contain bone fragments, and two pieces of a lead ampulla. Contact the author at [email protected].

In The Rush To Kill Their Lawns, Californians Are Killing Their Trees

The good news yesterday that California cut urban water use by 27% came with a sad asterisk. In their frenzy to disable their sprinklers and eradicate every inch of water-sucking grass from their drought-plagued yards, Californians are accidentally killing their trees. And some of them are falling over dead. The Associated Press brings to light…

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

Guys, Windows 10 is out, and we played with it alllll week. Tl;dr? We like. We also tested out two hotly anticipated smartphones (that we also like) and the redesigned Chuck Taylors, which made for some great shoe porn. Here are the highlights from this week. I Installed Windows 10 and Now I’m Talking to…

RIP “Rowdy” Roddy Piper

Today, we join director John Carpenter in remembering the life and career of Roddy Piper; just days ago we were celebrating the actor, wrestler, and all-around big personality’s participation in one of the greatest the greatest fight scene in cinema history, as seen in Carpenter’s They Live. Here’s that epic brawl again, because it never…

A Time Lapse View of the Drought Collected From Satellites

It’s been a common refrain in the Midwest this year: If only we could pipe all this rain to the West. But a new NASA visualization shows just how drastic the difference has been. Last year, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a project called Global Precipitation Management that uses 12 satellites to…

Here’s a sunny, stress-free Internet diversion: Can you spot a drowning child? “Computer programmer Francisco Saldaña created the simple educational game to help people recognize the deadly situation. A person who is drowning is physiologically incapable of calling out or waving for help – meaning often there is little noise or splash.” [NYT] Contact the…