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We Still Don’t Know What Jumpstarts Puberty

Maybe you grew so fast it left stretch marks on your legs. Or your voice started cracking every time you got on the phone. Or you hated needing to wear a bra. Growing up means going through puberty. It’s an integral part of becoming an adult. But we still don’t know how our bodies start…

Tech News Diane Kelly

The CIA Is Shutting Down Its Secretive Climate Change Research Project

The Central Intelligence Agency has announced that it’s closing down MADEA, a decades-old research program that shared classified information with scientists to study how climate change might exacerbate global security risks. Top image: Spy satellite data has revealed Antarctic ice vulnerability. (Credit: NASA/Goddard) MEDEA, or Measurement of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis, was a CIA…

io9 George Dvorsky

Google Is Making a Robot Teddy Bear That Can Recognize Your Face

Google’s hoping there’s a market for sophisticated artificial intelligence voice assistants you can hug. The company’s most recent patent design for an anthropomorphic voice assistant/toy reads like someone dreamt it up after watching an AI and Ted double-feature (and had obviously never seen Child’s Play). It’s a robot shaped like a teddy bear or bunny…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

I Saw The Supergirl Pilot, And It’s Actually Pretty Super

The pilot for this fall’s Supergirl TV series has appeared online, and here’s our spoiler-free review! If you were put off by the show’s six-minute preview from last week, I can assure you the show is significantly better than that. It still some of the same issues, but it’s far more charming than problematic. Honestly,…

io9 Rob Bricken

These Are The Most Distinctive Popular Foods In Every State

What are they eating a lot of in each state, and only there? This map has the answers. Foursquare and Mapbox put together this map of the foods you’re most likely to find in each state, over and above the nation as a whole — and just how much more likely you are to find…

io9 Ria Misra

2 Million Internet Users Designed This House, and It’s Not Bad

Design by committee is usually a recipe for a hot pile of garbage. Design by a committee of two million? It’s not as bad as you’d think. Hemnet is a real estate site in Sweden—it’s a bit like Trulio, a site where people go to browse homes and look at features and pricing in their…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Groundbreaking History Of Star Wars Toys

When Star Wars released in 1977, the face of science fiction in popular culture was changed forever — but a year later, the movie helped transform the toy industry as well. Since then, Star Wars and the toys it inspired have been forever linked, a story that can just as easily be told through figures…

io9 James Whitbrook

Neat photo shows a US Navy sailor inside a F/A-18 Hornet afterburner

It looks like the entryway to a portal. Or like the pod of some spacecraft. But it’s a US Navy sailor checking out the afterburners of a fighter jet. The US Navy: “Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Ryan Draper, from Palmdale, Calif., inspects an F/A-18 afterburner in the jet shop aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier…

Sploid Casey Chan

Stratos Card Review: This Smart Credit Card Is Still Too Dumb

Technology is a conquerer. The evidence can be seen in mounds of dead pagers, flip phones, and CDs. When companies and startups agree to kill something off, it’s usually not long for this world. But one piece of tech has become an unkillable cockroach—the credit card. Apple has Apple Pay. Samsung has Samsung Pay. Google’s…

Reviews Darren Orf

Are China’s Robot Restaurants a Threat To American National Security?

It seems like every other week a new robot restaurant opens in China. Meanwhile, you know who hasn’t opened a robot restaurant in basically forever? America. That’s right. Forget our students’ math test scores and our number of fighter jets, China is eating our lunch in the only area that really matters. And that lunch…

Tech News Matt Novak

ID Network’s First Scripted Drama Evokes Soap Operas And Ted Bundy

Investigation Discovery, or ID, is mostly known for its reenactment-heavy true-crime shows (including guilty-pleasure fodder like Wives With Knives, Momsters, and Frenemies: Loyalty Turned Lethal). The network’s first scripted series arrives in June with a suitably lurid title: Serial Thriller: Angel of Decay. According to Deadline, the show is a three-night miniseries rather than a…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Here’s Facebook’s Little Red Book: A Guide to Zuckerbergian Truth

Facebook, like many Silicon Valley giants, has a mythology that’s used to indoctrinate workers. To help spread this ancestral origin story, Facebook enlisted its in-house print shop to publish a book of cultish aphorisms to guide inductees towards the light. Several photographs of the book are published on the portfolio website of Ben Barry. Barry…

Social Media Mario Aguilar

The Brightest Galaxy Ever Discovered Shines Like 300 Trillion Suns

Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), astronomers have catalogued 20 previously undetected galaxies that are so bright they belong to an entirely new class of objects, including one that releases 10,000 times more energy than the Milky Way — even though it’s smaller. Artistic impression of WISE J224607.57-052635.0 (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Two decades ago, astronomers…

io9 George Dvorsky

Scientists To Sequence Lil Bub’s Genome

A team of geneticists is ready to unlock the secrets behind Internet celebrity cat Lil Bub’s unique appearance. Lil Bub, whose full name is Lillian Bubbles (her friends call her Bub), may be the most recognizable cat on the Web. Although Bub is an adult now, she still looks like a kitten, with wide green…

Biology Kiona Smith-Strickland

The Fantastic Pushbullet App Has a Competitor With Microsoft OneClip

I use a 15-inch MacBook Pro and one of several Android phones laying around the Gizmodo office, and sharing content between those two ecosystems is a bunch of garbage. Third-party apps like the fantastic Pushbullet app every phone should have help, but Microsoft thinks it has a better solution for the Windows crowd with OneClip.…

Tech News Darren Orf

Tomorrowland Is Baby-Boomer Nostalgia At Its Most Dreary

Lots of movies have a wonderful first half, followed by a blah second half. Setup is often easier than follow-through. But Tomorrowland, out today, might become the clearest example of this syndrome. And the reason Tomorrowland falls apart halfway through is because it sinks into Baby Boomer angst. Spoilers ahead… Tomorrowland wears its Boomer wishful…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

High School Student Discovers the Best Way to Hide Evidence of Murder

High school sophomore Brynn Myers decided to tackle a forensics topic for her science fair project this year. And in the process, she discovered how to commit murder and hide the evidence thoroughly. Myers, a 16-year-old from Missouri, wanted to find the most effective way to hide blood after splattering it everywhere. So she put…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Qatar Is Still Using Forced Labor To Build Stadiums

Last year, the Qatari government promised to, uh, get better about using forced labor to build the stadiums and infrastructure it needs to host the World Cup in 2020. But according to a new report from Amnesty International, nothing has changed. Image: AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo Yesterday, Amnesty put out an in-depth update on Qatar’s promise…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

You Could Slide a Truck Down This Monstrous 50-Foot Long Slip N’ Slide

If the Slip N’ Slide had one failing (besides killing a strip of grass in your parent’s backyard or injuring riders) it was that your slippery ride was over in the blink of an eye. But with this gigantic 50-foot long alternative, your slide will at least last take three or four blinks, if not…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Crazy Rumor: Kanye Might Dump Jay Z’s Tidal to Launch Swish on Beats

Here’s a ludicrous rumor we’re going to explore because the thought of Kanye West and Apple and Dr. Dre doing something together makes me want to throw a cartoonishly large old-time cash register off a building just to watch millions float away in the wind. Some music weblog called “Hits Daily Double” says there is…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

We Still Don’t Know What Jumpstarts Puberty

The CIA Is Shutting Down Its Secretive Climate Change Research Project

Google Is Making a Robot Teddy Bear That Can Recognize Your Face

I Saw The Supergirl Pilot, And It’s Actually Pretty Super

These Are The Most Distinctive Popular Foods In Every State

2 Million Internet Users Designed This House, and It’s Not Bad

The Groundbreaking History Of Star Wars Toys

Neat photo shows a US Navy sailor inside a F/A-18 Hornet afterburner

Stratos Card Review: This Smart Credit Card Is Still Too Dumb

Are China’s Robot Restaurants a Threat To American National Security?

ID Network’s First Scripted Drama Evokes Soap Operas And Ted Bundy

Here’s Facebook’s Little Red Book: A Guide to Zuckerbergian Truth

The Brightest Galaxy Ever Discovered Shines Like 300 Trillion Suns

Scientists To Sequence Lil Bub’s Genome

The Fantastic Pushbullet App Has a Competitor With Microsoft OneClip

Tomorrowland Is Baby-Boomer Nostalgia At Its Most Dreary

High School Student Discovers the Best Way to Hide Evidence of Murder

Qatar Is Still Using Forced Labor To Build Stadiums

You Could Slide a Truck Down This Monstrous 50-Foot Long Slip N’ Slide

Crazy Rumor: Kanye Might Dump Jay Z’s Tidal to Launch Swish on Beats

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