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If you loved thelook of Ava, Ex Machina’s AI, concept artist Jock gave an interview with Business Insider about how she came to be. He says “Another thematic idea, rather than a specific shot from the script; ‘What would this robot look like in a natural environment?’ ‘What would it be looking for, once it…

Google Maps Currently Shows “Edwards Snow Den” Shop at the White House

The world’s most famous whistle blower could have turned to retail, if Google Maps it to be believed. Look up the White House using the service and you’ll find a store positioned right at the front of the building called “Edwards Snow Den.” The appearance of the store is actually more easily explained than you…

Stephen Hawking Singing Monty Python’s “Galaxy Song” Is Perfection

For Record Store Day, the Pythons and Hawking teamed up to record Hawking singing the title song to Monty Python — The Meaning of Life. And it is all that is beautiful and right and just in this world. It comes from the Monty Python live show, where Brian Cox showed up to nitpick the…

Peer Inside the X-Ray Scan of a Creature Millions of Years Old

How do you work out if a creature that’s only preserved as rock sank or swam? You create a complex 3D model of its stricture using X-rays is how. This image shows a 3D model of an ammonite—a kind of creature that lived in the sea up to 65 million years ago—created using a series…

The European Space Agency Is Being Littered With Pacman-Style Art

Stroll around the European Space Agency’s operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, and you’ll see more than rocket science. Appearing on the sides of buildings is a series of artworks inspired by 80s arcade games. Installed by the French artist Invader, the pieces will continue to pop up on buildings and perhaps even in the International…

Katee Sackhoff Will Write And Star In a New Science Fiction Show

Katee Sackhoff has finally found a project that will take full advantage of all of her talents: Rain, which she wrote and will executive produce and star in. Now, we just need an actual premiere date to circle on our calendars and count down to. Rain will follow in the long tradition of science fiction…

A Small Typo Inspired Amazing Game of Thrones/Steven Universe Art

When she saw the typo “Gem of Thrones,” artist Nina Bee’s mind went immediately to envisioning Steven Universe in the world of Game of Thrones, resulting in this totally adorable bit of art. She continued in this vein for “Pearl of Tarth”: Nina Bee draws the webcomic Applewood. Find her other art on her tumblr…

Aerial Refuelling Pictures Never Get Old 

Regardless your thoughts on the F-35 program, or billion-dollar fighter jets in general, there’s still something inherently amazing about mid-air refuelling: two man-made machines, probably hundreds of miles from home, hooking up in mid-air and transferring aerial lifeblood from one to another. https://gizmodo.com/the-trillion-dollar-f-35-wont-even-be-able-to-shoot-its-1676881496 These shots were taken during a dusk refuelling sortie, where the F-35B…

Alan Turing’s Hidden Manuscript Just Sold For $1 Million

Alan Turing, Engima-breaking mathematician and Benedict Cumberbatch lookalike, never wrote much during his life — manuscripts and diaries are hard to come by. The best remaining example was a 56-page notebook working on “the foundations of computer science”, which just sold at auction for $1,025,000. The original Bonhams press release on the auction boasted a…

This Tag-Along Is All The Universal Remote You Need

Chances are, you actually use about four buttons on your TV remote, between switching it on, turning straight to your set-top box of choice, and sticking the volume up. So really, these cheap, simplified universal zappers that snap onto the side of actually useful remotes are all the control you need. Sideclick (it’s like a…

There’s An Italian Restaurant With Its Own Human-Powered Theme Park

Italian restaurants are (quite rightly) famous for their food, but Ai Pioppi, a family-owned restaurant a little north of Venice, is renowned for something quite different: a hand-built, human powered theme park, complete with 360-degree swings and rollercoasters, all powered by your feeble little legs. YouTuber Tom Scott went on a visit to the theme…

Great News! Jo Walton Is Writing Sonnets About Godzilla!

There are so many ways to celebrate the grandeur of the King of Monsters. But author Jo Walton may have just found the best possible way. Walton was asked, as part of a charity auction at Vericon, to write a sonnet on the theme of “Godzilla vs. Shakespeare.” But she had so much fun with…

Child Star Of An Educational TV Show Gets A Message From His Future Self

When Elle arrives at the home of famed educational TV host in the short film Dear Lucas, the second biggest surprise is connecting with the host’s son and former co-host, Lucas. But the biggest surprise comes later that night when Lucas receives a message from himself — written in the year 2067. Dear Lucas was…

Impossible Rube Goldberg machine cleverly breaks the concept of reality

When you live in the carefully edited Vine world of magic and wizardry and spells and sorcery, you can make anything happen. Zach King is the master of flipping the construct of reality on its head and transforming things into something entirely different. Take this Rube Goldberg machine that starts out normally and then gets…

Want To See a Naked Washing Machine?  

Are your desires …unconventional? Enough so that you have a deep yearning for a periodical of tastefully photographed technology, stripped down to its barest elements? Boy, have I got the magazine for you. I have no idea if PlayGeek magazine is a real or some sort of crowdfunding gag, but I love what it promises—artful…

Michelle MacLaren Won’t Direct The Wonder Woman Movie After All

Game of Thrones veteran Michelle MacLaren was supposed to make her big-screen debut with the Wonder Woman solo film — but now she’s left the project over “creative differences,” the studio tells The Hollywood Reporter. This makes MacLaren the second female director to leave a superhero film, after Patty Jenkins (Monster) walked off Thor: The…

How Better Call Saul is visually similar to Breaking Bad

I enjoyed watching the first season of Better Call Saul because even though it’s a much different show than Breaking Bad and totally good in its own right, it was nice to have some Breaking Bad on television. Characters we loved were back, the feel was similar enough and the visual style matched up. Here’s…

Behold The Dark Sand Dunes Of Mars

The HiRISE camera mounted on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is exploring the history of water on Mars, snapped this photo of a circular depression on the Red Planet’s surface. The official NASA caption explains exactly what you’re seeing: This image of a circular depression on the surface of Mars was acquired on Jan. 5,…

(Almost) All of CSI:Cyber’s Cringeworthy Tech Buzzwords in One Video

CSI:Cyber is Gizmodo’s new favorite terrible tech-tinged procedural that may or may not be written by people who have never actually seen a computer. It’s great! This compilation of buzzwords from the fourth and fifth episodes of this season is a nonsense cacophony. I’ve watched every single episode of this show so far, but seeing…

Why We Shouldn’t Have Chins

Here we see an impressive, but chinless, Neandertal skull and a puny, but bechinned, human skull. Why do we have weird, low, skull ridge? We don’t know, but we know one of the reasons why we shouldn’t have it. A study done at the University of Iowa took a look at our chinny-chin-chins and discovered…