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The Seven Wonders of the Moon

The prospect of future tourists gawking at the ice fountains of Enceladus, the volcanoes of Io and the grand canyons of Mars has many people forgetting what’s in their own backyard. https://gizmodo.com/10-moons-every-person-should-know-5892559 https://gizmodo.com/over-100-geysers-on-enceladus-may-be-spouting-water-ont-1612650549 https://gizmodo.com/behold-the-first-ever-geologic-map-of-volcanic-moon-io-5895256 https://gizmodo.com/10-unsolved-martian-mysteries-5862878 Our own moon is only 240,000 miles (384,000 km) away. This is more than 150 times closer than the planet…

NPR Tells The Other Story of Women In Tech

We’re all used to hearing about women, or rather, the lack of, in the technology industry. But as NPR’s Planet Money, points out, things weren’t always that way: back at the dawn of the IT age, women were a major player in the computer science field. The question is: what happened in 1984? According to…

Watch The Expletive-Laden Teaser For Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD

The first trailer for the documentary on the making of iconic British comic 2000 AD just landed, and it’s a profanity-ridden masterpiece. https://gizmodo.com/how-2000-a-d-changed-science-fiction-forever-5945342 Here’s the blurbage: FUTURE SHOCK! THE STORY OF 2000AD – the comprehensive story of how the comic came to be, how it’s survived for 36 years, and how it continues to be…

This Carpet-Covered Sofa Is Uncomfortable Brilliance

If, like me, you’re a little OCD, the thought of a carpet with a giant kink in it is the kind of thing that keeps you awake late at night, sweaty-palmed and slightly nervous. That’s why I’m not entirely sure if I could live with this carpet-kink sofa, even if it is a clever piece…

It’s Official: We’re In Love With Legend Of Korra‘s New Antagonist

One of our biggest wishes for Legend of Korra Book 4 was that Kuvira, who is forcibly reuniting the Earth Kingdom, would be, if not a sympathetic antagonist, at least a relatable one. But after this episode, we could almost see ourselves rooting for her. And that’s why she’s so insidious. Sure, Kuvira is a…

Blackberry Decides That Ephemeral Messaging Will Save BBM

After a very brief stint at number one in the app store, Blackberry’s much-vaunted BBM messaging service — previously hailed as the saviour of the entire company — is now languishing in 462nd place on the App Store. But never fear! Because Blackberry is going to turn its fortunes around, by Snapchattifying its messaging service.…

Get your science Lego T-Shirt today only

TeeFury has a Lego and Science themed T-Shirt available for purchase on their site until the end of day for just $11. Featuring the greats, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Sagan and Tyson with the classic space logo in the back, this tee is just cute.

You’ll Need A Flexible Key To Open “The Weirdest Lock On Earth”

It’s been said there’s no such thing as an unpickable lock. That may be true – but this innovative lock assembly just bested one of the Internet’s most famous lock-pickers, who calls it “the weirdest lock on Earth.” The pin/tumbler mechanism found in simple cylinder locks is notoriously easy to beat. Armed with patience and…

Hot Toy’s latest figure might have stolen the Soul of Hugh Jackman

Hot Toys have done a lot of Wolverine figures in the past – but none have come so close to capturing the perpetual scowl of Hugh Jackman’s take on Alberta’s finest like this new one has. The figure, based on Wolverine’s ‘future’ mutant uniform from X-Men: Days of Future Past was revealed yesterday, and ever,…

The Heartwarming Story of An 11-Year-Old’s New Technological Friend

For most of us, Siri or Google Now (or Cortana, if you swing that way) is a minor help at best, a first-world solution to the first-world problem of not being able to text and drive. But as Judith Newman illustrates today in a heartfelt and heartwarming piece in the New York Times, Apple’s digital…

Don’t Get Too Excited – No One Has Cracked Nuclear Fusion Yet

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin’s announcement this week that it could make small-scale nuclear fusion power a reality in the next decade has understandably generated excitement in the media. Physicists, however, aren’t getting their hopes up just yet. https://gizmodo.com/lockheed-says-itll-have-a-truck-sized-fusion-reactor-in-1646724586 I recently returned from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Fusion Energy Conference in St Petersburg, Russia, the…

Get the Most From Your Chromebook Even When It’s Offline

Some folks would have you believe that, without an Internet connection, your spiffy new Chromebook only slightly less useful than the box it came in, but that’s simply not true. They may not be able to match a MacBook’s performance, but these lightweight laptops are far from helpless when the connectivity runs dry. Here’s most…

A reminder: this weekend, Steam is making ten games free-to-play, including big-name titles like XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Grid 2. The cutoff is 4PM Eastern tomorrow — but if you get your teeth stuck into something and need to finish it off, pretty much all the titles are also on 75 percent off. [Steamvia The…

A Future Air-Traffic Control System For Drones Could Use Cellphones

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones or quadcopters as you’d prefer to call them, have certainly taken off in the last few years, which is great, if you love taking cool movies (or terrorizing your neighbour’s dog). But it’s created a headache for the FAA, who have moved to regulate the infant industry, and make low-flying…

Flickr Launches Official iPad App, Finally

It’s taken a few years, but Flickr has finally got its act together and launched an official iPad app, only four years after Apple unleashed its first tablet on the world. The app does more or less what you’d expect a Flickr app to do — show you photos of stuff! — but it does…

Everyone is amazed by Sailor Venus on this week’s Sailor Moon Crystal

Sailor Venus makes her grand début on Sailor Moon Crystal! Unfortunately, everyone is so amazed by Minako’s amazing amazingness that they kinda forgot to bring a plot with them this week. But at least we have all of the Sailor Senshi together, at last. Seriously, I’m pretty sure this entire episode could be recapped by…

This is now Earth’s largest ship—so big it can lift oil rigs off the sea

This is the Pieter Schelte, which is now the largest ship sailing the seas, surpassing even the Maersk Triple-E*. Built by Daewoo in Korea, this catamaran is so huge that it can lift entire oil platforms off their base, pick up the base itself, and then transport it all to port—which is exactly what it’s…

Nexus Player Pulled From Google Play Store Over FCC Certification

It’s been a rollercoaster day for Google fans: first, the new Nexus Player and Nexus 9 pre-orders went live on the Play Store; but just a couple of hours later, Google’s set-top box was pulled, apparently because of its lack of FCC certification. As Android Police points out, the Nexus Player’s page on the Play…

Ambition is the new sci-fi film I didn’t even know I wanted to see

It’s not Interstellar but now I want to see it just the same: Ambition is the sci-fi film that nobody seems to be reporting about even while its main actor is arguably the best character in Game of Thrones—Littlefinger himself—and its director was already nominated for an Academy Award in 2002. [Updated] It looks good—and…

Having recalled its Force fitness tracker earlier this year, Fitbit has said that it’s not going to do the same for the Flex — despite some user reports of the same skin rash problems as dogged the Force. Rather, future Flex units will ship with a warning that the product contains nickel, a common allergen.…