Latest

What’s The Fate of The Walking Dead‘s New Villain?

More Star Wars concept art sheds light on another possible character. A producer explains how Ben Affleck’s Batman differs from all the rest. J. Michael Straczynski promises to change the face of television with Sense8. And another Gotham Easter egg is revealed! Spoilers now! Top image: Walking Dead Star Wars Welcome back to the land…

Smartwatches Fulfill Their True Destiny With a Game Boy Emulator

Google and Apple can pitch them as productivity tools all they want, but the real reason anyone would strap a smartwatch to their wrist is as a more covert way to kill time and avoid boredom. So it’s good to know that when your Twitter and Facebook feeds run dry, you can always boot up…

How the T-Shirt Was Invented

The t-shirt is arguably the most popular outer garment in the entire world. Coming in a range of styles, colors and sizes there is quite literally a t-shirt for everyone. But where did this iconic garment come from and how did it become so popular? Relatively speaking, the t-shirt is a fairly new addition to…

They are impressive puzzle-solvers, have seemingly distinct personalities, use tools — and they are also food. Over at The New Yorker, they’re taking a deep dive on whether the high (if alien) intelligence of octopuses makes their continued presence on our menus a troubling proposition.

A Windows Flaw Let Russian Hackers Spy on NATO, EU and More

Reuters is reporting that Russian hackers were able to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union and the Ukraine, as well as private companies, thanks to a security flaw in Windows. Security firm iSight Partners claims that Russian hackers have been attempting to gain information relating to the Ukraine crisis. However, in August…

Guy transforms big chunk of wood into a salad bowl in hypnotizing video

It could be that piece of wood spinning endlessly or the fact that it’s hard to take your eyes off someone doing his job so skillfully, I don’t know. But watching David Earle turning a big piece of elm wood into a perfect salad bowl is truly an hypnotizing experience. SPLOID is a new blog…

Leaked Ads Hint at What to Expect From Google This Week?

Just days before the rumor mills predict we can expect a new Nexus, a series of three advertisements have leaked which encourage someone or something to “Be together. Not the same.” Maybe they’re real, and maybe they hint at what we can expect. https://gizmodo.com/nexus-6-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-1640839980 The tag line appears at the end of each of the…

What Cities Smell Like, Visualized

It’s easy to notice on a street corner, but hard to track as you navigate an entire city: smell, despite being a crucial stimulus, is much harder to quantify than other sensory cues like sound or light. But that hasn’t stopped Kate McLean from trying. A PhD candidate in Information Experience Design at the Royal…

Preston McAfee, now Microsoft’s chief economist, once wrote a paper pondering what if Columbus had sailed off the edge of the world? How would that have affected U.S. history and economic growth? His goal was to ridicule economists who sought precise statistical answers to impossible questions. Read more about it here.

Are Insects the Future of Food?

Emily Anthes braves locusts, beetles, mealworms and more as she asks whether eating insects is the answer to feeding ever more humans and livestock. At first my meal seems familiar, like countless other dishes I’ve eaten at Asian restaurants. A swirl of noodles slicked with oil and studded with shredded chicken, the aroma of ginger…

Supposed Bitcoin Creator Is Crowdfunding His Lawsuit… With Bitcoin

Back in March, Newsweek alleged that Dorian Nakamoto was the creator of Bitcoin. Now, though, Nakamoto is raising funds in the cryptocurrency to file a lawsuit against the publication, which refuses to retract its article. His website, ‘Newsweek Lied,’ claims that Newsweek misstated facts, altered and fabricated quotes, and falsified entire conversations. It also points…

The Giant Tortoise Carries Its Home and Yours on Its Back

We thought they might be operating on the same principle as decorator crabs, but how does it get all of that on its back without arms that reach its back? This is “The Lost World” by Benajmin Haley, aka ElementOfOne1 on deviantART

Google Same-Day Delivery Service Hits Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C.

Google has announced that it’s dramatically expanding its same-day delivery service into new cities, adding different vendors, and changing its name, too. Can you tell we’re on the run up to the holidays yet? https://gizmodo.com/google-same-day-delivery-comes-to-new-york-and-los-ange-1571817332 The service, now called Google Express rather than Google Shopping Express, is rolling out in Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C..…

Amazon Is Opening Pop-Up Stores in San Francisco and Sacramento, Too

Perhaps not content with its first physical store in Manhattan, Amazon has confirmed that it’s also opening pop-up stores in San Francisco and Sacremento in time for the holidays, too. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-opening-a-brick-and-mortar-store-in-manhattan-1644425412 The retailer will open its San Francisco store in Westfield San Francisco Centre, a mall located in the heart of downtown San Francisco on…

This bodes ill: Syfy’s announced that all six episodes of its alt-history space show Ascension will air in three days. Its release date has also moved from November to December 15, 2014. With two episodes airing every day, the miniseries will be gone by December 17. Watch the trailerand tell us if this makes sense.

A Comedy Club Is Using Facial Recognition to Charge by the Laugh

Never more shall you pay full price for a sub-par comedian. A comedy club in Spain is using tablets with facial recognition software to figure out how much to charge its customers. The future is now. As with all really important advancements, this one was spurred on by taxes. The Barcelona club Teatreneu introduced this…

Buzz Aldrin’s amazing view while riding Gemini XII with the hatch open

This is the nose of the Gemini XII spacecraft as photographed by Buzz Aldrin. He was standing up on his seat with his hatch open while orbiting at 8,000 meters per second 188 miles over the Earth. I wish I were able to imagine the sensation of what this felt like. This is how it…

Combining gymnasts and bullet time is how you break gravity

And here I thought simple slow motion was enough to make gymnasts and breakdancers and parkour athletes look awesome. Nope. You need to add some bullet time action to turn up the intensity knob to the point where it looks like gravity is completely broken. Marc Donahue made this bullet time video with a 20…

Robert Downey Jr.’s In Captain America 3. And It’s to Start Civil War

We may finally know what Robert Downey Jr. was talking about when he said that there he was working on a deal with Marvel to do something that wasn’t Iron Man 4. According to Variety, Downey’s in the final stages of negotiations that’ll bring Tony Stark in to Captain America 3 and begin the movies’…

Change Your Password: Hackers Claim Hundreds of Dropbox Passwords Leaked

Reddit users are claiming that several Pastebin files containing hundreds of Dropbox users’ usernames and passwords have been leaked. Change your password just in case and activate two-factor authentication if you haven’t already. Update: Dropbox claims that their servers have not been breached and this info was stolen from a third party. According to the…