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GE’s New Chip Lets You Easily Hack and Mod Its Appliances

At one time hardware manufacturers frowned on consumers trying to hack or modify their products, but they’re slowly coming around to the idea. In fact, GE finally sees being able to hack an appliance as a value-added feature, so the company is releasing an interface board that makes it easy to mod your fridge, dryer,…

Right Now, It Kinda Sucks To Be A U.S. Organization Named ISIS

In 1993, former UN weapons inspector David Albright founded the Institute for Science and International Security, or ISIS. Lately, Albright’s group — which, ironically, works to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorists — is being threatened by people who confuse it with you-know-who. As the National Journal reports: The Institute for Science and…

New Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem poster is pretty cool

I just saw this new poster for Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem in Film School Rejects and I was quite impressed. Not only because it describes the essence of the film quite accurately—Christoph Waltz head dissolving into the Universe—but also for doing so in such a simple and beautiful way. Here’s the trailer in case…

This Week’s TV: 3 New Series, Including A Crazy Ridiculous Hacker Show

Fall TV is back! You may have already decided whether you’re watching the Batman prequel show Gotham or the immortal medical examiner Forever, but what’s up with supergenius show Scorpion? Plus, info on the season premieres of Sleepy Hollow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Person of Interest, and a frozen Once Upon a Time! Tonight Gotham (8…

Heroin, Guns, Stolen Credit Cards: Meet Evolution, the New Silk Road

There’s been a power vacuum in the online drug trade since black market Silk Road got busted. It won’t last. The internet abhors a vacuum just as much as nature. The proof is Evolution, a smarter, more morally bankrupt version of the Silk Road that’s on the rise. Evolution isn’t the biggest online black market;…

Everything You Need to Know About NASA’s New Mars-Orbiter

It took just ten months for NASA’s water-seeking satellite to traverse the 442 million miles between Earth and Mars. And, now that it has successfully entered stable orbit around the red planet, it’s time to get to work figuring out where the heck all that water went. The MAVEN spacecraft won’t pound the soil with…

How to Follow the Gizmodo Staff on Twitter

Recently, we here at Gizmodo have had the pleasure of welcoming a ton of new staff members. And even though you may have already liked us on Facebook or followed us on Twitter (hint hint), now’s as good a time as any to reacquaint yourself with all of our beaming, blog-addled faces. So whether you…

Evidence For The Big Bang Theory May Have Just Been Dust

Earlier this year — and in a discovery that screamed Nobel Prize — Harvard physicists announced that they’d found evidence of gravitational waves in the early universe, potential proof that our universe began with a bang. The claim was duly criticized, but a new analysis may be the most damning yet. https://gizmodo.com/have-physicists-detected-gravitational-waves-yes-1545591865 https://gizmodo.com/recently-discovered-big-bang-smoking-gun-could-be-a-b-1575597952 Top image:…

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Have the Best LCD Screens You Can Buy

A key element for a great smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display, and the best leading edge smartphones have always flaunted their beautiful high tech displays. Apple iPhones (and iPads) were up until recently at the leading edge of mobile displays: they were early adopters of high performance IPS LCDs,…

This knitted Klingon Bat’leth scarf is Qo’noS high fashion

As September gives way to October, the chill of Fall is in the air – and any true Klingon warrior worthy to fight off the cold of winter would be well equipped with Kimberly Gintar’s knitted scarf, which doubles as a Bat’leth. When folded out, Kimberly’s design takes on the form of the Klingon’s trusty…

Are You Becoming a Hoarder Without Realizing It?

You have a junk drawer full of stuff you might use some day. You have a few things that you know you’ll never use again, but can’t bring yourself to throw away. You have a collection that’s too much and too big for the space you live in. So what makes you different from a…

Awesome Stair-Climbing Robot Conquers Obstacles With Tank Treads

The first rule of Roomba is that Roombas don’t climb; for less than the price of a military grade iRobot beast, your a ground-based machine isn’t going to do very well against obstacles. A new open-source bot called ARTI may not clean, but it can conquer stairs with ease. The newly public Ground Drone Project…

Dystopia, USA: A Chilling Clip From Person Of Interest‘s Season Opener

Person of Interest season three ended with one hell of a cliffhanger: the whole country plunged into an Orwellian dystopia by a ruthless artificial intelligence. Where can we possibly go from there? Check out an exclusive clip from tomorrow night’s season opener which shows how dark things can get. Here’s the official synopsis for tomorrow…

Pew Research Center invites you to take an online quiz to test how your knowledge of religion compares with the average American. Atheists and agnostics are among those with the highest scores.

I Can’t Stop Watching This Parade of TV and Film’s Biggest Spoilers

In the age of the Netflix binge-watch, no plot twist is sacred. Avoiding spoilers has become nearly impossible. So instead of fighting it, Netflix has embraced our brave new, spoiler-ridden world with a sub-site that pummels you with all of the biggest spoilers in cinematic and television history. It is incredible. As much as we…

History Teacher Draws A Ridiculously Accurate World Map From Memory

Think you know your geography? Well, check this out: A history teacher in China can freehand draw a map of the world on a chalkboard from memory — and holy smokes is it ever accurate. According to a comment a Sina Weibo, it only takes him about a minute or so to draw it, “probably…

What Would People Be Most Surprised To Learn About Where You Live?

Places get reputations, both deserved and undeserved. But the locals often know quite a bit about the place they live that the rest of us miss out on. So today we’re spilling our best local secrets to the rest of us. Maybe you want to tell us about a fascinating piece of local history. Maybe…

This Shot of the Moon Is the First Photo Taken By a 3D-Printed Telescope

You might spend a few thousand dollars on a telescope that can see the moon’s surface in detail, but a team of astronomers at University of Sheffield spent just a fraction of that. Using a 3D printer and a Raspberry Pi camera module, they built a telescope that can shoot 5MB images of sky. The…

An Imprisoned Street Magician’s Discovery Changed The World

Johann Friedrich Böttger was a teenage street magician who was unlucky enough to be taken seriously by a very important man. That man locked Johann up for years — during which the kid made a discovery that shifted the balance of power between not just nations, but continents. Johann Böttger didn’t have a bad start…

The MST3K Crew Pitches Their Invention Exchanges To Shark Tank

Joel and the ‘Bots take their infamous Invention Exchange inventions to the judges of Shark Tank, and attempt to sell them to varying results. Oh, the internet, I would chide you for taking so long to have this obvious idea, but the result is still so perfect I can’t help but love you anyways. [Via…