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Guardians Of The Galaxy Is Now The Highest Grossing Movie Of 2014

The Marvel franchise critics once called too-minor and too-goofy to succeed has upped the ante yet again. Guardians of the Galaxy has surpassed The Lego Movie and Captain America: The Winter Soldier to become the highest-grossing movie of the year at the domestic box office. Image Credit: p1xer It’s been a hell of a month…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

Report: Apple “Considering” iWatch Prices Up to $400

There’s been a whole lot of rumors swirling over the smartwatch Apple will assumedly announce during the iPhone event on September 9th. Now, Re/Code says that Apple execs have hinted there will be multiple models of the device, the priciest of which could hit $400. That’s on the very high end for smartwatches—most come in…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

NASA Will Reformat Mars Rover’s Flash Memory From 125 Million Miles Away

NASA’s Opportunity rover is still trundling across the surface of Mars, more than 11 years after its 90 day mission began. But its software is getting bogged down, so NASA’s doing a full system backup, memory wipe, and reboot. It’s just like your routine computer cleanup, just from the next planet over. Both Spirit and…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Astronomers Discover A Planetary Impact Outside Our Own Solar System

In a study published in the latest issue of Science, astronomers led by graduate student Huan Meng, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, announced the discovery of remains of a mammoth planetary collision. The team made its observations using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and several different ground-based instruments. The collision occurred between two planets…

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11 Reasons Email Is the Worst

Email is one of those things that’s just a part of your life, period. Most of us know someone who has closed their Facebook account or refused to join in the first place in a little foot-stomping stand by their ego, and you might even know someone who is thrilled with themselves for not owning…

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Animal Dating Profiles Are Unexpectedly Adorable

The latest webcomic from the always-excellent Rosemary Mosco (previously) gives us a whimsical peek at the animal kingdom’s online dating scene. Mosco also recommends this David Attenborough clip on the wild orchid wasp mimic. For those left scratching their head over the sanderling joke, this ought to clear things up: “Animal Dating Profiles” is Mosco’s…

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Airline Seats, iPhone 6, Viral Hoaxes, How We Watch Porn, and More

Well folks, September is almost here, and you worked hard. Hard enough to earn yourself and everyone else a long weekend. Here are the best stories we wrote this week, in case you missed them while you were workin’ hard for the money. A Gadget That Stops Seats From Reclining Caused a Plane-Diverting Fight Planes…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

You Can Now Access All Of Richard Feynman’s Physics Lectures For Free

The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures. The three-volume set may be the most popular collection of physics books ever written, and now you can access it online, in its entirety, for free. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-series-of-seven-brilliant-lectures-by-richard-f-5894600 The…

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Here’s How Anatomically Impossible That Spider-Woman #1 Cover Is (NSFW?)

A few weeks ago, our pals over at io9 showed the Milo Manara cover illustration for Spider-Woman #1 in all its as(s)tounding opposite-of-majesty. Now, a Redditor did a 3D rendering to show just how ridiculous that pose is, from an anatomical standpoint. Some nudity and a lot of weirdness ahead. https://gizmodo.com/check-out-spider-woman-1-starring-spider-womans-ass-1624535918 Yeeeeeesh. Torsos, necks, and…

Books & Comics Bob Sorokanich

Do You Really Want To Live Forever?

The average human lifespan is increasing at a rate of around five hours a day. Meanwhile, “longevity startups” have become a thing. According to one aging expert, life extension is the biggest change confronting humanity in the 21st century. Are we prepared for this change? Do we even want it? https://gizmodo.com/a-world-map-of-average-life-expectancy-by-country-how-5964093 https://gizmodo.com/craig-venters-new-longevity-startup-will-make-100-the-1536833065 https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-you-to-live-forever-1349384338 Photo Credit:…

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There Is A Tiny Donald Glover Easter Egg Hidden In Amazing Spider-Man

Donald Glover got to voice one Spider-Man, Miles Morales, but he also turns up in The Amazing Spider-Man in a very small way. Even Peter Parker is a Glover fan. https://gizmodo.com/donald-glover-is-the-perfect-miles-morales-on-ultimate-1626877097 After the Internet campaign to see Glover cast as Peter Parker, director Marc Webb told MTV News in 2012 that there would be a…

Movies Lauren Davis

6 Simple Things Google’s Self-Driving Car Still Can’t Handle

Self-driving cars are most definitely the future. They have been for decades. For Google, that future isn’t quite as close as you might think—as of right now, its autonomous vehicle would fail a driver’s license test before it ever got out of the parking lot. MIT Technology Review took a closer look at the driving…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

What Time is It in the Universe?

Check your watch. What time is it? But wait, you’ve actually been moving and accelerating, and according to Einstein, everything’s relative. So what time is it really? It all depends… Flavor Flav knows what time it is. At least he does for Flavor Flav. Even with all his moving and accelerating, with the planet, the…

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NASA Sets A 2018 Launch Date For The Rocket That Will Take Us To Mars

Three years after its unveiling, NASA managers have approved the development of the rocket that will carry astronauts into deep space. Called the Space Launch System (SLS), the heavy-lift rocket will be the most powerful ever built, and is designed to launch the next generation of space explorers to deep-space worlds well beyond Earth’s moon.…

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The Moon Landing Went Far Better Than the Practice Landing

Just months before the first moon landing, Neil Armstrong was squeezing in a few more practice landings. In an altogether disconcerting turn of events, the lunar lander exploded during practice. Between our stronger gravity and thick atmosphere, it’s hard to practice landing on the moon by flying on Earth. The best the test flight engineering…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Awesome Home-Built Elysium Exoskeleton Lifts 170 Pounds Like Nothing

YouTuber The Hacksmith has been working on his Elysium-inspired exoskeleton for a long time. Now it’s finally paid off: The pneumatic-powered cyborg arms let him curl more than 170 pounds like it’s an empty pillow sack, complete with exactly the sort of robotic sounds you’d expect. Clearly, The Hacksmith’s work isn’t done yet—he’s still relying…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Good Life-Advice From Maryam Mirzakhani

Earlier this month, Iranian-born Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal in the prize’s nearly 80-year history. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she has some pretty solid advice to offer on making one’s way through the world. A quote from Mirzakhani has been making the rounds recently. Many have…

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World’s Most Badass GoPro Doesn’t Even Blink at Up-Close Rocket Testing

When it comes to punishing GoPros, Copenhagen Suborbitals definitely takes the cake: The experimental rocket-building startup mounted an action cam right in the line of (literal) fire during a rocket test. Astoundingly, the thing survived. It’s been to hell and back, and it has the video to prove it. The footage next to the rocket…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

This beautiful starry sky is a cave full of glowworms in New Zealand

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features an amazing photo by Phill Round. It looks like a frame from a Spielberg movie—an humanoid figure appearing at the base of a mountain, with the unknown starry sky of an alien world behind it. In reality, it’s a man getting into New Zealand’s Hollow Hill Cave. From…

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Happy 30th Birthday to Discovery, NASA’s Greatest Space Shuttle

On August 30th, 1984, the space shuttle Discovery launched on its first voyage to space. It wasn’t the first, but over the next 27 years it became the undeniable king of NASA’s shuttle program. That first launch 30 years ago was a clear success, but it capped off an incredibly rocky month for the then-new…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Guardians Of The Galaxy Is Now The Highest Grossing Movie Of 2014

Report: Apple “Considering” iWatch Prices Up to $400

NASA Will Reformat Mars Rover’s Flash Memory From 125 Million Miles Away

Astronomers Discover A Planetary Impact Outside Our Own Solar System

11 Reasons Email Is the Worst

Animal Dating Profiles Are Unexpectedly Adorable

Airline Seats, iPhone 6, Viral Hoaxes, How We Watch Porn, and More

You Can Now Access All Of Richard Feynman’s Physics Lectures For Free

Here’s How Anatomically Impossible That Spider-Woman #1 Cover Is (NSFW?)

Do You Really Want To Live Forever?

There Is A Tiny Donald Glover Easter Egg Hidden In Amazing Spider-Man

6 Simple Things Google’s Self-Driving Car Still Can’t Handle

What Time is It in the Universe?

NASA Sets A 2018 Launch Date For The Rocket That Will Take Us To Mars

The Moon Landing Went Far Better Than the Practice Landing

Awesome Home-Built Elysium Exoskeleton Lifts 170 Pounds Like Nothing

Good Life-Advice From Maryam Mirzakhani

World’s Most Badass GoPro Doesn’t Even Blink at Up-Close Rocket Testing

This beautiful starry sky is a cave full of glowworms in New Zealand

Happy 30th Birthday to Discovery, NASA’s Greatest Space Shuttle

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