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Attacks On Health-Care Workers Are Fueling The Resurgence Of Polio

The Council on Foreign Relations maintains a map of global outbreaks of diseases that are easily prevented by inexpensive vaccines. Today, on World Polio Day, the map includes updated data that dramatically illustrates how violence against health-care workers has led to a polio resurgence in Pakistan. Each red triangle on the interactive, color-coded map indicates…

The Best Extensions for Safari in iOS 8

When Apple unleashed iOS 8 on the world, it didn’t exactly break down the boundaries of its walled garden—but it did put in one or two windows. Apps can now share with each other more easily, and there’s improved integration for third-party tools in Safari thanks to the new extension support. Here are 8 of…

The First Full Look At Ultron In All Of His Terrifying Robotic Glory

Care to see the first full-body shot of the foe of the second Avengers movie? Of course you do. Ultron’s torso and limbs are a bit overdesigned for my tastes, but it’s not like he’s a Bayformer or anything. Plus, he’s got some great gams for a robot bent on destroying all of humanity. H/t…

This awesome roadster should be the new Batmobile

The new Batmobile for Batman v Superman is cool, but I wish we could go back to something lighter, less militaristic, and a lot cooler. The Vapour GT by Swedish design firm Gray Design is the car that I would like for a new Batman TV series that is more smart detective work and less…

There’s a Knock-Off Segway For Kids Who Hate Walking Too

It was heralded as the device that would change cities and urban landscapes forever. But thanks to a price tag that put it in direct competition with a used car, the Segway ended up a punchline instead of a revolution. Will that ever change? If we get kids addicted to never having to walk again…

This brilliant video essay looks at Inception and the Narrative Illusion

Christopher Nolan’s Inception is a delightfully surreal look at merging the worlds of dream and reality – but this video essay from Brows Held High takes a deep dive into Nolan’s surrealist influences as well as Inception’s flirtation with the greatest filmmaking illusion of all: the Narrative. The video takes a look at Surrealism’s influence…

Everyone Is Lying To You All The Time And Only Butlers Know Why

Those new-fangled contraptions these days — with their beeping and their “online” social interaction — are making us dishonest! Researchers from Cornell University have determined that they have led to a new kind of lie. Learn about the “butler lie,” and why it fools everyone. Everyone Needs a Butler Now There once was a time…

The Story Behind the Brooklyn Bridge’s Most Famous Photo

You know that ubiquitous photo of workers hanging off the Brooklyn Bridge’s wires? The one plastered on every coffee cup, poster, and pint glass sold in NYC? It wasn’t always so famous. In fact, its photographer was completely unknown until the late 1990s. The formal name of the photo is Brooklyn Bridge showing painters on…

Amazon’s Fire TV just got some new apps and games, most notably good-Amazon-Prime-Music-alternative Spotify, and season two of Telltale’s fantastic Walking Dead game series.

Seek Thermal Review: Cheaper Predator Vision For Your Smartphone

What’s better than having a thermal camera capable of finding the freshest cinnamon buns — among other prey? The FLIR ONE accessory gave iPhones Predator-like thermal vision which turned out to be as awesome as it sounds, and now a company called Seek Thermal is promising the same with an iOS and Android-friendly smartphone accessory…

This Powerful New Microscope Will Transform The Way We See Biology

Just weeks after winning a Nobel Prize for his work in microscopy, Eric Betzig has done it again. He and his colleagues have developed a revolutionary new microscopy technique that allows scientists to observe living cellular processes at unprecedented speed and resolution. https://gizmodo.com/the-2014-nobel-prize-for-chemistry-has-been-awarded-for-1643908437 It’s called lattice sheet microscopy, a new imaging platform developed at the…

This Tiny Pocket Drone Flies For Two Hours With a Thin Wire Tether

Living in a mostly wireless world is a fantastic experience: were it not for constant connectivity issues, competing wireless protocols, limited ranges, and terrible battery life. That last issue is of particular concern for tiny reconnaissance drones like this hexcopter from Cyphy that work best when remaining aloft for hours. So its creators decided to…

Welcome, GIFs! Here Is Your Party.

Drop on by and stay awhile, GIFs. We’re having a party. What have you been up to this week? Do you have news to tell? Updates to share? Plans to unfold? And just what combination of GIFs will you choose to express it all? That (and more!) all awaits below, in your party.

Man, the Original Star Wars Trilogy Was a Bloodbath

When I think back on watching Star Wars as a kid, I remember it as a pretty tame. After all, those stormtroopers had terrible aim. Turns out that maybe I’m misremembering. That original trilogy was kind of a bloodbath, and this supercut from Digg turns it into a tidy little 3-minute snuff film. Aside from…

“Kung Fu” Stegosaurus Had Deadly Fighting Moves

Stegosaurus are often portrayed as lumbering plant eaters. But they were lethal fighters when necessary, according to paleontologists who recently uncovered evidence of a carnivorous Allosaurus who was mortally wounded in combat, 147 million years ago. The wound — in the conical shape of a Stegosaurus tail spike — would have required great dexterity to…

A Hacked Lamp Turns Multiple Mobile Devices Into a Single Giant Display

How many mobile devices do you carry with you on a daily basis? A couple of smartphones, and maybe a tablet? When you get to work that makes for quite a few displays floating around, and researchers at MIT have come up with software that can let them all function as one giant touchscreen, no…

Mystery Archival CERN Photos Are Fascinating Glimpses of Past Science

https://gizmodo.com/can-you-help-cern-identify-whats-happening-in-these-arc-1650207259

Two Of the Greatest Movies Of All Time On One Fantastic T-Shirt

Do you know what’s better than dinosaurs and toys? Nothing. It’s why the Dinobots were the best thing to come out of the Transformers toy line, and why this wonderful Toy Story meets Jurassic Park t-shirt is the only thing we want in our wardrobe. Seriously, goodbye dress shirts, goodbye sweaters, just give us seven…

Google’s Launching a Special Store Just for Project Ara Hardware

Everybody’s favorite modular phone project, Google’s Ara, is about to get little bit more interesting. Recently, the company quietly announced that it would be launching a hardware store for developers to sell their own Ara components. It’ll be a little bit like the Play Store, except with hot-swappable hardware instead of apps. This app store…

Dolores Umbridge Returns In A New Harry Potter Halloween Story

Looks like J.K. Rowling is planning on giving everyone a treat this Halloween. The author has announced on Pottermore.com that she will release a new short story that will detail the life of everyone’s least favorite Hogwarts teacher, Dolores Umbridge. Given how many Hogwarts teachers were outright servants of Voldemort, that’s saying something. According to…