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Seeing real US Navy SEALs moving underwater is way cooler than any movie

This isn’t a trailer for the next Tom Clancy movie. These are real U.S. Navy SEALs showing how they get into enemy territory from the sea. They get deployed in a mini-sub launched from a nuclear submarine. Then they get out as they approach the shore at night, ready to complete their mission. SPLOID is…

How to Get Your Sex Tape Off the Internet

The movie Sex Tape hinges on its lead couple finding it impossible to remove their raunchy homemade porno from the apparently unfathomable depths of iCloud. Their predicament is appealingly modern, if not all that realistic (as GQ proved). It got me thinking, though: How hard is it to remove a sexually explicit video you’ve made…

I Read This Book Cover To Cover But I Don’t Remember A Thing About It

What book have you read, cover to cover — but for the life of you cannot recall a single detail from within its pages? The question itself may be a paradox, but we’d like to see if you can remember what you’ve forgotten. Personally, there are two books I’ve read, and have a vivid recollection…

Now That It’s Upon Us, What Are Your Zombie Apocalypse Survival Plans?

In an eerie real life version of Max Brooks’ World War Z, China announced it was quarantining a town of 30,000 people after a “Bubonic Plague” outbreak. That doesn’t fool us, what zombie apocalypse plans will you be activating now? http://news.yahoo.com/china-seals-off-city-man-dies-bubonic-plague-102913198.html;_ylt=AwrBJSATQc5TDC0AyIjQtDMD Rightfully considered the best book ever written on subject, World War Z begins with…

A charitable foundation has just donated $650 million to the Broad Institute, earmarked for psychiatric research. It is the largest such donation ever made, and is welcome in an era when we’re seeing a decline in funding for the study of mental illness.

The Lattice of Tubes Covering This Building Are a Natural AC System

If you have ever sweated through a summer in the city, you can thank those skyscrapers all around. Tall buildings trap heat that create urban heat islands. But what if you could create a building that cools the city instead? A building skin made of a series of tubes with evaporating rainwater can do just…

This Molecule Can Prove You’re a Supertaster (Or a Caffeine Junkie)

This is 6-n-propylthiouracil, otherwise known as PROP. It once had a conventional medical purpose. Now it’s being shoved into people’s mouths to see if they’re genetically gifted (or cursed) with the power of supertaste. People first were dosed with 6-n-propylthiouracil, or PROP, when they discovered they had hyperthyroidism. The drug took out an enzyme required…

Is Eating Kosher Seafood Better for the Environment?

In some ways, absolutely yes. That’s the conclusion reached by researchers from NOAA and California State University, Channel Islands. And it mostly has to do with the distance that seafood travels from the ocean to your plate. Foods are now covered in all kinds of labels. Free range, organic, GMO-free, and all the rest. But…

​How To Build Your Own Altoids Tin Survival Kit

Tiny, light and infinitely transportable, this affordable little kit might save your life in an emergency. Here’s how to build your own mini survival kit and how to use the stuff in it. https://gizmodo.com/now-that-its-upon-us-what-are-your-zombie-apocalypse-s-1609136450 Why Altoids? The tins are universally available, well made and designed to keep the stuff inside them intact and safe from…

Skully AR-1 Helmet Hands On: What It’s Like To Wear the First HUD Helmet

The Skully AR-1 is the first helmet to include a heads-up display. It could change how we ride motorcycles forever. Below, you can read Indefinitely Wild‘s exclusive trial run. http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/ https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-worlds-first-hud-motorcycle-helmet-1608590926

James Gunn On The Movies You Must Watch Before Guardians Of The Galaxy

Earlier this month, Marvel released a Guardians of the Galaxy mixtape loaded with tunes from the ’70s that will also serve as half of the film’s soundtrack. It really helps set the tone for the film, so we asked director James Gunn to do the same thing with movies people should watch. This is just…

Googlers didn’t make a ‘traitor’ cake for a departing co-worker

You may have seen this hilarious image floating around recently with the caption: “Googler leaves to join Bing at Microsoft. Here’s the cake his co-workers gave him.” Travis is leaving Google for Bing! What a traitor! But unfortunately, it’s a bit too good to be true. Travis, the person who got a job working on…

Sixth-Grader May Have Stolen Credit For Marine Biologist’s Lionfish Research

There’s a new development in the story about 12-year-old Lauren Arrington’s remarkable science fair project about the invasive potential of lionfish. A marine biologist is now claiming that the project was based on published work he did back in 2011 — and that the girl is the daughter of his former supervisor’s best friend. https://gizmodo.com/sixth-graders-science-fair-project-rattles-ecologists-1608333632…

I Paid $50 for a Tinder Coach and All I Got Was This Sense of Doom

I opened the Facebook chat with my Tinder coach expecting to walk away with a hilarious story. It’s a coach for Tinder; how could it be anything but? But one hour, $50, and five extensively researched photos later, I had only one thought: Holy shit, that was depressing. Only about a month old, TinderUs has…

The Turtles Are Making Wu Tang References In The Newest TMNT Trailer

Rocket-powered skateboarding. Sewer-surfing. Pleasant surprise at being bulletproof. This newest TMNT trailer features the Turtles doing a lot of ridiculous things, perhaps none so insane as making a flat-out Wu-Tang Clan reference. I… I think I may love this movie. I’m sure there are some fans that are upset that this isn’t the grim n’…

The Earth Is At the Center of This Watch’s Tiny Solar System

If deep down you just know that science was too quick to adopt the notion that the universe doesn’t revolve around the earth, with this Ptolemaic watch on your wrist you’ll be reassured we’re not just some random spec in the galaxy whenever you glance down to check the time. Your devotion to defunct ancient…

The World Health Organization Wants to Legalize Sex Work and Drugs

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) released guidelines for helping to prevent the spread of HIV in key populations. The group, which also monitors the globe for pandemic outbreaks, says we have to decriminalize sex work and drugs if we want to stop HIV. HIV can be controlled with medications and safer sex,…

The Biggest Man-Made Hole on Earth

A few weeks ago, we looked at a photo essay on Mir Mine, a nearly mile-wide mine in Eastern Siberia that’s one of the largest man-made holes on Earth’s surface. It made us wonder: Where the largest hole ever made by humans? As it turns out, it’s right here in the United States. The land…

This Is The Space-Faring Lilo & Stitch Sequel We’d Love To See

Artist Diana Barron has an idea for a Lilo & Stitch sequel set in space. She imagines an adult Lilo training to become an officer in the Galactic Armada, with Stitch along for the ride. Here’s Barron’s idea for a Lilo and Stitch in space story: When Lilo graduated from High School, Grand Councilwoman immediately…

The Best Makeup Effects from Six Seasons of Face Off

A new season of SyFy’s Face Off starts this week — what better way to get fired up for mind-blowing makeup skills and creature design than with a gallery filled with six seasons of top looks? Check out these great photos of zombies, werewolves, and…other things. I’ve watched literally every episode of Face Off, in…