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Look at These Images From the First Public High-Res Imaging Satellite

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3—set to double the resolution of Google Maps as the first public high-res imaging satellite in space—launched earlier this month. Now, here are the first images to be beamed back to Earth. https://gizmodo.com/the-super-imaging-satellite-that-will-double-google-map-1621023970 The satellite has been snapping images of Madrid, and now DigitalGlobe has released them for us to take a look at.…

These Fascinating New Nanobots Seek Out And Destroy Cancerous Tumors

Whether they’re sneaking between cells or turning cockroaches into living 8-bit computers, nanobots are insanely fascinating. Now, they’re about to become an army of impossibly small weaponized robots, swarm into the human body, hunt down malignant tumors and destroy them once and for all. New research from the University of California’s Davis Cancer Center published…

How We Could Cool Quantum Computers

Cooling modern-day computers is hard work: fans, heat sinks and even pumped liquid struggle to keep the temperatures of our hardware down. But how might we cool tomorrow’s computers—those powered using the strange and exotic power of quantum physics? Fortunately, as well as trying to make quantum computing itself actually happen, there are researchers forward-thinking…

Everyone’s Relationship on Witches of East End Is FUCKED

Name any two characters on Witches of East End, and I’ll tell you how their relationship is completely fucked. Because that was the theme of this week. That, and the appearance of James Marsters and Eddie McClintock. Welcome, genre stalwarts, to Witches of East End. It’s ridiculous. Spoilers now… It’s weird that the defeat of…

Good morning, Stockholm

There are few cities in the world as beautiful and full of beautiful people as Stockholm. This time-lapse video by Enrique Pacheco shows it in all its splendor. This is part of a series in which we are featuring beautiful time-lapses of cities and remarkable locations all over the world. If you are a photographer…

Camera mounted inside fireworks captures head spinning video

Matt Roach thought it would be a great idea to mount a camera inside a girandola—a spinning fireworks wheel—launched at the 2014 Pyrotechnics Guild International Convention in Mason City, Iowa, and sent us the video. And a great idea it is, indeed. The action starts at 2:31: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

This Crazy Ping Pong Table Houses a 2,800W Sound System

If you feel like your table tennis set-up needs a little more… oomph, then look no further than Stiga’s new Studio table: a regulation playing surface that happens to pack a 2,800 watt sound system. Beer pong will never be the same again. Lurking beneath the table’s stealth-black surface are eight 6 x 9 speakers,…

Pandora has released an app for Google Glass that will let you control your music with voice commands and touch gestures. You can also access your radio stations and create new stations using voice. [Pandora Blog]

This Is What Your Average Instagram Picture Looks Like

If you’ve ever wondered what the average Instagram picture looks like, then wonder no longer. The web app Metagramme lets you create an average image based on the last 32 pictures you uploaded to Instagram. When you head over to Metagramme it grabs the 32 most recent images from your account and creates an average…

The Whole “Magpies Like Shiny Objects” Thing Is Vicious Bird Slander

At least according to new research from Exeter University. According to a study conducted by the university’s Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB), not only do they not steal shiny objects, they’re afraid of them. Top image: Eric Isselee/Shutterstock When an Internet search revealed only two incidents of Magpie thievery, CRAB scientists set out…

Schrödinger’s Cat, Caught on Camera

While quantum mechanics is tough to get your head round, you probably know about Schrödinger’s poor old cat: left in a box, both alive and dead at the same time. Well, now there’s a picture of the ill-fated feline. https://gizmodo.com/how-the-hell-does-quantum-mechanics-work-anyway-1625454355 Well, kind of. What you’re actually looking at is an image created by quantum weirdness.…

UN Climate Report: Large-Scale Climate Shifts Are Inevitable

A new draft report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been seen by the New York Times, and the message seems to be clear: our planet is at risk of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts” and current attempts to curb it are futile. The report, intended to be the final one of…

Hackers Steal Gigabytes of Customer Data From JPMorgan And Other Banks

Hackers broke into the computer networks of at least five U.S. banks including JPMorgan Chase and siphoned off gigabytes of data, which included checking and savings account information of millions of customers, the New York Times reports. Security experts are describing the attack as “extremely sophisticated”. The intrusions were first reported by Bloomberg, which said…

The original BioShock aka the best game ever has finally landed in the iOS App Store for $14.99. Get it, get it, get it!

Behold: Wonder Woman With a Lightsaber on a Two-Headed Unicorn

That’s a lot of awesome packed into one image. See the full thing below. Look, it’s a two-headed black unicorn/pegasus mix that shoots lightning from its horns. And Wonder Woman’s got a double-sided lightsaber. I don’t know what more artist Joey Chou could have packed into this image to make it speak directly to my…

Microsoft Purges 1,500 Fake Apps From the Windows Store

The cesspool that is the Windows Store available in Windows 8 is finally getting a clean up. Microsoft is getting rid of 1,500 fake apps from the Store and will refund your money if you fell for a scam. In a blog post titled “How we’re addressing misleading apps in Windows Store”, Microsoft’s Todd Brix…

Olympus E-PL7: Great Imaging Guts, Now With a Slick Selfie Redesign

Olympus interchangeable-lens cameras are some of the best out there, and that doesn’t change with the new Pen E-PL7. As with the E-PL5, you get amazing imaging tech crammed inside a very small body. What’s surprising is that the redesigned selfie-friendly LCD screen—usually an eye-roller feature—is so well-conceived that it’s the distinguishing new feature of…

A Fan Video That Celebrates Marvel’s Quieter Moments

The Marvel movies rightly get praise for their action and their witty writing, but Gen Kim has made a video that focuses on the universe’s more subtle moments. Without dialogue, and set to José González’s “Stay Alive,” the emotion the actors convey with their faces and body language are thrown into stark relief. Kim says…

These walking fish raised out of water on land help explain evolution

We know that hundreds of millions of years ago that fish left the water and eventually evolved into land animals. But what if we could see it happen right now? We sort of can. Scientists are raising fish to survive outside of water and to walk on land and they’re changing right before our eyes.…

NASA Approves Construction of the World’s Most Powerful Rocket

For all the super-cool and otherworldly space vehicle and satellite concepts that NASA engineers dream up, only a very small percentage of them ever make it off the drawing board and onto the production line. But the next generation Space Launch System is now part of that select few, having completed NASA’s rigorous review process…