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The Three By Sarah Lotz Could Be This Summer’s Most Engrossing Thriller

I’ll be very interested to see if airport bookstores stock Sarah Lotz’s new novel, The Three. It’s a creepy, engrossing look at the stories we come up with in the face of disaster, involving four airplane crashes on a single day. In the aftermath of these crashes, morbid fascination mixes with conspiracy theories that make…

Android TV Hands-On: This Is How Smart TVs Won’t Be So Darn Dumb

For years, Google’s been trying to plow its way onto your TV with flawed hardware, and today, it shifted its approach to a new OS called Android TV. It’s the very simple way that Google is going to make your TV smart. Finally. https://gizmodo.com/androidtv-googles-bajillionth-attempt-to-take-over-you-1595951410 The built-in “smart” features that come with TVs have always been…

Ann Leckie Refused To Change Ancillary Justice‘s Unusual Pronouns

One of the most notable things about Ann Leckie’s Nebula and Clarke-winning novel Ancillary Justice is its unusual pronoun use, which she talked a lot about when she answered your questions. In a new profile, she explains how she was told it would make the book unpublishable. Top image: Alan Lynch. Without giving too much…

Ginuwine: When Doves Cry (Prince Cover)

Purple Rain turns 30 today. That means two things. One: You should go watch the movie right now—twice in a row if you can swing it. Two: Put that soundtrack on repeat—stat. Good luck finding either of those things free on the internet, though. Prince is famously antagonistic towards bloggers and has apparently done a…

At a wearble computing talk at Google I/O we learned that Android Wear notifications that pop up on your wristables will be available to Google Glass this Fall. It’s an obvious evolution that’ll sync notifications to all your devices.

Soviet Accident Prevention Posters Depict A Dozen Gruesome Ways To Die

Industrial safety is a serious matter. But, in the 1920s, the Bolshevik regime — not exactly known for its restraint — went over the top with these scare posters, depicting gruesome, imaginative deaths that seem like panels from classic horror comics. “Don’t Walk Under the Transmission Arbor” “Look Out For The Buffers” “They Are Working…

Ben Kingsley Will Voice Bagheera In Disney’s Live-Action Jungle Book

There are two movie adaptations of The Jungle Book in the works right now, but only one of them will feature the leonine voice of Sir Ben Kingsley. Kingsley will be voicing the panther Bagheera opposite Idris Elba’s Shere Khan. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Kingsley’s voice will appear in Disney’s version of the…

Why Wasn’t This 1960s Fantastic Four TV Show A Real Thing?

There never was a 1960s live-action Fantastic Four TV show starring Russell Johnson (the Professor from Gilligan’s Island) as Reed Richards and Elizabeth Montgomery (of Bewitched fame) as Sue Storm. So a couple of TV fans decided to dream one up, complete with production stills and a detailed episode guide. “This site is dedicated to…

From Getty Images: Dog robots in the Robo Cup 2000 Soccer Tournament compete for the ball August 29, 2000 during a game of the Robo Cup 2000, which is being held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, in Melbourne, Australia. For more on animals of the future check out 6 Pets That Were Supposed To Be…

Trippy Animated GIFs Bring Contemporary Architecture To Life

The best modern architecture has a playful quality, and often seems to have a life of its own. But what if these buildings really could move around, or dissassemble and reassemble? Or turn into Tetris blocks? A wild series of animated GIFs makes this happen. We’ve seen buildings that rotate and have optical illusions on…

Watch a Paralyzed Man Move His Hand With the Power of Thought

For the first time ever, a paralyzed man has moved his hand using his mind—and some pretty badass technology. The announcement came just days after a paralyzed woman kicked the first ball at the World Cup in Brazil with the help of an exoskeleton. Paralysis, it seems, is increasingly becoming a thing of the past.…

No, That Twist In The Flash Pilot Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

The first episode of The Flash leaked onto torrent sites earlier today, allowing folks an early preview before the show’s October 7th premiere. This preview included quite the shocker in the show’s final scene — SPOILER WARNING STARTS HERE. NO, SERIOUSLY. SPOILER WARNING. Okay, you with me? Good. The episode ends with S.T.A.R. Labs creator,…

How this couple ended up with the most dramatic wedding pictures ever

Photographer Josh Newton captured these dramatic wedding photos earlier this month in Oregon—after a small fire in the vicinity grew out of control and the fire brigade arrived to evacuate all the guests halfway through the ceremony. He told us how everything happened. No one was in any real danger – the fire was 6…

Who’s Got The Worst Daddy Issues In Science Fiction, Fantasy Or Comics?

Daddy issues are the main motivating force in pop culture, it often seems. Everybody is pissed at their fathers, or desperate to impress them, or striving to avenge them. But who’s got the most painful (or annoying) daddy issues of all time? Please include a picture, book cover, comics panel or clip for your chosen…

This Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Is Just 16 Light Years Away

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a potentially-habitable Super-Earth around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 832. Located 16 light-years from Earth, it’s considered one of the closest and best habitable-world candidates so far. Gliese 832-c features a brief orbital period of 36 days and a mass at least five times…

Moto 360 Hands-On: This Smartwatch Will Make You Swoon

We just went hands-on with Samsung’s first Android Wear, the Gear Live. It was lovely and very promising. But then we just got to strap Motorola’s Moto 360 on, and oh man, it’s gorgeous. GORGEOUS. Here are our quick first impressions. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-gear-live-hands-on-turns-out-smartwatches-coul-1596056417 The first round-faced Android Wear is just great-looking. Samsung’s is by no means…

LG G Watch Hands-On: A Smartwatch That Feels Like a Watch

Months after it was first announced, you’ll finally be able to pre-order LG’s Android Wear-powered G Watch for $229 this afternoon, and today, I had the chance to handle the hardware for the first time. And, for the first time, I saw a true smartwatch that actually works like a watch. The G Watch’s rectangular…

An Anatomical Chocolate Skull For Sweet-Toothed Cannibals

Mmmm, chocolate. So delicious. So healthy. Why settle for chowing down on a boring old bar when you could instead… nibble… on this anatomically correct… human… skull? Alas, poor cocoa; this might be the creepiest treat ever created. Yes, you can actually buy one of these 3.3-pound bony beasts (thanks, Etsy!). Each hand-cast head is…

Watch Japan’s Creepy Android Newscaster Deliver The Day’s Top Stories

Robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro has unveiled what he says is the world’s first news-reading android — eerily lifelike and possessing a sense of humor to match her perfect language skills. This latest plunge into the uncanny valley is named “Kodomoroid”—an amalgamation of the Japanese word “kodomo” (child) and “android.” After delivering news of an earthquake…

A revolutionary idea: bringing more science to science fiction conventions. This weekend’s Evolution Expo in Oakland combines science lectures and astronaut talks with TV and movie panels, to try and “put science back into science fiction.”