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The MTA Clearly Doesn’t Watch Futurama

This morning, passengers headed to NYC on the Metro-North rail line hit serious delays. The culprit? A suspicious package found near the Farfield, CT station. Or rather, a suspiciously Bender-shaped package. Bite my shiny metal ass, commuters. To be fair, it’s always better safe than sorry when it comes to unknown parcels in public places.…

Inside Shapeways, the 3D-Printing Factory of the Future

When you walk into the Shapeways headquarters in a sprawling New York City warehouse building, it doesn’t feel like a factory. It’s something different, somehow unforgettable, inevitably new. As it should be. This is one of the world’s first full service 3D-printing factories, and it’s not like any factory I’ve ever seen. Founded in the…

We’re Throwing You A GIF Party, And Here It Is!

No need to get upset, GIFs! Your party is here. What’s been happening in your world? We want to know all about your news, your life, and your burgeoning collection of GIFs right now!

27 high tension photos of NATO jets intercepting Russian warplanes

This week interception of Russian warplanes by NATO Typhoon fighters reminds me of the time in which the world was on the brink of total nuclear annihilation, when Soviet forces taunted the Americans to test their defenses. This image collection shows that part of a Cold War that seems reactivated right now. January 1963: F-4…

Ant-Man’s Villain, New Iron Man Armors, And More Avengers 2 Rumors

Joblo.com managed to get a bevy of rumored news from Avengers: Age of Ultron regarding new costumes, new armors for Iron Man, and how the movie has solved the problem of Hulk’s pants. Plus, we may finally know the villain of Ant-Man. Please take these all with the prerequisite salt, of course, but I can’t…

What A Prehistoric Parasite Reveals About Humans And Disease

Technological advances can lead to the emergence of new types of diseases. We tend to think of this as a modern phenomenon, but recent studies of bodies excavated from graves in the Middle East reveal that humans have inadvertently been a cause of their own illnesses for thousands of years. Recent examples of technology-related illnesses…

Colbert Eviscerates Yo For Being Useless and Dumb

In just a few short days, Yo has climbed to the top of the app charts, accumulating some 50,000 foolish users who send the same dumb salutation back and forth to each other. Stephen Colbert asks the right question in this hilarious clip: “Y?” I’ll admit that Yo has its charm. It’s kinda funny! But…

This Soda Can Mutes World Cup Mania By Secretly Shutting Off TVs

It’s a well-known trick that’s liable to get you killed during the World Cup, but that’s why the folks behind Orangina are cleverly hiding tiny remotes beneath their cans, allowing those who’ve already tired of soccer to turn off every TV in their vicinity. After all, for every soccer fan on earth obsessed with the…

Is David Oyelowo Playing a Star Wars Rebels Character in Episode VII?

Do we know what the next standalone Batman movie will be called? Find out more about what to expect from Doctor Strange. Set photos shed more light on a Doctor Who plot, and a rumor about a villain’s return. Get a first look at Disney’s Descendants! Plus a ton of details for True Blood’s finale…

29 Anatomical Models That Will Haunt Your Dreams Tonight

Since the early days of medicine, it’s been a huge challenge to communicate anatomical discovery with an audience without any actual human dissection. But thanks to the creativity of the medical experts and artists, a huge variety of anatomical models: From wax figures and ivory manikins to papier mache dolls and multi-color portfolio prints. The…

In a bipartisan vote, the House passed legislation that would prohibit the search of government databases for information on U.S. citizens without a warrant. It would also cut off funding for the CIA and NSA to build security “backdoors” into domestic tech products or services for surveillance purposes.

Yo’s Now a Security Threat as Well as Being Stupid

Yo is having some problems, and not just because it’s so silly. Turns out that it only required three college students to find out that the app contains more security holes than a colander. https://gizmodo.com/yo-review-yo-1593276009 TechCrunch reports that the app—which has amazingly entered the US App Store’s Top 10 list—has already been hacked. The students…

New Zealand Just Mistook Google’s Project Loon for a Crashing Airplane

Filling the skies with whimsical, internet-providing balloons is bound to have the occasional hitch—and down in New Zealand, one of Google’s Project Loon balloons was just mistaken for an airplane crashing, causing emergency services to flock. https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-use-balloons-to-cover-the-world-in-wi-f-513537918 The Wall Street Journal reports that New Zealand’s emergency services were dispatched today—including a rescue helicopter—after onlookers believed…

Why People Look More Attractive When You’re Drinking

Anyone who has been in a crowded bar around closing time would agree that the higher your alcohol consumption, the more attractive you seem to find whoever you happen to be flirting with at last call. Their smile is radiant; their eyes are sparkling- everything about them is sexy, alluring and irresistible. However, if you…

Big Bang Discovery Researchers Backtrack on Original Claims

Remember how a Harvard team found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang? Well, now it’s published its findings—and it’s backtracking on its original claims. Back in March, the team announced that it had used data from the telescope BICEP2 and observed primordial B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background…

Oh No! It’s the Attack of the 30 Foot Marilyn Monroe!

This is magical. There’s no reason why this statue was abandoned at a garbage disposal company in Guigang, China. It just appeared. And there is something so wrong about seeing this thing tipped onto its face. A thirty-foot, eight-ton statue of Marilyn Monroe, which took several artists two years to make was was left at…

Why Humans Can’t Re-Grow Limbs (Yet)

Starfish can re-grow arms; lizards can sprout fresh legs; and hell, flatworms can essentially rematerialize from barely nothing. So why can’t humans do the same? Well, we can regenerate a little—wounds heal, after all—but we lack a fundamental ability to do anything more than repair small quantities of damage. In this video, SciShow explains what…

House Has Passed an Amendment to Cut NSA Search Funding

The US House of Representatives passed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill designed to cut funding for NSA backdoors. The amendment passed overwhelmingly with strong bipartisan support: 293 ayes, 123 nays, and 1 present. Currently, the NSA collects emails, browsing and chat history under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, and searches this…

Look How Much the Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Changing

When the Earth’s magnetic field switches, strange things happen. Now, the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite system has revealed exactly how our planets magnetism is changing. https://gizmodo.com/what-will-happen-when-the-earth-s-magnetic-field-switch-1564164183 Launched in 2013, Swarm is made up of three satellites which measure the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field remotely. These new results are based on changes in…

Google is investing investing $50 million in projects designed to help get more females involved in the field of computer science, by encouraging girls to code. Good work, Google.