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Giant McDonald’s counter installed to make you feel like a kid again

Sure it’s a marketing ploy for fast food, but we’re suckers for oversized anything. A McDonald’s in Peru wants you to feel like a kid again, before you had to worry about things like saturated fats and clogged arteries, and when Chicken McNuggets were a birthday feast. So they installed a massive counter to give…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Bitten keeps interrupting its intense werewolf drama with boring humans

So about half of last night’s Bitten was a pretty compelling episode. The plot against the Danvers magnified, someone challenged Jeremy’s authority as Alpha, and there was murder and torture. And then half of the episode was spent in Toronto with Dull Boyfriend and his family in Toronto where nothing happens but agony. Seriously, there…

Television Rob Bricken

Newark’s Fancy New LED Lights Have Little Spy Cams Inside

The next time you’re passing through Newark airport, look up and smile. The airport’s new super-efficient LED light fixtures are also embedded with cameras and sensors—and they’re part of a growing market for surveillance technology that is built into other, everyday systems. There’s been plenty of speculation about what piece of infrastructure will host the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The world’s largest solar plant is killing birds melting them with heat

The world’s largest solar plant is awesome—unless you’re a bird like the one in this image published by the corporation BrightSource Energy. This bird flew over the plant and was killed by its deadly heat levels, which can reach 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (537C). Apparently, this was expected. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-solar-plant-started-creating-electr-1521998493 The Wall Street Journal and a Ivanpah…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

You Can Burn Through Your Entire Broadband Data Cap in One Long Weekend

Between the surprising affordability of 4K TVs and Netflix and Amazon‘s commitment to delivering 4K content, the future is clearly ultra high-def. That’s great. But it’s also going to wreak havoc with your broadband data caps. Welcome to the age of the home internet overage fee. https://gizmodo.com/theres-officially-a-50-inch-4k-tv-thats-cheaper-than-yo-908697519 Based on our tiny survey asking how often…

Television Leslie Horn

Prescription drugs can make you believe your partner is cheating on you

Othello Syndrome manifests itself as an irrational certainty that one’s spouse is sleeping around. Sometimes it comes out of nowhere, and usually it’s the result of an existing neurological problem. Occasionally, though, it’s the result of certain prescribed drugs. Here’s how a pill can make you think you’re being cheated on. Othello Syndrome Patients with…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Spain Might Jump Time Zones To Stimulate Its Economy

If your economy isn’t doing so well, just jump into another time zone. This is the strategy pursued by Samoa, for example, which rather dramatically leapt across the International Date Line back in 2011 in order to align its work-week more closely with its Pacific neighbors; and a more local version of this might be…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

California might start putting warning labels on soda

Should your soda come with a warning label? In California, it could soon — just like on the back of a pack of cigarettes. The bill was proposed by state senator Bill Monning, and would add the tag “STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay”…

io9 Ria Misra

New York looks gorgeous in the snow—for five minutes, in Central Park

Beautiful image of virgin snow covering Central Park just taken by New York Habitat. New York is truly beautiful covered in snow—until you have to go to the office and have to deal with the sludge of pollution mud and frozen slush that piles up in every single corner. In the words of Erin Gloria…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Apple’s Fitness-Tracking Ambitions Go Beyond the iWatch

Lately, all the talk has been about the fitness-tracking, health-monitoring smartwatch that Apple is assumedly building. But a patent granted to Apple today shows the company wants to get into fitness tracking not just on your wrist, but in your ear, with sensor-laden earbuds to measure your athletic performance. https://gizmodo.com/imagining-life-with-the-iwatch-1520143311 The patent, first filed in…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Pigs are being strung-up and shot to train army medics in Denmark

Just a week after a “surplus” giraffe was killed at a Danish zoo, Denmark is once again embroiled in an animal cruelty controversy. According to PETA’s British and German affiliates, the Danish military is using live pigs for target practice and medical training. [Warning, the following images are disturbing.] https://gizmodo.com/zoo-kills-surplus-giraffe-in-front-of-children-feeds-1519870667 It’s called Operation Danish Bacon…

io9 George Dvorsky

Mapping an Invisible Border of Air Between Two Cities in China

Shenzhen and Hong Kong are two major economic powerhouses just twenty miles apart. Thousands of cars and people cross their borders every day. But their close relationship belies inequalities that still exist between the city of Shenzhen and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. “One Country, Two Lungs” is a project by the MIT…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Why Herders in Finland Spray Reindeers’ Horns with Reflective Coating

Finland is a dangerous place for reindeer to be in the winter. In a place where it’s dark most of the day, these beasts blend in with their surroundings, making it hard for drivers to see them. So Finnish herders are getting creative. Members of the Finnish Reinder Herders’ Association are spraying the reindeers with…

Biology Adam Clark Estes

Man battles Darth Vader, Aliens, Predator, and more in epic proposal

Some people have to battle disapproving parents when trying to propose to their soulmates. Victor Delgado had a bit more trouble as evidenced in this scifi marriage proposal video, which took 50 people to make, several of Hawaii’s best cosplay groups, and months of shooting and editing. Worked, though. You can read more about how…

io9 Rob Bricken

9 of the Most Beautiful Buildings We Ever Tore Down

The years between 1880 and 1920 changed American cities completely: From elevators to air conditioning to electricity, the monumental buildings born during this period seemed like living things, humming with life. But as quickly as they rose, many of them were torn down—victims of the same progress that pushed them up. “After World War II,”…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Nvidia’s First Maxwell Card Is a Power-Sipping Screamer

Nvidia’sTegra K1 is damned pretty for mobile tech, but the desktop team hasn’t just been sitting around waiting for Tegra to catch up. Say hello to Maxwell—the new architecture on the desktop side—and the GTX 750Ti. It’s a tiny little sucker that’s worth its weight in watts. https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-nvidias-new-tegra-k1-has-192-cores-1495287484 Maxwell uses the same 28nm process its…

Tech News Eric Limer

Major Hints for Game of Thrones, Avengers 2 and Transformers 4!

Chris Pratt promises Guardians of the Galaxy will surprise you. Check out Hunger Games set photos. Michael Cudlitz talks about how similar Abraham will be to the comics version in The Walking Dead. Check out Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman physique. Plus a Transformers trailer glimpse, and a Age of Ultron set video. Spoilers now! Top…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

What Causes Aftertaste?

Ever wonder why certain foods seem to hang around after you swallow them? Aftertaste is generally classified as any taste that remains in your mouth after your food or drink has been swallowed or spit out. The exact mechanism that causes these sensations isn’t fully understood. In fact, understanding how our brains perceive specifics tastes…

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Volcano turns entire island into world of ash

The Indonesian volcano Kelud exploded with a powerful eruption on February 13, killing three people and prompting the evacuation of 100,000 people. The eruption sent a large plume of ash 10 miles (17 kilometers) high into the sky, drifting west across Java and over the Indian Ocean, causing the shutdown of several airports. Satellite image:…

Sploid Attila Nagy

All Bike Racks Should Have a Neat Storage Shelf Like This

Everyday cyclists will know that when you come to lock up your bike in the city you end up dropping a whole heap of stuff on the floor to free your hands. So why don’t all bike racks feature a cool shelf like this? A concept by Fuseproject—they’re the design guys behind all the Jawbone…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Giant McDonald’s counter installed to make you feel like a kid again

Bitten keeps interrupting its intense werewolf drama with boring humans

Newark’s Fancy New LED Lights Have Little Spy Cams Inside

The world’s largest solar plant is killing birds melting them with heat

You Can Burn Through Your Entire Broadband Data Cap in One Long Weekend

Prescription drugs can make you believe your partner is cheating on you

Spain Might Jump Time Zones To Stimulate Its Economy

California might start putting warning labels on soda

New York looks gorgeous in the snow—for five minutes, in Central Park

Apple’s Fitness-Tracking Ambitions Go Beyond the iWatch

Pigs are being strung-up and shot to train army medics in Denmark

Mapping an Invisible Border of Air Between Two Cities in China

Why Herders in Finland Spray Reindeers’ Horns with Reflective Coating

Man battles Darth Vader, Aliens, Predator, and more in epic proposal

9 of the Most Beautiful Buildings We Ever Tore Down

Nvidia’s First Maxwell Card Is a Power-Sipping Screamer

Major Hints for Game of Thrones, Avengers 2 and Transformers 4!

What Causes Aftertaste?

Volcano turns entire island into world of ash

All Bike Racks Should Have a Neat Storage Shelf Like This

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