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Hacked fridge sends out malicious emails in unprecedented cyber attack

You know how virtually everything these days is connected to the internet? And how tech companies don’t give a crap about security? Well, as a recent Internet of Things cyber attack has shown, our appliances are being made to turn against us. According to the security firm Proofpoint, a number of so-called smart appliances were…

Intel Used Another Company’s Chips to Show Off Some of Its Wearables

Last week at CES, Intel showed off some impressive concepts for wearable tech that might someday change the world into a sci-fi dream. The catch? PCMag reports that the ambitious designs weren’t entirely Intel tech. https://gizmodo.com/a-glimpse-at-intels-future-being-inside-everything-1495996101 According to PCMag, they received an insider tip that Intel’s Jarvis smart headset actually used and ARM-based chip inside,…

2 Pounds Dry Ice + Sink Full of Water = Your Daily Dose of Catharsis

Here for enjoying from the comfort of your chair is a classic science demonstration: CrazyRussianHacker host Taras Kulakov, dipping two pounds of dry ice into a sink full of water to demonstrate the dynamics of warm and cold air. https://gizmodo.com/ten-amazing-and-occasionally-explosive-chemical-react-5886602 https://gizmodo.com/what-in-the-name-of-all-that-is-holy-is-going-on-in-thi-5947370 Do not try this from your home or office — large volumes of carbon…

What Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ Breakup Means for the Future of Type Design

Chances are you’ve looked at the work of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones at least one time today. The type designers are behind many of the world’s most-loved fonts, like Gotham, made famous by Obama’s 2008 campaign. But according to a nasty legal document making the rounds today, the duo has parted ways. http://gawker.com/font-gods-hoefler-frere-jones-split-in-nasty-corporat-1503534833 As…

The sky looks incredible from the darkest and clearest place on Earth

The San Pedro de Atacama region of Northern Chile is one of the prettiest and most desolated places in the planet. It also has the clearest and darkest sky on Earth. Nicholas Buer went there to take one of the most beautiful time lapses I’ve seen: The Atacama is well-known for what are arguably the…

Should we start de-extincting species that have died out?

Futurist Stewart Brand, founder of The Long Now Foundation, has a new mission in life. He wants to bring extinct species back from the dead. Some ecologists thing that’s an awful idea. Here are the arguments on both sides of the de-extincting debate. Over at Environment 360, Brand debates this idea with Paul Ehrlich, a…

Lightroom for Mobile Pops Up In Adobe Online Store, Is it Coming Soon?

Last year, Adobe showed off a demo of RAW photo processing on the iPad. It was impressive, relying on some hefty cloud processing to carry the heavy load of massive uncompressed data files. The end game for that research is almost certainly a version of Lightroom that would work on tablets. It looks like that…

Who’s going to replace Steven Moffat as Doctor Who showrunner?

Steven Moffat’s been in charge of Doctor Who’s storytelling since 2010, and he’s probably nearing the end of his tenure. So everybody’s wondering who could take over this insanely demanding job, when the show regenerates next time. Let’s break down seven prospects, in order of most likely to least likely. https://gizmodo.com/10-totally-different-tv-shows-that-em-doctor-who-em-5833466 Doctor Who is one…

Amazon Might Try Shipping Things Before You Even Buy Them

The Wall Street Journal unearthed a recently-filed Amazon patent for “anticipatory shipping,” a setup where the products you buy start traveling to your nearest shipping hub before you’ve clicked the purchase button. Welcome to the future, folks. According to the document filed in December, Amazon would consider things like previous orders and searches, wish lists,…

Here are the new word abbreviations spread by people on Twitter

Researchers at Dartmouth have analyzed over 180 million tweets from 900,000 users in the United States — and they’ve come up with a list of the new abbreviated words that spread on Twitter. But, hey, 140 characters, that’s not so many. Maybe we’re just shortening our words to avoid hitting our character limit? Not so…

The Grayl Cup Is the French Press of Water Filtration

As simple as a Brita pitcher is to use for filtering water, who has time to wait for gravity to do its work when you’re not at home? With a little downward force on your end, the Grayl cup will purify 16 ounces of water in just 15 seconds, making it better-tasting and safer to…

Airlines, Listen Up: Here’s the Boarding Pass You Should Be Using

It hasn’t been a great decade for air travel. And while crappily designed boarding passes aren’t at the very top of my list of axes to grind with the airline industry, they’re more important than you might think. Just take a look at this great version by UK designer Peter Smart for proof. Smart is…

The Agent Carter TV series now has showrunners—and a script!

ABC hasn’t ordered a pilot for the Agent Carter TV series yet, but things are looking promising for the show. ABC and Marvel have hired a pair of showrunners for the series and confirmed that actress Hayley Atwell will be involved. During ABC’s Television Critics Association presentation, ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee announced that…

How Low Earth Orbit Astronauts Are the New Pioneers

The first element of the International Space Station (ISS) launched over fifteen years ago, on November 20, 1998. For more than thirteen years at least two human beings have been continually living off the surface of our planet. Assembly of the Space Station is now complete. It is being utilized by its crews and scientists…

How do our bodies adjust to extreme temperatures?

This man clearly harbors no qualms about the cold. The native Norwegian achieved viral renown some weeks back for skating on and swimming in Norway’s Lake Goksjo almost entirely nude, save for a pair of speedos and a wreath of ice worn round his neck. We know what you’re thinking: How I can I be…

Lex Luthor is joining the Justice League in April — yes, seriously — along with Flash villain Captain Cold, Shazam, and maybe another surprise or two. Geoff Johns details the reasons for the changes, all of which sound genuinely interesting, in a lengthy article over at Newsarama.

Jaimie Alexander’s Sif will guest star on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Good news for folks hoping they’d see more of Jaimie Alexander’s Sif in the last Thor movie: the Asgardian is apparently headed to Earth for an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Arune Singh, Marvel’s Executive Director of TV Communications, tweeted this from ABC’s Television Critics Association presentation: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has really been lining up…

Scientists Develop 3D Quantum Matter That Performs Like Graphene

As two-dimensional graphene has become one of the most lusted-after materials in science, many have wondered if there might be a 3D counterpart that we could actually build things with. A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab just offered an affirmative answer. Well, almost. A team lead by Oxford’s Yulin Chen just confirmed that…

Interactive heat map shows off the most photographed sightseeing spots

Wish Google Maps’ photographs of the world’s most stunning places were better composed than what you see on Street View? Sightsmap lets you take virtual trips of the parts of the world that people love to photograph. As an infographic, Sightsmap is far from a perfect representation of the most photographed places on Earth. Created…

The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus is as unafraid of zombies as Daryl is

We all know Daryl Dixon is a badass, and it seems like the actor who plays him, Norman Reedus, is probably one as well. In the ultimate test, Andrew Lincoln (who plays Rick Grimes) and prankster Nick Santonastasso team up to put Reedus in a “real” zombie attack. https://gizmodo.com/the-walking-deads-badass-daryl-explains-how-you-too-ca-1443629601 Born with Hanhart syndrome, which causes…