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Harlem Is Getting the Biggest Free Public Wi-Fi Network In the U.S.

Here’s some good news. Harlem is about to get the biggest free public Wi-Fi network in the entire country, spanning a whopping 95 blocks. Soon there won’t be anywhere in the city where you can’t get online. Mayor Mike Bloomberg—clearly on his farewell I promise I made New York better tour—just announced the initiative today.…

NYC’s Next Super-Skinny Supertall Probably Won’t Melt Your Car

Proving that all press is good press when it comes to real estate, Rafael Viñoly—the architect behind two recent death-ray skyscrapers—revealed plans for a new skyscraper in Lower Manhattan today. It’ll be his second tall building in NYC, and like the first, this one is conspicuously free of curved surfaces. https://gizmodo.com/the-construction-of-432-park-located-a-block-south-of-1475871473 The tower will add…

First video in history to capture the Moon orbiting Earth

According to NASA’s Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton “if Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, ‘Take us home, Scotty,’ this is what the crew would see.” It’s truly an incredible sequence—the first time ever that the Moon has been captured orbiting Earth. Bolton describes the video: “In the movie, you ride aboard Juno as…

This is what love looks like in the future

Oni Press’ new graphic novel A Boy and a Girl is, as you might have surmised, about a boy and a girl falling in love. But there’s a catch: The girl is actually a lifelike robot, whose assignment to to live secretly among humans is ending. We’re proud to present this 13-page preview of the…

How Europe Is Going to Land on a Comet

In November 2014, after traveling 10 years and hundreds of millions of miles, a European spacecraft will touch down on a two-and-a-half-mile-wide ball of ice and dust as it hurtles through space towards the sun. And if all goes according to plan, this unprecedented feat could finally give us what we need to understand the…

A New York City Transit Map Custom-Made for the Super Bowl

With the Super Bowl now less than two months away—Groundhog Day!—the disparate mass transit organizations around New York City are gearing up for more than 400,000 new visitors. And what do out of towners always need in New York? They need maps. Beautiful, useful maps. For the first time ever, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is…

This trailer for Mike Carey’s Girl With All the Gifts will chill you

We’ve been waiting far, far too long for a new book from Mike Carey, author of the Felix Castor books and also writer of such great comics as The Unwritten, Lucifer and My Faith in Frankie. So rejoice in the book trailer for his new book, The Girl With All the Gifts. The Girl With…

Here’s a tiny fraction of the power of the mightiest navy in the world

Here’s the nuclear aircraft supercarrier USS Nimitz—the lead ship of its class—exhibiting a tiny fraction of its air power in a December 7 photograph taken over the Pacific Ocean. The US Navy has ten more of these nuclear titans, plus another ten carriers for amphibious assault. And then, here’s a brief list of the squadrons…

Posable Hand Grinders Turn Seasoning a Dish Into Art

Did you know your salt and pepper grinders could, and should, be doing more than just dispensing seasonings? Just take a look at this pair of grinders featuring a set of posable wooden artist’s hands on top. The possibilities are endless. In addition to making your Instagrammed meal shots even artsier, they can be used…

Buy This Cabin—And Get Its Secret Treasure Tunnels Free

This one bedroom, one bath cabin in the hills above Malibu is nothing fancy: It was built in the 1940s, it’s serviced by dirt roads, and it needs “major remodeling.” In fact, you have to get all the way into the second paragraph of the listing to see the cabin’s biggest selling point: The cabin…

Fitbit Flex, Your New IPS Monitor, And Also Batman [Deals]

Big holiday meals beget ambitious New Year’s resolutions, so you should treat yourself or your loved ones to a tool that helps you shed a few pounds and live a healthier lifestyle. The Fitbit Flex, normally $100 and rarely discounted, is available for $68 today from Best Buy using code bloggers15off. [Best Buy via 9to5Toys]…

People Didn’t Trust the Internet Before There Even Was One

Thanks to recent confirmation that your every online move is being monitored, trust in the internet seems like it’s at an all-time low. In fact, as we can see from an article published in 1973, we were acutely aware that the future of our interconnected world depended on confidence in the privacy and security of…

A girl is a monster’s best friend, in the haunting Girl & It trailer

Check out the full-length trailer for Girl & It, a lovely 40-minute animated short by United Arab Emirates film-maker Mohammad Fikree. A prince goes into the wilderness to hunt a horned beast and win his throne… but discovers that a mysterious girl is the beast’s friend. According to a new interview in The National, Fikree…

I also predict that in the year 2000 no male child will be allowed to attend a Utah elementary school unless his hair falls two inches below his ears. — 1975 prediction by Utah humor columnist Dan Valentine.

Why You Might Want to Rethink Going Gluten-Free

Going gluten-free is all the rage these days. It’s the diet of choice for Hollywood starlets and health nuts alike; supermarket aisles are packed full of products touting their lack of the stretchy protein. But for a lot of people, the gluten-free lifestyle may do more harm than good. What Is Gluten? Gluten is a…

World’s Thinnest Mechanical Watch Is as Thick as Two Stacked Quarters

You don’t think it’s only laptop, tablet, and smartphone designers that go the extra mile to make their devices thinner and thinner do you? Watch makers are constantly battling each other for the same notoriety, and now Piaget has reclaimed the title of ‘world’s thinnest mechanical watch’ with its new Altiplano 38mm 900P that measures…

China Sics Its All-Star Supercomputer on Smog

China has abig smog problem. A huge smog problem. And when the country isn’t embracing the noxious clouds as “great for defense,” it’s trying to get rid of them with crazy tech. First artificial rain, now supercomputers. China’s Tianhe-1A—literally the most powerful supercomputer in the world for some 8 months back in 2010-2011 and predecessor…

11 Super Smart Gifts That Connect Your Home to the Internet of Things

Sure, we’ve been told that ubiquitous computing is just over the horizon for decades—at least since the days of The Jetsons. But over the past 12 months, the Internet of Things has come of age, from smart fire alarms to app-controlled door locks. If you’re looking for a gift for the resident home automatist in…

Adobe extends discounted Photography Program to December 31st

Oh nice. NICE. If you slept on your chance to sign up for Adobe’s Photography Program—which gets you access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5—for only $10 a month, there is a bit of good news. Sony has decided to extend the offer until December 31st. This is a seriously good deal, so put it…

Sony Exec Talks Camera Success and the Risks of Innovation

Gizmodo’s Mario Aguilar recently sat down with Sony COO Phil Molyneux to discuss the company’s approach to the consumer electronics market. Much of the conversation led back to cameras, which Sony has been getting a lot of attention for in the last few years. Their NEX and new A7 seriescameras have led the charge in…