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Gizmodo Is Hiring Editorial Fellows in New York City

Hello, Internet! We’re looking for two new editorial fellows for our New York office. Editorial Fellows are Gizmodo’s entry level positions. Your job is basically to assist our writers in research, fact-checking, and other office-y tasks. We ask a lot of you, but, in return, you will learn a lot about this whole professional blogging…

Fast Food Restaurants Were Supposed To Be Completely Automated by Now

In the 1989 movie Back to the Future Part II, the food of 2015 looks incredibly familiar — it’s just prepared a bit differently. Toss a miniature Pizza Hut pizza onto a pan, stick it into your Black & Decker Hydrator, tell the machine how you want it cooked, and three seconds later your pizza…

Ender’s Game sequel could deviate entirely from Orson Scott Card’s books

Ender’s Game didn’t perform very well at the box office, but that’s not going to stop VOD spin offs and potential TV series pitches. Producer Bob Orci even wants to pen an original “teen Ender” spinoff without Orson Scott Card’s help. Spoilery talk ahead. https://gizmodo.com/enders-game-could-live-on-inside-your-television-1460901518 The idea kind of makes sense as the next book,…

Watch This Terrifying Devil Baby Freak Out Good Samaritans

What would you do if you came upon an abandoned stroller with a crying baby inside? You’d probably check to see if the infant was ok, right? Not after watching this prank you won’t. The same team responsible for that wonderful telekinetic coffee shop freak out prank is back with an even more terrifying marketing…

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about Ancillary Justice

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In December, we read Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when the meeting…

The Cheap Moto G Gets a Stock Android Google Play Edition

The Motorola Moto G is a wonderful phone for the money. And the deal just got a tiny bit sweeter for people who would rather run stock Android KitKat than Motorola’s very lightly skinned Android UI. It now comes in a Google Play Edition. You know, for the nerds. https://gizmodo.com/moto-g-review-the-best-cheap-phone-but-still-a-cheap-1479588299 Even if you’re a stock…

The best, weirdest and wildest comics coming in 2014

Telling you it’s a good time to be a comic book fan is like telling you oxygen is a helpful thing to inhale. You know this already. It’s just a fact. We’ve been treated to some of the best, most thoughtful, and most fun comics of all time over the last several years, and that’s…

The Grim Future of a World Without Net Neutrality

A federal court dealt a deadly blow to net neutrality on Tuesday by striking down the FCC’s open Internet rules and practically inviting broadband providers to offer preferential treatment to companies willing to pay for it. It was a deadly blow, but did it really kill net neutrality dead? https://gizmodo.com/federal-court-invalidates-net-neutrality-rules-sides-w-1501028467 The future of net neutrality…

On Almost Human, what Facebook knows about you can kill you

Last night’s Almost Human was light on the android-cyborg banter, but heavy on the evils of consumer identity tracking software. When a technologically enhanced bullet can find and kill any specific individual, that application that matches you with the right designer optical implants seems a little less friendly. This is a rather odd episode to…

There’s a tumor in my brain but it’s dead (the tumor, not the brain)

I made this GIF from the slices of a recent CT scan of my head. The small white dot in the green circle is a tumor near my pineal gland. Fortunately, it’s calcified and requires no intervention—it stopped growing the same way it started*. I just thought it would be cool to share it here…

Meeting Tony Hsieh, the Mayor of Downtown Las Vegas

I’m not gonna lie: It’s a lot like meeting Oz in his Emerald City. Mostly because no one associated with him would set up a formal time for me to meet with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and the financial and philosophical force behind the Downtown Project, the $350 million urban revitalization program transforming downtown…

Chrome’s newest release, out today, includes a handy audio icon to help you track down that noisy tab, along with icons for tabs that are using your webcam or connecting to Chromecast. And, of course, a host of stability and security changes. [Chrome Releases via TheNextWeb]

Cheapest Four Terabytes Ever, More USB Ports, Fitbit One [Deals]

Need more storage for less money? Of course you do. Grab the Seagate Backup Plus 4TB External Hard Drive for $125, its lowest price ever. It seems like only yesterday $160 with the deal price on a 4TB external. [Buy.com via eBay] If what you’re lacking is USB ports, Anker has you covered (as usual)…

There is such a thing as sexually transmitted food poisoning

Just when you think that sex ed in high school and posters at clinics have covered all the times it is necessary to use protection, the human body (and various microbes) throw yet another horrifying sex scenario at you. We now suspect that people can get sexually transmitted food poisoning. I love you commenters. You…

You Can Start and Stop This Wi-Fi Voice Recorder From Your Smartphone

It’s hard to get excited over a dedicated voice recorder these days, especially when smartphones have tried to step in and fill that role. But when it’s vital that you capture every word in an interview, a voice recorder is still the best tool for the job. And Olympus has now made them even better…

Google Drive just got an activity stream that details everything you and the people you’re working with have been doing with your documents and spreadsheets.

This worm-inspired glue can mend broken hearts

Inspired by nature, medical scientists have developed a flexible and biocompatible light-activated glue that works on wet tissue. And remarkably, it’s as strong as traditional sutures. The beating heart is a tough place to try sticking things together. When surgeons need to get in there to fix something that has gone amiss, their options for…

These Low-Power LCD Displays Work Like e-Ink To Prolong Battery Life

The simple black and white e-ink display inside your Kindle lets you read book after book on a single charge, but when it comes to devices displaying multimedia content like your smartphone, a monochrome display just doesn’t cut it. You want color, and lots of it, so Japan Display has created a new type of…

A Swede’s Insane Rant Against the Internet as Told by Google Translate

Bo Bergman, a 73-year-old Swedish man living in the quiet locality of Simlångsdalen (population about 500) is not reading this right now. This is because Bo Bergman really hates the internet. Like, a lot. In fact, Bo Bergman’s distaste for the festering contagion that is our precious information superhighway has grown so strong that he…

The 9 Best Satanic Cults in History

History is stuffed with rumors of strange and secretive Satanic cults. Some of those rumors are nothing more than a load of hot goat’s blood, and others are legit Check out the best cults in history, and see if they ever really existed. 9. Good Old Salem Ah, Salem. In 1692, over a period of…