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Do the Words You Need Not Exist Yet? Good, Let’s Make Some Up!

The folks over at Language Log are calling the word tuhao (definition: bling) “the hottest term on the Chinese internet these days.” Today, we want to know your favorite new words spawned by the internet. Is the word you need not yet flying all over the interwebs? Then now is exactly the right time to…

It’s Impossible To Explain Why These Magnetic Gyros Look So Fun

Humans seem drawn to things they don’t fully understand. That’s why we have a hunger to explore the stars, and why it’s almost impossible for us to put down magnetic toys. The makers of those wildly popular Nanodot magnets have a new obsession for you: a magnet-powered gyroscopic sphere that has no real purpose besides…

Disembodied duck feet helped Darwin make the case for evolution

Charles Darwin knew that making the case for evolution would involve more than just a good idea. . Darwin knew the idea of evolution would fall into disrepute if any aspect of it was questionable. Thankfully, dead duck feet provided the answer to one of evolution’s biggest mysteries. The problem was this: Why it was…

7 Repurposed Military Vehicles Hiding Out in Civilian Life

It’s no mystery that technology developed to fight wars comes in handy during peacetime. From duct tape to the internet, some of the most important pieces of modern technology were developed by the military. Badass vehicles are no exception. All kinds of vehicles, both big and small—but mostly big—make their way back home after carrying…

iPad Mini With Retina Display Spills Its Glorious High-Resolution Guts

The new iPad Mini with retina display finally started trickling into stores yesterday, and as usual, the fine folks at iFixit have taken up their multifarious tools of gadget disassembly and seized upon the unsuspecting device. Here’s what this baby looks like under the hood. There are slight design changes and tweaks under the hood,…

Ask Us Anything About the PS4

We have a PS4! We gave our first impressions here, but we’re still poking and prodding at it as more features become available. So tell us: What do you want to know about Sony’s next generation console? https://gizmodo.com/ps4-review-the-future-is-finally-here-1463432248 Put your questions in the discussion below, and we’ll do our best to answer every single one.…

PS4 Review: The Future Is Finally Here

The next gen is here! Or half of it, anyway. Sony’s PS4 has come in first the haphazard sprint to the new-console finish line. And yeah, it’s pretty awesome. What Is It? It’s the PlayStation Freakin’ 4. The first new Sony console since 2006. A gaming station for gamers who like to game. A beautiful…

Will Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary have more Doctors than we thought?

Is an action figure our first look at Batman vs. Superman’s Batsuit? Plus our first image of Angelina Jolie as Maleficent! Also, J.H. Wyman and J.J. Abrams explain Almost Human’s roots, Person of Interest is getting a visit from a Warehouse 13 star, and there are sneak peeks for Arrow and the Vampire Diaries. Spoilers…

The Smithsonian Is Uploading Its Lost Treasures to the Internet

With over 137 million artifacts, works of art, and specimens in its collections, the Smithsonian can’t display even one percent of that at any given time. Many historically significant pieces won’t go on display in our lifetimes and other likely won’t ever see the light of day again. But their replicants will. Thanks to the…

Jawbone’s New UP24 Finally Brings Bluetooth to the Party

It’s kind of hard to believe, but Jawbone—a company that was built on Bluetooth—didn’t have a wireless radio in the first two iterations of its fitness tracker, the Jawbone UP. That finally changes today with the introduction of the Jawbone UP24. https://gizmodo.com/jawbone-up-2012-review-still-not-fit-to-buy-5965750 Physically, the UP24 is essentially identical to the last version of the UP.…

AirBnB’s Redesigned App Makes On-The-Go Hosting Simple And Social

Guests usually get all the glory in the hospitality industry—everything is catered to making their experience absolutely freaking perfect. In AirBnB’s booming hospitality empire, however, it’s hosts who make the world go ’round. Now, the company’s founders have rolled out a handful of new features geared directly toward the folks who put their places up…

Nokia’s Lytro-like Refocus app is now available for all its PureView Lumia smartphones.

You Can Now Get Calvin and Hobbes as E-Books

Words cannot express how giddily excited we are by this news: you can finally get Calvin and Hobbes ebooks for the first time. Goodbye, weekend. Almost 30 years since their inception, the comic strips are now available in digital form. There are three altogether: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, and…

Stephen Hawking Doesn’t Think the Higgs Boson Is Interesting Enough

Professor Stephen Hawking is not impressed by the discovery of the Higgs boson particle earlier this year. First, it lost him a $100 bet. Second, he would’ve been happier if a more “interesting” solution to the problem of the mass of the universe had been discovered. In a speech at the Science Museum in London…

Federal Judge: P2P File Sharing Data Isn’t Private

If you think your peer-to-peer file sharing can be kept under wraps, think again. A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that you should have no expectation whatsoever that your P2P data is ever private. In a case focussed on the detection of child pornography, defendants argued that police gained data from a P2P network…

Microsoft Wants to Power Its Data Centers With Fuel Cells

Data centers are some of the most power-hungry pieces of infrastructure that exist today, but Microsoft has plans to make them a little greener—by powering its racks with built-in fuel cells. Microsoft has explained in a white paper that it’s going to be testing racks which are powered by integrated fuel cells. That’s quite a…

Ahead of the PS4’s launch, you can download the official PlayStation apps,for Android and iOS, for use with the console. Almost as good as getting your hands on a PS4, right?

This Is What a 2,000-Pound Satellite Falling to Earth Looks Like

At the start of this week, the European Space Agency’s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite (GOCE) fell to Earth. This is what it looked like as it happened. https://gizmodo.com/falling-soon-through-a-sky-near-you-1459629975 This image was captured by Bill Chater from the Falklands at 9:20 pm local time on November 11th. Bill explained that “driving southwards…

Android 4.4 KitKat headed to the Wi-Fi versions of the Nexus 7 and 10 starting today, according to Google.

You Can Now Download the Apple II’s DOS Source Code from Back in 1978

The Computer History Museum has released something rather special for you to download: the original DOS source code for the 1978 Apple II. The first computer with a built-in floppy drive—ready to use straight out of the box, kinda—the hardware was incredible for the time: the version with 4K of memory cost $1,300 and had…