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No, science has not discovered a new body part

“Surgeons discover new ligament in human knee,” reads one headline. “The Anterolateral ligament, scientists discover a new body part in the KNEE,” reads another. The internet’s been awash with headlines like these the last few days. They’re all crap. The “previously unknown” ligament in question was discovered in 1879. According to the new paper describing…

10 Decaying Giants That Still Guard the Spirit of the Soviet Union

When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceased to exist in 1991, propaganda art began to disappear, and once-grand social realist murals, reliefs and all manner of mosaics have dwindled. But in the Republic of Kazakhstan, locals still walk the streets under the watchful eyes of five-story tall cosmonauts, workers, engineers, scientists. The Kazakh version…

The Lance family’s most awkward moments on Arrow

This episode is entitled “The League of Assassins,” and not surprisingly, it features frequent ninja attacks. The Lance family is so awkward that every time the ninjas attack, it’s a relief. If last year was all about the Queens on Arrow, this year is all about the Lances. And they seem to be the world’s…

How soon could we see Amazing Spider-Man cross over with Marvel films?

James Gunn explains exactly how Thanos is involved in the plot of Guardians of the Galaxy, Melissa McBride comments on Carol’s future on The Walking Dead, and John Noble says he’s playing Ichabod’s father-figure on Sleepy Hollow. And find out how Black Canary’s secret identity changes everything. Spoilers now! Guardians of the Galaxy James Gunn…

Nvidia GeForce GTX 780Ti: Gaming in Glorious 4K

Earlier this year, Nvidia dropped a bomb on the world of graphics processing with the Titan, a real luducrious powerhouse what cost a whopping $1,000. Now, the monsterous Titan is getting (another) “affordable” twin in the form of the Gefore GTX 780Ti, which Nvidia’s calling the best gaming GPU on the planet. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-a-massive-gpu-that-might-be-u-5985291 The GeForece…

RunKeeper Now Harnesses iPhone 5S M7 Muscle

RunKeeper is one of our favorite techy ways to track your athletic activity. The app’s latest update, out today, harnesses the power of the M7 chip to turn your iPhone 5S into an always-watching fitness tracker. Like a personal trainer named Siri. https://gizmodo.com/keeping-up-with-runkeeper-5859700 Taking advantage of the M7’s always-on tracking, RunKeeper 4.1 adds a Pocket…

The Scientifically Best Time to Drink Coffee

Ever wonder what the best time is to drink your coffee? You probably know it is not a good idea to drink part of your daily dose of caffeine in the afternoon. Especially for those who have problems sleeping. But, do you ever drink your coffee and feel like it just didn’t work? I know…

Steel Spheres Give These Magnetic Building Block Robots Even More Life

With the goal of giving kids the ability to easily design and build their own robotic creations, a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University came up with the idea for a series of technology-packed building blocks they called Cubelets that became complex robots when assembled. Those researchers went on to found a company called…

If you’re still not sure if your details were thieved in that massive Adobe hack, you can use this tool to see if your email featured in the smash’n’grab.

More Area 51 Secrets Revealed in Declassified Papers

More recently declassified documents from the United States National Security Archive reveal that the secret Nevada test site was indeed playing host to alien craft… Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, however, they weren’t from another planet, but the Soviet Union. Yep, that’s what all the secrecy was about. Cold War politics. Disappointing, we know. But the…

The Real Reason the PS4’s Guts Blow the PS3 Away

The hardware inside the PlayStation 4 is quite obviously more powerful than that of its eight-year-old predecessor. But Sony’s newest console owes more to its success than just specs. As Wired found in an in-depth look at how the PS4 was designed, it has the creator of Marble Madness to thank. Mark Cerny, as Wired…

This Chair Can Be Worn Like a Backpack

If you demand that your furniture is both reassuringly substantial and also portable, then you probably have a tough time navigating life. But here’s something to help: a real chair that can be worn as a backpack. The Nomadic Chair by Jorge Penades is constructed from wood, but doesn’t require any screws, nails or glue—it…

Microsoft’s Office Web Apps—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—are finally being blessed with real-time collaborative editing today. Took long enough.

The Internet Archive’s Scanning Center Has Been Destroyed by Fire

Yesterday, a huge fire destroyed the Internet Archive’s San Francisco scanning center, which digitally preserves all manner of books, films and microfilms for future use. Most importantly, nobody was harmed. And, while the Archive lost some physical materials which were in the process of being digitized, the bulk were in a separate physical archive. There…

Do Kids Use E-Readers?

Look around any gathering involving kids and, these days, it’s likely that there are plenty of tablets floating around, too. But have you ever seen kids hunched over an e-reader in the same way? Beth Callaghan raises this great point on Apartment Therapy. Maybe tablets are to e-readers as comic books are to books? Or…

A Mind-Boggling Display of Earth-Like Planets

Kepler keeps finding more and more potentially habitable planets in our Universe—and it turns out that looking at them can be just as perplexing as thinking about them. https://gizmodo.com/one-in-five-sun-like-stars-have-earth-size-planets-in-h-1458356751 This video, by New Scientist, is a dizzying display of all 3538 known and candidate exoplanets that are part of multi-planet systems, as identified by NASA…

I hope this new personal transport invades every city in the world

Not only the Toyota FV2—for Fun Vehicle 2—looks like a conveyance from the movie Tron Legacy, but it can be part of that fantasy world too: You control this car/skateboard/motorcycle hybrid using your entire body. Plus, the vehicle changes its color at will. We’ll see it in action in the Tokyo Motor Show. https://jalopnik.com/the-crazy-toyota-concept-vehicle-you-drive-with-your-wh-1458792167

China looks gorgeous in this time-lapse video

Despite all its weirdness, wacky architecture, extreme pollution, disregard of human rights, workers abuse, and the increasing disparity between the ultra-rich and the rest, China is one of the most incredible countries in the planet. This video is proof. Made by 56 photographers distributed in 49 cities, the time-lapse uses more than 200,000 photos to…

You’ll want to go to China after watching this time-lapse video

59 photographers in 49 cities, more than 200,000 photos, and one really awesome country: China. After you watch this incredible time-lapse, you will want to go to China and backpack for three months. https://gizmodo.com/china-is-impossibly-beautiful-in-this-awe-inspiring-tim-1459981891

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Imtra

For something that starts off like a bad acid trip, this indescribable animated short by bestbefore certainly finishes like a bad acid trip. So yeah, bad acid trip pretty much all the way through. It is quite beautiful, however, and even rather hypnotic after a while. But what does it mean? As animator Andreas Karaoulanis…