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What’s Wrong With Quantum Computing

You’ve heard plenty of people by now—including us—banging on about quantum computers, and how they’re the future of high-performance computing. Quantum computing, we’re meant to understand, is set to change the world. But despite its promise, it’s neither widely available nor particularly useful yet. Here’s why not. Basic Bits First things first, a quick reminder…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Clive Barker is returning to Hellraiser… again

Hellraiser has been trying to come back from the dead for years. But now that Clive Barker has signed on to reboot the whole series will the franchise find new life? Or should Dimension Films just stop trying to make Hellraiser happen? Original writer and director Clive Barker announced on his Facebook that he is…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Sun has been completely manic this week

It’s been a remarkable week of solar activity. Astronomers recorded several coronal mass ejections this week, including three that are currently hitting the Earth’s magnetic field. An exquisite image of one of this week’s many flares can be seen below. Above video: Unrelated to this week’s solar events, NASA released a spectacular video of a…

io9 George Dvorsky

This Lexus Paints Your Portrait Based On How You Drive

Car aficionados will readily defend their favorite vehicles as rolling works of art, but art collector Walter Vanhaerent might be the only driver on earth who can definitively make that claim. Because his new Lexus IS 300h hybrid actually paints his portrait every time he hits the road. The specially modified vehicle is half art…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

You Can Get a Fully Customized Moto X For $100 Now

Moto Maker is an awesome website that will let you totally personalize a Moto X. You want a red and blue smartphone with yellow accents? Hell yes you can have a red and blue smartphone with yellow accents. And now you can get it for $100. https://gizmodo.com/moto-x-review-the-android-phone-for-everybody-1034784286 You could already get a $100 Moto X…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Archaeologists Found a Viking Parliament Buried Under a Parking Lot

There’s some big excitement in the sleepy town of Dingwall, Scotland, where the remnants of Viking parliamentary gathering spot was just discovered under a parking lot. This is where Norse nobleman would get together and settle their differences before swords started swinging. Now it’s a Camry hangout. The site is formally known as a “Thing”—short…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A State-by-State Map of the Penalties for Texting While Driving

At this point, we’ve all heard tell of the many dangers of using smartphones while driving. And we’ve all probably also ignored those dangers at one point or another, which has led 47 states to establish bans on what’s now become the leading cause of death for teenage drivers—texting. So how much will you be…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Rumored Moga iPhone Gaming Controller Has Thumbsticks (Updated)

According to @evleaks, what you’re looking at here is a forthcoming iPhone gaming controller from mobile peripheral purveyor Moga. Like the simpler Logitech leak we saw before, the new controller mimics one of the reference designs released by Apple in the documentation for iOS 7. https://gizmodo.com/this-could-be-the-first-official-iphone-gaming-hardware-1436151935 The leaked hardware has a more angular, easier-to-grip design…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

What Are Science Fiction’s Best and Worst Predictions?

Sometimes scifi foreshadows the future with incredible accuracy (the fiction of Jules Verne, for instance, predicted the moon landing and the electric submarine) and sometimes not (he also imagined an Earth that had a core full of mastodons.) Today, we want to know your picks for the best and the worst predictions about the future…

io9 Ria Misra

The coldest known place in the Universe looks like an eerie space ghost

ALMA—the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope in Chile—has obtained this incredible and eerie new view of the coldest known place in the Universe, the Boomerang Nebula. Check out the beautiful high definition image to see all the fine details. If you look at the blue behind the orange glow you can see a walking alien…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

A seagull does so much more in a day than you do

A day in the life of a Dutch seagull, as revealed by GPS. The bird covers 332 kilometers (over 200 miles!) in a single day, soaring over land and sea alike. According to commenters over on reddit, the narrated version of the video (which appears below, in Dutch) explains the bird is collecting food with…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Semmelweis Reflex explains why people reject the new

Do people reflexively fear the new? They seem to reject it often enough that there’s a psychological syndrome to explain it. The Semmelweis Reflex is named after a guy who came up with a radical idea that could have saved thousands of lives — only to see everyone reject it and continue with the killing.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A Cheap Pair of Headphones Can Accurately Measure Your Heart Rate

There’s a plethora of devices out there that let athletes, amateur doctors, and even hypochondriacs constantly monitor their heart rates. But thanks to researchers at the Kaiteki Institute in Japan, soon all you may need to keep tabs on your ticker is a cheap pair of in-ear headphones. https://gizmodo.com/your-web-cam-can-see-your-heart-rate-which-isnt-creepy-5994798 Using a technique that measures the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Report: LinkedIn’s New Mobile App Is a Hacker’s Heaven

Intro, LinkedIn’s new mobile app, is great for networking, but as it turns out, it’s even better for hacking. According to security experts, the app is incredibly insecure. The app works by redirecting email traffic from your iPhone or iPad to LinkedIn’s servers, where those messages are analyzed for people’s professional details. LinkedIn then adds…

Privacy & Security Leslie Horn

Here’s one hypnotic GIF

Static drilling bit carving a piece of rotating metal forever. Head to the new Gifmodo Kinja for more delicious eye candy like this.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Could the Amazing Spider-Man sequels have more villains than we knew?

Marvel’s Ant-Man is a “heist movie.” Kristen Stewart could star in another fantastical romance. The Mortal Instruments sequel may be happening after all. Get your first look at a major Outlander character. Whoopi Goldberg is lending her voice to Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Spoilers ahead! The Amazing Spider-Man Once again, the viral marketing…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

12 Postcards From When NYC Was the Skyscraper Capital of the World

New York City was a different place in the 1940s. It was a time before video billboards and LED lights, and skyscrapers were still a source of city-wide awe and pride. Everyone who lived in this glamorous city (and everyone who visited) wanted to show those architectural marvels off—and postcards were a perfect medium. https://gizmodo.com/nyc-is-replacing-its-250-000-street-lights-with-leds-1451637125…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

You’ve Never Seen a Cell Look Like This

This might look like a bird from Tron just laid an egg in some futuristic nest, but in fact you’re looking at the nucleus of a single human cell. The image shows the nucleus of a lab-cultured monkey kidney cell, lying amongst a network of microtubules. Those hollow filaments provide the cell with proteins, which…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

German Telecom Wants Germany-Only Internet Because of the NSA Debacle

As relations between the US and Europe become increasingly strained because, uh, the NSA spied on 35 world leaders, the state-backed Deutsche Telekom has declared that it wants to create a national internet to protect Germany from future privacy infringements. https://gizmodo.com/report-the-nsas-been-spying-on-35-world-leaders-1451598576 Deutsche Telekom is rallying other German communications companies to join forces and shield local…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

13- and 15-Inch MacBook Pro Teardown: Wild Guts, Pray They Never Fail

It may only be a few days since Apple announced its new 13- and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros, but iFixit has already torn the suckers apart. And while the insides are storming, taking them apart is a whole different matter. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-2013-macbook-pro-is-faster-and-lighter-1448869926 It almost goes without saying that both computers are equipped to fly from the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

What’s Wrong With Quantum Computing

Clive Barker is returning to Hellraiser… again

The Sun has been completely manic this week

This Lexus Paints Your Portrait Based On How You Drive

You Can Get a Fully Customized Moto X For $100 Now

Archaeologists Found a Viking Parliament Buried Under a Parking Lot

A State-by-State Map of the Penalties for Texting While Driving

Rumored Moga iPhone Gaming Controller Has Thumbsticks (Updated)

What Are Science Fiction’s Best and Worst Predictions?

The coldest known place in the Universe looks like an eerie space ghost

A seagull does so much more in a day than you do

The Semmelweis Reflex explains why people reject the new

A Cheap Pair of Headphones Can Accurately Measure Your Heart Rate

Report: LinkedIn’s New Mobile App Is a Hacker’s Heaven

Here’s one hypnotic GIF

Could the Amazing Spider-Man sequels have more villains than we knew?

12 Postcards From When NYC Was the Skyscraper Capital of the World

You’ve Never Seen a Cell Look Like This

German Telecom Wants Germany-Only Internet Because of the NSA Debacle

13- and 15-Inch MacBook Pro Teardown: Wild Guts, Pray They Never Fail

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