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How is the Government Shutdown affecting NASA?

As of 12:00 am this morning, the American Government is offline. Federal employees, besides those deemed absolutely necessary to the essential operations of cabinet-level departments and federal agencies, have been furloughed indefinitely. Among the federal divisions deemed unessential during the shutdown is NASA. Here’s a breakdown of how the Agency is weathering this governmental sh*tstorm…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Inside Quirky’s Ambitious Plan to Smarten Up Your Home

When “invention machine” Quirky launched in 2009, it made a name for itself hocking plastic utensils and cord organizers—designed by you, for you. But over the past year, it’s made a play to move into turning your home into a Jetsons-worthy utopia. And it’s got the means—and brains—to do it. The first phase of Quirky’s…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Get an Adorable Book of Your Digital Sketches Delivered to Your Door

If you’re an artist or designer with an iPad, chances are you have come across Paper, the elegant and fun drawing app. Thanks to Paper’s new partnership with Moleskine, you can now free your sketches from digital purgatory and purchase an actual physical book of your art. https://gizmodo.com/paper-for-ipad-hands-on-so-this-is-what-microsofts-for-5897413 The project is called Book, and the…

Books & Comics Michael Hession

The logical paradox that you can take to court

One of the oldest logical paradoxes stems from a controversial figure in Greek history. Like most controversial figures, he was involved in a few lawsuits, and one in particular became known as The Paradox of the Court. Protagoras was a divisive figure in his day. He was one of the first sophists, teachers who based…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Particle Accelerator Is Barely Bigger Than a Grain of Rice

Just getting a particle up to near the speed of light isn’t good enough for today’s physics. To properly unravel the fundamentals of the universe, particles have to be smashed together with enormous force. And two Stanford researchers have just devised a laser-based method that imparts ten times the power of traditional methods at a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How to Lock Down Facebook Privacy Now That Old Posts Are Searchable

As of yesterday, Facebook Graph Search has officially opened its big, omniscient arms to every last check-in, status update, note, and comment you’ve ever posted throughout your entire Facebook career. Which, yes, sounds pretty terrifying, but don’t worry—we’re here to help you cover your tracks. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-finally-letting-you-search-for-old-posts-1429093100 Thankfully, Facebook has given us the tools we need…

Social Media Ashley Feinberg

Sperm Wars Can Create New Species

Take a look at the battle unfolding in this remarkable image. It shows the sperm from two related fruit fly species competing inside a reproductive tract. It’s an evolutionary struggle that, as scientists are now learning, often leads to the introduction of entirely new species. Sexual competition in the animal kingdom is a fierce and…

io9 George Dvorsky

Fully-Furnished Fake Houses in UK Run Solely to Trap Burglars

Since the end of 2007, police in the UK have run a secret network of fully-furnished fake apartments and townhouses, solely for the purpose of capturing local burglary suspects. These are called “capture houses.” First experimented with in the city of Leeds, capture houses are “secret homes fitted with covert police cameras, which film raiders…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

NASA shutdown may trash next big Mars mission

Government is a NO GO, which means that NASA is frozen. The immediate consequence: MAVEN—the next big mission to Mars—may get canned till 2016 because we may miss the current launch window, as Mars and Earth get out of the proper alignment. $600 million spent for nothing. https://gizmodo.com/government-shutdown-could-delay-a-650-million-nasa-mis-1433554228

Sploid Jesus Diaz

What Do You Want to 3D Print?

3D printing: It’s been suggested as a possibility in the not-too-distant future for everything from building homes to cooking to medical tech. Today, we want to know what you are most looking forward to 3-D printing. Is it a meal? A piece of furniture? Something completely new? Whatever it is, tell us about it (in…

io9 Ria Misra

This Atomic Clock Wristwatch Only Loses a Second Every Thousand Years

If you pride yourself on not only being the person who always arrives on time, but also the person with the most accurate time, then Bathys Hawaii’s got one heck of a watch for you. This monstrous creation, now just a prototype, is an actual atomic clock you can strap to your wrist that guarantees…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This is officially the most absurd Batman merchandise of all time

It’s a Batman leg lamp. BATMAN LEG LAMP. It’s clearly inspired by the movie A Christmas Story and the sexy female leg lamp the father receives, although I don’t think that makes it any less insane. You can pre-order it over at Entertainment Earth for a mere $35 — there’s even an equally weird Superman…

io9 Rob Bricken

Another 10 Bar Bets You Can’t Possibly Lose

Who doesn’t love free money? Nobody, that’s who. And while technically Richard Wiseman’s latest collection of guaranteed bets will cost you friendships, relationships, and maybe even your job, the satisfaction of one-upping everyone you know makes it still totally worth it. Of course, by now you’ve probably already alienated most of the people you know…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Government Shutdown Could Delay a $650 Million NASA Mission Until 2016

The government started to shut down on Tuesday morning after Congress embarrassingly failed to come to an agreement on the budget. It’s bad news. While science and technology programs as a whole took a hit, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft set is particularly screwed. https://gizmodo.com/how-a-government-shutdown-would-affect-science-and-tech-1426859370 As the bulk of the space agency goes into hibernation for the…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

You can be a female criminal in Grand Theft Auto Online

Good news for gender equality! You can be badass female criminal in the new Grand Theft Auto V Online. Bad news for gender equality! Badass female criminals wear tiny white tops and denim miniskirts. https://kotaku.com/a-warm-welcome-to-the-playable-ladies-of-grand-theft-au-1433382090

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Giant Lego Calendar Syncs Automatically With Your Smartphone

Even though your schedule is constantly at your fingertips via smartphone, everyone gets a little off track every once in a while. So the creative studio Vitamins dreamt up a solution that bridges real-life and online schedules: A giant Lego calendar that syncs up with smartphones. Their calendar looks just like your iCal, except it’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Hear Benedict Cumberbatch’s Dragon Voice in the New Hobbit Trailer

We’ve seen Smaug’s scaly grin, now hear the voice Benedict Cumberbatch crafted for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in this brand new trailer, plus a whole lot of new footage. The rest of the book is basically laid out in this new trailer, we honestly don’t know what will be left for…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Now Anyone Can Kick Around the Empire

Every once in a while you come across a piece of Star Wars merchandise and wonder how it took so long for Lucas’ or Disney’s giant merchandise-o-tron computer to make the connection. A Death Star soccer ball (football for our overseas readers, or inflatable kick bag for you non-sports types) seems so obvious you’d have…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch Bill Nye’s courageous robot dance from last night

Bill Nye, who tore 80% of his quadricep last week, was told not to participate in last night’s Dancing with the Stars. But he did anyway, performing a Daft Punk-inspired robot dance with Tyne Stecklein that required him to move his injured leg as little as possible. The duo won’t be returning, but they left…

io9 George Dvorsky

7 Mind-Blowing Artifacts That Reveal the Strange Beauty of Brains

“A 1.5 kilogram clump of fatty tissue which is located in our head.” That’s how curator Marius Kwint describes the enigmatic subject of Brains: The Mind as Matter, a new exhibition at Manchester’s Museum of Science & Industry. The reality, of course, is infinitely more complex—and this not-for-the-squeamish show displays some of the more fascinating…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

How is the Government Shutdown affecting NASA?

Inside Quirky’s Ambitious Plan to Smarten Up Your Home

Get an Adorable Book of Your Digital Sketches Delivered to Your Door

The logical paradox that you can take to court

This Particle Accelerator Is Barely Bigger Than a Grain of Rice

How to Lock Down Facebook Privacy Now That Old Posts Are Searchable

Sperm Wars Can Create New Species

Fully-Furnished Fake Houses in UK Run Solely to Trap Burglars

NASA shutdown may trash next big Mars mission

What Do You Want to 3D Print?

This Atomic Clock Wristwatch Only Loses a Second Every Thousand Years

This is officially the most absurd Batman merchandise of all time

Another 10 Bar Bets You Can’t Possibly Lose

Government Shutdown Could Delay a $650 Million NASA Mission Until 2016

You can be a female criminal in Grand Theft Auto Online

This Giant Lego Calendar Syncs Automatically With Your Smartphone

Hear Benedict Cumberbatch’s Dragon Voice in the New Hobbit Trailer

Now Anyone Can Kick Around the Empire

Watch Bill Nye’s courageous robot dance from last night

7 Mind-Blowing Artifacts That Reveal the Strange Beauty of Brains

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