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Whoa, Graphene Can Make Other Metals 500 Times Stronger

We’ve heard about plenty of promising electronic applications for miracle material graphene from headphones, to super-fast transistors, to crazy camera sensors, and even solar-powered paint. But now scientists have found a way to leverage its raw strength, by using it to make metal up to 500 times stronger. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-made-graphene-earphones-and-theyre-ama-5990520 By taking a thin film of…

Who Would Be in a Modern League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

Summer is giving us one last heat wave before turning into fall, and your humble post-apocalyptic fake mailman couldn’t be more ready for some cool weather. You know what the truest mark of civilization is? It’s not buildings, language, community, or even social justice. It’s goddamned air conditioning. A League of Their Own Jason H.:…

Could there be more iPhone 5S colors coming this September?

Kinja user Lotzosushi has photos of the white iPhone 5C casing with some parts—plus a red iPhone 5 casing as well. Which made me think: Why wouldn’t Apple be releasing the iPhone 5S in multiple colors too? What would be your favorite iPhone color? There’s no more information on this, so it’s purely speculative. It…

A Children’s Treasury of Insane Designs for Kazakhstan’s World Expo

The architectural rendering is a subtle knife. It can be used to convince, intimidate, and generate laffs—or all three at once, if you’re really good. Such is the case with this collection of renderings, which show proposed designs for the upcoming 2017 World Expo in Kazakhstan. The Expo will bring an estimated three million people…

How to make glowing Jell-O

A little black light, some tonic water, and some Jell-O, and you can have a glowing dessert. It’ll will be a treat for the tongue and the mind (mostly for the mind, though). Boil half the tonic water called for by the recipe, and add the Jell-O, stirring until it’s dissolved. Add the remaining tonic…

Now you can fucking love science on YouTube!

Elise Andrews rules Facebook with I Fucking Love Science, because she finds the greatest (and funniest) science news and facts. And now she’s got a YouTube channel where you’ll discover even more fucking reasons to love science. Check it out!

Kindle Paperwhite Is Out of Stock, So Get Ready for a New Model

Amazon’s got something cooking. First, we saw a huge fire sale on Kindle Fires, now the wonderful Wi-Fi Kindle Paperwhite has gone out of stock on Amazon’s website. Looks like someone’s trying to clean house. http://gizmodo.com/preview/is-amazon-making-room-for-its-next-e-ink-kindle-1214296487 The 3G Kindle Paperwhite—$179 to the Wi-Fi Paperwhite’s $119—is still in stock, but it’s probably a safe bet to…

Space Pirate Captain Harlock does not want you to pirate his movie

Well, this is a kind of a mixed message. Captain Harlock, star of the upcoming CG movie Space Pirate Captain Harlock, has taken a firm anti-piracy stance in Japan, appearing on 40,000 posters labeled “Even space pirates don’t forgive pirating!” So either Harlock truly believes that ramming a skull-faced spaceship into other people’s spaceships, killing…

The Smithsonian Just Added a Chunk of Code to Its Permanent Collection

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt design museum in New York just acquired the source code to an iPad app called Planetary from its now-defunct developer. Code is officially art now. Planetary, as you can see in the video above, is basically a fancy music visualizer. The app’s source code was donated to the Cooper-Hewitt, which promptly open-sourced…

Which of these two is the “most traumatic prank of all time”?

Would you be more scared of a guy dressed in a velociraptor suit or a ghost girl that appears out of nowhere in a broken elevator? Do you know of a more traumatic prank than any of these? https://gizmodo.com/this-terrifying-raptor-chase-is-the-most-traumatic-pran-1210483692

SEA Hacks Continue With Takeover of NYT, Twitter Registrar Homepage

Melbourne IT, an Australian domain name registration, just got hijacked, apparently by the very busy Syrian Electronic Army. This shouldn’t be a surprise since it’s the same company that was implicated in Tuesday’s New York Times and Twitter hacks. https://gizmodo.com/how-the-ny-times-is-still-publishing-despite-being-hack-1210167435 Attempting visit Melbourne IT’s homepage (www.melbourneit.com.au) on Wednesday morning showed a blank white page with…

Harry Potter fashion line sexes up Hogwarts with lycra

At first we thought, “Skin-tight Potter stuff? Lame.” But then we saw this Deathly Hallows bathing suit/body suit and the snitch tights. Two, please! Black Milk, inventors of the Star Wars bathing suit and so many other sexy geek staples, have been teasing their new Harry Potter line on Facebook, and so far we like…

A Minute’s Charge Keeps Logitech’s Ultrathin Mouse Running For an Hour

Laptop trackpads have gotten considerably more capable over the years, but sometimes a mouse in hand is still the better way to go. And if you’re used to carrying a svelte laptop, Logitech’s betting you’ll want a mouse to match with its new Ultrathin T630/631 Touch Mouse that can keep you working for hours, even…

9 Classic Posters From the London Tube’s 150 Year History

The London Underground secured a place in the pantheon of good graphic design with engineer Harry Beck’s topologic Tube Map from 1933. In addition to that icon, however, the transit system has a pretty substantial history of bringing top-notch visuals to the subterranean masses; posters promoting everything from the Underground’s pleasant temperature control—cooler on hot…

We might have already met the Ultron in the Avengers sequel!

Steven Moffat discusses Peter Capaldi’s 12th Doctor, including his relationship with Clara. Vin Diesel is still pretty sure he’s playing Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy. Chris Carter says X-Files 3 could feature one of the most recognizable faces in modern genre. Plus Edgar Wright talks Ant-Man. Spoilers abound! Top image from Riddick. The Avengers:…

Yep, This Adorable Mini Macintosh Is Fully Functional

Apple’s compact Mac mini isn’t as popular as it once was, but the company could easily make it a hot seller again if they just followed John Leake’s lead and turned it into a miniature Macintosh. At one-third the size of the original, it’s pretty much too cute to resist. Using a Raspberry Pi at…

Hue Menu, introduced today, lets you control your psychedelic Philips Hue color-changing mood lights from your Mac computer. Most Hue owners control their setup via mobile app, but now you can set the color palette of the room while looking like you’re doing work. [Mac App Store via TechCrunch]

Language Nerds Try Using Space Images to Make Latin Cool Again

A group of volunteers is attempting to bring the language of Latin back to the masses, by offering translated captions of Nasa’s photos of Mars in the wording favored by historians, posh people and the Pope. There are two outlets now boasting descriptions of Nasa’s high-resolution Martian imagery in Latin, theBeautiful Mars Latin Tumblr page…

How to Make the Worst YouTube Video in the World

Have you noticed this trend in YouTube? You watch a video on YouTube. Maybe it’s a minute, maybe it’s two. Maybe you laughed, maybe you didn’t. But then there are 5 minutes of additional post-video video that tells you to either subscribe to their other channel, add them on Facebook, tweet out a shoutout, click…

US gears up for attack on Syria, Israel ready for war

The United States is rapidly preparing a strike on Syrian military targets following President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical attacks against his fellow citizens. The tension in the region continues to increase as an Iran spokesperson has said that Israel will be the first victim if Syria gets attacked. Israel has announced forceful retaliation against any aggression…