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This Hybrid Quadcopter Drone Can Take Off and Land Vertically

Quadcopters offer extreme precision and control in flight, not to mention the ability to take off and land vertically. But compared to the traditional plane design used for most drones, their speed and long range capabilities are limited. So an Arizona-based drone builder called Latitude Engineering hopes to capture the best of both worlds with…

Found: Bryan Cranston’s High School Chemistry Club Yearbook Photo

Heisenberg: The early years. TMZ managed to dig up these and other yearbook photos of the Breaking Bad star, seen here posing with his fellow chem club members at Canoga Park High school in 1973. A little more hair than we’re accustomed to these days, but dashing as ever, that W.W. https://gizmodo.com/in-breaking-bad-allies-are-hard-to-come-by-1166350046 See more photos…

Netflix has added a feature called “My List” that lets you save the stuff you want to watch later on your streaming account. It’s basically a smarter Instant Queue that automatically updates your picks on a row or in a gallery, and magically sorts these titles based on which ones you are most likely to…

The Most Expensive Hotel Rooms in the World’s Most Expensive Cities

In July, Mercer published its current list of the most expensive cities in the world. Curious about the cost of living for expats, we created a collection of the priciest apartments and rentals in these cities. But what about hotels? How much will one night in the world’s most expensive towns set you back? Based…

Steven Moffat and Neil Gaiman preview Doctor Who‘s bold new era!

Plus, before Peter Capaldi takes over, there’s still the matter of Matt Smith’s hair. Edgar Wright drops some hints about Ant-Man’s villain (or lack thereof) and the enemy in The World’s End. What’s next for True Blood’s main vampire hunks? Plus Invertigo imagines a world with gravity… only reversed. Spoilers now! Top image from The…

Mark Zuckerberg Explains How He Plans to Get the Whole World Online

Having teamed up with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson, Mark Zuckerberg has plans to make the Internet available to the entire world (of course he does). If you were in any doubt about how Internet.org plans to do that, you should watch this video interview from CNN’s New Day show. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wants-to-get-everybody-in-the-world-on-the-int-1175829249 If you wanna read…

Somebody Save Us, We’re Drowning in Online Chat Systems

Choice is a wonderful thing, but when it comes to digital communication, perhaps we’re starting to drown in a sea of instant message apps and chat clients. Hangouts, WhatsApp, Facebook Chat, Google Voice, Skype, a regular phone call? So many ways to contact people, and little chance of ever knowing which is best. Maybe we…

This Hard Shell Suitcase Is Made From Recycled Carpet

This hard shell suitcase might look like just another piece of high-end luggage, but scratch its surface and you’ll realise it’s made from recycled carpet. No, really. Developed by New Zealand designer Daniel Mclaughlin, Terracase is a hard shell suitcase made from a heady mixture of recycled carpets and bio resin derived from rapeseed oil.…

A Super-Accurate Gravity Map Shows You Where You Can Weigh Less

Gravity’s often assumed to be constant across the entire planet, but because the Earth varies in shape and density, that’s not really the case. Now, this super-accurate gravity map reveals that the fluctuations are even more extreme than scientists previously thought. A team of scientists from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, rolled together data…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Vevo has signed a big deal with Samsung and Apple—and may make a big announcement about an arrival on new platforms this week.

Your Phone Will Soon Spew 4K Video From Its USB Port

The Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) standard, beloved of Roku and Android phone manufacturers, is about to get exciting: an update coming in September will allow phones to spit out 4K video from their USB ports. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-mhl-5873143 The upgrade, MHL 3.0, will add 4K support to the increasingly popular media standard. It will allow mobile devices…

Fukushima’s Radioactive Puddles Are More Serious Than Anticipated

Japan’s nuclear agency wants to raise the severity level of the new radioactive water leak at the Fukushima because the problem is more serious than initially expected. https://gizmodo.com/fukushimas-now-surrounded-by-extremely-radioactive-pud-1168088710 The incident—newly discovered leaks of radioactive water—was first classified as a level one incident on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), which refers to an…

Accessing Public Websites Ain’t a Crime, Hiding an IP Address Could Be

In the ongoing legal battle between craigslist and 3taps, a new court opinion makes clear that people are “authorized” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to access a public website. But what the court gave with one hand it took with the other, as it also ruled that sending a cease-and-desist letter and…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Yes/No

Our modern lives are overwhelmed with options. What to eat, wear, do, and consume—your choices are limited only by your means. But there is such a thing as too much choice, like when you have 400 cable channels and nothing to watch. This alegorical short from Bezalel school of visual communications grad Ofer Winter illustrates…

Surprise! Facebook Wants to Get the Entire World on the Internet

In either a selfless bid to change the world or an unsurprising play to get another billion users on Facebook, good ol’ Zuckerberg has announced a new initiative called Internet.org that teams up Facebook with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson to somehow make the Internet available to the entire world. There aren’t any balloons involved…

The NSA Can Reach 75% of All US Internet Traffic

The WSJ is reporting that the NSA can actually reach and spy on more of the Internet than they’ve publicly said. In fact, it looks like the NSA can reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic. And yes, the NSA can read your e-mails too. The WSJ writes: The systems operate like this: The…

LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI

Hot diggity. LG just announced an insane 5.5-inch smartphone screen that has pixels that must be made from some sort of mixture between dense diamond sparkles and unicorn blood paint. More seriously, the 5.5-inch AH-IPS LCD display’s resolution is 2,560 x 1,440 (Quad HD) and packs 538 pixels per inch. That makes it the highest…

There’s a Blue Moon Tonight But Not Because of What You Think

The moon you see up in the night sky tonight is a Blue Moon. But no, it’s not actually the color blue. Duh, everybody knows a Blue Moon isn’t actually blue. A Blue Moon means the second full moon in the same month! But, um, that’s not the reason why tonight’s moon is considered a…

These Toys Have Hilarious Real Life Problems

Toys are supposed to serve as an escape for real life, worries and limitations don’t exist when you’re just playing around. But artist Santlov imagined a harsher reality for toys, one where they live lives just as boring as ours. In these prints, Santlov puts your typical toys and action figures in mundane situations that…

The io9 Preview: Everything That Will Rock Your Cosmos This Fall!

Summer is almost over, but the fun isn’t stopping. The fun isn’t even slowing down. Science fiction and fantasy are on fire over the next few months. Here’s our jam-packed guide to this fall’s movies, television, comics and books. https://gizmodo.com/fall-movie-guide-our-forecast-on-20-science-fiction-an-1138983993 https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-this-falls-science-fiction-and-f-1149999892 https://gizmodo.com/this-fall-s-greatest-comics-will-blow-your-mind-and-you-1173211879 https://gizmodo.com/all-the-books-that-will-explode-your-mind-this-fall-1167469236