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Your one night stand will end in horror if fedoras are involved

Douchebags! What are they? T hey are people you do not like at all. And if you’re the kind of person who likes to pick up a sex partner at the bar after work, a good rule of thumb is to completely avoid anyone wearing any kind of retro hat, such as a fedora or…

Sploid Ken Layne

This is why you aren’t sleeping right

Why can’t you get a good night’s sleep? The problem is that you probably don’t realize what makes you fall asleep in the first place. Photo by ostill via Shutterstock Despite what it might feel like, sleep isn’t something that you can “turn on” using the power of your own will. It’s actually something that…

io9 Annalee Newitz

SETI pioneer John Billingham has passed away

One of the true pioneers of SETI has left us. John Billingham played a major role in legitimizing the once far-out idea of searching for and communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence using radio astronomy. Born in England, John won degrees in physiology at Oxford, as well as the equivalent of an American M.D. from Guy’s Hospital…

io9 Michael Michaud — Centauri Dreams

The NSA Turned Spying into a Video Game for Analysts

Spying must get boring sometimes. Identifying targets. Wiretapping unsuspecting citizens. Sifting through all that private data. It must get old. Maybe that’s why the NSA introduced gamification elements into its software to encourage a little bit of healthy competition between analysts. A new report from Der Spiegel offers fresh details about the NSA’s operations in…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

If you insist on “off roading,” at least do it in a Soviet tank

The Cold War was a very good war for tanks, despite the lack of wars requiring tank battles. Now some of these old Soviet-era tanks have been spruced up and taken out for a day of tearing up the Earth. If you’re going to do this, at least do it in a tank. https://roadtrippers.kinja.com/prepare-for-wwiii-and-test-drive-this-soviet-tank-1109442870

Sploid Ken Layne

All Hail Histomap: 4,000 Years of History in a Single Poster

What if you could capture the entire history of recorded human existence into one epic infographic for the ages? Crazy, right? Back in the 1930s, a man named John B. Sparks tried—and The Vault recently dug up his attempt. It’s called the Histomap, and it’s still incredible nearly 100 years later, if just slightly out…

Tech News Eric Limer

Explore the ocean floor via live cam, in high definition, RIGHT NOW

Stop what you’re doing and watch this. Below the fold are three high-definition streams of the ocean floor, currently broadcasting LIVE via NOAA’s new 6,000-meter remotely operated vehicle (ROV), Deep Discoverer. It’s… well… let’s just say you might want to clear your schedule for the day. The Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition is one of the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Leaked Photos of Sony’s Lens Cameras That Piggyback on Your Smartphone

As far as the cameras built into smartphones have come, they still can’t quite compete with a dedicated shooter in terms of image quality and control. But Sony thinks it’s found the solution. Instead of waiting until they can cram the capabilities of a DSLR or a mirrorless camera into a phone, these convincing photos…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch a short film about the Machine of Death that predicts your end

Machine of Death, the science fiction anthology that infuriated Glenn Beck, is back in another fantastic iteration. We’ve seen it in print and supported it becoming a card game — and now the Machine of Death is a hilarious short film. https://gizmodo.com/indie-science-fiction-anthology-incurs-the-wrath-of-gle-5676104 https://gizmodo.com/crowdfund-games-based-on-chemistry-and-machine-of-death-5984875 Directed by Michael Mohan, and written by Mohan and webcomic creator David…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Researchers Identify 12 Asteroids Close Enough for Space Mining

Common sense would suggest that humans would want to do everything possible to discourage the asteroids hurdling through solar system from heading towards Earth. But in the too-futuristic era of space rock mining that’s just not the case anymore. This was on the back of researchers’ minds when a team from the University of Strathclyde…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

Predict the weather the way Darwin did on The Beagle

Charles Darwin’s expedition on The Beagle allowed the naturalist to gather evidence for his theory of evolution. The Beagle’s commander, Admiral Robert Fitzroy, also had a theory. He used a special jar to help him predict weather. A couple of scientists were on The Beagle when it underwent its voyages in the 1800s. One was…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Worried about the Internet breaking? Freak out in advance!

Most people treat an Internet outage as some kind of massive crisis, instead of what it really is: A break from your dumb work! But if you just “have to get that report finished” so you can email it to somebody who doesn’t care, then by all means become an Internet Outage Prepper with these…

Sploid Ken Layne

10 Completely Ridiculous Ways the World Has Ended

The end of the world is a scary idea, but the way the world ends isn’t always so terrifying. As it turns out, society could collapse or the planet could get destroyed in a variety of dumb and/or ludicrous ways. Here are 10 doomsday scenarios we hope will kill us, if only so we don’t…

io9 Rob Bricken

A Bizarre Neck Brace That Turns the Wearer Into a Human Speaker

When it comes to high-fidelity sound, what could be better at reproducing a human’s voice than an actual human? Bypassing the vocal chords, Nic Wallenburg’s Human Speaker collar uses the wearer’s mouth and lips to control and amplify sounds, essentially turning the wearer into a speaker. It’s just too bad that each collar can only…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This football star’s Twitter account went completely bonkers

Whether there is a ghost inside pro football player Aaron Dobson’s phone or his Twitter account has achieved sentient intelligence, there is definitely something bizarre going on with this guy’s Twitter account. It’s a good thing we got these saved before his celebrity manager found out! https://deadspin.com/something-weird-is-happening-with-aaron-dobsons-twitte-1109524692

Sploid Ken Layne

Are You Ready to See Elon Musk’s Fantastical Hyperloop Design?

We’ll be covering the publication and subsequent call live. In the mean time, here’s everything we think we know. https://gizmodo.com/hyperloop-everything-we-think-we-know-about-the-future-1081180288

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Star Trek saga from last night’s Breaking Bad, in animated form

Last night on Breaking Bad, Badger got baked and explained his can’t-miss idea for a Star Trek episode: a pie-eating contest that turns deadly. So. Many. Pies. And now, Vulture has put up an animated version, which is quite possibly the best animated Trek since 1974. Here it is: [Vulture, Thanks C_c!]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Judge ignores the Constitution, forbids family to call kid Messiah

According to soon-to-be-overturned Tennessee Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew (bottom left), you can’t name a kid Messiah (right). Not because it’s a really stupid name—says the guy named Jesus—but because it can only be our Lord and Savior’s “title.” Lady, Messiah is not the Messiah. He’s just a very naughty boy. https://jezebel.com/jackass-judge-rules-that-baby-cant-be-named-messiah-1105510166

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Abandoned House Unfolds Into a Theater For 100

This red-sided house, rotting on a quiet street of York, Alabama, was once a symbol of the town’s struggle with blight. But over the past two years, with the help of the citizens who invited him there, artist Matthew Mazzotta has disassembled the abandoned structure and rebuilt it—as a tiny home that unfolds into an…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Horror from the skies: Mystery illness sends birds plummeting to death

First the black birds landed unsteadily in the treetops of Winnipeg, thousands of them. The birds acted so strangely, as they staggered on rooftops and cars, and then they began falling dead, the streets littered with corpses. https://gizmodo.com/dozens-of-dead-and-disoriented-birds-fall-like-rain-o-1107774584

Sploid Ken Layne

Your one night stand will end in horror if fedoras are involved

This is why you aren’t sleeping right

SETI pioneer John Billingham has passed away

The NSA Turned Spying into a Video Game for Analysts

If you insist on “off roading,” at least do it in a Soviet tank

All Hail Histomap: 4,000 Years of History in a Single Poster

Explore the ocean floor via live cam, in high definition, RIGHT NOW

Leaked Photos of Sony’s Lens Cameras That Piggyback on Your Smartphone

Watch a short film about the Machine of Death that predicts your end

Researchers Identify 12 Asteroids Close Enough for Space Mining

Predict the weather the way Darwin did on The Beagle

Worried about the Internet breaking? Freak out in advance!

10 Completely Ridiculous Ways the World Has Ended

A Bizarre Neck Brace That Turns the Wearer Into a Human Speaker

This football star’s Twitter account went completely bonkers

Are You Ready to See Elon Musk’s Fantastical Hyperloop Design?

The Star Trek saga from last night’s Breaking Bad, in animated form

Judge ignores the Constitution, forbids family to call kid Messiah

This Abandoned House Unfolds Into a Theater For 100

Horror from the skies: Mystery illness sends birds plummeting to death

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