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Rumor: Nexus 10 Specs Leak Briefly on Google Play Store

The amount of times Google branded hardware “accidentally” turns up on the Play Store before it’s supposed to you’d be forgiven for thinking that the big G was purposefully leaking it all. And that’s what appears to have happened with the forthcoming Nexus 10 tablet, which had its guts spilled all across the store before…

Why Are JavaScript Attacks So Dangerous?

You’ve probably heard security articles talk about JavaScript being used to attack websites, but you might not know why it’s quite so dangerous. This video helps explain. It’s all to do with cross-site scripting: a vulnerability that allows hackers to inject client-side script into web pages that are viewed by other users. In the past,…

12 Nip Slips Potentially Visible to Sputnik

XKCD delivers. https://gizmodo.com/20th-century-headlines-rewritten-as-linkbait-1453258254

After months of trials, Nielsen is about to roll out its technology to include online viewing figures in its records, and it’ll lean on social networks to match viewing habits to social demographic.

Watch Six Famous Corporate Logos Evolve Before Your Eyes

Just like the products and services they sell, company logos have a tendency to change over time. In this series of animations by Nick DiLallo, you can see how the logos of six big firms have changed over the years. What’s nice about them is that the way that the transitions are appropriate to the…

20th Century Headlines Rewritten as Linkbait

The online headline is a strange thing indeed when you compare it to the more classical titles that filled the newspapers of the 20th century. So, what if you took major historic events of the last 100 years and rewrote them as linkbait? This is what happens. My favorite has to be “This One Weird…

Obama Was Unaware of NSA World Leader Spying (Updated)

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Obama was unaware that the NSA was spying on world leaders—until an internal White House review revealed that the operation existed. https://gizmodo.com/report-the-nsas-been-spying-on-35-world-leaders-1451598576 The review revealed to the president and this staff that the NSA was spying on 35 world leaders, and since learning about them the White House…

Livescribe Smartpen 3: Note Taking Magic in a Luxury Package

So you want to take hand-written notes but you don’t want to transcribe them onto your computer? No problem. Livescribe’s new Smartpen 3 is a magic for note-taking tool that automatically translates your scratches and scrawls into an iPad or iPhone app. When you write notes in a Livescribe notebook, it instantly ports them over…

Did LG Accidentally Announce Curved-Screen G Flex? (Update: Official)

Tonight, an LG press release officially unveiling the curved screen G Flex smartphone briefly appeared online. It’s gone now, but before it disappeared it gave us a new look into this strangely-shaped bananaphone. https://gizmodo.com/this-curved-lg-g-flex-phone-sure-looks-beautifully-bent-1450541913 First and foremost is that screen, six inches of 720p OLED curved along a horizontal axis (unlike the Samsung Galaxy Round‘s…

The Only Motion In This Music Video Is From Spinning CDs

Phenakistoscopes are old school machines that used illustrated discs to create animation. Kind of the round version of a flip book. And the Japanese band SOUR wanted those methods in their music video. The whole thing is pretty mesmerizing. The group had Kickstarter and GreenFunding campaigns to raise money for the video, and promised CDs…

The banana women plant themselves in the ground for the night

All day, the Cavendish sisters looked forward to kicking off their shoes and tucking their toes into the Earth. Amber would pour them a bedtime drink while Saffron rocked her baby to sleep. One of a number of strange, banana-headed illustrations by Lin Shih-Yung. [via Ghost in the Machine]

A Doomed Comet Hurtling Toward the Sun

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), launched in 1995, stares mostly at . . . yeah. The sun. But when its instruments are trying to image other things near the sun, all that light gets kind of overwhelming. So sometimes instruments on the SOHO just block the sun out and turn their attention to other…

Go Where You Want in These Immersive 360 Degree iPad Animations

Movies, TV and video are great. Someone made all the decisions and you just get to sit back and watch. If you want to take control you play video games. Right? But HEAD-Geneva wanted to develop a hybrid genre so the group created IDNA. Devised by Sylvain Joly, the story uses “spatial storytelling” to put…

Photographs of gruesome injuries made out of cake and ice cream

Collage artist Ashkan Honarvar’s Faces 5 series shows faces that have been torn apart in violent ways. But instead of seeing human gore and bone, we see candy and frosting. Honarvar’s Faces project considers the psychological and physical wounds endured by soldiers. Most installments of the project utilize photographs of World War I soldiers, but…

The revolution looks to Katniss in the new Catching Fire trailer

Katniss stands at the center of the latest trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, but she’s not shooting arrows and taking names. Instead she must navigate the growing political unrest in Panem while the threats and schemes of the Capitol loom over her. [via Bleeding Cool]

How Many Electric Car Charging Stations Are Actually Out There?

Hybrid and electric cars have gone pretty mainstream. But it’s hard to get a sense of whether the charging infrastructure is keeping pace. Especially since there are lots of proposals for how we could transition away from the gas station model. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-officially-how-youll-be-fueling-your-car-in-the-5953021 In fact, if you don’t have an electric car you might not even…

Horror movies reimagined as Goosebumps book covers

What if The Shining, The Evil Dead, and Videodrome had started life as books in R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series? If It Were Stine pictures the book covers that would result, complete with the expository titles and the terrible tagline puns. Theodore Holmstead-Scott puts together these faux covers and Jude Deluca writes the titles and blurbs.…

A Detailed Description of Why Human Skin Is Amazing

As Minute Earth rightly points out, we could avoid a lot of flesh wounds by having thicker armored skin like a pangolin. But the energy needed to generate and maintain that armor wasn’t evolutionarily worth it for us to expend because we put so much fuel into our enormous brains. We can think of ways…

An animator explains why she studies physics in a marvelous short

Xiangjun Shi recently graduated from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design in physics and animation. In Why Do I Study Physics? she uses one of her passions to explain the other, in a short animation that starts out simple but eventually pokes at some of the great mysteries of the universe. Why Do…

Competitive Dairy Tasting Is A Thing That Exists

So this is the situation. Human tastings are a crucial component in milk safety evaluations and by extension the dairy industry as a whole. So the Future Farmers of America (FFA) have an event called the Milk Quality and Products Career Development. A big part of it is a milk tasting contest for high school…