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Marine biologists call this borg-like organism the unicorn of the sea

Large portions of the internet think the narwhal is the unicorn of the sea. Large portions of the internet are wrong. That title clearly belongs to the pyrosome, pictured here. As is often the case with legendary animals, images of giant pyrosomes tend to be low-resolution. But unlike Bigfoot or Nessie, pyrosomes are 100% real.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Light Show Lets You Walk Through a NYC Tunnel For the First Time Ever

For the past 80 years, there’s only been one way to see the inside of the Park Avenue Tunnel: By car, rocketing through the darkened chute towards Grand Central. But on Saturday, for the first time ever, the tunnel will be open to pedestrians, and host to an unusual art installation—one that reportedly has the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Abandoned Canadian Ghost Town to be Revived by Entrepreneur

Kitsault is a modern ghost town, one that was abandoned some 30 years ago by over 1,200 mine workers and their families. But the British Columbia town still stands just as its inhabitants left it — leaving an Indo-Canadian businessman with an intriguing idea: Why not bring it back to life? Krishnan Suthanthiran, who made…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Astonishing Tale of Nazi Prisoners, a Smuggled Camera, and Survival

In 1940, 5,000 French officers were held as prisoners of war in a German camp called Oflag 17A. There were thousands of captive soldiers in similar camps all across Germany, but these inmates had an advantage other prisoners could only dream of: a secret camera, smuggled in from the outside world. The footage—and their story—is…

Tech News Eric Limer

IBIS Can Do What the Da Vinci Does (But for 90 Percent Less)

If Playing God taught us anything, it’s that surgeons with shaky hands and crippling prescription painkiller addictions are not long for their profession. That’s why robots like the Da Vinci have assumed the lead in delicate laparoscopic procedures. But their electronic joints’ sharp movements can be just as damaging to a patient’s innards in the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Spend Your Next Holiday at a Victorian Fort in the Middle of the Ocean

Spitbank Fort is one of those spots you read about in an Alexander Dumas novel. It’s a gritty, grey, Victorian-era fortress with a dark past and nothing but miles of water on all sides. And it’s the perfect place for a romantic weekend the next time you’re on the coast of England. One of three…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

If you google backpacks and pressure cookers, police will question you

New York-based journalist Michele Catalano claims that if you search for backpacks and then for pressure cookers, “six agents from a joint terrorist task force” will show up at your door to question you. Update: It wasn’t the NSA, though, but a tip from a local source. [Images by ShutterStock] https://whitenoise.kinja.com/yes-the-fbi-is-tracking-americans-google-searches-981986667

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The setting Sun is one big optical illusion

There are kinds of knowledge that open up new ways of looking at the universe, and make you feel relief at the expansion of possibility. And there are kinds of knowledge that make you mad. This is the second kind of knowledge. This quick QI clip has Phil Jupitus trying to absorb the knowledge that…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Human teleportation is far more impractical than we thought

Physics students from the University of Leicester have calculated the time and energy required to beam a complete person from the Earth’s surface to a location in space. Their results were discouraging, to say the least. Teleportation, or beaming, has long been a staple of science fiction. As anyone who’s seen Star Trek or The…

io9 George Dvorsky

Sinister director grabs Drew Magary’s Postmortal for the big screen

Chopped enthusiast, Gawker columnist, and parenting advice-giver Drew Magary’s immortal novel could be made into a movie. Set in the near future where the cure for aging has been discovered, The Postmortal citizens don’t have to age, but can still die from accidents, sickness, stabbings etc. https://deadspin.com/our-drew-magary-applied-for-a-spot-on-chopped-this-is-5924495 Magary announced the deal on twitter: Also revealing…

Movies Meredith Woerner

What Tech Do You Take on Vacation and What Do You Leave at Home?

I’m about to go on a vacation and I’m thinking about leaving all of my gadgets behind, save for my iPhone. When you take a vacay, what do you take with you, and what do you purposely leave home? We’ve asked you before how active you are on social media when you’re vacationing, but what…

Tech News Leslie Horn

15 Minutes of Elysium Behind the Scenes Footage Is Pure Mech-Madness

So here we have 15 minutes worth of behind the scenes footage from Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming “postapocalyptic” movie Elysium. I mean, this is basically the entire movie, which doesn’t open until August 9! Does the studio know about this? And in case you were wondering, the movie was mostly shot with a RED Epic. While…

Movies Peter ha

We join Bender, and his ass, on a sentimental journey

As Futurama winds down, we take this episode to look back at all the good times it’s given us. And we do it with Bender’s ass as a motivation. If there’s one problem with this episode, it’s that the climax comes too early. Leela and Fry are making a delivery of weapons on a gang…

Television Esther Inglis-Arkell

Netflix User Profiles Are Finally Here, This Is How They Work

Today, Netflix started rolling out the user profiles we’ve been hearing about. Huzzah, you can finally share an account with your roommate without your feed getting carpet-bombed by episodes of Jericho. The new feature lets you setup a maximum of five profiles per account. Each account can also be connected to Facebook so that you…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Hulu Is Coming to Chromecast

Chromecast launched with Netflix support, and now Hulu is working on bringing Chromecast support to its iOS and Android apps. There is no official date as to when it’s coming but a Hulu rep said it’s “actively working on it” with Google. Technically, you can already cast Hulu to your TV through the device in…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Superman and Batman discuss their upcoming film over a cup of coffee

If this hilarious exchange between Superman and Batman is of any indication, their upcoming movie encounter won’t so much be a battle between superheroes, but more a battle of wits. Watch as they debate the potential movie title — and find out what Batman really thinks of Man of Steel. https://gizmodo.com/theyre-doing-a-superman-batman-movie-but-thats-not-851711013 https://gizmodo.com/do-we-already-know-the-title-of-the-batman-superman-mov-890421637 Via the HISHE…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Most Expensive Apartments in the World’s Most Expensive Cities

A few days ago Mercer, the global human resources consulting firm, published its current list of the most expensive cities in the world. According to their survey, the most expensive place to station an employee isn’t New York or Tokyo. It’s Luanda, Angola. Mercer looked at 214 cities and created a ranking based on the…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Wait… could Star Wars: Episode VII start filming this month!?

Bioshock creator Ken Levin reveals what he hopes to accomplish with his Logan’s Run screenplay. Did another Marvel character join Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? The co-creator of Sarah Connor Chronicles is working on the Avatar 2 script. David Tennant reveals what it was like to return to Doctor Who. Spoilers! Top image from Elysium. Star Wars:…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Nvidia Shield Teardown: A Lot’s Crammed Into This Strange Device

Nvidia’s slightly crazy Shield gaming device-cum-tablet is now in the wild, and iFixit has done what it does best and torn the sucker apart. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-project-shield-hands-on-a-little-less-weird-tha-5974239 Turns out that there’s a lot squeezed into the frame of this hybrid device. As well as packing a serious GPU, it’s got a huge 7350 mAh battery (previous reports…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Sorting Algorithms Are Mesmerizing When Visualized

If you’re under the impression that something as simple as sorting numbers is dull, think again. This visualization lets you see and hear fifteen different algorithms sift their way through a jumbled mess of data—and it’s truly mesmerizing. The video shows the process—and matched “audibilization“—of fifteen different sorting algorithms dreamt up by computer scientists. While…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Marine biologists call this borg-like organism the unicorn of the sea

Light Show Lets You Walk Through a NYC Tunnel For the First Time Ever

Abandoned Canadian Ghost Town to be Revived by Entrepreneur

The Astonishing Tale of Nazi Prisoners, a Smuggled Camera, and Survival

IBIS Can Do What the Da Vinci Does (But for 90 Percent Less)

Spend Your Next Holiday at a Victorian Fort in the Middle of the Ocean

If you google backpacks and pressure cookers, police will question you

The setting Sun is one big optical illusion

Human teleportation is far more impractical than we thought

Sinister director grabs Drew Magary’s Postmortal for the big screen

What Tech Do You Take on Vacation and What Do You Leave at Home?

15 Minutes of Elysium Behind the Scenes Footage Is Pure Mech-Madness

We join Bender, and his ass, on a sentimental journey

Netflix User Profiles Are Finally Here, This Is How They Work

Hulu Is Coming to Chromecast

Superman and Batman discuss their upcoming film over a cup of coffee

The Most Expensive Apartments in the World’s Most Expensive Cities

Wait… could Star Wars: Episode VII start filming this month!?

Nvidia Shield Teardown: A Lot’s Crammed Into This Strange Device

Sorting Algorithms Are Mesmerizing When Visualized

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