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Got Blood on the Brain? Shove This Clot Buster Up Your Nose

The odds of suffering an intracerebral (IC) hemorrhage during your lifetime (1 in 50) are almost as terrifying as the as the chances are that it will kill you (4 in 10) if it does happen. IC hemorrhages (and the edemas, or clots, they produce) account for 11 percent of all strokes, and are far…

How Is This 8-Bit Blade Runner Game Not Actually Real?

If you love Blade Runner (and how could you not), you’ve just got to have a soft-spot for old-school games (and how could you not). This little masterpiece proves that they’re two great tastes that taste great together. Whipped up for 8-Bit Cinema by the folks who brought you 8-Bit Star Trek, this isometric Blade…

Your Busted Apple MagSafe Cords Power These Clever Lamps

The MagSafe power cord is one of Apple’s smartest features. They tend to crap out after a few months of hard use, though, thanks either to your poor wire-wrapping technique or your dog’s penchant for copper wire. But that doesn’t have to be the end of the line. https://gizmodo.com/the-macbooks-most-underrated-feature-511300704 For Brian Richer, who co-owns the…

The U.S. Has More Internet Porn Than Any Other Country

America: land of the free, home of the most internet porn in the universe. According to a study, the U.S. of A hosts 60 percent—or 428 million pages—of the world’s porn. The data was collected by Paul Walsh of a company called Metacard. He found that the U.S. is second only to the Netherlands, which…

Why did the ‘80s turn so many of us into nerds?

The ol’ mailbag isn’t short this week, but it only has a few letters. Why? Because someone accidentally asked me the question that has consumed me during my entire career as a professional nerd (…turned post-apocalyptic fake mailman). Why did an entire generation turn out so damn nerdy? The Ultimate Question Ken P.: Why don’t…

Is Your YouTube Slathered In Counterfeit Ads?

It’s bad enough seeing ads all over YouTube, but some shifty malware has been making things even worse. A couple of YouTube-downloader apps have been sliding in a bunch of unauthorized ads and selling them to big brands like Amazon, Blackberry, Kellogg’s and Toyota. So if you’ve been trying to snag some free YouTube vids,…

Archeologist badger reveals 12th Century tombs

Badgers are cool. They don’t give a damn about anything, not even Slavic lords or warriors from the 12th century. That’s why this badger excavated his lair on top of their tombs, making a great discovery in the process. https://gizmodo.com/badger-unearths-medieval-graves-in-germany-1133762133

This Could Be a Yellow iPhone 5c Next to an iPhone 5

A blogger/possible Apple sleuth named Sonny Dickson showed us a gallery of lovely candy colored iPhones that might be Apple’s next smartphone earlier this month. Now Dickson’s released a video that gives us an even closer look at the housing of the purported iPhone 5c. https://gizmodo.com/oh-man-i-want-these-budget-iphone-photos-to-be-real-1054208244 The video is further pushing the rumors that the…

Japan Wants to Build an Ice Wall to Contain Fukushima’s Radioactive Water

Radioactive water full of carcinogenic chemicals is leaking out of the Fukushima power plant at a critical rate, critical enough for the Nuclear Regulation Authority to deem the situation an “emergency.” It’s one of those desperate times, and the measures under consideration sound a little bit desperate. https://gizmodo.com/fukushimas-leaking-radioactive-water-into-the-ocean-aft-870532242 One of the leading candidates for a…

These WWI aerial dogfight photos are incredible. Too bad they’re fake.

During the 1930s, a woman claiming to be the widow of a British Royal Flying Corps pilot sold 34 photos featuring scenes from a dramatic WWI aerial battle to a publisher for U.S. $20,000. The pics were later published in a popular book — but it was all an elaborate hoax. The woman, who went…

Find Your Fortune With Thor’s Metal-Detecting Mjölnir Hammer

There’s apparently one aspect of Thor’s uber-powerful Mjölnir hammer that wasn’t touched on in the Thor movie or The Avengers: It works as some kind of ancient intergalactic metal detector. That’s right. When he’s not battling giant robots or his brother Loki, Thor can apparently be found wandering the beach, dragging his hammer through the…

Dealzmodo: Amazon Flash Storage Gold Box [Updated]

Amazon is having a killer sale on flash storage and you should definitely take advantage. Several lowest prices ever and everything else close to historic lows. Click through for all the deals or check out some of our best picks below. [Amazon] http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=xs_gb_A2AJXIMJOQ2OJC?tag=gizmodo08c-20 SanDisk Extreme 32GB SDHC Card ($28) | I’m definitely buying at least…

Society crumbles as Google admits “Literally” now means “Figuratively”

I’m all for the flexibility of language. Modern pronunciations don’t bother me, I think many common grammatical errors should be added to the rulebook, and I fully support letting words’ meanings change over time. That said, there’s something kind of heartbreaking about Google’s new “expanded” definition of “literally.” Yes, the Google Dictionary now says “literally”…

How Apple Is Changing Its Definition of “Pro”

In recent years, many pros have started feeling like Apple’s jilted girlfriend. Through no fault of their own, the love just seemed to fade. Apple might claim otherwise when confronted, but the telltale signs have been hard to ignore: Mac Pro: Apple’s most powerful Mac has been agonizingly slow in the update department. It hasn’t…

Badger Unearths Medieval Graves in Germany

A badger living near a farm in Germany picked an interesting spot to build its den: directly on top of a 12th century burial site that included two lords and a warrior. The people living on the farm began to suspect something after the badger tossed out a pelvic bone. A human pelvic bone. The…

Does This Colorless, Flavorless, Nihilist Toothpaste Even Exist?

What’s the point of brushing your teeth every morning and every evening with this bland nihilist toothpaste? They’re just going to get dirty again and again. And speaking of cavities, who’s to say they exist? Or the dentists who treat them? Or even the world where these supposed dentists live? And what’s the point of…

A beautiful global map, created with a spirograph

Above is one in a series of world maps created by artist Rachel Evans using nothing more than a spirograph, the mesmerizing geometric drawing tool of your childhood. “Altogether this piece took me around a week (but that would be non-stop drawing) to finish,” she writes on her website. “So, I worked part time, and…

Pneumatic Tubes Are Working Their Way Back Into the Pipeline

You might think of pneumatic tubes as an arcane means of pushing letters around big buildings—but there’s a quiet revolution in the pipeline which could see them challenging digital communication, at least some of the time. New Scientist’s Jacob Aron has written a wonderful feature about the rebirth of pneumatic tubes as a communication system.…

So when does Windows 8.1 come out? October 18th in stores and the day before online! The update will be pushed out to all Windows 8 users via the Windows Store. [Windows]

8 Ethereal Weather Installations That Recreate Fog, Snow, and Storms

Humans have been obsessed with the weather—and how to control it—since the dawn of time. We talk about it constantly. We spend millions of dollars trying to change it. And, in some cases, we celebrate it—like the eight architects and artists behind these installations. https://gizmodo.com/the-rainmakers-how-human-beings-control-the-weather-707081383 As far as subject matter goes, the elements are second…