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iMessage and Parts of iCloud Are Down (Updated)

Looks like Apple is having a tricky time of things this morning: its iCloud and iMessage services are currently experiencing difficulties. The hiccup means that users are having problems with Photo Stream, iCloud documents, back-ups, iPhoto journals and iMessage. So, if things aren’t quite working properly this morning, it’s not you—it’s Apple. It’s not clear…

Which Buffy episode is the spiritual predecessor of Agents of SHIELD?

Joss Whedon reveals all, plus he takes us inside of the main villain of The Avengers: Age of Ultron… just as a new contender emerges for the Scarlet Witch. Steven Moffat drops some hints about Doctor Who’s future. Terry Gilliam opens up about Zero Theorem. Plus True Blood, Arrow, and Teen Wolf hints galore. Spoilers…

7 Subtly Suggestive New Cover Designs For Nabokov’s Lolita

Boiling down the essence of a book into a single, striking image is a incredible challenge. Part of the fun of browsing for new books is checking out the various artistic interpretations of your favorite titles—while shamelessly judging each and every unknown by what’s emblazoned on the front. Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl…

How To Make Spaghetti a Dangerous Weapon (Besides All Those Carbs)

Not only has he laid claim to the title of world’s greatest slingshot designer, Joerg Sprave is also a master of turning seemingly innocuous everyday items into frighteningly deadly weapons. This week he turns his attention to spaghetti, weaponizing what we all wrongly assumed was one of the safest meals one could enjoy. In its…

The Otherworldly Glow of the Solar System’s Auroras, Bottled in a Lab

If this image makes you think of the Northern Lights, you shouldn’t be surprised. Because this is in fact a planeterrella: a large glass dome containing spheres and charged particles, which mimics the auroral glows present within our solar system. When magnetic fields are applied within the dome, put together by NASA, charged particle of…

Is This the Gold iPhone 5S?

With all this talk of a golden iPhone you may have been expecting something terribly bling. But this leaked image, published by Japanese website Weekly Ascii, claims to show off the new “champagne” iPhone and it… it doesn’t look that bad. As ever, the usual rumour disclaimer applies: take with a massive pinch of salt…

The Amazing Art of Perfect Portrait Photography

A well-shot portrait is an amazing thing: it can reveal hidden depths of personality and convey layers upon layers of emotional complexity. This video tries to get to the bottom of what makes the perfect portrait photograph. Perhaps understandably, that’s no easy task, and there’s talk of philosophy and feelings as much as insight and…

A Periodic Table of Booze

You can fit an awful lot of information into the classic Periodic Table—and here, Brazil-based designer and illustrator mayra.artes has taken advantage of it to communicate the contents of… booze. Providing details about composition, percentages, year of invention, and more, it might not prove as useful as the real Periodic Table—but it’s probably a bit…

Ubuntu’s crowdfunding effort for its Edge smartphone has fallen massively short on Indiegogo—by a staggering $19 million. Bad luck, Linux lovers.

Read This Letter That Bradley Manning Is Sending to the President

Yesterday, Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for crimes related to stealing government documents and sharing them with WikiLeaks. Now, you can read the letter he’s sending to the President to state his case. https://gizmodo.com/bradley-manning-sentenced-to-35-years-in-prison-1177370126 The letter was read by defense attorney David Coombs following Manning’s sentencing yesterday, but the Associated Press…

Microsoft: Xbox One and Kinect Will Definitely Not Be Sold Separately

Microsoft has had an indecisive month or two recently, contemplating a series of U-turns in its attempts to compete with the forthcoming PlayStation 4. But now, it seems to have settled on a final decision about one of the most controversial flip-flops: every Xbox One WILL come with a Kinect. https://gizmodo.com/the-xbox-one-is-worse-for-everyone-if-kinects-not-mand-1113731041 About that, there now…

Traveling Around the World with Skype Actually Looks Kind of Fun

Sure, we would all love to travel around the world and do stuff but then life, work, money and excuses get in the way. So why not try to do what comedian Mark Malkoff did? He Skyped with 162 different countries, traveling the world with technology. And though that sounds horrifying in that you have…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Deathigner

Oh, OH! Deathinger like “designer” with a lisp, not Deathinger like “Death Thinger.” Ok this totally makes sense now.

Canon S120: A Tiny, Awesome Point-and-Shoot Camera (Again and Again)

For less than $500 you can’t find a tiny camera with the image quality and flexibility of Canon’s parade of S-series Powershot cameras. With the S120, the tradition marches on. Canon’s top point-and-shoot cameras aren’t the industry leaders they were in the heydey of cameras like the S90 and the S95. While S-series cameras have…

Here’s a Map of the World Adjusted for the Population Size of Countries

If you were to re-draw the map of the world according to each country’s population, you would get a warped world that looked like this. Some giant countries like Canada and Australia become tiny strips and dots while other giant countries like China and India predictably inflate and take over the map. You can also…

More Popular Idioms Translated to Make Sense with Today’s Technology

When’s the last time you put all your eggs in one basket? Probably never. But! When’s the last time you put all your data in one hard drive? Probably right now (you gotta learn better backup habits). And though we know that practice makes perfect and that patience is a virtue, what actually applies to…

This Hashtag Limiting Instagram Update Should Totally Be Real

Is Instagram over yet? Or our distant relatives just finding out about filters? Wherever the picture sharing app currently stands on the sliding scale of not owning a TV to being an Oprah audience member, it’s obvious to anyone who has used Instagram that people like hashtags, people like food pictures (and sunset pictures and…

Even dinosaurs love a good sunset

It was a beautiful evening at the lake, and Deinonychus antirrhopus ruffled its feathers appreciatively. As to what the ancient animal might have been thinking, we can only speculate that it had something to do with noms. Deinonychus antirrhopus was a dinosaur who lived during the early Cretaceous period, and whose length could grow to…

How Pacific Rim Should Have Ended

We absolutely loved Pacific Rim. It was everything a great summer action movie should be. And plus, when it’s Guillermo del Toro making giant robots fight giant monsters, what can go wrong? Well, according to the well wrinkled critical brain of HISHE, Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi’s characters in the movie would totally re-think the…

New research suggests women can make sperm, and men can make eggs

What started as an investigation into developmental mouse biology has become a lot more than that. Biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi discovered a way to turn mouse skin cells into sperm and egg cells — and actually used these modified cells to create a living baby mouse. The question is, can it work in humans? Illustration via…