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Windows 8.1: Little Fixes, Same Big Ideas (Oh, and a Start Button)

The good news: If you liked Windows 8, its first major update is going fix a ton of the little things that bothered you. The bad news: You might not like Windows 8. And there’s nothing here that will change that. At least there’s a Start button! Microsoft today is giving a sneak peak at…

Ikea In Swedish Teaches You To Correctly Pronounce Its Products

Presumably to preserve its heritage, Ikea uses traditional Swedish names for all of its products, even in its hundreds and hundreds of stores outside the country. So those of us who grew up with English as our mother tongue are left scratching our heads as we wander through an Ikea showroom, afraid to take a…

What Is This?

Looking like something out of the Matrix or some sci-fi horror movie, this stunning photo captures something rather impressive. But what the hell is it? A robotic surgeon, perhaps? Maybe the next generation of badass 3D printers? Or could it be a massive robotic eye? None of the above, silly. It’s an intricate circle of…

Apparently the Wall Street Journal has plans to launch a business-focussed social network, presumably along the lines of LinkedIn. Well, that sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it?

Samsung’s New Galaxy S4 Mini Isn’t Really All That Small

If a 4.3-inch phone is considered “mini”, god help us all. Samsung’s just announced that the Galaxy S4 Mini is real, and it’s still bigger than an iPhone 5. In fact, last year it would be considered mid-range, but compared to the 5-inch monsters we have now, 4.3-inches is small, I guess. As you might…

Apple’s New Budget 16GB iPod Touch: 4-inch Retina Screen, $230

Apple has just quietly launched a budget-friendly new iPod touch: a 16GB model, with a 4-inch Retina display and a price tag of $230. Replacing the last-gen 3.5-inch version, which hung around Apple’s store for a while, the new budget offering loses some of the more advanced features found on the more expensive models—such as…

Curious travellers rejoice: Wikipedia has launched an official Nearby page, which will provide you with articles based on location.

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

What do you Instagram? Food. Cupcakes. The beach. The beach with your sandy feet. Clouds. Dogs. Beer. Selfies. High heels. Forgotten Nights. TBTs. And maybe on some off chance, a blurry photo of a celebrity you saw on the street. Or on a magazine. Or in a movie. You’re certainly not as hilarious as Peeje…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Prancercise

It’s the exercise sensation that’s sweeping the nation. This “springy, rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse’s gait” will rock your abs and glutes, induce elation, and totally won’t make you the laughing stock of the retirement community.

Did a Sonar Image Finally Find Amelia Earhart’s Plane?

It’s been 76 years since Amelia Earhart disappeared and we’re still trying to find her. Last year, a search team re-evaluated their findings and thought they might have discovered her wreckage. The same group has discovered more evidence on where her plane landed, citing the sonar image above. Have we found her at last? https://gizmodo.com/a-search-team-may-have-finally-found-amelia-earhart-aft-5936462…

People Still Pirated Arrested Development Because People Pirate

Even though it’s incredibly easy to watch the new revived season of Arrested Development—seriously, all you need is a Netflix account—-a lot of people still pirated episodes of Arrested Development. In fact, public BitTorrent trackers put it at 175,000 pirated downloads to be exact. This would make sense if most of the pirates came from…

Brad Pitt is a sad conflicted puppy in first World War Z clip

Torn between his duty to his family and his country’s summons to come and stop the zombie onslaught using his incredible super-investigator skills, Brad Pitt is incredibly conflicted, in this first peek at the drama in World War Z. What do you think? World War Z opens June 21, 2013.

This Guy Proposed to His Girlfriend with… Vine

I don’t even… This is just… I can’t believe… okay. Breathe. Some guy used Vine and Twitter to propose to his girlfriend. As in he recorded a six second Vine video (selfie?) asking her to marry him, with a ring and everything. She didn’t say no. She said yes! Curt Buthman’s exact tweet was this:…

Here’s Your Smart Lock of the Future, Today

In an ever increasing world of connected smart things, the most important home appliance, the front door lock, is just now getting automated. August, co-founded by Yves Behar and Jason Johnson, today announced the company’s first product, a $200 lock aptly named Smart Lock. Now you never have to pull out your key or even…

Stare into the eye of Africa’s unfathomably huge Richat Structure

At close to 50 kilometers in diameter, the Sahara Desert’s sprawling Richat Structure is one of the most mysterious geological features on Earth. Via NASA: Once thought to be an impact crater, the Richat Structure’s flat middle and lack of shock-altered rock indicates otherwise. The possibility that the Richat Structure was formed by a volcanic…

Deadpool gets a lesson in language from Marvel’s Legal department

In anticipation of his videogame, Deadpool has been wandering around the Marvel offices and… well, generally just being Deadpool. In the video above, he tries to figure out what Marvel’s Legal dept. will and won’t let him say, This goes about as well as you might imagine. Two notes: 1) This is actually the second…

Motorola Is Making a Flagship Android Phone Called the Moto X

Motorola, a company trying to figure out why it still exists, is apparently making a flagship Android phone called the Moto X. Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed it in his interview at the D11 conference. Could the Moto X be the mysterious Motorola Google lovechild phone we spotted before? https://gizmodo.com/does-this-mystery-motorola-reveal-googles-influence-5990275 Motorola has been very quiet…

This book is a masterpiece about sisters who are a science experiment

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of mega-bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club, but she has another life writing incredible science fiction short stories. With her new novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, she’s brought her flair for witty character drama together with a tragic story about science. This novel will rip your heart…

There’s nothing sadder than the wreck of a once-great submarine

They dove beneath the waves, and helped to win massive global wars. But submarines can’t submerge forever. Eventually, these old warhorses get swept away by history. Here are some images of the most haunting dead submarines of all time. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, May 17 1993 One submarine tender and 16 nuclear submarines are awaiting…

Watch how music travels across the U.S. through Facebook

To date, over 110 million songs have been played some 40 billion times through Facebook apps integrated with Open Graph. This 3D visualization shows how three of these tracks propagated throughout the United States during a 90-day span. This video is called a Beatquake, and it’s the result of a collaboration between Facebook and Stamen…