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Amazon Wants to Be Your New Grocery Store

Amazon already controls virtually every corner of the retail market—every corner except for one that is: America’s grocery stores. But that may soon change, as they’re planning to expand testing of a new online grocery delivery service. The company’s new branch, called AmazonFresh, has already been testing out consumer response in Seattle—for the past five…

There Were Plans for 3D Movies Even Before There Were Talkies

If you think the glasses you have to wear at every 3D movie today are a pain, remember to be grateful that we’re not all stuck with the early 20th century’s version. Back in the 1910s, many people were experimenting with next-big-thing technologies for motion pictures. Much of the promise was in developing synchronized sound,…

An Indispensible Tribute to Space: 1999 Creator Gerry Anderson

Famous Monsters of Filmland continues to be a must-read magazine. The latest issue not only features a cover story on King Kong’s 80th birthday, and a Cthulhu feature, it also has a ginormous section on Gerry Anderson, creator of Thunderbirds, Space:1999 and UFO. I learned a ton about Anderson from reading the huge section on…

This incredible image reveals two galaxies that orbit the Milky Way

Just as planets orbit Suns, galaxies can orbit each other. Now, NASA has created some unprecedented images of two such galaxies in the Milky Way’s orbit, known as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). Here, you have an incredible view of these galaxies beneath the plane of the Milky Way. According to…

What’s the Weirdest Stock Photo You Can Find?

Here at Gizmodo, we often find ourselves depending on stock photos to illustrate what our time and resources simply wouldn’t allow. And by god do these noble stock photographers ever deliver. No time to amputate the arms of a derelict, life-size doll and photograph it in your questionably defunct subway tunnel? That’s alright—it’s already been…

After Earth: The Spoiler FAQ

A Will Smith movie that bombs at the box office? An M. Night Shaymalan movie that people say could actually be worse? After Earth is just confusing as hell, and thus we’ve decided to answer your Frequently Asked Questions regarding the movie. So some critics are calling After Earth godawful, while some are saying it’s…

The Pocket-Picking Facebook Malware That No One Knows How to Stop

A particularly nasty breed of malware is raiding people’s Facebook profiles and emptying their bank accounts. Its name is Zeus, and yes, it is all powerful. Because despite the fact that this money-grubbing, Likejacking malware has been around for years stealing both private and government data, cybersecurity experts are still stumped about how to stop…

Good news iOS users: you’re the latest group to get hit with the beautifully redesigned Gmail app. It’s optimized for both iPhone and iPad, and you can pick it up at the App Store right now.

Hey Spotify, Just Show Me the Album I Want to Listen To

I pretty much never ever want to hear the edited version of any album. But for some reason, that ‘s exactly what Spotify wants me to hear. Or it least that’s the way it seems. In most cases, the cleaned up version is what Spotify shows you by default, and you have to do extra…

A Classic Fiat 500 Had To Die So You Can Keep Your Drinks Cool

Though it was reborn back in 2007 as a similarly compact model, the original Fiat 500 showed the world, not just Europe, that you didn’t need a giant land yacht of a vehicle to be comfortable. So it’s a little sad to see that Smeg is working with Fiat to hack apart these iconic rides,…

Watch Every Single Version of Windows Ever in One Exhaustive Video

A very patient soul spent hours and hours of his life installing each version of Windows from 1.0 to 8.0 Pro, then sped up the footage. The result? The entire history of the operating system condensed into just over an hour. Bonus points: Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories as the soundtrack. It’s fun to see…

Hey, GoT‘s Benioff and Weiss were traumatized by the episode too

[SPOILERS FOR LAST SUNDAY’S EPISODE OF GAME OF THRONES. SERIOUSLY, IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT BUT ARE STILL PLANNING TO, DON’T WATCH THIS VIDEO. ALSO, GET OFF THE DAMN INTERNET, BECAUSE YOU ARE PLAYING WITH FIRE. ] Game of Thrones showrunners D.N. Weiss and David Benioff discuss the importance of the Red Wedding to the…

A Waggable Tail Lets This Crawling Robot Turn on a Dime

UC Berkeley might be able to claim the title of ‘world’s fastest turning robot‘ and it’s all thanks to an innovation that Mother Nature came up even well before the dinosaurs: a wagging tail. It turns out that tails aren’t just a handy way to know when your dog is excited. They also provide extra…

Why do most people on Earth drive on the right side of the road?

It is, after all, the best side of the road. But how did it become the crowd favorite of most drivers on the planet? In the latest installment of MinuteEarth, Henry Reich (creator of the similarly named MinutePhysics) takes a break from his typical mathematical antics to dig into some history. Specifically, he’s looking at…

The experiment that showed how DNA replicates itself

We know DNA unzips to replicate itself, each new double helix containing half the parent. But how do we know that? An incredible experiment, conducted in the 1950s, proved how DNA replicated itself without anyone taking a peek inside a cell. Find out how you know what you know. In the late 1950s, the scientific…

An Internet Pioneer Foresaw the Tech Bubble’s Filthy Rich Programmers

In 1969, internet pioneer Paul Baran predicted that by the year 2000, computer programmers may very well be the richest people in the world. Remember, this is when Bill Gates was just a 14-year-old nerd in Seattle. The ARPANET had not yet drawn its first breath when Baran wrote his 1969 paper, “On The Impact…

Tony Stark cuts through the Paperman flirting with cocktails

Now this is a Disney crossover we wouldn’t mind seeing. What if the gorgeous, Oscar-nominated short Paperman had a different kind of suitor, like Captain Kirk or Don Draper? We would seriously pay to see that. https://gizmodo.com/this-animated-short-doesnt-just-look-cool-it-looks-han-5980280 Created by DeviantArtist Eddie Snow, these illustrations are simply delightful. [Via The Mary Sue]

Robo Sally: The Best Bomb Disposal Bot Is Also the Most Human

Of the 25,000 Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) missions conducted by the US military in Iraq, only 30 have resulted in fatalities according to Army Col. K. Reinhard, commander of the joint EOD teams operating in the theater. That’s still 30 too many. And that’s why DARPA’s developed the most advanced EOD surrogate ever, a veritable…

William Shatner reads his version of Where the Wild Things Are to kids

Few people know of William Shatner’s personal campaign to get kids interested in reading. The actor read the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are to a group of kids at the recent Denver Comic Con; if he embellished the tale a bit, what of it? A book is merely a doorway to imagination,…

The Private Yacht of Kitchen Sinks Has Room For Weeks of Dirty Dishes

If you can’t help but stare in awe whenever you get the chance to peek inside a professional kitchen at a restaurant, you’ll be ecstatic to hear that KWC’s Waterstation is actually designed for home use. Albeit a home with a very big kitchen and enough disposable income to afford a $15,000 sink, but it’s…