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You can now “create and edit drawings” and even access Docs, Sheets and Slides offline. [Google Drive]

The team behind Glass has a very special Easter Egg for Glass owners: A creepy panorama team photo! [Valleywag]

World War Z featurette refuses to mention “undead” or “zombies”

Sometimes we have to wonder if the folks making World War Z even like zombies. We know that’s why Brad Pitt wanted to make this film. And yet, even this new trailer seems like they’re ashamed of their giant CG ant mounds of zombies. https://gizmodo.com/new-world-war-z-footage-is-goddamn-relentless-473085564 Which… okay, we can see why — but goodness, people…

A world where you buy police protection just like you buy cable

This video introduces us to a police dystopia that’s all too plausible. Influenced partly by Robocop, and partly by cyberpunk, the short film From the Future with Love is about what happens when police protection is only for people with money. This works as a short film, but writer/director K-Michel Parandi intended it as a…

Radioactive Bacteria Can Kill Cancer

Researchers looking for a novel strategy to fight pancreatic cancer say that radioactive bacteria can attack and kill diseased cells without harming healthy tissue. With a five-year survival rate of only 4 percent, pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of the disease. The National Cancer Institute predicts more than 45,000 new cases of…

This Infinitely Configurable Pegboard Makes Storage Artful

Remember that pegboard you hung your baseball caps from in your bedroom when you were a kid? Pin-press is a vast improvement on the same idea. It’s a big board with giant wooden pegs you can push in and out to use as shelves, hooks, and all-around creative storage. The boards can be customized in…

How the legal concept of “Scientific Uncertainty” shapes your life

Ever wonder why oil companies throw money at researching climate change? Or why creationism was rebranded “intelligent design,” and packaged as a scientific theory? It’s because the American legal system lets lawmakers fudge their science, so long as they can claim there’s “scientific uncertainty.” In areas as diverse as criminal punishment, environmental protection, and health…

Step Inside the Mechanized Fun-House Wasteland of Artist Jon Kessler

Jon Kessler is an artist known for his kinetic sculptures formed out of ragged machinery and surveillance cameras. His latest installation, The Web, at the Swiss Institute in New York, is a sensory rabbit-hole into to our hyper-connected world. Walking into Kessler’s installation is like entering a kid’s fort made out of circuit boards, TV…

Princess Leia stands alone in this new Star Wars novel

Three new Star Wars novels tell solo adventures of the “big three” characters during the Original Trilogy era. And we’ve got an exclusive look at the Princess Leia novel, in which she’s got a mighty big gun. Here’s what Del Rey tells us about the Princess Leia novel by Martha Wells: STAR WARS: EMPIRE AND…

Saturn looks mighty fine in infrared

You might say it’s glowing, actually. This is the ringed planet as it appeared Tuesday morning through the eyes of the Keck Observatory’s infrared sensors. Perched high atop the summit of Hawai’i’s Mauna Kea, Keck’s two, ten-meter optical/infrared telescopes are the largest on Earth – perfect for picking up on the IR waves reflected off…

This Laser Shutter Photography Rig Freezes Insects In Flight

Lacking the technical skills needed to build his own sophisticated shutter trigger system from scratch, photographer Linden Gledhill hacked together a rig of his own using an off-the-shelf system called StopShot so he could snap macro shots of insects in flight. The results were stunning, so much so that Cognysis, the company behind the StopShot…

Sherlock Holmes in space! Supernatural Sherlock Holmes! Vampire Sherlock Holmes! There’s a great list of all the science-fiction and fantasy Holmes books over at Kirkus, here and here.

The Ultimate Guide to This Summer’s Science Fiction and Fantasy TV

We’ve got a long list of television to keep you cool and safe from the terrible, terrible outdoors. No longer is summer where bad TV goes to die. Under the Dome, True Blood, Axe Cop and Falling Skies are just among the few of some of the shows being aired in the high heat months.…

Being Trapped In a Building Seems Less Scary Than This Robot Snake Rescuing You

We’ve been pretty harsh on Carnegie Mellon University’s artificial snake, which, admittedly, is an impressive piece of robotic engineering. But seeing it randomly writhe around while it tries to make its way across the floor and over obstacles will never not be unsettling. https://gizmodo.com/no-no-no-that-creepy-robot-snake-strangles-on-contact-5991709 In its latest stunt the robot snake is used to explore…

Everything You Need to Know After Buying the HTC One

It’s here! It’s finally here! It’s – all right, settle down. Sure you’re excited. You’ve read the reviews. You might even be a seasoned Android connoisseur. But it always helps to be extra prepared for enjoying a truly awesome new phone. So whether you own it already or don’t, here are the five steps for…

The cruel irony of the Gruen Transfer

So many scientific creators are stripped of the credit for their own theories. Not Victor Gruen. He has a theory named especially for him. The problem is that it’s the very last theory he’d ever want. If you’ve found yourself wandering zombie-like through a mall or a grocery store, looking around and hoping that something…

What are the deadliest drugs in the United States?

Which drugs are actually killing Americans? Popular Science combed through overdose statistics from the CDC and turned the numbers into an infographic. Writes PopSci’s Katie Peek: Death reporting in the U.S. requires an underlying cause—the event or disease that lead to the death. This chart represents all those listed in the CDC database as “accidental…

Listen to the only known recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice

Researchers from the Smithsonian have restored a 128 year-old recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice from a wax-and-cardboard disc. It’s our first opportunity to hear what the famous inventor actually sounded like. The restoration, which involved the conversion of high-resolution optical scans to digital audio format, was conducted by physicist Carl Haber and curator Carlene…

T-Mobile Has To Stop Its “Deceptive” No-Contract Ad Push

T-Mobile’s big no-contract, Uncarrier campaign just hit a bit of a snag; Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has ordered the company to correct the deceptive campaign, which promised no contracts and no commitment without saying anything about hardware subsidies. T-Mobile has agreed to update the ads nationwide. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-is-ending-subsidies-in-2013-that-means-expensi-5966363 The issue stems from T-Mobile’s proclivity…

The Ultimate (Free) Virus Protection Guide

So you got caught with your pants down on the Internet (figuratively, folks) and contracted a virus. That sucks. Or maybe you were wearing protection but still fell victim to some nasty bit of code that managed to slip by your antivirus software undetected. That sucks even more. Either way, it’s nothing to feel ashamed…