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Buying a Motorola smartphone now lands you $50 in Google Play credit—after the absurd mail-in rebate for digital goods.

These Tiny Telescopes Could Save the Earth from a Deep Impact

A 50-foot wide, 10,000-ton meteor that packs triple the force of the nuke dropped on Hiroshima is nothing to scoff at. But in the grand scheme of things, the meteor that hit Chelyabinsk, Russia, last week is a cosmological runt. Space rocks as much as 100 feet across are estimated to strike every hundred years…

Flickr for iOS Updated With Tagging, Faster Uploading, and Features You Were Missing

Flickr’s just been updated to include some features you probably wanted. Among them are some basics—uploading is faster and it’s easier to save pics from your Photostream to the camera roll. Then the app gets to some things you’ve probably missed. It now auto-saves your original photos before you add a filter. If you @…

This Is Your Lasagne In Space

21 February 2013 – Getting ready for his six-month stay on the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano from Italy had an important task yesterday ­– testing some of the best Italian cuisine that he will eat in Earth orbit, including the first lasagne to be sent to space. This is how it is…

Twitter began using DMARC earlier this month, which should hopefully stop all those fake Twitter email phishing scams.

Are You Going to Buy a PlayStation 4?

Now that we’ve had a firsthand look at the undeniably incredible—although not all that revolutionary—graphics that the PS4’s blazing fast guts will be spewing forth, we can actually start considering if its going to be worth shelling out the (currently undisclosed amount of) money required. Granted, we still have no idea what the damn thing…

Evidence of Martian Life May Be Waiting In this Scoop of Dirt

Like a Danish gourmet, the Mars Curiosity Rover is about to eat a scoop of ground dirt—the one you can see here. This is the first sample of powdered Martian rock extracted using the rover’s drill. This image—obtained by by Curiosity’s Mast Camera on Feb. 20, or Sol 193, Curiosity’s 193rd Martian day of operations—shows…

Incredible Images of the Massive New Tunnels Hollowing New York City

There is a 22-foot-long, 200-ton steel monster under Manhattan. Dead, resting deep somewhere under Grand Central Station and Park Avenue, this machine and her twin brother excavated the massive tunnels that you can see here, one of the largest public transportation works of our time. https://gizmodo.com/this-200-ton-earth-worm-is-now-dying-under-new-york-5825349 Here’s an impressive new look at the amazing tunnels…

The Strange, Secret Evolution of Babylon 5

February 22, 2013, marks the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Babylon 5: The Gathering, the pilot film for what would eventually become the Babylon 5 television series. The show arguably changed the way narrative television works, and Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski also changed the rules for TV creators by actively engaging his…

Watch the unbelievable first 6 minutes of Evangelion 3.0, starring Space Pirate Asuka

I personally prefer the original Evangelion TV series, warts and all, over the old Eva movies or even the new movie series. But I’ll tell you one thing the new movies have that the original TV series doesn’t: Pirate Asuka fighting an Angel in space. You can watch the first six-plus minutes of Gainax’s newest…

Want To Snooze? This Annoying Alarm Clock Makes You Sink a Putt First

It’s been a while since we’ve stumbled across an alarm clock that uses some annoying gimmick to ensure you get out of bed in the morning. But this $17 mini golf game trapped inside a plastic dome might actually be a less rage-inducing way to start your day. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-snooze-button-is-ruining-your-sleep-5949809 It has all the basic functions…

Universal preps teen Pitch Black movie based off the YA novel Arclight

The YA book-to-movie trend isn’t showing any signs of stopping; according to THR, Universal has nabbed the rights to Josin L. McQuein’s upcoming novel Arclight. Set in the post-apocalyptic future, the remnants of society are trapped in the darkness behind a safety wall of light called the Arclight. Outside their security wall dwell the creatures…

Researchers use a 3D printer to help grow an ear

The potential for 3D printers is quite mind-blowing, especially when considering their role in biotechnology. The latest breakthrough in this regard comes from Cornell University researchers who showed that it’s possible to create a replacement ear using a 3D printer and an injection of living cells. Once refined, the technique will allow biomedical engineers to…

Configure This Table Like a Caterpillar Toy

The Itisy table looks like one of these Very Hungry Caterpillar toys, and it can be configured however you like. Forget putting stuff on it; I just want to play with it. Thanks to metal ball joints installed underneath the oak top of each part, sections can be realigned to fit the circular tops together…

The Secret Drone Mission that Killed Joseph Kennedy Jr.

In 1944, Joseph Kennedy Jr. (older brother of JFK) took off from a British airfield in a B-24 Liberator filled with 20,000 pounds of explosives. He’d volunteered for the mission. It would be his last. Kennedy was the eldest of nine siblings, and it was assumed he’d eventually take up the family business. However, in…

Romain Jerome’s Spacecraft Watch Looks Like It’s From Another Galaxy

Taking a page from Tokyo Flash’s bewildering design playbook, Romain Jerome’s latest watch—the Spacecraft—takes an unconventional approach to displaying the time. But thankfully it’s not as difficult as deciphering the array of dials and switches on a NASA-designed craft. Looking itself like some retro spaceship that fell to earth from the heavens, the watch features…

Meet the PS4’s Blazing AMD Guts

We don’t know squat about what the PS4 will look like since it didn’t make an appearance at Sony’s two-hour long press event last night, but we’ve learned a lot about what it’ll be like when it finally shows up. And now, we know it’s going to have AMD innards. https://gizmodo.com/sony-just-had-a-two-hour-ps4-event-with-no-ps4-5985790 As expected, the PS4…

Traktor DJ for iPad Is Better Than Turntables

If you go out and hunt for a DJ app that lets you mix together two different tracks, you’re going to come across a lot of really, really, bad design. Even the best stuff is a hell of fake spinning turntable skeuomorphs. After playing with Native Instruments’ Traktor DJ for iPad, we’re sure there’s a…

Man harasses a baby manatee, puts pics on Facebook, gets arrested

A 21 year-old Florida man, Ryan William Waterman, is facing a misdemeanor charge that could see him pay a $500 fine and face six months in jail. He was arrested by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after being alerted to pictures on Facebook showing Waterman hugging a baby manatee. According to the Florida…

Humongous Near-Earth Asteroids Don’t Look So Scary in a Time-Lapse

Most of us got a little distracted from uneventful passing of near-Earth asteroid DA14 after that unrelated meteorite decided to slam into Russia. Photographer Colin Legg keep his eyes—and camera—on DA14 though, and put together this time-lapse of its flyby that makes it seem like an insignificant little dot. https://gizmodo.com/were-safe-the-asteroid-goes-away-5984606 Legg took the footage from…