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What’s a Starquake? The World’s Tiniest Telescopes Launch Today to Find Out

Despite being among the brightest and easily identified clusters in the night sky, the trio of stars in Orion’s Belt are actually among the least studied in astronomy. That’s partly because the huge, far-seeing telescopes typically sent into space are designed to spot only the dimmest, most distant stars. But Orion’s Belt will finally get…

A Facebook Privacy Flaw Gave a Hacker Access to Every Single Account

You probably don’t know Nir Goldshlager, but up until recently, he sure could have known you. That’s because Nir discovered a major privacy flaw in Facebook’s OAuth, the system developers use to access all sorts of information every time you hit that innocent, little “allow” button. Nir gained access to virtually anyone’s entire Facebook account.…

In Reality, Nebulae Offer No Place for Spaceships to Hide

In the Battlestar: Galactica universe, nebulas are a nifty spot to hide from the Cylons that are plotting to kill humanity. There’s just one problem with the hypothesis, though: These diffuse areas of gas in our universe are actually very faint, even if you get close up. Probably too faint for a hiding spot. Prequel…

Pollution Might Shrink Your Penis, Say Otters

Otter dicks are shrinking thanks to pollution, and you should definitely freak out, because the trend might affect humans, too. A new study from the Cardiff University Otter Project and the Chemicals, Health, and Environmental Monitoring Trust (CHEM) found that otter penis bones are getting smaller. What researchers haven’t yet determined is if endocrine disrupting…

Andrea gets a less-than-happy reunion with Rick in The Walking Dead

Holy hell, it’s one of those rare Walking Dead episodes where things don’t explode, and people don’t get shot at or eaten, but instead characters talk to each other, and shit can still be considered to have happened! This week’s episode was all about relationships and history between characters, and it was still pretty good…

The Problem With Apps Is Smartphones

We love our music apps, and the smartphones that made it commonplace to carry around advanced, diverse music functionality, rather than relying on a “dumb” iPod or waiting until you get back to your computer to try the cool stuff. However, phones are getting in the way of apps. Case in point: You’re listening to…

The camera that captured the first millisecond of a nuclear bomb blast

These are photographs of the first few milliseconds of nuclear explosions. They lead scientists to several new discoveries as to how nuclear bombs worked. But how do you capture the first millisecond of a nuclear bomb? With several rapatronic cameras, a Kerr cell, and a little physics. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, every…

Intel’s mobile platform is finally catching up to its PC’s with the new 22nm Bay Trail chip due out later this year.

Try as she might, 2-year-old Kayla just can’t reach the moon

Poor Kayla. No matter how hard she tries the moon just sits there — tauntingly — just beyond her reach. It’s a daily ritual that her father decided to finally capture on video, much to our benefit. This video, which was published to YouTube on Friday, has already attracted close to a half-million hits, and…

Asus Padfone Hands On: A Sleek Two-For-One Device That Makes You Pay for Both

If it were sold without its tablet dock, you might give the Padfone phone a second look all on its own. It’s really pretty, after using it for a few minutes, it’s just as powerful and smooth as any other flagship Android phone coming out, like the Optimus G Pro or the HTC One. The…

DC would like you to know Robin is gonna die this week in Batman, Inc.

My apologies for the lack of a spoiler warning, but DC has gone out of its way to let comics fans know that, if they pick up Grant Morrison’s Batman, Inc. #8 this Wednesday, they will read about the death of Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne’s assassin-trained son and the current Robin. The news was announced…

Panasonic’s New Sensor Captures 3D Images With a Single Lens

Using similar techniques that enable the Nintendo 3DS to display 3D images without the need for special glasses, Panasonic has developed a new image sensor that can capture 3D stills and videos without the need for multiple lenses. Using lenticular lenses and a layer composed of digital micro lenses to further focus the light hitting…

Good day for commitment-phobes—Virgin and Boost have both added LTE handsets to their pre-paid lineup.

Web TV service Aereo is expanding to 29 counties, including those in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Movie: The Movie 2V recreates The Avengers starring armless Bryan Cranston, Jessica Chastain and CG Matt Damon

Last year (after the Oscars) Jimmy Kimmel created a film that would sweep the Academy Awards starring black Hitler. A year later, Kimmel has pieced together a sequel to that amazing 9-minute trailer, “based on a tweet by Gary Busey and the best-selling board game Jenga.” Behold the trailer for Movie: The Movie 2V https://gizmodo.com/movie-the-movie-starring-bryan-cranston-chewbacca-an-5888613…

Asus Fonepad: The 7-Inch Phone That You Never Ever Asked For

This is Asus’s Fonepad. Not to be confused with the Padfone. It’s a 7-inch tablet that also makes calls. https://gizmodo.com/the-asus-padfone-has-finally-come-of-age-5986665 It runs on Jelly Bean and has a 1280 by 800 pixel display. It’s the same size and same resolution as Google’s Nexus 7 tablet. It also doesn’t have a back facing camera, because Asus…

The Asus Padfone Has Finally Come of Age

Asus has just announced the latest version of its previously awkward Padfone—but this time round, it seems that the hardware might live up to previous promises. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-padfone-lets-it-all-hang-out-5952089 The new device—which allows you to dock a smartphone into a bigger screen to create a tablet, just like the older versions—certainly delivers on specs. The phone offers…

That time the Russians designed a hovercraft so insane we had no clue what the hell it was

In the first spy photographs, an enormous beast reared up out of the Caspian Sea, a metal monster studded with jet engines and spewing a mighty spray of water behind it. The United States called it the Caspian Sea Monster, and that wasn’t far from the truth. In the mid-1960s, the Soviets were testing something…

Samsung Confirms the Galaxy IV’s Coming March 14th

There have been rumors that Samsung’s new flagship Galaxy phone was not one for Mobile World Congress, but would instead have its own gala on March 14th. We’d heard reports earlier today confirming the date, but now Samsung has made it social media official. Get ready. https://gizmodo.com/report-the-galaxy-s-iv-is-definitely-being-announced-o-5985135 At Mobile World Congress, Samsung Electronics’ mobile division…

Report: Barnes & Noble Might Give Up on the Nook (Updated)

According to the New York Times, struggling bookmonger Barnes & Noble might be about to shelve its Nook. The problem is one more common to physical books than tablets: nobody’s buying them. The Nook’s not going to disappear entirely, even if Barnes & Noble disengages from the hardware side of things. The company’s instead considering…