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This Is How Bad the Flu Is This Year

Everyone you know is sick, or getting sick, or they’ve become a lifeless husk of human skin full of flu germs where there was once organs and bones and blood. Don’t believe it? Check out Google’s influenza tracker, which shows just how massive this year’s spike is. Google’s Flu Trends tracks certain search queries to…

Asus Claims the Title of World’s Smallest Wi-Fi Router

Amongst all of its Windows 8 PCs and tablet announcements at CES, Asus also quietly revealed what it’s boasting as the world’s smallest Wi-Fi router. And with a form factor only slightly larger than a well-equipped flash drive, the WL-330NUL Pocket Router is the perfect accessory for minimalist road warriors. Weighing in at just 25…

This awesome sci-fi short reminds us even aliens are subject to robot uprisings

There’s not a lot I can say here without spoiling it, but if you have six minutes I highly recommend you watch this short sci-fi video, R’ha, made almost entirely by 22-year-old Kaleb Lechowski. It centers on the eternal struggle between robots and aliens, and it’s got fantastic animation, amazing sound and is essentially just…

Community reveals the Dean’s first scheme of the new season: The Hunger Deans

We’ve been starring at this shot of the Dean, Jeffery and a pair of manly little ponies for months. And now, we finally know what they mean, thanks to this brand new clip from the new season of Community We’re super excited, especially since it means there’s going to be a Hunger Games/Community mash-up in…

NASA says NGC 6872 is the largest spiral galaxy ever discovered

Located about 212 million light-years from Earth, the massive spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has been known to astronomers for decades. But it wasn’t until a recent survey of nearby star-forming regions that NASA scientists realized just how big it truly is. New data shows that, from tip-to-tip across its two outsized spiral arms, this galaxy…

DeLand’s Paradox is an illusion that can “disappear” a whole person

Let’s say you are cornered by your worst enemy. They will kill you, but being an oddball enemy, they’ll give you one request first. (And the request can’t be “Don’t kill me.” They’re on to that one.) I have a solution for you. Ask them to show you how DeLand’s Paradox works. That will keep…

Turn Your iPad Into a DJ Station With Two Turntables and Some Suction Cups

iPad docks featuring a set of compact turntables for DJs who like to travel light are nothing new. But ION Audio has come up with a small collection of suction-cuppable accessories that turn the iPad itself into a pair of decks and a mixer on the cheap. Serious turntablists will probably want to stay well…

Watch the first-ever footage of the giant squid in its natural habitat

For the first time ever, researchers have captured video of a live giant squid in its natural habitat. The complete footage won’t air until later this month, but the video up top gives us a tentacular taste of things to come. https://gizmodo.com/researchers-have-captured-the-first-ever-video-footage-5974152 And for those of you thinking “wow, these clips would work perfectly as…

Ketchup Squeezing French Fry Containers Will Surely Revolutionize Fast Food

Besides the menu options, the uninspired design of the ketchup packet has to be one of the worst parts of the fast food experience. So designers Hwandong Lee, Myung Gyu Kim, Nari Lee, and Taeno Yoon tasked themselves with coming up with a better solution, and now that the world is aware of the Ketchup…

This Is How Hiroshima Looked From the Ground

This picture, found in a Japanese Elementary School, depicts the mushroom cloud which formed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was taken just minutes after the bomb fell, from the location where modern-day Kaita is situated, six miles east of Hiroshima’s center. On the back of the photo (click above to…

Reuters has withdrawn its story on Phil Schiller’s denial of a cheaper, smaller iPhone. Well that sure clears things up!

Reports of the demise of Robopocalypse and FX’s Powers may have been exaggerated!

A Kickass star might face off against Godzilla. The Falcon actor Anthony Mackie talks up Captain America: The Winter Soldier. ABC could someday have its own Star Wars TV show. Plus photos for Catching Fire, The Host, and Jack the Giant Slayer! It’s spoilers all the way down! Top image from Captain America. Captain America:…

Tour Stanford’s Stunning New Concert Hall Through the Eyes of a Quadcopter

Stanford University’s got itself a fancy new concert hall opening tomorrow. And to give the world a sneak peak at the building—without having to open the doors to the public and interrupt the last minute work going on—the school sent a camera-equipped quadcopter soaring through the space. The footage will not only have you drooling…

You Can Send a Message to Zuckerberg’s Inbox (For $100)

If you have something you feel you desperately need to tell Mark Zuckerberg, now might be a real good time. For the handsome sum of $100, you can send a message to Mark’s Facebook inbox, without being automatically sent to spam. How nice. Mashable reports that Facebook is actually trialling a new spam filtering technique:…

BlackBerry users are suffering a major outage in the UK—and perhaps beyond. [Reuters]

Use This Webapp to Find Out If Your iPhone Apps Are Spying On You

Bitdefender’s Clueful, once an iOS app in its own right that Apple apparently took offence to, is now back as a webapp. Use it to find out if your apps are spying on you, storing your personal information, and sending it anywhere you might not want them to. Essential for the paranoid; interesting for the…

You can now get Chrome Beta on Android: faster, newer features… and the occasional bug. Take your chances? [Google]

Would You Crowd-Source Your Email to Save Time?

We’re all busy and getting busier, which doesn’t fit well with a list of unread email that refuses to stop growing. Now, though, a team of researchers has developed a crowd-sourced email valet system—but would you share your inbox to streamline your life? New Scientist reports that academics from Stanford University have developed a new…

The Science of Building a Space Gun

The idea of firing objects into space from a cannon was first hinted at by Newton, and has been seized upon by many a sci-fi writer since. But what’s the science behind the idea like—and could we ever launch payloads into space using the technique? In this video, astronomer Scott Manley takes a look at…

Nokia’s Xpress Browser Decrypts Your HTTPS Data

It’s come to light that Nokia’s Xpress Browser—used on its Asha and Lumia handsets—routes your secure and encrypted HTTPS data through its servers and temporarily decrypts it. GigaOm reports security research which reveals that Nokia’s browser passes data to its servers—nothing odd there, it’s a proxy browser designed to speed things up—but that, at stages,…