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This Mercury-like planet is getting ripped to shreds by its sun

Astronomers using the Kepler space telescope have confirmed the discovery of a short-period super-Mercury planet that has entered the final stage of its life. The object has gotten so close to its parent star that it’s only taking 15.7 hours to orbit around it, while it’s surface temperature has risen to 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit. The…

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Poorly translated Indian James Bond comics are pure insane joy

You may remember that delightful batch of panels from dubiously translated Indian James Bond comics. Because there are few things more enjoyable than seeing the suave 007 enthusiastically jabber nonsense in life-or-death situations, here are some new scenes from his grammatically askew escapades. https://gizmodo.com/the-indian-james-bond-speaks-in-indecipherable-code-24-5615294 Related: Bootleg Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman battle an evil space wizard…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

A New Android Cop Show, From the Makers of Fringe

Could there be dueling police dramas about robots a year from now? Just a few weeks ago, NBC picked up a show about cops and robots from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Josh Friedman. And now, Fox has ordered a pilot for a show about android cops from J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman, one of…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

On a Backpack, Does a Vest Beat Straps?

A sturdy set of padded comfortable straps can make a world of difference when toting a heavy backpack. But o-range, an Italian bag maker, thinks it has come up with an even better solution—a wraparound vest that hugs your entire torso, instead of straps that just cling to your shoulders. When it’s available later this…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How to Look Like You Know What You’re Doing in the Great Outdoors

For those who want to pull off the whole “Grizzly Adams Wilderness He-Man” shtick, there are a few different methods available. You could cast off all of your earthly possessions, renounce corporate society, and go live in the woods (it will probably only take a few tries before you figure out which leaves should never…

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Kindle Paperwhite Hands On: What a Beautiful Screen

The Kindle Paperwhite’s screen is so awesome you wouldn’t believe it’s e-ink. Hell, I just saw it and I still don’t believe it. It combines the paper-like text of e-ink screens with the usability of LCD screens but none of the eye strain. No other e-reader even comes close to this right now. It’s not…

Commerce Casey Chan

Kindle Fire HD Hands On: Pretty Impressive—For the Price

The Kindle Fire HD is staggering on paper. In person, it’s… pleasant. Which would be an equation for disappointment if you forgot for a second just how cheap this thing is. Physically, the Fire HD is awesome. We only got to touch the 7-inch version, but the 8.9-inch is slim and beautiful too. The 7-inch…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

Star Wars and Game of Thrones give Fantasy Flight Games license to rule your gaming table

Fly the Millenium Falcon. Undermine the Lannisters. Destroy the One Ring. Here’s a look at the new Star Wars RPG, X-Wing miniatures game, the Game of Thrones card game, and other new releases from Fantasy Flight Games. Fantasy Flight Games has parlayed its reputation as purveyors of big ticket, high production value board games into…

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How the Kindle Fire HD Stacks Up to the Competition

Now that the Kindle Fire HD is out from under wraps, it’s time to start looking at how that TI OMAP 4470 chipset and 1900×1200 pixel screen compare to what the other notable tablets have to offer. So we lined up the specs of the original Kindle Fire, Google’s Nexus 7, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Mystery of the Pigtail in Space

Scientists have found a cloud of gas that has been twisted into a pigtail right in the center of our galaxy. It seems that we often find these massive “pigtails” in space. Want to find out why? Observing the sky with a radio telescope, researchers from Keio University found what they briefly called a giant…

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Would You Buy a 7-inch Kindle Fire HD or a Google Nexus 7?

Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD is hot. But the real question isn’t whether you’re going to go for the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD—It’s whether consumers will go after the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD or Google’s rad Nexus 7. Which sick $200 Android tablet would you buy? https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-hd-better-faster-cheaper-bigger-update-5941061

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This 3-D Projector Is Your Superhero-Sized-Screen Deal of the Day

Some people moan about the current generation of special effects driven action movies, but I think they’re just watching them on the wrong screen. Movies like The Avengers and Avatar demand huge screens, measured in feet, not inches. And you’ve got to see them in 3D. A small LCD or plasma TV won’t give you…

Tech News Kif Leswing

Seven-year-old girl contracts bubonic plague on Colorado camping trip

Pictured here is Sierra Jane Downing, a seven-year-old from Pagosa Springs, Colorado, alive and recovering after briefly succumbing to a nasty little bug by the name of bubonic plague. Have you heard of it? Of course you have — but you probably didn’t know people still contracted it. A few days after returning from a…

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Amazon’s Crazy New 4G LTE Plan Gives You 250MB a Month for $50 a Year (Updated)

Amazon surprised us by announcing a 4G LTE Kindle Fire today, along with the AT&T data plan: $50 a year gets you 250MB per month, 20GB cloud storage, and a $10 appstore credit. $30 more will get you 3GB, and $50 more will get you 5GB. However, your 20GB of cloud storage counts against your…

Commerce Leslie Horn

What Is MIMO?

At today’s Kindle Fire HD unveiling, Jeff Bezos claimed the Fire HD will download content up to 40 percent faster than either the iPad or the Nexus 7. Neat trick. But how will it pull it off? https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-hd-better-faster-cheaper-bigger-update-5941061 With a little something called MIMO. MIMO is a data transfer accelerant… Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) is…

Commerce Andrew Tarantola

Amazon’s X-Ray for Movies Knows What You’re Watching—And Who’s In It

So this feels like the future: Amazon’s X-Ray for Movies can tell what flick you’re watching on your Kindle Fire HD, and gives you every piece of information you could ever want about it every time you pause. Pretty incredible stuff. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-hd-better-faster-cheaper-bigger-update-5941061 The information is gleaned from IMDB (which Amazon conveniently owns), and pulls granular…

Commerce Brian Barrett

The Indestructible Concrete LED Lamp You’ll Own For the Rest Of Your Life

Tired of accidentally knocking your bedside lamp to the ground in the middle of the night? Not only is that incredibly difficult with this heavy concrete O-Lite lamp, it also means the odds of it breaking as it hits the floor are slim to none. Instead of a pesky cord, the lamp is powered by…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This dancing sodium is way more dangerous than it looks

Click the play button on the video above, and you’ll see a piece of sodium leaping over and over to get its (metaphoric) toes out of the water. It looks like a cute little experiment — but it’s not quite as safe as it looks. Find out why! You’d think that sodium would be right…

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Kindle’s New Whispersync for Voice Keeps Your Audiobooks Synced With Your Book Books

Like being read to? You’ll dig Amazon’s new Kindle feature, Whispersync for audio. Announced today at its shindig in L.A., it allows that going forward, audiobooks will sync up with your words-books, meaning you can read and listen along at the same time. Additionally, for the first time Amazon also revealed Whispersync for games, meaning…

Commerce Leslie Horn

Weird Secrets of The Avengers That You’d Never Have Guessed

You probably think you already know everything about The Avengers. After all, the Marvel superhero team-up movie had years of anticipation and build-up — which actually paid off, with a movie you probably saw more than once. But there are still secrets you’d never have guessed about Joss Whedon’s massive aliens-vs-heroes spectacle. With The Avengers…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This Mercury-like planet is getting ripped to shreds by its sun

Poorly translated Indian James Bond comics are pure insane joy

A New Android Cop Show, From the Makers of Fringe

On a Backpack, Does a Vest Beat Straps?

How to Look Like You Know What You’re Doing in the Great Outdoors

Kindle Paperwhite Hands On: What a Beautiful Screen

Kindle Fire HD Hands On: Pretty Impressive—For the Price

Star Wars and Game of Thrones give Fantasy Flight Games license to rule your gaming table

How the Kindle Fire HD Stacks Up to the Competition

The Mystery of the Pigtail in Space

Would You Buy a 7-inch Kindle Fire HD or a Google Nexus 7?

This 3-D Projector Is Your Superhero-Sized-Screen Deal of the Day

Seven-year-old girl contracts bubonic plague on Colorado camping trip

Amazon’s Crazy New 4G LTE Plan Gives You 250MB a Month for $50 a Year (Updated)

What Is MIMO?

Amazon’s X-Ray for Movies Knows What You’re Watching—And Who’s In It

The Indestructible Concrete LED Lamp You’ll Own For the Rest Of Your Life

This dancing sodium is way more dangerous than it looks

Kindle’s New Whispersync for Voice Keeps Your Audiobooks Synced With Your Book Books

Weird Secrets of The Avengers That You’d Never Have Guessed

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