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What Really Happens When You Swallow Your Gum?

You’ve heard the warnings: If you swallow gum, it will stay in your digestive system for nearly a decade. Which would mean there’s a decent chance you’ve got some hanging out in your gut right now. If you look at its ingredients—a delicious mix of indigestible compounds—it certainly seems possible. And if you look at…

Health Rachel Swaby Apr 24

Distracted Girl On Cellphone Plunges Into a Sinkhole

We’ve seen people take some serious spills because they’re all walking and talking or texting and not paying attention, but what happens to this poor girl is just horrible. That had to hurt. https://gizmodo.com/girl-falls-on-her-face-while-texting-during-live-news-5885775 The teenage girl in the video above was walking quickly down the street, enraptured by her conversation. She was so caught…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 24

In 1958, America accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon on two little girls’ playhouse

For certain rural residents of the Carolinas during the Cold War, apocalyptic anxiety hit disturbingly close to home. In 1958 and 1961, the American Air Force lost nuclear weapons over the skies of South and North Carolina, respectively, raining potential apocalypse on the folks below. In both incidents, complete catastrophe was avoided thanks to that…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 24

An Anti-Catcalling App Is a Silly Way to Waste $20,000 of Government Money

Nobody likes sexism or the obnoxious jerks who jeer women walking down the street. But there’s a pretty good chance that New York’s new $20,000 “research” investment in an app to report offending males might not be the best way to do something about it. According to the Daily News, New York politicians just greenlighted…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 24

Flexible Solar Panels Stack Cells on Sheets Printed Like OLEDs

Solar panels are finicky devices—they have to be specially mounted, angled, and presented with the precisely correct environmental conditions to function at capacity. The complexities make it hard for the technology to gain mainstream appeal. A German startup could change all that with flexible solar cells built using OLED production techniques. Developed by Heliatek in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 24

Google Is Selling Hardware Again

Even though Google failed miserably and shut down the old Google phone store, it looks like they’re giving it one more go. Right now, Google is selling an unlocked Galaxy Nexus that works on both AT&T and T-Mobile for $400 on Google Play. https://gizmodo.com/okay-googles-new-way-to-sell-a-phone-is-a-failure-nex-5539189 It’s being sold in the new ‘Devices’ section of Google Play.…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 24

Stylish Vac Compresses Your Dirt Into Easily Disposable Cubes

Gtech’s AirRam cordless vacuum certainly has the looks to challenge Dyson’s rein over the industry. But it actually manages to one-up its competition with a neat system that turns the dirt you suck up into tiny dust-free bales that are even easier to dispose of. On a full charge the AirRam’s lithium-ion battery is good…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 24

Mysterious Rainbow River of Pills Appears In China

This sewer runs along Zhengshang Road, in Zhengzhou, China. On April 21st, the strangest thing happened overnight: it got covered with pill capsules. Pill capsules everywhere, gazillions of them, turing the water into a gross soup of colorful molecules. Nobody knows how this happened. There are no pharmaceutical factories nearby. Months ago, there was a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 24

Childhood Violence Causes Premature DNA Ageing

People sometimes quip that children who have a tough time growing up are old beyond their years. New research, however, suggests that could be literally true: children who have suffered violence at a young age, it appears, actually suffer from premature ageing of their DNA. At the end of all the chromosomes found in our…

Health Jamie Condliffe Apr 24

It’s Official: Planetary Resources Unveils Plans for Asteroid-Mining

A recently announced space venture backed by James Cameron, Google executives, and others isn’t scheduled to formally announce its plans until later today, but as of late last night, the news is official: Planetary Resources, Inc. is fixing to do some asteroid-mining. Here’s everything we know about the venture so far. https://gizmodo.com/is-james-camerons-next-big-venture-asteroid-mining-5903345 This is big…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 24

Will the IKEA TV Be as Hard to Assemble as Conan’s Parody Is?

IKEA recently broke into the consumer electronics industry with the launch of its Uppleva TV set. Most of us have probably experienced the pain and suffering that can go along with assembling IKEA products. The team at Conan is no different, and their parody ad illustrates the logical conclusion of the IKEA do-it-yourself tradition. Look…

Tech News Michael Hession Apr 24

If You Tweet and Delete Your Crimes You Will Still Go To Jail

Everyone screws up and occasionally tweets something they shouldn’t. Thanks to services like Topsy, deleting your 140 character flub has never been a foolproof way of erasing your misdeed, but we always thought it was good enough to keep us from getting busted. Now a judge says even deleted tweets can be used against you…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar Apr 24

This Video Has a Frightful Secret That Only Your Digital Camera Can See

To the naked eye this video looks like nothing but a TV screen covered in colorful random static. But there’s a secret message hidden in there that only your digital camera can reveal. Specifically, your digital camera with adequate manual controls so you can set your f-stop to 5.6 and your shutter speed to one…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 24

North Korea Might Blow Up a Nuke Very Soon

North Korea, not wanting to look like a bunch of inept jerkoffs who can’t enter a space race that’s already over, is desperate. The putzy new Glorious Leader looks weak. The solution? Blow up a nuclear bomb to scare the world. https://gizmodo.com/north-korea-defies-the-world-and-launches-menacing-rock-5901325 Reuters is reporting, based on an informed “source,” with “close ties to Pyongyang…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 24

Android Trojan Can Track Your Keystrokes Using Motion Sensors

Smartphones work very hard to keep your keystrokes secure, but now there’s a new way for malware to get at them. Researchers at IBM and Penn State have developed a new kind of trojan that tracks what you type into your phone using only your phone’s motion sensors. TapLogger is the app they’ve put together…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24

New Brave trailer and footage shows off Pixar’s rebellious princess

The latest trailer (and clip) for Pixar’s Gaelic fantasy Brave fleshes out the larger backstory behind this adorable ginger family of Scottish royals. This is the first time we get a good look at Merida and her family’s world, and it’s not the fancy Cinderella palaces audiences may be used to. Behold the beauty of…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Apr 24

The Most Detailed Images of Polar Ice Cap Thickness Yet

In 2010, the European Space Agency launched Cryosat, a spacecraft designed to monitor changes in the shape and thickness of polar ice on Earth. It’s taken the scientists behind the project some time to crunch through all the data—but they’ve managed it, and the new images offer an unprecedented view of the state of our…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Apr 24

Tiny Skis for Wheelchairs Tackle Snow With Ease

The small and thin front wheels on a wheelchair or stroller might roll easy on hard surfaces, but on snow and ice they sink right in like a hot knife through butter. So a Swedish inventor has created a simple ski accessory that lets smaller wheels easily slide over frozen conditions. The Wheel Blades—created by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 24

Anyone Wants This Original Apollo XI Mission Patch Flown the Moon?

This original Apollo XI mission patch actually flown to the Moon by Michael Collins will be for sale this Thursday. It’s signed by Collins, Aldrin and Armstrong. It’s printed in Beta cloth—the fireproof silica fiber cloth used in Apollo space suits. Above the patch you can read “Carried to the moon aboard Apollo XI, July…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Apr 24

New G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer pistol-whips the rest of summer’s blockbusters

Holy crap, does G.I. Joe: Retaliation look like the kind of movie that requires you to sneak a bottle of rye into the theater and scream at the screen at the top of your lungs. (That’s a good thing!) So many quips, so many guns, and all sorts of ridiculous high-tech gadgetry. This is the…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Apr 24

What Really Happens When You Swallow Your Gum?

Distracted Girl On Cellphone Plunges Into a Sinkhole

In 1958, America accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon on two little girls’ playhouse

An Anti-Catcalling App Is a Silly Way to Waste $20,000 of Government Money

Flexible Solar Panels Stack Cells on Sheets Printed Like OLEDs

Google Is Selling Hardware Again

Stylish Vac Compresses Your Dirt Into Easily Disposable Cubes

Mysterious Rainbow River of Pills Appears In China

Childhood Violence Causes Premature DNA Ageing

It’s Official: Planetary Resources Unveils Plans for Asteroid-Mining

Will the IKEA TV Be as Hard to Assemble as Conan’s Parody Is?

If You Tweet and Delete Your Crimes You Will Still Go To Jail

This Video Has a Frightful Secret That Only Your Digital Camera Can See

North Korea Might Blow Up a Nuke Very Soon

Android Trojan Can Track Your Keystrokes Using Motion Sensors

New Brave trailer and footage shows off Pixar’s rebellious princess

The Most Detailed Images of Polar Ice Cap Thickness Yet

Tiny Skis for Wheelchairs Tackle Snow With Ease

Anyone Wants This Original Apollo XI Mission Patch Flown the Moon?

New G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer pistol-whips the rest of summer’s blockbusters

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