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Stop Censoring the Names of Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Dickens and Other Penis Named People Please

A cable company in the UK had a bit of a snafu with a super strict censoring system in its TV guide over the weekend. They were asterisking Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Dickens, the soccer team Arsenal, the movie Hancock and any other name or title that had a penis or butt related word in it.…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 19

Quickly Kid-Proof Your House for the Holidays

If you don’t have kids, there are probably knives, prescriptions drugs, poison, and electronics lying everywhere. But now the family is coming to visit with something that could destroy everything you love: Children. Before you call your mommy blogging friends to tell them I hate children, just chill out for a second. Kids are awesome…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Dec 19

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Neutrinos—in Less Than Two Minutes

Goddamn. How can you not love Minute Physics? This week, Henry Reich explains a family of particles that are the talk of the physics world: neutrinos! Neutrinos have been in the news a lot lately. Remember that experiment at CERN where scientists claimed to observe particles travelling faster than light? Those were neutrinos. But since…

Physics & Chemistry Michael J Kennelly Dec 19

These Letters of Wannabe Space Explorers Broke My Heart

I love these letters sent to the American Museum of Natural History by wannabe space explorers from the 1950s. They are so wonderfully naive and full of hope, some of them really funny, others quite sad in hindsight. People sent these letters to the Museum’s Hayden Planetarium when it “began accepting reservations for the first…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Dec 19

If IBM Has Its Way, This Is What Tech Will Look Like in Five Years

Mind Reading. Power harvesting. No more passwords. The Death of spam. Technology for everyone. These are five thing IBM believes are the future. Not 50 years in the future, but more like five years in the future. IBM’s annual 5 in 5 list is not just another collection of whimsical predictions. Each item in their…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 19

Our Drone Pilots Are Burning Out

Three years ago, a Navy study showed UAV pilots were suffering from the stresses of their job. Three years later, nothing has changed—and that’s very bad news. The Air Force study, Reuters reports, says that 17 percent of US-based drone pilots are showing signs of “clinical distress”—an ambiguous but unsettling diagnosis. The pilots are understaffed…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 19

Cocaine Levels Found In the Air Connected to Crime Levels and Cancer

Scientists can now accurately detect drugs floating in the air. They also have found statistical relationships between atmospheric cocaine levels and certain types of cancers, as well as a connection between marijuana levels and mental disorders. Are illegal drugs really floating in the air? Yes. Researchers have been able to find illegal drugs in the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 19

Kim Jong-il Was Schizoid; Is His Son Too?

Kim Jong-il, the former supreme leader of North Korea who died on Saturday of cardiac arrest at 69, was known for his quirks, including an obsession with Elizabeth Taylor. But scientists say his idiosyncrasies added up to some serious diagnoses. Specifically, a team of scientists in 2009 diagnosed Mr. Jong-il as sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic,…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Dec 19

Gizmodo Is Looking for Editorial Fellows In New York

Hello Internet! We’re looking for some Editorial Fellows in our New York office. We’re pretty demanding of our fellows, but in turn, you will learn a lot about this whole professional blogging enterprise. So, the ideal candidate is someone who’s looking at a career in media, but fairly geeky too. Oh, and you must be…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 19

Weather Underground: For the Weather Nerd in All of Us

Whenever a conversation hits a lull, it’s usually the topic of the weather that starts it back up again. Weather affects us all. And let’s face it, the pre-installed Yahoo weather app on the iPhone is pretty much worthless. Instead of trusting the weather that’s based on what the local airport is reporting, Weather Underground…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Dec 19

HTC Android Phones Are Being Banned from the US Next Year

Whoa. Apple just won a big court victory against HTC that could force HTC to stop selling its Android phones in the United States. The United States International Trade Commission ruled that HTC was infringing on an Apple patent that effects HTC Android devices running Android 1.6 to 2.2. The devices that may be banned…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 19

After the Apocalypse is one of the most powerful tales of the near future you’ll read this year

Maureen McHugh’s latest short story collection, After the Apocalypse (Small Beer Press), is a dark look at what the next century might hold for ordinary people. Known for intense, character-driven work in novels like China Mountain Zhang and Nekropolis, McHugh makes even the most extraordinary circumstances feel as real as blood. These nine stories take…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Dec 19

Self-Fulfilling Gifts for the Forever Alone

Maybe you have a very lonely friend who spends his days claiming he’s allergic to Vitamin D and then spends his nights going on dates on Second Life and partying in online forums. Or maybe you’re that person. Either way, those forever alone types need extra attention during the holidays. Here are the gifts you…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 19

AT&T’s Doomed T-Mobile Bid Is Dead

AT&T’s highly controversial $39 billion bid to become the biggest carrier in the United States by swallowing T-Mobile is over, eight months after it started. Here’s what AT&T says about dropping the deal: The actions by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block this transaction do not change the realities of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 19

Who Owns Your Phone’s Privacy? My Email Chat with Carrier IQ

Last week, some ominous news regarding the FBI’s involvement with Carrier IQ surfaced. Carrier IQ, having had its fair heap of godawful press, was quick to shoot me an email clarification. What followed doesn’t help its case. It began with a simple note from Mira Woods, who works in “Marketing Communications” for Carrier IQ: Just…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle Dec 19

The Man Who Wore a Maxi Pad and Changed the World

Fast Company weaves an amazing story about Indian inventor Arunachalam Muruganantham, who lost his wife, friends, and, well, almost everything in his quest to build a better sanitary napkin by wearing one himself—along with a goat blood-filled bladder. After learning his wife (along with the overwhelming majority of women in India) couldn’t afford a sanitary…

Health Mat Honan Dec 19

How to kill cockroaches by offering them sex

Researchers who synthesized an artificial sex pheromone have just discovered that it’s most useful application so far is . . . killing cockroaches? Female cockroaches, specifically the wood cockroach Parcoblatta lata, communicate their willingness to mate by releasing a hormone that can travel long distances to attract males. A research team from North Carolina State…

io9 Sophie Bushwick Dec 19

These Seemingly Floating Stairs Belong In a Dalí Painting

Casa C-51, by Spanish architect studio Ábaton, is a nice home. My favorite part is the stairs, designed to kill toddlers and/or make you feel like David Bowie in Labyrinth. [Abaton via Mocoloco]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 19

Which of Your Friends Has Star Quality? As in, an Actual Star Up in Space?

Tagging people in Facebook photos makes for superhappyfuntimes. But using your tagging powers to bestow an honor such as the one Gizmodo is posing via the Patrón IF Tag site is way more fun than your basic photo tag. So here’s the scenario: You’re geeking out with your new telescope and discover a star that…

Tech News Sponsored post Dec 19

Brad Bird tells us how it feels to throw Tom Cruise out of a 1,717-foot building!

Yes, it’s true. Tom Cruise did all his own stunts on Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — including running around on top of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. We interviewed MI:4 director Brad Bird one on one, to find out just how they managed to throw Tom Cruise out of a building, and which…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 19

Stop Censoring the Names of Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Dickens and Other Penis Named People Please

Quickly Kid-Proof Your House for the Holidays

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Neutrinos—in Less Than Two Minutes

These Letters of Wannabe Space Explorers Broke My Heart

If IBM Has Its Way, This Is What Tech Will Look Like in Five Years

Our Drone Pilots Are Burning Out

Cocaine Levels Found In the Air Connected to Crime Levels and Cancer

Kim Jong-il Was Schizoid; Is His Son Too?

Gizmodo Is Looking for Editorial Fellows In New York

Weather Underground: For the Weather Nerd in All of Us

HTC Android Phones Are Being Banned from the US Next Year

After the Apocalypse is one of the most powerful tales of the near future you’ll read this year

Self-Fulfilling Gifts for the Forever Alone

AT&T’s Doomed T-Mobile Bid Is Dead

Who Owns Your Phone’s Privacy? My Email Chat with Carrier IQ

The Man Who Wore a Maxi Pad and Changed the World

How to kill cockroaches by offering them sex

These Seemingly Floating Stairs Belong In a Dalí Painting

Which of Your Friends Has Star Quality? As in, an Actual Star Up in Space?

Brad Bird tells us how it feels to throw Tom Cruise out of a 1,717-foot building!

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