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Add wasabi to your broccoli for a cancer-fighting boost

If you’re a spicy food fan, take heart as combining certain piquant foods with broccoli may give the vegetable a much more powerful cancer-fighting kick. In its raw form, broccoli has a substance called myrosinase inside it, which converts to sulforaphane when eaten. But if it’s cooked for more than a four minute steam, it…

io9 Tim Barribeau Sep 16

I Really Want This Shape-Shifting Sofa

I love sofas. I love them for siestas, for reading, for playing games, for eating breakfast by the window, for cunnilingus and other fun activities. Sofas are one of my favorite things. And the Cay Sofa looks like a dream. Created by Alexander Rehn by dividing surfaces and linking them through ingeniously placed hinges, the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 16

Charlaine Harris Explores Love and Sex with Vampires in Episode 44 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, basis of the hit HBO series True Blood, joins us to discuss wrapping up the series, her oddest fans, and whether or not vampires poop. Photograph from Charlaine Harris’ cameo on the True Blood series. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and…

io9 Johnjosephadams Sep 16

The Share-A-Watt Is a Travel Power Strip for Cafe Cassanovas

You’re at the cafe and you battery is toast but, as usual, every last power outlet is filled. Why beg for time on an outlet like a schmuck when you can ask that cute redhead in the corner if you two can double up using the Share-A-Watt? The Share-A-Watt mini-power strip incorporates two grounded AC…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 16

Google Wants to Help You Avoid Stupid, Annoying Multiple Page Articles

Of all the first world problems that rattle our sensitive, effete internet brains each day, having to click between pages in a long article ranks high. It’s eats up time! And Google agrees—so it’s serving up one-page views. Google gets the tedium of multi-page navigation—which also make good reads harder or impossible to Instapper—so it’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 16

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Pits Thousands of Orks Against One Chainsword

In the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine video game, you’re the best of the best, a genetically modified supersoldier wearing incredible armor and wielding incredible weapons. This is a third-person shooter/hack and slash action game, but beyond that it’s a great military sci-fi story. If you’re already a fan of the Warhammer 40K universe, there’s really…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Sep 16

The Star Wars Collection Is Your Force-Powered Deal of the Day

Captain’s log, star date 9550.4: 10 Star Wars games appear to be available as a bundle on Steam for $50 (which is half off its normal $100 price), likely because anyone sane realizes that a Vulcan-free game isn’t worth a penny more than that (sidenote: Jedis were always a cheap ripoff of Vulcans in my…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Sep 16

PHD Comics is coming to a theatre near you!

If you’re a grad student, were once a grad student, know a grad student, or just enjoy hearing about all the crap that grad students have to go through, and you haven’t read Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher and Deeper Comics (aka PHD Comics), then you should probably just skip work early and go do that…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 16

The mysterious disappearance (or not) of the physicist who discovered neutrons (or not).

In 1938, Ettore Majorana boarded a ship to Naples, and never got off at the other end. Since then people have been debating what happened to the physicist, and whether or not he had a larger part in the history of physics than he’s given credit for. Enrico Fermi, the brilliant physicist who developed the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 16

The Dark Knight Rules: Amazing Batman Desktop Wallpapers!

Batman: The Brave and the Bold comes back tonight, and we’re raising the Bat-signal on your desktop to celebrate. There is nothing cooler than having the Dark Knight on your computer screen, protecting your machine from the scum of Gotham City. We combed through hundreds of Bat-themed desktop wallpapers online, to find just the most…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 16

Did Breaking News Just Get Hacked? (Updated)

@BreakingNews, the massively popular Twitter feed that is often the first to tip us off about earthquakes, explosions, and other matters of import, looks like it got its butt hacked screwed up. Minutes ago, the account beamed out a strange tweet: “@BreakingNews Compare all three versions of the Pentagon Papers and see what the US…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 16

The Amazing Story of How Sgt. Dakota Meyer Rescued 36 Soldiers Under Heavy Fire

That guy having a beer with the President is Dakota Meyer. He works in construction now, but on September 8, 2009, he was a corporal in the US Marines. That day he saved 36 guys under heavy Taliban fire. His act of selfless heroism has made him the first alive US Marine to receive the…

Tech News President Barack Obama Sep 16

Whoops, I Broke Belkin’s Site

Earlier I posted about Belkin’s half-off-everything sale and that ended up smashing their servers into tiny little unresponsive bits. Sorry about that Belkin. https://gizmodo.com/belkins-got-a-crazy-half-off-everything-sale-today-upd-5841057 Belkin is currently experiencing an influx of 100,000 more visitors clicking on the site than usual. They are currently working to get the site back up. Also the sale runs through…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Sep 16

The Piggy With the Dragon Tattoo Trailer Is the Movie I Want to See This Holiday Season

There are three films I’m going to see this holiday season: The new Muppets movie, David Fincher’s Girl With the Dragoon Tattoo and the new new Muppets movie directed by David Fincher. https://gizmodo.com/finally-a-legit-muppet-movie-trailer-5813672 Sadly, the latter is just a spoof of Fincher’s new film trailer made by the Muppets people. I say sadly because I…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 16

Could Pluto be home to a hidden liquid ocean?

Surface temperatures on Pluto are around -230C, making the likelihood of a liquid ocean on the dwarf planet’s surface more than a little unlikely. In fact, scientists have long assumed that Pluto’s surface is covered mostly with ice. What goes on beneath that ice, however, is something of a mystery. Now, scientists have calculated that…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 16

The Seabreacher is the orca cyborg / submarine / speedboat you’ve been saving up for

If you saw the Seabreacher tearing around the waters of your local beach or bay, you’d probably assume that the killer whales had finally initiated their global coup and gone fully bionic. But you’d be wrong. (For now at least.) Because the Seabreacher is actually a supercharged watercraft that is part submarine, part speedboat, and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 16

10 Self-Confessed Sins of Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton, as well as being a brilliant mind that split the difference between advancing and inventing physics as we know it, was very religious. When he was in his first year at Cambridge, he kept a debtor’s ledger of the sins that he’d committed as a child. Read about the most shameful acts and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 16

No, You May Not Use My Earbuds

Have you ever had someone ask you to borrow your earbuds? It’s gross, right? I typically say yes, but I’m always skeeved out, and reach for the alcohol wipes afterward. Bottom line: earbud sharing is not acceptable social behavior. Here’s an example. Most of the Gizmodo staff is in New York. I’m based in San…

Tech News Mat Honan Sep 16

Jedi Kittens Strike Back!

You’ve seen the Jedi Kittens A New Hope, now watch Jedi Kittens Strike Back! The adopted baby cats are back and they’re riding X-WINGS! https://gizmodo.com/jedi-kittens-makes-the-whole-week-worth-it-5834711 The filmmakers note: “No Cats were harmed – in fact they were rescued. Meow.”

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 16

Why Does This Car’s GPS Mock French People?

Stereotypes: vicious, unfair, and hurtful. And perpetrated by malicious onboard guidance systems like this one, which assumes you’re a Francophone just because you make the nasally laugh-moan of a Frenchman cliché. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, voiture vilain. I’ve been to France, friends. And let me tell you—they don’t make this noise in…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 16

Add wasabi to your broccoli for a cancer-fighting boost

I Really Want This Shape-Shifting Sofa

Charlaine Harris Explores Love and Sex with Vampires in Episode 44 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Share-A-Watt Is a Travel Power Strip for Cafe Cassanovas

Google Wants to Help You Avoid Stupid, Annoying Multiple Page Articles

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Pits Thousands of Orks Against One Chainsword

The Star Wars Collection Is Your Force-Powered Deal of the Day

PHD Comics is coming to a theatre near you!

The mysterious disappearance (or not) of the physicist who discovered neutrons (or not).

The Dark Knight Rules: Amazing Batman Desktop Wallpapers!

Did Breaking News Just Get Hacked? (Updated)

The Amazing Story of How Sgt. Dakota Meyer Rescued 36 Soldiers Under Heavy Fire

Whoops, I Broke Belkin’s Site

The Piggy With the Dragon Tattoo Trailer Is the Movie I Want to See This Holiday Season

Could Pluto be home to a hidden liquid ocean?

The Seabreacher is the orca cyborg / submarine / speedboat you’ve been saving up for

10 Self-Confessed Sins of Isaac Newton

No, You May Not Use My Earbuds

Jedi Kittens Strike Back!

Why Does This Car’s GPS Mock French People?

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