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An iPhone 4 Survived a Year at the Bottom of a Lake

If you’ve ever submerged your phone in liquid, you know the utter devastation that follows immediately afterward, during which you alternately shake your fist at yourself and the offending liquid. One guy, however, got lucky. Buzzfeed has a remarkable tale of a man, his iPhone 4, and a very cold lake. Pennsylvania resident Michael Guntrum…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Nov 23

What Made the Cat Afraid of the Mouse?

It’s that time again: we go into the British Museum’s public domain Flickr page, pick out an image that strikes us, and ask you to explain what happened. Today’s case: The terrified cat.

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Nov 23

Hackers Were Stealing Credit Card Data From Madison Square Garden for Almost a Year

The Madison Square Garden Company just disclosed that someone had access to its payment processing system for almost a year. That means all data included on the magnetic stripe of your credit card—like credit card numbers, cardholder names, expiration dates, and internal verification codes—could have been stolen. The breach not only affects Madison Square Garden…

Privacy & Security William Turton Nov 23

Let’s All Laugh at How Garbage CGI Was in the ’90s

Even if there is too much CGI in movies these days (and there is), let’s be thankful that the CGI we’re bombarded with looks good. Or, at least, it looks so much better than the utter crap computers spat out back in the ‘90s. God, that era of CGI was awful. Diane Bullock edited together…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 23

The Government Wants to Cripple Your Smartphone When You’re Driving

US regulators want to limit what you can do with your smartphone while you’re behind the wheel. Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published its first safety guidelines regarding driver distraction, targeting portable and aftermarket devices (a.k.a. smartphones) or other gear you that you connect to your car. The guidelines, which are part…

Tech News Christina Warren Nov 23

What’s the Geeky Obsession You Share With Your Family?

This is the time of year where many of us make the trek home to spend some quality time with family. And while that can be a nightmare, we want to know what it is you share with your family. My brother and I, for example, love the shit out of British panel shows. I…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Nov 23

Grab Gizmodo’s Sexy New T-Shirt Before Facebook Shuts Us Down

If it's good enough for Zuck, it's... Well, it's good anyway.

Social Media Alex Dickinson Nov 23

Even the Joker Can’t Save an Underwhelming Episode of Telltale’s Batman Game

For the past three months, game development studio Telltale has delivered shocking, clever twists in each episode of their Batman video game. But despite the appearance of the Dark Knight’s archenemy, that doesn’t happen in this week’s episode four of Batman: The Telltale Series. Episode Four of the newest Bat-game begins a short time after…

io9 Evan Narcisse Nov 23

A Crazy Miscalculation Doomed the Schiaparelli Lander

The European Space Agency has released new information about the crash of the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander. Soon after the deployment of its parachute, the lander made a miscalculation so bad that it thought it was below the Martian surface, when in reality was still two miles high. The ESA’s investigation into the crash is far…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Nov 23

We Finally Know How Cyclops Died

The mystery of what happened to Scott Summers has hung over the X-books ever since Marvel’s “All-New, All-Different” universe kicked off late last year. All we knew was that he died, creating a whole mess of a situation between the Inhumans and the X-Men. But the truth is a lot weirder than you might have…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 23

The Flash’s Greatest Enemy This Season Isn’t a Supervillain

The Flash has a big problem this season—and it’s not the evil speedster Savitar, or the machinations of Doctor Alchemy. It’s Barry Allen himself. Last night, the show finally started addressing it, but too much damage may have already been done. The problem with Barry Allen, and thus The Flash TV series, is that everything…

Television James Whitbrook Nov 23

Here’s a Livestream of President Obama Pardoning His Last Turkey

Pardoning turkeys is a White House tradition which helps remind birds that Americans can both give life and take it away. America hasn’t seen a single case of murder committed by a turkey since the tradition began. And President Obama will keep that spirit alive when he pardons his last turkeys at 2:45pm ET/11:45am PT…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 23

Filming the New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Sounds Downright Exhausting

Jonah Ray is getting to live out every nerd’s fantasy by becoming the new host of Mystery Science Theater 3000. And that passion is clearly needed given how much work goes into each episode. In an in-depth interview with the Los Angeles Times, Ray and Joel Hodgson talk about a whole mess of things fascinating…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Nov 23

Totally Silly Animation Brings Random Objects to Life By Drawing Cute Faces on Them

Here’s a dopey animation from Sean Charmatz that imagines a world where every random object has a cute face. That means soup dumplings cling on to the paper when they get picked up, marshmallows enjoy a satisfying dip in hot chocolate, a glass pane closes its eye while getting washed, a Post-It note gets accidentally…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 23

10 Ways to Trick Out Your Android Home Screen

One of the advantages of choosing a shiny new Android phone over those Apple handsets is the extra scope for home screen customization. If you’re stuck for inspiration or wondering how to get started, here are 10 ways of tricking out your home screen and other parts of the Android OS. 1) Load up a…

Gadgets David Nield Nov 23

Mad Shelia Is the Chinese Mad Max Ripoff of Your Dreams

We still don’t know when, or if, we’re going to get another chance to see Imperator Furiosa on the big screen. But, in the meantime, at least there’s Mad Shelia. Not Mad Max. Mad Shelia. That’s the title, and presumably main character, of a pretty obvious Mad Max ripoff film out of China. We don’t…

Trailers Germain Lussier Nov 23

Amazon Is Trying to Make Black Friday a Thing in Europe For Some Reason

If you ask someone in Europe about “Black Friday,” it will likely conjure up images of a stock market crash instead of a shopping day. But that hasn’t stopped Amazon from trying to make the American shopping tradition a thing on the other side of the Atlantic. As the Wall Street Journal notes, Amazon is…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 23

Thunderstorm Triggers Freak Asthma Outbreak in Australia, Killing Four

Four people are dead and another 1,870 people had to be treated for shortness of breath when a rare condition known as “thunderstorm asthma” struck the Australian city of Melbourne earlier this week. It sounds weird, but thunderstorm-induced asthma is actually a thing. As the Associated Press is reporting, a storm rolled through Melbourne this…

Tech News George Dvorsky Nov 23

Marvel’s New Secret Warriors Are an Inhuman Dream Team

Oh god, a book featuring two of the brightest and happiest Inhuman characters teaming up with a guy who currently goes around making various parts of people’s bodies violently explode? This can only end brilliantly. As part of its ongoing announcements of new Inhumans-based books for Marvel’s Ressurxion roster, Comic Book Resources has revealed a…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 23

Your Dog Remembers All Those Awful Things You Did

Ever wonder if your dog recalls those times you were were a really shitty owner? The latest science shows they most certainly do. A new study published in Current Biology shows that dogs, like humans, can recall prior events, even when those events weren’t particularly important or meaningful at the time. This suggests that dogs…

Tech News George Dvorsky Nov 23

An iPhone 4 Survived a Year at the Bottom of a Lake

What Made the Cat Afraid of the Mouse?

Hackers Were Stealing Credit Card Data From Madison Square Garden for Almost a Year

Let’s All Laugh at How Garbage CGI Was in the ’90s

The Government Wants to Cripple Your Smartphone When You’re Driving

What’s the Geeky Obsession You Share With Your Family?

Grab Gizmodo’s Sexy New T-Shirt Before Facebook Shuts Us Down

Even the Joker Can’t Save an Underwhelming Episode of Telltale’s Batman Game

A Crazy Miscalculation Doomed the Schiaparelli Lander

We Finally Know How Cyclops Died

The Flash’s Greatest Enemy This Season Isn’t a Supervillain

Here’s a Livestream of President Obama Pardoning His Last Turkey

Filming the New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Sounds Downright Exhausting

Totally Silly Animation Brings Random Objects to Life By Drawing Cute Faces on Them

10 Ways to Trick Out Your Android Home Screen

Mad Shelia Is the Chinese Mad Max Ripoff of Your Dreams

Amazon Is Trying to Make Black Friday a Thing in Europe For Some Reason

Thunderstorm Triggers Freak Asthma Outbreak in Australia, Killing Four

Marvel’s New Secret Warriors Are an Inhuman Dream Team

Your Dog Remembers All Those Awful Things You Did

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