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Here Are Some Bad Tweets From Tech Investor Chris Sacca

Dang. Chris Sacca, tech investor and noted Guy Who Throws Tantrums At Hamilton Shows, made some bad tweets, as tech investors often do. Let’s check em out. Wow! As normal people like you and me understand, being an olympic gold medal winner is a lot more difficult than coding an app. But, you may be…

Tech News William Turton Aug 10

Brave Man Gives Up Phone, Wants to Borrow Yours

Ugh. Technology can be stressful, am I right? Even though we’re living in the age of convenience (“internet of things,” et cetera, et cetera) some people want to get analog and abandon their smartphones. I’m totally OK with that! (Depending on my mood, I might even be a little jealous.) But much like “Why I’m…

Tech News Eve Peyser Aug 9

Ashton Kutcher and Peter Thiel Team Up to Defend Airbnb From Regulation

Isn’t regulation a pain in the ass? Airbnb sure seems to think so. Both houses of the the New York State Legislature passed a bill that would fine New York City residents up to $7,500 for renting out their apartments on Airbnb. Even though it’s been illegal in New York City to rent out your…

Tech News Eve Peyser Aug 9

Piltdown Man Hoax Was the Work of a Single Forger, Study Says

Piltdown Man is one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history. A new paper in Royal Society Open Science provides compelling evidence that there was just one forger, rather than many. Also, the bones used to create the fakes came from a single orang-utan specimen and at least two human skulls. “The people at…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette Aug 9

This SpaceX Rocket Launch and Landing Footage Is Unsettlingly Close

Usually we see rocket launches from far, far away, but SpaceX just released a compilation of extremely close-up camera views from their recent rocket launches and landings that is maybe a little too close for comfort. The video features high speed footage from the company’s recent Falcon 9 launches in December of last year as…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Aug 9

Fuck This Tweet

Last week I happened upon a very bad tweet and it’s been haunting me ever since, filling me with a quiet and persistent rage I can only release through the art of the written word. From the deranged mind of Silicon Valley’s Balaji Srinivasan—member of the board of Andreessen Horowitz and CEO of some Bitcoin…

Tech News Eve Peyser Aug 9

NASA Wants to Build These Six New Prototype Deep Space Houses

Someday, perhaps we will have a little space house all of our own, over whose white picket fence we can watch the sun(s) set into the red sky over our exoplanet ranch. Until then, these six new prototype deep space habitat designs that NASA just released will have to do. Six deep space habitat projects…

Tech News Ria Misra Aug 9

Fox Is Making a Movie About the De-Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth

Author Ben Mezrich is no stranger to finding a cool story and seeing it become a movie. He wrote the books that got turned into The Social Network and 21, and now his upcoming work has already been picked up by Hollywood. It’s about the potential return of the woolly mammoth. Mezrich’s upcoming book is…

Movies Germain Lussier Aug 9

Barry Allen Screwed Up The Flash‘s Timeline So Bad He Forgot He Had Powers

Good job, Barry. We keep getting information about the ways in which the new timeline and the old timeline in The Flash will be different. There are the big changes, obviously. But the fact that it didn’t take Barry’s powers away but did make him forget them? Is kind of a problem. Grant Gustin, Bambi…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Aug 9

A Solar Flare Almost Sparked a Nuclear War in 1967

On May 23rd, 1967, the United States Air Force scrambled to ready nuclear missile-laden aircraft for deployment. Radar systems designed to detect incoming Soviet missiles had just been disrupted, in what the military perceived to be an act of war. But before any nukes were launched in retaliation, it seems Air Force command was told…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Aug 9

Watch a Sewage Truck Explode Even Though You Probably Don’t Want To

I’ve always thought that as long as no one died, all explosions were cool. Turns out I’m wrong. Very wrong. A sewage truck exploding on the street is a terrible thing because, well, shit flies everywhere. One second you’re waiting for the light to turn green in a pristine white SUV, and the next, you’re…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 9

Wolverine 3 Is Probably Patrick Stewart’s Last X-Men Movie, Too

Wolverine 3 won’t just be the swan song for Hugh Jackman’s take on Wolverine—apparently it’ll be the last time his co-star Patrick Stewart takes on the Xavier mantle, too. Speaking to British reporters earlier today about the film, due out next year, Patrick Stewart noted that it will likely be the last time he plays…

Movies James Whitbrook Aug 9

Space Is Great

As a teenager, when my teachers asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them I wanted to write for the New Yorker. (Close enough!) Now that I’ve finally hit adulthood, I have a different answer to that question: I want to do space stuff, because space is fucking…

Space & Spaceflight Sophie Kleeman Aug 9

Officials Don’t Know Why the Olympic Diving Pool Turned Green [Update: They Maybe Figured It Out]

As the women’s synchronized diving teams took to the pool in Rio de Janeiro today, they were greeted by a strange sight. The diving pool had turned green overnight, while the neighboring water polo pool remained a crystal clear blue. This confused the Olympic organizers, media, and the internet profusely. Long story short: it’s most…

Tech News Darren Orf Aug 9

It’s Paul Giamatti Versus an Artificial Human in This Tense Clip from Scifi Horror Film Morgan

In an extended clip from Morgan—about a synthetic human who turns violent, thanks to the organic humans around her—we get a closer look at a scene from the very intriguing trailer. Paul Giamatti plays a doctor whose psych evaluation of the title character (The Witch’s Anya Taylor-Joy) turns spooky, fast. Watch the trailer, linked above,…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Aug 9

Seltzer Water Sucks

A lot of good and decent people like seltzer water. My friends like seltzer water, people I love dearly enjoy gulping down the fizzy drink that is sometimes flavored. I am here to deliver a devastating truth. Seltzer water is very bad. In fact, I would go as far as to say that seltzer water…

Tech News William Turton Aug 9

Here’s What the Lost Boys From Hook Look Like 25 Years Later

In 1991, Steven Spielberg told us what happened when Peter Pan grew up. The film, Hook, was a big hit and garnered a huge legion of fans who saw it as kids. It hasn’t aged too well, to be honest, but these photos will make you either insanely nostalgic or incredibly depressed. Hook’s actual 25th…

Movies Germain Lussier Aug 9

A List of Terrible Story Ideas My Editor Won’t Let Me Write

Ugh! Me so stupid! All I had to do was come up with some good ideas for Gizmodo’s Senior Week, and I went and fucked the whole thing up. The task was pretty simple: We were supposed to pitch the stories “we’ve always wanted to write” and spend the whole week “doing whatever the hell…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 9

Weed Candy Wreaks Havoc on San Francisco Quinceañera

San Francisco police are investigating an incident at a quinceañera that sent 19 people, including a six year old, to the hospital after they unknowingly ate marijuana-laced gummies. Sadly, it’s not an isolated incident—and it’s a problem that’s only getting worse. The incident happened on Saturday in San Francisco’s Mission District and highlights a growing…

Health George Dvorsky Aug 9

Once Upon a Time, a Nerd Became Obsessed With True Crime and Tales of Horrible Murder

I blame Nancy Drew. I think my obsession with true crime may have started with her mysteries—specifically, those hardbacks with the yellow covers, in which the young detective pieced together inheritance scams while dodging kidnappers and car thieves. But it may have also begun with a 1986 TV movie about Ted Bundy. It was probably…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Aug 9

Here Are Some Bad Tweets From Tech Investor Chris Sacca

Brave Man Gives Up Phone, Wants to Borrow Yours

Ashton Kutcher and Peter Thiel Team Up to Defend Airbnb From Regulation

Piltdown Man Hoax Was the Work of a Single Forger, Study Says

This SpaceX Rocket Launch and Landing Footage Is Unsettlingly Close

Fuck This Tweet

NASA Wants to Build These Six New Prototype Deep Space Houses

Fox Is Making a Movie About the De-Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth

Barry Allen Screwed Up The Flash‘s Timeline So Bad He Forgot He Had Powers

A Solar Flare Almost Sparked a Nuclear War in 1967

Watch a Sewage Truck Explode Even Though You Probably Don’t Want To

Wolverine 3 Is Probably Patrick Stewart’s Last X-Men Movie, Too

Space Is Great

Officials Don’t Know Why the Olympic Diving Pool Turned Green [Update: They Maybe Figured It Out]

It’s Paul Giamatti Versus an Artificial Human in This Tense Clip from Scifi Horror Film Morgan

Seltzer Water Sucks

Here’s What the Lost Boys From Hook Look Like 25 Years Later

A List of Terrible Story Ideas My Editor Won’t Let Me Write

Weed Candy Wreaks Havoc on San Francisco Quinceañera

Once Upon a Time, a Nerd Became Obsessed With True Crime and Tales of Horrible Murder

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