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Google Has Some Surprising Tips for Lessening the Horror of Black Friday Shopping

Google crunched its data on store traffic patterns and came up some tips on how to reduce the horror of Black Friday shopping madness, should you dare to hit the mall on Friday. You should actually go shopping in the morning. While the popular image of Black Friday is a mob banging on the gates…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern Nov 27

My Google Alert for “Hoverboard” Is Officially Ruined

I have Google Alerts for everything. Whenever an article is posted with terms like “flying car,” “time capsule,” and yes, “hoverboard,” I get a notification. But today I can call my Google Alert for “hoverboard” officially worthless. Just take a look at this story from The Irish News. How exciting! Inventors finally made the hoverboard…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 27

Meet the First Person Who Realized Star Wars Would Change the World

We’re mere weeks from a new Star Wars movie, and excitement is in the air. Although it’s easy to romanticize the humble origins of one of the most iconic movie franchises in history, what people thinking in the run up to the original Star Wars film? Well, reading this recently discovered Fox studio memo might…

Movies James Whitbrook Nov 27

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

American Gizmodo readers have made it through another Thanksgiving, and for international readers, it’s a regular old Friday. What’s going on? If you live in America, today is Black Friday, an orgy of shopping, deal-hunting and generalized chaos. Or maybe you skipped out on all that and saw a movie or slept in with a…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern Nov 27

HOLD EVERYTHING. Is Ecto-Cooler Coming Back?!

Global warming. Overpopulation. Dwindling resources. A Trump candidacy. There are countless reasons to fear the future, but today, there may also be a reason to have hope: Coca-Cola has re-registered the trademark for Ecto-Cooler. For you poor souls that don’t remember this Ghostbusters-themed Hi-C flavor, Ecto-Cooler was the greatest non-alcoholic beverage on the planet. It…

io9 Rob Bricken Nov 27

A Broken Toilet in Space is a Special Brand of Horror

Astronaut Fred Gregory is the front-runner for Worst Thanksgiving Ever. His tale of a plumbing failure while on the zero-g toilet resulting in a very personal depressurization under a gushing torrent of freezing oxygen still makes us cringe over a decade later. This story takes during STS-33, a classified flight space shuttle Discovery in November…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Nov 27

Legends of Tomorrow Could Bring Back A Beloved DC Hero

And that’s not the only wild rumor about DC TV crossovers today. Plus a few new details about The Force Awakens emerge. Jeph Loeb talks about why we’ve heard nothing about the Iron Fist Netflix show. And Steven Moffat teases the big challenge of this week’s unorthodox Doctor Who. To me, my Spoilers! Star Wars:…

Television James Whitbrook Nov 27

London’s New Bridge For Pedestrians Solves a Common Problem With Clever Engineering

It’s by design that most modern cities grew up around rivers or coastlines. But today, those bodies of water pose problems for thousands of commuters who’d prefer to ride or walk–and cities are developing new infrastructure to bridge them. Leading the way are countries like Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, which have all developed really…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 27

Turn Your Head Into a Hydrox With a Custom Cookie Cutter

Oreo’s on a mission to create a flavor that will appeal to every last person on the planet. But its efforts can’t come anywhere close to the level of personalization that a custom cookie cutter shaped like your head and face allows. Etsy shop Copypastry—which earns bonus points for its clever name—will turn a photo…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 27

This Light Show in Tokyo Is Bewilderingly Pretty

Every year, the Caretta Plaza in Tokyo is adorned with an impressive light show to mark the end of another 365 days. This time, over 270,000 LEDs are being used to create an elaborate six-minute audiovisual light show that you can see in these images. These pictures show the frankly amazing structure, with its so…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 27

Morning Sun Transforms this Landscape into an Optical Illusion

Steeply-angled sunlight creates a muddled mystery of which terrain are mountains or valleys in this early-morning scene. Only snaking fog shrouding the river reveals the secrets of the inverted topography. Fog hides the Thanlyin River in western Yunnan Province, China. It simultaneously identifies where the bottom of the valley is, untangling the illusion of up…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Nov 27

PlayStation 4 Remote Play Coming to the PC Desktop

A quite amazing piece of technology that’ll have lapsed gamers stunned by what’s possible nowadays is on the way from Sony, with one of its development heads confirming that the Remote Play functionality is coming to PC. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida, one of its most prolific tweeters, made the admission online, posting that: “Some people asked…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Giz Nov 27

The World’s Largest Radio Telescope Dish Is Taking Shape Like a Giant Puzzle

Within a year, the world’s current largest single-dish radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, will lose its title. It will instead be usurped by this: the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang County, China. As you can see in this photo taken on November 26th, the construction is well…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Nov 27

[Correction] Huge Piece of SpaceX Debris Washed Up in UK

A piece of the disposable fairing from a SpaceX launched washed up on the UK coast. While original reports identified it as part of the SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that exploded catastrophically shortly after liftoff in June, closer investigation reveals it’s part of a successful cargo run from September 2014. The original version of this…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Nov 27

These Amazing Immersive Models Help Scientists Understand the Structure of Forests

Tropical forest are large, complex and easy to get lost in—which isn’t helpful if you’re trying to study them. Now, scientists are using these amazing immersive mathematical models to understand the intricacies of tree canopies around the world. The team, from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, has been using sphere packing models to approximate…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 27

Scientists Can Now Establish Your Gender From a Fingerprint

Fingerprints may be unique, but without an existing record they can’t help identify a person. Now, though, researchers can use chemical analysis of the prints to identify the gender of whoever left them behind. A team of researchers from the University at Albany has developed a technique which uses the chemical composition of a fingerprint…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 27

This Satellite Image Looks Like Some Kind of Impossible Staircase

This mind-bending image looks like something out of Inception, but in fact it’s a view of fields in the south Khartoum area of Sudan. How the hell do they grow anything on that? Just joking, of course: while the fields may look like a Penrose staircase, we are actually looking straight down at the land,…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Nov 27

Amazon Will Give You a Year’s Unlimited Online Storage for $5

If you need some cloud-based storage in which to squirrel away your files, Amazon has just announced a tempting option: for a limited time, you can snag its unlimited online storage for $5. The company is cutting the price of a subscription to its unlimited Cloud Drive option, which allows you to back up anything…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe Nov 27

The Next Big War Will Be Digital—and We’re Not Ready For It

In the 21st century the familiar form of warfare in which physical damage is meted out against the opponent’s military forces and infrastructure has become only one form of attack. Instead, states are increasingly launching non-lethal attacks against an enemy’s information systems – this is the rise of information warfare. Dan Kuehl of the National…

Privacy & Security David Stupples Nov 27

OnePlus Will Refund Customers Who Bought Its Flawed USB-C Cable

The reversible USB-C cable and charger that OnePlus sells for its OnePlus 2 smartphone is very good at charging that particular phone. But as a Google engineer pointed out, it’s not up to spec for all USB-C devices. In a statement, OnePlus acknowledged the problem, but restated that its cable works perfectly well with its…

Tech News Chris Mills Nov 27

Google Has Some Surprising Tips for Lessening the Horror of Black Friday Shopping

My Google Alert for “Hoverboard” Is Officially Ruined

Meet the First Person Who Realized Star Wars Would Change the World

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

HOLD EVERYTHING. Is Ecto-Cooler Coming Back?!

A Broken Toilet in Space is a Special Brand of Horror

Legends of Tomorrow Could Bring Back A Beloved DC Hero

London’s New Bridge For Pedestrians Solves a Common Problem With Clever Engineering

Turn Your Head Into a Hydrox With a Custom Cookie Cutter

This Light Show in Tokyo Is Bewilderingly Pretty

Morning Sun Transforms this Landscape into an Optical Illusion

PlayStation 4 Remote Play Coming to the PC Desktop

The World’s Largest Radio Telescope Dish Is Taking Shape Like a Giant Puzzle

[Correction] Huge Piece of SpaceX Debris Washed Up in UK

These Amazing Immersive Models Help Scientists Understand the Structure of Forests

Scientists Can Now Establish Your Gender From a Fingerprint

This Satellite Image Looks Like Some Kind of Impossible Staircase

Amazon Will Give You a Year’s Unlimited Online Storage for $5

The Next Big War Will Be Digital—and We’re Not Ready For It

OnePlus Will Refund Customers Who Bought Its Flawed USB-C Cable

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