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Party Tricks With Applied Physics

In our new Scientific Guide to Celebration, we’ll teach you how to harness the power of science for enhancing all your celebratory moments. Today, learn how to sneakily apply simple physics principles for startling results at your next party. https://gizmodo.com/impress-your-friends-with-your-super-powers-of-applied-1612629582

Tech News Mika McKinnon Dec 21

Venus Express Is Dead, Leaving The Planet Without Robot Explorers

Goodbye, Venus Express. You were a lovely satellite, and lasted far longer than we had any right to expect. With propellant totally exhausted and on a decaying orbit, the spacecraft is presumed dead, burnt, crushed, and mangled by the hostile environment of Venus. Top image: Artist’s concept of Venus Express blazing through the atmosphere during…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Dec 21

Game Of Thrones House Sigils, Made Out Of Lego

The Houses of Westeros have some pretty intricate sigils – but surprisingly they work rather brilliantly as little Lego sculptures, as Flickr user Omar Ovalle shows in this set of Game of Thrones Lego creations. They’re all interesting builds – some simple, like the Targaryen’s three headed dragon made up of parts from the Lego…

Tech News James Whitbrook Dec 21

Impress Your Friends With Your Super Powers (Of Applied Physics)

These parlor tricks were published by Hugo Gernsback back in the 1920s, but they’ve been around forever. They really do work and can be totally startling if no one has seen them before. A load of psychics (I almost typed “fake psychics,” but what’s the difference?) have used these gimmicks to prove something or other.…

io9 Ron Miller Dec 21

7 Wonderful Gadget Stories to Warm Your Holiday Heart

Technology is a great gift to give for the holidays. It can provide hours, and days, and weeks, of entertainment and even help inspire kids for a lifetime. Last week, I asked about great tech-centric memories during the holidays, and answers included everything from old transistor radios to MacBooks, consoles, and operating systems. These are…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 21

Mike Myers Returns To SNL As Dr. Evil To Bash North Korea, Sony

Mike Myers stopped by SNL last night to reprise his role as Austin Powers villain Dr. Evil, interrupting the show’s cold open to chastise Sony and North Korea for “giving evil organizations a bad name.” Love it. This whole thing’s pretty great, but *air quotes* “LaserDisc” killed me. [SNL]

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 21

BitTorrent Wants to Distribute The Interview

Every day, the Sony Pictures hack gets weirder and weirder. On Friday, Obama boldly announced that Sony had made “a mistake” in pulling the film but said it was the private company’s right to do so. In an interview earlier this morning, the Commander in Chief clarified that he saw the attacks as an act…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 21

Who Wouldn’t Want This Smart Snowboard for Christmas?

YouTube channel Network A is a lover of all things X Games—snowboarding, skateboarding, BMX, you name it. For their video series Every Third Thursday, Signal Snowboards, known for cool and atypical board designs, created the first open source programmable snowboard that can change music depending on the snowboarder’s orientation. The tinkerers wanted to make something…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 21

Fake Cop Instagram Account Gets an OK From NJ Judge

In October this year, a case came under legal scrutiny when a DEA agent created a fake Facebook account of Sondra Prince, even using photos of her and her young son and niece to create the digital forgery. Facebook denounced the action as a serious breach of its terms and policies. But Instagram, it seems,…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 21

Mike Myers Returns to SNL as Dr. Evil To Make Fun of North Korea

The Sony hack is now more confusing that ever. The FBI says that North Korea is involved, yet the country denies involvement and is asking for a joint investigation into the matter. The whole situation has devolved into a game of “he said/she said,” and there’s only one person who can help set it all…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 21

Holy Cow, This Rocket Raccoon Statue Is Over 6 Feet Tall

The last time I told you about a Rocket Raccoon statue, it was a mere three feet tall. This one? Double that. The Rocket Raccoon statue scale wars have been escalated. https://gizmodo.com/this-rocket-raccoon-is-3-feet-tall-made-of-foam-and-yo-1656096626 That said, this new statue from Section 9 Entertainment and Muckle Mannequins kind of cheats a bit – Rocket, who is life-sized at…

Tech News James Whitbrook Dec 21

The secret engine technology that made the SR-71 the fastest plane ever

On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers flew the first airplane ever at 6.8 mph (10.9 km/h). Only 61 years and five days later, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird took off. It’s still the world’s fastest airplane with a speed of 2,193 mph (3,530 km/h.) This fascinating video explains its top secret engine technology. A ground…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 21

5-year-old girl discussing Leia’s slave outfit with her dad is pure gold

Adam Buxton recorded a conversation with his 5-year-old daughter discussing her thoughts on Princess Leia’s famous slave outfit. She is hilarious by herself but when he got The Brothers McLeod to animate her words, it all turned into pure comedic gold. One of the cutest things I’ve watched this year. Dad: “But you wouldn’t want…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 21

Watch Freaks and Geeks, an Awesome Show From a More Peaceful Time

Remember Freaks and Geeks, the short-lived teen comedy produced by Judd Apatow before you knew who Judd Apatow was? The show starred Seth Rogen and James Franco some 15 years before the pair would help spark the international cyber-clusterfuck we know as the Sony Hacks. Forget about the hackers and just watch the show. If…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 20

Now THIS Is How The Legend Of Korra Really Should Have Ended

We loved the finale of The Legend of Korra, but there was one tiny thing that didn’t happen in the episode’s final moments that we were really hoping would happen. Fortunately, a fan animation has given us the moment we were missing. Spoilers ahead. So we were really hoping that the series finale would end…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 20

Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” Will Haunt You But That’s a Good Thing

“Take Me to Church,” the worldwide hit by Hozier, sounds like it’s about religion, but it’s not—not exactly. The song also sounds kind of haunting, but it’s not—exactly. As Hozier told New York Magazine earlier this year, the song is about sex and humanity. The church part is just a metaphor. To be honest, I’d…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 20

This Is How A Physicist Lights Up A Christmas Tree

In our new Scientific Guide to Celebration, we’ll teach you how to harness the power of science for enhancing all your celebratory moments. Today, learn how to deck a Christmas tree using the power of physics! Step 1: Build a nanoscale Christmas tree. Step 2: Zap it with a 35-femtosecond pulse from a terawatt-class laser.…

Physics & Chemistry Mika McKinnon Dec 20

Gingerbread Enterprise Boldly Goes Where No Biscuit Has Gone Before

Sorry, Gingerbread Serenity – your reign as première gingerbread starship may have come to an end, because this biscuity, holidays-themed U.S.S. Enterprise is pretty damn amazing. The beautiful Constitution Class bit of baking comes from Blackmarket Bakery in CA, who created it to display in their Costa Mesa store window. It’s a spectacular bit of…

Tech News James Whitbrook Dec 20

Legend Of Korra‘s Finale Again Proves It’s One Of The Best Shows On TV

Wow. The Legend of Korra really knows how to do a finale. There is so much to talk about between Kuvira and Korra’s final showdown, Team Avatar defending Republic City—and of course, that thing that happened at the very end. We’re sad to see this show go, but we’re delighted with the way it went…

Television Lauren Davis Dec 20

Report: US Wants China to Stop North Korean Hacks with “Blocking Action”

Well, this is a weird twist. Just hours after we learned that North Korea wanted to work with the United States on a joint investigation into the Sony Pictures hack, The New York Times is reporting that the U.S. now wants China’s help in stopping North Korean hackers. Apparently, U.S. officials want to unleash the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 20

Party Tricks With Applied Physics

Venus Express Is Dead, Leaving The Planet Without Robot Explorers

Game Of Thrones House Sigils, Made Out Of Lego

Impress Your Friends With Your Super Powers (Of Applied Physics)

7 Wonderful Gadget Stories to Warm Your Holiday Heart

Mike Myers Returns To SNL As Dr. Evil To Bash North Korea, Sony

BitTorrent Wants to Distribute The Interview

Who Wouldn’t Want This Smart Snowboard for Christmas?

Fake Cop Instagram Account Gets an OK From NJ Judge

Mike Myers Returns to SNL as Dr. Evil To Make Fun of North Korea

Holy Cow, This Rocket Raccoon Statue Is Over 6 Feet Tall

The secret engine technology that made the SR-71 the fastest plane ever

5-year-old girl discussing Leia’s slave outfit with her dad is pure gold

Watch Freaks and Geeks, an Awesome Show From a More Peaceful Time

Now THIS Is How The Legend Of Korra Really Should Have Ended

Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” Will Haunt You But That’s a Good Thing

This Is How A Physicist Lights Up A Christmas Tree

Gingerbread Enterprise Boldly Goes Where No Biscuit Has Gone Before

Legend Of Korra‘s Finale Again Proves It’s One Of The Best Shows On TV

Report: US Wants China to Stop North Korean Hacks with “Blocking Action”

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