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War, as structured state-sponsored fighting and dying, has given rise to venerated professions to manage its risks…

Is Jonathan Franzen trolling us?

In the past day you may have seen the internet lighting up with appreciations for the writer and neurologist Oliver…

An epidemic. A vaccine-induced scourge. A curse. Or: The reason Steve Jobs was so focused. The thing Bill Gates had…

This essay by Julian Assange is taken from the introduction to The Wikileaks Files: The World According to the US…

It was exhilarating to be back in the game again, a 20-year-old college dropout with stock options, working at the…

For more than century, humans have imagined building colonies on Mars, and now settling the Red Planet is no longer…

Once upon a time you didn’t just use the internet, you were a “nethead” who “surfed the web” and “sailed data…

The following excerpt is from The Boy Who Played with Fusion by Tom Clynes. The book, released today, tells the…

We’re big fans of xkcd here at Gizmodo (who isn’t?), and also of learnin’ about things, so we’re pretty excited for…

The darknet is often sensationalized as a digital haven for crooks, perverts, freaks, and anarchists, but it’s also…

The night Hurricane Alicia struck Houston in the summer of 1983, shattering high-rise windows downtown and stacking…

I have heard rumors about this website, but I still cannot quite believe that it exists. I am looking at what I…

Neal Stephenson, author of the acclaimed novels Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Anathem, is here to talk about his…

The following excerpt is chapter one from Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Seveneves. Stephenson is also the author of…

As robots in the workforce proliferate, will our automated future lead to a glorious age of leisure or a new class…

Perhaps the most important thing to understand about a future in which your car is fully autonomous is that it probab…

We all have at least one question about the formidable bed bug: How do I avoid having this goddamned pest infest my…

When you think of paper clips, you immediately think of a specific form—the familiar round-ended, double-loop…