Dec 29SaveNews12/29/20News12/29/20Google Is Testing a "Short Video" Carousel That Would Surface Instagram and TikTok VideosBrianna Provenzano1SaveGoogle is reportedly testing a new mobile search feature that would surface TikTok and Instagram videos in their own…
Nov 23SaveTwitter11/23/20Twitter11/23/20Twitter Will Now Warn You Before You Like a Tweet Containing Misleading InformationBrianna Provenzano8SaveExpanding upon an existing feature that warns users who attempt to retweet content that has already been flagged as…
Dec 10 2018SaveGiz Asks12/10/18Giz Asks12/10/18What's the Most Dangerous Food of All Time?Daniel Kolitz173SaveSurveying the whole scope of human history vis-à-vis food, a couple of themes emerge. One is that humans like their…
Dec 3 2018SaveGiz Asks12/3/18Giz Asks12/3/18What Happens When Two Black Holes Collide?Ryan F. Mandelbaum51SaveOn September 14, 2015, signals from one of the Universe’s most mind-boggling, powerful events produced the tiniest…
Nov 21 2018SaveMovies11/21/18Movies11/21/18How Fantastic Beasts Failed at Representation, and What J.K. Rowling Can Do About ItKatharine Trendacosta247SaveI come not to bury J.K. Rowling, but to praise her. Harry Potter was an honest to god phenomenon, impacting my…
Nov 8 2018SaveHealth11/8/18Health11/8/18These Men Ate Poison So You Could Have the FDAKim Kelly89SaveIf you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the U.S. in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what…
Oct 22 2018SaveDeath10/22/18Death10/22/18How the Universe EndsRyan F. Mandelbaum365SaveSomewhere between a second and a millennium from now, you will die. Your body and all of its parts will cease…
Oct 19 2018Save10/19/18100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know ItGizmodo Staff633SaveThe World Wide Web is officially old enough for us judge what it’s produced. That’s right, it’s time for the world…
Sep 17 2018SaveGiz Asks9/17/18Giz Asks9/17/18Is Breakfast Cereal Any Good for You?Daniel Kolitz113SaveWrangle up the right studies and you can make anything look deadly. Breakfast cereal—at least, the kind without…
Aug 22 2018Save8/22/18Meet the Nuclear Weapons NerdsPaddy Johnson44SaveJohn Coster-Mullen was driving his truck to a warehouse in Oshkosh, Wisconsin when he told me that he owns uranium.…
Aug 21 2018SaveComputers8/21/18Computers8/21/18What Will Quantum Computer Games Be Like? Ryan F. Mandelbaum73SaveYou’ve just booted up a game on a state-of-the-art quantum computer. You’re running 19 superconducting quantum bits…
Aug 16 2018SaveDesign8/16/18Design8/16/18Next-Gen Baggies Are Transforming Legal WeedJanet Burns194SaveAfter a recent trip to her local dispensary, my mom recalled how, when she was young, black-market cannabis was…
Jul 30 2018SaveConservation7/30/18Conservation7/30/18The Quietest Place in America Is Becoming a WarzoneBrian Kahn130SaveN 47.51575°, W 123.52133°—Amid the panoply of greenery that makes up the Hoh Rainforest, a gap in the old growth…
Jul 30 2018SaveGiz Asks7/30/18Giz Asks7/30/18Can You Get Sick From Air Conditioning?Daniel Kolitz133SaveAt the peak of summer, when just walking to and from the corner store necessitates a shower and a change of clothes,…
Jul 16 2018SaveGiz Asks7/16/18Giz Asks7/16/18How Many Nukes Would It Take to Send the Earth Spiraling Off Into the Sun?Ryan F. Mandelbaum101SaveThe modern age has brought one of the most nightmarish inventions in all of human history—the atomic bomb. These…
Jun 19 2018SaveHealth6/19/18Health6/19/18The Diabetes Cure That Most Insurance Companies Won't Pay forEd Cara167SaveFor 15 years, Erez Benari’s struggle with his type 2 diabetes had been a losing one. A software engineer at…
Jun 13 2018SaveAmazon6/13/18Amazon6/13/18On Amazon’s TimeBryan Menegus262SaveAt the beating heart of Amazon’s unstoppable ecommerce expansion is a very basic promise: jobs.
May 29 2018Save5/29/18How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came KnockingMatt Novak24SaveIt was a Friday evening in 1975, and Woody Wise was driving from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, with his two kids in…
May 28 2018SaveGiz Asks5/28/18Giz Asks5/28/18Are Plants Conscious?Daniel Kolitz76SaveAnimal rights activists have done stellar work in foregrounding the question of creature-consciousness: no…