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Chipotle’s E. coli outbreak is a mystery—and will likely always be one. But in their food safety meeting today, Chipotle has reportedly identified the culprit in its other norovirus outbreak: sick Chipotle employees. CNBC just reported the update from inside the nationwide restaurant meeting that shutdown all Chipotle’s simultaneously today. But just what does Chipotle’s…
Here’s a really neat animation that reveals how a chainsaw works. The piston inside powers the three-row shark teeth chain of blades at 70mph! We get to see how the hundred of parts come together in this dissection animation and even cooler, get to see the manufacturing process of the all-important guide bar of a…
Living in New York can be a real bag of garbage sometimes. There’s the actual garbage, the mounds of snow covered in dog poo, the defunct phone booths dudes use like urinals, and worst of all, the unreliable data service underground. The indignity! Subspotting, a new app available exclusively for iOS, can’t do anything about…
Last year Playmobil revealed its first official hockey line featuring actual teams from the NHL, but disappointingly it was limited to just the league’s original six franchises. A year later, the toymaker is finally introducing 12 additional teams to help fill out your kid’s miniature league. Joining the Bruins, Blackhawks, Red Wings, Canadiens, Rangers, and…
With his 2017 budget heading to Congress this week, President Obama has been busy making policy announcements. While an oil tax and autonomous vehicle plan are getting all the attention, a smaller element of the budget will have much greater impact: a proposal to make sure all Americans have access to clean, safe water. After…
Throw a fistful of almonds into the air, folks. El Niño did it—we’re now at our lowest level of drought since 2010. But that doesn’t mean the drought is over yet, not even close. NOAA just put out its new State of the Climate report and, although we’ve had a very warm and dry winter…
The alleged terrorist who blew himself up on a Daallo Airlines plane last week hid his bomb inside a laptop, according to Somali officials. The man, identified as 55-year-old Abdullahi Abdisalam Borle, is believed to have been handed the laptop by two men posing as airline workers at the Mogadishu airport. The explosion in midair…
Instead of only churning out figures for the latest blockbuster film to hit theaters, NECA has been recently digging deep into the nostalgia archives. Following up on Home Alone and Contra figures, the company just teased an official “Weird Al” Yankovic figure on its Twitter feed. Aside from a single image of the upcoming “Weird…
Everything is usually way cooler in slow-motion. An amazing football catch, a kick-ass movie fight scene, a gravity-defying skateboard trick—but apparently that logic doesn’t apply to some dude sticking his tongue in a loaded mouse trap. If you don’t cringe in horror when watching this, then you’re not human. You can’t help but feel a…
During Alphabet’s earnings call last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent several minutes talking about virtual reality, saying that Google Cardboard, the company’s low-cost approach to VR, was “only the first step” towards much broader goals in the space. Now, a report from the Financial Times claims that Google’s next step is closer than we…
The White House is asking Congress for $1.8 billion to combat the Zika virus, both within the United States and abroad. This request is a heartening sign that the Obama administration is taking Zika seriously—but don’t worry, it’s not a sign that the US is bracing itself for a local mass outbreak. Reuters reports the…
Unless targeted at collectors who are happy to pay a premium for details and accuracy, toy versions of exotic sport cars rarely bear more than a passing resemblance to their real-life counterparts. So what happened here, because Playmobil’s Porsche 911 Carrera S is a near flawless replica. The Playmobil brand only dates back to 1974,…
As entertaining as the internet can be, who has time to read all of it? Even employing the services of a read-it-later app such as Instapaper or Pocket can make catching up on articles difficult. What you need is a dedicated reading device, free from social media pings, email alerts, and other distractions—and that’s where…
Remember how one of the UK’s intelligence agencies set a fiendishly difficult quiz right before Christmas? Well, now it’s published the answers, so you can stop scratching your head. https://gizmodo.com/can-you-solve-the-uk-intelligence-agencys-christmas-puz-1747265899 GCHQ, the agency which set the puzzle, claims to be “delighted with the interest shown” in the puzzle but notes that “no-one found the four…
Happy Super Bowl hangover! I hope you like Qdoba. Chipotle’s pre-planned, nationwide shutdown for a food safety meeting will delay the opening of over 400 restaurants. That means that your local Chipotle will open at 3pm instead of the normal 11am. Though Chipotle scheduled the meeting in mid-January, the timing is quite fortuitous. Exactly one…
Anyone can toss a TV and some speakers together and call it a home theater. But like many who’ve gone before him, Imgur user tylerfulltilt went above and beyond the call of duty with a custom setup that pays homage to the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. All said and done the room conversion took…
LSTN isn’t your average audio company. The Los Angeles-based enterprise turned head a couple years ago when it started selling sleek wood and chrome headphones. Now, LSTN is expanding into the world of Bluetooth speakers with a very lovely box named Apollo. https://gizmodo.com/buy-these-headphones-help-a-deaf-person-hear-826414149 The $300 Apollo Bluetooth speaker is beautiful. Let’s make that much clear.…
Around the world, cities are choking on smog. But a new AI system plans to analyze just how bad the situation is by aggregating data from smartphone pictures captured far and wide across cities. The project, called AirTick, has been developed by researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, reports New Scientist. The reasoning is…
Late last year, the Indian government temporarily banned Facebook’s free Basics program over net neutrality concerns. Now, it’s banned for good. A new regulation issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India bans more than just Facebook’s offering: The ruling bans zero-rated internet services altogether. In simpler terms, that means that services which allow users…
This is what a US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter looks like from a distance as it strafes the night sky: A graceful curve of light with only arcs of sparks to reveal that it’s actually spewing ammunition. This long exposure shot was taken during an exercise called Eager Centaur which took place in an…
