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These Spherical Microphone Arrays Make Holographic Images of Sound

Imagine attending a live concert where the musicians aren’t even in the performance space. Instead, they’re 500 miles away, playing their hearts out, while a holographic sound image of the music is mapped and then recreated in the performance space for your listening pleasure. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s not, thanks to technology…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Every Frame A Painting Shows Why Ensemble Staging Is A Lost Art In Film

Tony Zhou is back with a new episode of Every Frame A Painting, this time looking at how directors can use ensemble staging to their advantage when it comes to conveying the story in a scene. He contrasts this with some of the current trends in directing, which often requires lots of cuts and closeups.…

Tech News Andrew Liptak

This Week’s Tech Rumors, Both Terrible and Truthful

The end of the year is always a quiet week for breaking news, with many companies writing off the last two weeks as kind of hybrid “holiday-vacation.” But rumors on the other hand, well they’re just warming. With the Consumer Electronics Show starting next week in Las Vegas, there’s plenty of hearsay out there. Also,…

Tech News Darren Orf

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

HAPPY NEW YEARS! 2016. Exciting times. Lots of great things could happen. The future is a blank slate. I have about 24 different New Years resolutions that I’m sure will last at least a week or two. Gizmodo is flying out to Las Vegas for CES. Anything you guys excited for or would like us…

Tech News Darren Orf

What to Expect at CES 2016

Yeah, it’s always been a gadget orgy in the middle of the desert. But every year, what matters at CES is always a little different. And while there’s always plenty of bullshit to weed through, CES is still an accurate barometer for what to expect from technology in the year ahead. This year feels laser-focused…

Tech News Darren Orf

Why My New Year’s Yorkshire Pudding Fell Flat

For most British folks, it’s just not the holiday season without a classic Yorkshire pudding: an eggy, puffed-up-pancake dish, traditionally served before the main course with gravy and meat drippings. Think of it as a sort of meat donut. There are a lot of helpful guides out there to making the perfect Yorkshire pudding. J.…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Fallstreak Clouds Poke Decorative Holes Over the Southern Skies

Rain transforms into snow when the temperatures drop below freezing, right? Not necessarily. Supercooling raindrops is really what’s poking these cookie-cutter holes in the clouds over the southeastern United States. Everyone knows water freezes once temperatures drop to 32°F (0°C), but that’s one of those little lies of oversimplification we use to skip messy details.…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Real Christmas trees are beautiful. They smell good. They look classy as hell. They are not made of plastic and imported from China like most of the fake trees you can buy. They are not fake, which means they are easily assumed to possess that most coveted trait of all, authenticity. But they have a…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

This Dieselpunk Shrine Hides a Century-Old, Fully Operational 800 HP Motor

Close to the gorgeous towers of the Óbuda Gas Works, there is a humble, church-like brick building housing an amazing piece of engineering: a still-functional 103-year-old Sulzer diesel motor connected to a Ganz generator. The 4-cylinder, 800-horsepower, 180-RPM stationary engine was built in 1912 by the Láng (Flame) Machine Works of Budapest, based upon the…

Tech News Attila Nagy

How Dangerous Is Airplane Turbulence?

It’s scary. It’s uncomfortable. It spills your tomato juice. It’s turbulence—but how dangerous is it, actually? I have a very personal interest in this question, having been semi-traumatized on a terrifying flight whose tumbling felt like that of a rag doll in a clothes dryer cranked to turbo. I’ve flown since I was in diapers,…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

These 4K Videos of Japan Will Get You on the Next Plane to Tokyo

Ready your passports. This YouTube channel, called TokyoStreetView, offers hours and hours of ultra HD videos of daily life in Japan. The word “Tokyo” is in its name, but the collection comes from all over the archipelago nation—a nation that’s really freaking scenic, as these videos will remind you. The channel captures the kaleidoscope of…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

The Internet’s Favorite Force Awakens Stormtrooper Is Getting a Fancy Hot Toys Figure

Wait, you thought we were talking about Finn? I mean, he is very cool and all. But no, we’re talking about the other guy. Just a warning—incredibly mild spoilers about a minor part of The Force Awakens follow. Star Wars fans have a knack for pouring unabashed love over characters in the films that look…

Tech News James Whitbrook

5 Apps to Give Your Phone Extra Superpowers

If you’re wanting to go beyond the basic stuff everyone does with their phone—either by extending its capabilities or by taking more control over what it already does—we’ve got just the collection of tools for you. These automators, taskers, and shortcut makers can quickly hack Android or iOS to do your mobile bidding. Tasker What…

Gadgets David Nield

Get It On in Our New Year’s Eve Distributed Party

Welcome to the future! The past? Timezones are confusing. It’s 2016 somewhere, so come join the party. What are you futuristic hopes and dreams for the coming year? What are you happy to leave behind? Grab a drink, pull up a keyboard, and join the New Year’s Eve open channel. And can someone get these…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Here Are Our Favorite Gizmodo Stories From 2015

Drones and Apple Watches. Lost planets and lurking chaos. The truth about dogs and cats. Star Wars—lots of Star Wars. Behold, our favorite stories from the past 364 days. We asked all the Gizmodo contributors to send along their favorite story from 2015. (If they were too humble to comply, we picked our favorites.) These…

Tech News Gizmodo Staff

Someday Scientists Could Reprogram Carpenter Ants To Do Our Bidding

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to modify the behavior of carpenter ants using epigenetics—the science of how a gene gets turned into a physical body part or a character trait. They reported their findings last week in the journal Science. Are you ready to be a Beastmaster? Camponotus floridanus —…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Very Best in Bears for 2015

This was an adorable year for the bearcam in Katmai National Park. Here’s our ten favorite moments of coastal brown bears catching salmon, playing with their cubs, sleepily lazing the day away, and frolicking through the Alaskan wilderness in 2015. Katmai National Park, Alaska is home to approximately 2,200 bears. Many of these coastal brown…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Here’s Why Researchers are Pushing for a New Safer Strain of Polio

Thanks to the miracle of vaccines, we’re close to wiping out the polio virus. But that very success brings its own set of fresh challenges. We need some safe form of the virus in order to keep manufacturing vaccines, but those are in short supply the closer we come to eradicating polio entirely. Now a…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Is What an Entire Day Where the Sun Doesn’t Set Looks Like

While we’re wrapping up winter, Antarctica is getting fully into the swing of summer—and there that can mean an entire day of sunlight. Here’s what that looks like. The above panoramic image was stitched together from the ESA’s Concordia research base in Antarctica by a visiting U.K. physician, Eoin Macdonald-Nethercott. During antarctic winter, areas can…

Tech News Ria Misra

It Was a Wild, Weird Year to Live on Planet Earth

The year 2015 will go down as many things, but normal isn’t one of them. We saw record-smashing temperatures, exceptional droughts, deadly heat waves and massive wildfires. Add in earthquakes, landslides, and a brewing El Niño and we’re convinced our planet is trying to kill us. Hottest, Hottest, Hottest The East Coast sweltered while the…

Tech News Mika McKinnon & Maddie Stone

These Spherical Microphone Arrays Make Holographic Images of Sound

Every Frame A Painting Shows Why Ensemble Staging Is A Lost Art In Film

This Week’s Tech Rumors, Both Terrible and Truthful

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

What to Expect at CES 2016

Why My New Year’s Yorkshire Pudding Fell Flat

Fallstreak Clouds Poke Decorative Holes Over the Southern Skies

How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

This Dieselpunk Shrine Hides a Century-Old, Fully Operational 800 HP Motor

How Dangerous Is Airplane Turbulence?

These 4K Videos of Japan Will Get You on the Next Plane to Tokyo

The Internet’s Favorite Force Awakens Stormtrooper Is Getting a Fancy Hot Toys Figure

5 Apps to Give Your Phone Extra Superpowers

Get It On in Our New Year’s Eve Distributed Party

Here Are Our Favorite Gizmodo Stories From 2015

Someday Scientists Could Reprogram Carpenter Ants To Do Our Bidding

The Very Best in Bears for 2015

Here’s Why Researchers are Pushing for a New Safer Strain of Polio

This Is What an Entire Day Where the Sun Doesn’t Set Looks Like

It Was a Wild, Weird Year to Live on Planet Earth

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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