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Email Is the New Generation Gap

Two weeks ago, we surveyed 3,670 people online about how they communicate. We discovered a remarkable difference between people over 41, who say they often talk on email more than they do in real life, and younger people who love in-person meetings and use a variety of apps. Is this our first digital generation gap?…

Social Media Annalee Newitz

Watch the Cygnus Get Ready for Its First Post-Explosion Cargo Run to the Space Station

What goes into preparing a spacecraft for a cargo run to the space station? Take a peek behind the scenes with this gallery of photos from preparing the Cygnus spacecraft for its first cargo run since the last attempt ended in explosion last year. Orbital Sciences’ ATK Cygnus is an uncrewed cargo craft designed for…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

The Worst Deals of Black Friday

It’s Black Friday, and the internet is chock-full of deals. Deals for days! (As long as that day is today, Black Friday.) Some deals are good! A Kindle is A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E. Other deals, however, aren’t very appealing. Deals like these… Mini Ears Head Piece Even 30% off $90 is 100% too much money to spend on…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Google Has Some Surprising Tips for Lessening the Horror of Black Friday Shopping

Google crunched its data on store traffic patterns and came up some tips on how to reduce the horror of Black Friday shopping madness, should you dare to hit the mall on Friday. You should actually go shopping in the morning. While the popular image of Black Friday is a mob banging on the gates…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

My Google Alert for “Hoverboard” Is Officially Ruined

I have Google Alerts for everything. Whenever an article is posted with terms like “flying car,” “time capsule,” and yes, “hoverboard,” I get a notification. But today I can call my Google Alert for “hoverboard” officially worthless. Just take a look at this story from The Irish News. How exciting! Inventors finally made the hoverboard…

Tech News Matt Novak

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

American Gizmodo readers have made it through another Thanksgiving, and for international readers, it’s a regular old Friday. What’s going on? If you live in America, today is Black Friday, an orgy of shopping, deal-hunting and generalized chaos. Or maybe you skipped out on all that and saw a movie or slept in with a…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

A Broken Toilet in Space is a Special Brand of Horror

Astronaut Fred Gregory is the front-runner for Worst Thanksgiving Ever. His tale of a plumbing failure while on the zero-g toilet resulting in a very personal depressurization under a gushing torrent of freezing oxygen still makes us cringe over a decade later. This story takes during STS-33, a classified flight space shuttle Discovery in November…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

London’s New Bridge For Pedestrians Solves a Common Problem With Clever Engineering

It’s by design that most modern cities grew up around rivers or coastlines. But today, those bodies of water pose problems for thousands of commuters who’d prefer to ride or walk–and cities are developing new infrastructure to bridge them. Leading the way are countries like Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, which have all developed really…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Turn Your Head Into a Hydrox With a Custom Cookie Cutter

Oreo’s on a mission to create a flavor that will appeal to every last person on the planet. But its efforts can’t come anywhere close to the level of personalization that a custom cookie cutter shaped like your head and face allows. Etsy shop Copypastry—which earns bonus points for its clever name—will turn a photo…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Light Show in Tokyo Is Bewilderingly Pretty

Every year, the Caretta Plaza in Tokyo is adorned with an impressive light show to mark the end of another 365 days. This time, over 270,000 LEDs are being used to create an elaborate six-minute audiovisual light show that you can see in these images. These pictures show the frankly amazing structure, with its so…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Morning Sun Transforms this Landscape into an Optical Illusion

Steeply-angled sunlight creates a muddled mystery of which terrain are mountains or valleys in this early-morning scene. Only snaking fog shrouding the river reveals the secrets of the inverted topography. Fog hides the Thanlyin River in western Yunnan Province, China. It simultaneously identifies where the bottom of the valley is, untangling the illusion of up…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

PlayStation 4 Remote Play Coming to the PC Desktop

A quite amazing piece of technology that’ll have lapsed gamers stunned by what’s possible nowadays is on the way from Sony, with one of its development heads confirming that the Remote Play functionality is coming to PC. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida, one of its most prolific tweeters, made the admission online, posting that: “Some people asked…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Giz

These Amazing Immersive Models Help Scientists Understand the Structure of Forests

Tropical forest are large, complex and easy to get lost in—which isn’t helpful if you’re trying to study them. Now, scientists are using these amazing immersive mathematical models to understand the intricacies of tree canopies around the world. The team, from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, has been using sphere packing models to approximate…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Can Now Establish Your Gender From a Fingerprint

Fingerprints may be unique, but without an existing record they can’t help identify a person. Now, though, researchers can use chemical analysis of the prints to identify the gender of whoever left them behind. A team of researchers from the University at Albany has developed a technique which uses the chemical composition of a fingerprint…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Amazon Will Give You a Year’s Unlimited Online Storage for $5

If you need some cloud-based storage in which to squirrel away your files, Amazon has just announced a tempting option: for a limited time, you can snag its unlimited online storage for $5. The company is cutting the price of a subscription to its unlimited Cloud Drive option, which allows you to back up anything…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

The Next Big War Will Be Digital—and We’re Not Ready For It

In the 21st century the familiar form of warfare in which physical damage is meted out against the opponent’s military forces and infrastructure has become only one form of attack. Instead, states are increasingly launching non-lethal attacks against an enemy’s information systems – this is the rise of information warfare. Dan Kuehl of the National…

Privacy & Security David Stupples

OnePlus Will Refund Customers Who Bought Its Flawed USB-C Cable

The reversible USB-C cable and charger that OnePlus sells for its OnePlus 2 smartphone is very good at charging that particular phone. But as a Google engineer pointed out, it’s not up to spec for all USB-C devices. In a statement, OnePlus acknowledged the problem, but restated that its cable works perfectly well with its…

Tech News Chris Mills

Russia’s Newest Data Center Will Be Nuclear Powered

Russia’s newest data center will also be its largest, with a capacity for 10,000 racks. With that much power draw, it of course makes sense for the facility to be built next door to an existing nuclear power station. It makes even more sense when you consider the company constructing the data center: Rosenergoatom, a…

Tech News Chris Mills

Here’s a Can of Cranberry Sauce Playing Mozart’s Turkish March

Done with Thanksgiving dinner, and never want to see cranberry sauce again? Too bad: here’s a can of the stuff being dropped, mashed, thwacked and sploshed, all to play Mozart’s Turkish (geddit?) March. The video, as with most videos where inanimate objects play complex pieces of music, was only brought about through some clever editing,…

Tech News Chris Mills

Most Complex Cash Register Malware Ever Is Out to Steal Your Money and ID

A new kind of point-of-sale malware, which uses multiple layers of obfuscation and encryption to cover its tracks, has been identified by security researchers—and is being help up as the most complex software of its kind yet to be identified in the wild. Security researchers at iSight have identified the malware which they’ve dubbed ModPOS,…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Email Is the New Generation Gap

Watch the Cygnus Get Ready for Its First Post-Explosion Cargo Run to the Space Station

The Worst Deals of Black Friday

Google Has Some Surprising Tips for Lessening the Horror of Black Friday Shopping

My Google Alert for “Hoverboard” Is Officially Ruined

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

A Broken Toilet in Space is a Special Brand of Horror

London’s New Bridge For Pedestrians Solves a Common Problem With Clever Engineering

Turn Your Head Into a Hydrox With a Custom Cookie Cutter

This Light Show in Tokyo Is Bewilderingly Pretty

Morning Sun Transforms this Landscape into an Optical Illusion

PlayStation 4 Remote Play Coming to the PC Desktop

These Amazing Immersive Models Help Scientists Understand the Structure of Forests

Scientists Can Now Establish Your Gender From a Fingerprint

Amazon Will Give You a Year’s Unlimited Online Storage for $5

The Next Big War Will Be Digital—and We’re Not Ready For It

OnePlus Will Refund Customers Who Bought Its Flawed USB-C Cable

Russia’s Newest Data Center Will Be Nuclear Powered

Here’s a Can of Cranberry Sauce Playing Mozart’s Turkish March

Most Complex Cash Register Malware Ever Is Out to Steal Your Money and ID

Up to $1,550 Off on pCloud: Pay Once, Protect Data Forever for World Backup Day

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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