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People screw up. And in movies, you’d expect that when someone screws up that those scenes would just be played for laughs as outtakes or on a blooper reel. But sometimes everything else about the scene is so good and the screw up is so unexpectedly perfect for the movie that the directors include the…
These days, it’s a luxury (and often a goal) to eat local. A few hundred years ago, it was a necessity. One country found a way to break free of local, seasonal eating and that discovery changed the world. You like herring? Even if the answer is no, you probably like it more than starving…
Scared of diving deep? Scared of cave-ins? Why not combine the two into one, happy fun time activity? Above the surface, technical outwear is getting a fashionable makeover and breathing air is getting easier. This is What’s New Outside. Outdoor Gear Blog For Women: My buddy Michelle is putting together a new blog around women’s…
Is that friend who always very politely turns down your offers for cream or sugar very possibly hiding a dark secret, as haters around the internet have been insisting recently? No, probably not—but here’s why some people are saying taking your coffee black means you’re more likely to be a psychopath. A new study published…
We still don’t have hoverboards. At least not the ones we were promised in the 1989 movie, Back to the Future: Part II. And this new promo video from Universal Pictures does little more than remind us that living in the future is garbage. From hoverboards to flying cars, Back to the Future II’s version…
Last Tuesday, the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka, California was swarming with potheads. A pro-cannabis rally had been organized by State Assemblymember Jim Wood, who knows how to grab headlines: In July, Wood walked onto the State Capitol floor carrying a live marijuana plant and asked his colleagues to regulate the heck out of it.…
You know you’ve been worried about how you’re going to express yourself during fencing matches at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Worry not! The Unicode Consortium has you covered with 29 new emoji being considered for release in June 2016. The 29 new emojis revealed by the Unicode Technical Committee include everything from…
An update to the Spotify app now gives it Chromecast support. This is great for you goofballs who listen to music on your TV. However, it only works with the new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio. Download the latest Spotify app for iOS or Android here and here, respectively. Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP…
There are something like a thousand ways to cook an egg, with each of them being just as delicious as the next. But what if you cooked an egg in liquid nitrogen? What would happen? From the looks of this video, it looks like the egg freezes into this chalky styrofoam texture that looks totally…
What happens when NASA opens up the entire photo archive from the Apollo project to the public? Fans of the moon missions are going to create a collection of awesome video projects. From stop motion vignettes to miniature documentaries, we love it. https://gizmodo.com/photos-from-the-apollo-missions-have-been-into-a-brilli-1735944230
Data. It’s a powerful tool that helps us battle climate change or keep companies sustainable. But there’s so much data, and it’s hard to corral, index, and understand. However, one company wants to give Earth a “planetary nervous system” to help out companies and policy makers make faster, more informed decisions that’ll be beneficial for…
If you’re going to shove all of your digital pictures into Google Photos, it’s essential that the time and date metadata associated with them is correct—otherwise your holiday snaps, photos of your children and gorgeous-looking images of sunsets are going to be much harder to find. The online service was originally missing a timestamp editor,…
British police reminded the public yesterday that it’s illegal to ride “one of these” in public. And by “one of these,” the fuzz means self-balancing scooters. That didn’t stop the press from calling the wheeled contraptions “hoverboards.” Ugh! Misnomer aside, the warning raises an interesting question about how this newly affordable and entirely futuristic form…
Ever wonder why ads for a particular pair of socks keep following you around the web? Why Pandora keeps playing that song you hate, even though you give it a thumbs-down every single time? Or why that one person you barely know keeps showing up in your News Feed when your old friends rarely seem…
Who needs 1980s music videos when you can have actual scenes from NASA astronaut training programs? In 1964, NASA’s Langley Research Center was focused on helping astronauts train for the unknown challenges awaiting them during the Apollo moon landings. In order to test out how astronauts would navigate challenges under one-sixth reduced lunar gravity, researchers…
With support for Apple Pay rolling out to more and more locations, as well as improved integration bundled into the latest version of iOS, it’s way easier to use Apple’s mobile payments platform. Update-to-date iPhones can now pay for things right from the lockscreen. All you need to do is double-tap your iPhone’s Home button…
The new Star Wars toys are already hankering for your money in various shapes and sizes following Force Friday in September—but they’d still like just a little more of it. The Disney Infinity videogame is all Star Wars themed this year, and naturally that means they’re bringing some of their newest stars to figure form…
According to several reports, the ‘largest-ever technology merger’ is set to be announced later today — and it’s between Dell and storage technology firm EMC, in a deal said to be worth over $67 billion. [UPDATE] UPDATE: Dell is buying the storage technology firm EMC for $67 billion. EMC is probably worth a lot more…
Walk into a high-end health food store these days, and you’re bound to find a shelf of pricey specialty honeys purporting to tickle your tastebuds with distinctive flavors. But isn’t it all just one big marketing ploy? Do they really taste that much different from standard honey? The science says yes. “There’s definitely science behind…
Brazilian officials have less than a year to prepare Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics. We’ve already seen disturbing photos of the water sports site from the air and shore, but these images shows how dispossessed locals are living among the ruins of their former homes, right next to the future Olympic Park.…
