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This Beautiful Map of Rotterdam Is Actually a Gigantic Ant Farm

People love watching ants scurry about while they frantically live their lives, that’s why we still trap them in tiny farms. But it’s hard to feel bad for the ants living inside this giant map of Rotterdam created by design shop Studio 1:1. It’s like the Palace of Versailles for insects. The ants who call…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

We Cannot Allow This Awful Idea for Airplane Seating to Become Real

Airplanes used to be luxurious things, laden with fine china and unlimited wine. But over the years, the glory of flying has faded—giving way tobroken technology (frustrating), bruised knees (painful), terrible smells (actually dangerous!). Yet, somehow, someone has figured out a way to make things worse. Behold: the most atrocious idea for airplane seating design…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

We All Need to Calm Down About This USA vs Japan Robot Duel

Okay, internet. Everyone just needs to simmah down, now. I know we’re all excited about the supposedly looming international giant robot duel between America and Japan. I am too. But! We should also be wary. Patient. Because it miiiight not be as cool as we think. Here’s the genesis of the chrome-shredding showdown that’s hopefully,…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Hasbro Reveals New Marvel And Transformers Toys—Including Spider-Gwen!

Hasbro’s Comic-Con breakfast has arrived, and with it, a plethora of new toys to gawp at. The company has unveiled some brand new figures in both its Marvel and Transformers lines, while they’re all pretty smashing, the best news of all is that the fabulous Spider-Gwen is getting her own toy! First up is the…

Tech News James Whitbrook

The Giant New Panama Canal Will Change the Global Economy (Again)

A few months ago, hundreds of tourists, sightseers, and workers crowded into a deep canyon of concrete at the Panama Canal to witness another wonder of the world before it was submerged. At 11 stories deep, these canyons made of rough concrete could have been a lost Louis Kahn structure. In fact, they were the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

7 Gandhi Quotes That Are Totally Fake

We love quotes from famous dead people. Words just sound more important when they’re coming from the mouths of important historical figures. And when we need that extra dash of moral authority, Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most quotable. But as Gandhi once said, “Half my quotes on Pinterest are fake.” Below we have…

Tech News Matt Novak

With a Drone Inside, R2-D2 Can Finally Fly Like a Bird

Master drone builder Otto Dieffenbach is back with what is probably his most amazing flying creation to date. Unlike the flying R2-D2 we saw in the Star Wars prequels, this version of Artoo is able to take to the skies without a pair of pop-out rocket boosters—just a quadcopter cleverly hidden inside. Otto designed and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch a hammerhead shark swim in the ocean from the shark’s perspective

The coolest thing about being a shark is that you can swim around all you want in the ocean and you don’t have to be afraid of, well, sharks. That’s only semi-true but look at this hammerhead shark moseying about on the ocean floor and it passes by all its shark friends without a worry…

Sploid Casey Chan

Facebook Just Maximized Your Ability to Be a Huge Creep

Facebook’s most recent update gives us more control over what shows up in News Feed, which means we all just got a terrific way to maintain unhealthily close tabs on friends, crushes, enemies, and racist acquaintances. The new News Feed controls let you pick a squad of Facebook friends and show you every single one…

Social Media Kate Knibbs

Everyone’s an Action Figure While Lying On This Beach Towel

If there’s one place everyone can use a confidence boost, it’s at the beach while wearing a bathing suit that reveals everything they’re self-conscious about. But by simply laying on this clever towel, anyone can feel like they’re got the body of an action figure—minus the Kung fu grip. At six-and-a-half feet tall, ThinkGeek’s $30…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How I Saved (One Tiny Island In) Canada From Wildfire

Last week, I took a trip up to northern Saskatchewan, to the edge of the boreal forest. It’s an area very close to what locals call the bush. I’d come to camp with family and friends at Emma Lake, but when we arrived we discovered that we were deep inside one of the biggest wildfire…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Video: What flying through the Milky Way must look like

Created by stitching together over 400,000 taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, YouTube user daveachuk made this incredibly beautiful video that makes it feel as if you’re floating along the Milky Way. The finished footage is breathtaking and makes it seem as if you’re just looking out a window as you fly through the galaxy…

Sploid Casey Chan

LA Residents Try to Hide Hollywood Sign From Tourists, Except on Airbnb

Last year, a group of homeowners who live in the Hollywood Hills had directions to the Hollywood Sign changed on Google Maps to keep tourists away from their streets. All the tourists, that is, except for the ones who rent their properties on Airbnb. They want those tourists to know exactly where the Hollywood Sign…

Tech News Alissa Walker

T-Mobile’s US Phone Plan Is Expanding Coverage to Canada and Mexico

When T-Mobile started this whole Uncarrier thing, it began with the introduction of a Simple Choice phone plan, meaning free international data and texting when you signed. Almost two years later, T-Mobile is upgrading that original phone plan by expanding coverage to Mexico and Canada. It’s called “Mobile Without Borders” and this is how it…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Artist Is Making Haunting Paintings With Google’s Dream Robot

OH GOD. It’s been a week of nightmarish image-making, thanks tothe public release of Google’s “DeepDream” algorithm. If you missed this whole thing, let me explain: DeepDream is an artificial neural network that Google originally developed to identify the contents of an image using computer vision. To do this, the network is “taught” using thousands…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Unofficial teaser of A Series of Unfortunate Events is simply incredible

This is truly astonishing work by YouTube user Eleanora Poe. Because Netflix is adapting Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events as a series, this completely unofficial, fan-made teaser trailer of sorts for the adaptation was made (for fun?). If Netflix’s series is half as good and creepy as this, the show will be fantastic.…

Sploid Casey Chan

Aww, There’s a Colander Spoon Version of That Adorable Loch Ness Ladle

The internet nearly lost its mind over the adorable Loch Ness monster Nessie Ladle we posted earlier this year. It was fun and functional at the same time, and its creator, OTOTO Designs, has returned with a new colander spoon version it’s calling Mamma Nessie given it’s slightly larger. Like the original, Mamma Nessie’s whimsical…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Is Facebook Making Its Own Music Service?

Especially on the heels of Apple Music, it seems like every technology company that’s ever existed feels the needs to create a streaming music service to jam tasty tunes down your ear canal. And rumor has it Facebook is next. Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors and speculation — real and fabricated. BitStream…

Social Media Darren Orf

Advertisers Won’t Study Facebook Likes and Shares As Closely Anymore

Facebok is going to stop including Likes and Shares in the data it provides to advertisers about how effectively it pushes ads onto it users—but it’s nothing to do with altruism. The social network’s announced that, as of yesterday, its Cost-per-Click data—a metric that demonstrates how effective a Facebook-based marketing campaign is—will “only include clicks…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Self-Driving Taxis “Could Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 90%”

If you can stomach the thought of handing over control of your hotrod to a computer, you may end up doing a significant part towards ensuring the future environmental stability of this planet. According to a new report from Berkeley Lab researchers, a wholesale switch to self-driving electric vehicles could cut greenhouse emissions by as…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

This Beautiful Map of Rotterdam Is Actually a Gigantic Ant Farm

We Cannot Allow This Awful Idea for Airplane Seating to Become Real

We All Need to Calm Down About This USA vs Japan Robot Duel

Hasbro Reveals New Marvel And Transformers Toys—Including Spider-Gwen!

The Giant New Panama Canal Will Change the Global Economy (Again)

7 Gandhi Quotes That Are Totally Fake

With a Drone Inside, R2-D2 Can Finally Fly Like a Bird

Watch a hammerhead shark swim in the ocean from the shark’s perspective

Facebook Just Maximized Your Ability to Be a Huge Creep

Everyone’s an Action Figure While Lying On This Beach Towel

How I Saved (One Tiny Island In) Canada From Wildfire

Video: What flying through the Milky Way must look like

LA Residents Try to Hide Hollywood Sign From Tourists, Except on Airbnb

T-Mobile’s US Phone Plan Is Expanding Coverage to Canada and Mexico

This Artist Is Making Haunting Paintings With Google’s Dream Robot

Unofficial teaser of A Series of Unfortunate Events is simply incredible

Aww, There’s a Colander Spoon Version of That Adorable Loch Ness Ladle

Is Facebook Making Its Own Music Service?

Advertisers Won’t Study Facebook Likes and Shares As Closely Anymore

Self-Driving Taxis “Could Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 90%”

The Best Pop Culture Art Gallery In the World Is No More

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Google’s Next Fitbit Sounds Exactly Like a Whoop Clone

Amazon eero WiFi 7 Router (3-Pack) Keeps Its Spring Sale Price, Covering Up to 120 Devices Across 6,000 Sq. Ft.

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