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Spotify Data Proves You’re Not As Cool As You Used To Be

If you’re over the age of thirty, you’re a musical dinosaur. You probably don’t understand the garbage those “damn kids” are listening to and you don’t want to. You’re not cool. When did this happen? Spotify may have just figured it out. Remember when Spotify was letting you check out your musical year-in-review? It used…

Tech News Sean Buckley

What Gear Are You Buying for Your Summer Adventures?

It’s finally warming up just about everywhere, so I think we can safely declare that spring has sprung. With the days growing longer, I’m planning some camping and hiking trips, including taking inventory of my gear. What’s on your must-purchase list to get outside and enjoy the great outdoors? I desperately need a new headlamp.…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Self-Driving “Taxibots” Could Eliminate 9 Out of Every 10 Cars

Just as Uber emerged as an alternative to public taxis, automated vehicles could represent the next wave of urban transportation. A new study shows how shared self-driving cars could not only improve city streets but also the cities themselves. Researchers at the Paris-headquartered International Transport Forum found that if fleets of shared, self-driving cars named…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Why Was Carl Sagan Blackballed from the National Academy of Sciences?

If you’re ever feeling crappy about not getting recognition for your work, just remember that even Carl Sagan got negs from his scientific colleagues. In fact, he was never allowed into the National Academy of Sciences, despite all he did to popularize the scientific worldview. In an article about Sagan’s life, his former student David…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

California Farmers Without Water Are Installing Solar Panels Instead

Due to the unprecedented drought, many of California’s farmers won’t be allocated any water this year, thanks to the way that the state’s water rights work. But what actually happens to the farms that don’t get water? Some of the farmers are ditching produce altogether for a more profitable alternative to crops—they’re installing solar farms.…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Watch the top 10 coolest airplane dogfight scenes in movie history

I’m not sure that CineFix included all the most visually awesome aerial dogfight scenes in their top 10 video for best dogfights of all time, but I do know that it’s always fun as hell to see two flying killer bird machines try to take down each other in an incredible array of skill, weaponry,…

Sploid Casey Chan

Please Don’t Call Me on Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger just introduced video calling. Since Messenger is supposed to be a full-fledged communication plaform, this feels a little overdue. But overdue doesn’t mean welcome: Now our Facebook friends have the ability to cold video-call us whenever chat is turned on. The built-in Facebook friend contact list makes Messenger video chats a potentially fraught…

Social Media Kate Knibbs

Video: The stunning still beauty of Antarctica

I think heaven on Earth is Antarctica. Or at least, that’s what it looks like to me. It’s so peaceful and serene and beautiful and pure that it looks like an untouched world. Kalle Ljung filmed this view of Antarctica over a 20-day trip and it’s just gorgeous shot after gorgeous shot. The white is…

Sploid Casey Chan

Because You Always Wanted Emoji Hashtags on Instagram

It’s the final nail in the coffin of word-based human communication. Instagram’s new feature: emoji hashtags. Say you’re at a baseball game. You post a pic to Instagram. You want to add a hashtag, but don’t feel like typing out “#yankeesvsmets” or “#ungodlypricedcoorslight.” Thanks to an update that appeared in the app store today, you…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

This Dildo Holds Your Dead Lover’s Ashes

Sex toy technology is getting pretty advanced, but even the most sophisticated teledildonics has not solved the problem of how to properly memorialize one’s deceased sex partner while masturbating. That’s where artist Mark Sturkenboom comes in: He’s created a blown-glass dildo that doubles as an urn. The dildo is part of an art piece called…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

An 1899 Plan to Build A Bike Highway in Los Angeles (And Why It Failed)

Over a century ago, the California Cycleway promised an elevated, dedicated bike path from Los Angeles to the nearby city of Pasadena. In this excerpt from the new book LAtitudes: An Angeleno’s Atlas, author Dan Koeppel tracks its path through Southern California—and discovers why it was never finished. Horace M. Dobbins plunged the shovel into…

Tech News Dan Koeppel

Buying These Epic Photos Will Help Nepal

I spent two months — this past November and January — trekking and climbing in Nepal. I journeyed there for the mountains, but the tiny country’s vibrant culture and kind people are what stole my heart. https://gizmodo.com/anyone-can-do-this-8-day-trek-through-nepal-1682949559 https://gizmodo.com/achieving-himalayan-ecstasy-at-20-000-1664180012 I spent an entire evening hanging out with these two Sherpa kids – playing hide and seek…

Tech News Chris Brinlee Jr

iOS vs Android: The 2015 Edition

It’s been 7 years, and the great iOS vs Android debate rumbles on—in internet forums and real life. But these platforms have come a long way even in the last year or two. Do the old arguments still apply? What features separate iOS 8.3 from Android 5.1 Lollipop? We used a Nexus 6 and an…

Gadgets David Nield

Chipotle’s Anti-GMO Stance Is Some Anti-Science Pandering Bullshit

Chipotle, a company known for making oversized burritos and publishing literary fiction on items of trash, announced today that it has stopped serving food made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Oh hooray, yet another victory for misinformation. There is a broad scientific consensus that genetic modification is a safe and likely necessary technology for feeding…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Screw Wearables—Now Wi-Fi Will Monitor Your Body

The business of tracking your health with smartwatches or fitness trackers is oppressively hardware-heavy—all those wires, charging docks, and batteries. But that’s poised to change. Soon, it might be the space around you that do the monitoring. For the past few years, we’ve been sold a vision of the future based on wearable computing. Your…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Facebook Messenger Adds Video Calls

Facebook’s relentless push to make Messenger happen is still happening, and you can now make video calls over data and Wifi with with Facebook’s messaging app. Messenger’s new video feature debuted today in the US, UK, Canada, and a variety of other countries. If you see a little video icon in the top right corner…

Social Media Kate Knibbs

Anonymous: Still Trolling After All These Years

Yesterday, an environmentalist faction of Anonymous took down a Hawaiian state government website and a site for the Thirty Meter Telescope project, a controversial effort to build the world’s second largest telescope atop Mauna Kea. You’ve probably never heard of Operation Green Rights. But that’s the point. Believe it or not, Anonymous still exists. Through…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This is the biggest burger that McDonald’s new menu lets you make

McDonald’s new Create Your Taste menu lets you make your own completely customizable and *gasp* delicious looking, gourmet McDonald’s burgers. The set up is simple: you hop on a kiosk and select whatever toppings you like on a burger and McD’s will whip it up for you with better ingredients. But that’s not fun! Fun…

Sploid Casey Chan

Drones Buzz Golden Gate Bridge, Crashing and Generally Being Creepy

The quake-prone Bay Area is already a pretty precarious area for bridges, but now suspicious drone activity is also a concern for San Francisco’s famous Golden Gate. Officials are now reportedly spotting drones near the bridge several times a month, and one even crashed into the road. Those San Francisco officials understandably have some security…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

This Girl’s Hulkbuster High Chair Will Make You Wish You Were a Toddler

Every episode of Super-Fan Builds makes it harder and harder to deal with the fact that few of us have access to special effects wizards to build us cool stuff. And the latest episode of the web series, featuring a custom Iron Man Hulkbuster high chair, will make you wish you were still a toddler—and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Spotify Data Proves You’re Not As Cool As You Used To Be

What Gear Are You Buying for Your Summer Adventures?

Self-Driving “Taxibots” Could Eliminate 9 Out of Every 10 Cars

Why Was Carl Sagan Blackballed from the National Academy of Sciences?

California Farmers Without Water Are Installing Solar Panels Instead

Watch the top 10 coolest airplane dogfight scenes in movie history

Please Don’t Call Me on Facebook Messenger

Video: The stunning still beauty of Antarctica

Because You Always Wanted Emoji Hashtags on Instagram

This Dildo Holds Your Dead Lover’s Ashes

An 1899 Plan to Build A Bike Highway in Los Angeles (And Why It Failed)

Buying These Epic Photos Will Help Nepal

iOS vs Android: The 2015 Edition

Chipotle’s Anti-GMO Stance Is Some Anti-Science Pandering Bullshit

Screw Wearables—Now Wi-Fi Will Monitor Your Body

Facebook Messenger Adds Video Calls

Anonymous: Still Trolling After All These Years

This is the biggest burger that McDonald’s new menu lets you make

Drones Buzz Golden Gate Bridge, Crashing and Generally Being Creepy

This Girl’s Hulkbuster High Chair Will Make You Wish You Were a Toddler

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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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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

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