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The NSA Is Going to Love These USB-C Charging Cables

Thanks to Apple’s new MacBook and Google’s new Chromebook Pixel, USB-C has arrived. A single flavor of cable for all your charging and connectivity needs? Hell yes. But that convenience doesn’t come without a cost; our computers will be more vulnerable than ever to malware attacks, from hackers and surveillance agencies alike. The trouble with…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

Someone Incorrectly Labeled This Rocket Ship Bed As a Kids’ Item

We all make mistakes, and we can only assume that Etsy-seller FableBedworks was in a rush when they posted this phenomenal transforming rocket ship murphy bed on their online store. Why else would they mistakenly refer to it as a “childrens bed” when there are certainly more than enough adults who would love a creation…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This jet-powered boat is going impossibly fast

Yowza. I think if I hopped on this jet-powered boat in New Zealand my hair would fall out, my neck would get stretched out and my face would be permanently smushed in. It goes fast. Like a runaway roller coaster that’s off its track fast. I mean, look how quickly it zips in and around…

Sploid Casey Chan

NYPD Scrubbed Wikipedia Entries on Police Brutality and No One Cared

Last week, we found out that someone at New York Police Department headquarters was manipulating Wikipedia articles on police violence to make themselves look better. The NYPD has identified two officers behind the police-friendly entries—and is doing shit-all about these on-the-clock edits. The police-altered Wikipedia entries changed language to gloss over a variety of incidents…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Cool Down Your Android Phone With a Tap

An overheating phone is bad news for your battery life, your palms and the internal components inside your device. Fortunately, there’s an Android app that can help, shutting down some non-essential system tasks and background processes to give your handset the chance to cool off. You can choose from a one-tap quick fix or a…

Gadgets David Nield

9 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake

The internet is an incredible place, often filled with beauty, wonder, and truth. It can also be a cesspool of lies. Today we have another installment in our ongoing series of photo debunkings. You may have seen these nine images swirling around the internet recently. But none of them are quite what they seem. 1)…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Next Wave Of Animated Batman Figures Comes With An Awesome Nightwing

We’ve known it’s been coming for a while after DC announced delays to try and fix the problems with the toyline, but at last, here’s some good news for the toyline based on Batman: The Animated Series and The New Adventures Of Batman: Nightwing is on the way, and he looks rather lovely. The fifth…

Tech News James Whitbrook

16 Gorgeous Green St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations

Gizmodo reader-photographers assembled to photograph the color green in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, and what would you know, there’s not a toxic Miller Light in sight. Enjoy! Winner: Leprechaun Hallway No caption given. Steffen Ross Aurora Borealis This is a picture of the Aurora Borealis from my trip to Kiruna, Sweden. I used a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

All those iconic space pictures are really black and white

Most of the gorgeous images of distant galaxies we all keep in our minds were captured by the lens of The Hubble Space Telescope. But those lens can only take black and white images. The color is added afterwards according to “the wavelengths of light that different elements emit in space.” This is how they…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

The Secret Service Wants to Build a Replica White House

The Secret Service hasn’t been doing an awesome job guarding the White House lately, so Joseph Clancy, its director, plans to ask the House Appropriations Committee for $8 million so that president’s guard can build a replica White House on the Secret Service training grounds in southern Maryland. Not the whole house, of course. The…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

9 simple photography tips that will make your pictures look better

Here are 9 rules about basic photography composition from famed photographer Steve McCurry that will instantly make your pictures look better. You know some of them already—rule of thirds, etc.—but it’s nice to see them illustrated with great pictures and be reminded of the most important rule of all: that you can—and should—break them. Here…

Sploid Casey Chan

Internet Explorer Is Dead, And Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

The end is nigh for IE, eBay goes high society, a man watches his wife give birth via VR. You know, a typical Tuesday. Welcome to BitStream, all the news and rumors you missed in the last 24 hours. The death rattle of Internet Explorer has been a long drawn-out one, but as soon as…

Tech News Darren Orf

Hot Toys Returns To Steal Scarlett Johansson’s Soul For Avengers 2 Toys

The last time Hot Toys released a Black Widow figure, we were understandably amazed/petrified at the company’s ability to practice the dark arts presumably required to create their exquisite toys. But now they’re back with Johansson’s soul in tow for a second outing, and she looks great. https://gizmodo.com/this-black-widow-figure-may-have-stolen-scarlett-johans-1541291961 The 1:6 scale Widow, based on her…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Each letter of this alphabet moves like an appendage of an animal

This alphabet—by Boston-based graphic designer Ari Weinkle—is quite unique. First because its texture feels realistic, organic, and alive. And second because its creepy moves: The letters twist and turn as if they were actual animal appendages. In my work, I look to break apart and re-appropriate different forms such as the human figure, geometric and…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

A New Synthetic Compound Can Neutralize Chemical Weapons in Minutes

Chemical weapons are a dangerous and all-to-real threat. Now, a team of scientists has developed a new compound that can deactivate chemical weapons—including nerve agents like sarin—in just minutes. A team from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have found inspiration for the new compound in enzymes called phosphotriesterases. Usually produced by bacteria, these proteins deactivate…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Buying A Child-Sized Range Rover Is Definitely Spoiling Your Kids

If you were wondering if buying your kid a miniature version of a Range Rover would have a detrimental affect on their sense of entitlement, you’re absolutely right. Because kids who spend their childhood driving miniature Range Rovers grow up to become teenagers who expect the real thing when they turn sixteen. So just be…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Oscar nominated film about a couple growing apart melted my heart

Sometimes life—and love—seems to pass before your eyes at the speed of light. One day, you wake up and realize that the person you’ve been living with for years has changed so much that they’ve almost become a stranger. Head Over Heels is an Oscar nominated stop-motion film by Timothy Reckart that perfectly depicts that…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

What It’s Like to Quit Drugs By Blocking the Highs

If you could take the high out of drugs, what would be the point in taking them? Sujata Gupta meets the unorthodox doctor who thinks he can block some of the world’s most addictive pills. Toru had always been anxious as a child, but the problem worsened when he was 19 and attending college in…

Tech News Sujata Gupta - Mosaic

This Is the World’s Highest Peak-Power Laser Diode Array

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have created the world’s highest peak-power laser diode array, capable of creating up to 3.2 megawatts. The new device will be used in Europe’s new Extreme Light facility, which will be as bad-ass as it sounds. The diode array will sit within the High-Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

New Liquid 3D Printing System Is 25 Times Faster Than Its Competitors

3D printing isn’t short of advocates in the design and engineering world, because of its ability to easily produce prototypes—but it can be slow. A new company called Carbon3D hopes to change that, though, with a new 3D printing method that claims to be 25-100 times faster than other resin printing techniques. The start-up has…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The NSA Is Going to Love These USB-C Charging Cables

Someone Incorrectly Labeled This Rocket Ship Bed As a Kids’ Item

This jet-powered boat is going impossibly fast

NYPD Scrubbed Wikipedia Entries on Police Brutality and No One Cared

Cool Down Your Android Phone With a Tap

9 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake

The Next Wave Of Animated Batman Figures Comes With An Awesome Nightwing

16 Gorgeous Green St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations

All those iconic space pictures are really black and white

The Secret Service Wants to Build a Replica White House

9 simple photography tips that will make your pictures look better

Internet Explorer Is Dead, And Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Hot Toys Returns To Steal Scarlett Johansson’s Soul For Avengers 2 Toys

Each letter of this alphabet moves like an appendage of an animal

A New Synthetic Compound Can Neutralize Chemical Weapons in Minutes

Buying A Child-Sized Range Rover Is Definitely Spoiling Your Kids

This Oscar nominated film about a couple growing apart melted my heart

What It’s Like to Quit Drugs By Blocking the Highs

This Is the World’s Highest Peak-Power Laser Diode Array

New Liquid 3D Printing System Is 25 Times Faster Than Its Competitors

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