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So Ryan Adams’ New Punk Rock EP Is Actually Pretty Good

Alt-country crooner Ryan Adams typically makes music fit for a rom-com’s opening credits, but he has a lesser-known punk side, and 1984 showcases the best of it. Adams announced earlier this summer that he’d be releasing a 10-song 7-inch filled with punk rock songs. He mentioned in the press release that the the tracks would…

Tech News Darren Orf

Scientists Empirically Discover the Best Cheese for Pizza

Advancements in pizza science is very serious business. Even the military has been experimenting with strange methods on how to extend the life of the average pizza. Now, science aims to answer a question that’s puzzled mankind ever since the dish was created: What cheese is the best? Turns out the answer is mozzarella. Originally…

Tech News Darren Orf

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

It’s the end of summer and a holiday weekend, and apparently all the app makers are on vacation. As a result, we’ve only got a small haul of new apps this week. But maybe they’re enough to help distract you from the annoying guests at your Labor Day cookout. Multi-Platform Updates SportsManias Why just be…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

The Long, Strange History of the Kung Fu Fighting Melody

Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo’s weekend roundup of the best writing from around the web. Today we’ve got great pieces from NPR, IEEE Spectrum, Chicago Magazine, Nautilus, and more. Our first “read” is actually a listen: NPR’s Kat Chow investigates the “Kung Fu Fighting” melody, the nine-note musical phrase that’s a shorthand reference to Asia…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

What Do Smartphones Need That They Don’t Already Have?

Welcome to the first week of September, also known as crazy-insane IFA 2014 and iPhone event extravaganza. During the next 10 days we’ll see new handsets, smartwatches, and other tech paraphernalia from almost every major hardware manufacturer. So now I’m wondering, where do smartphones even go from here? Recently companies have been testing what we…

Tech News Darren Orf

Watch This Guy Desperately Try to Save His Dying, Water-Bound Drone

Keeping your gadgets charged is important. More and more our very lives are stored on our smartphones. If they die, we’re cut off our friends, work email, and Reddit. There’s also the nightmare of realizing your drone’s battery is dying while it’s 50-feet above a body of water. YouTuber redphive, an ironic reference to Luke…

Tech News Darren Orf

Rain, Architecture, Budweiser: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Why let all the big cities have all the gentrification, design battles, and corporate takeovers? This week we focus on the towns—including a famous temporary one in the desert, population 50,000. It’s a small-city edition of What’s Ruining Our Cities. Rain ruined Black Rock City, Nevada A freak rainstorm turned the Burning Man playa into…

Tech News Alissa Walker

This New 4D Batman Theme Park Ride Looks Like a Giant Nope-Coaster

Growing up outside of St. Louis, there was a Six Flags only a forty-minute drive away. You could look right off the highway and see the sprawling parking lot, the giant Ferris wheel, and the twisted metal of all the roller coasters. The most imposing snake-like construction was Batman: The Ride. For me and my…

Tech News Darren Orf

More Rumors Point To Apple Turning Your iPhone Into a Digital Wallet

If you would have asked me a month ago what would be some of the most talked about topics surrounding Apple’s upcoming event on Sept. 9th, bigger iPhones, sapphire screens, and a rumored iWatch would definitely be my top three. NFC-powered mobile payments would rank somewhere near last place. But all the news this week…

Tech News Darren Orf

An Empty Spacesuit Is Full of Possibilities

When astronaut Alex Gerst checked in on this empty spacesuit, he proclaimed it was sneaking in some air guitar when no one was watching. But it seems like this spacesuit could be doing so much than that. You tell me: What’s the best caption for this photo? Image credit: NASA/ESA/Alex Gerst Here’s the same suit…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

This App Lets You Create Custom Shoes With Your Own Photos

Last Friday, Adidas introduced a new app called #miZXFLUX. A novel little iOS and Android app that lets you create custom shoes from your own photography. Finally, I can give all my friends the perfect pair of kicks with my beautiful face all over them. Despite its somewhat strange premise, the app is pretty genius…

Tech News Darren Orf

You May Finally Be Able to Buy a OnePlus One Smartphone in October

OnePlus One is the best smartphone you can’t buy. Ok, that’s not necessarily true, it’s just really, really hard. It all comes down to invites, which the company gives out during occasional raffles or online contests, that allow lucky winners to then buy the phone. https://gizmodo.com/oneplus-one-review-an-unbelievably-fantastic-smartphon-1598476240 The invite system has received a decent amount of…

Tech News Darren Orf

Take a Birds-Eye Tour of Apple’s Huge Spaceship Campus

The internet is slowly being swallowed whole by an endless influx of drone videos, but sometimes they give stunning views of locations we’d never see otherwise. This time, one YouTuber strapped a GoPro Hero 3+ to a DJI Phantom 2 drone and took a peek at Apple’s upcoming “Spaceship” campus. Steve Jobs announced Apple’s second…

Tech News Darren Orf

Why You Can’t Stop Getting Online Ads For Stuff You Already Bought

It’s happened to all of us: You buy one random thing online, and all of a sudden every ad on every website is trying to sell you more, more, more of that same dumb thing. Like they know where you are. Like they’re following you. Stalking you. Like they’re out. To. Get. You. For the…

Tech News SplitSider

Top Engineer and Futurist: Tomorrow’s Robots Might Mercy-Kill Mankind

Nell Watson is an engineer, a futurist, and the founder and CEO of Poikos. As such, she knows a lot about the machines we use today, and the ones we’re planning for tomorrow. And she’s worried that the artificial intelligence of the near-future might decide the most benevolent thing to for mankind is to destroy…

Artificial Intelligence Bob Sorokanich

Here’s Your Adorable First Look At Pixar’s Upcoming Short

“Lava” is the Disney Pixar short that will premiere before the feature-length movie Inside Out next summer. Judging by this first sneak peek, it’s going to be absolutely adorable. “Inspired by the isolated beauty of tropical islands and the explosive allure of ocean volcanoes, “Lava” is a musical love story that takes place over millions…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Report: Apple “Considering” iWatch Prices Up to $400

There’s been a whole lot of rumors swirling over the smartwatch Apple will assumedly announce during the iPhone event on September 9th. Now, Re/Code says that Apple execs have hinted there will be multiple models of the device, the priciest of which could hit $400. That’s on the very high end for smartwatches—most come in…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

NASA Will Reformat Mars Rover’s Flash Memory From 125 Million Miles Away

NASA’s Opportunity rover is still trundling across the surface of Mars, more than 11 years after its 90 day mission began. But its software is getting bogged down, so NASA’s doing a full system backup, memory wipe, and reboot. It’s just like your routine computer cleanup, just from the next planet over. Both Spirit and…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

11 Reasons Email Is the Worst

Email is one of those things that’s just a part of your life, period. Most of us know someone who has closed their Facebook account or refused to join in the first place in a little foot-stomping stand by their ego, and you might even know someone who is thrilled with themselves for not owning…

Tech News Tim Urban - Wait But Why

Airline Seats, iPhone 6, Viral Hoaxes, How We Watch Porn, and More

Well folks, September is almost here, and you worked hard. Hard enough to earn yourself and everyone else a long weekend. Here are the best stories we wrote this week, in case you missed them while you were workin’ hard for the money. A Gadget That Stops Seats From Reclining Caused a Plane-Diverting Fight Planes…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

So Ryan Adams’ New Punk Rock EP Is Actually Pretty Good

Scientists Empirically Discover the Best Cheese for Pizza

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

The Long, Strange History of the Kung Fu Fighting Melody

What Do Smartphones Need That They Don’t Already Have?

Watch This Guy Desperately Try to Save His Dying, Water-Bound Drone

Rain, Architecture, Budweiser: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

This New 4D Batman Theme Park Ride Looks Like a Giant Nope-Coaster

More Rumors Point To Apple Turning Your iPhone Into a Digital Wallet

An Empty Spacesuit Is Full of Possibilities

This App Lets You Create Custom Shoes With Your Own Photos

You May Finally Be Able to Buy a OnePlus One Smartphone in October

Take a Birds-Eye Tour of Apple’s Huge Spaceship Campus

Why You Can’t Stop Getting Online Ads For Stuff You Already Bought

Top Engineer and Futurist: Tomorrow’s Robots Might Mercy-Kill Mankind

Here’s Your Adorable First Look At Pixar’s Upcoming Short

Report: Apple “Considering” iWatch Prices Up to $400

NASA Will Reformat Mars Rover’s Flash Memory From 125 Million Miles Away

11 Reasons Email Is the Worst

Airline Seats, iPhone 6, Viral Hoaxes, How We Watch Porn, and More

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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