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NYTimes.com went dark for the second time in a month on Tuesday afternoon, but that doesn’t mean the newspaper will stop publishing. Bypassing the DNS, The Times is continuing to publish stories under its bare IP address. And the reporters are continuing to write. Aside from being fast and smart, the Times’s work around is…
They may ensure your roast or ribs stay moist and flavorful, but the nightmare of cleaning a basting brush almost makes the effort not worth it. What you need is some kind of disposable alternative. Something that not only lets you brush on added depth and flavor, but something that infuses its own unique seasoning…
If you’ve ever had a migraine, you’ve probably experienced photophobia, the painful sensitivity to light that sends you scurrying, eyes closed, to the darkest dungeon you can find. In that moment, you’re probably wishing for a way to (temporarily) unplug your eyeballs and put an end to the agony. Researchers at The Salk Institute could…
These days there’s a new rumor or smartwatch announcement every time you fire up the internet. But they’re all designed to work alongside a smartphone doing boring things like display caller IDs or rejecting a call. Not the Hoop Tracker. This is the first watch designed to keep track of your prowess at the rim…
There’s nothing quite like seeing a vintage 3D movie on the big screen. Sure, we have plenty of movies released in 3D here in the 21st century. But back in the 1950s (and even much earlier) the 3D movie was a taste of the future. Which is why I’m pretty excited for a little festival…
Deep water and the unprotected human body don’t play well together—like, at all. But what if there were a way to get around the body’s chemical limitations, a means of deep diving without the bends or lengthy decompression? Actually, there is. And we’ve almost figured out how to do it without killing ourselves in the…
When the proverbial cow kicked over the proverbial lantern on a Tuesday night in 1871 Chicago, it set in motion an urban transformation that would see its hodgepodge of wooden buildings replaced with the Windy City we know today. Now, thanks to the data viz wizards at Esri and the patronage of The Smithsonian, you…
Your kitchen drawers are probably already packed with piles of gadgets you don’t need, but then again who could possibly resist this cute $14 turntable timer? Only a monster, that’s who. You just spin its tiny record to start a countdown timer up to 55 minutes long, but it appears to handle seconds just as…
After months of toeing the “red line” set by US president Obama regarding the use of chemical weapons against his own civilian population, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime has seemingly been caught killing more than 300 Syrian civilians and sickening over 1000 more in a suspected sarin nerve gas attack. The US has already considered…
Das Keyboards have received positive reviews across the board from consumers and professional outlets alike, including Gizmodo, and were the runner up (by a small margin) in Lifehacker’s Desktop Keyboard Hive-Five. https://lifehacker.com/five-best-desktop-keyboards-30780058 Today you can put a Das Keyboard on your desk for about 100 bucks after clipping the digital coupon on Amazon’s page. You…
Nissan got bold on Tuesday afternoon by announcing plans to build and, more notably, sell an affordable self-driving car by 2020. And when Nissan say affordable, it means it. The company estimates the cost of upgrading a luxury sedan to a luxury autonomous sedan will be just $1,000. https://jalopnik.com/what-its-like-to-ride-around-in-nissans-autonomous-ca-1208520128 This is a bold move for…
Don’t buy the new Madden NFL 25. It sucks balls. Not only it has the same deficiencies of the previous version, Madden NFL 13, but it introduces some new gimmicky crap that makes it unenjoyable. Here’s how it works. https://kotaku.com/madden-nfl-25-the-kotaku-review-1207512756
Sit down for this one. Researchers at the University of Washington have figured out how to send commands from one person’s brain to control a different person’s muscle movement. In technical terms, it’s the world’s first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface. How’d they do it? Vulcan mind meld? Nope, just the regular ol’ internet. What in…
Brace yourself to see every elementary-level experiment to ever hit a science fair. Earlier this month, GE held a competition asking people to pack as much science as possible into six second vines, and this is a compilation of the best ones. You will recognize most of these experiments, because chances are, you’ve done them…
In photography, we have access to an unlimited palette of colors. But how good of a photographer are you, really? What can you do with just one? WINNER: Chamber My day job is testing aircraft avionics. We use an anechoic chamber during some of our tests, and it has always been my favorite place in…
Everybody who’s ever done a video chat has felt the frustration. You call your pal using Skype or whatever so that you can see their face and they can see yours, but whoops, you’re not even looking at each other. You’re looking at the screen so your eyes are slightly off-center. Annoying! But maybe not…
It’s everyone’s favorite time of year—the birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, and PornHub has just released a big, ol’ sticky mess of data about the country’s porn habits. And the conclusion? The MILF is alive and well, Nevada is weirdly into adult film star Anita Queen, and anyone invested in the porn industry…
Do you know the difference between an AT-AT and an AT-ST? What’s the Vulcan farewell message? Where’s the Truth, according to Mulder? Test your geekdom level with this 50 things a geek should know infographic. https://gizmodo.com/50-things-a-geek-should-know-1205516959
It’s not hard to make the arctic beautiful. But the observatories, abandoned factories, and shipwrecks scattered across its white expanse? That’s tougher. For landscape photographer Reuben Wu, that was exactly the allure of the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Wu is a musician by trade—he’s a member of the electro act Ladytron and a DJ the…
Whether you like it or not, sunburns from these balmy late summer days will soon give way to that dreadful dry skin of early winter mornings. It’s inevitable, and if you don’t prepare yourself now, it’ll be miserable. That’s right. It’s almost humidifier season. The Casamita humidifier is what you need. Powered by AAA batteries…
