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A NASA Scientist Made an App Dedicated to More Secure Boobs

Bras are pretty much some of the oldest pieces of tech around—the undergarment can even trace its roots all the way back to the freelovin’ days of ancient Greece. So as something most women wear nearly every day, it’s amazing how many studies have come out claiming that ladies everywhere our wearing their bras all…

How Is This 8-Bit Blade Runner Game Not Actually Real?

If you love Blade Runner (and how could you not), you’ve just got to have a soft-spot for old-school games (and how could you not). This little masterpiece proves that they’re two great tastes that taste great together. Whipped up for 8-Bit Cinema by the folks who brought you 8-Bit Star Trek, this isometric Blade…

Your Busted Apple MagSafe Cords Power These Clever Lamps

The MagSafe power cord is one of Apple’s smartest features. They tend to crap out after a few months of hard use, though, thanks either to your poor wire-wrapping technique or your dog’s penchant for copper wire. But that doesn’t have to be the end of the line. https://gizmodo.com/the-macbooks-most-underrated-feature-511300704 For Brian Richer, who co-owns the…

The U.S. Has More Internet Porn Than Any Other Country

America: land of the free, home of the most internet porn in the universe. According to a study, the U.S. of A hosts 60 percent—or 428 million pages—of the world’s porn. The data was collected by Paul Walsh of a company called Metacard. He found that the U.S. is second only to the Netherlands, which…

Is Your YouTube Slathered In Counterfeit Ads?

It’s bad enough seeing ads all over YouTube, but some shifty malware has been making things even worse. A couple of YouTube-downloader apps have been sliding in a bunch of unauthorized ads and selling them to big brands like Amazon, Blackberry, Kellogg’s and Toyota. So if you’ve been trying to snag some free YouTube vids,…

Archeologist badger reveals 12th Century tombs

Badgers are cool. They don’t give a damn about anything, not even Slavic lords or warriors from the 12th century. That’s why this badger excavated his lair on top of their tombs, making a great discovery in the process. https://gizmodo.com/badger-unearths-medieval-graves-in-germany-1133762133

This Could Be a Yellow iPhone 5c Next to an iPhone 5

A blogger/possible Apple sleuth named Sonny Dickson showed us a gallery of lovely candy colored iPhones that might be Apple’s next smartphone earlier this month. Now Dickson’s released a video that gives us an even closer look at the housing of the purported iPhone 5c. https://gizmodo.com/oh-man-i-want-these-budget-iphone-photos-to-be-real-1054208244 The video is further pushing the rumors that the…

Japan Wants to Build an Ice Wall to Contain Fukushima’s Radioactive Water

Radioactive water full of carcinogenic chemicals is leaking out of the Fukushima power plant at a critical rate, critical enough for the Nuclear Regulation Authority to deem the situation an “emergency.” It’s one of those desperate times, and the measures under consideration sound a little bit desperate. https://gizmodo.com/fukushimas-leaking-radioactive-water-into-the-ocean-aft-870532242 One of the leading candidates for a…

Find Your Fortune With Thor’s Metal-Detecting Mjölnir Hammer

There’s apparently one aspect of Thor’s uber-powerful Mjölnir hammer that wasn’t touched on in the Thor movie or The Avengers: It works as some kind of ancient intergalactic metal detector. That’s right. When he’s not battling giant robots or his brother Loki, Thor can apparently be found wandering the beach, dragging his hammer through the…

Dealzmodo: Amazon Flash Storage Gold Box [Updated]

Amazon is having a killer sale on flash storage and you should definitely take advantage. Several lowest prices ever and everything else close to historic lows. Click through for all the deals or check out some of our best picks below. [Amazon] http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=xs_gb_A2AJXIMJOQ2OJC?tag=gizmodo08c-20 SanDisk Extreme 32GB SDHC Card ($28) | I’m definitely buying at least…

How Apple Is Changing Its Definition of “Pro”

In recent years, many pros have started feeling like Apple’s jilted girlfriend. Through no fault of their own, the love just seemed to fade. Apple might claim otherwise when confronted, but the telltale signs have been hard to ignore: Mac Pro: Apple’s most powerful Mac has been agonizingly slow in the update department. It hasn’t…

Does This Colorless, Flavorless, Nihilist Toothpaste Even Exist?

What’s the point of brushing your teeth every morning and every evening with this bland nihilist toothpaste? They’re just going to get dirty again and again. And speaking of cavities, who’s to say they exist? Or the dentists who treat them? Or even the world where these supposed dentists live? And what’s the point of…

Pneumatic Tubes Are Working Their Way Back Into the Pipeline

You might think of pneumatic tubes as an arcane means of pushing letters around big buildings—but there’s a quiet revolution in the pipeline which could see them challenging digital communication, at least some of the time. New Scientist’s Jacob Aron has written a wonderful feature about the rebirth of pneumatic tubes as a communication system.…

So when does Windows 8.1 come out? October 18th in stores and the day before online! The update will be pushed out to all Windows 8 users via the Windows Store. [Windows]

8 Ethereal Weather Installations That Recreate Fog, Snow, and Storms

Humans have been obsessed with the weather—and how to control it—since the dawn of time. We talk about it constantly. We spend millions of dollars trying to change it. And, in some cases, we celebrate it—like the eight architects and artists behind these installations. https://gizmodo.com/the-rainmakers-how-human-beings-control-the-weather-707081383 As far as subject matter goes, the elements are second…

Breakfast Cereal, Made With a Gun, in Slow-Motion

It might seem unlikely, but once upon a time the cereal you tiredly shove into your face every morning came out of a gun. But it was a very special kind of gun: a puffing gun. In fact, the puffing cannon was a major turning point in food technology, allowing starchy foods to be heated…

Philips Hue Light Bulbs Are Highly Hackable

If you’re the proud owner of some smart Philips Hue light bulbs, watch out for blackouts—because the bulbs seem to be susceptible to malicious attacks according to new research. https://gizmodo.com/turn-your-home-into-a-psychadellic-den-with-philips-ne-1045294673 Work by Nitesh Dhanjani shows that Hue’s control portal—referred to as “the bridge”—uses a pretty shaky authentication system to communicate wirelessly with devices like phones…

How Machines Think

When people talk about artificial intelligence, it’s tempting to think that it means computers can think (a little) like humans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out that’s not quite the case. This video from New Scientist explains how machine are designed to be capable of solving problems that humans can—just not quite in the same way.…

Rumor has it that Sony is launching a flash-based PlayStation 3 with just 12GB of storage in North America—potentially priced at around $200 and available from the 18th August.

Where Those Weird Prescription Drug Names Come From

Prescription pharmaceuticals tend to have some pretty weird and wonderful names: Bremabecestat, Vepoloxamer, Nexbolizumab, Orilotimod. They sound more like characters from sci-fi films than something you’d want to ingest. So where the hell do they come from? Well, wonder no longer, because James Harbeck from The Week had decided to find out for you. Though…