YouTube is famously terrible at announcing site changes, and the upcoming rollout of its “community” features are thus far no different. Today it created a program to enlist users as moderators, and it’s bound to be a goddamn mess.Read more...
Lees meerA relatively small number of crops make up a lot of the world’s diet. But, as the world gets hotter, the places that we’re able to grow these crops is moving.Read more...
Lees meerNorth Korea is something of a locked box to the rest of the world, and even one of the handiest apparatuses through which you can glimpse cultural habits—the internet—is largely inaccessible to anyone outside the country. Thanks to what appears to b…
Lees meerMGT Capital Investment, the penny stock turned “technology company” led by noted liar and trickster John McAfee is crashing on the New York Stock Exchange following a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission.Read more...
Lees meerMakerBot was going to change the world. It was going to bring 3D-printing, long a product limited to designer offices and workshops, into the home (or at least the garage). But earlier today, under a veil of marketing speak and glitzy videos, the co…
Lees meerI’ve never actually watched an episode of Sherlock, but I’ve heard enough good things about the BBC series to know that it’s one of those Good Television shows. You know, the ones that smart-ish people love telling other smart-ish people that th…
Lees meerA team of researchers were able to wirelessly attack a Tesla Model S and gain control over some of its internal electronic components including the car’s brakes. And they pulled it off from 12 miles away.Read more...
Lees meerWhen the robot uprising happens, I don’t know which side Donald Trump’s TelePrompter will be on. But I can’t help but think that at the very least Trump’s TelePrompter is currently trying to tell us something. This photo was taken earlier today at a…
Lees meerDo you put premium gasoline in your car? You’re probably wasting your money. A new study by AAA found that 16.5 million Americans had filled up their cars with premium gas unnecessarily in the past year. That’s $2.1 billion, completely wasted.Read m…
Lees meerMost selfie sticks deserved to be tossed into an active volcano, but when you attach a stabilizing gimbal, suddenly you’ve got something genuinely worth sharing on Instagram.Read more...
Lees meerWhen the price of oil plunges, as it has in the past two years, all of the largest oil companies in the world write down their losses. All, that is, except for one huge company.Read more...
Lees meerThe third season of Star Wars Rebels premieres this weekend and, if we haven’t made it abundantly clear for the last several years, it’s a show every Star Wars fan should absolutely be watching. But if you haven’t, and you don’t have time to catch u…
Lees meerA 10,000-acre wildfire that began just off a Californian Air Force base continues to spread. And it’s heading closer and closer to the base’s rocket launchpads. Read more...
Lees meerThe latest version of OS X, now called macOS, is available to download!Read more...
Lees meerAn Italian neuroscientist who wants to perform the world’s first human head transplant next year is claiming to have conducted radical spinal cord experiments on mice, rats, and a dog. Experts say the results are vague and incomplete, and that talk …
Lees meerThe Philips Hue system is one of the few smart home solutions that work as well as you need them to, having been around for quite a few years now. But if you don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on the requisite wireless hub and color-changing bu…
Lees meerMark Zuckerberg wants to make one thing absolutely clear: “[Facebook is] a tech company, not a media company.” That may or may not explain why Facebook is partnering with one of the largest news organizations in America to cover three of the bigges…
Lees meerOn September 10th, the Arctic hit its annual summertime ice minimum. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, it was the second lowest summertime low since satellite record-keeping began. And as a series of new visualizations show, this t…
Lees meerTwenty-seven years ago today, Apple introduced its first battery-powered Mac, the Macintosh Portable. I could take this time to reflect on 27 years of portable Macs and all they have given to us (the cameos in Sex and the City alone are life changin…
Lees meerTMZ reports that Angelina Jolie, actress, noted humanitarian, and possible Gizmodo fan, has filed for divorce from husband Brad Pitt. Read more...
Lees meerThere’s no room for your briefcase so it’s hard to use for your daily commute, but just think how fast you’d ride to work on the Aerovelo Eta which just set a new record for the World’s Fastest Human-Powered vehicle reaching 89.59 miles per hour. Th…
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