Two emergency fire trucks at LaGuardia airport sprayed water haphazardly in the air today over the President-elect Donald Trump’s plane. It’s called a “water cannon salute.” And I can’t think of a more fitting picture of waste for a man whose entire…
Lees meerScientists in the UK have developed a USB stick that can quickly and accurately measure the amount of HIV is in a patient’s blood. Read more...
Lees meerLast month, we covered the arrest of a teenager who utilized a bug to spread a malicious link on Twitter that forced iPhones to repeatedly call 911. And now, we finally know how the bug actually works. Read more...
Lees meerStreet View has always been a useful Google tool, letting you spy on holiday destinations, historical landmarks, and your own driveway from the comfort of a web-connected computer. What it lacks is a way to take a seamless ride through a Street View…
Lees meerIf those copies of Monopoly and Risk are gathering dust in your game cabinet, you can stock it with better options during Amazon’s one-day Ravensburger and Wonder Forge board game sale.Read more...
Lees meerWednesday night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued his first public statement on the results of the 2016 election, adopting an optimistic tone in a post on the social network tagged “feeling hopeful.”Read more...
Lees meerSlime mold is fascinating, because though it’s only a single cell organism with no brain, it somehow stretches its tentacle-like fingers in a coherent pattern in search for food. This time lapse footage speeds up the process of that goopy crawl …
Lees meerOn Wednesday, the transition team for President-elect(!) Donald Trump unveiled his first official government website, greatagain.gov, further demonstrating that this is a real thing that’s really happening.Read more...
Lees meerAll hail the Brazilian free-tailed bat, which has just claimed a new flight speed record for all mammal-kind.Read more...
Lees meerA good hug is what everyone needs at any time on any day. It’s a certain type of closeness combined with a sense of security, and a shared warmth that makes it necessary. Some hugs are sad and emotional, others are happy and relieved, but after …
Lees meerAt approximately 2:30am EST, Donald J. Trump—a man who shares in common all the traits of burgeoning fascists through history—was declared the 45th president of the United States of America. He will take the office with a Republican majority in both…
Lees meerToday started off as a good day for Twitter. Our new Cheeto-stained President-elect basically ran his entire campaign on the service (it is where trolls live, after all) and the stock closed up 4 percent, on a day when most tech stocks plummeted.Rea…
Lees meerDonald Trump made some pretty scary threats during the election about cracking down on abortion. Here’s a quick refresher on his campaign promises—and why women have every right to be very worried.Read more...
Lees meerIf you woke up today wishing to fling yourself into a black hole, you may be wondering what’s in store for NASA under President-elect Donald Trump. It is difficult to say much with certainty. But overall, the space agency will probably be directed t…
Lees meerWhen I was in elementary school, kids used to pass around printed out copies of The Anarchist’s Cookbook and we would delight in the type of mischief and mayhem that book described. My favorite entry was the one for the floppy disk bomb. According t…
Lees meerYour grandma doesn’t have to be the only one with an television standing on wooden legs. Doshisha just released a retro-looking TV with all the hallmarks of a one straight from the 1970s. Although it looks like it’s more than 40 years old, the TV is…
Lees meerDonald Trump said repeatedly during his campaign that he wants to gut the Department of Education. What did the Department of Education think about that? An internal memo released to Gizmodo today shows that the federal agency cautioned its employee…
Lees meerHell has officially frozen over. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series; Donald Tump won the US presidency; and now, internet villain Martin Shrkeli, who’s best known for jacking up the price of HIV/AIDs medication, has performed a public service: He…
Lees meerThere were a ton of nominations in this week’s hunt for the best rice cooker, but two stood out from the pack. One is a dedicated rice cooker, and the other is a multipurpose device that’s already your favorite slow cooker. So it’s time for you to b…
Lees meerLast night, against all odds, Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States. The real estate mogul and reality TV star, who has said he would ban all Muslims from entering the country and once bragged about sexually assaulting women, wi…
Lees meerThanks to the internet and being able to easily share videos of them playing out, those pointlessly complicated Rube Goldberg machines are more popular than ever. But this wonderful kinetic sculpture actually uses the internet as one of its countles…
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