When you’re working with tools, if you need to make a round hole, you reach for a drill. If you need a square hole, you reach for a saw. But a new accessory called the Quadsaw lets your drill cut square and rectangular holes as well, and faster than…
Lees meerMillions of years ago, B3 1715+425 was just an ordinary supermassive black hole. It had a comfortable life, of devouring stars and belching deadly x-rays, at the center of its distant galaxy. Now, starless and alone, it’s screaming through space at …
Lees meerAs native son Bill Murray predicted, the Cubs’ 108-year curse was broken last night after taking the World Series title against the Cleveland Indians. It was some damn fine baseball to behold. Read more...
Lees meerIn case the new MacBook Pros didn’t make it clear enough, USB-C is taking over the world, and Anker’s celebrating the occasion with deals on practically all of their USB-C products, including one of your favorite battery packs, the immensely popular…
Lees meerLocated in Utah, the Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, but years of drought and over-irrigation of nearby rivers have resulted in dramatic declines in water levels. New satellite photos reveal the disturbing ex…
Lees meerThe adorable NES Classic Edition won’t be available for another week, but there’s already a wireless replacement for the tiny console’s included tethered controller because as much as we all love retro authenticity, we’ve learned to despise wires wh…
Lees meerThe smartwatch and fitness tracker markets might be in a race to the bottom, but that hasn’t stopped Huawei, the Chinese phone maker, from tossing a watch-shaped tracker into the mix. It’s an interesting tack for a company known primarily for its ph…
Lees meerMost people look at skateboarders as hooligans, turning public parking lots and shopping malls into their own private skateparks. But it turns out a professional boarder can teach you more about physics than your high school science teacher ever cou…
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 board game sale.Read more...
Lees meerAfter weeks of delays and misleading statements about the shipping progress of its Mavic Pro drone, DJI has issued an apology to its customers.Read more...
Lees meerLast month, Gizmodo told you about the time a Boosted Board “tried to kill” one of our writers. Now, it turns out, the electric longboards might even be dangerous for people with excellent coordination.Read more...
Lees meerIt’s been a rough week for Simon Pegg on the Chinese social network Sina Weibo. The Shaun of the Dead star has been easing his way into the popular micro-blogging platform over the last year and within two days was able to piss people off and draw w…
Lees meerIf you watch a TV show long enough, the home becomes a character in itself. You start remembering the little details of each room, what scenes happened where, and start feeling like their home is just an extension of your house. Yeah, I remember…
Lees meerRazer has a gaming problem. That might be confusing to hear if you just know the company for its excellent keyboards and mice. Razer is a company built for gamers by gamers, and it has a well-deserved reputation for making great products for its cor…
Lees meerAboriginal people settled Australia’s hot, dry interior at least 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new archaeological evidence unearthed from an ancient rock shelter. It’s a remarkable discovery that points to a level of tec…
Lees meerToday the founder of Gawker Media, Nick Denton, announced that his bankrupt company would settle claims with three litigants: the wrestler Hulk Hogan, the scientist Shiva Ayyadurai, and the journalist Ashley Terrill. According to documents filed in …
Lees meerStreaming giant Netflix has been teasing offline playback for years—and delivering hollow excuses as to why the feature hasn’t been implemented yet. Most egregiously, the company said that it would add an undesirable level of complexity to the produ…
Lees meerCan’t understand how people in oversized hats riding horses and bulls is supposed to be entertaining? It turns out that rodeos were only boring because cowboys were wearing the wrong outfits. Put one in a T-rex costume on a bucking bronco and sudden…
Lees meerFilip Sterckx’s Gallery Invasion is a clever, kooky, and totally adorable art show that brings art works to life through projection mapping. It’s like those Night at the Museum movies but with drawings deciding to jump out of their canvas and pl…
Lees meerIf you’ve ever looked a map of the Arctic and thought, “There’s probably nothing up there but polar bears and ice,” you’d be wrong! At one point in time, there were Nazis up there. But not anymore, thankfully.Read more...
Lees meerThe US Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Wednesday it’s suing AT&T, alleging the company used DirecTV in an illegal campaign to block carriage of a television channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers.Read more...
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