Nov 30 2015
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Today is my last day at io9 and Gizmodo. It’s been a long, astounding road, to say the least. I founded io9 back in…
Annalee Newitz
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Annalee was the founding editor of io9. Their latest books are Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age and The Future of Another Timeline.
Nov 27 2015
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Two weeks ago, we surveyed 3,670 people online about how they communicate. We discovered a remarkable difference…
Nov 25 2015
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Over at Bird and Moon, naturalist Rosemary Mosco has created a small booklist of field guides that will never exist.…
Nov 24 2015
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Water bears, known to scientists as tardigrades, are famously adorable microscopic creatures who can survive…
Nov 24 2015
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iFixit makes the greatest tech tool kits out there, and now they’ve updated their bestselling Pro Tech toolkit for…
Nov 23 2015
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Last week, the government of Bangladesh ordered ISPs to ban Facebook and other social media. In the chaos that…
Nov 22 2015
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A bizarre research study has revealed that neuroscientists are more excited at the prospect of seeing their names in…
Nov 20 2015
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It’s been an amazing week of secret histories on Gizmodo, and we wanted to finish up by sharing our own secret…
Nov 18 2015
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Well, OK, it’s not the kind of dongle you’d expect. The paperback sticky note is a pad of paper that sticks to the…
Nov 16 2015
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You’ve heard the official histories of your country, your computers, and your shoes. But do you know what really…
Nov 13 2015
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In this gorgeous concept art, Karl Ellis gives us a peek at a world that is almost like Earth, but not quite. At the…
Nov 13 2015
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Parker Molloy likes to take pictures of weird things in her off-hours. Sometimes she posts them on Twitter with…
Nov 12 2015
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A recent survey from Pew Research found that 18-34 year-olds are living with their parents for much longer than any…
Nov 12 2015
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Is there a difference between how the olds and the youngs are communicating online? Is Facebook for middle-agers,…
Nov 10 2015
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A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances,…
Nov 5 2015
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Biotech visionary and entrepreneur Craig Venter, famous for inventing a technique to sequence his own genome back in…
Nov 5 2015
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We’ve known for a while that testosterone is associated with aggressive behavior. But a fascinating new experiment…
Nov 4 2015
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Facebook is looking down the barrel of a future advertising crisis, so it’s trying to think up new ways to put “buy…
Nov 2 2015
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There’s a lot of uncertainty about the future of women and minorities in the tech industry, but I think there’s one…
Oct 30 2015
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Whether you’re a bird lover or a data fiend, this poster will please you immensely.