Isaac Schultz
It’s not every day your childhood arrives at your door in the form of ice cream, but it happened to me recently.
Your always-congested sinuses might be a harbinger of more trouble down the road, new research out Friday suggests. The small study found evidence of a link between chronic sinus inflammation and altered, possibly harmful brain activity. The findings don’t necessarily prove that the two things are directly connected, but they…
When the internet was mourning the impending shutdown of Yahoo Answers, announced earlier this week, there was a sentiment that you saw over and over again: that shutting the site down was akin to the library of Alexandria burning down.
Its adorableness aside, the Mexican axolotl is a salamander of particular interest to scientists. On the molecular level, the animal seems to have a cheat code for life: It can regenerate its limbs and vital organs, an ability researchers are desperate to better understand for medical applications.
Casio watches range from the super-complex to the dead simple, and this homage to NASA trends to the latter. The watch, the G-Shock DW5600, basically just tells time, but, if you love the Space Shuttle or you’re a hypebeast, you’ll be telling time in style.
On Friday, the small Caribbean island of St. Vincent became the epicentre of the seismic world when La Soufriere volcano sent a cloud of ash flying 6,096 metres into the sky and streaming across the Atlantic.
The Chromecast with Google TV is one of our favourite gadgets for getting audio and video content up on an HDMI-equipped big screen, but its capabilities can be extended even further with the right accessory — specifically, a USB-C hub.
Roughly 9.5 million people traded cryptocurrency on the Robinhood app in the first quarter of 2021, the company announced in a new blog post on Thursday. The number is significantly higher than the last quarter of 2020, when just 1.7 million people traded cryptocurrencies on Robinhood, according to the company.
Queenslanders will soon be able to ditch their physical driver licence for a digital version carried on their smartphone device. Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads confirmed that the government would proceed with a plan to roll-out digital driver licences across the state, Courier-Mail’s Jack McKay reported on Friday….
The Australian government has helpfully confirmed that the COVID-19 vaccines won’t connect you to the internet as part of their attempts to dispel myths about the jab. When people think misinformation and conspiracy theories, they often think of complicated and sophisticated attempts to mislead or confuse. Sometimes they’re based on…
Science fiction has a rich history in countless cultures, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. And Netflix has been getting in on the action for a while now. Here are our five picks for international sci-fi shows you should definitely check out on the streaming…
Yesterday, a short clip from the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife introduced the Mini-Pufts, miniature versions of the classic Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man that terrorised Manhattan back in the original 1984 movie. They’re adorable…in theory, because in practice they’re tiny nightmares who live only to torture, murder, and cannibalise each other.
Looks like someone included women in the sequel after all.
One of the first things that gives away how disappointing Godzilla vs. Kong’s focus on humanity will be is the way the movie seemingly foregoes any sense of internal logic, moving characters like Millie Bobby Brown’s Madison Russell from one location to another faster than a human could reasonably travel.
Using pigments found in red cabbage, an international team of scientists has created a natural blue food colorant that could eventually replace synthetic versions.
Gizmodo is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Equations of the Dead” by An Owomoyela. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on our website. Enjoy!
If you’re ashamed to take your earbuds out of your ears in public because of what might be caked inside them and yet too disgusted to clean them at home, you better believe there’s a Kickstarter product to solve that. Imagine a washing machine miniaturised to sit on a desk…
Covid-19 is ravaging Brazil, but the country’s sweaty, fashy president, Jair Bolsonaro, refuses to do jack shit about it.
For the past few months, every studio has been figuring out how to balance theatrical movies with growing streaming services. Warner Bros. has one strategy, Disney another, and Paramount yet another. Now Sony has its own strategy and it’s got the biggest name recognition possible: Netflix.
For just under a year now, we’ve been seeing Spotify make acquisition after acquisition and product update after product update in order to establish a foothold in the ad-targeting space. Now, the company’s embarking on a new dataset for this purpose: your voice.
There’s more methane in the atmosphere than any other time since record keeping began — and levels really spiked last year, despite the fact that we were all inside for most of the time.
Between offshore oil and gas drilling, shipping, wind turbines, and even jet skis, the ocean is a pretty loud place. But amid covid-19, a lot of that activity came to a halt. That’s given scientists a rare chance to examine how marine ecosystems respond to quieter soundscapes. A new initiative,…
Until recently, the carding store Swarmshop was a popular, illicit online market where cybercriminals could go to sell and purchase stolen credit card and banking data. However, the store’s luck may have run out — and it may have take a little of your luck with it.
The first Tesla, as we all know, was a heavily re-worked Lotus Elise transformed into something novel: An electric car that was fun, not just good for the environment. Tesla wanted to work with an established manufacturer on its first effort, but it wasn’t initially Lotus. The original plan was…
Over the last decade we’ve seen the amount of people who own and use dash cams steadily increase. If you don’t already have one, chances are you know someone who does. At the very least you’ve most likely watched one or two of Dash Cam Owners Australia videos on YouTube…
Keep your smartphone, tablet and laptop powered up even when you’ve left your plug charger at home with this selection of power banks.
A senior advisor to controversial politician Craig Kelly is running dozens of local Facebook groups in the MP’s electorate without any disclosure of his employment. Gizmodo Australia has seen more than 30 examples of Facebook groups specific to Sydney’s Sutherland Shire that have the personal Facebook account and public Facebook…
Social media giant Twitter was reportedly in talks to Clubhouse for a staggering $US4 billion ($5.26 billion), according to Bloomberg. However, these talks have now stalled. After launching last year in an exclusive fashion, Clubhouse has amassed more than 10 million users despite remaining invite-only and iOS-only. The app is…
Though HBO Max’s new series Made For Love, an adaptation of Alissa Nutting’s 2017 novel of the same name, is charged with the same foreboding dread about a technology-saturated near future that’s present in Black Mirror, the show imagines a hero who has enough sense to understand how messed up…
Television shows often take a bit of time to find their footing, with series like only getting better with each passing season. Then there are the shows that peaked early. Like, really early.
Urbanista isn’t a household name. Founded in Sweden, the company makes low-cost, high-design headphones for folks who don’t want to spend a few hundred dollars on options from Apple, Bose, or Beats. Their latest product, the Miami, is a pair of active noise-cancelling headphones with 50-hour battery life and a tempting…
Amazon wanted its workforce to break its back for 10 hours straight, four nights a week, hauling boxes. It got what it wished. As a result, its labour pool is growing stronger by the day — just not to its advantage.
Sweep the leg? No. More like sweep the globe. For aliens.
