Last night, photographers around the world turned their cameras to the sky to capture the closest full moon—also known as a supermoon—since 1948. We've scoured the web to bring you some of our favorite photos of the celestial event that took our minds off the current state of world affairs for a few blissful minutes.
Two Hurt After Plane Takes Evasive Maneuvers To Avoid Hitting Drone
Two aircraft crew members have reportedly been injured after their plane had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a drone upon landing near Toronto this morning, according to the CBC. The flight was Porter flight 204, and we still don't know if it actually hit the drone, or why the drone was there.
What Trump's Boycotting Supporters Will Be Living Without
In the wake of the election, Trump supporters have been calling for boycotts of companies and products whose ideals they feel do not align with the President-elect's. The number and importance of those services grows more expansive with each passing day—and includes the vast majority of popular internet services.
Watching a Butterfly Hatch Looks Beautifully Alien
One of the wildest things that happens in nature is caterpillars go to sleep one day and then transform into a damn butterfly after a month. I thought that as a kid, and I still think it now. Like, that's the closest thing we've got to actual sorcery on Earth.
I know, I know, Beats headphones don't have the best sound quality. Spare me your comments. But the new Solo3s include 40 hours of battery life, a folding design, and comfortable ear pads, not to mention the new W1 chip for easy pairing with Apple devices. For a limited time, you can save $80 on a pair from Amazon, which is a great discount for such a new product.
Despite Current Glut of Successful Scifi Shows, CBS Executive Says New Star Trek Wouldn't Work on TV
CBS can eat a bag of dicks. Come on, guys. Literally every other channel is making a ton of money off science fiction shows right now. Except you. Blaming the genre is just sad.
Nintendo Switch Will Reportedly Be Cheap But What's the Catch?
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Nintendo won't be giving us more details about the upcoming Nintendo Switch console until January, but we're already getting leaks of the expected launch pricing. It almost seems too good to be true.
This weekend, a mysterious, tar-covered houseboat apparently built by a Canadian adventurer was discovered unoccupied on Irish beach—some 3,000 miles from where it was last seen.
Electric Cars Must Now Make Noise and We Have Some Suggestions
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Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new "quiet car" safety standard, which is designed to protect pedestrians—particularly those who are vision-impaired—from hybrid and electric cars.
The Death Star Is the Only Star That Should Sit Atop Your Christmas Tree
If your love of Star Wars transcends all holiday traditions, then from this day forth Christmas just won't feel like Christmas unless the star atop your festive tree is actually the Death Star, ominously glowing and flashing like it's ready to shoot down some mistletoe.
In the days since the election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally started publicly confronting Facebook's fake news problem. In doing so, he's attempted to absolve the company of any blame but has offered no proof to support his claim that hoaxes and fake news aren't running rampant on Facebook. The company holds all of the internal data that could support Zuckerberg's claims, but is keeping it under wraps. It's time for Facebook to stop playing games.
After getting his internet privileges taken away by the Ecuadoran government in October, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is evidently bored. Currently in exile from the United States and facing rape charges in Europe, without internet, Assange has found a better way to pass the time: playing dress-up with his kitty cat.
Threat Detection CEO Suspended for Threatening to Kill Donald Trump
On Monday, San Diego-based cybersecurity firm PacketSled announced that it had placed its CEO on administrative leave after he made a series of Facebook comments threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump.
Marvel's Inhumans Movie Is Now an Inhumans TV Show, Coming September 2017
It looks like the Inhumans movie is no more. Marvel has just announced that, seemingly instead of seeing the adventures of Black Bolt, Medusa, and the Inhuman royal family as a movie, they will now appear in their own TV show on ABC.
Check Out These Ridiculous Presidential Plane And Limo Designs Fit For President-Elect Trump
It's time presidential transportation got as flashy and ridiculous as presidential politics. Luckily there's a science fiction director up to the task.
Google Says It Plans to Pull Ads From Fake News Sites
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On Monday, Google announced that it plans to prohibit misleading websites from using its ad-selling software, a policy update that could potentially threaten the business models of fake news sites across the web.
It was the pussy election. It was the Weird Twitter election. It was the nasty election. It was the meme election. We memed like we never had before, the nasty women, the white supremacist Pepes, the "epic Twitter clap backs." In the primaries, the memes were lighthearted. We had Bernie vs. Hillary and Ted Cruz Is the Zodiac Killer. Once we transitioned into the general, the meme-ing ramped up, taking an increasingly sinister turn as our country's future began to look more grim. We tried to distract ourselves with some Ken Bone, but even that quickly turned dark.
You Can Thank Twitter For Trump, According to Salesforce CEO
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Another nail in Twitter's coffin or perhaps the struggling social network finally figured out who she is? Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff—a man who once flirted with the idea of purchasing the site—told Recode's Kara Swisher (emphasis ours):
Today, Tinder introduced a new update that expands the platform's gender options. Now, instead of choosing between "man" or "woman," a user can search for and add any term that reflects their gender identity.
James Gunn on the Fox/Marvel Deal for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
A Wrinkle In Time gets a release date. Ghost in the Shell reveals its take on an iconic sequence from the anime. There could be less Leslie Thompkins on Gotham in the future. Plus, new posters for Logan and Rogue One, more clips from Fantastic Beasts, and a new look at Class. To me, my spoilers!
This Savage Mantis Shrimp Hides in the Sand So That It Can Stab Fish and Bury Them
Damn. Mantis shrimp are crazy. They can strike prey as fast as a .22 caliber bullet, but this other stabbing technique some mantis shrimp use to kill is scary dark.
The Stupidly Expensive June Oven Is Actually Stupidly Amazing
The June Oven is a super smart countertop convection oven. There's a camera built in that watches the food cook and can correctly identify what food you put in, helpfully supplying cooking modes; Wi-Fi so you can connect to the app to watch your food cook, adjust temperature, or even take set a reminder to take food out; and carbon fiber heating elements that intelligent heat depending on the food so food always comes out evenly cooked. It's all powered with an Nvidia chip making it the smartest oven you've ever used.
Scientists Just Discovered Three Adorably Tiny New Salamanders
A team of biologists has just named three new salamanders in the genus Thorius; the tiniest tailed tetrapods known to science. Smaller than a matchstick, these creatures are as strange as they are adorable, their miniaturized anatomy pushing the boundaries of what natural selection can produce. Tragically, all three species appear to be edging toward extinction.
Twitter Finally Rolls Out Obvious Anti-Harassment Feature
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Twitter is finally rolling out the ability to mute keywords and threads. Being able to mute pre-selected keywords from your notifications seems like a pretty obvious move for the social network, whose reputation has been badly tarnished as a result of rampant harassment of and by its users. It reportedly took Twitter more than a year to figure out how to implement the new feature. What an embarrassment.
This Swan-Shaped Floating Ladle Won't Sink to the Bottom of a Pot
It's certainly not the worst thing that could go wrong at a dinner party, but having a ladle sink to the bottom of a punch bowl or pot is no longer a potential embarrassment thanks to a clever swan-shaped alternative that's engineered to float so that it's always within easy reach.
How To Stop Windows 10 From Screwing Up Your Gorgeous Wallpaper
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Ever had the feeling your high-resolution desktop wallpaper isn't looking quite as fantastic as you thought it should? It could be because Windows 10 actually compresses the image, presumably to save space. Windows users have been complaining about the problem for months. Luckily, there is a way to make sure you're always seeing the best-resolution image on your display.
Why Doctors Are Advising Kim Kardashian to Avoid a Third Pregnancy
On Sunday's episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, doctors told Kim that a third pregnancy would be risky and even life-threatening owing to potential complication known as a "retained placenta." Here's what that means, and why Kim is now seriously considering getting a surrogate mother.
Your Unsecure Devices Contributed to a Huge Rise in Internet Outages This Year
If it seems like your favorite sites have been down more than usual this year, you're not alone. Late last month, major DDoS attacks left much of the United States unable to connect to any websites. Those attacks were just the latest in a marked increase in attacks across the internet.
New DC/CW Crossover Trailer Reveals the Alien Menace, a Returning Foe, and More
We've got another brief glimpse at the big crossover between Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow, and unsurprisingly it is filled with the delights these shows have become known for. But it also gives us our first look at the big bad guys the heroes will be teaming up against: DC's Dominators.
Welcome to Giz Asks, a series where we ask suddenly urgent questions and experts try to answer them. Today, we're wondering if it's possible to be a robotic artificial intelligence entity and not know it.
Some Facebook employees have formed a secret, unofficial task force to help the company combat fake news, according to a Buzzfeed report that broke last night. The group, which reportedly includes "more than dozens" of employees, challenged Mark Zuckerberg's comments that fake news on the platform didn't affect the…
This Spellbinding Star Map Will Make Your Inner Space Geek Drool
The men and women who came up with the 88 officially-recognized constellations definitely had richer imaginations than I do. I don't see animals, dragons and centaurs when I look at the night sky, and I'm generally okay with that. Still, when I came across this new celestial map, I got a small taste of the wonder the…
This Crab Multitool Is Way More Adorable Than a Leatherman
You're probably not going to want to rely on this little crab-shaped multitool for survival—definitely pack a Gerber or a Leatherman instead. But for a day at the beach, or an afternoon picnic, it packs all the basic tools you should need to enjoy yourself.
Fancy computer phones are great. They let us communicate, work, document, learn, complain, order dinner, find consensual sex friends, and plenty of other fun things. If I could attach myself to my phone with some sort of strange, dystopian umbilical cord-like apparatus, I would.
Norway's Experimental Police Uniform Is Silly and Sort of Scary
A public backlash has emerged in Norway in response to a proposed police uniform that's been compared to outfits worn by science fiction villains and totalitarian dictators.
Everything You Need to Know From the Rogue One Prequel Novel Before You See the Movie
Can't wait for Rogue One to finally arrive next month? Then you should know Catalyst by James Lucerno, a prequel novel that sets the stage for the events of Rogue One, comes out today. If you've ever had a hankering to know all about how the Death Star was built, this is the book for you. But here's all the info that …
Mounting a GoPro to a Flying Arrow Is Obviously a Brilliant Idea
As YouTube's Sam and Niko discovered, mounting a small action camera, like a GoPro Hero5 Session, to an arrow isn't terribly difficult. The hard part is finding a way to stabilize the spinning footage it captures so that you end up with these hypnotic first-person views of an arrow in flight.
Google's Photo Scan App Makes Backing Up Old Snaps Easy as Hell
This holiday season, there's a good chance you'll wind up going through dusty old printed photos with friends and family—photos you can't see anywhere on the web. That's because these old photos are usually confined to a shoe box or binder hidden in the basement or storage closet. You might flip through them…
Seriously, What the Hell Is Going on With the Zords in the Power Rangers Movie
Ever since its first reveals, we knew the Power Rangers film would skew its Zord design away from the prehistoric animals of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and toward something more alien than fans might expect. The first look at the rest of the team Zords though, shows just how weird it's getting.
Pick Up a New Set of Michelin Stealth Wiper Blades For $20
If you missed out on on last month's wiper blade sale, Amazon will sell you two Michelin Stealth blades today for $20. Just add any two to your cart (shipped and sold by Amazon.com), and the price will automatically be reduced to $20 at checkout. The deal even works if you buy two different sized blades, so you…
A Shocking Number of People With Ebola Don't Show Symptoms
Scientists have learned that upwards of 25 percent of all people who become infected with Ebola show none of the typical symptoms. The finding suggests the recent West African Ebola Epidemic was more widespread than previously thought, and that new methods need to be developed to diagnose and contain the dreaded virus…
Apple's War on Upgrades Continues With the New Touch Bar MacBook Pro
Apple's quest to make its laptops ultra slim and ultra light have led to the company increasingly soldering upgradable parts into the guts of its notebook computers.
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