So 2017 is only a few days old, but the breakout star so far is Slenderman. He’s the terrifying internet meme turned real-life crime inspiration who is soon to be the subject of an HBO documentary, which just got a…
Bitcoin does not sleep, nor do its markets. Most exchanges run 24/7, day and night, even on weekends and holidays. This is one reason some day traders — the people who trade on the price swings per hour or even…
A giant stellar nursery shows off its newborn stars in a new photo taken by a powerful telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. The nursery — known formally as the Orion A molecular cloud — is actually the closest known “star…
Two weeks ago, I watched The OA, an eight-hour TV series centered on a white woman who died, came back to life, and used her post-resurrection insights to help other people get their souls right. It was a good if…
There’s always been a few Hulks running around the Marvel universe, but in the wake of Bruce Banner’s death in Civil War II, there’s now one more joining Amadeus Cho and Jen Walters—and, true to form for a character in…
Image: Wikimedia Malaria is among the world’s deadliest diseases. It killed King Tut and Genghis Khan, along with as many as half of all of the people that have ever lived. And despite modern disease management strategies like insecticides, drugs…
Getty Image Photo by Brendon Thorne / Getty Images So you’ve made your New Year’s resolution to work out more, but four days in and you’re struggling to find the motivation to hit the gym. Here’s 67-year-old Ric Flair deadlifting…
Disappearing messages don’t impress security professionals, given how flimsy a privacy protection they offer, but despite an inherently fickle form the feature keeps recurring on comms platforms. The latest to add what it calls an “unsend” feature is mobile messaging platform Telegram —…
Image: Mario Aguilar/Gizmodo If you weren’t watching Samsung’s TV event and LG press conference you might have missed it. The curved TV, once considered the whizzbang tech that would save televisions, is dead. Not quite in the ground, but no…
The Internet of Things is the name of the game at CES 2017. If you can think of a product, there’s a good chance a vendor not only has it, but has one that’s connected to the internet via WiFi,…