Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is one of the most crowded cities on Earth. An estimated 200,000 people live in a single square mile in some neighborhoods — nearly three times the density of Manhattan. In 2017, German photographer Bernhard…
Image: Wikimedia Like a baseball player running to make a catch, dragonflies are also capable of predicting the trajectory of a moving object, typically its next meal. New research is revealing the mechanisms behind this complex cognitive task, which was…
Cell phones are being used as solar computers to save the rain forests By Mashable2017-07-25 16:00:00 UTC Cell phones have powerful computers inside them. This company is using old ones to save the rain forests. Mashable’s new series, A Cleaner…
Audi recently unveiled its new luxury sedan — and it should make BMW and Mercedes nervous. The all-new Audi A8 will support level 3 autonomous driving, meaning the car can handle most scenarios without driver intervention. The sedan takes a direct…
As people age, they tend to lose sharpness when it comes to reaction time, spatial awareness, and vision. In Japan, where the elderly population has been swelling for the past two decades, that shift has led to an alarming trend…
Searching on Google can often feel like a useless pursuit. Type something into the search box, and millions of results pop up with endless information that can take hours to sort through. San Francisco-based startup Node wants to change that. …
All images: Marina Galperina/Gizmodo This is opulence. Suddenly, there is extra light blasting from behind my TV screen, making a day-glow title sequence positively atomic. The DreamScreen, a backlighting system that’s designed to make your TV viewing more immersive, is…
It’s easy to imagine the world’s most powerful people as being mysterious and aloof, but thanks to the wonders of Twitter, we can now regularly witness them being just as petty as the rest of us. Everyone’s favorite eccentric billionaire…
Android has an emoji problem. No, it’s not those weird blobs (RIP), but something that’s been nearly as tricky to fix. Because of Android handset makers’ inconsistent updates, not only do many Android users not get new software updates in…
A team of Stanford scientists have created what could be the perfect "eye" for autonomous vehicles and delivery drones thus far. It’s a 4D camera that can capture nearly 140 degrees of information, allowing it to gather more information than…