So Ryan Adams' New Punk Rock EP Is Actually Pretty Good
Alt-country
crooner Ryan Adams typically makes music fit for a rom-com's opening
credits, but he has a lesser-known punk side, and 1984 showcases the best of it.
Scientists Empirically Discover the Best Cheese for Pizza
Advancements in pizza science is very serious business. Even the
military has been experimenting with strange methods on how to extend the life of the average pizza. Now, science aims to answer a question that's puzzled mankind ever since the dish was created: What cheese is the best?
Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week
It's the end of summer and a holiday weekend, and apparently all the
app makers are on vacation. As a result, we've only got a small haul of
new apps this week. But maybe they're enough to help distract you from
the annoying guests at your Labor Day cookout.
The Long, Strange History of the Kung Fu Fighting Melody
Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo's weekend roundup of the best writing from around the web. Today we've got great pieces from NPR, IEEE Spectrum, Chicago Magazine, Nautilus, and more.
What Do Smartphones Need That They Don’t Already Have?
Welcome
to the first week of September, also known as crazy-insane IFA 2014 and
iPhone event extravaganza. During the next 10 days we'll see new
handsets, smartwatches, and other tech paraphernalia from almost every
major hardware manufacturer. So now I'm wondering, where do smartphones
even go from here?
Watch This Guy Desperately Try to Save His Dying, Water-Bound Drone
Keeping
your gadgets charged is important. More and more our very lives are
stored on our smartphones. If they die, we're cut off our friends, work
email, and Reddit. There's also the nightmare of realizing your drone's
battery is dying while it's 50-feet above a body of water.
Rain, Architecture, Budweiser: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week
Why
let all the big cities have all the gentrification, design battles, and
corporate takeovers? This week we focus on the towns—including a famous
temporary one in the desert, population 50,000. It's a small-city
edition of What's Ruining Our Cities.
This New 4D Batman Theme Park Ride Looks Like a Giant Nope-Coaster
Growing
up outside of St. Louis, there was a Six Flags only a forty-minute
drive away. You could look right off the highway and see the sprawling
parking lot, the giant Ferris wheel, and the twisted metal of all the
roller coasters. The most imposing snake-like construction was Batman:
The Ride.
More Rumors Point To Apple Turning Your iPhone Into a Digital Wallet
If you would have asked me a month ago what would be some of the most talked about topics surrounding Apple's upcoming event on Sept. 9th,
bigger iPhones, sapphire screens, and a rumored iWatch would definitely
be my top three. NFC-powered mobile payments would rank somewhere near
last place.
This App Lets You Create Custom Shoes With Your Own Photos
Last Friday, Adidas introduced a new app called #miZXFLUX. A novel little iOS and Android app
that lets you create custom shoes from your own photography. Finally, I
can give all my friends the perfect pair of kicks with my beautiful
face all over them.
You May Finally Be Able to Buy a OnePlus One Smartphone in October
OnePlus One is the best smartphone you can't buy.
Ok, that's not necessarily true, it's just really, really hard. It all
comes down to invites, which the company gives out during occasional
raffles or online contests, that allow lucky winners to then buy the
phone.
Take a Birds-Eye Tour of Apple's Huge Spaceship Campus
The internet is slowly being swallowed whole by an endless influx of
drone videos, but sometimes they give stunning views of locations we'd
never see otherwise. This time, one YouTuber strapped a GoPro Hero 3+ to a DJI Phantom 2 drone and took a peek at Apple's upcoming "Spaceship" campus.
Why You Can't Stop Getting Online Ads For Stuff You Already Bought
It's
happened to all of us: You buy one random thing online, and all of a
sudden every ad on every website is trying to sell you more, more, more
of that same dumb thing. Like they know where you are. Like they're
following you. Stalking you. Like they're out. To. Get. You.
Display Owner Info on Your Android Device in Case It Gets Lost
The
latest versions of Android include a handy feature that you might not
know about: the option to display your contact information on the
lockscreen, which can be used if you misplace your phone or tablet. You
can access the feature from the Settings app by tapping Security and then Owner info. Tick the box and…
Top Engineer and Futurist: Tomorrow's Robots Might Mercy-Kill Mankind
Nell Watson
is an engineer, a futurist, and the founder and CEO of Poikos. As such,
she knows a lot about the machines we use today, and the ones we're
planning for tomorrow. And she's worried that the artificial
intelligence of the near-future might decide the most benevolent thing to for mankind is to destroy it.
You Can Now Access All Of Richard Feynman's Physics Lectures For Free
The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures. The
three-volume set may be the most popular collection of physics books
ever written, and now you can access it online, in its entirety, for…
Here's Your Adorable First Look At Pixar's Upcoming Short
"Lava" is the Disney Pixar short that will premiere before the feature-length movie Inside Out next summer. Judging by this first sneak peek, it's going to be absolutely adorable.
Report: Apple "Considering" iWatch Prices Up to $400
There's been a whole lot of rumors swirling over the smartwatch Apple will assumedly announce during the iPhone event on September 9th. Now, Re/Code says that Apple execs have hinted there will be multiple models of the device, the priciest of which could hit $400.
NASA Will Reformat Mars Rover's Flash Memory From 125 Million Miles Away
NASA's Opportunity rover is still trundling across the surface of Mars, more than 11 years after its 90 day mission began.
But its software is getting bogged down, so NASA's doing a full system
backup, memory wipe, and reboot. It's just like your routine computer
cleanup, just from the next planet over.
11 Reasons Email Is the Worst
Email is one of those things that's just a part of your life, period.
Most of us know someone who has closed their Facebook account or
refused to join in the first place in a little foot-stomping stand by
their ego, and you might even know someone who is thrilled with
themselves for not owning a smartphone.
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