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Umbrellas are a great first light mod: cheap, easy to use, easy to transport. But softboxes can give you more control, both in the beam's edge and with reduced light leakage. The photo above was shot with a single speedl...

The first grizzly bear hunt in Wyoming for over 40 years ignores the questionable conservation status and emotional capacities of these iconic animals, says Marc Bekoff

So you want a curved Samsung gaming monitor, but you don't want to splash out for an over-the-top model like the HDR-ready CHG90. Are you out of luck? Not for much longer -- Samsung has unveiled the CJG5 series, which de...

People have no idea how fast the world is changing. So said Peter Diamandis to the audience at Singularity University's Global Summit, taking place this week in San Francisco. Diamandis believes the convergence of multip...

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold caught a spectacular view of Typhoon Soulik swirling toward southern Japan from his post on the International Space Station.

The "Equal Earth" projection shows the true area of continents such as Africa without greatly distorting their shapes and is already being adopted by NASA

A collaborative project has produced a prototype for a modular paving system that can change the use of a street at any time. The post Modular paving system creates multipurpose streets appeared first on Springwise.

There were whispers about it just last week but now it's totally official. Steam Play, which was originally intended as a single-purchase system for buying games that run on Windows, Mac, and Linux, is taking cross-platf...

Earlier this summer, the Santa Clara County Fire Department sent a team to fight the largest wildfire in the history of California.  The problem? During the fire, Verizon throttled the department's "unlimited" data once...

NASA might already have plenty of hardware on and around Mars -- it'll have one less if Opportunity never wakes back up -- but more is always better. That's why NASA launched the InSight spacecraft earlier this year. The...

2018 has been the year that AR promises came face-to-face with reality. While Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore sparked a ravenous response from developers that had grown worried about VR’s near-term market and the...

"What do you think, Elon Musk?"

Can you use a flip-flop — or any solid item, for that matter — as a graduated neutral density (AKA grad ND) filter? Sure. But, it doesn't work in all situations. Does this Photography Hack Work? Sure it works. Below ...

Researchers use neuroimaging technology to identify brain differences between those who procrastinate and those who are doers. The study reveals people with poor action control have a larger amygdala, and the connection ...

Gizmodo has advocated for libraries as an excellent means of logging off, because a library is a service that lets you "stream" films, music, magazines, books, and all other kinds of media for free.

Gartner has cut ties with Peter Sondergaard due to workplace misconduct.

Qualcomm will shift to a new 7nm system-on-chip design for its next, 5G-capable flagship mobile platform, though the company isn’t quite ready to spill the beans completely on what it has planned. The new SoC – which...

The Note 9 is already an amazing phone, but it can be even better with a few extra accessories! If you pre-ordered a Galaxy Note 9, you're probably getting pretty excited by now — it should be arriving in just a couple...

The spyware's surveillance capabilities are extensive, logging every call, text, photo, video and more, and sending the data to the attackers.

Signals from a rapidly rotating, ultradense star have been transformed into beautiful melodies, revealing the "SOS" sounds of the star's dwindling companion.

The words "uncertainty" and "multiple criteria" characterize the relevance and complexity of modern problems related to the control of dynamic objects and processes. In fact, any mathematical model describing complex con...

Electricity always follows the past of least resistance, and that can make for some dangerously beautiful effects.