Let us introduce you (or perhaps, re-introduce, for some of you fossil aficionados out there) to strange looking dinosaurs, crazy evolutionary adaptations and other incredibly nerdy fossil related news. Today, we bring you: Shovel Face-Vacuum Mouth – better known as Nigersaurus taqueti. Nigersaurus was first found in the Republic of Niger in 1976 by French…
Your Not All That Bitter Geeky Gift Guide
‘Tis the season, when you’re scrambling for a gift for your favorite geek. Forget picking up anything useful, because we have found the kinds of gifts that will astound, amuse or at least distract. Like these periodic table leggings. We’re not even sure that they are as awful as this photo makes them look. We’re…
Six Ways In Which Global Warming Is Going To Be So Great
Good news! Global warming is not the end of the world – it’s only the beginning of the end of the world! (And only as we know it!) Putting all the played-out, sad-sack, tree-hugging, climate change gloominess to one side, it does a body good to remember that there sometimes can be a shiny silver…
Our Favorite 2015 Dance Your PhD Submissions
For the past 8 years, Science Magazine and Gonzo Labs has provided us with hours of amusement as doctoral candidates and PhD recipients explain their research through the medium of interpretive dance. This year Florence Metz won this illustrious prize for the reinterpretation of her research on how to best achieve a high quality water protection policy.…
The People Behind The Epic Sony Hack Are Likely Still Hacking
Say what you want about the 2014 Sony hack, it certainly presented an impeccable sense of style. For example, most successful breaches are boringly undetectable. There’s certainly nothing as melodramatic as, say, your computer screen turning blood red as a dripping pixel skull promises you that your most secret secrets are now public property. Yet…
Moore’s Law is Dead! All Hail Moore’s Law!
If you have a passing familiarity with computers, you probably know about Moore’s Law. First promulgated during the 1960s by Gordon E. Moore (co-founder of Intel), Moore’s Law was a prediction that the density of transistors on a chip would double once every twelve months. Initially, this was simply an observation and extrapolation of industry…
In Non-Terrifying Malware News, Turnabout is Fair Play
Dridex is a pretty nasty piece of malware. If you work at a banking institution in Europe, you might one day get an email with an Excel or Word attachment, indicating that it’s an invoice for services rendered. This document is a trap! More specifically, it’s a RAT–a Remote Access Trojan that allows a third…
In a Completely Surprising Turn of Events, Yet Another “Smart” Toy Turns Out to be Hackable
You’d think that toymakers would have learned their lesson from movies like “Chucky.” The more bells and whistles you give to a doll, the more likely it is to become for evil. Thus, Fisher Price’s Smart Toy® Bear. Yep, it’s got the cold, dead eyes and oversized head of 4Chan’s favorite mascot, Pedobear. But that’s…
When You Picture the Future, Think of a Dutch Police Eagle Crushing a Drone, Forever
SHREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE–*crunch* No, I haven’t lost my mind. Rather, that’s my artist’s impression of the sound a Dutch police eagle makes when it gets medieval on a quadcopter. (Off topic, that might be the best sentence I’ve written in my short career as a writer.) Alongside hoverboards and vuvuzelas, commercial drones are one of those modern…
Everybody Laugh On Cue: 2015’s Worst Password Is … ‘123456’
This year’s worst passwords are out, and oh my, you silly primates still don’t quite get this “information security” concept, do you? Anyway, here’s the backstory: every year, a company called Splashdata goes through a list of leaked passwords. These are basically hacker booty–long lists of plain-text excel spreadsheets full of personally identifying data, posted…
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