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A drone and a mobile IED at an Islamic State factory discovered by Iraqi forces today on June 23, 2017 in the frontline neighborhood of Al-Shifa, on the edge of the Islamic State occupied Old City of west Mosul (Photo by Martyn Aim/Getty Images) The Islamic State has increasingly used drones and other robotic IEDs…

9 Hideous Creatures That Deserve Your Unconditional Love We can’t all be puppies—or even capybaras, for that matter. There’s a whole world of critters whose … Read more “[It] scared me a little,” MacKinney wrote on his Instagram. “[I] went to take my lure [out] and almost dropped the fish…thought it was a turtle.” It’s…

GIF Those blockbuster Marvel movies only show our favorite superheroes when they’re out saving the world. If you want a glimpse of what heroes like Iron Man do the rest of the time, look no further than this incredibly articulated humanoid robot called TEO, who’s recently learned to iron clothing. TEO’s been in development at…

Angiostrongylus cantonensis larva. (Image: CDC) Scientists in Florida have found traces of rat lungworm in five counties, bolstering the idea that this potentially fatal parasite may be expanding its geographical range on account of—you guessed it—climate change. If this sounds familiar, you’re probably thinking of the recent rash of rat lungworm infections in Hawaii. Previously,…

All photos: Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo Nintendo put a great deal of thought into the design of the Switch with the exception of the alternative Pro Controller, which feels like an afterthought. It might be official, and a perfect way to play Nintendo Switch games on a TV, but it comes with a steep price tag, and…

Image: NASA In news that is sure to vindicate chemtrail truthers, NASA has finally delivered on its longstanding promise to produce a dazzling display of artificial clouds. And dang, was it cool. On Thursday, June 29th, at 4:25 am Eastern time, a two stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket blasted skyward from Wallops Flight Facility in…

GIF Video: NASA/H. Jiang et al (Science Robotics (2017)) There’s a crapload of debris orbiting our planet and potentially posing a hazard to our astronauts and our satellites. One estimate says there are 21,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 centimeters, that could collide with other objects at velocities ten times faster than a…

Image: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo/Youtube Before the iPhone was released, there were very few iPhone takes on the internet. 10 years ago, that changed. Now there are lots of takes. Since Gizmodo couldn’t possibly write all the iPhone 10th anniversary think pieces we came up with, here are just a few of our favorites: Fuck the iPhone,…

MOSUL – The Iraqi army said Thursday the demolished historical mosque in Mosul to have taken up where Islamic State three years ago, ’the caliphate’ proclaimed. The intake of the Great al-Nuri mosque is mainly of symbolic significance. The Iraqi army is already eight months to Mosul, the northern city that is the de facto…

BERLIN/KRASNODAR – The Turkish president Erdogan may next month no speech for Turkish Germans in the margins of the summit meeting of the G20 in Hamburg. The German minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel said this on Thursday on a visit in Russia. Erdogan is coming in July to the G20 summit in Hamburg and…