How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo Media Group) Kashmir HillYesterday 1:30pmFiled to: We're not in Kansas anymoreFiled to: We're not in Kansas anymore We're not in Kansas anymore Digital mapping Find My Phone MaxMind National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 13512 Edit Embiggen Send to…

Screenshot: Juul (YouTube) Following increased pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Juul Labs is taking a notably different approach from its ad campaigns of yore—the ones accused of making its e-cigarette products widely appealing to kids. The company unveiled new TV spots this week as part of its “adult education campaign” aimed at…

Ok, it’s pretty cutePhoto: Victoria Song (Gizmodo) Misty Robotics is more interested in providing a tool for developers. The idea is to take robots from the hands of the niche community of roboticists, and put them into the hands of programmers. That way, by the time you or I can buy one of their robots,…

HubblePhoto: NASA The Hubble Space Telescope team has temporarily suspended operations of Wide Field Camera 3 following a hardware glitch. The camera contains redundant electronics in case of an issue, according to the Space Telescope Science Institute, so it will hopefully be fine. Still, this is the second notable hardware problem Hubble’s faced in a…

Photo: Richard Shotwell/AP I don’t have any plans to die, ever. But if I do eventually eat it for some unseen reason, having my 6,000-year-old corpse loaded onto a canoe and immolated at sea by a perfectly aimed flaming arrow would be the way to go, in my humble opinion. As with many dreams of mine,…

Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) Now just to be clear, the company behind Adonis—Furrion—didn’t actually make the boat, which is fine, because a fancy boat on its own isn’t all that interesting. Instead, Furrion bought one from performance yacht maker Numarine before turning it into a smart yacht. So what the hell is a smart boat…