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Tech NewsThis Cubs Fan Stampede Looks Like a Zombie Invasion
There’s a big party going down in Chicago today, and everyone is invited. The city is honoring and celebrating the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs with a rally and parade this afternoon, and it’s already a complete madhouse, with hundreds of fans lining up hours before the gates even opened, just to be the first … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Simple Adapter Lets You Carry the iPhone 7’s Headphone Dongle on Your Keychain
If you’ve upgraded to the iPhone 7, but refuse to upgrade your headphones, then congratulations, you get to carry a tiny dongle with you wherever you go. It won’t take long for you to lose it, unless you keep it securely tethered on your keychain using this clever $6 adapter. The Uncourage is a non-functional, … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWhy Do Water Droplets Bounce?
When a droplet of water impacts a larger body of water it has a tendency to bead up and bounce. It happens constantly, but you might not have focused closely enough to consider its strangeness—and it is very strange, especially when viewed on a high-speed camera. As Destin from Smarter Every Day discovered with some … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Aren’t BFFs Anymore and It’s All Thanks to Smartphones
Personal relationships are always tricky, but they’re even trickier when they revolve around running a business worth billions of dollars. Just ask Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates! In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV, Ballmer expanded on his relationship with college friend and Microsoft co-founder Gates, explaining that the two have “drifted apart.” The reason? … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidDon’t Forget Your Car’s Parking Brake When You Take a Pee Break
Getting in the habit of using your car’s parking brake whenever you stop isn’t the worst idea in the world. Yes, there’s the risk of you forgetting it’s on the next time you drive away, but it can also prevent accidents like this from occurring. This guy’s Benny Hill impression is hilarious, but he’s probably … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsung
Samsung Starts Cutting Cell Tower Connections for Note 7s
Samsung New Zealand has had it with idiots who refuse to turn in their recalled, explodey Galaxy Note 7 devices. Starting on November 18th, Note 7 owners in New Zealand “will no longer be able to connect to any New Zealand mobile network services to make calls, use data, or send SMS messages.” In other … Continued
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Tech NewsAmazon
Don’t Expect Amazon’s Alexa to Help You in a Life or Death Emergency
If you need the weather forecast, sports scores, or just want to hear your favorite playlist, the Alexa virtual assistant on Amazon’s Echo can help you out. Where Alexa doesn’t have your back, however, is when someone is breaking into your home, and you need to call the police for help, as Steve Hogarty discovered. … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsung
Samsung’s Nightmare Continues as It Recalls 2.8 Million Washing Machines
2016 has not been a great year for Samsung, and it doesn’t look like it will be getting better anytime soon. The company just recalled 2.8 million of its top load washing machines, because the machines can basically fall apart during use. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on Friday. The agency explained, … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
How to Use Google’s Apps Without Getting Spied On
Google provides a lot of helpful, free services, but they often come at the cost of privacy. You might love Gmail, but you have to suffer through targeted ads; you may enjoy using Google Maps, but you have to give up your location privacy. Signing up for Google’s suite of apps almost always involves some … Continued
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Tech News
Did Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Work With Peter Thiel’s Palantir?
The CIA-backed data and intelligence firm Palantir doesn’t work with political campaigns, but its CEO would “make an exception” for Hillary Clinton, according to an email from billionaire media magnate Haim Saban released by Wikileaks today. Saban, who is the chairman of Univision, Gizmodo’s parent company, wrote to Clinton campaign chief John Podesta in July … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
Watching Paint Symmetrically Mix Itself Is Surprisingly Fun
Because the globs of paint are mirrored to create a symmetrical effect and because it looks like the paint is mixing itself on its own without a palette knife, it’s sort of a trip to watch it all get thrown together, like if it was just magically plopping itself on top of each other in some … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidA Tesla Coil Gatling Gun Is the Definitive Weapon of a Mad Scientist
YouTube’s ScienceBob somehow managed to get his hands on 315 small plastic containers that once held something called “photography film.” So he did what any mad scientist would do with such a windfall: use them to build an ethanol-powered, Tesla coil-triggered gatling gun. The weapon won’t strike fear into anyone’s heart, but any opportunity you … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow the Sandwich Was Invented
It’s a little bit surprising that humans took so dang long to invent the sandwich. We’d had bread, meat, and cheese for eons, but it wasn’t until 1762, when the degenerate gambler John Montague, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, decided that he wanted to have a handheld dinner (so that he could gamble with the … Continued
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Tech NewsIt’s 2016 and Crazy Frog Is Skyrocketing on YouTube [Update]
A mounting body of evidence from this colossally sickening year suggests we are living in the end-times. For the skeptics, the willfully naive, the hopeful souls holding out for a better tomorrow, may I present the return of Crazy Frog. Let us set the scene. On YouTube, statistics like engagement over time, watch time, and … Continued
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Tech News
We Now Know Exactly How Much Smoking Screws Up Your Lungs
We already knew smoking was bad for our lungs, but a new study shows exactly how many DNA mutations per cell are caused by sucking on those nicotine sticks. If you’re interested in obsessively quantifying your bad life choices, know that smoking a pack a day will lead to approximately 150 mutations per lung cell … Continued
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Tech News
Chill With Your Gizmodo Buds and Ask Ed Snowden Anything at The Real Future Fair
Hey, Bay Area readers! Book the day off work and come hang out with Gizmodo and the Real Future team at their annual Real Future Fair in Oakland, CA. Bonus: Ed Snowden. The event is on November 15th, and our cherished blogger and Paleofuture founder Matt Novak will be speaking, along with Real Future editor … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Glow in the Dark Finger Puppet Dance Is Unreal
Damn, this finger puppet is so awesome. Not only does it glow in the dark but its dance moves are so incredible that you’d think it was alive. It just moves so fluidly. Barnaby Dixon, the genius controlling the finger puppet, came up with a dance routine that involves some crazy finger gymnastics and both … Continued
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Tech News
Florida Releases Millions of Sterile Flies to Combat Flesh-Eating Maggots
Officials in south Florida have been releasing troves of sterile flies in an effort to combat a parasitic maggot that eats the living tissue of warm-blooded animals—including humans. The New World screwworm outbreak—the first to strike the United States in over 30 years—has already claimed the lives of 120 Key deer in the Florida Keys … Continued
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Tech News
Nobody Knows If These Nazi Home Movies Were Lost, Stolen or Destroyed at the National Archives
Eva Braun’s home movies of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi officials are a terrifying time capsule of just how ordinary the most evil men in history can appear. The films show Hitler playing with children, Goebbels goofing around, and SS soldiers playfully chasing dogs. But the original 16mm films, which were captured by the … Continued
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Tech NewsYour Grandparents Will Love This Rotary Cellphone
Tired of teaching your older family members how to use their smartphones every time you visit? Just do what YouTube’s Mr. Volt did and build a custom cellphone out of aluminum, brass, and wood with a working rotary dial that’s reminiscent of the ancient land line phones introduced back in the 1920s. The brick-like form … Continued