It seems insane that it's taken this long to get here, but at long last, people are finally using the myriad tech at our disposal to hold cops accountable for their actions. Most recently, its a simple, relatively tiny chip being put to one massively important job—telling headquarters every time a police officer fires…
Grant Davis used some really interesting and non-standard build techniques to put the touches on his Reka Legash Monastery build. The roof is made from Technic pins, the doorway arch from axles that hold each other in place , even the window arches use pneumatic tube to string them together.
A secret U.S. spy program used fake cell phone towers attached to airplanes to scan citizens' cell phones and collect their data, the Wall Street Journal reports.
At 8PM last night, cyclists in the Dutch town of Nuenen were finally able to ride on a bike path that's been in the making for months. What took so long? This particular bike path represents the product of a collaboration between a designer and a construction company who want to build smarter, more efficient roads.…
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Four years ago the Clean Bottle arrived with a true innovation: a removable cap on either end that made it incredibly easy to properly clean. A few years later an upgraded version called the Square arrived that swapped curves for a rectangular design that wouldn't roll away if dropped. And now its creators are…
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No one's nailed the mobile web experience yet. Even when they're supposedly optimized for our on-the-go behavior, websites still take forever to load and feel clunky on our screens. A new app out today named Wildcard aims to be a Safari- or Chrome-killer for your iPhone by changing the format and visual language of…
When Taylor Swift pulled her music off Spotify a week ago, she deftly couched the action as a principled stand for artists against the blanket injustice of streaming music services. A lot of people have been talking about it in those terms. But that's not what her decision was about at all, and her decision doesn't…
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Add lightning to the list of dangers climate change will likely magnify. A new study projects that a warmer climate could mean 50 percent more lightning strikes in the U.S. in the coming decades.
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Any build that features a Muppet is worth looking at. This build, by grubaluk, features two of the best Muppets, Statler and Waldorf, the lovable haters in the balcony.
Google Wallet for online purchases is shutting down starting in March, according to Google. The company says this is due to a changing market and provides a step-by-step guide on how to remove Google Wallet for online payments. It won't effect Google's NFC service, so you'll still be able to tap-and-pay to your…
According to our count, Amazon has put out roughly 30 distinct TV pilots since 2012. Thirty! And only six of those actually managed to make it to the big time (read: multiple episodes). As for the rest, well, it's just too bad 30 Rock's off the air—because Amazon's pilots would have been a hilariously bad television…
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Deep down we all know we're learning important things for when we're older, but that doesn't make school any less boring. And since most teachers maintain a strict 'no toys' policy, kids have to find other clever ways to make it through a school day—such as innocent-looking pair of erasers that are actually pullback…
It was a historic landing on a comet, but unfortunately, not a smooth one. The ESA confirmed that Rosetta's lander, Philae, bounced twice and ultimately ended up sideways in the shadow of a cliff, where its solar panels can't gather enough energy. When Philae's battery dies, the mission will die with it.
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If bubble wrap is good enough to protect that ceramic frog you bought on eBay as it's shipped from Taiwan, surely a suit made from the same material would give mere mortals invincibility, right? At the least, Vat19's $15 blazer and pants set made from bubble wrap would provide a decent buffer from the other commuters…
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They say never to ride a motorcycle through Baja at night. But, following a hurricane that wiped out much of its east coast, sometimes needs must.
We all have online dating horror stories. Too many, probably. The stories of finding true love via Tinder or your soul mate on Grindr are, understandably, fewer and further between. But they're out there, and you shared them with us. Here are the best ones.
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The red-hot nickel ball is our all-time favorite destroyer of basically anything on the planet, transforming everything from Velveeta to Peeps into sticky, bubbling cauldrons of processed-chemical goo. Now the ball is rolling in the other direction with a liquid nitrogen-cooled nickel ball that's up to all sorts of…
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Winter is coming. For much of the world, it's already cold, wet, and terrible out there. We need a legit dancehall banger to heat things up. Well, ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes and bodies on this Gizmodo-exclusive world premiere. It's "Sweat On Me," from Flynt Flossy and the crew at Turquoise Jeep Records.
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In celebration of the ESA successfully landing Philae on the surface of a Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko today, I dug through the archives and found a video I remember watching some 4 years ago showing the details of the mission recreated using Mindstorms, Technic and a bunch of brick.
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Ask how a phone can help you discover a new place, and most of us think of the aimless Googling or Yelping we perform when desperately trying to find somewhere to eat. But I wanted to find apps that served like treasure maps, pointing me toward the hidden gems tucked away in a city if only I knew which way to walk. …
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