Ashley Feinberg

This Is Why You Should Always Use the Parking Brake

Thank god for security cameras. Otherwise, we might never have been able to bear witness to this incredible scene of a FedEx delivery gone horribly wrong. Hopefully there wasn’t anything fragile on that truck (unlikely), but lucky for this guy, that tree saved him from any real damage. And he can at least take solace…

Vine Gets Direct Messaging (Read: Sexting)

Almost six months after Instagram led the march in direct messages, Vine is just now catching up with its own private video messaging service—the biggest update the app has seen yet. At long last, kids can have sex with hot pockets on the internet in private. Like Instagram, you can send Video Messages (or VMs)…

Your Webcam Feed in ASCII Is the Greatest Thing You’ll See Today

Say goodbye to the rest of your day. Because after playing with this web app that turns your webcam feed into a realtime stream of ASCII art, you’re not going to want to do anything else ever again. The site was actually made by Eric Fredericksen back in 2012, but just recently uncovered by Animal…

iOS 7 Bug Lets Thieves Disable Find My iPhone, Delete iCloud Account

As it stands now, Apple’s Find My iPhone feature is pretty much your only hope when it comes to tracking down a stolen device. But thanks to a recently uncovered bug in iOS 7, even that little layer of protection can be rendered totally useless. Normally, disabling Find My iPhone requires users to enter their…

Thank God: There’s Finally an App That Lets You Escape Group Texts

When it comes to group texts, nothing is more infuriating than being trapped in an endless barrage vibrations signaling nothing more than a “lol” or the occasional poop emoji. But until now, there was no convenient way to put an end to the madness without either A) blocking your friends or B) insulting them to…

Tired of seeing those inscrutable little black rectangles where emoji should be every time you browse Twitter on the web? Well today’s your lucky day. Twitter’s browser version finally supports all the smiling poops you can handle (along with the rest of the emoji crew).

Amazon’s Fire TV Will Double As a Gaming Powerhouse

Amazon has finally announced its answer to Apple TV/Chromecast/Roku in the form of Fire TV. But it’s not stopping at streaming. Amazon’s taking on the gaming world, too. Apparently, Amazon will be bring in thousands of games from “some of the biggest developers” including Disney and EA. And no you won’t be stuck using that…

9 People Who Thought Gmail Might Be an April Fools’ Prank

Gmail’s officially entering its tender tween years today, and after a decade with the internet’s favorite email service, we can barely even remember our lives without it. But then, that’s why we have the internet—to remember for us. Google chose a pretty dubious day to announce the birth of Gmail (April 1, 2004), so news…

Does a $20 Glass Built Just for Coke Actually Improve the Taste?

Any discerning oenophile will tell you that the shape of a wine glass can make a huge difference in your imbibing experience. On the other hand, that could just be a bunch of bullshit. Either way, Riedel decided to do for Coke what it’s spent decades doing for pinot: design a glass scientifically optimized for…

This Browser Extension Lets You See Any LinkedIn User’s Email Address

Looks like someone finally found a use for the LinkedIn profile you’ve been sitting on for the past five years. Thanks to a new browser extension, you can now reveal the email address of any one of LinkedIn’s roughly 260 million users—whether you’re connected to them or not. The extension, Sell Hack, was first uncovered…

The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent Is Turning 10 And It’s… A Recipe Book

When the biggest file-sharing site on the internet first came into existence, it was entirely in Swedish and boasted just a few hundred torrent files. But the very first of those, the one that started it all, was uploaded almost exactly 10 years ago and, shockingly enough, wasn’t porn. It was a recipe book. The…

The Human Heart May Not Be Able to Handle the Trip to Mars

Anyone dreaming of casting off the shackles of Earth for the microgravity wasteland of Mars is in for some (more) bad news. In addition to a host of other problems, the necessary 18-month spaceflight would, apparently, lead to one very unhealthy (and spherical) astronaut heart. https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-people-who-would-leave-earth-and-take-a-one-wa-1537495094 The new findings come from a recent NASA study…

Tesla’s Model S Lock Can Be Opened With a Basic Hack

Tesla’s Model S is supposed to be the safest car on the road—at least where the physical realm is concerned. But apparently, the crazy expensive car’s six-character password is vulnerable to some pretty basic hacking techniques, leaving you and your car’s data at the mercy of a tech-savvy stranger. http://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-is-the-safest-car-ever-produced-1171606291/all The vulnerability was revealed by…

Dive-Bombing Hawks Force Florida Library-Goers to Cower Under Umbrellas

No less than six patrons of the Port Orange Library in Florida have been attacked by a pair of book-hating hawks over the past week. Now, the library is protecting its brave bibliophiles the only way it knows how—with umbrellas. The (presumably illiterate) nesting duo are lashing out library-goers in an attempt to protect what…

Taco Bell’s “Breakfast Phone” Comes With Free Tacos, Angry Creditors

Recently, Taco Bell sent out 1,000 free phones to “social influencers” to promote its unholy bastardization of what it means to be a breakfast taco. Unfortunately for one unwitting participant, his gift also came attached to bill collectors, court orders, and one charge of truancy. As part of the stunt, the burner phones came with…

Creepy Robot Looks Like Your Friends, Knows What You’re Thinking

Humans are the worst—there’s no denying it. But isolating yourself from the rest of humanity doesn’t exactly come with the best track record either. Now, though, you can get the best of both worlds thanks to SociBot-Mini, a depth-sensing, mood-reading, friends’-identity-stealing disembodied robot torso. Created by Engineered Arts in the UK, SociBot-Mini may not be…

BlackBerry Death Rattle: We’re Bringing Back the Bold

In a move that is equal parts admirable and bleak (but mostly bleak), BlackBerry has chosen to valiantly fight the imminent march of time. Instead of trying to build the next Big Thing, the company is going back to what it knows works best: 2011. Say hello to the Bold. Again. After continued losses this…

Microsoft Office for iPad: Full Video Walkthrough and Hands On

After Office for iOS proved itself a pretty big disappointment to anyone who was hoping to actually do things with the app, the long-anticipated Office for iPad has finally hit the App Store. It’s ok; you can let out a sigh of relief. This time, Microsoft got it right. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-office-is-finally-coming-to-the-ipad-1552777058 The Basics Whereas Office for…

Guy With Phony Twitter Tricks Entire Town Into Thinking He’s Mayor

Recently, the residents of Stafford received a bit of a shock when they realized that their amiable, beloved mayor was actually—not. As it turns out, their devout leader was just some dude with a fake Twitter account and a fancy-looking mayoral chain. God bless the internet. Discovered by The Daily Mail, James Billington, the faux-mayor…

Twitter’s Losing Sight of What Makes It So Great

Today, Twitter introduced some major changes to the way it does business. Not only can a single tweet now hold multiple photos (along with 10 tagged friends), but none of that extra baggage takes away any of your precious characters. In other words, Twitter just got a whole lot more like Facebook. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-now-add-multiple-photos-and-tag-people-in-tweet-1552320576 Once confined…