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Greenpeace Invades Apple’s Headquarters

Earlier this morning, Greenpeace launched a full offensive against Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. First, in the middle of the night, they projected messages onto the main façade of Infinite Loop. Later, they placed an Apple-branded pod right on the door, inside Apple’s property. You can see the pod in this image. Inside the pod there were…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Quickest Way to Fire Up Your Barbecue This Summer

You’ve got your grill. You’ve got your meat. But you’re missing one integral ingredient: fire. Rather than messing around with tons of messy newspapers or smelly lighter fluid, consider trying Weber’s Rapidfire Chimney Starter. Sometimes the biggest challenge in barbecuing is just getting the fire going. But this Chimney Starter is supposed to work efficiently,…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Rumor: Google to Partner With Multiple Handset Makers for Nexus Devices

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google will partner up with multiple Android handset manufactures to produce several Nexus-branded phones each year, rather than releasing just one. Here’s what the Journal had to say: Google’s strategy is a shift from its previous practice, when it partnered with only one hardware maker at a time to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Wild trailers for ABC’s new TV shows include evil Nazi babies and green aliens!

Earlier today ABC announced that it would be adding three new genre shows: 666 Park Avenue, Zero Hour, and The Neighbors to their line-up next year. And now we’ve got the sizzle reels for each show. We’re completely blown away by the evil Nazi baby, and the look of the aliens in The Neighbors! Watch…

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Doctor Who corsets and Lolita skirts set our double hearts aflutter

Over on Etsy, London fashion designer Rae has created the ultimate Doctor Who fetish outfits. Using her own designs, she’s whipped up Lolita skirts, bow ties, and a corset from cute Who-themed fabrics. These are just three of the confections she has on offer — check out Rae’s store Corset Wonderland to see the whole…

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Chronicle‘s Josh Trank: Being able to tell a compelling story is the rarest special effect

Chronicle was one of the freshest movies we’ve seen this year so far, with its telekinetic teens going off the rails. This superpowered “found footage” movie comes out on DVD today, so we were excited to talk to director Josh Trank. https://gizmodo.com/chronicle-is-a-superhero-origin-story-done-right-5881894 And Trank told us that instead of trying to make a new spin…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

FreezePaint: A Fun Sandbox for Strange Photo Experiments

There certainly is no shortage on photography apps lately. The lion’s share of them are Instagram clones, allowing you to alter your pics with sepia-toned and vintage-style filters. FreezePaint, however, offers something completely different with an app that lets you capture and duplicate different parts of your image. What does it do? FreezePaint lets you…

Tech News Leslie Horn

A 73-Year-Old Man Tried to Assassinate JFK with a Buick Full of Dynamite

Weeks after John Fitzgerald Kennedy beat Richard Nixon in the 1960 United States presidential election, an elderly man nearly killed the President-Elect. Richard Pavlick, a disturbed man with anti-Catholic sentiments, packed his car and traveled from New Hampshire to Florida with one goal in mind – the death of President-Elect Kennedy. Pavlick’s brute force plan…

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Usain Bolt Now Part of the Shitty Celeb Headphones Illuminati

In an occult ceremony involving Dr. Dre, Justin Bieber, Diddy, and Ludacris, Usain Bolt was inducted into the famous person headphone cash-in club. One of the greatest humans in the history of the species now shills for gadgets! Until now, SOUL headphones and other miscellaneous pieces of dumb plastic were pushed by Ludacris alone. They’re…

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Incredible videos recreate Isaac Newton’s experiments with alchemy

You may be familiar with Isaac Newton from such inventions as calculus and the law of universal gravitation. What you may not know is that he was also an avid “chymist,” or alchemist. In fact, Newton actually wrote roughly a million words about alchemy and his experiments with it — as Indiana University science historian…

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Hang This Portable Swing Kit Anywhere for an Instant Playground on the Go

Whenever the urge to swing strikes—whether your’re in an industrial-looking warehouse, a busy construction site, or a crowded sidewalk—as long as you can find something overhead that’s sturdy enough to support your weight, you can string up this simple portable swing seat. Created by industrial designer Kevin Shay, the canvas seat comes with all of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Turkey Thinks This Bird Is an Israeli Spy Because Its Nostril Is Big Enough to Hold Microchips

Turkish authorities announced Tuesday that they have recovered the body of a daring Israeli spy—replete with feathers. And a belly full of bees. According to reports from Israeli news site YNet, a farmer discovered the dead bird, a Merops Apiaster aka the European Bee-Eater, in a field outside of Gaziantep and turned it over to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Meet a few of the 100-trillion lifeforms that call your body “home”

Scientific American is hosting a great interactive web applet that introduces you to the microorganisms that treat the various nooks, crannies, tissues and organs of our bodies like so many different ecosystems. These tiny creatures comprise the native members of a community more commonly known as the human microbiome — an assortment of 100-trillion or…

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Steak Specialists Discover a New Cut of Beef

Turns out that what happens in Vegas no longer stays in Vegas—and that’s a good thing. A self-proclaimed Meat Geek has teamed up with Oklahoma State University to devise the first new style of steak in years. “The Vegas Strip Steak is the latest and perhaps last steak to be found from the beef carcass,”…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Time-lapse video shows a trailer-sized asteroid coming between Earth and the Moon

NASA released this amazing video that shows just how close the 43-foot asteroid 2012 JU came to Earth the other day — within 118,000 miles, or about half the distance to our own Moon. It’s amazing to think that an object can come from near Mars in February and come so close to us, just…

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New Prometheus TV spot shows the many ways this crew is doomed!

This is by far the most gruesome — and spoiler-filled — trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus yet. We’re talking full-on carnage, and some glimpses of crazy easter eggs to go with that big Easter Island head. Feast your eyes on the dark horror that awaits this crew — including a couple animated GIFs! And here…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Air-Conditioned Flak Jackets Could Keep Cops Cool In the Summer

Empa, a Swiss materials company, has created an air-conditioned bulletproof vest based on Coolpad technology that could help keep police officers cool in the boiling, brain-melting summer heat. Water-filled pads are built into the vest and evaporate through the membrane to help cool down the wearer. Behind the pad, a little fan adds more ventilation.…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Small Girl Runs Big Company: Meet the Charmingly Bold Bianca Caampued

Bianca Caampued, Brooklyn businesswoman, professional party crasher, routine stunt-puller, and sometimes wearer of non-prescription eyeglasses (because why not?), co-founded Small Girls PR back in 2011. It all started when she crashed a random birthday party and was one of the last people dancing—along with birthday girl Mallory Blair. They got to talking and social-media-ing and…

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Why does the world’s oldest cave art show a vagina?

By now you’ve probably heard: a team of archaeologists has discovered what appear to be engravings of “vulvar representations” on the walls of a cave in southern France. The researchers claim the carvings are at least as old as etchings discovered in France’s Chauvet Cave, long recognized as home to the most ancient cave art…

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Battleship: An Important Document in the Future Field of Peter David Novelization Studies

Peter David isn’t just a prolific contributor to comics, novels, television and various other media, he’s also a huge player in the field of movie novelizations. (As opposed to media tie-in novels, which he also casts a massive shadow in.) One day, future scholars will study the novelizations of Peter David, with elective courses in…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Greenpeace Invades Apple’s Headquarters

The Quickest Way to Fire Up Your Barbecue This Summer

Rumor: Google to Partner With Multiple Handset Makers for Nexus Devices

Wild trailers for ABC’s new TV shows include evil Nazi babies and green aliens!

Doctor Who corsets and Lolita skirts set our double hearts aflutter

Chronicle‘s Josh Trank: Being able to tell a compelling story is the rarest special effect

FreezePaint: A Fun Sandbox for Strange Photo Experiments

A 73-Year-Old Man Tried to Assassinate JFK with a Buick Full of Dynamite

Usain Bolt Now Part of the Shitty Celeb Headphones Illuminati

Incredible videos recreate Isaac Newton’s experiments with alchemy

Hang This Portable Swing Kit Anywhere for an Instant Playground on the Go

Turkey Thinks This Bird Is an Israeli Spy Because Its Nostril Is Big Enough to Hold Microchips

Meet a few of the 100-trillion lifeforms that call your body “home”

Steak Specialists Discover a New Cut of Beef

Time-lapse video shows a trailer-sized asteroid coming between Earth and the Moon

New Prometheus TV spot shows the many ways this crew is doomed!

Air-Conditioned Flak Jackets Could Keep Cops Cool In the Summer

Small Girl Runs Big Company: Meet the Charmingly Bold Bianca Caampued

Why does the world’s oldest cave art show a vagina?

Battleship: An Important Document in the Future Field of Peter David Novelization Studies

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