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The Kidnapped Tourist Chronicles: One Reader’s Boldest Experience

Ring the bells—the winner of the “My Boldest Experience” essay contest has been chosen. Behold, a tale of international intrigue by Gizmodo reader Ted T., who is just won a $100 AMEX card. Read and be inspired. In 2006 I spent a semester in Argentina, after which I took the remaining summer to backpack through…

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Las Vegas Growth From 1973 to 2011 Is Bloody Scary

Watch Las Vegas massive growth since 1973 till now. It starts a bit slow, but then it becomes fast and unstoppable. It looks scary, especially if you are a coyote or a dead mobster buried in the desert. The large red areas are actually green space, mostly golf courses and city parks. You’ll notice the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Karl Lagerfeld holds a fashion show in Superman’s Fortress of Solitude

Want more proof that the fashion world is continuing to be rocked by science fiction and futuristic (or really, retro-futuristic) visions? Look no further than these pictures of Karl Lagerfeld’s designs showcased at Chanel’s Paris Fashion Week show. (At which apparently Katy Perry was in the front row.) Lagerfeld staged his fashion show in a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Our Apple iPad HD Liveblog Starts Now

Oh joy! It’s Apple announcement time again. We know you’ve got a lot of live blog options, but we hope you’ll join us on our super meta iPad HD Liveblog with your hosts, Brian Barrett and Mat Honan. We’re expecting Apple’s Retina Display to show up in the new iPad, LTE to have a decent…

Tech News Mat Honan

Some of your genes are more similar to gorillas than to chimps

Our closest evolutionary relatives are chimpanzees, and both of our species are much more related to each other than to gorillas, the next closest relative. But a new genome analysis reveals we share some unexpected traits with our massive gorilla cousins. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have sequenced the gorilla genome, using DNA…

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Velociraptors Weren’t Predators, But Dirty Cheating Scavengers

If Jurassic Park taught me anything, it was that velociraptors were fast, deadly and terrifying predators. But it turns out that might not be true, because a team of researchers has discovered that ‘raptors were scavengers. A team of scientists has analyzed the skeleton of a ‘raptor found in the Gobi desert, Mongolia, and discovered…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Is It Really This Easy to Fool a TSA Body Scanner? (UPDATED)

It’s not every day that we see something as scary as this. Those fancy, expensive, TSA body scanners that blast you with radiation and can see you naked in the name of security? It would seem it’s easier to slip things past them than metal detectors. The blog TSA Out of Our Pants! has just…

Privacy & Security Brent Rose

10 Movies With The Word “Terminator” In The Title (That Are 100% Unrelated to The Terminator)

Everyone loves a good Terminator, particularly those fly-by-night movie studios whose livelihoods come from hoodwinking audience members too gullible for reality. For decades, slapping the word “Terminator” into your movie title has been all the rage — here are ten (mostly unknown, mostly unwatchable) films that have capitalized on the T-800’s fame and glory. 1.)…

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Shooting Challenge: LASERS

Pew pew. Click. Click. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll be unleashing lasers. The Challenge Take a photo that incorporates lasers somehow. WARNING: Use caution where you shine it. The Technique Many of you will be tempted to try light painting, and that’s fine. Lasers have a very specific point to make well-outlined subjects. But…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Puerto Rican Avengers look a lot different than we remembered

Could this be the best superhero mashup around? Or do the Puerto Ricans know something about Joss Whedon’s new Avengers movie that we don’t? According to Reddit, this is an Avengers t-shirt being sold on the streets of Puerto Rico. Blending the bat, the spider and the giant blue cat from Avatar makes this the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Alcatraz finally starts getting better

The biggest problem Alcatraz has had, since the beginning, is one of setting. For a show about America’s most notorious prison, the show has been spending a lot of time in a bland, nondescript city that is supposed to be San Francisco but could be Anytown U.S.A. Meanwhile, the show has teased us with flashback…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Most Advanced Fake Meat in the World Is Still Gross

I’ve never understood the desire of some vegetarians to make their food resemble meat; it’s creepy and seems to contradict their love of vegetables. Sadly, the practice shows now sign of stopping so, with some reluctance, I present to you the most advanced fake meat in the world. What you’re looking at here is the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Turn Your Kettle Grill Into a Backyard Pizza Oven

It’s not as easy as having a pizza delivered, but this simple kit can turn your backyard kettle grill into the perfect pizza oven so you can free yourself from the shackles of Domino’s and Papa John. Technically it’s nothing more than a stainless steel spacer that lets your grill breathe, drawing the heat from…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The iPad of 1935

There’s no denying that devices like the iPad, Kindle and Nook have dramatically changed the way that many people consume media. Last year, online retailer Amazon announced that electronic book sales had surpassed print book sales for the first time in history. The future of the book has quite a few failed predictions in its…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Apple Store Is Down: Here Comes iPad 3

Apple is currently updating the Apple Store, presumably with the new goodies that will be announced at today’s event. When it’s back up will we see a new iPad? A new Apple TV? Tune in to our liveblog today find out.

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How the App Store’s Gunning For Your Retail Dollars

In advance of today’s Apple announcement, the company has started putting catalogs in their own category in the App Store. Is Apple plotting a new way for us to use its devices to shop? The new Catalogs category isn’t yet listed with the others, but a simple search of the App Store shows that many…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Windows 8: 20 Tips and Tricks

What do you do with a new operating system? You roll up your shirt sleeves and jump elbow-deep into every part of the OS you can get your hands on. You make manual registry tweaks to open up hidden elements of your new OS; you navigate through all of the different configuration options to see…

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David Attenborough looks tiny beside the world’s biggest moth

And with good reason. Sure, this Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) may be looming in the foreground of the photograph, but at close to a foot across, its wingspan is bigger than Attenborough’s entire face no matter where it’s positioned. That’s pretty impressive for an organism with an adult lifespan of less than two weeks (A.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Report: iPad 3 Will Be the First iOS Device with 1 GB of RAM

Jailbreak developer Chronic has some big news about the next iPad, Cult of Mac reports: it’ll pack a nice big gigabyte of memory. According to a debug screenshot BGR acquired last month, the 1 GB spec was just hiding in the numbers: It’s been in plain sight since the beginning of February when BGR posted…

Tech News Sam Biddle

To Lose Weight, Just Drink a Gallon of Coffee

There’s no shortage of scientific research pointing to exercise being good for you, but if you’re just trying to lose weight you probably want all the help you can get. Now, research suggests that caffeine activates the same fat-busting genes as an hour’s exercise. Somebody, pass the espresso. A team of researchers from the Karolinska…

Health Jamie Condliffe

The Kidnapped Tourist Chronicles: One Reader’s Boldest Experience

Las Vegas Growth From 1973 to 2011 Is Bloody Scary

Karl Lagerfeld holds a fashion show in Superman’s Fortress of Solitude

Our Apple iPad HD Liveblog Starts Now

Some of your genes are more similar to gorillas than to chimps

Velociraptors Weren’t Predators, But Dirty Cheating Scavengers

Is It Really This Easy to Fool a TSA Body Scanner? (UPDATED)

10 Movies With The Word “Terminator” In The Title (That Are 100% Unrelated to The Terminator)

Shooting Challenge: LASERS

The Puerto Rican Avengers look a lot different than we remembered

Alcatraz finally starts getting better

The Most Advanced Fake Meat in the World Is Still Gross

Turn Your Kettle Grill Into a Backyard Pizza Oven

The iPad of 1935

The Apple Store Is Down: Here Comes iPad 3

How the App Store’s Gunning For Your Retail Dollars

Windows 8: 20 Tips and Tricks

David Attenborough looks tiny beside the world’s biggest moth

Report: iPad 3 Will Be the First iOS Device with 1 GB of RAM

To Lose Weight, Just Drink a Gallon of Coffee

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