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How to Stop the Government From Tracking Your Location (Illegally!)

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just decided that it was legal for the police to put a GPS tracking device on your car, sitting in your driveway, on your property. Here’s how to protect yourself. https://gizmodo.com/our-worst-nightmares-about-the-government-tracking-us-j-5622800 Matt’s post about the decision explains in depth about the ruling. To quickly summarize, the supreme court had…

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Naked Redneck Throws Himself In a Hay Baler

I’ve been reading about hay-balers for the last ten minutes to get some idea of whether this video is real or not. And it’s probably not. But it’s still nude redneck adventure of the first order. [YouTube (Thanks, Casey!)]

Tech News Joel Johnson

Never Swim Without a Soundtrack Again

Think about the last time you went swimming. Now think about what else you were doing the last time you went swimming. Nothing! Panicking, maybe. This waterproof Bluetooth headset from the boys at Brando brings multitasking into the deep end. Whether you want to gab with your friends, orchestrate your next million dollar business deal,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

What was it like to enter King Tut’s tomb when it was opened in 1923?

National Geographic has just republished an essay written in 1923, by a journalist who ventured inside King Tut’s tomb shortly after it was excavated – and told his tale with low-key swashbuckling flair. National Geographic correspondent Maynard Owen Williams journeyed to Egypt to witness the opening of King Tut’s tomb. He begins: Tutankhamen was the…

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Two heads really can be better than one…as long as those heads are similar

Two heads are supposedly better than one, but is this true when it comes to how we see the world? Combining people’s initial estimates really can make for better measurements – but only if both observers know what they’re doing. Although it seems intuitively true that two or more people would come up with a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Rube Goldberg: The Man Behind the Machines

From the maddening board game Mouse Trap to that awesome OK GO video (to the hundreds of brilliant contraptions scattered across YouTube), Rube Goldberg machines continue to enjoy a widespread popularity. But who was Rube Goldberg in the first place? https://gizmodo.com/how-ok-go-built-the-craziest-rube-goldberg-machine-yet-5484736 Born on July 4, 1883, Reuben Lucius Goldberg was a one-time engineer and an…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Preview Legends of Shannara: Bearers of the Black Staff

The evolution of one of imaginative fiction’s most beloved worlds continues in the first book of the new series Legends of Shannara: Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks, available now from Del Rey. For more than three decades, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks has ruled the epic fantasy realm with his…

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Inside the Secret Underwater Lake Fort

A Nevada family of scuba divers has prototyped an underwater fort—an anchored air pocket in a net—at the secret location at the bottom of a lake in the Sierras. And it’s been there for three years! It’s made with vinyl, mounted under a net, mounted to an octagon of steel. I’m going to say that…

Tech News Brian Lam

Eureka: How Genius Strikes

Eureka is our week-long meditation on the wonders of invention, inventors and genius. Here are the topics we’ve marveled over. How One Man Accidentally Invented Electronics in 1906 When Lee de Forest accidentally created the first electronic audio amplifier-the Audion-he “inaugurated the age of electronics.” You can learn about it in this excerpt from Nicholas…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

First gooey footage from Vessel’s in-flight alien attack

We’ve been following the work of Clark Baker’s short film Vessel ever since we laid eyes on his monster on a plane creations. But now the film has wrapped, and we’re got first ever footage of the mile-high alien. https://gizmodo.com/down-with-crappy-cg-aliens-support-a-real-monster-5540362 Since we last reported on Vessel, they’ve wrapped principal photography (check out a few stills…

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Intel May Be About to Buy iPhone Chip Supplier Infineon

According to a Bloomberg report, Intel is closing in on a deal to acquire the wireless unit of Infineon AG. You know, the company responsible for the iPhone’s baseband chips since 2007. That’s one way to build a mobile presence. Bloomberg sources say that the $2 billion deal could go down by the end of…

Tech News Brian Barrett

All The Single (Legged) Ladies: If You Like It Then You Should Put a Machine Gun On It

Filmmaker Rob Spence, famed for his camera eyeball implant, is looking for an eligible young woman. Who’s missing a leg. So he can give her a paintball machine gun. That she will attach to her leg. https://gizmodo.com/filmmaker-gets-his-cyborg-like-led-prosthetic-eye-5204545 Spence is working on a documentary about his “Eyeborg” project—turning a disability into a superpower—and wants to give…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Wesley Snipes Was Almost Geordi La Forge, and Other Star Trek: TNG Casting Fun

In a strong argument for the existence of alternate realities, according to this purported 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation casting sheet Wesley Snipes was once a front-runner to play Geordi La Forge. UPDATED: This is nothing against LeVar Burton. I love LeVar Burton! And I wouldn’t have wanted to see anyone else in that…

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Verizon Mocking Abu Ghraib Torture to Sell Droids? (Update: Not Verizon)

This bizarre commercial just started popping up, and frankly, we’re almost too confused to be offended. UPDATED: Verizon says the ad was not produced by or in any way affiliated with them. Swap out the shredded poncho for a red robe, and electrical wires for telephone cords, and you’ve got a spot-on replica of the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

“Twitter Strangers”: Joel Johnson and Jonah Lehrer on CBC Radio’s Spark

Prompted by my posts on “Why I Stalk a Sexy Black Woman on Twitter (And Why You Should, Too)” as well as my follow-up piece, CBC Radio’s Spark interviewed me and me-if-I-were-10-times-smarter Jonah Lehrer on the benefits of following strangers on Twitter. [CBC.ca/spark] https://gizmodo.com/why-i-stalk-a-sexy-black-woman-on-twitter-and-why-you-5586970

Tech News Joel Johnson

Found: 1970s Soviet Moon Rover, Lunokhod 1

This contraption looks like it’d fall apart trundling over a particularly rough bit of carpeting, but it’s actually much more durable than it seems. It’s Lunokhod 1 and the Soviets drove it around the moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 was abandoned after it ran out of power up there, and the Russian space bosses didn’t…

Space & Spaceflight Gary Cutlack

Xbox Live Getting Improved Audio Quality This Fall

According to Eurogamer, Xbox Live will get a system-wide audio quality upgrade in concert with the release of Kinect this fall. That means the 13-year-old on the receiving end of your profanities will hear you with crystal clarity. At the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Xbox Live Europe GM Jerry Johnson said “it’s time for us to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The first picture that really shows dark matter

That heart-shaped purple glow amidst that cluster of galaxies isn’t bursting with love — it’s dark matter, as measured by NASA’s Cosmic Lens, and it may be our best clue to the mysterious nature of dark energy. According to NASA: For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to take advantage…

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Two Saturn-sized planets are locked in elegant orbital dance around faraway star

A Sun-like star is home to two huge planets both about the size of Saturn. This pair of planets are locked in orbital resonance, with one planet taking almost exactly twice as long to orbit the star as the other. The two planets both orbit their star at distances far closer than even that between…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Why We Need More Inventions. Lots More Inventions.

It’s pretty simple, says Intellectual Ventures’ Nathan Myhrvold—lots more things being invented means lots more inventions that succeed. https://gizmodo.com/how-intellectual-ventures-wants-to-reinvent-invention-5621679 Eureka is our week-long meditation on the wonders of invention, inventors and genius. Videos by Mike Short.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

How to Stop the Government From Tracking Your Location (Illegally!)

Naked Redneck Throws Himself In a Hay Baler

Never Swim Without a Soundtrack Again

What was it like to enter King Tut’s tomb when it was opened in 1923?

Two heads really can be better than one…as long as those heads are similar

Rube Goldberg: The Man Behind the Machines

Preview Legends of Shannara: Bearers of the Black Staff

Inside the Secret Underwater Lake Fort

Eureka: How Genius Strikes

First gooey footage from Vessel’s in-flight alien attack

Intel May Be About to Buy iPhone Chip Supplier Infineon

All The Single (Legged) Ladies: If You Like It Then You Should Put a Machine Gun On It

Wesley Snipes Was Almost Geordi La Forge, and Other Star Trek: TNG Casting Fun

Verizon Mocking Abu Ghraib Torture to Sell Droids? (Update: Not Verizon)

“Twitter Strangers”: Joel Johnson and Jonah Lehrer on CBC Radio’s Spark

Found: 1970s Soviet Moon Rover, Lunokhod 1

Xbox Live Getting Improved Audio Quality This Fall

The first picture that really shows dark matter

Two Saturn-sized planets are locked in elegant orbital dance around faraway star

Why We Need More Inventions. Lots More Inventions.

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