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The 8 Most Intriguing Theories About Skyjacker D.B. Cooper

Who is D.B. Cooper? The question has persisted since November 24, 1971, when a mysterious man hijacked a flight from Portland to Seattle, demanded parachutes and $200,000, and skydived into folk-hero history. Cooper’s identity and fate remain unknown — and many theories about both abound. Cooper (who actually bought his plane ticket, which cost $2o…

Comcast Is Reportedly Abandoning Its Time Warner Acquisition Plans

Comcast will abandon its $45 billion bid to acquire Time Warner Cable, according to a Bloomberg report. Unnamed sources say we might hear the news as soon as Friday. CNBC agrees. NYT agrees. This is very good news, if true! A Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger would be terrible for consumers and business alike. The combined…

Garmin’s New All-In-One Dashcam-Navigator Helps You Stay On The Road

The days of standalone car GPS units have been numbered ever since Google Maps started turn-by-turn directions, but Garmin is still keeping them relevant by packing in smarts. The latest nuviCam LMTHD not only features a dashcam, but it can use that same lens to prevent you from crashing. Integrating a dashcam into a standalone…

Cool photo of a paratrooper makes it look like he’s surfing an airplane

The angle of this photo of a paratrooper making a jump off a C-130 airplane is so perfect that it makes it seem like the soldier is using the Hercules aircraft as a surfboard of sorts. Obviously, he’s not standing on the plane (it’s just our perspective fooling us, or just me) but man, riding…

Holding off on a Samsung Galaxy S6orS6 Edge until you can use it as a VR headset? The new Gear VR—smaller, with a fan for ventilation—goes on sale May 8th for $200. You can preorder it here tomorrow.

What It’s Like To Jump Off The Prettiest Waterfalls In America

With its turquoise waters surrounded by dark red rock, Arizona’s Havasupai Falls and its surrounding area have to be the prettiest in the nation. Watch as our friends from Los Angeles Swimmin’ make the arduous hike in, then jump off some cliffs. IndefinitelyWild is a new publication about adventure travel in the outdoors, the vehicles…

True Crime Legend Ann Rule May Have Been Robbed By Her Own Sons

Prolific author Ann Rule has written some of true crime’s best-selling classics, including Ted Bundy tome The Stranger Beside Me, inspired by her friendship with Bundy long before his serial-killing ways were known. She’s now 83, in not-great health, and is apparently being ripped off by two of her own sons. As the Seattle PI…

Can Superheroes Assert Legal Rights Without Revealing Their Identities?

Welcome to the All-New, All-Different Postal Apocalypse! It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before, unless you’ve actually read my silly little mail column before. I have a superhero legal question that is going to blow your mind — seriously! — followed by The Force Awakens, Batman V. Superman, Game of Thrones and more! The Webs…

The Gloriously Inane First YouTube Video Was Uploaded 10 Years Ago Today

On April 23rd, 2005, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a masterpiece of mundanity to YouTube, his newly launched video portal. Behold. 10 years of YouTube! Can you believe it? I’m not going to bore you with the blah, blah, blah about how YouTube changed the planet because it’s obvious that YouTube changed the planet. Just…

Castle Hangnail Is A Perfectly Wicked Bedtime Story For Kids Of All Ages

Ursula Vernon’s latest book, Castle Hangnail, may be aimed at middle-schoolers, but it’s a delightful story for anyone who has wondered about the practicalities of running an evil castle. In this case, a young wicked witch must protect her new home from real estate developers, magical bureaucracy, and a truly evil rival. I’ve long been…

Sony’s Touchless Shutter App Takes a Photo Without Touching the Camera

If you’re the owner of a Sony camera with an electronic viewfinder, Sony just released a nifty little app that’ll let you take a photo without touching your camera — just wave your hand over the EVF instead. The Touchless Shutter app (free download, still in beta) uses the viewfinder’s eye sensor to detect the…

Acer’s Got a Crazy New Gaming Tablet

Acer just released a kraken. Forty different gadgets—laptops, desktops, tablets, wearables, fitness trackers, mini PCs, monitors—for the upcoming back to school season. But the most intriguing was Acer’s mysterious new gaming tablet. The Predator. Although Acer outed its new Android gaming tablet today, it really didn’t have much to say about it. We can’t tell…

Swimming with a million fish looks like being in a teleportation tunnel

I’m not exactly sure I know what a teleportation tunnel actually is but I’d imagine it would look a lot like this. This being swimming with a million silverside fish in the ocean. It’s beautiful, like traveling through organic warp speed or being a part of a swarm from a sci-fi movie that’s about to…

Geologists Unveil New Map Of Magma System Under Yellowstone Supervolcano

Geophysicists have discovered a second, even more massive magma reservoir feeding the Yellowstone supervolcano, providing researchers with the most comprehensive picture yet of the volcanic system beneath the park. Top image: The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: National Park Service/Jim Peaco The Yellowstone volcanic field is the surface manifestation of an upwelling…

The 5th Wave Really Wants To Fill The YA Alien Invasion Gap

Last night, Sony premiered the first-ever look at that teenage alien invasion movie The 5th Wave. And what started out as a boy-meets-girl, high school love story got fairly dark fairly fast. But we’re still not sure what to think about this movie. We saw a ton of footage during Sony’s massive CinemaCon presentation, and…

A Surprising Twist to the Story of What’s Killing Our Bees: They’re High

Evidence has been piling up that neonicotinoids, a class of ubiquitous pesticides, play a role the recent decline of bees. A new study adds worrying and unexpected evidence: Bees actually prefer food contaminated with neonicotinoids—probably because it’s getting them high. This new study is important because a lot of controversy over the neonicotinoids has centered…

The Curiosity Rover Looks Incredibly Lonely When Seen From Space

On the 949th day of its Martian mission, the Curiosity Rover was spotted by its space-based companion, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image was captured two weeks ago when the rover was making its way through a valley called “Artist’s Drive” on the lower slope of Mount Sharp. Curiosity is currently making its way toward…

Bandai’s Samurai Star Wars Toys Get Royal Guards, Boba Fett, And Drums

We’ve seen Bandai’s “Movie Realisation” takes on Star Wars before, turning Darth Vader and his Stormtroopers into Samurai — but now the line is expanding into amazing looking versions of the Royal Guards, Boba Fett and, as befitting any Star Wars toy line, more Stormtrooper variants than you can shake a stick at. https://gizmodo.com/samurai-darth-vader-leads-a-slew-of-crazy-japanese-star-1590655607 https://gizmodo.com/bandais-samurai-stormtrooper-looks-absolutely-amazing-1670694953…

An Absolutely Massive Volcano Is Exploding In Chile Right Now

Calbuco, a stratovolcano in southern Chile, began erupting yesterday at 7pm local time. First spewing massive ash clouds then, at 10pm, erupting explosively as its fragile structure collapsed inwards. Here’s all the stunning imagery and video; we’ll keep it updated as this develops. You can see it from space! https://gizmodo.com/this-huge-volcanic-eruption-in-chile-is-stunningly-beau-1699612788 AP Photo Why do Volcanoes…

It Finally Happened On Arrow, And It Was Awesome

During the flashback in last night’s episode, “The Fallen,” a deadly bioweapon is released because of Ollie’s butterfingers and no one cares. No one cares, because the A-plot gives us something we’ve been waiting for. Hell, we’ve been dying for it. But never in a million years did we think it would happen like this.…