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Report: New Super Cookies Can Even Track Your Privacy-Mode Browsing

Private browsing modes on most modern browsers are a nice way to at least partially cloak your online habits. But a new breed of super cookies can apparently bypass those privacy modes and keep track of what you’re looking at all the time. Ars Technica reportsthat a chink in the HTTP Strict Transport Security protocol…

Brave girl fishes piranhas holding a piece of raw meat with her hand

Watching this Brazilian girl fishing piranhas barefoot made me cringe. Watching the water boil when the piranhas devour a piece of rawmeat she is holding inches away from them made me cringe a bit more. But watching her doing it with such ease is what impresses me the most. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

LG’s New Smart Watch Is Powered by WebOS

Android Central has confirmed that LG’s new smartwatch is powered by webOS. The watch has been shown off at CES by Audi, where it was used to beckon a car on to the stage. A closer look, by both Android Central and Verge reveals a fairly rich experience beyond the presence of webOS. Verge points…

Amazon Might Soon Look Like This

Amazon’s been testing a new design for its homepage, and it appears that this rather dark-and-stormy front page has today been appearing for far more users across the U.S. Amazon has apparently been working on a design refresh since July. Now, it seems Amazon is selectively using this new front page on a variety of…

When It Premieres, 12 Monkeys Could Control the Lights In Your House

Is this a story of interactive home viewing taken far? Syfy is partnering with Phillips to give each episode of 12 Monkeys a “light track.” Get ready to have the future scenes turn off all the lights in your house to make sure that you’re really feeling the apocalypse. Phillips’ Hue lighting line connects color-changing…

What it must be like being inside a kid’s imagination

Here’s a cute video that I hope turns into an entire series: imagining what’s inside a kid’s, well, imagination. The video starts off with the toddler waving a stick as he runs around (as kids tend to do) and then transforms into a level of Super Mario Bros. Being a kid is awesome. We just…

Sunset at Yosemite Bathes the Mountaintops in a Golden Glow

This image posted to Instagram by the National Parks Service shows a perfect sunset at Yosemite National Park. The reflection of the light in the clouds and off the rock give it a beautiful halo. See the full Instagram post below.

What Does It Mean That James Bond’s In the Public Domain In Canada?

On January 1st, 2015, the works of Ian Fleming entered the public domain in a number of countries. That means that the character of James Bond is no longer copyrighted in those countries, just likeSherlock Holmes has been for a while. But it doesn’t mean that it’s suddenly open season on that character. Why now?…

A song made using just noises from Star Wars

Eclectic Method’s latest song is called ‘Droids of Star Wars’ and it uses footage and sounds (mostly from our favorite droids) from the original trilogy and the ignored second trilogy. It’s going to be a part of a series that summaries the first 6 movies as the world prepares for Episode VII. Eclectic Method is…

The Hotel That Inspired The Shining Wants You to Design a Maze For It

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado has the … honor of being the inspiration behind The Shining. And as a way to further connect the real hotel to the fictional Overlook Hotel, the management has announced that it will build a a 61,500 square foot hedge maze inspired by the one in Kubrick’s film.…

You’ll Soon Be Able To Use K’NEX To Build Your Own Custom Dart Guns

How many times have you found yourself playing with a Nerf gun and thought you could come up with a cooler design? That dream will soon be a reality according to the folks at Blaster Labs because at some point this year K’NEX will be releasing new building sets that let you design and construct…

Dyson Finally Perfected the Vacuum By Eliminating the Need For Filters

A Dyson is promised to keep on sucking at almost full power even as its dirt bin gets full, but few users realize there are also hidden filters that need to be periodically cleaned to keep the vacuum running at full strength. For a company that prides itself on vacuums that never lose suction, that…

Watching an umbrella get hand made is more captivating than I thought

There’s a bit of a chicken or the egg thing for me when it comes to umbrellas. I never spend too much money on umbrellas because they always break. Or do they break because I never spend too much money on them? After watching this titillating video of a beautiful umbrella being made, I think…

10 underrated movies you probably missed in 2014

The funnest and maybe even best movie of 2014 that nobody saw when it came out but when they finally watched it all agreed was the funnest and maybe even best movie of 2014: Edge of Tomorrow. Seriously, even if you don’t like Tom Cruise, you’ll enjoy the movie. Here are 9 other movies that…

A Plethora Of Physic Phenomena Outside An Airplane Window

Between ice crystals, raindrop lenses, and a setting sun, the physics is just packed into this photograph from an airplane window somewhere over the arctic. This really is an admittedly dorky exercise, but one of the things I love about science is that it’s absolutely everywhere. I’ve heard accusations that endless scientific explanations take the…

Mad Catz Just Made The Most Insane Mouse And The Craziest Gamepad

Razer loves to steal the show. Every CES, there’s some crazy new project from the gaming hardware company. Apparently their longtime rival Mad Catz was having enough of that, because they pulled out all the freaking stops this year. See those four gamepads in the picture above? Not quite. You’re actually looking at four different…

Election Is the Funniest Horror Movie About Ambitious Women Ever Made

Of all the teen comedies made in the 90s/early 00s, Election is often overshadowed by bigger hits like Clueless and Mean Girls. But the Alexander Payne-helmed high school election movie has clawed out a pop culture legacy through its maniacally driven female lead, Tracy Flick, the type-A striver epitomized. Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is a new…

A Smart 9-Volt Battery Adds Phone Notifications to Any Smoke Detector

There are plenty of smart smoke detectors on the market that connect to your home’s Wi-Fi network to provide smartphone notifications when there’s trouble, but they’re an expensive upgrade to the dumb smoke detector you’ve (hopefully) already got watching over your home. The $40 Roost promises pretty much the same functionality as those smart alternatives,…

Dr. Dre and Eminem: Forgot About Dre

Today I fell down a Vine rabbithole that led me to this goodness: A guy who forgot about Dre. Don’t be that guy! Go listen to Chronic 2001. Happy Wednesday, and don’t forget about Apple VP Andre Young. [Spotify, iTunes, Amazon] Welcome to Soundtrack, what Gizmodo’s staff is listening to every night.

A microbe found in a grassy field appears to contain a remarkably powerful antibiotic. Called teixobactin, it kills dangerous pathogens without any observable resistance (at least not yet). Moreover, it destroys many types of drug-resistant bacteria and it’s safe in mammals. Its use may be limited, but it could represent a new class of antibiotics.…