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Opera for Android is out of beta and waiting to be downloaded for free in the Play store. It offers some features to speed up mobile browsing—but it’s probably too late to steal Chrome’s lead.

Judge Rules That Airbnb Is Illegal in New York (Updated)

Bad news for those seeking or offering cheap accommodation over the internet: a New York judge has determined that Airbnb is illegal in the city. Despite Airbnb’s attempts to persuade officials otherwise, the service has been found to violate the illegal hotel law—a statute which stops property owners from renting out their own homes on…

Yes, an Old Mac G5 Does Make a Great BBQ

An old Mac G5 case, some scrap aluminum—and you have the perfect geek’s grill. OK, so there may strictly be more efficient ways to cook outdoors, but this scores maximum nerd points. [Imgur via Macgasm via Ubergizmo] https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-grill-everything-but-steak-484753430

US military has shut down Wi-Fi access at the Guantanamo Bay following threats from Anonymous that it would “disrupt activities” as part of its #OpGITMO campaign.

Are These The Most Intimate Self Portraits Ever?

Photography often produces incredibly intimate results, but these self portraits by Erno-Erik Raitanen offer a different take—showing off his bacteria in fine detail. The pictures weren’t created using a camera, but his own bacteria, cultivated on the gelatin surface of film negatives. He explains: “I have gathered the bacteria samples from my own body. The…

Spotify Takes on Billboard With Free-to-Play Most-Streamed Charts

Spotify has decided to take on the likes of Billboard with its own charts, making available a list of the top-50 most-streamed and most-shared songs to the public. Wall Street Journal reports that, in a push to broaden its user base, the music streaming service is sharing the data—and the music to match. The top-50…

PSA: Your Skype Messages Aren’t as Private as You Think They Are

Most people think of Skype as a secure means of communication, with messages kindly delivered using end-to-end encryption. But a new report by Ars Technica suggests that’s far from the case—and Microsoft is often dipping into your communications. Having teamed up with security researcher Ashkan Soltani, Ars sent fresh web links across Skype, and found…

The Iconic Eames Molded Chair Is Being Made with Fiberglass Again

This is awesome. Herman Miller has announced that it will start making the iconic Eames Molded Chair in fiberglass… again. The fiberglass chairs were discontinued from production in 1989 and ever since then, the iconic chairs that decorate modern houses have been made with recyclable polypropylene. But now we’re getting back to the good stuff.…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Wandering

This awesome 8-bit retro music video from Joe Presser is a classic tale of love: boy meets girl, boy runs away from girl, girl undergoes grueling training regimen to hunt down boy and deliver smooches. It’s like Forrest Gump but in reverse. Download the song on Soundcloud

This Guy Built the Most Incredible Spider-Man Suit Ever

Though building out the armor required for an Iron Man suit is obviously (some would say imposingly) impressive, re-creating the detailed webbing and lithe nature of Spider-Man’s suit is just as incredible a feat. MoonSpider shared the Spider-Man suit he made and it puts all Halloween Spidey costumes to shame. https://gizmodo.com/10-diy-iron-man-suits-that-give-tony-stark-a-run-for-hi-486130318 This is something Tobey…

This Insane Highway Demolition Is the Longest Ever in China

Given the fevered pace of China’s infrastructure development, 16 years is ancient. That’s why the two-lane concrete Zhuan-yang viaduct running through the town of Wuhan, Hubei in central China had to go—a bigger and better six-lane freeway was in the works. But to demolish the original roadway without harming the surrounding homes, engineers smothered the…

A Former Subway Worker Made a Breakthrough Discovery in Math

A completely unknown guy in the world of math has made a breakthrough discovery that will help us understand numbers better. Basically, a guy who once struggled to find a job and had to work at Subway, is helping math geniuses understand the twin prime conjecture, one of math’s oldest problems. Now, Yitang Zhang, the…

A Congressional investigation found that Apple has avoided BILLIONS in taxes. Senator John McCain said, “Apple claims to be the largest U.S. corporate taxpayer, but by sheer size and scale, it is also among America’s largest tax avoiders.” [NY Times]

Social Networks Make You Feel Like You’re Missing Everything

In theory, social networks are supposed to make you feel closer to everybody. Oh, look! Jim is driving a tractor on Instagram. Wow, Sarah just invited me to her baby shower on Facebook. But the truth is, social networks do a really good job at making you feel left out too. Wait… why did my…

Totally Astonishing Images from the 2013 Art of Science Contest

This isn’t an alien world — it’s a representation of the winds traveling from East to West (in blue) and West to East (in red) here on Earth. And this is just one of the fantastic images that won the 2013 Science As Art contest at Princeton University. See a few more below. Top image:…

Damon Lindelof admits the Star Trek underwear scene was “gratuitous”

Still scratching your head over the random underwear scene with Alice Eve in Star Trek Into Darkness? Head producer and writer Damon Lindelof has finally “copped” to the fact that the nudity was completely gratuitous. Taking to twitter Linedlof has tweeted a string of apologies to those who were offended by filming Doctor Carol Marcus,…

Shanzhai Biennial: Dark Optimism

This song, like the dress and the woman wearing it, is the sincerest form of flattery. In that they’re all shameless knockoffs. Everything about this music video from Shanzhai Biennial, a trio of artists—Cyril Duval, Babak Radboy and Avena Gallagher—posing as a “multinational brand posing as an art-project posing as an multinational brand posing as…

New Flickr Walkthrough: So Pretty, So Much, So Free

After languishing for years as a neglected acquisition, Flickr has finally been given the jumpstart it so desperately needed and deserved. As of right now, not only to you get a free terabyte of storage and extremely high res photo uploads, you get it in pretty stellar package. Here’s what you’re dealing with. https://gizmodo.com/flashback-how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-interne-508852335 While…

Watch Chris Hadfield MacGyver Up a Game of Space Darts

You thought Chris Hadfield turned his back on us when he left the ISS earlier this month, didn’t you? For shame, internet patron, for shame. Hadfield may be safely back on Earth, but the otherworldly videos continue to surface. And in this one, you get to see him make himself a game of darts MacGyver…

Teen Wolf trailer unleashes the Alpha Werewolf Pack

Here it is — the very first Teen Wolf trailer with footage from the new season, and it’s stuffed with hairy man-candy. Teen Wolf, the show that started off bad but then surprised us all when it turned into an interesting drama with sexy menfolk, returns for a third season. And now there’s a new…