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What’s the Best Remedy for the Hiccups?

Drink a glass of water upside down. Hold your breath until just before you pass out. Have someone scare the crap out of you. Everyone swears by a hiccup remedy. What’s yours? Obviously there’s no wrong answer here. And it’s not like there’s any medication you can take when you get the hiccups. But what…

Sabu Won’t Go to Prison Yet Because He’s Still Snitching

Sabu, probably the most notorious public face of hacking from this young, stupid century, still isn’t headed to prison. He hasn’t even been sentenced yet—because he’s still helping the FBI bust his friends. https://gizmodo.com/who-is-sabu-updated-5890964 Hector “Sabu” Monsegur, the project-dwelling mastermind of LulzSec, was supposed to receive his fate last week—but according to court documents, won’t…

The Easiest Guitar Tuner in the World

Guitar tuners aren’t always the simplest gadgets in the world, even if they’re mostly charged with an impossibly simple task. In fact, advanced features on more expensive tuners might confuse someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. This one, though, opts for simple and cheap. There’s something to be said for that. Korg’s new plastic…

Meet the scientific accident that could change the world

Last year, researchers at UCLA made a rather fantastic, if serendipitous, discovery. A team of scientists led by chemist Richard Kaner had just finished devising an efficient method for producing high-quality sheets of the Nobel-prize winning supermaterial known as graphene… with a consumer-grade DVD drive. That was groundbreaking in and of itself, but the real…

It’s Not Wise To Upset a Skateboarder Riding a Wookiee

It doesn’t come with Lucasfilm’s or Disney’s blessing, but if you’re a rabid Star Wars fan with a particular penchant for Chewbacca, Geoff McCleary over at Weird Boards will happily build you this one-of-a-kind Wookiee longboard. It’s 44 inches long with a hand-painted bandolier and faux fur completing the look. It’s also $300, but that’s…

After hitting its 100,000 user API token limit, Twitter app Falcon Pro’s price boosted to $132 so you won’t buy it. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-wants-to-stop-you-from-using-twitter-apps-not-m-5935517

This LEGO Hogwarts includes everything from Snape’s classroom to the Chamber of Secrets

Alice Finch’s 400,000-brick LEGO Hogwarts would be impressive enough if she had built just the outside of the grand magical school. But inside, her Hogwarts is even more glorious, containing the rooms and passages Harry Potter traveled in his school days, from the Hogwarts kitchen to the Room of Requirement, creating the perfect sets for…

This Cheap Portable Hard Drive Is Your Deal of the Day

Everyone needs a portable hard drive, especially if you’re rocking a tiny SSD in your laptop. But unlike lots of consumer technology, you can’t count on prices to fall indefinitely: before the October 2011 flood in Thailand, you could pick up a 2TB USB 2.0 portable hard drive for less than $100. We haven’t seen…

This is what Darth Vader sees when he’s kicking a Jedi’s butt

Move over, First-Person Shooters; hello, First-Person-Lightsaber-Wielders! The Stunt People made this awesome video of a lightsaber duel as seen by the duellists fighting in it, and if you’ve ever wondered what it would look like to battle Darth Vader and/or hand a Jedi his midichlorian-filled ass, this is as close as you’re going to get.…

The Giant Security Hole That Facebook Doesn’t Care About

You probably assume hackers are using all sorts of devious viruses, obscure scripts, “exploits” (whatever that means, right?) and other complex means to break into accounts. But often the means of entry are stupid simple. Facebook has a huge one—and doesn’t care about fixing it. There’s a basic premise here that isn’t a Facebook problem,…

Cablevision Is Suing Viacom to Kill the Bundled Cable Model Once and For All

That seemingly far-off dream of a la carte cable consumption may be more imminent than you realize. Cablevision has announced its plans to sue Viacom for “illegally forcing purchase of programming services.” In other words, they want to break up the bundle. https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-tv-may-not-be-worth-it-5972517 The bundling principle has been at the core of the cable industry…

Climbing Hold Mugs May Never Slip Out of Your Hand

You know that scene in movies where a character has a sudden realization and their coffee cup dramatically slips from their fingers and crashes to the floor? That, in theory, would never happen were the characters using these Crux Mugs, which employ an artificial climbing hold for the handle. Depending on which $16 design you…

The American Plan to Build Nuclear Power Plants in the Ocean

A new nuclear power plant hasn’t been built in the U.S. in over 30 years. But in the 1970s nuclear power was still in many ways a low-emissions dream of the future. In 1975, nuclear power accounted for about 4 percent of the electrical energy generated in the United States. But some people at that…

We now know the origin of Russia’s meteor

The Chelyabinsk meteor may have snuck up on us by surprise, but it didn’t take long for a crack team of astronomers from Colombia to figure out where the damned thing came from and the path it took to get here. By sifting through the copious amounts of video footage available, and after performing some…

24 Captivating Photos of Concrete

Concrete. It’s possibly the drabbest material on the planet, but that unto itself makes for a powerful aesthetic all its own. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you shot concrete structures. The results? Cold. Rotting. Geometric. And captivatingly minimal. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-concrete-jungle-5985634 WINNER: Foundation This week’s picture was taken from a walkway underneath an arched, causeway bridge on…

Concrete Shooting Challenge

“Foundation” This week’s picture was taken from a walkway underneath an arched, causeway bridge on the Indian River Lagoon. Even though the bridge is mostly over water, I didn’t try to include any in the picture because I thought the form of the concrete supports was the most important thing and it didn’t need any…

Here’s Why You Should Code, a PSA By Chris Bosh, will.i.am, and Mark Zuckerberg

Code.org has a new internet PSA explaining why you should code. The answer to that is you’ll get to eat food made by chefs, play ping pong in a hoodie, and will.i.am will call you a rockstar. That or basically, you might get a job in an office in Silicon Valley, might being the keyword…

Amazing Spider-Man 2 set photos show off our new Mary Jane

Shailene Woodley was spotted yesterday on the set of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 sporting her red Mary Jane Watson locks. Just Jared posted these and a few more photos of the new rival for Peter Parker’s affections. It’s not clear if Woodley is in costume, but she is on set and Andrew Garfield was in…

“Vulcan” has won Pluto’s moon-naming poll!

When we last told you about the SETI-sponsored poll asking the public to help christen two of Pluto’s as-yet unnamed moons, “Vulcan” held a significant lead. Now, after weeks of online ballot casting, the namesake of Spock’s home planet has been named the clear winner, with a total of 450,324 votes cast since February 11.…