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Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Hacked with Swastikas Through Third Party App ‘Twitter Counter’

A number of Twitter accounts, including major brands and institutions are getting hijacked right now. Everyone from Duke University to major fast food outlets to Nike Spain are getting hacked with a swastika and a reference to April 16th, a date when a referendum will be held in Turkey to give President Erdogan more power.…

Tech News Matt Novak

Windmills Are the Stars of This Dazzling Light Show

Dutch history meets modern energy initiatives in artist Daan Roosegaarde’s latest installation, which uses beams of green light to visualize the movement of the country’s windmills. Blades on these mills can reach 170mph, but special tracking software and a thermal camera mounted behind the blades keep the light beams pointed at their targets, connecting each…

Sploid Avery Ellis

The Dutch rode horses on their highways during the 1970s oil crisis

The oil crisis of the 1970s meant that Americans had to wait in long lines to fill up their cars. But in the Netherlands, the government decided that the best way to conserve fuel was to ban cars for one day a week. How did people cope? They took their horses on the highway. The…

Tech News Matt Novak

These Dutch Safety Posters Are Beautiful—But Utterly Disturbing

There is nothing coy about these vintage Dutch safety and anti-alcohol propaganda posters. They want you to know just how horribly inattention to your work will maim you, live wires will electrocute you, and alcohol will destroy your life. And no, this isn’t the first time we’ve featured Dutch safety posters. They’re that terrifying. One…

io9 Vincze Miklós

A seagull does so much more in a day than you do

A day in the life of a Dutch seagull, as revealed by GPS. The bird covers 332 kilometers (over 200 miles!) in a single day, soaring over land and sea alike. According to commenters over on reddit, the narrated version of the video (which appears below, in Dutch) explains the bird is collecting food with…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship

The Netherlands have given the world so much: pizza, sex tourism, The Hague, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and let’s not Aelbert Cuyp. In the tradition of the last three, the Dutch now serve up the most artistically bizarre Google blurring ever. Architizer brings us artist Mishka Henner’s “Dutch Landscapes” project: (click through for more) As Henner notes, the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Flying Bird Man Admits Flying Bird Man Is Fake

You’re looking at the Internet Bird Man, who captivated the web’s attention for dozens of hours and divided us between skeptics and the faithful. It was a hoax! It turns out he even made up his name. https://gizmodo.com/man-flies-like-a-bird-flapping-his-own-wings-update-6-5894904 Jarno Smeets—actually a Dutch CGI artist named Floris Kaayk—fessed up to the hoax on De Wereld Draait…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Fertility Chip Could Herald New Era of Hands-On Home Testing for Sperm Effectiveness

Gentlemen, are you shooting blanks or are you ready to continue your family line another generation? Before, answering that question required a trip to the doctors. Today, a Dutch researcher says the test could eventually be, ahem, in your hands. The researcher is Loes Segerink, of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and what…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Apple Filed Misleading Evidence Against Samsung…Again

Just like they tweaked their evidence against Samsung with the Galaxy Tab, it looks like Apple has flubbed evidence regarding the Samsung Galaxy S too. They shrunk the image of the Samsung phone to look like the size of an iPhone, even though it’s not. https://gizmodo.com/apple-presents-misleading-evidence-in-german-case-again-5831208 Officially, the Samsung Galaxy S is 122.4 by 64.2…

Tech News Casey Chan

Braincar Records Its Journeys For Intense Nighttime Lightshows

Before you ask, yes this is a real car, and yes it is roadworthy. It should also come as no surprise that it’s the work of a Dutch artist, Olaf Mooji, who must be smoking something reeeeaaal strong. As it goes about its daily travels, a camera takes photos and video of its surroundings, which…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Johan’s Ark Prepares For Its Maiden Voyage

Dutchman Johan Huibers decided to build an ark. Not a Lego or popsicle stick model, but a real-life replica of Noah’s Ark built to scale. He began his work in 2008 and recently finished this $1 million project. The wooden ship is immense. It weighs 3,000 tons, is 450 feet long and holds 1,500 passengers.…

Tech News Kelly

Dutch Building Looks Like It Landed on the Surface of Mars

Architecture firms tend to use their offices as a giant business card they can work inside. Decos’ is no exception—except it looks like an astronaut base, not a Dutch headquarters. Their inspiration? A meteorite impact. The building itself is situated in a business park dedicated to space-related commerce, so the other-planetary design should fit right…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

The Dutch are Making QR-Coded Coins. Seriously.

When did you last scan a QR code? Was it during last week’s Republican debate? Or maybe that ad for a free Coke at Wendy’s. It probably wasn’t on a coin. But the Dutch are changing that with QR-coded currency. The Royal Dutch Mint is celebrating its 100th anniversary, so they’re producing these 5 and…

Tech News Max Behrman

The Yellow Brick Road is a Parking Lot in Peekskill, NY

Historian John Curren believes he has found the inspiration for the yellow brick road in L. Frank Baum’s popular children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Mostly gone, the road leads to a parking lot in the small town of Peekskill, NY Curren pored over the life of Baum and discovered the man spent two…

Tech News Kelly

What Is This?

This intricate metal structure is functional and flexible. Could it be a new kind of industrial skin, with wide-ranging real-world applications? The surface to a Borg Cube? Simple scaffolding? None, actually. It’s far more comfortable that any of those. It’s a XXXX_sofa, designed and assembled by Yuya Ushida. There’s also a stool version, and both…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Perfect Dutch Bike For Those Who Don’t Eat Too Much Edam Cheese

Bikes with suspended seats already exist, but none as pretty as these. Sure, it might be more for the laydeeez in the house, but it’d certainly be a talking-point for whoever rides the thing. Created by the Dutch Vanhulsteijn, the two or three-speed bikes start at 1,495 Euros ($2,110), and look to be pretty customizable…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Architects Salvaged This House’s Building Materials Using Google Earth

Circling this modern Dutch house in a nine mile radius are the abandoned building sites architects spotted using Google Earth, and then salvaged materials from. Nothing was spared—not even umbrella spokes which were used for the lighting. As much as 60 per cent of salvaged materials were used for the exterior of the house, in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

To Inflate this Roof You’ll Have to Roast Some Serious Chestnuts

This isn’t your typical glowing, inflatable picnic roof. No no. This Dutch design is inflated via hot air produced by a wood-burning oven, used to cook nuts, hot chocolate, or whatever else you’d like. And it looks amazing. The pillowy project, entitled “The Roof That Goes Up in Smoke” (we hope only figuratively), is a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

So You Think Your Gym’s 5m-Tall Climbing Wall is Difficult?

I’m getting an extreme case of vertigo just by looking at this photo of the 37meter high climbing wall in The Netherlands, which is reported to be the world’s tallest. Dutch man Eric Kieboom shot these photos by strapping a Canon IXUS 850IS to a kite and floating it above the Klimcentrum Bjoeks tower, which…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Dutch Bunker Survived Various Wars, But Not a Team of Architects

Don’t get too sad over this 195-year-old bunker being sliced in half. There’s 700 other bunkers nearby, which form the New Dutch Waterline that protected cities between 1815 – 1940. Now, it’s an area for watery-playtime. Architects cut the bunker in half, and plonked a footpath down the middle, which turns into a jetty when…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

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Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Hacked with Swastikas Through Third Party App ‘Twitter Counter’

Windmills Are the Stars of This Dazzling Light Show

The Dutch rode horses on their highways during the 1970s oil crisis

These Dutch Safety Posters Are Beautiful—But Utterly Disturbing

A seagull does so much more in a day than you do

The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship

Flying Bird Man Admits Flying Bird Man Is Fake

Fertility Chip Could Herald New Era of Hands-On Home Testing for Sperm Effectiveness

Apple Filed Misleading Evidence Against Samsung…Again

Braincar Records Its Journeys For Intense Nighttime Lightshows

Johan’s Ark Prepares For Its Maiden Voyage

Dutch Building Looks Like It Landed on the Surface of Mars

The Dutch are Making QR-Coded Coins. Seriously.

The Yellow Brick Road is a Parking Lot in Peekskill, NY

What Is This?

The Perfect Dutch Bike For Those Who Don’t Eat Too Much Edam Cheese

Architects Salvaged This House’s Building Materials Using Google Earth

To Inflate this Roof You’ll Have to Roast Some Serious Chestnuts

So You Think Your Gym’s 5m-Tall Climbing Wall is Difficult?

This Dutch Bunker Survived Various Wars, But Not a Team of Architects

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Humans Were Already Dog People 16,000 Years Ago, DNA Suggests

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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