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Uber’s CEO Became a Big Boy When Tim Cook Gave Him a Stern Talking To

Controversial Uber CEO Travis Kalanick received a career retrospective profile in the New York Times today that covers his awkward early years and his propensity to invite conflict. Among the new information that it reveals, there’s an enlightening story about the time Tim Cook had to summon Kalanick after discovering that Uber was still tracking…

The World’s Fastest Rocket Just Launched a Secret Spy Satellite

A secret satellite was launched into space today. We don’t know just what it’s doing in space. But! We can see in these pictures exactly how it got there: aboard an incredibly fast rocket. The Atlas V isn’t quite as big as ULA’s other big launch rocket, the Delta IV, which is the largest in…

Secret Nazi weapons facility discovered near concentration camp

Austrian filmmaker Andreas Sulzer claims to have found Hitler’s ‘largest secret weapons research facility’ following information contained in US intelligence reports describing a massive underground tunnel system excavated in granite near the Mathausen-Gusen concentration camp. Sulzer has been trying to uncover this Nazi secret weapons nest for years. Using data gathered from countless documents found…

Your Favorite Anonymous App Is Not Anonymous At All

Security researchers recentlydiscovered a serious flaw in Yik Yak, the “anonymous” messaging app popular with teens. In surprisingly simple fashion, the flaw offered hackers a way to discover the identities of Yik Yak’s supposedly unnamed users. It also provides a good opportunity to issue this very important PSA: Anonymous apps aren’t anonymous at all, and…

Hackers Just Proved That Secret Isn’t Really Secret

It’s the worst fear of narcissists around the globe: Those confessions, those private things, those secrets you’ve been sharing on the popular app Secret aren’t actually secret. Well, narcissists of the globe, your worst fear has come true. Secret isn’t really secret. A duo of security researchers—Benjamin Caudill and Bryan Seely—recently discovered a hack that…

The Ways Modern Secret Societies Use the Internet to Hide in Plain Sight

Secret societies are as old as humanity, and they sure as hell aren’t going away any time soon. But in an internet age where privacy is harder than ever to come by, secret societies face all kinds of new challenges. And Matt King has seen some of their newest tricks first-hand. Writing in The Atlantic,…

The anonymous sharing app, Secret, is now available for Android. Now everyone can spill the beans without revealing themselves.

This substance is the secret to drink alcohol without getting drunk

Well, this could change things. Apparently there’s a secret method to drinking alcohol without getting drunk. All you have to do is eat some yeast before you drink. Seriously. Line your stomach with a teaspoon of yeast for every beer you plan to drink and you’ll be able to drink all night without acting like…

Mysterious unidentified flying object photographed over Texas

Defense technology blog Ares reports on a mysterious flying object—most certainly a military classified aircraft—flying over the skies of Amarillo, Texas, on March 10. Aviation Week’s defense expert Bill Sweetman says this is unprecedented but he’s convinced it’s real. Images by Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett Three of us here—myself, Graham Warwick and Guy Norris—concur…

This normal looking house is fake and actually hides a pump station

If you’re just strolling down the street or driving in your car, you’d never notice anything weird with this house in Raleigh, North Carolina. It looks like a house is supposed to look. You can imagine the family that lives there and the weekday dinners they throw for the neighborhood. You can imagine the kids…

Google wants the government to keep its mysterious barges a secret

What’s Google hiding in their mysterious barges near San Francisco, Portland, and Maine, surrounded by chain-link fences and 24-hour armed guards? Why did they gag government officials with non-disclosure agreements? And how can a private company do that, anyway? The questions pile up. https://gizmodo.com/an-up-close-look-at-the-east-coast-google-mystery-barge-1454795416

Flying Saucers Are Real: These UFOs Were (Almost) Built By Humans

Whether aliens have visited Earth is still up for debate. Whether we’re the aliens—either from the past or the future—remains to be settled. What cannot be denied is that flying saucers are real, and they’ve been real for more than half a century. https://gizmodo.com/real-life-flying-saucers-prove-that-the-truth-is-right-514253166 Since the 1940s, Cold War adversaries were racing to construct spacecraft…

The Science of Six Packs

If you’ve always yearned for a washboard stomach, and you can do a thousand crunches but you still aren’t seeing results, you’re not alone. But never fear! Everyone has a six pack under there (somewhere), you’ve just got to know what to do to get it out in the open. Welcome to Fitmodo, Gizmodo’s gym…

Are there UFOs in hidden hangars at Papoose Dry Lake?

Why is a dry lake bed in Nevada the source of continuous controversy in the UFO community? Robert Lazar, a self-proclaimed Area 51 employee, went public with tales of flying saucers and “greys” hidden in plain sight of the fabled military installation. These stories of reverse engineered UFOs and alien interaction created quite a buzz,…

Sending Secret Encrypted Text Messages on Your iPhone Just Got Easier

One thing your iPhone could be better at: sending secret encrypted messages (aka for sexting and/or illicit relationships). The regular messages app leaves everything hanging out in the open! Text Fortress is an app that encrypts the messages you send and locks them down so only the person you sent it to, can see it.…

Secret Drawer Bookshelf Hides Your Most Embarrassing Collectibles

This brilliant shelf is perfect for anyone who loves to show off the tchotchkes they’ve amassed, but also keep the more embarrassing items out of sight. On top you can proudly display your collection of antique tea cups, while the secret drawer will easily hide all of your Pokemon trading cards When closed, the 1.3-inch…

The Lego’s Factory and Secret Vault Magical Mystery Tour

80 years ago today, a guy named Ole Kirk started to make wooden toys in a little shop in Billund, Denmark. Some of those toys are still guarded in a secret underground vault, right below the place where Ole started his now legendary company: Lego. The vault is called the Memory Lane, and it also…

Secret Underground Bunker Is Full of World War Weapons and Military Vehicles

The world is full of hidden, forgotten treasures. Like this gigantic bunker excavated in a forest, buried in a secret location. It’s full of weapons from the first World War, as well as modern military vehicles. And mushrooms. It was discovered by urban explorers who, as usual, will not reveal its exact location. The bunker—which…

How to Send Secret Encrypted Text Messages on Your iPhone

Sexting on your iPhone or plotting out an illicit relationship via SMS is pretty convenient except for one thing: if someone sees your phone, you’re screwed, embarrassed and exposed. Black SMS is an app that’ll encrypt your messages so you never have to worry about getting caught. Here’s how it works. When you download the…