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Mark Zuckerberg Upgrades To His Biggest Mansion Yet

Just in time for his birthday, Facebook’s CEO has acquired what will be his third home since September, a walled, 5,000+ square foot Palo Alto manse complete with a saltwater pool and music alcove. It cost $7 million. So much for Mark Zuckerberg’s everyman lifestyle. Zuckerberg won’t move in for several more months, according to…

Social Media Ryan Tate May 5

How to Find Love on Facebook

No doubt Facebook has changed dating more than any communication technology since the telephone. But are you stuck poking and messaging your way to true love? Come, learn the techniques of the expert Facebook dater. Why is Facebook at the cutting-edge of dating technology, when there are dozens of dating-specific services out there? For one…

Social Media Adrian Chen May 2

The Anticlimactic End to NASA’s Space Shuttle Program

That badass picture isn’t a still from the new Transformers movie. It’s an actual electrical storm behind the actual space shuttle Endeavor, set to launch on its final voyage today. This is the penultimate space shuttle mission; the curtain will fall on the 30-year-old program when Atlantis returns in June. But then what? http://gawker.com/5796896/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-trailer-total-eclipse-of-the-brain So…

Space & Spaceflight Seth Abramovitch Apr 29

South Park Takes on Apple, Steve Jobs in Season Premiere

For 14 years, South Park has taken the news and given it a unique and timely twist with a no-holds-barred candor that often leaves viewers in stitches. Tonight’s Season 15 premiere—which took on the issue of Apple’s secret tracking of iPhone and iPad users and added a disgustingly sinister twist courtesy of Steve Jobs—continued that…

Tech News Matt Cherette Apr 28

Yes, You Can Drive Your Car Over the Edge of the Grand Canyon and Live

Since time immemorial, man has gazed upon the majestic rim of the mighty Grand Canyon and wondered: could I drive my car into that shit and not be dead? One dumb brave driver has answered the question. An unidentified 21 year-old in Arizona totally drove his car over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.…

Tech News Hamilton Nolan Apr 27

Pittsburgh Is Having A Ninja Problem

The greater Pittsburgh area has been contending with a very annoying ninja infestation lately. If you’ve ever had a ninja problem yourself, you know that they’re really hard to get rid of, and if you see one, you can be sure there’s hundreds more where he came from. The most recent outbreak occurred when a…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch Apr 27

Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are to be used in apps from Apple and any number of other companies. Ronald Huang, an Apple senior engineering manager, filed patent application 12/553,554 last month, “Location histories for location aware devices,” which explains how…

Tech News Ryan Tate Apr 25

Do You Suffer from Netflix Streaming Syndrome?

As technology marches on, it brings with it a whole new set of maladies. Just as keyboards have given rise to carpal tunnel syndrome, another innovation has created an ailment just as awful. Let us warn you about Netflix Streaming Syndrome. When VHS was introduced decades ago, buying the cassettes for home viewing was cost…

Tech News Brian Moylan Apr 25

FDA Finds Rat Droppings ‘Too Numerous to Count’ on Delta Flight

Do you have a fear of flying? It’s only natural. There are many frightening things about air travel that are completely out of your control. And here’s another one: Rats. Pooping rats. The Food and Drug Administration has sent a letter of warning (they’re really into those, these days) to Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson,…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch Apr 22

Boyfriend Watches His Girlfriend Murdered Live on Webcam

While he chatted with her over a webcam from China, a Beijing student says there was knock on his girlfriend Qian Liu’s door in Toronto. A man entered and a struggle followed. Ten hours later, Liu’s body was found in her basement apartment. [Gawker]

Tech News Gawker Apr 20

Air Traffic Controllers Nearly Blow Up Michelle Obama

America’s useless air traffic controllers screwed up again on Monday—except this “mistake” nearly led to Michelle Obama and her less-important colleague Jill Biden getting blown up in an airplane crash. Spoiler: They survived. The Washington Post reports that America’s top two gals were returning to Washington from an appearance on The View in New York…

Tech News Jim Newell Apr 19

Mother Updated Facebook Before Drowning Herself and Her Kids

A little less than 30 minutes before purposefully driving her minivan off a pier with her four children inside, Lashanda Armstrong updated her Facebook status from her Blackberry: “I’m sorry everyone forgive me please for what I’m gonna do… This is it!!!” Armstrong and three of her children—Landon Pierre, 5; Lance Pierre, 2; and 11-month-old…

Social Media Adrian Chen Apr 14

Mark Zuckerberg Is a Backstabbing Little Shit in New Emails

New emails submitted as evidence by purported Facebook owner Paul Ceglia paint the social network’s co-founder Mark Zuckerberg as a scheming little bastard. Now Ceglia’s new powerhouse law firm just has to prove the emails are real. It will be a tough fight, that’s for sure. Ceglia is a convicted drug felon and has been…

Social Media Ryan Tate Apr 12

Nobody Actually Likes Your Brand’s Stupid Facebook Page

What could be a more powerful marketing tool than Facebook, fostering meaningful engagement with customers and broadcasting their every purchase to friends and family? Actually, just about everything. Facebook sucks for marketing. A new study by Forrester Research found that maintaining a Facebook presence is less effective at drumming up business than plain old email…

Social Media Adrian Chen Apr 7

Listen to the Pilot Who Joked Through an Emergency Landing

Jason Maloney is the 24-year-old pilot who had to land his single-engine airplane on Rockaway Beach on Monday night—a frightening ordeal that resulted in no injuries to any of the three people on board. Save your applause, however, as another Captain Sully this guy is most definitely not. In a startlingly casual exchange with air-traffic…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch Apr 6

The Royal Wedding: Not In 3-D

Despite being steeped in gross-fruitcake tradition, great measures are being taken to ensure that the upcoming royal wedding will take full advantage of every technological convenience of the digital age. Facebook will update us, iTunes will sell the soundtrack, and Anderson Cooper’s holographic form will hover above the proceedings like a ghostly guardian angel. http://gawker.com/5786123/the-royal-wedding-cake-is-gross…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch Apr 5

Professor Arrested for Shutting Student’s Laptop in Class

Frank Rybicki is an assistant professor in the Mass Media department at Valdosta State University. Last week, he was arrested for his behavior in class. For assault. What heinous crime led to his jailing? The altercation occurred when Dr. Rybicki allegedly closed a laptop computer on the hands of a student… Dr. Rybicki closed the…

Tech News Hamilton Nolan Apr 4

The Beautiful Decay of New York’s Greatest Abandoned Movie Theater

Photographer Matt Lambros has been visiting the great abandoned movie theaters across our country for his documentary project After the Final Curtain. He shared his images from inside Brooklyn’s Kings Theater and the faded opulence is breathtaking. The theater opened on Flatbush Ave in 1929 and was one of five “Loew’s Wonder Theaters” in New…

Tech News Brian Moylan Apr 1

The Music Factory That’s Creating the World’s Saddest Teen Music

In the past few days you may have seen the stupendously awful video for the tremendously bad song “Friday” by a young lady named Rebecca Black. In case you haven’t, it’s embedded below. It’s a good lesson about what days come after and before other days. So what the fresh hell is this? Where did…

Tech News Richard Lawson Mar 14

Distracted Boy Falls on Train Tracks While Gaming

This video shows a 10-year-old boy so absorbed with his PSP that he apparently fell onto the tracks at a rail station in Italy. With no train in sight, an off-duty cop jumps in and rescues him. Hero policeman Alessandro Micalizzi describes the harrowing rescue: He was with his mother and sister, and before he…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Feb 3

Mark Zuckerberg Upgrades To His Biggest Mansion Yet

How to Find Love on Facebook

The Anticlimactic End to NASA’s Space Shuttle Program

South Park Takes on Apple, Steve Jobs in Season Premiere

Yes, You Can Drive Your Car Over the Edge of the Grand Canyon and Live

Pittsburgh Is Having A Ninja Problem

Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

Do You Suffer from Netflix Streaming Syndrome?

FDA Finds Rat Droppings ‘Too Numerous to Count’ on Delta Flight

Boyfriend Watches His Girlfriend Murdered Live on Webcam

Air Traffic Controllers Nearly Blow Up Michelle Obama

Mother Updated Facebook Before Drowning Herself and Her Kids

Mark Zuckerberg Is a Backstabbing Little Shit in New Emails

Nobody Actually Likes Your Brand’s Stupid Facebook Page

Listen to the Pilot Who Joked Through an Emergency Landing

The Royal Wedding: Not In 3-D

Professor Arrested for Shutting Student’s Laptop in Class

The Beautiful Decay of New York’s Greatest Abandoned Movie Theater

The Music Factory That’s Creating the World’s Saddest Teen Music

Distracted Boy Falls on Train Tracks While Gaming

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