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Pirate Keeps Taking Over British Radio Station to Play Masturbation Anthem

Over the weekend, a banjo jauntily strummed on the airwaves of Mansfield 103.2, a local radio station in England. As the singer of the tune broke out into a chorus about his love of masturbation, the calls flooded in. It was the eighth time the station’s airwaves had been hijacked by someone who just loves…

Tech News Rhett Jones

AT&T Takes a Break From Decade-Long Effort to Dismantle Net Neutrality to Express Its Support for Net Neutrality

In a remarkable display of bullshit, AT&T announced today that it’s joining tomorrow’s net neutrality protest—a “Day of Action” when a collection of tech companies will throw their weight behind an effort to block Trump’s FCC from rewriting the 2015 rules that protect net neutrality and the future of the open internet. Major tech firms…

Tech News Kate Conger

The World’s Biggest Super Soaker Is Powerful Enough to Shatter Windows

Last summer, Mark Rober built the world’s largest Nerf dart gun, capable of blasting foam at 40 mph. Sure, that made it slightly more dangerous than the toy it was based on, but it doesn’t even come close to Rober’s latest bonkers creation: a giant Super Soaker that fires water at 243 mph. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-biggest-nerf-gun-can-shoot-darts-at-40-mph-1782334889 At…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Free Speech Fans Sue Donald Trump for Blocking Them on Twitter

Suing people isn’t easy. Suing the President of the United States of America, however, is huge pain in the ass. But that hasn’t stopped a group of Twitter users from filing suit against Donald Trump. These free speech advocates were all blocked by Trump after tweeting things he didn’t like. Now they’re claiming this violated…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

What You Need to Know About the Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’ [Updated]

Why aren’t the images loading? Why is Orange is the New Black buffering? What is going on? On Wednesday, your web browsing experience may feel a whole lot different. Some of your favorite websites may appear to be broken and a lot of people will be talking about net neutrality. Here’s a rundown of what…

Gadgets Rhett Jones

The Deadliest-Looking Deals of Amazon Prime Day

Amazon would like you to believe its annual “Prime Day” extravaganza is all about the deals, but a true keyboard warrior knows that every day begins and ends with the same goal: total combat readiness. With that in mind, we’ve collected some of the baddest, brutal-est, and straight-up most lethal-looking Prime Day offers, suitable for…

Commerce Hudson Hongo

Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Out Emails Showing He Sought to Collude With the Russian Government

Have you ever wondered what it would have looked like if President Nixon had a Twitter account during the Watergate scandal? Wonder no longer. In an effort to get ahead of a New York Times story that shows he sought incriminating information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian government-affiliated lawyer, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out…

Tech News Matt Novak

Birds Wasted No Time Taking Over the World Once the Dinosaurs Croaked

The fossilized remains of a tiny bird that lived 62 million years ago suggests that birds burst out of the evolutionary gates once their dinosaur cousins were gone, rapidly diversifying into most of the lineages we see today. Within four million years of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event (K-Pg)—a mere blink of the eye in…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The First Gonorrhea Vaccine May Be on The Horizon

Vaccines are one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. They’ve helped humankind more or less eliminate smallpox, and kicked measles out of the Americas with the exception of folks who’ve decided to believe a retracted, manipulated, widely-criticized study of twelve children. Vaccines are good. Gonorrhea, on the other hand, is bad.…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Microsoft’s Plan to Beam Internet Over TV Frequencies Is So Crazy It Might Work

In the same hotel where Alexander Graham Bell once demoed coast-to-coast telephone calls, Microsoft will announce plans for a new white space internet service on Tuesday. This ludicrous technology sends broadband internet wirelessly over the unused channels of the television spectrum. It’s also ingenious. Understandably, you probably have some questions about this postmodern concept. If…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Fox News is ‘Just Asking Questions’ About the Safety of Vaccines

Fox News, the president’s favorite TV channel, is just asking questions. But not about anything important. Last night, most people were talking about the explosive revelations that Donald Trump Jr. sought to collude with a Russian lawyer to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. But Tucker Carlson thought that it might be a perfect time to…

Tech News Matt Novak

Even the Drudge Report Has Finally Turned on Trump

Conservative media juggernaut Matt Drudge has long been a defender of and even a reported advisor to Donald Trump. He’s never seen a negative story about our megalomaniac-in-chief that he couldn’t dismiss. But today, he was faced with a scandal that appears to be big trouble for the White House and all he could say…

Tech News Rhett Jones

John F. Kennedy Lived With More Pain Than We Realized

A re-evaluation of JFK’s health history and medical records paints a portrait a man who had to endure a surprising amount of physical discomfort throughout his short life. As president, he did his best to hide his misery from the public—no small miracle, given just how much pain he was forced to endure. On January…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The Worst Deals From Amazon Prime Day [Updating]

Amazon has touted its “Prime Day” each year as a new kind of holiday, one in which the deals are virtually endless and anyone would be a sucker not to take advantage of them. But each year we learn that it’s mostly an opportunity for Amazon to offload the shit it couldn’t sell. We’ll be…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Trump’s Election Commission Plans to Abandon Insecure Voter Data Collection Methods

Since the president’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity requested voter rolls from state election officials—allegedly for the purpose of investigating Trump’s unproven claims about widespread voter fraud—45 states and the District of Columbia have either partially or wholly declined to share their data, and security experts have raised concerns about whether the commission has the…

Tech News Kate Conger and Dell Cameron

‘Inventor of Email’ Compares Trump’s Immigration Policy to Science

Shiva Ayyadurai believes a lot of odd things. Most memorably Ayyadurai thinks of himself as the inventor of email, and to that end has sued publications—Techdirt and Gizmodo’s former parent company Gawker—which have claimed otherwise, despite a wide consensus that electronic mail was created by computing pioneer Ray Tomlinson. Ayyadurai also thinks he has a…

Tech News Avery Ellis

DARPA Is Funding Brain-Computer Interfaces to Treat Blindness, Paralysis and Speech Disorders

These days, it seems you’re nobody if you’re not working on a way to merge machines with the human brain. Earlier this year, both Facebook and perpetual moonshot-enthusiast Elon Musk announced plans for brain-computer interfaces that could allow us to read the thoughts of others and improve our capacity for learning. Today, the US Defense…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

The Best Features That Android and iOS Still Haven’t Stolen From Each Other

A long time ago, in a smartphone scene much different from today’s, you could tell Android and iOS apart from a distance. Nowadays, it’s not quite as straightforward, given the number of features and ideas these two powerhouse mobile OSes have borrowed from each other over the years. There are still some crucial differences between…

Gadgets David Nield

Car Crash Turns Utility Pole Into Fireball-Shooting Mortal Kombat Character

A driver in Ontario, Canada, recently discovered that crashing your minivan into a power pole can have bigger repercussions than just higher insurance premiums. Enraged at nearly getting toppled, the utility pole started spewing fire balls down the line like it was some kind of video game baddie. As the video below shows, the local…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Which Companies Are Standing Up to Government Surveillance of Your Data?

Want to know which companies stand up for user privacy and which ones will hand out your data when the government asks for it? The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s seventh annual “Who Has Your Back” report is out today, ranking tech companies on their privacy practices. When scoring companies, EFF looks at their published policies about…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger

Pirate Keeps Taking Over British Radio Station to Play Masturbation Anthem

AT&T Takes a Break From Decade-Long Effort to Dismantle Net Neutrality to Express Its Support for Net Neutrality

The World’s Biggest Super Soaker Is Powerful Enough to Shatter Windows

Free Speech Fans Sue Donald Trump for Blocking Them on Twitter

What You Need to Know About the Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’ [Updated]

The Deadliest-Looking Deals of Amazon Prime Day

Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Out Emails Showing He Sought to Collude With the Russian Government

Birds Wasted No Time Taking Over the World Once the Dinosaurs Croaked

The First Gonorrhea Vaccine May Be on The Horizon

Microsoft’s Plan to Beam Internet Over TV Frequencies Is So Crazy It Might Work

Fox News is ‘Just Asking Questions’ About the Safety of Vaccines

Even the Drudge Report Has Finally Turned on Trump

John F. Kennedy Lived With More Pain Than We Realized

The Worst Deals From Amazon Prime Day [Updating]

Trump’s Election Commission Plans to Abandon Insecure Voter Data Collection Methods

‘Inventor of Email’ Compares Trump’s Immigration Policy to Science

DARPA Is Funding Brain-Computer Interfaces to Treat Blindness, Paralysis and Speech Disorders

The Best Features That Android and iOS Still Haven’t Stolen From Each Other

Car Crash Turns Utility Pole Into Fireball-Shooting Mortal Kombat Character

Which Companies Are Standing Up to Government Surveillance of Your Data?

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

Roborock F25 GT Cordless Vacuum and Mop Hits Its Lowest Price in Spring Sale, 20,000Pa Cleaning Power Without the Premium Price Tag

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

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

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