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McDonald’s Has Created Brilliant Bike-Friendly Takeout Packaging

You can say what you want about McDonald’s food, but the one thing you can’t argue is the fast food giant’s mastery at marketing itself to an incredibly diverse demographic. The company is now even specifically targeting cyclists with some very clever bike-friendly takeout containers. McBike isn’t the most clever name for the new packaging…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Man Reunited With Message In a Bottle He Tossed Into the Sea In 1971

An Australian couple were vacationing in Scotland recently when they discovered a curious time capsule: A message in a bottle dated January 15, 1971. Amazingly, they were able to track down the teenager (now in his 50s) who first chucked it into the North Sea. The message was scrawled on a piece of paper inside…

Tech News Matt Novak

An Inkless Printer Makes Color Images With Tiny Microscopic Holes

Considering printer ink costs more than booze and even human blood, it’s no surprise everyone’s on the hunt for a cheaper alternative. And that includes researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology who’ve created an inkless printer that works by perforating special paper with thousands of microscopic holes. There’s a catch, though. You…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Jurassic Zoo Might Be The Best Meme Ever

Every once in a while, pop culture combines with real life to produce a meme of truly epic proportions. The internet was made for #JurassicZoo, wherein animal wranglers take on their charges just like Chris Pratt in Jurassic World. In Jurassic World, Pratt’s character Owen Grady demonstrates a raptor-soothing move, legs spread, arms outstretched. I’m…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

The Lost Designer of This Classic 90s Pattern Has Finally Been Found

You know jazz. Even if you don’t know it you know it: A jagged oil-crayon scribble of teal, laced with a zig-zag of purple, found on paper cups and plates all over the country through the 1990s. Jazz has long had a cult following, but its designer had always been lost to the sands of…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This Documentary Uses Science to See Who Loves the Hardest

Six adults (and one kid), one fMRI machine, five minutes to love someone (or something) as hard as possible. In The Love Competition, a short documentary first featured in McSweeney’s Wholphin #15, filmmaker Brent Hoff and Stanford University neuroscientists try to see which type of love makes the brain most active. Contestants — including a…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Cuba’s Finally Doing Something About Its Insanely Expensive Internet

Getting online is damn near impossible in Cuba—unless you’re very rich. That’s because the state-run run telecom company, Etecsa, has historically limited access and charges exorbitant fees for connectivity. Faced with growing international pressure, the company is finally going to add wifi hotspots and drop prices—but not by much. Internet in Cuba was expensive and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Announcing the Sploid Short Film Festival

Welcome to the first edition of the Sploid Short Film Festival, a celebration of great storytelling and awesome eye candy. We will select the best short films of 2015 in the next five months leading to a November award ceremony at Gawker Media’s theater on Fifth Avenue in New York. What is the Sploid Short…

Sploid Casey Chan

Should We Terraform a New Planet Or Fix Our Own?

Before we talk about terraforming another planet like Mars, we have to talk about Earth—and whether we should be spending our resources trying to save it, or moving on to another pale blue dot. It’s a grim debate that some scientists say it’s time to have. Terraform This We’ve been imagining how to create a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The 6 Craziest Kidnapping Schemes Of All Time

Being held for ransom sounds terrifying and grim — especially in this day and age, when terrorist groups often kidnap people to achieve political goals. But once upon a time, most kidnappers simply wanted to get rich. Stupidly, bizarrely rich. Here are the 6 craziest and most overcomplicated kidnap schemes. 1. The Lindbergh baby On…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

I Used The Final Oculus Rift. Here Are The Games Worth Playing.

I don’t know what the final Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will cost. The fact that it won’t come with its amazing motion controller makes me want to wait. But even with just an Xbox One gamepad, there are already mindblowing experiences to be had. Here are all of them. First, a note on the…

Tech News Sean Hollister

This Massive Batman Figure Looks Absolutely Amazing

Now that Batman: Arkham Knight, the latest Batman game from Rocksteady, is nearly here, everyone is showing off their gaming-inspired merchandise. Leading the charge is this fantastic 1/4 scale Batman from NECA, who looks immensely detailed, right down to his delicately sculpted Bat-butt. Wait, what? Coming in at 18” tall, the Arkham Knight Batman is…

Tech News James Whitbrook

How to See Public Instagram Photos From Any Part of the World

Interested in seeing what Instagrammers are sharing in your local town or city? Or a famous landmark? With the help of a simple IFTTT recipe you can collect up snaps from a specific geographical region and have them delivered to your inbox. Here’s how to get it set up and tweak it where required. It’s…

Gadgets David Nield

After a Preset Time This SSD Drive Destroys Data for Maximum Privacy

A new type of SSD drive that works like a ticking time bomb for your data. But instead of blowing up, the drive automatically corrupts and destroys stored data after a preset time, ensuring maximum privacy and added security. What’s especially neat about the new technology, developed by researchers at Chuo University in Japan, led…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski

Start Your Day With These Great Cartoony Science Explainers

If you want to learn more about science but shudder at the thought of cracking open another text book, how does watching colorful animations about the length of a pop song sound? Better? Head over to YouTube channel Kurz Gesagt, which has beautiful educational videos in spades. German for “in a nutshell,” the channel has…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

This Book Got The Author Sentenced to Three Months Hard Labor

Charles Knowlton didn’t think much of the laws of Massachusetts, at least when they interfered with his medical practice. By the time he opened a practice in the town of Ashfield, he had already been arrested in Amherst, MA for selling “infidel” books and had spent two months in the Worcester County Jail for grave…

Tech News Diane Kelly

A QR Code on Heinz Ketchup Linked Straight to German Porn

When Daniel Korell scanned a QR code on a bottle of Heinz Ketchup, he got more than he bargained for. Rather than bring up the competition page he was expecting to see, it instead linked to a German porn site called Fundorado. Oops. According to The Local, the reason it happened isn’t because of hijinks…

Tech News James O Malley - Gizmodo UK

An Awesome Modern Take on the Statistical Atlas of the United States

The Statistical Atlas of the United States is a treasure trove for data lovers produced by the Census Bureau—but the last one to made dates back all the way to 2000. So Nathan Yau decided to make his own, using just publicly available data. It’s amazing. “With more data than ever, it seems like there…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

There Are Now Over 12,000 Marvel Comics on the Kindle Store

Amazon has announced a new deal with Marvel that will see over 12,000 back-issue comic books available directly from Amazon’s Kindle store. Amazon acquired the comics download platform Comixology back in 2014, but the new initiative makes the Comixology app pretty much redundant if you use the Kindle Store. Now, you can download single issues—be…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

California Finally Reveals Details of Self-Driving Car Crashes

Last month, it came to light that 8 percent of the self-driving cars on the road in California had been in collisions—though the state didn’t reveal any more detail than that. Now, it’s made a U-turn and published details about the crashes that involved the autonomous vehicles. The Associated Press reveals that California state officials…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

McDonald’s Has Created Brilliant Bike-Friendly Takeout Packaging

Man Reunited With Message In a Bottle He Tossed Into the Sea In 1971

An Inkless Printer Makes Color Images With Tiny Microscopic Holes

Jurassic Zoo Might Be The Best Meme Ever

The Lost Designer of This Classic 90s Pattern Has Finally Been Found

This Documentary Uses Science to See Who Loves the Hardest

Cuba’s Finally Doing Something About Its Insanely Expensive Internet

Announcing the Sploid Short Film Festival

Should We Terraform a New Planet Or Fix Our Own?

The 6 Craziest Kidnapping Schemes Of All Time

I Used The Final Oculus Rift. Here Are The Games Worth Playing.

This Massive Batman Figure Looks Absolutely Amazing

How to See Public Instagram Photos From Any Part of the World

After a Preset Time This SSD Drive Destroys Data for Maximum Privacy

Start Your Day With These Great Cartoony Science Explainers

This Book Got The Author Sentenced to Three Months Hard Labor

A QR Code on Heinz Ketchup Linked Straight to German Porn

An Awesome Modern Take on the Statistical Atlas of the United States

There Are Now Over 12,000 Marvel Comics on the Kindle Store

California Finally Reveals Details of Self-Driving Car Crashes

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

Anker 160W Laptop Charger Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing in a Last-Minute Amazon Spring Sale Deal

The New ‘Backrooms’ Trailer Is Packed Full of Endless Dread

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Dyson V15 Detect Plus Cordless Vacuum Is a Late Spring Sale Deal at a Record Low on Amazon

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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

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