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Will Google Buy Twitter? Amazon Buy Yelp? Rumors Swirl After AOL Deal

Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors, real and fabricated. It gives us a look at what might be and will be. BitStream gathers the whispers all in one place to divine what the future has in store. Verizon announced its plan to scoop up AOL for $4.4 billion yesterday, and now the industry’s…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

I really want to visit this Lego amusement park’s tiny Star Wars land

The Lego master building team of OliveSeon has completely outdone themselves with a new diorama featuring a minifig-scale amusement park with Star Wars, Frozen, and even The Lego Movie-themed attractions. Legoland in California is an amazing place, but this is where I’d really like to vacation one day. Not only do the park’s minifig visitors…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Who on Earth is Inge Lehmann?

Click on today’s Google Doodle that sits atop its search results — a little exploded drawing of the planet — and you’ll be taken to a list of results telling you all about Inge Lehmann. Google’s automated algorithm says it’s her 127th birthday today, although we suspect she’s dead. So that’s fact #1. Inge Lehmann…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

In the Dystopian Home of the Future, Robots Have the Search Warrants

Although this image was captured during police and armed forces exercises in Sweden, it contains a strong message about our common future. The machine is an explosive ordnance disposal robot—and it’s searching a mockup home. Equipped to search for homemade bombs using sensors and remote cameras, the robot can act on behalf of the authorities.…

Tech News Attila Nagy

This Lamp Was Inspired By Italic Typography

If this lamp looks somehow familiar, that’s because it’s based on something you see hundreds of times every single say: a single italicized letter i. The brainchild of COORDINATION Berlin, the lamp is constructed from a solid lump of polished marble, with an anodized alumium shade that flips up when you need some light. Inside…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Who Most Likely Makes Your Sandwich, Mapped

The sandwich is a delicious and convenient way to ingest your favored form of nutrition—but where do you get them from? This maps shows the dominant sandwich store across the entire country. Guess which color represents Subway. Nathan Yau of Flowing Data put this visualization together using information from AggData. He explains how it works:…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Technology Can Help Cities Make Better Use of Storm Water

More than half the world’s population lives in metropolitan centers. The built environment of a city is very different from that of rural and natural areas. When it rains over a rural landscape, much of the rainwater sinks into the ground or is evaporated or transpirated by trees, crops and other plants. Transpiration is the…

Tech News Jennifer Drake

Facebook Now Puts Full Articles From Big Publishers in Your News Feed

Facebook has just launched a new service called Instant Articles, which allows media organizations to create interactive pieces which are hosted on Facebook’s servers and embedded in your news feed. The new service was apparently born out of a desire for speed. Facebook claims that news articles take an average of eight seconds to load…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Samsung’s Next Smartwatch Will Pack A Round Screen And Rotating Bezel

Amidst all the Apple Watch hype, it’s easy to forget that Samsung’s aleady worked its way through two generations of smartwatch, and is prepping to launch a third. And according to a new Samsung software development kit, the next Gear will have a circular display, and rotating bezel to control it with. Digital crown what…

Gadgets Chris Mills

Here’s How Much Energy We Waste On Cat GIFs and Twitterbooks

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, because you’re about to get a good old-fashioned dose of guilt. The folks at SciShow have put together a video examining how much energy we waste on running the internet, and yup, the number is embarrassingly large. As the video explains, loading videos of people falling off rooftops (and, y’know,…

Tech News Chris Mills

BitTorrent’s Encrypted P2P Chat Service Is Now Live

Announced a year ago, BitTorrent’s charmingly-named Bleep P2P chat app is finally live, for all your secretive anti-governmental murmurings. Bleep has been out as a pre-release alpha version for nearly a year now, but with the public launch, you can now chat from Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. It works much like any other…

Tech News Chris Mills

Tweeting To Order A Pizza Is Probably The Laziest Thing You Can Do

Starting on May 20th, there will be a new definition for a first-world problem. For those too lazy to order pizza delivered to their door via an app or (god forbid) talking to a human being on the phone, a new option will exist: tweeting a pizza emoji to @Dominos. In an interview with USA…

Tech News Chris Mills

Erect a Monument to Freedom by 3D Printing This Bust of Edward Snowden

A few weeks ago, two artists carefully placed a bronze bust of Edward Snowden atop a vacant war monument in a Brooklyn park. It was quickly removed, of course, by police, who fined the artists $50 each for trespassing. But now anyone can bring a Snowden statue to their city—the artists have shared the 3D…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Best Look Yet at Samsung’s Round Galaxy Smartwatch

Samsung has more smartwatches than most shady trenchcoat salesmen out there, and they’re going to add yet another one to the mix. We already know that the next Gear will be the first circular face for Samsung, but a newly released SDK gives an even closer look at the watch’s Tizen apps and a totally…

Gadgets Darren Orf

An interesting look at the life of a master woodturner

Steven Kennard is a master woodturner and this is his story. Filmed by Breakwater Studios, this short shows in detail how Kennard transforms wood into unbelievably intricate art pieces and gives you a bit of background on how Kennard became a woodturner. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Casey Chan

These Century-Old Drawings Show Humanity’s Deepest Fear: Alien Invasion

We all know the scenes of a devastating Martian invasion: gigantic alien tripods and fighting-machines destroying towns, killing helpless humans, abducting men, women, and children. But do you know the Brazilian painter who was responsible for bringing those images for the first time in the early 1900? It was a painter and illustrator named Henrique…

Tech News Attila Nagy

What Was Your First Kiss Like?

I was a few weeks shy of my fifteenth birthday, at a Christmas party thrown by one of the other members of the high school concert choir. The pizza and cake had been consumed, and everyone had tromped down to the rec room to watch the annual broadcast of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Video: The sound effects of Star Wars

If you see a light saber, you can hear the glowing sound it makes. If you see C-3P0 or R2-D2 or Chewie, you can automatically hear them even if they’re not talking. Vader? Yeah, you hear the breathing. And that goes for X-Wings and Tie Fighters and everything else, the sounds of Star Wars are…

Sploid Casey Chan

9 Designs That Could Finally Replace New Zealand’s Controversial Flag

When New Zealand first raised its current flag, the design deferred to its United Kingdom rulers and bore a striking resemblance to another British colony next door. 100 years later, New Zealand is a diverse, sovereign nation which would also very much like to visually differentiate itself from the Aussies. So New Zealand is looking…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Dealing With People Who Want Weird Plastic Surgery

Next month, Vegas hosts the annual Aesthetics Show, an industry conference for the cosmetic surgery community. The topics they’ll be discussing — including the one captured in the headline above — hint at the future of consumer biotech. Or a future dystopia. You decide. So yeah, there’s a special lunchtime talk on the topic of…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Will Google Buy Twitter? Amazon Buy Yelp? Rumors Swirl After AOL Deal

I really want to visit this Lego amusement park’s tiny Star Wars land

Who on Earth is Inge Lehmann?

In the Dystopian Home of the Future, Robots Have the Search Warrants

This Lamp Was Inspired By Italic Typography

Who Most Likely Makes Your Sandwich, Mapped

How Technology Can Help Cities Make Better Use of Storm Water

Facebook Now Puts Full Articles From Big Publishers in Your News Feed

Samsung’s Next Smartwatch Will Pack A Round Screen And Rotating Bezel

Here’s How Much Energy We Waste On Cat GIFs and Twitterbooks

BitTorrent’s Encrypted P2P Chat Service Is Now Live

Tweeting To Order A Pizza Is Probably The Laziest Thing You Can Do

Erect a Monument to Freedom by 3D Printing This Bust of Edward Snowden

The Best Look Yet at Samsung’s Round Galaxy Smartwatch

An interesting look at the life of a master woodturner

These Century-Old Drawings Show Humanity’s Deepest Fear: Alien Invasion

What Was Your First Kiss Like?

Video: The sound effects of Star Wars

9 Designs That Could Finally Replace New Zealand’s Controversial Flag

Dealing With People Who Want Weird Plastic Surgery

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in April 2026

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Countdown to the Moon 🔴

Chinese Startup Debuts Super-Bendy Robotic Arm for Orbital Repairs

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Of Course, ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Post Credit Scene Is Another Big Cameo

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