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Facebook’s fancy new digs designed by Frank “Architecture Is Shit” Gehry opened today, delivering the latest architectural smackdown in the ongoing space race between various Silicon Valley corporate campuses. And they’re sharing it with the world in a very unorthodox way. While there haven’t been any official photos released, as Co.Design discovered, Facebook let some…
Over the past year or so, bloggers everywhere have been maligning the selfie stick a— Just kidding. Fuck this guy. [Slash Gear]
When they’re young and still waiting for their first evolution, all a Pokemon dreams about is fighting in tournaments with a skilled trainer guiding the way. What they don’t think about is that all those battles will take their toll, and eventually they’re going to have to consider other work in order to pay the…
Bluetooth is an incredible invention. iTunes is a mediocre media player. But if you use a Mac, you can’t have one without the other. Any time you connect a Bluetooth Audio device, OS X opens iTunes. This is a feature that you can’t turn off, and it’s annoying as hell. You may have experienced this…
If you want to climb ice, you’re going to need a pair of ice axes. The state-of-the-art is this carbon pair from Black Diamond, which will run you a cool $340 per axe. Or, you could just make your own, like this guy did, saving himself over 500 grams in the process. Nils Cuinat-Guerraz is…
Shwood has made a name for itself with its take on the classic Ray-Ban Wayfarers made from exotic woods like Zebrawood, Cherry, and East Indian Rosewood. But the grain on its latest design isn’t actually wood—it’s a veneer made from 1,600 feet of recycled newspapers that are rolled up, glued into paper logs, and sliced…
Don’t watch this video if you get queasy by pixel created blood and hyperrealistic video game gore. Because good lord the Fatalities in Mortal Kombat X are downright disgusting to see. If you remember the game, players are supposed to “finish” a character with a brutal Fatality move after a fight and these news ones…
There’s more in the woods than you’re likely aware. Want to see who’s around next time you’re out there? The rabbit squeal will bring in foxes, coyotes, cougars, bears and pretty much anything else that enjoys the taste of meat. Here’s how to sound like a tasty morsel. Pulling on a down jacket to fend…
Last week, Hot Toys announced they’d be bringing their Avengers: Age of Ultron toys across Asia for people to ogle, accompanied by gigantic statues of the same toys, rendered life-sized. They’ve updated with a few pictures of the statues in progress, and unsurprisingly, they look as great as the figures. https://gizmodo.com/hot-toys-tour-of-asia-includes-gigantic-versions-of-the-1694026453 Also, Chris Evan’s disembodied…
Two former federal agents who investigated the Silk Road, the infamous online drug marketplace seized by the FBI in 2013, have been charged for their own outrageous digital crimes, including stealing money they acquired on their druggie undercover assignment. Former DEA officer Carl Mark Force IV and former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges, both part…
If you’re on the lookout for a good old fashioned internet time-suck, head over to the Tumblr scienceisstrange, where one hero has scanned a great many pages of over 300 issues of SCIENCE magazine from 1950-1980. The collection is full of great ads, illustrations, and photos depicting retro-gadgetry and science in all its halftone printed…
I’ve seen the future and it’s not 3D printing, it’s 3D Easy Cheese printing. That is, an Easy Cheese canister is taken and made to splooge out the golden orange yellow scientific miracle substance that is Easy Cheese like a 3D printer would print out objects. It fails spectacularly and hilariously and satirically but I’ve…
Even if making digital music has never been easier for beginners, a lot of the work DJs and producers do remains relatively opaque to less experienced people. A new music format could help change this. Popular music production hardware/software company Native Instruments has created a new music format called a “Stem file” that will mike…
It’s so easy for us to look back at old predictions for the future and see them as quaint or overly optimistic. But when we take a closer look—when we stop to really process what’s going on in these predictions—we often find that they weren’t merely silly or naive. They were warning of the horrific,…
Cars in movies, car chase scenes in action flicks and action flicks about cars and car chase scenes are almost always fun to watch. That’s why cars like the DeLorean and movies like The Fast and the Furious live on forever in our memories. CineFix made an ode to all your favorite car scenes in…
With 500 million tweets sent into the ether every day, it can be difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff on Twitter. This is one of the areas where power-user-tool-of-choice TweetDeck can lend a hand. It includes an engagement filter to let you focus in on high-profile tweets and cut out the less important…
The number of deaths linked to drunk passengers who wander off the platform and onto the tracks has steadily increased over the years. But a new study of these falls shows that many of them occur in the same way—and that there might be a few simple ways to prevent some of them. The study…
It was all fun and games at the G20 Summit in Australia—until somebody accidentally leaked highly personal details of the world’s most powerful leaders—including the names, passport numbers, birth dates, and visa details of everyone from Barack Obama to Vladimir Putin. The cause of the leak? Microsoft Outlook’s autofill. The most shocking thing about the…
Color me intrigued. Anna Péter, Malackaraj, cooks up another wild dish that I’ve never heard of that sounds and looks pretty gross (I mean, it’s called sour lungs) but also somehow looks pretty tasty after she’s done cooking it through. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten lungs before but I love all offal meats so…
Last year, Amazon started toying with the idea of not only selling you a TV, but also hooking you up with someone who could mount it. Now, Amazon’s Home Services marketplace is up and running 41 major US cities so you can order plumbers and plungers from the same place. https://gizmodo.com/amazons-new-local-handyman-services-looks-super-useful-1663344626 Aside from just being…
