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The Silk Road trial is over. A jury found Ross Ulbricht guilty on all seven charges, including money laundering, drug trafficking, and the “kingpin” charge. That’s not just bad news for Ulbricht, who faces life in prison. His trial could help establish a dangerous precedent, which could allow law enforcement to gather evidence illegally. While…
If you’ve got a Chromecast set up on your network, click this link right now and you should be eligible for $6 from Google just for owning a Chromecast. It’s a Valentine’s Day gift for your Google Play account. I will spend it on renting The Rock or something similarly unromantic. And if you’re not…
The best way to win a debate is to present your facts in a clear, respectful way. When that doesn’t work, another option is incessant ridicule. Here’s why we have to use shame if we want to stop the anti-vaccine movement. By now I’m sure you know the score. America’s anti-vaccination movement has steamrolled its…
From AdequateMan — There’s really only a very few basic things that are required to be thought of as some manner of “man”: Really, it’s just genitals of some sort (testes, ovipositor, whatever) and the ability to change a car’s tire. Hell, most people don’t even care about the genitals thing. It’s all changing tires.…
It started as an offhand brag, but turned into a dare. I was telling my Gizmodo colleagues why I loved my Windows 8 tablet: it’s fast, it’s cheap, it’s a fully fledged PC. Hell, I said, I could probably hook it up to a monitor and use it as my workhorse for a week. Now…
Not one, but two webcomics are looking to get physical prints in this week’s crowdfunding roundup. Plus, robots on mars get the tabletop treatment, and a new sequel to one of the most important computer RPGs in history. Let’s dig in, shall we? Header Image Credit: Underworld Ascendant Monsterkind: Book One Taylor C.’s comic about…
Our good old friend, the amazing master chef Raymond Blanc, shares the best tips for grilling and barbecuing fish, meat, vegetables, seafood, or even fruit in another set of his mouth-watering recipes. These are his best tips: Before grilling an eggplant make two little incisions with a knife so it doesn’t explode. Remove the backbone…
Bitcoin mines are a lot like mineral mines: dark, dismal, and dangerous. Most people wouldn’t know this, though, since these facilities are tucked away in weird, remote corners of the globe. That said, Motherboard recently visited one of the world’s largest bitcoin mines in a remote corner of China andmade a documentary about it. Indeed,…
Net neutrality propaganda is starting to get weird. A brand new interest group showed up this week with a confusing porn parody that seems to equate Title II reclassification of the internet with dragnet surveillance, among other fallacies. It’s a good chance to talk about what the Federal Communications Commission’s new open internet policy is—and…
So this machine comes with a weird thingie and it starts moving the ground and then there’s this weird hose that goes under and stuff or something. I guess the hose will be connected to a pump to drain the water at some point. I don’t know. I don’t care. I just know that I…
Maybe the reason you find it so hard to crawl out of bed in the morning is your uninspired alarm clock? Random annoying beeps certainly don’t make the thought of facing the day any more appealing, but the sound of Pac-Man desperately trying to chow-down on a pair of terrified blue ghosts? Now that’s something…
The Gobots may be getting their own TV show or movie in the near future, but more importantly, Bandai and Action Toys have revealed they’re making new, high-end toys based on the series – and they’re way better than the terrible figures we got the first time round. Well, to be more accurate, they’re making…
The human hand serves as a perfectly usable tool for firing elastic bands, but sniping your co-workers is just far more satisfying when you’ve got a trigger to squeeze. And because everything is better when it’s made of wood, these gorgeous toy guns from ElasticPrecision are hands-down the best way to unleash a fury of…
Chrome isn’t just for idly clicking through the latest tech news and the viral Vines of the day—it also hides a remote desktop tool that lets you easily get from any device running the browser (or the mobile app) to any other PC running the browser. Here’s how to get a connection set up in…
Remember how there were maybe going to be some phones that ran Ubuntu? They’re coming! With a list of caveats approximately one mile long! Slated to go on sale next week, the first ever official Ubuntu phone will be a variant of something called the bq Aquarius E4.5. And you haven’t heard of it for…
If you were worried that Hasbro’s re-release of Jetfire was as close as you’d be able to get to buying Robotech toys again, you’re going to love this. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the anime series, Toynami has released a set of four six-inch tall Veritech fighters that can be transformed into their fighter,…
Earlier this week we saw some beautiful footage of an Airbus A380 cutting through clouds. Youtube user flugsnug made this neat video showing different aircrafts create more of this amazing atmospheric effects: Cool trailing vortices caused by wing condensation and mesmerizing spiral clouds. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
It’s one of the most passive forms of weather on the planet, but fog accounts for countless pileups and accidents on roads and highways because drivers simply can’t see the cars in front of them. But this simple bumper-mounted laser promises to help remedy that by shining a bright red line on the road, 15…
Age of Ultron really, really wants you to know that the Hulkbuster is awesome, judging by the amount of toys and merchandise it’s racking up ahead of the film’s release. But honestly, if it means we get something as cool looking as this set of statues, I’m not going to complain. Bring on the Hulkbusting!…
Can’t stay glued to your RSS and Twitter feeds all day? No problem. BitStream corrals all the small interesting news and rumors from the past day so you don’t have to. The slow, painful death of a retail icon Yesterday, RadioShack officially filed for bankruptcy, a move that was plans and rumors up until this…
