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I just don’t get tired of seeing awesome photos of rocket launches

I love rocket launches photos, especially when they are as awesome as this photo by Pat Corkery, featured by the US Air Force. The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-2) satellite for the U.S. Navy July 9, 2013, at Cape Canaveral…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This pickup truck is made of ice and you can actually drive it

Behold the first self-propelled ice sculpture ever—a truck made of ice that actually works! It’s a real truck, using 11,000 pounds of ice over a regular truck chassis complete with engine and electrical system. Check out the videos to see how they built it—and how it melted. The truck ran for 1.6 kilometers at about…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Polar Bear! The 4 Best Places to Take a Frigid Dip This New Year’s Day

It’s New Year’s morning—you’ve got a champagne hangover and half an ill-advised Meat Lover’s pizza on your nightstand. What could possibly make this day better? For some, it’s jumping into an ice-fringed ocean. But why, you ask? In many cities, the annual polar bear plunge is a centuries-old civic tradition, a large-scale display of collective…

Tech News Alissa Walker

4.6 Million Snapchat User Names and Phone Numbers Leaked (Check Yours)

Oh dear. In an inauspicious start to 2014 for both Snapchat and its users, a website appears to have published user name and phone number information for 4.6 million accounts. The leaked user info from SnapchatDB matches phone numbers to user names, and was in retrospect probably inevitable. Just a week ago, a group of…

Privacy & Security Brian Barrett

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: All the Way

Happy 2014 everybody! Now take a tip from famed poet Charles Bukowski and stop half-assing your way through those new years resolutions.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How people in the movies celebrate New Year’s Eve

Happy New Year everybody! Or well, almost. Or maybe, already (depending on where and when you read this). Either way, stay safe in your celebrations but have as much fun as you possibly can because it’ll be your last chance for the year. The clock is ticking! If you need inspiration on how to get…

Sploid Casey Chan

How to Order Fresh Food Online

Services like Seamless, Grub Hub, and Eat 24 are lifesavers when you’re hungry and don’t feel like cooking, but they only serve prepared fare. So what do you do when you want to make your own meal but can’t bother going to the supermarket yourself? Place your order with one of these helpful online grocers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This clear purple sea creature is proof the ocean is where aliens hide

Say hi to the Portuguese man o’ war. It’s purple, it’s clear, it looks like a balloon, it’s painfully venomous, but it’s not a jellyfish and you wouldn’t have to convince me too hard that it’s from an alien world. This Portuguese man o’ war, which other than being a fantastic name, washed up on…

Sploid Casey Chan

Is the Internet More Vulnerable To Physical Attacks Than To Hacking?

The Obama administration has been stoking the fires of fear about a cyberattack on America’s infrastructure for well over a year now, but a little-discussed physical attack on a power plant earlier this year suggests we shouldn’t ignore more traditional threats. The attack, recently chronicled by Foreign Policy, sounds like something out of a George…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

8 Urban Stories You Might Have Missed in 2013

Rob Ford, CitiBike, Bay Area tech woes, China’s crippling smog: You’ve seen all the big headlines for cities this year. But here are a few of the urbanism stories that might have flown under your radar. You read about New York City’s glitzy new CitiBike system. But you might not know about Barcelona’s Bicing, which…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Happiness is seeing happy dogs happily stick their heads out of cars

Let’s end the year on a happy note. And happiness is this photo series by photographer Lara Jo Regan. Called Dogs in Cars, it’s photo after photo of well, dogs sticking their heads out of moving cars. Is there anything in the world more joyful than seeing that? I don’t think so. PetaPixel says that…

Sploid Casey Chan

TLDR: 9 Paleofuture Stories From 2013 You Swore You’d Finish Later

From the story of Upton Sinclair’s failed utopian community in New Jersey to that post about DARPA actually trying to build Skynet in the 1980s — these were the longform stories that you swore you’d finish one day but never got around to. Well, here’s your second chance. Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of…

Tech News Matt Novak

Track The Exact Location Where These Wood Fixtures Were Felled

Ninebyfour is a limited edition of 79 light fixtures, each made from a single piece of Stadshout, or “city wood”: timber felled around Amsterdam’s public spaces and destined for the chipper, but saved here to be transformed into something new. The Waarmakers design duo crafted every one by hand, then outfitted them with a sleek…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

This Year, Canada Spent $14,000 Asking People If Superheroes Can Fly

Can superheroes leap over tall buildings? Can they become invisible? Can they walk through walls? Can they fly? These are the types of cutting-edge questions asked in a recent study commissioned by Canada’s armed forces. Weird, huh? According to the Ottawa Citizen, the survey of astonishingly obvious questions was just one way of learning how…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This camera stabilizer seems to defy the laws of physics

Though it may look fake and unreal and impossible and not allowed on Earth, the camera stabilizer in the video is completely real. You can’t make it shake. It’s like magic decided to defy physics and ignore gravity. All I want to do is park myself in front of a mirror and do as many…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Best Gizmodo Stories of 2013

We’ve posted thousands of pieces in 2013, so to pluck out a few dozen and to call them our favorite is in some ways impossibly arbitrary. But that doesn’t mean we didn’t try. If you’d rather see our most popular stories, there’s a list for that, too. But below are the posts that stood out…

Tech News Gizmodo Staff

What Are Your Tech Resolutions for 2014?

We all have our standard, age-old New Years resolutions. Quit smoking. Work out more. Come to terms with ever present self hatred. But there’s more to life than just health and wellness. There are computers! And social networks! So is this the year you finally kick Facebook? (Yeah right!) Or maybe the year you stop…

Tech News Eric Limer

“Sputnik Girl” Was Ready to Blast-Off On New Year’s Eve 1958

December 31, 1958 — Five-year-old Linda Chapman of Kent stands in costume beside her toy rocket at New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Gillingham NAAFI Club. [Getty Images]

Tech News Matt Novak

The Number of People Killed in Covert Drone Strikes is Down 50 Percent

As another year comes to a close, another batch of sobering numbers about the United States’ semi-secret drone war is in. They’re actually not as bad as they used to be. The Council on Foreign Relations just updated its running tally of deaths caused by covert drone strikes in non-battlefield settings, dating from its first…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This 1901 Cartoon Takes a Humorous Look at the Future of New York

The folks over at Ohio State University’s Cartoon Library and Museum have posted a fantastic cartoon from 1901 that takes a humorous look into the world of tomorrow — specifically that far off, futuristic year of 1987. Drawn by J. Campbell Cory for the New York World newspaper, this “prophetic vision of the 20th century”…

Tech News Matt Novak

I just don’t get tired of seeing awesome photos of rocket launches

This pickup truck is made of ice and you can actually drive it

Polar Bear! The 4 Best Places to Take a Frigid Dip This New Year’s Day

4.6 Million Snapchat User Names and Phone Numbers Leaked (Check Yours)

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: All the Way

How people in the movies celebrate New Year’s Eve

How to Order Fresh Food Online

This clear purple sea creature is proof the ocean is where aliens hide

Is the Internet More Vulnerable To Physical Attacks Than To Hacking?

8 Urban Stories You Might Have Missed in 2013

Happiness is seeing happy dogs happily stick their heads out of cars

TLDR: 9 Paleofuture Stories From 2013 You Swore You’d Finish Later

Track The Exact Location Where These Wood Fixtures Were Felled

This Year, Canada Spent $14,000 Asking People If Superheroes Can Fly

This camera stabilizer seems to defy the laws of physics

The Best Gizmodo Stories of 2013

What Are Your Tech Resolutions for 2014?

“Sputnik Girl” Was Ready to Blast-Off On New Year’s Eve 1958

The Number of People Killed in Covert Drone Strikes is Down 50 Percent

This 1901 Cartoon Takes a Humorous Look at the Future of New York

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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