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The free-range crime simulation known as Grand Theft Auto V will give you 15 radio stations—all full of licensed songs—hosted by famous DJs, so you can sing along in your stolen car while driving from killing someone to robbing from someone else. https://kotaku.com/good-lord-the-gta-v-soundtrack-is-going-to-be-amazing-1217367806
While this generally goes unsaid, the internet has become a huge crutch—but more than that, we’re pretty much blind without it. What do you do when you need to convert meters to feet? Hit a few buttons on your keyboard and bam, Google tells you all you need to know. But the thing is, you’re…
After a too-long hiatus, we’re happy to announce that Gizmodo’s Photoshop Contest has returned. And what better occasion to inspire its revival than the brand new cat Monopoly token sitting our desk, just begging to be put in outrageous situations. We reviewed this slap in the face to your childhood earlier in the day here,…
When Buckminster Fuller died, he was buried under a gravestone with a very peculiar inscription: CALL ME TRIMTAB. Fuller had uttered those words to a Playboy reporter in 1972 (this kind of thing happened a lot in the 70s) to describe the kind of effect he wanted to have on the world. But what did…
Yesterday Apple TV added Vevo, Disney, Disney XD, and Smithsonian apps. Today, in another over-the-air update, it got ESPN’s entire lineup of apps, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and more.
Betaworks, the company that resurrected Digg and bought Instapaper, didn’t waste any time giving Instapaper a makeover. A beautiful redesign of the Instapaper site just went live. https://gizmodo.com/instapaper-was-just-bought-by-the-same-company-that-bou-5995402 Changes to the mobile apps are coming soon, but for now the difference is with the main desktop version. The changes to the formerly barebones site are…
They’re a cheap and easy way to add some extra sleeping space to your apartment, but futons are a sure sign that you’re either in college, just graduated from college, or can’t stop reliving college. If you’re looking for a slightly more sophisticated way to accommodate guests, like an adult, this incredibly comfy-looking Figo lounger…
A team from the University of Newcastle is perfecting a method of capturing carbon emissions and transforming them into carbonate rock bricks. They’re just part of a wave of efforts by scientists who hope to tame carbon in order to shape a greener future. While there are many carbon capture innovations at work, this carbonate…
Kinja’s front page publishes the best and most popular stories and discussions published in the Kinja platform—all of Gawker Media and these great Kinja blogs: Animals The Dogs | News, training tips and cool videos about dogs. Arts Dodge & Burn | The life of New York City captured in photos. Photography | A collection…
Plastic surgeon Dr. David Matlock turned his patient Veronica from woman to his idea of “wonder woman” with a vaginoplasty, an all-over liposuction, a Brazilian butt lift and a G-spot modification. Then, this modern Hippocrates asked her to marry him. http://gawker.com/meet-the-plastic-surgeon-who-sculpted-himself-the-perf-1215166725
Post-industrial cities have long struggled to find new uses for the (often gargantuan) factory infrastructure that once made their towns boom. Usually, that means a park or a museum. But a few cities—like Genk, Belgium—have tried a more experimental approach, turning these decrepit sites into unusual creative spaces. The Winterslag mine is on the eastern…
The videophone is one of those technologies that more or less snuck up on us. Promises that one day you’d not only be able to hear but see a person through your telephone are nearly as old as the telephone itself. The videophone spent nearly a century as every bit as much a “technology of…
These days there’s a mountain of extra data saved every time you snap a digital photo. So figuring out where and when a shot was taken requires minimal detective work. Back in the days of film it wasn’t so easy, so Kodak built a camera in 1914 called the Autographic that let photographers sign and…
As we strongly suspected earlier, the hackers that briefly took over the Twitter and New York Times domains yesterday didn’t use brute force or fancy hacks to get in. The LATimes reports that the Syrian Electronic Army used phishing emails to get username and password credentials for several employees Melbourne IT, the registrar for both…
Twitter is making a big design change to your Twitter feed to help you follow the fragmented conversations buried within. The new look works a bit like connect the dots between @replies. The new change to Twitter.com as well as the service’s iOS and Android apps looks like this: Until now, if you saw a…
In 1857, Central Park was carved out of the still-wild landscape of Manhattan. In 2013, a new park in the middle of super-dense New Delhi is poised to dwarf Central Park by almost 50 percent. But how will they build a 1,200-square-foot park smack dab in the center of the fourth biggest city in the…
So far most of what’s been written about Google Glass has been united by one commonality: It’s been written from the perspective of someone who had to wear Glass. Because they were going to write about it. But here’s when you’ll actually want to wear it. Or at least, when I do. I never planned…
If you’re ready to take your storage to the next level and actually take advantage of that Thunderbolt port on your Mac, then this 4TB Western Digital RAID Supported Thunderbolt External Hard Drive is for you. It’s available today for $350, which is almost half of what it’s going for everywhere else. [CowBoom] Top Deals…
Trent Reznor has a treat for audio nerds. When Nine Inch Nails’ new record Hesitation Marks drops next week, it’ll be available in regular and audiophile versions. The two sonic flavors will be mixed differently—One mix for the headphone clutching masses who demand “loudness,” and one mix for the nerds who want to hear every…
Kinja got a new blog: Playboy Safe for Work. Check out one of the first articles, an interview with David Lynch by Danielle Bacher. “I’ve made friends with a hummingbird,” he confessed. But of course. Yes, it’s a great read. https://playboysfw.kinja.com/david-lynch-is-normal-sort-of-1215795867
