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What’s incredibly gross and the size of a bus? Here’s a hint: London’s sewer workers discovered the giant blob under the city, after masses of Londoners reported they could no longer flush their own human excrement down their toilets. [Photo of London sewer worker via Getty Images.] https://jalopnik.com/bus-sized-lump-of-fat-called-a-fatburg-discovered-i-1028805797
Pro sports hasn’t been the same since players learned the benefits of taking drugs that turn them into actual Supermen. It’s almost impossible to play baseball or any pro sport at the level fans expect without doping up on these performance-enhancing laboratory inventions. See which half-dozen new names are on the guilty list. https://deadspin.com/the-full-list-of-suspended-biogenesis-clients-1029648603
Very few people have ever stepped foot on a boat made by yacht design studio Wally—builder of the fastest yachts on the planet—and even fewer have stepped foot inside their loud, hot workshop in Monte Carlo. British photographer Benedict Redgrove is one of them. Here’s what a $33 million yacht looks like before the paint…
Turns out indie RSS reader The Old Reader isn’t going to shut down after all; they got a bunch of help from some anonymous feed-readin’ benefactor. But who could it be?
Industrial meat production is barbaric and disgusting—and don’t forget that belches and farts from stockyard corn-fed animals produce more greenhouse gases than automobiles. So the race is on to produce gross meat products without the beasts themselves. Has a breakthrough finally arrived? [Photo of vegetarian protesters via Getty Images.] https://jezebel.com/the-in-vitro-burger-is-here-and-it-tastes-like-a-prote-1027472269
Over the weekend, security researchers noticed some strange activity happening on the Tor network, an anonymous “darknet” used for everything from private browsing to selling drugs. Some hacker appeared to be using custom-made malware to identify its users. But according to Wired’s sources, this was no hacker. It was the FBI. http://kotaku.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable This is particularly…
Gadgets don’t get much better than this real life Wall-E robot. It’s as expressive as its screen counterpart. https://gizmodo.com/wall-e-recreated-as-an-amazing-real-life-bot-1028097268
Mixing alcohol and coffee is a time-honored tradition, but isn’t it time we take the next step? What if our booze could actually be coffee, and our coffee actually booze? Scientists have been hard at work on exactly that problem, and their new concoction is a 80 proof, hard liquor literally made from coffee grounds.…
America’s current combined fleet of civilian and military weather monitoring satellites are quickly nearing the end of their operational life spans. It’s a big deal; these satellites provide accurate weather reports for a lot of major government agencies including NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense (not to mention our allies). But while the DoD…
The annual hackers’ conference, DEF CON, wrapped up yesterday, but one of the weekend’s many great mysteries still persists. The images above are an encryption puzzle (“Encryption is Key”) that was printed on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s fundraising t-shirts from the event. As of Sunday morning, no one had solved it, so here’s a hint,…
The world’s most popular cartoon in the world and the world’s most popular toy are finally colliding, resulting in official Lego Simpsons sets coming in 2014. Fans are ecstatic on both camps—except the usual prudes, who are protesting because The Simpsons, they say, are not adequate for Lego. Idiots. https://gizmodo.com/doh-official-lego-simpsons-set-coming-in-2014-1027329546
Oh Wall-E, our adorable reminder that our current path on technology will lead to environmental devastation and the end of useful humanity. In maybe our last great act as a species on Earth, a team of geniuses led by Michael McMaster has built a real-life, RC Wall-E accurate to the most painstaking details. McMaster and…
Amazon’s Gold Box deal today is a back-to-school blowout, full of robust discounts on everything from backpacks to… portable scanners. Okay, so maybe it’s not quite the cornucopia of delights you might have hoped for. But for every iPad speaker dock in the bunch, there are a few gems you genuinely need. http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=xs_gb_A3AY5CGCCPYOTE?tag=gizmodo08c-20 Worth It…
The Canadian sucessor to the Liberator’s attempt at bringing plastic firearms to the masses has apparently just gotten one step closer to his goal. After firing one semi-successful, barrel-cracking shot from his newly designed 3D-printed rifle, the Grizzly, a YouTube user going only by “Matthew” was able to fire a full 14 shots before the…
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The next Man of Steel movie will star Batman kicking Superman’s ass. Here are the actors rumored to be in the short list to play Gotham’s dark knight: Ryan Gosling, Max Martini, Josh Brolin, Joe Manganiello, Richard Armitage and Matthew Goode. Who would you like him to be? My vote: Josh Brolin. https://gizmodo.com/which-big-stars-are-in-the-running-to-play-batman-in-ma-1025591188
Google Chrome YouTube just added a simply little feature you’ll wonder how you ever lived without. YouTube tabs that are playing video now show a little play icon so you can tell which one of your bajillion tabs is making noise in the background. I’m so happy I could cry. This one, tiny trick is…
If you are so ravenous that you need to stuff your face with even bigger Chipotle burritos and burrito bowls—which are already massive to begin with—here you will find the tricks you need. https://lifehacker.com/hack-the-chipotle-burrito-bowl-for-more-meat-by-orderin-1006571055
Maybe we should’ve known that the inevitable consequence of losing Google Reader would be paying for something else—Or, at least, the option of paying for something else. The day has arrived. After years of serving up its services entirely for free, Feedly will now offer a “Pro” version—including many features you’ve come to expect for…
The world’s premier artificial, $300,000 3D-printed burger lab-grown finally its way into human mouths today. Turns out it tastes pretty weird. Go figure. https://gizmodo.com/a-3d-printed-hamburger-would-cost-you-300-000-5977593 BBC correspondant Pallab Ghosh was present at the meat’s inaugural tasting event, and has been live-tweeting the tasters metered reaction to the lab-grown meat. Apparently the appearance and texture are both…
