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Bombshell: Marilyn Monroe built the world’s frst drones

Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe used to be known as Norma Jeane Dougherty, and during World War II she toiled at a California defense factory. But shocking new historical evidence shows that the future movie star helped build the first mass-produced aerial drones—and there are pictures to prove it. https://gizmodo.com/marilyn-monroe-assembled-drones-during-world-war-ii-696681799

Science Has Almost Beaten Testicular Cancer

Testicular cancer used to be a brutal condition with a low survival rate, but that’s all changed in recent years thanks to improved treatment. While just over half of patients survived a half century ago, today 96 percent of men who contract the disease are cured. Throwing around the word “cure” is always an iffy…

The Story Behind Ten Tiny Libraries That Popped Up in NYC This Summer

This summer, ten small libraries mysteriously appeared throughout New York City’s Lower East Side and East Village. But who paid for them? Who designed them? And what was the point? In a short film published today, the creators finally answer our many questions about how the Little Free Library came to be. The concept is…

Dear UPS, This Is Not How You Ship a Gadget

So I was on vacation last week, and came back to the usual mountain of 700+ emails and piles of junk from PR companies Katamaried all over my desk. There was also this. What’s in the box? A brand new Leap Motion, which, you know, not like it’s full of delicate sensors that probably shouldn’t…

How Much Happens on the Internet Every 60 Seconds?

Think about your activity on the internet at any given minute—chances are it’s all over the place. You could very easily be jumping from Twitter to Facebook, listening to Spotify, shooting off an email, downloading a movie, reading a news site, Googling background info to better understand aforementioned news site, and that’s just on a…

Your brain’s most intriguing and crucial mysteries revealed

Do you have free will? How the hell did we become sentient self-aware humans? Why do you sleep and dream? These are three of the eight crucial brain mysteries we haven’t been able to figure out yet. You don’t need a brain to know we don’t have a clue about the brain. https://gizmodo.com/8-things-we-simply-dont-understand-about-the-human-brai-949442979

Apple’s iOS 7 beta 4 is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod devices through the iOS developer site. A full change log is also available over at BGR. [BGR]

16 Names NASA Considered For The 1980s Space Station That Never Was

During his 1984 State of the Union speech, President Reagan announced that the U.S. would build a new permanently manned space station within a decade. The Space Shuttle program was underway, and a permanent space station seemed like the next logical step in our bold push into the final frontier. It didn’t hurt that the…

An Alleged Galaxy S4 Explosion Completely Destroyed This Apartment

It’s one thing if your phone bursts into flames and cooks up your leg-meat real bad, but that’s nothing compared to losing your whole apartment in an inferno. That’s exactly what a Hong Kong man claims happened to him while he was just plugging away at Love Machine (an app, not a euphemism) on his…

Fermilab Hunts Rare Subatomic Particles With This 50-Foot Electromagnet

Just because Fermilab shut off its famous Tevartron back in 2011 doesn’t mean the entire facility closed down with it. In fact, the Chicago-area physics lab is embarking on an auspicious plan to develop some of the world’s most powerful proton beam technology by the end of the decade. But first, researchers have to install…

Follow this advice and you’ll be happy, say scientists

You don’t have to have a house, an spouse, children and a car to be happy. In fact, you may get all that and still be unhappy. But here are six things you can do now to make you happier today, according to scientific research. https://lifehacker.com/six-unconventional-scientific-ways-to-be-happier-948843276

See how the world will really end, picture by picture

No apocalyptic angels playing the trumpet. No seas of blood. No cats cohabiting with dogs. If you could live 1.1 billion years, this is what you would see when the world ends, step by step, destroyed by the star that now nurtures life on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-death-of-the-sun-will-look-like-471796727

Valentina Grizodubova: The Soviet Amelia Earhart

While American women were restricted to administrative flying missions during wartime, more than a thousand Russian women flew combat missions. Valentina Grizodubova was one of them. Women had served in combat positions in the Soviet Union as early as World War I. Together, Russia and the surrounding countries were one country, known as the Soviet…

Here Are The Clearest Shots Yet of the Moto X

Motorola doesn’t officially announce the X until this Thursday, but let’s be honest, this has quickly become one of the worst kept secrets in tech. Here we have the clearest shots yet of Motorola and Google’s long-awaited collaborative effort. Details are still relatively sparse, but the Moto X is said to be sporting a new…

Sony revealed today that the PS4 will have party chat for up to 2,000 friends, no PlayStation Plus subscription required. Apps like Netflix will also be available without a PS Plus subscription, along with free-to-play games. [Sony via Verge]

Budget iPhone Seemingly Confirmed in Undercover Safety Inspection

Thanks to a non-profit, undercover safety investigation into Apple supplier, Pegatron, we apparently have confirmation that Apple is indeed getting ready to release a cheaper, plastic-backed iPhone. The ultimate goal of China Labor Watch’s inspection was to assess workers’ pay, hours, and overall working conditions, but one of the undercover investigator’s diary entries has finally…

Chinese Scalpers Created a Black Market for Genius Bar Appointments

The Apple Store is a hectic place in China, so hectic that if you try to go in for a repair without an appointment, you can expect to wait all day. No big deal. This is what the black market for Genius Bar appointments is for. According to the Beijing Morning News, ticket scalpers are…

These people posing with awkward high school portraits are awkward too

It may seem fun and cathartic to exorcise your demons by joining the Awkward Years Project, but posing with awkward high-school photos will prove to be equally awkward 20 years from now. https://jezebel.com/awkward-photos-then-and-now-945337333

Could You Imagine a Real Life Version of This Giant Lego Crawler Town?

That’s the premise of Crawler Town, an entire town mounted in a gigantic platform that looks pretty much like an enormous version of NASA’s crawler or the Jawa Sancrawler, which is pretty much the same thing but for tiny people. https://jalopnik.com/massive-massiveosity-thy-name-is-crawler-transporter-268561 https://gizmodo.com/lego-star-wars-sandwalker-took-nine-months-to-build-5808103 You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the…

This Guy Turned Himself in for Child Porn Because Malware Told Him To

We’re already well aware of the damage malware can do to your machine, but apparently, guilty consciences don’t fare all that well, either. At least not for one 21-year-old man who, after getting a fake pop-up demanding a fine for the child pornography on his computer, decided to take his laptop straight to the police—and…