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How to Eliminate Your Ex From Your Facebook Timeline With Just a Few Clicks

It’s Valentine’s Day! Meaning everything is terrible. But things might get just a tiny bit better with a new app that Eternal Sunshines your Facebook timeline of your former ex quickly so you never have to worry about running into them again. The Killswitch app is pretty straightforward. After installing the app, link it to…

Power-Desperate, Stranded Carnival Cruise Passengers Make a Rat King Out of Phone Cords

Carnival cruise ship Triumph suffered a fire then a broken tow line that left it stranded in the Gulf of Mexico for four days. It’s approaching port now, but passengers are pissed and desperate for power. This picture, tweeted by ABC’s 20/20 account, is a glimpse at the hellhole that boat has become. http://gawker.com/5984334/disabled-shit+covered-cruise-ship-descends-to-new-circle-of-hell-off-the-coast-of-alabama The…

Paint Your Pizza Lets You Design Deliciously Ugly Made-To-Order Pizzas On the Web

Fancy yourself an artist? Well if you’re in need of a medium, you could always opt for “pizza.” A new website called “Paint Your Pizza” lets you turn horrendously impressionist MSPaint-inspired masterworks into theoretically delicious pizzas for the sophisticated stomach. This pizza-painting project, developed by artist Jonas Lund, originally existed in a significantly less edible…

Facebook Now Lets You Pay To Promote Your Friends’ Posts

You can already pay to promote your own Facebook posts, and now you can cough up the cash to promote the content your friends are posting, too. You don’t even need your friend’s permission, so go forth and dig up all their embarrassing old photos from college. You’ll see a promote button alongside the like,…

Build the Best PC For Your Buck

We all know that, generally speaking, buying the newest top-end part gets you the most performance. But in most cases, the premium you pay for that part covers a whole lot of other stuff as well that has no bearing on frame rates or video encoding times. We’re talking about the added cost of covering…

Our oil-stained brethren at Jalopnik take a look at why Archer, of all people, has the best cars on television. [Jalop]

These Ear Plugs Are Your Peace-And-Quiet Deal of the Day

While headphones can effectively block out sound – especially if you’re pumping some loud music through them – sometimes you don’t want loud music in your ears. You want silence, or, at the very least, reduced cacophony. That’s why you need a nice pair of earplugs, instead of those disposable yellow sponges that never quite…

Here’s a GPS for Bikers

It isn’t quite street riding season in the NE but come spring, TomTom’s Rider GPS for motorcyclists will help navigate you to your intended destination. Originally launched in 2007, this refresh lets you pick one of three routes: fastest, scenic, or your own via Tyre. You can even swap personalized routes with others over Bluetooth.…

Your official Steam client for Ubuntu has arrived.

The Apple Store is now selling a shorter (0.5 m) lightning to USB cable. Price, unfortunately, has been left intact.

Leaked Screenshots Reportedly Show Samsung’s Smartwatch

Apparently every tech company is coming out with an iWatch/Smartwatch, and these screenshots—leaked from a Korean message board and spotted by SlashGear—supposedly show the time-telling wrist MP3 player Samsung has in store. The device appears to be called the Samsung Galaxy Altius. That’s a little confusing because apparently Altius is a code name that’s been…

How to Get Better Action Cam Footage

Action cameras seem simple enough. Strap it to your head, hit record, and go, right? While that’s essentially true, your video may not turn out like the ones you see the pros making. So we wrangled up some of them up at Winter X Games, and got some simple, easy to incorporate tips that’ll kick…

Bump Is the Newest, Easiest Way to Send Your Digital Goodies From Your Phone to Your Computer

As great as your smartphone is, there are plenty of things you just don’t want to look at on there; you’d rather have them on that big ol’ computer screen of yours. Now Bump, which previously let you throw data from phone to phone, is here to help by making it ludicrously easy to get…

Amazon Has a Map of Books with Love Stories in All 50 States

This is fun if you’re into this whole Valentine’s thing: Amazon has published a map with 50 books containing love stories set in each of the 50 states of the Union. Definitive proof that there’s love in West Virginia. [Amazon]

It’s Less Expensive to Fly to the US and Buy Adobe CS6 Than to Buy It in Australia

Adobe may be trying its best to skirt the issue of crazy high prices in Australia, but it’s going to be hard as long as news outlets keep pointing out that it is actually cheaper to fly to the US and pick up a copy of Adobe CS6 than it is to stay in Australia…

Dare to Dip and Dive With This Duo of Damn Durable Drones

There are plenty of quadcopters out there that you can buy if you want, but they tend to have one or more of the following downsides: They are expensive. They are fragile. They are difficult to fly. Just one can be a bummer, any pair is twice the drag, and all three just all out…

This Insane Camera Collection on Ebay Can Fill a Room

Forget your quaint little shelves with a few vintage cameras you love showing off. For the teeny sum of $49,999 you can buy this hoarder’s bonkers collection of what appears to be every camera ever. Basically. Stan Horaczek at PopPhoto unearthed this impressive lot. The listing doesn’t include an inventory, so you’ll be taking a…

Google Doodles aren’t just for the desktop anymore. The festive pics are rolling out to Google Now. [Android Central]

Chubby Checker Sues HP Over Penis-Measuring webOS App

Chubby Checker has sued HP over a webOS app, also called Chubby Checker, that measures dick size. Someone should probably inform Chubby Checker (rock legend) that HP hasn’t actually made Palm devices since 2011, and webOS is now open source. However! Chubby Checker (singer of “The Twist”) says Chubby Checker (the app) has done irreparable…

Samsung’s Brilliant New Fridge Has a Built-In SodaStream Dispenser

Samsung debuted a ridiculous fridge with Evernote that no one needs at CES this year. We can all agree that’s totally silly. Here’s something awesome from Samsung you actually might want—a fridge with a built-in SodaStream. https://gizmodo.com/no-samsung-we-dont-need-a-goddamn-fridge-with-a-scree-5973957 The RF31FMESBSR turns 60L SodaStream cartridges into seltzer with three levels of fizziness right from the water dispenser.…