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You Can Buy a GoDaddy Website at OfficeMax Stores

Have a killer idea for a website? Next time you’re at OfficeMax, you can buy a GoDaddy domain. It’s the first time GoDaddy has sold web hosting anywhere but online. You can buy bundles that include not only the URL, but also site design and SEO. Prices start at $13/year for a domain name and…

Is This Knife Squeegee the Most Brilliant Kitchen Gadget Ever Created? (YES!)

Everyone has a technique for cleaning every last bit of chopped food off a knife, but odds are it’s either damaging the blade, or putting your fingers at risk. So Quirky’s come up with a better way: a simple clip-on attachment that slides down the blade wiping off everything in its path. Pricing and availability…

The Tiny Transforming Apartment That Packs Eight Rooms into 420 Square Feet

Living in New York City isn’t all adventure and dynamism. Unless you are wealthy the way no real person is, you probably have to settle for a living space that is cramped and cluttered. It is the project of Graham Hill, entrepreneur and treehugger.com founder, to come up with an ideal New York apartment—one with…

Whoever Runs Waffle House’s Twitter Account Is a F*cking Awesome Bacon Addict

I’m just saying, the Waffle House Twitter account is a very satisfying follow. Observe: Godspeed, Waffle House.

Amazon’s MP3 Store Now Has a Slick Web Version for Your iPhone or iPod

Amazon’s iOS Cloud Player app, which allows you to play all of the music you’ve got stored on Amazon’s servers in sky has been around for a while, but until now, actually buying a song from Amazon’s MP3 Store from your iPhone has been a pain in the tuchus. Amazon just launched an HTML5 web…

Easy To Find Emergency Flashlight Automatically Turns On When There’s an Earthquake

When a natural disaster strikes in the middle of the night, the last thing you want to do is waste time stumbling around in the dark looking for a flashlight. So a company in Japan, where recent disasters have left the country on high alert, has developed an LED flashlight that automatically lights up when…

25 of the Deadliest Explosions Man Ever Made

Everybody likes to watch explosions. Come on, admit it: You like looking at enormous blasts on You Tube because they simultaneously thrill you and yet make you feel safer and more cautious in your tiny little life. OK, maybe I am projecting a little. But who cares. Whether they’re the result of war, science, freak…

Great, Researchers Give This Creepy Cyborg Fish the Ability To Swim Forever

Researchers at Michigan State University have upgraded their autonomous swimming robo-fish named Grace—short for Gliding Robot ACE—with the ability to passively glide through the water, potentially letting it swim forever on a single charge. Right now it’s designed for research, but once it gets a taste for humans, we could be looking at a terrifying…

Patent Hints at Laser-Controlled Google Glasses

With Google’s Project Glass still very much in its awkward developmental stages, the best method of controlling it remains up for debate. This patent, though, suggests that a laser-projected control pad might be in the running. https://gizmodo.com/wsjs-exclusive-project-glass-trial-promising-but-diso-5942508 Currently, Project Glass uses a touch pad that runs down the side of one of its arms. Trouble…

Bad Grammar Make Good Password

Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar. An algorithm developed by Ashwini Rao and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, makes light work of cracking long passwords which make grammatical sense as a whole phrase, even if they…

Is This HTC’s New Flagship Phone?

According to Evleaks, on UnwiredView, this is a render from a start-up video for the much-rumoured new HTC M7. Rumours suggest that the flagship phone will pack a 4.7-inch 1080p screen, along with a 1.7GHz quad-core chip backed by 2GB of RAM and LTE. According to the latest leaks, the M7 will also bring back…

The Most Amazing Microscopic Videos of 2012

Every year, Nikon’s Small World in Motion Competition rounds up the best microscopic videos from scientists across the world. The winners of the 2012 competition have just been announced, and the results are strange but beautiful. The video above, filmed by Dr. Olena Kamenyeva from the National Institute of Health, took first place. It shows…

Yelp is adding hygiene scores to restaurant reviews in New York and San Francisco. But d’you really want to know? [Yelp]

Two US Power Plants Hit By Malware Attacks

It’s come to light that two US power plants were hit by malware attacks in 2012, after employees used infected USB sticks. The US Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team reports that malware found its way into the plants and affected their operation. From ICS-CERT on one of the attacks: “A third-party technician used…

Asus Threatens to Launch a Windows Phone 8 Padfone

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Asus is in talks to license Windows Phone 8. Don’t get too excited, though, because the Taiwanese manufacturer thinks its doomed Padfone is the ideal vehicle for the OS. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-padfone-lets-it-all-hang-out-5952089 Windows Phone 8 is still a little short of hardware companions, so it seems likely that Microsoft will…

US Attorney Defends Prosecution of Aaron Swartz

While activists rally in an attempt to rewrite the law, the US Attorney’s office in Massachusetts has issued a public statement which defends the prosecution of Aaron Swartz. Written by US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, the statement reads: I know that there is little I can say to abate the anger felt by those who believe…

Time Warner: Netflix Is Unfairly Withholding High-Quality Content

Netflix is currently rolling out infrastructure to pump 3D and higher-quality HD content through the pipes to your home. But Time Warner is upset: it thinks that Netflix’s plan to only offer the new conent to ISPs that participate in its Open Connect initiative is unfair on consumers. Netflix claims that the only way to…

AT&T might be going global: apparently it’s planning to buy up a European carrier this year. [WSJ]

What Happened on the Internet in 2012 in Numbers

It’s still that part of the new year where you forget it’s actually 2013 and not 2012 so we can still wrap up last year without feeling like it’s too late, right? Anyway. If you were curious as to what happened on the Internet in 2012 in numbers, like how many e-mails were sent or…

Killing Volvos, Sniping Archers, and Lip Reading Linebackers

The Amount Taxpayers Pay to House Drug Inmates Is Absolutely Criminal While it is produced by Clarity Way, a drug treatment and recovery center, this animated infographic puts forth a well-reasoned and compelling financial argument for alternative treatment options for American drug offenders beyond . [PopSci] Archer: Insulting Nicknames Edition Bob’s Burgers may be the…