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Mechanical Matchmaking: The Science of Love in the 1920s

Online dating sites like eHarmony and OkCupid claim they can find you the perfect romantic match by using algorithms. These kinds of sites have catchy slogans like “date smarter, not harder,” implying that they’ve finally perfected a scientific approach to matchmaking. Just answer a few questions, and their super-secret love science will find the person…

Tech News Matt Novak

How to Destroy the Internet

Remember when Anonymous threatened to destroy the entire internet? We laughed, and ultimately their words were just hacker hubris. But it got us thinking—could someone actually destroy the Internet? We did some digging, and guess what: With enough effort, the entire thing can be shattered. Physically. Completely. Here’s how to kill the net. Before we…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Moog Synthesizer Google Doodle IRL

Today’s Google Doodle for Robert Moog’s birthday is amazingly cool. But the only thing cooler than a browser-based analog synthesizer hooked up to a digital reel-to-reel tape machine is, well, a real Moog synthesizer hooked up to an actual tape machine. Props to Reddit user SocialChameleon for throwing down old school and recreating today’s Google…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Wasteland of Forgotten Phone Numbers on Facebook Is Exposing Your Privacy

Do you remember the olden days of losing a phone? Crap! You lost all your contacts! What do you do? You probably didn’t have a smartphone and you probably didn’t sync your contacts, instead, you went to Facebook and told your friends to give you their numbers. Those phone numbers are still on Facebook. Buzzfeed…

Social Media Casey Chan

Amazon Prime Adds Paramount Movies to Its Streaming Catalog

In its ongoing mission to become the best streaming movie service around, Amazon Prime now has the Paramount Movies catalog in its backpocket. That means films like Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek, Top Gun, Clueless, and Nacho Libre are now available for members. [Tech Crunch]

Commerce Adrian Covert

SpaceX Has Beamed Scotty Up to Orbit

After its launch yesterday, the Dragon capsule is now on its way to the International Space Station. But the Falcon 9 rocket carried something else: the ashes of James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty in Star Trek. https://gizmodo.com/spacex-finally-takes-off-5912229 His ashes were in the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which separated from the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Stop Moaning About How You Don’t Own a New iPad, and Win One by Taking the 2012 Gawker Media Census

According to last year’s census, 48% of you said you were planning on buying a tablet. How many of you actually put your money where your touch-screen caressing fingers were, and followed through? Well, even if you didn’t, take ten minutes to answer the 2012 Gawker Media Census and tell us what gadgets you’re drooling…

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Google Search iPhone App Redesigned For Speed and Beauty

Google Search version 2.0 is now available in the App Store. The “complete” redesign is much better suited to mobile browsing than its predecessor. According to Google, the app got a big speed boost, but what will likely make people staring down at a 3.5-inch iPhone screen happiest is full-screen image search. No more squinting!…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Dancing With Industrial Robot Arms Is Even Sadder Than Dancing With Yourself

As more and more manufacturing jobs are shipped overseas, it’s nice to see that industrial robots are still finding work. Particularly when it pertains to their first love, interpretive dance, thanks to choreographer Thomas Freundlich’s latest performance piece titled Human Interface. Described as a “contemporary dance for humans and industrial robots” the performance features a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Beautiful Ad Stitches 873 Snapshots into Single, Wonderful Life

This stupendous ad for Getty Images connects 873 different images together to tell one story. The clip, “From Love to Bingo,” is made up of 15 snapshots per second. All of the pictures show different people in different places, yet they fit together to make a single story. And a pair of pair of copywriters…

Tech News Leslie Horn

10 Gadgets You’d Be a Fool to Buy Right Now

The problem with buying gadgets is that they’re bound to be obsolete at some point. But, as Laptop Mag’s Avram Piltch explains, that point is way sooner for some things than others. Here are 10 gadgets you should avoid like the plague right now, however tempting they might seem: They say patience is a virtue,…

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Windows 8 Boots So Fast You Can’t Access the Boot Menu

Windows 8 boots so blisteringly fast that it theoretically gives you only 200 milliseconds to access the boot menu. Fortunately, Microsoft has gone to the trouble of designing a whole new Boot Options menu so you don’t have to punch F8 like a crazy person. You see, an SSD-equipped PC will only take 7 second…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Real-Life Tony Stark Turns His Broken Down Car Into a Motorcycle To Escape the Desert (Updated)

As many of you have pointed out in the comments, this actually happened quite a few years ago, way back in 1993. But it’s still a fantastic story, and if you only follow Iron Man’s adventures in the movies, it actually makes Tony Stark seem like a fictional version of Emile Leray. He might not…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Huge Difference Between Food in the 1950’s and Today

What’s the biggest difference between food back in the 1950’s and today? Portion size. According to the CDC, meals are four times bigger now compared to what they once were and as a result, people are 26 pounds heavier. Yeesh! No wonder we’re all so fat. If you eat more than you need, you gain…

Tech News Casey Chan

Google’s Rad Synth Doodle Explained By Moog Music Chief Engineer

We first got a look at the Google Doodle celebrating Robert Moog’s 78th birthday on Google.jp yesterday, and now it’s live in the US. Synthtastic! But, uh, how do all of those knobs and sliders work? Here’s an excellent explainer on how to play the synth by Moog Music Chief Engineer Cyril Lance. Hint: Start…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Tattle on Parking Jerks with This App to Publicly Shame Them

Apparently there’s a mild epidemic in Russia where drivers park anywhere they please, including sidewalks or anyplace they can fit their vehicles. So a Russian news website, The Village, has supposedly created an app that lets citizens tattle on these jerks. But tattling’s only half the story. We assume the Russian police have bigger fish…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facebook IPO Nosedive Gets Facebook IPO Class Action Lawsuit

It’s been more and more apparent that there was some shady—though not necessarily illegal!—activity from Facebook’s bank advisors in the lead-up to the company’s IPO last week. And now, investors who got the shaft are trying to get their money back through the courts. https://gizmodo.com/wsj-blame-morgan-stanley-for-facebooks-woeful-ipo-5912571 At issue: Morgan Stanley, Facebook’s IPO sherpa, was encouraging its…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Bigup to Brent Rose, The Crime-Fighting Tech Writer

Tech writers often get a rap for being shy wimpy nerds. And, you know, a lot of us are. But not Brent Rose, our space-reporting, booze-hacking, Android-love-espousing, (frequently found cross-dressing) actor-cum-writer from Berkeley, CA. While riding his bike through Prospect Park last night, Brent stopped a group of four jerks from mugging a solitary citizen.…

Tech News Joe Brown

See the No-Stick Ketchup Bottle of the Future in Action

Getting ketchup out of a bottle is a massive unsolved engineering problem. Plastic squeezy bottles, upside down bottles, tapping the 57, just shove a butter knife in there—none really does the job. But the wonderful nerds at MIT might have done it with their new non-stick LiquiGlide bottle. LiquiGlide is actually a coating made up…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Rugged Android Tablet Redefines Tonka-Tough… and Ugly

Designed to be used by those who are actively getting shot at in warzones, not just those of us who are clumsy with our gadgets, the new Rampage 6 tablet is even more rugged than Panasonic’s Toughbook tablet. Though, far less capable. https://gizmodo.com/the-panasonic-toughbook-android-tablet-is-a-rugged-beas-5812576 The Rampage 6, from Juniper Systems and SDG Systems, has an IP67…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Mechanical Matchmaking: The Science of Love in the 1920s

How to Destroy the Internet

The Moog Synthesizer Google Doodle IRL

The Wasteland of Forgotten Phone Numbers on Facebook Is Exposing Your Privacy

Amazon Prime Adds Paramount Movies to Its Streaming Catalog

SpaceX Has Beamed Scotty Up to Orbit

Stop Moaning About How You Don’t Own a New iPad, and Win One by Taking the 2012 Gawker Media Census

Google Search iPhone App Redesigned For Speed and Beauty

Dancing With Industrial Robot Arms Is Even Sadder Than Dancing With Yourself

Beautiful Ad Stitches 873 Snapshots into Single, Wonderful Life

10 Gadgets You’d Be a Fool to Buy Right Now

Windows 8 Boots So Fast You Can’t Access the Boot Menu

Real-Life Tony Stark Turns His Broken Down Car Into a Motorcycle To Escape the Desert (Updated)

The Huge Difference Between Food in the 1950’s and Today

Google’s Rad Synth Doodle Explained By Moog Music Chief Engineer

Tattle on Parking Jerks with This App to Publicly Shame Them

Facebook IPO Nosedive Gets Facebook IPO Class Action Lawsuit

Bigup to Brent Rose, The Crime-Fighting Tech Writer

See the No-Stick Ketchup Bottle of the Future in Action

Rugged Android Tablet Redefines Tonka-Tough… and Ugly

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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