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Religious Websites Are Worse for Your Computer than Porn Sites

“I have a virus.” “Stop visiting all those porn sites!” Ha. Ha. But also pretty much every conversation about malware ever, right? Well, Symantec’s 17th Internet Threat Security Report found another genre of sites that, on average is worse than porn: Religion. Religious sites had and average of 115 software threats, while porn sites only…

Zeppelins Make Their Comeback as Exotic Lighting

Whether or not the Hinderberg tragedy was to blame, blimps and zeppelins never really caught on as a popular form of travel. But as Italian designer Flaminio Bovino shows, they certainly make for a beautiful lighting accessory. Looking exactly like a miniature dirigible docked at a mooring station, there’s no mystery as to where the…

Samsung Galaxy S III: Meet the New Android Emperor

Thanks to the previous Galaxy model’s success, Samsung is now the world’s biggest phone manufacturer, a title it will no doubt keep once the slim and pebble-like Galaxy S III hits stores shortly. At 4.8-inches, you can tell Samsung worked really hard at retaining the slightly-smaller Galaxy S II’s footprint, so despite the 22 per…

Watch the Samsung Galaxy Announcement Right Here

Samsung has been teasing the new Samsung Galaxy that’ll be shown off today for weeks now. Will it be the rumored Samsung Galaxy S III? Get excited! Click here to watch the Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in London live. Or in the embed below! [Samsung]

A Google Image Search for Porn, Presented Without Comment

You probably shouldn’t be Googling “gizmodo porn” if you’re at work, but we discovered this yesterday and felt compelled to share. Hey, at least we’re consistent!

World’s First Bionic Llama Saved from Death by Prosthetic Leg

This is Bella, a three-legged llama who was in danger of being euthanized because of the depression—and inability to get around—caused by her amputation. Until, that is, she received an awesome new cheetah-print bionic leg. Now she is the happiest three legged llama in all the land. Bella’s leg was injured a few years ago…

Facebook Has Begun Stuffing Instagram into Itself

After casually dropping a billion one dollar bills into Instagram’s bulging lap, we were wondering what Facebook would do to its new purchase. Here’s the first step: you’ll soon have Instagram filters on your Facebook app. Sepia. The news comes, for some reason, from the Facebook Brazil page: As part of our efforts to establish…

Spirit Airlines Figures Out How To Screw You Even Harder With Bag Fees

Spirit Airlines introduced the ludicrous concept of charging you for carry-on luggage two years ago. Apparently that wasn’t terrible enough because now the airline says it wants to charge more than twice as much if you haven’t paid for your bag when you get to the gate. Jerks. Effective November 6th, Spirit Airlines is raising…

Ketchup Used to Be Made of Fish: The Crazy History of The World’s Greatest Condiment

Here’s something that might just blow your mind: ketchup—the national condiment of 1896, according to the New York Tribune—wasn’t always tomato based. In fact, if it had remained in its early form, we might be spreading fish paste on our burgers (gulp) instead of the tangy tomato-y goodness we presently rely on. Somewhere along the…

Can You Decode This Probably Made-Up Text Lingo?

Teens today! What are they even saying on those new-fangled computer phones? LOL, amirite? Parents just can’t keep up with all those crazy indecipherable abbreviations swift-thumbed kids are tapping at every hour of the day. Good thing this handy primer of 92 commonly text terms exists. If only it weren’t packed with phrases no one’s…

Tiny Table Turns Your Fire Escape Into a Luxurious Patio

When that spacious balcony in your new apartment turns out to be nothing more than a fire escape, you can make (and enjoy) lemonade with this tiny Sky Deck table designed to securely perch on a handrail. Made from Canadian red cedar, the table has a folding arm underneath with a protruding dowel that wraps…

Tech Power Player John Yoo Wants to Save You from Mindless Games

The tech industry is notoriously dog-eat-dog. Breaking into the big time isn’t just about having a good idea (although you’ll need one), or having a strong work ethic (you’ll need that too), it’s about being consistently tenacious, creative, and forward-thinking. To celebrate those who exemplify these qualities, Gizmodo has teamed up with the Galaxy Nexus™…

The Monument to Electricity That Never Was

In 1922, eccentric magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback decided that the world needed a 1,000-foot tall concrete monument to electricity. Gernsback imagined that this monument might last for thousands of years, and rather than some static behemoth stuck in time, the interior of his monument would be constantly changed to reflect the technological advances of each…

Very Little Jogging Can Make Your Life Much, Much Longer

You probably go jogging because it makes you less fat and it is less humiliating than being yelled at through a 60-minute spinning class. But according to a new examination of the Copenhagen City Heart study, jogging less than two hours per week can add years to your life. The Copenhagen City Heart study started…

A Truck-Mounted Claw Pulls Up Trees By the 15,000-Pound Root Balls

Generally, wherever a tree starts its life is where it stays. But then how does a large, mature tree get from a nursery to a local garden center? It’s plucked from the ground by a post-hole digger on steroids, that’s how. Tree Spades come in a variety of sizes and blade styles depending on the…

There Are Two F-16s Hiding in This Picture

I hope you’re not as easily fooled as I am because I totally missed the two F-16s in this picture. I have an excuse! I was totally looking at the left hand side of the picture. And the picture I saw was really small! Like thumbnail-sized! You try stepping back from your computer screen and…

The First Assassinated Man In History Was Killed By an Arrow 5300 Years Ago

A new report published in The Journal of Royal Society’s Interface has confirmed that the first assassinated man in history was killed by an arrow, shot into his back, 5,300 years ago. According to the paper’s lead author Albert Zink: The fact that we found some of the fibrin [a protein that is part of…

Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 Benchmarks: Twice the Face-Melting in Half the Space

We knew this day would come, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting. After all, we’ve been waiting since Saturday. Today Nvidia launches the just-announced GeForce GTX 690, which packs two full GK104 Kepler GPUs onto one video card-and what a card it is. (For an in-depth look at the GTX 680, the GK104…

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The Best AirPlay Speakers

AirPlay is the way digital music should be. If you have WiFi, you have music. But you also have a tough choice. More and more speakers come equipped with AirPlay, ready out of the box to blast music wirelessly from your preferred Apple gizmo. In a test of four speakers, the one that sounded sweetest…