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We Waste a Billion Gallons of Gas a Year Because We’re So Fat

Heavier cars use more fuel. Now some bright spark has calculated that the US uses one billion gallons more gas every year than if the entire population had remained at the average weight of the 1960s. For every extra pound added to the average weight, the country uses another 39 million gallons of fuel each…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

LG and Windows Phone Are on a Break

LG is putting the breaks on new Windows Phone devices in order to focus most of its energy on Android. It’s quite the shift from just three years ago, when LG made a huge verbal commitment to the platform, promising 26 phones by 2012. But Windows Phone just hasn’t caught on with consumers. LG said…

Tech News Leslie Horn

NASA Will Return to Glory by Putting a Man in… Cleveland

The Space Shuttle program is dead and in the process of being buried, and we don’t have a plan to return to the outer limits of mankind’s reach any time soon. Well, we didn’t. The Onion is reporting NASA’s aspiring new plan to put a man on a bus to Cleveland, OH by 2013. It’s…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Flying Your Own Military Drone: A User Manual

When was the last time you read the instruction manual that came with anything? Maybe never—they’re usually worth tossing. Unless, of course, you’re going to pilot and kill someone with a Predator drone. In that case, read this. This leaked manual, released by PublicIntelligence and orignally published by the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems group…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The USAF’s Ultimate Flight Simulator Had Two Cockpits and Actually Flew

Before spending the cash on expensive, full-size aircraft prototypes, US Air Force engineers needed a way to ensure that their experimental designs actually, well, worked. Their solution—an airborne flight simulator mounted on the front of a transport plane. The Total In-Flight Simulator (TIFS) is based on a heavily-modified Convair C-131 Samaritan turboprop. It was operated…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Best Way to Mount Rear Surround Sound Speakers

You’ve spent thousands on your incredible James Cameron-certified home theater. Movies look beautiful; the sound is amazing. But every time you step out to refill the popcorn bucket, you risk knocking over those damn stands jammed in the back of the room, holding your rear-channel speakers. Time to get those suckers off the floor and…

Tech News Stuart Deutsch

Delicious Stop-Motion Food Rap Satisfies Your Craving for Hot Jams

Forget what ya heard, and recognize the real food rappers. All of your favorite fruits and vegetables throw down hard in this stop-motion animation by BankShot with music by DJ Nick Castle. Warning: This video will both entertain you and make you hungry.. The music in “What’s Cookin?” is a mashup of classic hip hop…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Temperature Regulating Chairs Bring Peace To Office Thermostat Wars

Finding the perfect ambient temperature for a crowded office is harder than tracking down the Higgs Boson. So instead of searching for the elusive thermostat setting that pleases everyone, a company called Temptronics puts that control in the hands, or butts, of every employee with a temperature controlled chair. You can already buy cooling or…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Wind Farms Linked to Local Climate Change

Wind power, one the oldest and most established forms of alternative energy, might not be as green as we thought. A new study in the US has linked wind farms to local temperature rises of over 0.7°C—enough to change local weather and climate. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, analyzed temperature changes around large…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Awesome Australian Billionaire To Build Full-Sized Replica Of the Titanic

Just a few weeks after the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s only voyage, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has commissioned a Chinese shipyard to build a historically accurate replica of the colossal boat. https://gizmodo.com/smoking-drinking-gambling-and-long-repetitive-walks-5901766 In addition to the Chinese builder, Palmer has hired a historical research team to mind all the details of recreating the nine-deck,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This 727 Was Deliberately Crashed In the Desert For a TV Show We Can’t Wait To See

When a plane unfortunately crashes there’s no shortage of photos and video of the wreckage, but rarely footage of the actual impact. So to appease our morbid curiosity of what really happens when a large airliner crashes, the Discovery Channel deliberately downed a 727 in the desert for an upcoming show. The episode, for season…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

LG Has a Cloud Service Coming Too. Everyone Please Stop This Ugh Sigh Puke

LG’s new cloud service, sadistically named LG Cloud, will be going into beta tomorrow, May 1. Like all of these manufacturer cloud services, it’s extraneous and unnecessary and silly. Here’s what we said about S Cloud, Samsung’s version of all the other versions of cloud storage: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-icloud-competitor-will-apparently-debut-alongsi-5903780 But all these OEM cloud services are totally…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

11-Year-Old Criminal Pees on $36,000 in MacBooks

Our society’s moral fabric continues to tear: a Pennsylvanian boy has been charged with “institutional vandalism and criminal mischief” after destroying a cartful of MacBooks. With his own peepee. The culprit, a student at Upper Allen Elementary School, damaged the computers “beyond repair,” PennLive.com repors. The site says only “several” computers were urinated upon, but…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Does Chewing Gum Make You Dumb?

If you thought that chewing gum helped you concentrate, it might be time to reassess. While some old research has suggested that it can help you with abstract reasoning and logic puzzles, new research reveals that it can completely screw up your short-term memory. https://lifehacker.com/chewing-gum-can-boost-mental-performance-5863589 The new study, carried out at the University of Cardiff…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

One World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In New York Today

After six years of construction, One World Trade Center will surpass the 1250-foot Empire State Building as the tallest in New York this afternoon. When construction is finished, the final height of the building will be 1368 feet, with the antenna spire pushing the edifice to the patriotic height of 1776 feet. [NY Daily News]…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Pessimisting Airplane GPS Always Knows the Best Place to Land in an Emergency

A company called Vertical Power has created a GPS-based co-pilot for smaller private planes that’s constantly worried about the worst-case-scenario when flying. But that’s a good thing, since in the event of an emergency like an engine failure, it already knows the nearest and safest place to land. Developed in partnership with Laminar Research, the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Microsoft Ponies Up $300 Million Investment in Nook Spinoff

In what some may consider an odd move, Microsoft has just announced that it’s investing $300 million into a “strategic partnership” with Barnes & Noble to develop the future of e-reading. It’s a huge investment—thanks to the fact that Microsoft has paid based on a huge valuation—into a spin-off from a product which, um, basically…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Google Staff Knew All Along About the Street View Data Breach

A report issued by the Federal Communications Commission reveals that the Google engineer responsible for collecting private information via wireless networks from Street View cars repeatedly told his colleagues about the controversial nature of what was happening. The Guardian reports that Google has posted a copy of the FCC’s report online in the interests of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Are Afghans Unable to Beat the Taliban Because of Clinical Depression?

Maybe the reason that the Afghan counterinsurgency has been such a flop is that the people there are too traumatized and depressed to make nation-building work. That’s the controversial conclusion of an Air Force colonel who recently spent a year in Afghanistan as the head of a reconstruction team. In an unpublished paper, Col. Erik…

Tech News Noah Shachtman - Wired

Residential Buildings in London Will House Surface-to-Air Missiles During the Olympics

Large-scale, international events like the Olympics are often considered as targets for terrorist attacks. The UK’s Ministry of Defence is taking that extremely seriously: it’s placing surface-to-air missiles on a residential apartment building during the summer’s sporting event. The BBC reports that people living in a residential area in east London, near the Olympic site,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

We Waste a Billion Gallons of Gas a Year Because We’re So Fat

LG and Windows Phone Are on a Break

NASA Will Return to Glory by Putting a Man in… Cleveland

Flying Your Own Military Drone: A User Manual

The USAF’s Ultimate Flight Simulator Had Two Cockpits and Actually Flew

The Best Way to Mount Rear Surround Sound Speakers

Delicious Stop-Motion Food Rap Satisfies Your Craving for Hot Jams

Temperature Regulating Chairs Bring Peace To Office Thermostat Wars

Wind Farms Linked to Local Climate Change

Awesome Australian Billionaire To Build Full-Sized Replica Of the Titanic

This 727 Was Deliberately Crashed In the Desert For a TV Show We Can’t Wait To See

LG Has a Cloud Service Coming Too. Everyone Please Stop This Ugh Sigh Puke

11-Year-Old Criminal Pees on $36,000 in MacBooks

Does Chewing Gum Make You Dumb?

One World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In New York Today

Pessimisting Airplane GPS Always Knows the Best Place to Land in an Emergency

Microsoft Ponies Up $300 Million Investment in Nook Spinoff

Google Staff Knew All Along About the Street View Data Breach

Are Afghans Unable to Beat the Taliban Because of Clinical Depression?

Residential Buildings in London Will House Surface-to-Air Missiles During the Olympics

Repair Workers Accidentally Stumble Upon Lost Remains of Legendary ‘Fourth Musketeer’

Dreame Aero Pro Wet Dry Vacuum Mop Drops 20% Shortly After Launch in the Spring Cleaning Sale

Darth Maul’s Legs, Ranked

April Set to Unleash Some Wild Weather Across Parts of the US, Meteorologists Warn

Scientists Create ‘Living Pharmacy’ Implant That Doses 3 Drugs at Once

Dyson Supersonic Nural Hair Dryer Cuts Into Its Premium Price Tag in the Spring Sale, Bid Frequent Salon Visits Goodbye

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic Comes Down $130 Amid a 2025 Smartwatch Lineup Clearout on Amazon

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

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

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