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India Is Now the World’s Leading Spam Source

India is now responsible for 9.3 per cent of the world’s spam—up from 8 per cent last year—overtaking the US for the first time, and meaning that it now accounts for more of the email trash than any other country. There’s an overwhelming trend for spam to come from home computers compromised for use by…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Goodbye Charlie Card—Boston Bus Fares Could Soon Be Sold by Smartphone

There are fare vending machines in fewer than half of Boston’s commuter rail stations so most people buy their tickets on-board the trains. However the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority announced today that come fall, riders may be able to prepurchase their fares on their phones. The MBTA is pairing with Masabi, a UK-based mobile ticketing…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Biotech Company Blamed for Bee Collapse Buys Leading Bee Research Firm

Monsanto, the biotech company whose proprietary genetically modified corn has been fingered as the possible culprit in the collapse of the bee population, has gone ahead and purchased Beelogics, a research firm committed to “restoring bee health and protecting the future of insect pollination.” How very, very convenient. It’ll be much easier to keep the…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

An Electric Beach Cruiser for the Supremely Lazy

Maybe this would be an acceptable form of transport for the likes of Marlon Brando or Alfred Hitchcock, but for anybody else it simply declares, “Hello world! I’m too lazy to pedal or balance!” At least it’s only three grand. The Beachcombing Electric Tricycle, besides being embarrassing to say out loud, by Hammacher Schlemmer is…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Buildings Going Down, Semis Going Up, and Kickball!

Kickball! by Dana Terrace I know! I know what you’re thinking, “There is no way that this animation was made by a third year art school student!” But you’re wrong because it was. By Dana Terrace of the School of the Visual Arts. I know I’m impressed. [Cartoon Brew via Laughing Squid] https://gizmodo.com/three-angles-of-destruction-an-arena-collapses-like-a-5896528 Three Angles…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

MIT Students Hack Building, Play Tetris

Over the weekend, a renegade group of student gamers from MIT hacked the Green Building, home to the MIT Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, to play a giant game of Tetris. True, they’re not the first to have done this—Brown University and Delft University in the Netherlands both pulled the same stunt years ago—but it’s…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Roosevelt—The Bi-Pedal, Off-Roading Border Collie

As any Border Collie owner (*raises hand*) can tell you, to describe them as “high energy” is modest at best. Bred as herding dogs, they required near constant activity and attention because if they aren’t “working,” they aren’t happy. But how is a Border Collie supposed to “work” when his front legs won’t, well, work?…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Pizza Hut Won’t Stop Putting Non-Pizza Meat Foods On Their Pies

It just keeps getting weirder. I mean, at this point, you’d almost think Pizza Hut was trying to get out of the pizza game entirely. First there were hot-dog stuffed crusts, now they’re rolling out burger-studded pies. https://gizmodo.com/i-cant-believe-this-hot-dog-stuffed-crust-pizza-isnt-am-5899852 Per the Pizza Hut Middle East’s Crown Crust Carnival commercial, the Crown Crust Burger is made with…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Using Leeches to Track the World’s Rarest Animals

The Grizzly Bear, the Snow Leopard, the Orangutan—these animals were once thought to be mere folklore before their existences were proven with hard, biological evidence. Now, one research team wants to harvest the same evidence from the world’s wilds using a natural collection network of leeches. Monitoring wildlife is both an essential aspect of any…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Literally the Sweetest Murals You’ve Ever Seen (Because They’re Made of Sugar)

Montreal-based artist Shelley Miller has found a new use for sugar, and it’s got nothing to do with dessert. Using a technique quite similar to the way decorative icing is piped onto a cake, Miller replicated ancient mosaics, historical Portuguese tiles, and decorative street art—all in a water-soluble medium. Beyond the novelty of being edible…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

OSU Powers Up a 500 Trillion Watt Laser

We’ve got a pretty good handle on creating short fusion reactions, just look at the H-bomb. But in the 60 years since the weapon’s invention, we still haven’t figured out sustained fusion reactions—the holy grail of energy production. A new high-power laser on the OSU campus could soon help solve that scientific conundrum. Devised and…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Melancholia: Nothing Spoils a Wedding Quite Like the End of the World

Spring is in the air. The weather is warm, almost troublingly so. Flowers are blooming. Babies are everywhere. It’s all a little much, isn’t it? It’s all so very pleasant. Lars von Trier’s latest film, Melancholia, is just what you need to snap out of this sunshiney state of mind. Released at the end of…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Best Profile Pics, Worst Stunts, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Tightrope Walking Over a Canyon in China with no Backup Is the Dumbest Thing Dean Potter walked…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Bullet Time Light Painting Makes Beautiful 3D Graffiti

Light painting is a cool effect and all, but we’re seen enough of it that it’s getting close to oh-god-not-another-lens-flare territory. But light painting mixed with bullet time, to create 3D light graffiti? Totally fresh and gorgeous. Making a bullet time light painting isn’t as easy as the regular versions—you’ll need many cameras set up…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Feds Will Shut off Your Internet If You Don’t Clean Your Computer by July 9

When the FBI and Estonian authorities finally crushed the DNSChanger Trojan network in January, they set up a temporary DNS exchange to maintain connectivity for the millions of infected users until they could wipe the bug from their systems. https://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-might-cut-off-the-internet-for-millions-of-peop-5885716 Those temporary systems are going offline by the middle of the year, so if you…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Couple Pays $1200 for Objectively Worst Wedding Photos of All Time

We don’t say of all time with a light heart, but truly, these are the worst wedding photos of all time. Did a child take them? An elephant? A ghost? Every single one is godawful in its own godawful way. An unlucky UK couple will have to rely on these hilariously terrible snaps to conjure…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Watch Saturn and Its Moons Dance in This Video Made Entirely of Stills

Video artist Sander van cen Berg created this winsome video entirely out of still images from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. Because the video is constructed like a flipbook, it also has a retro feel that’s hard to beat. More art-house film than NASA footage, and that’s a great aesthetic for a look at our…

Tech News Kif Leswing

Building Block Storage Bins Finally Put Your Lego Skills To Good Use

And to think your parents were actually disappointed when you kept playing with Lego bricks all the way through college. Little did they know that you were refining important skills that would one day let you build one hell of a shelving system with Quirky’s new modular Crate system. Admittedly, drawers and home theaters aren’t…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Skeletal Hensen Chair Proves Minimal Design Can Also Be Fun

Fresh out of the 2012 Milan Furniture Show comes this gorgeous chair from upstart Dutch designers Kranen/Gille. The lovely sky blue seat is made out of steel and was designed for New Duivendrect, which appeared in the annual exhibition for the first time. The stunning, minimalist piece of furniture was a part of New Duivendrect’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Microsoft Is Losing Mobile Subscribers Faster Than It Can Gain Them

When you run the numbers on Microsoft’s mobile platform, it doesn’t look good. Despite the debut of Windows Phone 7 about a year and a half ago, the company is losing mobile users faster than it can add them. For a three month period ending in February, Microsoft nabbed a paltry 3.9 percent of the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

India Is Now the World’s Leading Spam Source

Goodbye Charlie Card—Boston Bus Fares Could Soon Be Sold by Smartphone

Biotech Company Blamed for Bee Collapse Buys Leading Bee Research Firm

An Electric Beach Cruiser for the Supremely Lazy

Buildings Going Down, Semis Going Up, and Kickball!

MIT Students Hack Building, Play Tetris

Roosevelt—The Bi-Pedal, Off-Roading Border Collie

Pizza Hut Won’t Stop Putting Non-Pizza Meat Foods On Their Pies

Using Leeches to Track the World’s Rarest Animals

Literally the Sweetest Murals You’ve Ever Seen (Because They’re Made of Sugar)

OSU Powers Up a 500 Trillion Watt Laser

Melancholia: Nothing Spoils a Wedding Quite Like the End of the World

Best Profile Pics, Worst Stunts, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Bullet Time Light Painting Makes Beautiful 3D Graffiti

The Feds Will Shut off Your Internet If You Don’t Clean Your Computer by July 9

Couple Pays $1200 for Objectively Worst Wedding Photos of All Time

Watch Saturn and Its Moons Dance in This Video Made Entirely of Stills

Building Block Storage Bins Finally Put Your Lego Skills To Good Use

The Skeletal Hensen Chair Proves Minimal Design Can Also Be Fun

Microsoft Is Losing Mobile Subscribers Faster Than It Can Gain Them

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

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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