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Gizmodo’s Kyle Wagner makes a great argument for an easy feature that should be implemented by every phone manufacturer: require a passcode to turn it off. That alone could stop thieves from stealing your phone, because the phone will stay on to be tracked. https://gizmodo.com/apple-missed-the-best-use-for-a-fingerprint-scanner-1294669941
This horrible new tank—the shamelessly named 2015 Chevy Suburban—is the only car with six USB ports and six power outlets. Doesn’t that sound stupidly overkill? Not in suburban America! Just imagine all those kids playing Candy Crush on their iPads while they are not using the USB ports for their surveillance equipment. https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-all-new-2015-chevy-suburban-1301022572
You’ll probably laugh at the righteous fury concentrated on this call from a customer who had two consecutive missed appointments and got bounced around phone support for three hours. And, even while you know that phone rage leads to nothing, you’ll probably feel some toe-curling satisfaction listening to it. http://gawker.com/youve-never-heard-a-customer-service-call-meltdown-qui-1299857467
This 1,476-foot skyscraper will have an electronic cloak that will make it invisible—something completely unimaginable until now. Tower Infinity will use a clever combination of cameras and an electronic light emitting façade to project its surroundings onto itself, fading into the sky in broad daylight. Sounds like an impossible sci-fi dream? It will be very…
These are the 88 lights that form New York’s 9/11 memorial Tribute in Light, as captured using fisheye lenses from the inside. A weird perspective that makes it look like one of the spaceships from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Really beautiful shot. https://gizmodo.com/the-view-from-the-base-of-new-york-citys-annual-9-11-me-1292691726
This is something that I’ve never seen: The precise and explosive moment in which a Soyuz capsule hits the ground. The fire you’re seeing is caused by rockets firing up to soften the landing on the Siberian steppe’s hard ground. https://gizmodo.com/astronauts-arrive-home-in-a-brilliant-ball-of-fire-1293983205
You don’t have to imagine what happens when 15 self-entitled imbeciles paid $2,666 each to rent a luxury summer home in East Hampton, Long Island, to party for the entire summer. Here’s what happened, according to a letter sent by the landlord, forwarded by one of said imbeciles to Jezebel. The idiot doesn’t even deny…
4.5 billion years summarized in just ten photos that explain the geological history of Earth. Beautiful scenery cause by extreme violence and the patient action of the elements. https://gizmodo.com/earths-deep-geological-history-revealed-in-10-strikin-1290830007
Like every year, some shameless companies exploit the 9/11 anniversary with their alleged heartfelt tributes. It’s embarrassingly disgusting, from corporations to small business like this equine spa that shaved the towers on a horse’s butt. http://gawker.com/commemorating-9-11-on-a-horses-butt-1293717154 Or this terrible Tumbledown Trails golf course coupon: Have more? Post them in the comments. http://gawker.com/never-forget-pic-twitter-com-74br2rbl3a-at-t-att-s-1293984529
This is the horror story of a girl who one day decided to paste innocuous Adolf Hitler quotes over Taylor Swift photos, attributing them to her. Her work went viral, which resulted in an army of people attacking her in the vilest ways. Sometimes, going viral sucks. https://kotaku.com/going-viral-sucks-1282348530
According to human-resources firm Adecco, 8-percent of college-educated americans brought a parent to a job interview in 2012. Worse: 3-percent actually had the parent sit on the interview. Perhaps it’s time to come up with a population control and parenting licensing program—before it’s too late. Forced exile in a fenced Millennial camp in some Mongolian…
If this video doesn’t bring you a tear of emotion or at least make you smile and feel good for the rest of the day, you aren’t human. Watch Jason Mortensen react to the news of being married to his beautiful wife after waking up after surgery with no memory of it at all. My…
Which famous singer, actress and widow of a seminal grunge star who committed suicide in Seattle hates Katy Perry but loves the twerking demon child for being “sort of punk in a weird sex way…like dark and hillbilly and fucked up”? https://jezebel.com/courtney-love-calls-miley-cyrus-an-effed-up-hillbilly-1291973596
The all-new and elegant iOS 7 is officially coming out next week, but if you are too impatient to wait, here’s a very easy method to upgrade your iPhone or iPad right now. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-upgrade-to-ios-7-right-now-1288208215
The level of realism and scale of next-generation games is staggering. This is Los Santos, the world of the fifth installment of the crime simulation game series Grand Theft Auto. It’s truly as big and detailed as real-life Los Angeles, the city that inspired it. https://kotaku.com/leaked-grand-theft-auto-v-map-is-massive-1287570002
The best job in the US—based on a combination of factors like income and stress level—is being an actuary, someone who “analyzes statistics of financial risk for insurance companies.” Obviously, one of the factors wasn’t excitement. But what’s the worst? Scroll to the bottom. https://lifehacker.com/the-best-and-worst-careers-based-on-job-outlook-and-wo-1284106147
You may have seen timelapse videos of people who took a daily photograph of themselves for a few years of their lives. This one goes beyond anything you’ve ever seen before. Unbelievable. https://gizmodo.com/this-girl-ages-into-an-old-woman-before-your-eyes-witho-1283215638
29 bucks. That’s what Apple wants you to spend in a plastic case that will make your new plastic iPhone 5C look like a game of Connect Four. Today, Apple has turned the iPhone case market into a pathetic parody of itself. Not that it wasn’t already a pathetic parody, mind you. It was. A…
Apple is announcing new iThings today, including a gold iPhone that’s going to be all the rage among Chinese people and ABBA fans. Check out the live coverage at Gizmodo. Image by Martin Hajek https://gizmodo.com/our-iphone-event-liveblog-starts-right-here-on-9-10-at-1277167537
The new Porsche 918 Spyder has just been unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Not only it can do up to 94 miles per gallon, but this 887-horsepower überhybrid pulverized every production car speed record at the Nürburgring circuit. An incredibly beautiful beast. It’s one of the many new cars being introduced at the German…