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Have you ever done anything fun? Gone to a rave or a political protest? Maybe put a video of yourself naked on Tumblr? Called someone a jackass on Twitter? Potential employers hate fun, and if they find out you had some, you may not get the job.
BMW 5 Series’ drivers are rich assholes; Ford F-150’s owners are Wal-Mart zombies; and people who drive Buicks are old or Chinese. Jalopnik and its readers have a stereotype for every car owner in America. Find yours here.
This will be the $524-million Hotel InterContinental Shimao, near Shanghai. Built around the caves of an abandoned quarry’s cliffs, the 19-story structure will have a waterfall encapsulated in glass running across its façade.
Using the wireless Internet signals bouncing around most every modern home, researchers have created a way to “watch” people moving inside the privacy of their own walls. The creepy new technology means we’ll never have privacy again. [related http://gizmodo.com/5372080/attn-n… http://gizmodo.com/5844560/wi+fi-…] https://gizmodo.com/attn-nerdy-pervs-see-through-walls-using-a-wireless-ne-5372080
15-year-old Ann Makosinski, from Victoria, British Columbia, has created a LED flashlight powered only by body heat. Zero batteries. Just hold it and it will start working. Look at her demonstrating it in the video.
Temperatures could hit 129 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend in California’s deserts, the National Weather Service warns, while Phoenix should see 118 and Las Vegas will reach 117—heat levels rarely seen even in the scorching Southwestern U.S. A persistent high-pressure system over the hot deserts has cut off the usual cooling from the Pacific Ocean. Palm…
The first space hotel is now in the works, and the first Virgin Galactic tourists will soon ride SpaceShipOne into low-earth orbit. But how will people pay for stuff in space? Change will just float away. “PayPal Galactic” is here.
Despite all the iPads and Internet porn, America’s school kids are just as dumb as their parents—high school test scores have been flat for 40 years, even though today’s kids spent their entire grade-school years being pointlessly tested.
America is delighting to the current New Yorker cover, which shows Sesame Street same-sex roommates Bert and Ernie in a tender moment during the big gay marriage news from the Supreme Court.
After her husband—advertiser Charles Saatchi—violently choked her in public, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is apparently moving out the family’s home in Chelsea, London. Men were photographed carrying “boxes labeled ‘Nigella,’ large covered paintings and several kitchenware items” into a large truck. Photo by Getty Images
Perpetual motion machines. Like the philosopher’s stone, they don’t and will never work. Unless you are in the internet, watching this neat collection of looping animated GIFs for all eternity. Question: do looping GIFs move when you are not looking at them?
2013 is not finished yet and it already is one of the greatest years in gaming history, says Kotaku’s editor Stephen Totilo. It is! The list of games he and his readers have compiled is truly staggering in both quantity and quality.
Rice, potatoes, ramen noodles, bananas and peppers. If you have these five ingredients in your pantry—says Lifehacker—you will be able to cook a lot of combinations for cheap and keep you well fed. Plus some spices, of course. Good tips for the cooking impaired.
Continuing with Hollywood’s spiraling dive into remake hell, Paramount Pictures says they will reboot Terminator in 2015, James Cameron’s 80s science fiction classic starring Arnold Schwarzenegger—who will be back for this trilogy rehash. Photos by Getty Images
NASA has been running this incredible ion thruster for five years, or 48,000 hours. These electronic propulsion engines have rapidly gone from science fiction to the preferred thruster for today’s space projects.
Glenn Beck is still jabbering away on his pretend news network, the Internet. You know who reminds him of racist death-food huckster Paula Deen? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., obviously!
This image shows a working deflector shield, developed by researchers at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Like the Enterprise’s force field, this will protect real spaceships against the space radiation that could kill astronauts on their way to Mars and beyond.
Mad scientists in Japan have cloned an entire mouse from a single drop of blood. This is good news for the world’s lab animals, which generally have to be killed before their cells are extracted for a clone.
Justin Carter may get eight years in prison after someone called the cops following a distasteful Facebook comment. The 18-year-old Carter said “Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head, I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts.” The father claims he was joking and…
Whether you already have one or you’re buying a new model, this fall your iPad will look and feel completely different thanks to iOS 7. Gizmodo’s Kyle Wagner got an early version of Apple’s new operating system in his tablet. These are his first impressions.