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How to Ditch Netflix | You can still watch (almost) everything you want.

https://gizmodo.com/how-to-ditch-netflix-and-still-watch-almost-everythin-5821684

So What the Hell Are We Supposed to Put on Google+?

https://jezebel.com/so-what-the-hell-are-we-supposed-to-put-on-google-5821335

Here’s the problem: I hate my friends. You do too. I’m using the word “friends” in the social networking sense. Facebook and Flickr “friends.” Twitter and Tumblr Followers. More »

Is Sony Back?

Do you remember Sony? Not the guys who let your PSN account get hacked, or the ones who loved their proprietary formats more than their customers. The Sony you grew up with, who made the gear you couldn’t live without. More »

https://gizmodo.com/we-miss-sony-5484148

Steve Jobs Lays It Down for Playboy

https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-lays-it-down-for-playboy-5821429

In 1987, a young, brash Steve Jobs sat down with the world’s preeminent gentleman’s magazine. With yesterday’s launch of the Playboy Commission, an editorialized guide to Heff’s archives, we can take a look inside the mind of Mr. More »

Does Not Compute: 10 PC Myths from Movies and Television

https://gizmodo.com/does-not-compute-10-pc-myths-from-movies-and-televisio-5821544

For over half a century, Hollywood has been making computers do whatever they damn well please. Routinely featured on television and in movies, supercomputers, desktop rigs, and laptops are all too often granted near-magical capabilities. More »

This Is War: Watch the Libyan Revolution Explode through the Lens of a Helmet Cam — Part 4

https://gizmodo.com/this-is-war-watch-the-libyan-revolution-explode-throug-5821698

Humphrey Cheung worked in tech journalism and IT for years. Then, this spring, he had enough. But instead of switching jobs, he strapped on a digital camera, armor, and flew to Libya. More »

7 Tools For Fire Starters

https://gizmodo.com/7-tools-for-fire-starters-5821450

Little dude here is dead serious about his lighter (note the 1000 yard stare)—too bad it’s only a Bic. Here are seven tools that’ll add some flair to your next fire. More »

This Is How LA Looks Without Cars

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-how-la-looks-without-cars-5821629

How does the biggest traffic hell on Earth this side of Sao Paulo look without any cars? This video shows how. It’s quite eerie. Did everyone die from a flesh eating virus plague? More »

The Facebook Phone Review: Let’s Just Pretend This Isn’t It

https://gizmodo.com/the-facebook-phone-review-lets-just-pretend-this-isnt-5821278

The FACEBOOK PHONE is here. As it turns out, it’s a lot like a non-Facebook phone—a small Android phone with an astoundingly excellent keyboard. More »

The Largest Gun Ever Built

https://gizmodo.com/the-largest-gun-ever-built-5821389

Like an Aryan Death Star, the Nazis’ Gustav was the largest gun ever built and didn’t leave much planet where it hit. In 1939, Adolf “Baby Dick” Hitler needed to figure out how to get past the French Maginot line. More »

Don’t Crash Your Jetpack into the Ocean on Live TV

https://gizmodo.com/dont-crash-your-jetpack-into-the-ocean-on-live-tv-5821541

Things were looking so good for John! He was at the beautiful San Diego Yacht Club—on TV! He had a million dollar smile. He had an awesome aqua-jetpack. More »

Behold, the 71-Year-Old Human Gas Guzzler

https://gizmodo.com/behold-the-71-year-old-human-gas-guzzler-5821379

You’re not supposed to drink gasoline. It’s that toxic liquid gold we use to run our cars and machines, not a beverage option. You just don’t drink it. Period. That is, unless you’re this hardcore Chinese dude. More »

Scientists Punch a Hole in the Fabric of Time with a “Time Cloak”

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-punch-a-hole-in-the-fabric-of-time-with-a-t-5821246

What a preposterous world we live in, where developments in invisibility cloak tech are common enough to elicit yawns. Fine, you unmovable automatons, how about a time cloak? More »

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