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These Pictures of a Car After a Car Crash Are Horrifying
May 07, 5:22AM
Car crashes are completely awful things. Shattered glass, twisted metal and thousand pound machines reduced to child's playthings. And that's not even considering the possibility of accidental deaths. Photographer Nicolai Howalt captured the horrors of a car crash by photographing the silent disaster of the aftermath.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: We Should Make Strange Things
May 07, 4:00AM
The one lesson everybody should take away from this irreverent animated tale of a castaway musician from Tange Films: growing eyes on inanimate objects is easy as long as you have your trusty can of tuna fish and a sufficiently large stick.
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What Abstract Art Would Look Like in Real Life
May 07, 2:49AM
Fantastic artist Flora Borsi, who once hilariously photoshopped herself into old pictures, imagines a world where abstract art models are actually real people. Like if the features and characteristics that were exaggerated in classic art pieces actually existed.
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You Can Actually Buy a Flask That Looks Like an iPhone
May 07, 1:48AM
Every self respecting person needs to own a flask but the problem with flasks is that they almost always look like, well, the owner of the flask has an alcohol problem. If you're trying to sneak alcohol into anywhere, you'll always get caught with a flask. But! If your flask is shaped like an iPhone, you'd be in the clear!
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The US Senate Just Passed That Internet Sales Tax Bill
May 07, 12:40AM
That massive online sales tax hike that senators were pushing through? Yeah, it's looking more and more likely. The US senate just held a final vote on the Internet Sales tax issue and it passed 69-27, getting support from both Democrats and Republicans.
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Watch A Giant Roll of Bubble Wrap Get Popped At the Same Time
May 07, 12:00AM
There are few things more relieving than meticulously popping bubble wrap. One by one they go, crushed into the vapor with the most satisfying of sounds. But what if you could pop a giant roll of bubble wrap at the same time? What would that look like? This.
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Thirty Person Inflatable Lounge: One Toothpick and the Party's Over
May 06, 11:27PM
Are you in need of a lot of extra seating for an upcoming shindig and a way to safely get 30 guests to shore after an emergency shipwreck? Look no further than the Beach7 AirLounge XL which provides comfortable seating for up to 30 people—possibly more if comfort isn't an issue—in a package that deflates and folds away for easy storage.
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Is This Glasshole on a Phone Really a Vision of the Gadget Apocalypse?
May 06, 10:40PM
Google Glass is weird. It's not quite like anything we've seen before. It's the best. It's the worst. It's polarizing. This picture of a Google Glass-wearing subway-rider showed up on Twitter earlier today, and sparked a Buzzfeed article that posits Glass will just bring on more of the distraction it claims to alleviate.
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5 Remarkable Ghost Towns Drowned by Damming
May 06, 10:20PM
Dams are as old as civilization itself, but it's only been within the last century that humans harnessed the construction savvy to build structures that could submerge valleys and create lakes. And bury entire towns in the process.
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Verizon Won't Rebuild Its Landline Network in Some Sandy-Affected Areas
May 06, 10:11PM
As the damage from Hurricane Sandy is disappearing and some things are returning back to normal for those in the hardest hit areas, six months after that hurricane devastated parts of the East Coast, Verizon is telling some customers that they will not be getting their landline phone service back—ever. At least not from them.
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Megabytes: Never (Accidentally) Go Over Your Mobile Data Limit Again
May 06, 10:00PM
Sure, most cell phone carriers are more than happy to alert you to how much precious data you've been using up, but these little warnings usually don't come until you're dangerously near the monthly limit. Megabytes keeps track of your data usage for you, and makes sure you're always aware of exactly where you stand.
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Popular Stories from Across Gawker Media
May 06, 9:48PM
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Biomedical Engineer on Making Iron Man 3's Extremis Tech Real
May 06, 9:40PM
The tech driving Iron Man 3 isn't, as it typically is, Tony Stark's Iron Man suit. Instead, it's the medical-but-also-real-explodey Extremis. And believe it or not, the physiological nanoparticle science behind it isn't pure science fiction. At least some parts of it are within reach relatively soon.
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Watch a Sand Storm From the Top of the Tallest Building in the World
May 06, 9:38PM
Dubai-based Photographer Gerald Donovan went to the top of the tallest skyscraper in the world—the 2,722-foot tall Burj Khalifa—just in time to watch a sand storm engulfing the city. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but he captured it on this video.
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Meet the Badass Sidecar Riders of Shanghai
May 06, 9:20PM
Of Shanghai's 24 million inhabitants, just 250 are supposedly registered sidecar drivers. Photographer Aurelien Chauvaud introduces you to the riders of these badass wartime bikes in this amazingly juxtapositional photo series.
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Hulu Plus is now available for Windows Phone 8!
May 06, 9:07PM
Hulu Plus is now available for Windows Phone 8! Click here for more information and here if you're a Hulu addict to download it straight away.
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See the Faded Glory of Abandoned Theaters in Stages of Decay
May 06, 9:00PM
There's something eerily enticing about abandoned spaces. Stages of Decay is no exception—it's collection of photographs by Julia Solis of once-glitzy theaters that have fallen into disrepair.
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Will Adobe's Move to the Cloud Finally Keep the Pirates at Bay?
May 06, 8:44PM
Today, Adobe announced the latest round of updates to its ubiquitous software suite, with its Creative Cloud subscription service taking center-stage. Not only is the old Creative Suite moniker being dropped completely, but a whole slew of cloud-dependent features were introduced. While the updates will be a boon to a huge number of Adobe customers, it's going to annoy the hell out of one core Adobe demo: the pirates.
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A Look Behind the Scenes of the Internet Archive's Impossible Task
May 06, 8:26PM
Last fall, the Internet Archive celebrated a massive milestone, as the "online Library of Alexandria" reached 10 Petabytes of stored information. Yes, that means 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes accessible to anyone. Wow.
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Fight the East Coast Cicada Onslaught With Chianti and Fava Beans
May 06, 7:54PM
The Eastern seaboard is under siege by a billion-bug swarm of cicadas—an entomological Red Dawn. This aggression will not stand! But why simply goosh them underfoot when you can make these insectoid invaders into a meal?
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Crazy New Flying Car Is A Vertical-Takeoff 200 MPH Plug-In Hybrid
May 06, 7:37PM
Terrafugia made big waves last year with the introduction of the Transition, the first flying car. Sure, it was more of a driving plane than a flying car, but it brought a dream everyone has had to life. They're already planning a successor to the first model, and it'll go 200 MPH, take off vertically, and do other crazy things.
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What Happens When You Soak a Negative In Gasoline and Set It on Fire
May 06, 7:20PM
You might be surprised to learn that the photographs in Peter Hoffman's "Fox River Derivatives" series got their ethereal, psychedelic beauty from a fairly violent source. Those effluent purple bubbles are the result of a negative that's been doused in gasoline and set ablaze.
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This Tiny Roku-Equipped Projector Is Your Deal of the Day
May 06, 7:00PM
Today's Amazon Gold Box deal is worth checking out. It's 3M's experimental Roku streaming projector for $170. There aren't many gadgets like this one—the idea is to pair a small, portable projector with a Roku Streaming Stick and then you'll be able to watch Netflix or Hulu wherever and whenever you want. The actual experience isn't so polished: Brent Rose reviewed it, and had problems with the resolution (a measly 854×480), the built-in speakers (quiet and tinny), and the ability to fix keystoning (nonexistent.) But even if the picture quality isn't optimal, you still end up with a Roku Streaming Stick and a portable HDMI projector. Brent concludes:
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Say Goodbye to Creative Suite: Adobe CS Is Now Creative Cloud
May 06, 6:50PM
At Adobe's annual MAX conference today, the company announced a major overhaul of the ten-year-old Creative Suite, which will now be known as Creative Cloud. From now on, you won't buy CS6 or CS7—you'll buy a $50 per month subscription to CC (happily, the first year will only cost $30 for anyone with a CS3 or later serial number).
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Intel's Silvermont CPUs Herald a Serious Push into Mobile
May 06, 6:36PM
Intel's Atom cores have caught a lot of guff, mainly thanks to bad memories of the netbook days. But its latest incarnation, the new Silvermont CPU architecture, is low-powered and packs a performance punch, positioning Intel to make a big push into mobile.
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