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These Dumb Insurance Claims For Lost Cell Phones are Hilarious
Jul 25, 9:24AM
We've all misplaced our cell phone and spent what seems like hours searching for it—but some people take losing handsets to a whole new level. Chances are, you've never lost a phone as impressively as the people that feature in these stories.
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House Defeats Amendment, Allowing NSA to Keep Spying on You
Jul 25, 8:33AM
An amendment designed to stop the NSA from collecting phone records of millions of Americans has been narrowly defeated, 205 votes to 217, in the House of Representatives.
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Google Translate now accepts handwriting as an input--so you can offer your scrawl up to be converte
Jul 25, 8:08AM
Google Translate now accepts handwriting as an input—so you can offer your scrawl up to be converted.
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How to Make YouTube Look Like Unix
Jul 25, 7:47AM
YouTube has decided to celebrate its upcoming Geek Week event by giving its site an, um, underhaul—and making it look like Unix.
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The Fountain of Youth Is in Florida and It's Radioactive
Jul 25, 5:00AM
The history of the fountain of youth starts somewhere before Ponce de Leon and has ended up somehow to a water fountain in Florida. National Geographic tells a fascinating tale of how though one water fountain in Florida is radioactive, it may actually be extending the life of its drinkers.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Stars
Jul 25, 4:00AM
So what did you do this weekend? If it was anything less than fighting space pirates from the back of an interplanetary slingshotting clay golem, you are wasting your life.
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What Death Looks Like: A Fast-Spreading Glowing Blue Wave
Jul 25, 2:19AM
Dead is dead, some famous TV show about vacationing on an island once said. But how does dead, well, look? How do billions of cells shut off at once? An international team of researchers found that it comes in a wave. Death spreads through a special necrosis pathway that leaves dead cells as it passes through. A blue tornado of death.
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What the Inside of Google's Chromecast Looks Like
Jul 25, 1:08AM
Curious as to what's hiding inside the Google Chromecast dongle? Thanks to the FCC, we don't have to wonder what the Chromecast is packing anymore. There's a Marvell DE3005 chip and an AzurWare chip to take care of Wi-Fi duties, according to Anandtech. FCC documents actually show Chromecast details in May, with pictures of its innards added today. Enjoy the guts. [FCC via @nerdtalker, Engadget]
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I'm Going to Turn All My Instagram Pictures Into Oil Paintings
Jul 25, 12:30AM
How much do you like your Instagram pictures? Enough to get a few likes? Enough to think you'd kick ass as a photographer? Enough to convert them into amazing oil paintings that you can hang on your wall? Pixelist is a company that's trying to turn your Instagram photos into hand-made oil paintings that will live forever on canvas. How will those pictures of food and sunset and feet pictures look now?
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The Depressing Truth About Being a Superhero
Jul 24, 11:30PM
Whenever we watch our favorite superhero movies, we can't help but wish we had their powers. Superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman ability. It all sounds so great! But in reality, it wouldn't be always awesome like saving pretty actresses and wearing spandex. Day to day life would suck.
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Deadspin Look At These Slobbering Media Reviews Of Bill Belichick's Presser | Gizmodo You'd Be Crazy
Jul 24, 10:44PM
Deadspin Look At These Slobbering Media Reviews Of Bill Belichick's Presser | Gizmodo You'd Be Crazy Not to Buy Google Chromecast | io9 If this theory is correct, we may live in a web of alternate timelines | Gawker Lawyer Asks Hiring Firms to Google Him, Puts Nude Selfie on Facebook
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These Honeycomb Sculptures Made by Bees Are Simply Majestic
Jul 24, 10:30PM
Bees are amazing creatures. The yellow-and-black-striped little things make honey and royal jelly and, given a little bit of guidance, completely stellar sculptures made out of wax. In recent years, artists have picked up on the talent.
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Check Out the Floor Plans For the NSA's Huge New Data Center in Utah
Jul 24, 10:14PM
Construction is underway for a sprawling and seriously expensive National Security Agency data center in the Utah desert, and a set of floor plans just hit the web. It all looks appropriately intimidating.
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Loom for iOS: The Better, Cloud-Based Mobile Camera Roll
Jul 24, 10:00PM
Cloud storage services are a dime a dozen these days, and just the thought of sifting through the mass to find the one that works best for you can be overwhelming. But when it comes to not just mobile-specific but also photo-specific storage, your options are pretty much cut entirely. That's what makes Loom (which just went into beta) so great—it's a better way to take photos that gives you the benefits of the cloud without any of the complications.
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The Brilliantly Simple 3D-Printing Program You Never Realized You'd Need
Jul 24, 9:45PM
As the days of affordable, technologically sound at-home 3D printing loom ever nearer, creative minds around the world have been dripping with the wondrous possibilities these plastic-spewing, magic machines hold. Unfortunately, magic or not, the laws of physics still apply—and your liquid plastic dreams probably don't take into account the fact that your models are going to have to, you know, balance. The authors of Make It Stand want to take care of that for you, and they'll take whatever monstrous contortions you toss at them and turn your rendering into something structurally sound.
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This 1930s Family Is High On Laughing Gas Pie
Jul 24, 9:21PM
Humans love to get high. So much so that people were recreationally using nitrous oxide (commonly called "laughing gas") for nearly a century before it was used as an anaesthetic. So when chemists in the 1930s started proposing the use of nitrous oxide in consumer products like whipped cream canisters, some people naturally assumed that the end result would be rampant casual drug use.
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For Music Fans, Google Chromecast Is No Apple Airplay
Jul 24, 9:21PM
About two and a half years after Evolver.fm started taking Google to task over its lack of a super-simple wireless music solution along the lines of Apple's AirPlay for zapping music to speakers around the house, Google unveiled on Wednesday what some are calling its answer to AirPlay: Chromecast.
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Explore an Interactive Map of Every Meteorite Seen in the Past Century
Jul 24, 9:20PM
As long as you're not in the immediate landing path, meteorites are really fascinating. Over the past century, The Meteoritical Society has confirmed 606 eyewitnessed meteorite landings around the world. Designer Sebastian Sadowski maps them all out in a great interactive infographic that's tons of fun, until you realize you're a meteorite's sitting duck no matter where you live.
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Get Lost In These Abstract Maps of the World's Great Cities
Jul 24, 9:07PM
A city's street plan isn't just the canvas that we paint our lives on—it's a work of art on its own. This is true regardless whether the avenues and thoroughfares were meticulously arranged into an anal-retentive grid, or whether they just, ahem, happened over time as residents sprawled away from the center of town.
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You Can Get Chromecast Tomorrow (And Cheaper) If You Buy From Amazon
Jul 24, 8:37PM
This may turn out to be a mistake on Amazon's part, but right now Google Chromecast is listed as being for sale, right now, and Prime-eligible. That means you can have the crazy new must-buy streaming dongle shipped to you by the end of the week for free if you're a Prime member, or by end of day tomorrow for an extra eight bucks. Crazy.
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Microsoft: Every Xbox One Can Be Used To Make Games [UPDATE]
Jul 24, 8:30PM
![Microsoft: Every Xbox One Can Be Used To Make Games [UPDATE]](http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18uvzynulb28wpng/ku-xlarge.png)
Every single Xbox One can be used to make games, Microsoft says—in other words, you can use the next-gen console as your very own development kit.
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Goodbye, Darkness: Light Pollution Is Making Us Forget the Night Sky
Jul 24, 8:24PM
Did you know that eight of every ten kids born today won't experience a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way? We're living in an age when light pollution is making stars a rarity—and not just in cities. Paul Bogard, the author of a new book on darkness, even goes so far as to describe it as a natural resource.
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Shooting Challenge: Giant Plants!
Jul 24, 8:20PM
Last week, we looked at bugs. This week, I'm sending you back into the bush to catch more of nature's nuance on the macro level. For this week's Shooting Challenge, photograph the wonder of plants.
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An Injury Primer: When to Heat It, When to Ice It
Jul 24, 8:00PM
When you're faced with a sports-related injury, half of your friends will be adamant that ice is the only way to treat it. The other half will tell you that heat is the way to go. The problem is that most of your friends are idiots. So, which of your idiot friends are you supposed to listen to?
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Socially Networked Bacteria Isn't as Scary as It Sounds
Jul 24, 7:40PM
It's safe to say that anytime bacteria develops human-like traits, we should be startled. We've long known that the tiny little critters have ways of smelling and tasting, and then earlier this year, we learned about their simplistic economics system. Now, scientists have learned that they use social networks, too.
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