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These Swarming Satellites Are Mapping Earth's Magnetic Cloak
Dec 17, 4:40PM
You can't see it with any ordinary telescope, but without the Earth's magnetosphere—the magnetic field that encases the planet, blanketing it against gusts of deadly solar radiation—life here would have been all but impossible. Yet for as vital as it is to our survival, we understand very little about the magnetosphere. And that's where these three gnarly robotic beasts come in.
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Nathan Myhrvold: Patent Troll, Molecular Gastronomist... Dino Expert?
Dec 17, 4:34PM
Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft exec who has since become (in)famous in patent litigation and a bit more positively regarded in the field of molecular gastronomy, is now flexing his muscles over dinosaur research. Studies on dinosaur growth by top paleontologists contain "serious errors," he contends in a new paper published in PLoS ONE.
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Join the Club: Memberships in These Groups Make Great Gifts
Dec 17, 4:08PM
This year, consider giving your friends and family something they can use and be excited about everyday—not an object to unwrap but a membership to take advantage of again and again. We've rounded up the best, most useful, most convenient, or just plain coolest groups, institutions, and clubs that you can join. Find our suggestions down in the comments, below.
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The Ikea Nightmare Is Over, Magnetic Flat-Pack Furniture Is Here
Dec 17, 3:53PM
Do you hear that? In the distance? That's the sound of thousands of college students shouting with joy. Because designer Benjamin Vermeulen has created a line of easy to assemble flat-pack furniture that doesn't require screws, nuts, bolts, or those dreaded allen wrenches. Just the magic of magnets.
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Stephen Colbert Knows Exactly How to Stop Google's Robot Army
Dec 17, 3:40PM
As you may already know, just last week, Google officially announced its purchase of scary robot aficionado Boston Dynamics. And though this acquisition may seem to set Google up for getting into the military contracting game, the company says it has no intention of doing so. But can we ever really be sure? But what happens when Google inevitably goes full supervillain with its indestructible fighting robot army? Stephen Colbert, vigilant as ever, has a plan—and it's absolutely precious.
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Gawker Teacher in Trouble After Telling Black Student He Can't Be 'White' Santa | Jalopnik I Lived I
Dec 17, 3:00PM
Gawker Teacher in Trouble After Telling Black Student He Can't Be 'White' Santa | Jalopnik I Lived In NYC Less Than 48 Hours Before Getting My Car Towed | Jezebel My Friend Is Dating an Underage Woman and It Creeps Me Out | Kotaku Transformers: The Movie: The Cover Band
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Polynesian People Were Using Binary 600 Years Ago
Dec 17, 3:00PM
Binary lies at the heart of our technological lives: those strings of ones and zeroes are fundamental to the way all our digital devices function. But while the invention of binary is usually credited to German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz in the 18th Century, it turns out the Polynesians were using it as far back as 600 years ago.
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Google Now Wants To Go Christmas Caroling With You
Dec 17, 2:52PM
Google is all about packing that holiday cheer into its services this year. First with its auto-snowy, auto-twinkly pictures, and now with Google Now Christmas carol karaoke. Just pull out your Android device, suggest "let's go caroling" and you'll be drowning in merriment before you can say "get behind me Santa."
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Samsung's GamePad Gives Galaxy Phones Portable Console Powers
Dec 17, 2:34PM
If sketchy on-screen controls have limited your smartphone gaming sessions to puzzles and tap-to-play titles, Samsung wants you to expand your horizons and embrace your smartphone's inner console. The company has officially released the redesigned version of its Smartphone GamePad, complete with an accompanying app that lists what games are immediately compatible with the controller as they're added to the Google Play Store.
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15 of the Weirdest Images in the British Library's New Digital Trove
Dec 17, 2:00PM
Digging through the archives of old libraries is a blast. Depending on the library, you'll find everything from dated architectural drawings to snippets of old children's books. You can just imagine the treasures to be found in the British Library's ancient archive. And, now, you don't even have to get your fingers dusty!
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The Most Popular Google Searches of 2013: Lots of Death and Grossness
Dec 17, 1:37PM
There's maybe no more raw glimpse at humanity's exposed underbelly than Google's annual Zeitgeist, a report that shows what we searched for in a given 12 months. This year, our thoughts ran disturbingly towards death and destruction.
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Facebook Video Ads Are Here (And This Is What They Look Like)
Dec 17, 1:15PM
Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal published a rumor suggesting that Facebook would announce its new video ads this week. Now, Facebook has made the launch official—and here's how they look.
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Why the Epidaurus Theatre Has Such Amazing Acoustics
Dec 17, 1:00PM
Today I found out about the amazing acoustics of the ancient Epidaurus Theatre.
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Private Reading: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Best Books of 2013
Dec 17, 12:00PM
At the end of each year, EFF puts together a list of some of the interesting and noteworthy books that have been published in the past 12 months or so. We don't endorse all of their arguments, but we find they've added some valuable insight to the conversation around the areas and issues on which we work.
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Turns Out Penguins Waddle in Groups Like Cars Move in Traffic
Dec 17, 11:00AM
Penguins typically look pretty dumb as they waddle around on snow. But now a bunch of researchers has realised that, actually, they move an awful lot like cars in traffic.
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Rumor: Google Is Trialling New Smart-Thermostats
Dec 17, 10:00AM
The Information is reporting that Google is testing a new kind of internet-connected thermostat, which allows homeowners to track energy activity and adjust usage remotely.
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WSJ: Facebook's Autoplay Video Ads Will Arrive This Week (Updated)
Dec 17, 9:00AM
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that long-rumored Facebook autoplaying video ads should arrive this week. Great.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Why Are You Here?
Dec 17, 5:00AM
Racist old fogey, Mr. Robot thought to himself. "Are you here to kill us?" Of course not jerk, I'm just standing here waiting for the bus. Damn, why to I always come up with a snappy comeback after the fact?
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Hypnotizing video somehow reorganizes the cars on the road by color
Dec 17, 2:00AM
There is no CG in this video and yet it messes with reality so much that it sure seems like it's complete make believe. Instead, Cy Kuckenbaker simply removed and reorganized cars of the same color to make it seem as if they were driving together in a group. It's a hypnotizing effect to see cars of the same color driving as one fleet.
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The future of naval warfare: Are US supercarriers useless?
Dec 17, 1:00AM
DodBuzz asks an interesting question: Will aircraft carriers remain useful in future wars? The answer is no. And the reason is missiles like you're seeing in this photograph: a Raduga KH-22 cruise missile mounted on a Tupolev Tu-22 Backfire long-range strike bomber.
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Real life Jurassic Park exists in Australia and everyone needs to go
Dec 17, 12:08AM
We're going to Australia, everybody. You, me, your mother, my neighbor, your dog, the guy on the subway, the girl in the book store, everybody. Why? Because they've built the closest thing to a real life Jurassic Park there. Called Palmersaurus Dinosaur Park, it's home to 160 animatronic dinosaurs that move, blink, roar and just look freaking awesome looking like dinosaurs.
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Polly Scattergood: Wanderlust
Dec 17, 12:00AM
Like a DARPA robotics challenge for beautiful people, watch as a haphephobic model makes her way through an increasingly treacherous obstacle course of other attractive persons and office furniture. It's enough to make you miss Double Dare.
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Create Interactive 360° Panoramic Video With Ease
Dec 16, 11:20PM
Have you ever watched a video and wanted so badly to view the scene from a different perspective? Maybe you wanted to see what was happening behind the person filming. Eye Mirror is an upcoming camera accessory that should let you pan 360° within a video as it's playing. It looks surprisingly simple, and it apparently works with just about any camera you already own.
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Gawker SantaCon Santa Gets Public Handjob from Naughty Mrs.
Dec 16, 11:07PM
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Awesome guy blows movie marketing budget to help typhoon survivors
Dec 16, 11:01PM
So 20th Century Fox contacted professional video maker and friend of Gizmodo Casey Neistat to make a video for them about Ben Stiller's upcoming movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Cool, that kind of stuff happens all the time to him. But instead of using the money to make a movie about the movie, Neistat used his entire budget to help survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the typhoon that ravaged the Philippines. Absolutely brilliant, thoughtful and heartwarming.
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